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1.2k storiesTexas set to execute Jamaal Howard for 2000 killing of store clerk
Texas is set to execute Jamaal Howard, 46, by lethal injection on Wednesday for the 2000 fatal shooting of convenience store clerk Vickie Swartout, 42, during a robbery in Silsbee. It would be the 30th execution in the U.S. this year and th…
KIA rally past LG 6-5 with three-run ninth, retake third; LG lose seventh in row
KIA Tigers beat LG Twins 6-5 at Jamsil Baseball Stadium in Seoul on October 4, scoring three runs in the ninth inning to complete the comeback. The win lifted KIA ahead of LG into third place in the KBO league and handed LG a seventh consec…
Christa Pike conscious and speaking after failed Tennessee execution, lawyers say
Christa Pike, 50, is conscious and speaking and receiving critical medical care nearly a week after Tennessee's attempt to execute her with the drug pentobarbital failed, her attorneys said Tuesday. They said her prognosis remains unclear, …
South Korea beats Japan 1-0 for fourth straight Asian Games football gold
South Korea's under-23 team beat Japan 1-0 in the 2026 Aichi-Nagoya Asian Games men's football final at Toyota Stadium on 3 October, with Um Ji-sung scoring in the second half. It is South Korea's fourth consecutive title in the event, whic…
Cornell protests grow; faculty push no-confidence vote over rape case handling
Students at Cornell University protested Monday and Tuesday over the school's handling of an alleged 2024 gang rape at the Chi Phi fraternity, after activists vandalized the Day Hall administration building with red-painted messages and a s…
Explosions reported in Kyiv during air raid alert, Russian agencies say
Explosions were reported in Kyiv on the night of 3 October 2026, according to Russian state news agencies. TASS said the blasts came shortly after an air raid alert was declared in the Ukrainian capital, and reported a further round of expl…
Kiwoom Heroes sign top pick Ha Hyeon-seung for record 1.6 billion won
The Kiwoom Heroes said they signed Ha Hyeon-seung, the No. 1 overall pick in the 2027 KBO rookie draft, to a 1.6 billion won signing bonus — the highest ever for a KBO rookie, surpassing Han Ki-joo's 1 billion won with KIA in 2006. The 18-y…
Badminton's An Se-young, professor Kim Do-hyung win Pony Chung Young Leader Award
The Pony Chung Foundation said on Oct. 7 that it has selected badminton national team player An Se-young and Kim Do-hyung, a professor of chemistry and biomolecular engineering at the University of Pennsylvania, as winners of the 7th Pony C…
Russian woman at plague research institute dies; cause disputed
A woman in her 20s who worked at a plague control research institute in Russia's Irkutsk region died on October 2. Russian health authorities said on October 4 the cause was “pneumonia of unknown origin,” while speculation of plague infecti…
Saudi Arabia says 2 airports hit in renewed fighting with Houthis
Saudi Arabia’s General Authority of Civil Aviation said airports in Najran and Jizan were hit Monday, damaging both facilities and leaving three people lightly injured; the statement did not say who was responsible. A Houthi brigadier gener…
South Korean court acquits former president Yoon Suk Yeol in political funds appeal
The Seoul High Court acquitted former South Korean president Yoon Suk Yeol on October 7 in the appeal of a case under the Political Funds Act, overturning his first-instance conviction. Prosecutors had alleged he and his wife Kim Keon Hee r…
Christa Pike awake after failed execution; attorneys seek Tennessee records
Tennessee death row inmate Christa Pike has regained consciousness after the state's failed attempt to execute her by lethal injection on Sept. 30, and her attorneys were due in court Wednesday seeking more information about what went wrong…
Seoul defense chief: North Korea appears “taken aback” by DMZ mine response
South Korean Defense Minister Kang Shin-chul told a parliamentary audit on October 7 that North Korea appeared “considerably taken aback” by Seoul’s response to the Demilitarized Zone explosion and its mine-clearing operation. He pointed to…
Russia quarantines hospital as lab worker’s death puts nearly 200 under observation
A female employee of the Irkutsk Anti-Plague Research Institute of Siberia and the Far East died last week of pneumonia of unknown cause, Russian authorities said, and a hospital in the town of Shelekhov was placed under quarantine. Officia…
Eagles right tackle Lane Johnson retires after 14 seasons, citing mental health
Philadelphia Eagles right tackle Lane Johnson announced his retirement from the NFL on Tuesday after 14 seasons, all with Philadelphia. The 36-year-old, a six-time Pro Bowl selection and two-time Super Bowl winner, said he wanted to play on…
Swedish air force plane flew radar reconnaissance over Black Sea, TASS reports
Russian state outlets reported that a Swedish Air Force aircraft carried out reconnaissance over the Black Sea, with TASS saying the flight was radar reconnaissance and that the plane took off from the Malmen military base. TASS later repor…
US Marine in Okinawa arrested on suspicion of robbery-murder at Naha hotel
Okinawa prefectural police arrested US Marine Pfc. Devin Jacob Ballard, 20, of the Futenma base, on suspicion of robbing and killing a woman at a hotel in Naha, where she was found dead around 04:30 on Oct 3. Police said the suspect denies …
FlyDubai co-pilot intended to crash jet into Ben Gurion, investigators say
Investigators believe the FlyDubai co-pilot who attacked his captain aboard a Dubai–Tel Aviv flight intended to crash the plane into Ben Gurion International Airport, according to NPR, Fox News and ABC News. The attacker was subdued by crew…
Ronaldo says he deserves punishment for leaving Portugal camp, will not retire
Cristiano Ronaldo said he deserves punishment for leaving the Portugal national team camp and that he will not retire from the national team, in a 10-page statement posted on social media. He said responsibility for the departure was entire…
Houthis say they struck targets across Saudi Arabia; coalition claims Red Sea gains
Yemen's Houthi movement said it fired missiles and drones at airports, oil and military sites across Saudi Arabia, naming Riyadh's King Khalid International Airport and an Aramco refinery at Rabigh, and warned international airlines to stop…