⚡ TODAY IN HISTORY

On October 6, 1973, Egypt and Syria launched a surprise attack on Israel on Yom Kippur, the holiest day of the Jewish year. In 1927, “The Jazz Singer” premiered in New York as the first feature-length talking picture. Today? Brent crude trades above $100 a barrel as Saudi-backed troops fight Yemen’s Houthi rebels for control of a Red Sea shipping lane.

TOP NEWS

Russia denies plague death as lab staff stay isolated 60+ ISOLATED

Russian media reported that Darya Shipilova, 28, a worker at Siberia’s Irkutsk Anti-Plague Institute, died overnight into October 2 after breaking a tube of plague bacteria in late September. On Monday, Russian officials denied any lab accident and cited “pneumonia of unknown origin,” though more than 60 institute staff remain isolated and several Irkutsk hospitals are still under quarantine.

Saudi-backed troops retake ground on vital Red Sea strait 100 JETS

After Houthi rebels seized Yemen’s side of the Bab el-Mandeb Strait, a chokepoint for 12% of global trade, in September, government troops backed by 100 Saudi fighter jets retook the town of Dhubab on Monday. The Iran-backed Houthis said they answered with missiles and drones fired at Riyadh’s main airport and an Aramco oil refinery on Saudi Arabia’s west coast.

US pulls every B-1 bomber out of a British air base

After commanders received new threats about an Iran-backed plot, the US Air Force flew all 12 of its B-1 bombers out of RAF Fairford, a base in southwest England, over the weekend. US and European officials told the Wall Street Journal that Iran’s Revolutionary Guard planned a drone attack to destroy the aircraft and kill American personnel stationed there.

Israel was ready to shoot down flydubai jet, report says

On September 30, the Omani copilot of flydubai Flight 1073, bound from Dubai to Tel Aviv, attacked the captain in the cockpit. Israeli sources told CBS News that Israel scrambled fighter jets and was prepared to down the airliner, then called them off when it turned to make an emergency landing in Saudi Arabia.

Six presumed dead after air ambulance vanishes off Nantucket

A Gulfstream G100 air ambulance carrying a patient from Bermuda to Boston lost contact with air traffic control early Saturday near Nantucket, an island south of Cape Cod. The Coast Guard ended its search Sunday evening, and operator Latitude Air Ambulance said all six aboard, four Canadian crew members and two Bermudians, are presumed dead.

WORLD

Ukraine says it has knocked out half of Russia’s refining 51%

Ukraine has spent months hitting Russian refineries to cut the fuel that supplies Moscow’s 4½-year invasion. On Sunday, Defense Minister Yevhen Khmara said strikes on plants in Moscow, Yaroslavl, Saratov and other cities had disabled 51% of Russia’s refining capacity, a figure that could not be independently verified.

Bolsonaro’s son edges Lula, forcing a Brazil runoff

Sen. Flávio Bolsonaro, son of jailed former President Jair Bolsonaro, won about 47% of Sunday’s first-round vote to President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva’s 45%, beating polls that had Lula ahead. The two meet again in an October 25 runoff, and Brazil’s currency, the real, jumped more than 4% against the dollar on Monday.

Third US carrier group heads for the Middle East

President Donald Trump told Time magazine last week that renewed large-scale strikes on Iran are possible after November’s midterm elections. The USS Theodore Roosevelt and a Marine amphibious group have left San Diego and are due in the region by late November, adding 9,000 to 10,000 troops to about 50,000 already there.

Spain’s Pedro Sánchez calls snap election for November 29

After a string of defeats on bills aimed at Spain’s housing crisis, Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez on Monday called an early national election for November 29. Sánchez said he needs a broader progressive majority to push reforms through parliament.

Islamic State kills Iraqi officer in first attack since US exit

Iraqi forces took full charge of the fight against Islamic State cells after US troops completed their withdrawal on September 30. On Monday, militants attacked a federal police post near Hawija, about 43 miles southwest of the oil city of Kirkuk, killing one officer and wounding four, security sources told Reuters.

POLITICS

Report: $20 million in DHS money paid for ads praising Trump $20M

Sources told The New York Times that President Donald Trump personally instructed budget director Russell Vought to use taxpayer money for TV ads praising his presidency. The Times reported that $20 million from the Department of Homeland Security paid for the spots, which ran on cable and network television.

Trump names spy chief to lead ‘Super Intelligence Force’

A September 29 executive order told federal agencies to replace “artificial intelligence” with “Super Intelligence” in official language. On Sunday, President Donald Trump named Director of National Intelligence Jay Clayton as the White House AI czar, in charge of a new unit called the Super Intelligence Force.

Supreme Court opens its term with Big Oil climate fight

Boulder, Colorado, sued Exxon and Canada’s Suncor for damages tied to climate change, and Colorado’s top court let the case go forward. The US Supreme Court began its nine-month term on Monday by hearing the oil companies’ appeal to throw the lawsuit out.

Trump posts Sen. Tom Cotton’s phone number in clock feud

Sen. Tom Cotton, an Arkansas Republican, opposes the Sunshine Protection Act, a bill backed by President Donald Trump that would make daylight saving time permanent. On Saturday, Trump shared what was described as Cotton’s phone number online, escalating the dispute between the two Republicans.

Justice Samuel Alito says he is weighing retirement

Justice Samuel Alito, who joined the Supreme Court in 2006, confirmed Friday in a CBS News interview that he is considering stepping down. Alito also said there has been an organized effort to intimidate the justices into changing how they decide cases.

MARKETS

Nasdaq closes at a record as tech stocks lead 27,477

Investors bet that weak September hiring would keep the Federal Reserve from raising rates again, and big tech shares led a broad rally on Monday. The Nasdaq Composite rose 1.05% to a record 27,477.31, while the S&P 500 gained 0.66% and the Dow added 0.18%.

10-year Treasury yield hits a 52-week high 5.315%

Friday’s jobs report showed employers added just 29,000 jobs in September, and the unemployment rate rose to 4.2%. Long-term borrowing costs kept climbing anyway, and on Monday the 10-year Treasury yield, the benchmark for mortgage rates, reached 5.315%.

Brent dips but holds above $100 a barrel

G7 nations agreed Friday to release 100 million barrels of crude and diesel from emergency reserves, and Brent crude fell 1.9% to settle at $100.32 on Monday. Saudi Aramco CEO Amin Nasser warned the same day that global oil stockpiles have grown “scarily thin” while the Strait of Hormuz, the Persian Gulf’s tanker outlet, stays shut.

Schneider Electric buys PTC for $22.6 billion

France’s Schneider Electric agreed Monday to buy PTC, a Boston-based maker of industrial design software, in an all-cash deal worth $22.6 billion. PTC shares jumped 33% on the news.

Foxconn sales jump 47% on AI server orders

Foxconn, the Taiwanese company that assembles AI servers for Nvidia, reported Monday that third-quarter sales rose 47% to about $95.4 billion, beating analyst estimates. Nvidia shares closed at a record $238.90 the same day.

ENTERTAINMENT

Paramount and Warner Bros. merge today as Skydance $110B

A federal judge cleared the deal last week by approving a settlement with 12 states that had sued to block it on antitrust grounds. The roughly $110 billion merger is set to close Tuesday, putting CBS, CNN, HBO Max and Paramount+ under one company, Skydance, which will trade on the New York Stock Exchange as SKYD.

Tom Cruise’s ‘Digger’ opens to just $8 million

Tracking had pointed to a $30 million debut for Digger, director Alejandro G. Iñárritu’s big-budget satire for Warner Bros. The film earned $8 million in North America this weekend, Tom Cruise’s weakest opening since 2007’s Lions for Lambs, plus $12 million overseas.

‘Verity’ tops the box office with $32.6 million

Amazon MGM’s Verity, a thriller based on a Colleen Hoover novel and starring Anne Hathaway, earned $32.6 million in the US and $62.5 million worldwide this weekend. The debut ranks second among Hoover adaptations, behind 2024’s It Ends With Us at $50 million.

Warner Bros. film chiefs exit as the deal closes

Warner Bros. film co-chiefs Mike De Luca and Pam Abdy led a strong 2025 run that included Sinners and A Minecraft Movie. News broke Friday that both executives will leave the studio when the Skydance merger closes on Tuesday.

US ticket sales run 19% ahead of last year $7.95B

Sony’s Resident Evil held second place this weekend with $12.5 million, lifting its US total to $124.9 million, a franchise record. Domestic ticket sales for 2026 reached $7.95 billion through Sunday, up 19% from the same point in 2025, according to Rentrak.