Isaias Cuts Gulf Oil Supply as Houthis Threaten Saudi Facilities

Pentagon Plans Livestream of Fort Hood Shooter’s Firing Squad Execution

ICE Shooting Deepens Clash With New York Officials

Trump Honors Tech Leaders, Proposes Research Funding Overhaul

Pillay Wins Peace Nobel as Carson Takes Literature Prize

Isaias Cuts Gulf Oil Supply as Houthis Threaten Saudi Facilities

Offshore operators shut in about 63% of Gulf of Mexico oil production, roughly 1.28 million barrels a day, ahead of Hurricane Isaias, according to the federal offshore regulator’s 11 a.m. CDT tally Thursday, Oct. 8. About 57% of offshore natural gas output also was halted, adding to energy supply disruptions caused by the Iran war. Isaias had maximum sustained winds of 105 mph early Friday, and forecasters expected landfall Friday night or early Saturday within a hurricane warning area stretching from Ocean Springs, Mississippi, to Florida’s Bay-Gulf county line. Forecasters warned of storm surge reaching 5 to 7 feet and rainfall totaling as much as 15 inches in some areas. Alabama ordered tourists and nonresidents out of Gulf Shores, Orange Beach and Dauphin Island, while parts of Florida’s Okaloosa and Walton counties were under mandatory evacuation orders. A Saudia jet was struck by shrapnel and heavily damaged in a fire during Thursday’s attacks on Riyadh’s airport, Reuters reported, while Houthi threats against Saudi oil facilities added supply concerns amid already elevated oil prices.

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Pentagon Plans Livestream of Fort Hood Shooter’s Firing Squad Execution

The Pentagon said Thursday, Oct. 8, that it plans to livestream the firing squad execution of Nidal Malik Hasan, who killed 13 people and wounded 32 at Fort Hood, Texas, in 2009. Acting Army Secretary Adam Telle scheduled the execution for 1 p.m. Central time Dec. 3 at Fort Hood, the same hour and location as the attack. Hasan, a former Army major and psychiatrist, was sentenced to death by court-martial in 2013, and President Donald Trump’s approval of the execution was announced Oct. 5. If carried out, it would be the first U.S. military execution since 1961 and the first by military firing squad since World War II. Broadcasting it would depart from the longstanding practice of limiting executions to a small group of witnesses, but officials have not identified a streaming platform or said who would attend. Legal experts said Hasan could still seek review in civilian federal court, potentially delaying the execution.

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ICE Shooting Deepens Clash With New York Officials

An Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer shot a 28-year-old man in the neck Thursday, Oct. 8, during an arrest operation in Manhattan’s Marble Hill neighborhood, while a 5-year-old boy in the man’s SUV was unharmed. NYPD Commissioner Jessica Tisch said evidence showed an agent fired seven rounds and that video showed a plainclothes federal officer approaching the driver’s window with his gun drawn. Gothamist reported that the man was in stable condition, and the FBI and Homeland Security Investigations were investigating. The Department of Homeland Security said officers were conducting a targeted arrest operation involving a Dominican national with a prior grand larceny conviction. Mayor Zohran Mamdani said he unsuccessfully sought the man’s release during calls with Trump and Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin, and that ICE later took the man away in an unmarked vehicle. Mamdani demanded an end to ICE enforcement in the city as residents protested, intensifying the dispute over federal immigration operations while the reason the officer fired remained unresolved.

CBS New York / Gothamist / amNewYork / PIX11

Trump Honors Tech Leaders, Proposes Research Funding Overhaul

President Donald Trump awarded the National Medal of Science to Elon Musk, Sergey Brin, Jensen Huang and Lisa Su on Thursday, Oct. 8, at a White House science summit. Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella and Dell founder Michael Dell received the National Medal of Technology and Innovation. The White House paired the ceremony with more than $6 billion in announced investments from government, industry, universities and philanthropy, including $2.4 billion in artificial intelligence research tools. Other initiatives included a $1.8 billion virtual biology project involving the National Institutes of Health, the Energy Department and Biohub, plus $215 million for teams competing to build reliable quantum computers. A report by White House science adviser Michael Kratsios proposes directing more funding to individual scientists and expanding fast grants and prize competitions beyond traditional peer review, potentially changing which researchers and universities receive federal support. Appropriators in both parties are considering measures to counter the administration’s research funding cancellations and protect NIH grants from political influence, the American Institute of Physics reported.

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Pillay Wins Peace Nobel as Carson Takes Literature Prize

South African jurist Navi Pillay won the Nobel Peace Prize on Friday, Oct. 9, a day after Canadian writer Anne Carson received the literature prize. The Norwegian Nobel Committee recognized Pillay’s work advancing international law and helping bring prosecutions for war crimes, crimes against humanity and genocide. The Swedish Academy honored Carson for writing that draws on classical traditions to create new literary forms. Earlier awards recognized discoveries that use light to control nerve cells, detect high-energy neutrinos from space and guide reactions involving mirror-image molecules. Those advances help researchers investigate brain function, trace distant cosmic processes and develop medicines. The economic sciences prize is scheduled to be announced Monday, Oct. 12, completing this year’s announcements.

Al Jazeera / NobelPrize.org / Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences / Citizen Journal

October 9, 1936: Hoover Dam Begins Transmitting Electricity to Los Angeles

On this day, Hoover Dam first sent electricity 266 miles across mountains and desert to power Los Angeles. The milestone showcased the federal government’s ambition to tame the Colorado River, supplying both crucial water and energy to fuel the West’s rapid growth.

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