A massive landslide buried vehicles on a rural highway in Guatemala on October 6, 2026, leaving six people dead.
Dennis Hastert, the longest-serving Republican House Speaker, died at 84. He was later revealed to have sexually abused teenage boys he coached, a crime for which the statute of limitations had passed.
CNN's latest ranking of the 10 Senate seats most likely to flip shows Democrats gaining in red states like Kansas and Texas, with Republicans spending heavily to defend once-safe seats.
The Supreme Court's new term opens with major cases on climate liability, AR-15 bans, immigration detention, and voting rights, with a docket that could expand significantly in coming months.
An armed clash in a Tegucigalpa neighborhood on October 6, 2026, resulted in four fatalities and prompted a heavy police response.
Karl Deisseroth, Peter Hegemann, and Georg Nagel won the 2026 Nobel Prize in Medicine for discovering light-gated ion channels and developing optogenetics, a technique that uses light to control specific neurons.
A 10th-grade girl and another person were killed when a school bus carrying 37 students flipped onto its roof after an oncoming car crossed the center line in Winter Haven, Florida. Several others were injured.
A tourist transport van overturned on a rural highway in Quintana Roo on October 6, 2026, resulting in the deaths of four foreign nationals.
President Trump's approval rating has fallen to a career-low 31% in AP-NORC polling, with only 26% approving of his economic handling as inflation and costs dominate voter concerns ahead of the midterms.
A bridge collapsed into a swollen river in the Dominican Republic on October 6, 2026, plunging vehicles into the water and causing three deaths.
A passenger train derailed on a suburban line outside Buenos Aires on October 6, 2026, resulting in two fatalities and multiple injuries.
Anti-narcotics operation clashes left five alleged traffickers dead in a rural sector of Colombia on October 6, 2026.
A gas cylinder explosion in a residential sector of Caracas on October 6, 2026, left two people dead and several hospitalized.
Devastating floods and mudslides destroyed settlements in Minas Gerais, Brazil, on October 6, 2026, leaving nine people dead.
A passenger boat sank in an Amazon River tributary in Peru on October 6, 2026, resulting in seven drownings.
Great white sharks are returning to Atlantic Canadian waters in growing numbers, drawn by rebounding seal populations and warming seas. Scientists call it a conservation success story.
An armed robbery at a highway toll plaza in Mexico on October 6, 2026, escalated into a shootout that left three people dead.
Scientists at the University of Sydney and Chalmers University have developed new methods to produce green hydrogen from water using sunlight, liquid gallium, and platinum-free conductive polymers.
Flash floods washed away rural outskirts in El Salvador on October 6, 2026, confirming three fatalities.
PBS offers a lineup of space documentaries this year, including Apollo 11 reconstructions, black hole explorations, and ISS footage, bringing the wonders of the universe into the living room.
The funeral of Pierre Damas Bel, a 20-year-old Haitian student who died after wearing an ICE ankle monitor, was held in Springfield, Ohio, on the same day Trump rallied supporters 25 miles away in Vandalia.
NASA's October 2026 skywatching highlights include Saturn at opposition on October 4, the Orionid meteor shower peaking October 21-22, and the Moon passing near the Pleiades on October 27-28.
ALICE researchers at CERN observed quark-gluon plasma signatures in proton-proton and light-ion collisions, challenging assumptions about how small a system can produce the universe's primordial state of matter.
The Supreme Court heard arguments in Suncor v. Boulder, a major climate case testing whether state and local governments can sue oil companies for climate damages. The justices appeared divided with no clear majority.