Friday morning news: October 16, 2026

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Oregon school shooting » Three children and a teacher are dead, after a school shooting in Oregon that might have been even more tragic, if not for an armed citizen.

Authorities say a 16-year-old attacked Silver Rail Elementary in Bend Thursday.

Police spokeswoman Sheila Miller says the first call came in just before 1 p.m. Someone reported a gunman shooting at a car outside the school.

MILLER: … and within about a minute we were receiving multiple 911 calls from within the school. Uh, our officers were on scene at 1:02, and the shooter was down

Police say a bystander followed the gunman into the school and shot him dead.

The attacker had fired through locked doors to get inside.

The children killed were ages five, eight and eleven. Another child and a teacher were critically wounded.

Investigators have not said what prompted the attack or whether the gunman had ties to the school.

Ukraine resumes energy strikes » Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy says Ukraine is resuming attacks on Russia’s energy sites.

President Trump called for a halt to such attacks. But Zelenskyy says Russia never agreed, and kept attacking power plants, and civilians.

Zelenskyy told the Financial Times, that if Washington wants Ukraine to hold back, it needs to supply more Patriot missile interceptors.

ZELENSKYY: Because when I will not attack them because you ask me not attack them, they will attack me. It's fair if you will give me with what to defend. It's the minimum what I ask. And when I'm asking this, your answer is blocking Starlink

Ukraine relies heavily on Starlink satellite communications from SpaceX. But Zelenskyy accuses the Trump administration of deliberately restricting service, beginning Tuesday night.

ZELENSKYY: We understand what's going on because it was everywhere. In the capital where we use Starlinks, we saw this. Also, on the battlefield where we use it for mid strikes, we couldn't decide to use it.

Ukrainian officials said Thursday that service was largely back to normal. A senior U.S. official told Axios the White House had nothing to do with the disruption and SpaceX says it was technical.

Meanwhile, Russia continues strikes in Ukraine, while Ukrainian drones set a Russian oil refinery southeast of Moscow on fire Thursday.

Trump calls off execution livestream » The U.S. The military will execute a convicted mass shooter in December but it will NOT be livestreamed as Secretary of War Pete Hegseth had planned.

WORLD’s Harrison Watters reports from Washington.

HARRISON WATTERS: President Trump on Thursday overruled Secretary Hegseth, saying there will be no livestream, when a firing squad puts Nidal Hasan to death.

Hegseth promised last week that the execution would be broadcast, because—his words—“people need to know there’s serious consequences for these types of things.”

Many lawmakers pushed back on the Pentagon’s plan, along with streaming platforms.

Trump said Thursday that Hasan is getting what he deserves, but added that — his words “Many good and well meaning people would rather not watch him die.”

Immediate family members of victims may attend the execution.

Former Army Major Hasan had embraced radical Islamist views before massacring 13 people at Fort Hood in Texas in 2009.

Reporting for WORLD, I’m Harrison Watters, in Washington.

Wholesale inflation jumps » Rising fuel costs helped push U.S. wholesale inflation higher in September.

The Labor Department says the prices producers charge rose 6.3% from a year earlier, up from 5.6% in August.

That’s the biggest annual jump since 2022.

Shipping and food prices also rose. Higher shipping costs can work their way into prices shoppers pay.

This follows Wednesday’s report showing consumer inflation also accelerated in September.

Some economists say the latest numbers add pressure on the Federal Reserve to raise interest rates again this year.

Israel » Border towns in northern Israel are slowly rebuilding after months of Hezbollah rocket fire prompted evacuations. WORLD's Travis Kircher reports now from Israel.

PRICE: What you see right here, all this destruction? This is Lebanon. See that wall right there that's up there and then on the other side, it's all a bunch of destruction.

TRAVIS KIRCHER: Daniel Price is a Christian missionary. We're in Metula, just a few hundred meters from Lebanon. He's pointing out Lebanese homes the Israeli military recently demolished, in response to deadly Hezbollah rocket attacks in March.

ILUZ: The whole place--the church--has been blowing away completely...

KIRCHER: Israel Iluz experienced those attacks firsthand. He pastors a Messianic Jewish congregation in Kiryat Shmona, where Hezbollah rocketfire damaged his building. Shrapnel is still embedded in his office wall. Instead of pulling it out...he had his secretary frame it.

ILUZ: So it is framed nicely with the glass. And it's a memory of the grace of God. The protection.

KIRCHER: No one was injured in that attack. Price says attacks like that prompted Israel's recent invasion of Lebanon and the demolition of homes.

PRICE: They would search to find out if there was any Hezbollah stuff or any weapons or anything in it. If there was, it would be destroyed. If there wasn't, they would leave it alone.

KIRCHER: Price says towns like Kiryat Shmona suffered economic collapse, and while some residents are returning, others have started a new life elsewhere. But despite the danger, Iluz says he plans to remain, and to keep preaching the gospel.

LUZ: No fear what man can do to us. No fear. We know that we are here to fulfill a purpose, to fulfill, to do, to build the body of Messiah here in the Galilee.

KIRCHER: Reporting for WORLD, I'm Travis Kircher in Metula and Kiryat Shmona.

I'm Kent Covington.

Still ahead, John Stonestreet is standing by for Culture Friday. Plus, a look at the newest Disney Marvel TV series.

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