The day in brief — October 29, 2026
The stories that led the day, ranked by how many independent outlets covered each one.
The number 1,214 is not a book print run or an election vote count, but a record of drones shot down overnight. While air defense sets records, Alphabet shares fell 15% — investors seem to have decided that AI spending isn't worth the price.
The day's stories
- ECB President Lagarde to step down early in February 2027
- Russian drone strike on Dnipro station kills at least 14
- Two killed as fairy chimney collapses in Cappadocia, Türkiye
- Hegseth fires Pentagon's top strategist Brett Sylvia
- Russia says it downed record 1,214 drones overnight
- Alphabet shares plunge 15% on weak earnings, AI spending concerns
- Hackers leak data of 41,000 US Homeland Security employees
- Mass brawl breaks out in Armenian parliament
- North Korea fires about a dozen ballistic missiles into East Sea
- Fire at US nuclear site: one injured, emergency lifted
Other stories of the day
- Binance covers 90% of losses after record $6.3 billion hack
- Patrick Stewart, 'Star Trek' and 'X-Men' star, dies at 86
- Israel election: Netanyahu bloc falls short of majority, coalition talks loom
- Russia's Novaya Gazeta announces closure after 33 years
- France braces for third weekend of protests: 70,000 police, Paris march moved to outskirts
- Putin says Russia ready for war with Europe, but doesn't want it
- EUFOR helicopter crash in Bosnia kills four, injures 11
- Italy hit by general strike, protests turn violent in Rome
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