October 10, 2026: 12 Killed 309 Injured at Riyadh Airport, Trump: Ukraine Needs New Leader, More

0:01 News when you want it, with Bloomberg News Now, I'm Ed Kalangi. Saudi Arabia says 12 people were killed and 309 were injured Saturday in an attack on the Riyadh airport, the deadliest incident in an intensifying conflict with Yemen's Houthis. Saudi civil aviation authorities said that airport operations were suspended temporarily while the damage was being assessed. Some of the injured were in critical condition. The U.S. warned its citizens to avoid the airport in the Saudi capital. One of the people killed was an American, according to Saudi Arabia.

0:33 The U.K.

0:34 Described the latest incident as serious, and airlines, including Kuwait's national carrier, scrapped flights. Some 260 flights to and from Riyadh were canceled Saturday. Another 219 were delayed. President Trump has demanded that Volodymyr Zelensky halt attacks on Russian oil refineries and suggested he should consider stepping aside as Ukraine's president, escalating a fight centered on securing more diesel supplies for the U.S., ahead of the midterm elections.

1:01 I suggest they get a new leader who can make a deal.

1:05 Trump spoke with reporters at the White House Saturday as he unleashed an angry critique of Zelensky.

1:11 We said you can do whatever you want to Russia, don't hit the refineries, because that's a world problem that's caused. And he wants to make problems for the world. He wants to make problems for our farmers, our ranchers.

1:23 Zelensky previously blasted the U.S. decision to help release Russian diesel fuel into the global markets. which includes a Treasury waiver for some sanctioned Russian fuel. Trump said Friday he was working with Russian President Vladimir Putin on the diesel release, upending years of sanctions as the White House seeks ways to tame soaring fuel prices ahead of the November 3rd elections.

1:44 Zelensky quickly complained that the move will give Russia more resources to continue the war. The New York Times reports the Justice Department is investigating whether the major television networks ABC, CBS, CNN, NBC and Fox News violated federal antitrust laws when the group briefly suspended their pooled coverage of President Trump. This according to six people with knowledge of the department's action.

2:08 Officials from the Justice Department contacted networks on Friday and demanded communications and materials related to the White House TV pool. The pool is a long-standing system where the networks share the responsibility of providing footage of the president and distributing it to other news outlets. Isaias roared onto the Florida panhandle, ripping roofs off homes and condominiums before it moved north Saturday, bringing torrential rain and the threat of flash floods and tornadoes across the southeast. Two people were killed by fallen trees and about 800,000 customers were without power, mostly in Florida and Alabama. The storm came ashore as a Category 2 hurricane on Friday near Destin, Florida. The storm weakened

2:51 overnight and was downgraded to a post-tropical cyclone but remained a threat. The Department of Energy says it authorized an emergency exchange of up to four million barrels of crude oil from the Strategic Petroleum Reserve to ease supply disruptions from the hurricane in the Gulf of Mexico. with exchanges of up to 2 million barrels each for ExxonMobil and BP America. Anthropic says its clawed AI model carried out additional unintended actions on the digital systems of outside organizations, including submitting a false tip in a police homicide case, prompting a warning from the Trump administration for artificial intelligence companies to secure their systems. In one example of the improper behavior it found, Anthropic said its clawed Haiku 4.5

3:33 model submitted a tip to a local police department about a homicide, stating in the form, I may have information regarding this case, and I recall seeing someone matching the description in the area, without filling in the site's name and contact fields. Anthropic says the police in Philadelphia disclosed the incident in a press release. A federal district judge in Washington has blocked a key component of the Justice Department's efforts to obtain state voter records. Bloomberg's Amy Morris reports from Washington.

4:03 U.S.

4:03 District Judge Sparkle Sukhnanan wrote that officials cannot evade federal privacy laws by attempting a dragnet investigation of the entire country. The Justice Department said it would use the voter rolls as part of a nationwide probe into alleged voter fraud. The judge says the department can pursue targeted investigations acting on specific complaints. but she blocked the policy that she says has removed U.S. citizens from voter rolls in their home states and risks disenfranchising many more. In Washington, Amy Morris, Bloomberg Radio.

4:35 The European Union's cutting its hybrid imports from China in half. Bloomberg's Monica Ricks has details.

4:41 The EU intends to use safeguard measures to cut the number of hybrid car imports from China by half, which could happen by December and likely take the form of tariff rate quotas. That would apply a levy on imports above a certain volume to help curb excessive flows, essentially cutting the number of hybrids coming into the bloc from about 8,000 to 400,000 per year. Chinese hybrid car sales have escalated mostly because they've escaped EU tariffs on electric vehicles.

5:07 In August, Chinese-made cars accounted for about a quarter of European hybrid sales. Monica Ricks, Bloomberg Radio.

5:14 That's news when you want it with Bloomberg News Now. I'm Ed Kalecki. This is Bloomberg.