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The Office of the Comptroller of the Currency released findings on October 14 from its supervisory review of the nine largest national banks under its oversight. The review examined policies in place between 2020 and September 2025.

The Treasury Department’s Office of Foreign Assets Control designated four individuals and 11 entities that it says are connected to Cartel del Noreste, a U.S.-designated foreign terrorist organization.

NASA’s MODIS programme published an October 12 account of Hurricane Isaias, using a Terra satellite image acquired October 9. NASA reports that the storm made landfall near Destin, Florida, that evening as a Category 2 hurricane, citing the National Hurricane Center.

New York City’s Department of Sanitation says there is no trash, recycling or curbside compost collection Monday, October 12, for Italian Heritage Day and Indigenous Peoples’ Day. The change was announced October 7 and applies to today’s holiday.

The European Union and eight countries signed an additional protocol to the Warsaw Convention in Strasbourg on October 14. The Council of Europe lists Georgia, Greece, Hungary, Luxembourg, Monaco, Montenegro, San Marino and the United Kingdom alongside the EU.

The European Commission allocated an additional €130 million through the Border Management and Visa Instrument for drone and counter-drone capabilities at external borders.

A new global Multidimensional Poverty Index update published October 12 counts 1.2 billion people in acute multidimensional poverty across 108 countries. UNDP and Oxford’s poverty research initiative report an increase of 51.5 million from the previous comparable update.

UNHCR’s Executive Committee begins its 77th session in Geneva on October 12, with meetings scheduled through October 16. The agency’s official event page lists a webcast and documents covering protection, finances and oversight.

The United Nations published a statement October 10 expressing concern over renewed fighting in Ethiopia’s Tigray, Afar and Amhara regions. The statement, dated October 9 in New York, urges parties to stop hostilities and resume dialogue through the Pretoria Agreement framework.

U.S. consumer prices increased 0.6% in September after a 0.4% August rise, the Bureau of Labor Statistics reported on October 14. Prices were 3.7% above their level a year earlier, compared with August’s 3.4% annual increase.

USDA Rural Development announced $1,024,615 for 11 Wisconsin projects through the Rural Business Development Grants program.

Robert E. Hall and Michael Woodford have received the 2026 prize in economic sciences, according to an October 12 announcement from the American Economic Association. The association identifies their contribution as research into the microeconomic foundations of business cycles.

Canada announced C$11.1 million for 16 projects led by 15 organizations on October 14. The investment comes through the Canadian Space Agency’s Space Technology Development Program, which supports early-stage development and testing.

NASA announced on October 14 that it will hold an Artemis program update at Kennedy Space Center in Florida on October 23. The briefing is scheduled for 2 p.m. Eastern and will be available online.

A SpaceX Falcon 9 launched a Dragon cargo spacecraft from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station at 6:33 a.m. Eastern on October 13 for NASA’s 35th commercial resupply mission to the International Space Station.

The Atlantic Canada Opportunities Agency opened a regional call for proposals backed by nearly C$40 million in additional federal funding for business artificial-intelligence projects.

The European Commission presented a Water Resilience Investment Accelerator on October 14, designed to help 20 innovative pilot projects attract financing. It operates through Green Assist, an InvestEU advisory initiative funded by the LIFE programme.

Canada announced protection of more than 81,400 hectares of taiga forest and peatland south of Kapuskasing, Ontario, through a project led by the Nature Conservancy of Canada.

NASA’s Earth Observatory reports that Antarctic sea ice likely reached its 2026 maximum on September 14. The estimated extent was 17.59 million square kilometers, the third-lowest annual maximum in the satellite record. The assessment was published October 12; the ice peak occurred earlier.