Daily News Brief · October 9th

The National Football League is now urging the Supreme Court to decide whether states should have the power to regulate prediction markets. Front Office Sports deals reporter Ben Horney joins CBS News to discuss.

After the rebellion of An Lushan — one such Turk — the desperate Chinese paid huge sums to the Uyghur Turks for poor quality horses and not overly reliable mercenaries, and Uyghur merchants secured extraterritorial rights and privileges and were allowed to settle in Chang’an, together with Sogdian colleagues. Much the same happened in the Caliphate, particularly after Samarra was founded in 836 and temporarily became the capital.

Andy Burnham's Labour Party won an election for the parliamentary seat vacated by former leader Keir Starmer on Friday (October 9, 2026), fending off a strong challenge from the left-wing Green Party in a boost for the British Prime Minister. Labour candidate Sagal Abdi-Wali, the leader of the local council, won the by-election in the central London constituency of Holborn and St. Pancras with 12,292 votes, compared with 8,928 for Zack Polanski, the Green Party leader. Labour had been widely expected to hold the seat, as Mr.

Over the course of the week, the Trump administration has moved from announcing that President Donald Trump had approved a firing squad execution to announcing that it plans to livestream the state-sanctioned military killing of Nidal Hasan. Hasan, who killed 13 people in a 2009 shooting at Fort Hood, Texas, is one of four people currently sentenced to death under the U.S. Code of Military Justice. Days after Tennessee failed in its effort to execute Christa Pike — and while she still lay unconscious in a hospital — the U.S.

On the markets — Kalshi traders have been actively repricing this story in the last day.

- The Nobel Peace Prize will be announced in Oslo on Oct 9, with 287 nominees and heavy focus on how Donald Trump may react. - Experts say Trump will not win, and the committee could face backlash if its choice is seen as criticism of him. - Likely winners include humanitarian and child-protection groups, while the prize season ends on Oct 12 and each Nobel award includes US$1.2 million. OSLO – The winner of the Nobel Peace Prize will be announced on Oct 9 in Oslo, with much of the attention centred on how US President Donald Trump, eager to win it himself, will react.

China is set to resume October refined fuel exports after a brief halt during its Golden Week holiday, a move that will help ease tight global fuel markets, four traders familiar with the matter said on Friday (October 9,, 2026). China has approved October exports of diesel, gasoline and jet fuel combined at around 3.7 million metric tons, according to two separate industry participants. China began curbing fuel exports in March to safeguard domestic fuel supplies as the Iran war disrupted crude oil flows and refinery production, but relaxed controls between July and September.

- Barbara Cesar Siero says Venezuelan officials forced her to sign Maria Corina Machado’s election ban after arresting three relatives, including two brothers and a sister-in-law. - Machado won the 2023 opposition primary, but the ban blocked her candidacy, so her party chose Edmundo Gonzalez Urrutia instead. - Machado’s party demands the ban be lifted at once and says the case shows fear, illegal orders, and no judicial independence in Venezuela.

Ecobank Transnational Inc. is stepping up efforts to facilitate direct yuan payments for clients trading with China as the pan-African lender seeks to boost ties with the continent’s biggest trading partner and reduce reliance on the dollar.