Your privacy choices

We use analytics to improve Pollar and, with your consent, the Meta pixel to measure sign-ups and purchases that come from our ads. You can change this anytime in Settings.

Privacy policy
Search⌘K
HomeFor YouLiveBriefAsk
MapMarketsThreadsSoundsFilms
DomesticGeopoliticsEconomySocietyScience & TechInfrastructureSportCultureLifestyle
Support PollarNotifications
PrivacyNewsroom
Reader-supported

Free to read, and staying that way

Members read the brief without a sponsor. Membership keeps Pollar independent.

from$29.99/yr

Support Pollar
Membership

Members don't see this panel.

  • Supporter$29.99/yr
  • Founder$69.99/yr
Support Pollar

Today’s Brief

A Peshawar school roof collapses

Zelensky resumes refinery strikes as Peshawar school collapse kills dozens of children

Volodymyr Zelensky said Ukraine has resumed strikes on Russian refineries after a roughly three-day US-requested pause, as Kyiv counted more than 850 Shahed drones between midnight and 9am on 15 October. In Peshawar, a private-school roof collapsed onto classrooms, killing at least 32 children and a teacher in the latest hospital count.

Read the Brief

Live now

All live coverage

  • Ukraine Patriot missile supply depleted

    Ukraine has exhausted its inventory of Patriot air-defense missiles, CNN reports, citing official sources.

  • EU summit opens in Brussels

    EU leaders fail to reach a budget deal in Brussels and ask Council President António Costa to draft a revised compromise proposal.

  • Oregon elementary school shooting

    Bend police spokeswoman Sheila Miller says officers arrived two minutes after the reports and the suspect died within seconds, but it is not yet known who fired the fatal shots.

In the spotlight

All threads

Other · Updated 30m ago

Demography and migration

A national health-access debate in Portugal and summit draft wording add detail but no new law or EU-level decision.

ContactSend feedbackNewspaperPublisher and newsroom
HomeBriefThreadsAsk
Live
AI-generated text·How this text is made
DevelopingDisaster

Oregon elementary school shooting

Disasters·High·Reported 1h 14m ago·Updated 50m ago
  1. Chapter 1 of 1DisasterDevelopingReported 1h 14m ago

    Oregon elementary school shooting

    Key facts

    Location
    Silver Rail Elementary School, Bend, Oregon
    Suspect status
    Dead
    Hospitalized
    At least 2 people

    1. Bend police spokeswoman Sheila Miller says officers arrived two minutes after the reports and the suspect died within seconds, but it is not yet known who fired the fatal shots.

      Confirmed Oct 16, 00:21·SourcesWashington Post (opens in a new tab)·wsbtv.com (opens in a new tab)·larongenow.com (opens in a new tab)·dailywire.com (opens in a new tab)

    2. Bend police say multiple children were injured at Silver Rail Elementary. The shooting began with gunfire into a car, police spokeswoman Sheila Miller said.

      Confirmed Oct 16, 00:14·SourcesThe New York Times (opens in a new tab)·The Telegraph (opens in a new tab)·khou.com (opens in a new tab)·nbcnews.com (opens in a new tab)

    3. Bend-La Pine School District says Silver Rail Elementary is under lockdown and students are being bused to a separate reunification site.

      Confirmed Oct 16, 00:06·SourcesRTE.ie (opens in a new tab)·pbs.org (opens in a new tab)·abcnews.com (opens in a new tab)·nbcnews.com (opens in a new tab)

    4. Police say the suspected shooter is dead after gunfire at Silver Rail Elementary School in Bend, Oregon. At least two people have been taken to the hospital.

      Confirmed Oct 15, 23:54·Sourcescnn.com (opens in a new tab)·wpri.com (opens in a new tab)·opb.org (opens in a new tab)·independent.co.uk (opens in a new tab)

AI-curated

How Pollar Live works