France Orders Curfews After a Weekend of Riots, Jalen Hurts' Season Is Over, and Musk Promises Every Kid in America a SpaceX Share: Monday's Top News

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MONDAY, OCTOBER 19, 2026

France reached for curfews after its worst weekend of disorder in years, the Eagles lost Jalen Hurts for the season, and President Trump took the midterm fight to Kansas. Anthropic and Elon Musk traded pledges to give their companies away, and GTA VI’s final month began. Here are the ten stories that mattered.

1. France orders localized curfews after a weekend of riots and looting

France spent Monday trying to make sure the weekend did not repeat itself. Prime Minister Sébastien Lecornu, emerging from an emergency meeting, instructed regional prefects to impose what he called “very limited,” localized curfews rather than a nationwide one, and Paris police set an 11 p.m.–to–6 a.m. curfew around Place de la République and the Les Halles shopping district, with gatherings banned from 8 p.m., the Associated Press reported. The government’s running toll from the weekend — protests over living costs that turned violent in Paris, Lyon, Marseille and other cities — stands at roughly 2,400 arrests, close to 1,000 injured police officers and some 3,000 businesses damaged or looted, according to Reuters, and a fire gutted the city hall in Limoges. President Emmanuel Macron rejected the resignation of Interior Minister Laurent Nuñez, who had offered to quit over the security failures, and protesters blocking the Louvre forced the museum to close on Monday. A state of emergency remains on the table if the disorder returns. Our coverage of the damage count and the government’s crisis unit

2. Jalen Hurts' season is over after blood clots are found in his lungs

The Philadelphia Eagles announced Monday that quarterback Jalen Hurts will miss the rest of the season after further testing revealed blood clots in his lungs, Reuters reported. The team and Hurts’ agent, Nicole Lynn, said the diagnosis is deep vein thrombosis with bilateral pulmonary emboli; Hurts, 28, is stable — the team described him as having “no significant functional limitations” — and a full recovery with no long-term effects is expected. His treatment is blood thinners, which bar contact activities until it ends — specialists in London had initially found superficial clots in his left calf after the Oct. 11 loss to Jacksonville, USA TODAY reported. Backup Tanner McKee, who started Sunday’s 25–14 loss to Carolina, remains the starter for the 2–4 Eagles. Our full coverage of the Hurts announcement

3. Trump rallies in Kansas as the Marshall Senate race becomes a toss-up

President Trump flew into the Wichita area Monday evening to rally for Republican Sen. Roger Marshall at Heartland Credit Union Arena in Park City, Kansas Public Radio reported — a race the Cook Political Report now rates a toss-up against Democrat Adam Hamilton in a state that has not elected a Democratic senator since 1932. Trump announced an $8 billion harvest fuel relief program for farmers, urged supporters to “pretend I’m on the ballot,” and defended Marshall against a New York Times review of his 25 years as an obstetrician, which found he had sued more than 700 patients over unpaid bills, according to Particle News and MEA WorldWide. The visit came the same day a Reuters–Ipsos poll put Trump’s approval at a record-low 31 percent, 15 days before the November 3 midterms.

4. Anthropic pledges 5 percent of its stock to the public — and Musk answers with a share for every kid

Silicon Valley spent Monday one-upping itself on giving the company away. Anthropic said Sunday it will commit 5 percent of its shares to a new Anthropic Public Benefit Fund, subject to stockholder approval, with 2 percent more possible for every 50 percent rise in the company’s value above a set baseline, the Associated Press reported — taking the share of Anthropic equity aimed at the public good to roughly 20 percent. Elon Musk answered on X on Monday: “Next year, I will give one of my SpaceX shares to every kid in America. This will be the first of many,” Musk wrote. With about 72 million U.S. children and SpaceX closing at $146.03 on Friday, USA TODAY put the pledge’s value at roughly $10.5 billion — though Musk gave no details on how the shares would be delivered.

5. Russia strikes Ukraine's power grid again as Kyiv cites no warning

Russia launched another wave of strikes on Ukraine’s energy infrastructure on Monday, using ballistic missiles and jet-powered drones that damaged more than 10 facilities, according to The Nexus’s Monday intelligence briefing summarizing President Volodymyr Zelenskyy’s account. Zelenskyy said Kyiv received no early warning from partners ahead of the attack. He also raised concerns about limits on Starlink service and shortages of American-made Patriot air-defense systems — the latest exchange in a grinding campaign against Ukraine’s grid as winter approaches.

6. Suspicious letters reach three Arizona House Democrats as the mail investigation widens

U.S. Reps. Adelita Grijalva, Greg Stanton and Yassamin Ansari said Monday that the FBI’s Phoenix field office and the Arizona Department of Homeland Security had informed them over the weekend that suspicious letters — part of a series mailed to elected officials nationwide, many containing unknown substances — had been sent to their offices, the Arizona Republic reported. The letters to Grijalva and Ansari went to former office addresses, and Stanton’s was intercepted before delivery, the lawmakers said; the FBI and the U.S. Postal Inspection Service are investigating, FOX 10 Phoenix reported. No injuries have been reported, and the three members issued a joint statement: “We will not be intimidated, and we’ll keep doing the work that Arizonans elected us to do.” Similar mailings forced the evacuation of Arizona’s Executive Tower last week and have hit election offices in at least 15 states ahead of the November 3 midterms. Our coverage of the Arizona letters

7. Netflix shakes up its film leadership for the second time in a week

Netflix said Monday that film chief Dan Lin will leave the company after nearly three years, with incoming chief content officer Peter Rice overseeing the movie division on an interim basis until a successor is named. Lin’s departure is the second senior exit in less than a week, following chief content officer Bela Bajaria’s — the shakeup that brought former Disney executive Rice in to run content starting October 26. The two moves together amount to a near-total reset of the leadership that programs the world’s largest streaming service. Our coverage of the Netflix shakeup

8. Jon Stewart signs on to host 'The Daily Show' through the 2028 election

Comedy Central answered late night’s loudest open question on Monday: Jon Stewart will keep hosting “The Daily Show” on Mondays and stay on as an executive producer through December 2028, Skydance Television announced, in a two-year extension reported by Reuters and USA TODAY. The deal carries Stewart, 63, through the November 2028 presidential election and replaces the one-year renewal that would have expired at the end of 2026. The rotating news team — Ronny Chieng, Josh Johnson, Jordan Klepper, Michael Kosta and Desi Lydic — continues hosting the rest of the week, and the network says the show just posted its strongest third-quarter audience in eight years. Our coverage of the Stewart extension

9. GTA VI enters its final month, with Justice's score as the rollout inside the rollout

Monday marked exactly one month until Grand Theft Auto VI launches on November 19 for PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X|S — and the soundtrack is doing the marketing. Rockstar has handed the original score to French electronic duo Justice, whose launch-trailer single “Flower in a Hurricane” features Tame Impala, SZA and King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard; the full soundtrack runs 34 tracks, with in-game stations hosted by Bad Bunny, Robyn and Lana Del Rey. After two delays and more than eight years of development, the final countdown is the story now. Our coverage of the GTA VI score

10. 'Patient Zero' gives Taylor Swift a 52nd week atop the Hot 100

Taylor Swift’s “Patient Zero” extended its run at No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 for a third week, Billboard reported, lifting her career total to 52 weeks at No. 1 — the fifth-highest total in the chart’s history. The Encore era also kept four of her songs in the top-five conversation, and her label, Republic, held eight of the Billboard 200’s top 10 in the same week. Our coverage of Swift’s chart week