QUICK HITS

1 Storm blasts Europe: A powerful autumn storm, named Aurore, blasted parts of western Europe on Thursday, knocking out power to a quarter of a million French homes and damaging buildings in at least four countries. Train services were disrupted by uprooted trees littering tracks in France, Germany and the Netherlands, and roofs were ripped off many buildings.

2 Trump launches new platform:

Banished from Twitter and Facebook, former President Donald Trump is setting out to create a platform where he can communicate easily with his base and the rest of the world. Trump announced late Wednesday that his company, Trump Media and Technology Group, would be launching a new social media platform called Truth Social.

3 Man charged with murder:

British police Thursday charged a 25-year-old man with murder in the killing of David Amess, a lawmaker stabbed in a town east of London last week. The attack has rattled the British political establishment and intensified concerns over the security precautions for members of Parliament. The man charged was Ali Harbi Ali of North London.

4 Blackfeet Nation chief dies:

Earl Old Person, the chief of the Blackfeet Nation who for nearly 70 years pushed for its economic development and self-sufficiency and against what he saw as an unreliable, at times untrustworthy federal government, died Oct. 13 in Browning, Montana. He was 92. The cause was cancer.

5 Oil spill report: The Coast Guard received multiple reports of a possible fuel spill off the Southern California coast earlier than previously disclosed and asked local authorities to investigate about 15 hours before its own personnel confirmed a large oil slick, which came from a leaking undersea pipeline, records show.