Saturday's nationwide marches in France — ministry turnout 550,000 (110,000 in Paris) vs. the CGT union's 800,000, both claims, not counts — were largely peaceful by day and turned destructive after dark. Limoges' 1883 town hall was set ablaze and its roof collapsed; the prefect calls it 'largely lost.' Marseille city hall was breached, Lyon's tourist office torched, and luxury shops were looted in Paris and Bordeaux. PM Sébastien Lecornu put detentions at 1,200 and injured police/gendarmes at 150. In Saint-Étienne a 17-year-old lost a hand to a grenade — the second such injury in this wave. The government blames ultra-left casseurs on the marches' fringes; Justice Minister Darmanin told prosecutors to seek pre-trial detention for attacks on police, firefighters, public buildings and shops. Macron vowed prosecutions.

Police have now named Thu's Silver Rail Elementary shooter as Griffin J. John II, 16, a former student, who shot through locked doors with a pump-action shotgun and fired up to 15 rounds in a special-needs classroom (Bend Police Chief Krantz). Killed: children aged 5, 8 and 11 — the 5-year-old identified at his family's request as Rhoam Summer — and teacher Megan Lambert, 25. Correction to early reports: the 54-year-old teacher is among the critically wounded, with a 7-year-old. A teacher tackled the gunman and fought for the gun; parent Kaylub Giamanco, 36, a carpenter with a concealed permit whose two daughters attend the school, followed him in and shot him dead. Motive is still unknown, and reports the shotgun was his mother's remain unconfirmed — Gov. Kotek told NPR she could not confirm them.

Organizers claimed 3,000+ 'No Kings: Vote Early' events nationwide Sat; no verified national attendance total exists, and the local numbers cut both ways — about 3,000 in Louisville and ~1,000 in Salem (police estimate) and Fort Myers (~1,200), but only ~200 in Indianapolis, ~400 in Richmond vs. 10,000+ there last year, and a visibly smaller Palm Beach Gardens crowd. Same afternoon in Highland Heights, Ky., Trump rallied for Senate candidate Andy Barr and House candidate Ed Gallrein, repeating a $5,000-per-adult payment if Republicans hold Congress — analysts put the cost above $1 trillion, it would need Congress, and no funding plan has been stated (USA Today) — and promising a $100M Defense investment in Winchester's Antheia plant only 'if the Republicans win.' Louisville Rep. Morgan McGarvey called the plant promise a 'lie.'

In a Fri 10/16 letter, Rep. Ilhan Omar's lawyers (Amy Jeffress and Joshua Matz) accused federal agents of ignoring restrictions Magistrate Judge Matthew Sharbaugh placed on Mon 10/12's search of her D.C. home — alleging the warrant copy and notice to the House Office of General Counsel and her counsel didn't happen as ordered, no one present protected Speech or Debate material, and she was handed a waiver she didn't sign. They demand all seized property back and call the immigration-history probe 'neither justified nor lawful' and election-timed. These are allegations, not findings. DOJ told CNN the letter is 'riddled with false allegations and inaccuracies,' that agents 'complied with all court orders,' and that leaking it was 'a publicity play.' Omar has not been charged.

Follow-up to yesterday's lead: on Sat, President Zelenskyy urged supporters to speak out in defense of the new U.S. sanctions after Trump's executive order pausing the Graham Act package, calling the pause unfortunate and saying it would encourage Russia (AP via NPR). Trump certified to Congress only that the pause is in the national interest, with no further detail. Overnight Russian attacks killed at least four people in Ukraine, including an ambulance driver, per Ukrainian officials via AP.