{"id":228019,"date":"2026-10-19T12:40:11","date_gmt":"2026-10-19T12:40:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/trumps-approval-rating-slips-again-and-a-deadly-incident-at-a-youth-soccer-game-weekend-rundown-nbc-news\/"},"modified":"2026-10-19T12:40:11","modified_gmt":"2026-10-19T12:40:11","slug":"trumps-approval-rating-slips-again-and-a-deadly-incident-at-a-youth-soccer-game-weekend-rundown-nbc-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/trumps-approval-rating-slips-again-and-a-deadly-incident-at-a-youth-soccer-game-weekend-rundown-nbc-news\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump\u2019s approval rating slips again, and a deadly incident at a youth soccer game: Weekend Rundown – NBC News"},"content":{"rendered":"

Morning Rundown: Why these midterm polls are so unpredictable, witnesses haunted by Wichita soccer tragedy, and Cindy Crawford\u2019s tribute to son<\/a><\/span><\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

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Weeks ahead of Election Day, 71% of U.S. adults think the country is on the \u201cwrong track.\u201d<\/strong><\/a> It\u2019s the highest share yet in President Donald Trump\u2019s second term, illustrating the grim national mood his party faces in the midterms, according to a new NBC News Decision Desk Poll powered by SurveyMonkey.
Poll respondents expressed deep unhappiness over economic conditions and widespread distrust toward both major political parties, but Trump and Republicans bore the brunt.
A majority of Americans view the president\u2019s administration as uniquely corrupt, even as they look skeptically at corruption in both parties. And they say Trump is failing to improve their material financial conditions. The president\u2019s approval rating slipped to 34% among U.S. adults, a second-term low in this poll, while his disapproval rating rose to 66%.
Americans continue to hold a negative view of Democrats, too. Among adults, just 43% view the Democratic Party favorably.
A 6-year-old boy and a 35-year-old man were killed and 10 other people were injured when a woman drove a truck through a youth soccer game<\/strong><\/a> at a city sports complex in Wichita, Kansas, Saturday afternoon, police said.
The 34-year-old driver was taken into custody but released after consultation with the Sedgwick County District Attorney\u2019s Office, police said. She has not been charged with a crime and has not been identified.
It is unclear whether the incident at Stryker Sports Complex was intentional. Investigators are waiting for results of the driver\u2019s toxicology testing and a mechanical examination of the vehicle.
The injured include five children, ages 5 to 9, as well as five men and women 28 to 68 years old, he said.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy <\/strong><\/a>has warned that the U.S. formally siding with Russia\u2019s Vladimir Putin would be a \u201chistoric mistake,\u201d but said he still sees Trump as an ally despite a series of moves that have unsettled his country and its friends on Capitol Hill.
\u201cWe want to trust him,\u201d Zelenskyy told NBC News\u2019 \u201cMeet the Press,\u201d referring to Trump. \u201cI hope that he will change his decisions, because I think that it\u2019s all mistakes, and it will not help us, and it will not help United States.\u201d
Trump on Friday waived sweeping new sanctions against Russia passed by Congress. The move came days after U.S. intelligence sharing was briefly \u201cblocked,\u201d Zelenskyy said, leaving Ukraine blind to incoming ballistic missiles. Limits have also been placed on Starlink technology critical to intercepting jet-powered drones.
Zelenskyy told moderator Kristen Welker that Ukrainian officials believe SpaceX imposed the Starlink limits in response to a \u201cmessage from American government.\u201d
Amid escalating tensions between Trump and Zelenskyy, Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent dodged three times when asked whether Ukraine is an ally<\/strong><\/a> of the United States.
\u201cWe provide the three different things … to Ukraine, so that\u2019s what you do for an ally. We\u2019re not providing those to Russia,\u201d Bessent told NBC News\u2019 \u201cMeet the Press\u201d the second time he was asked whether the U.S. considers Ukraine an ally. (Earlier, Bessent said U.S. support includes providing intelligence, Starlink support and allowing NATO to purchase U.S. weapons to resell to Ukraine.)
Asked for a third time, the treasury secretary simply said, \u201cI\u2019m not the secretary of state. I\u2019m not the president.\u201d
It seems to me that this won\u2019t stop Putin. On the contrary, he feels joy and happiness that there is such support.
Zelenskyy responded to Trump suspending new sanctions<\/strong><\/a> against Russia that Congress had passed. Trump had signed the legislation, named for the late Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., just last month.
Pope Leo XIV was discharged from the hospital<\/strong><\/a> Saturday after undergoing surgery for lung cancer, with his surgeon saying he could make a full recovery within about 10 days.
Dr. Stefano Margaritora told Vatican News there were \u201cno clinical reasons\u201d why the pontiff should not make his planned trip to Latin America next month.
Leo, who had been recovering at Rome\u2019s Gemelli Hospital since Tuesday, walked out unaided and spent a couple of minutes speaking to well-wishers. He appeared to accept a gift of a homemade smiling figure of the pope before getting into a car to return to the Vatican.
He thanked well-wishers on Sunday as he recited the Angelus prayer from the window of the Vatican\u2019s Apostolic Palace.
The worst of El Ni\u00f1o is still months away, but Southern California\u2019s fragile coastline<\/strong><\/a> is already being transformed by record-setting king tides and storm surges.
An unusually active hurricane season triggered a trio of storms that pummeled Hawaii and Mexico earlier this year. The historic weather pattern claimed more than a dozen homes along the shore in Long Beach, swallowing up boardwalks and portions of the Pacific Coast Highway farther south.
\u201cThis is just a little bit of a taste of what we will see in the future,\u201d warned Timu Gallien with the Coastal Flood Lab at the University of California, Los Angeles.
In front of a sold-out sea of purple at the Chase Center, the Golden State Valkyries shook off an early deficit and shooting struggles to beat the Atlanta Dream 68-64 and take Game 1 of the WNBA Finals.<\/strong><\/a>
Valkyries star Gabby Williams led all scorers with 26 points on 8-of-22 shooting. She hit two free throws with 4.1 seconds remaining to ice the game. Allisha Gray led the Dream with 19 points on 5-of-19 shooting but was held scoreless in the fourth quarter.
The Valkyries forced 12 Atlanta turnovers and scored 17 points off them. Golden State center Kiah Stokes recorded four blocks in the first half to add to the team\u2019s total\u00a0of 10.
Amina Kilpatrick is a weekend platforms editor for NBC News.
Mark Hodge is a platforms editor for NBC News based in London.
Platforms editor for NBC News
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