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Israeli forces encountered a man believed to be Yahya Sinwar during routine military operations in the Gaza Strip, two Israeli sources familiar with the matter said. Israeli infantry troops encountered three militants near a building in Gaza and engaged them, the sources said. After the battle ended, troops found a body resembling Sinwar's and alerted senior commanders. The Israeli military and intelligence services have since been working to identify whether the body is indeed Sinwar's through DNA analysis, the sources said. Follow live updates at the link in our bio.

Liam Payne, a former member of the boyband One Direction, died after falling from his third floor hotel balcony in Buenos Aires, according to police. He was 31 years old. Hear the phone call made between hotel staff and emergency services prior to Payne's death.

Former One Direction member Liam Payne has died at age 31 after falling from the third floor of a hotel in Buenos Aires, Argentina, according to police. Hotel staff had called the police with urgent concerns about a guest moments before Payne's death, according to a 911 call obtained by a CNN affiliate. Fans have gathered to sing and hold vigils outside of the hotel. Tap the link in bio for live updates.

This year's hunter's moon is also a supermoon, which happens when the moon is closer to the Earth than normal. And October's supermoon will be the biggest, brightest supermoon of the year. The hunter's moon is the first full moon after the autumnal equinox, which occurred on September 22 this year and marks the changing of the seasons. The name originated from indigenous people, who benefited from the bright appearance of the moon as hunters prepared for long winters. Tap the link in bio for more. 📸 : 1.Gary Hershorn/Corbis News/Getty Images, 2.Karim Jaafar/AFP/Getty Images, 3.Michael Probst/AP, 4.Ivan Alvarado/Reuters, 5.Selcuk Acar/Anadolu/Getty Images, 6.Michael Probst/AP, 7.Mario Tama/Getty Images

After falling off a ledge, a 57-year-old man was rescued from train tracks by Seattle police officers seconds before a train approached. He was treated and transported to a hospital in downtown Seattle and was listed in critical condition. If you or someone you know is struggling with mental health, help is available. Dial or text 988 or visit 988lifeline.org for free and confidential support.

Vice presidential candidate JD Vance said former President Donald Trump did not lose the 2020 election "by the words" the Ohio Republican would use, when asked at a rally Wednesday what message it sends to independent voters that he has not directly answered that question. CNN's KFile reported last week that, in the weeks after the 2020 election, Vance indicated he believed that Trump had lost the election and accepted that Joe Biden would be inaugurated. Read more at the link in bio.

Pandas Bao Li and Qing Bao have arrived at the Smithsonian's National Zoo and are getting to know their new home. A veterinarian at the zoo said the pandas will undergo a 30-day quarantine. Read more at the link in our bio.

Liam Payne, a former member of boy band One Direction, has died after falling from the window of a hotel in Buenos Aires, according to police there. Elizabeth Wagmeister reports on the pop star's death. Read more at the link in our bio.

Liam Payne, a former member of boy band One Direction, has died after falling from a hotel window in Buenos Aires, according to police there. He was 31. Read more at the link in our bio. 📷: Dave Benett/Getty Images

French President Emmanuel Macron waded into the conversation about the hit Netflix show "Emily in Paris," saying his country "will fight hard" to stop the show from relocating to Rome next season. Read more at the link in our bio.

A representative for Kylian Mbappé says "legal action" will be taken against Swedish media, which reported the soccer star is "suspected on reasonable grounds of rape" after visiting a nightclub and staying at a hotel in Stockholm, Sweden, on October 10. The representative denounced the reporting as "totally false and irresponsible." CNN has reached out to Real Madrid for comment. Read more at the link in our bio.

Striking images from the Sahara Desert show large lakes etched into rolling sand dunes after one of the most arid, barren places in the world was hit with its first floods in decades. The Sahara does experience rain, but usually just a few inches a year and rarely in late summer. Over two days in September, however, intense rain fell in parts of the desert in southeast Morocco, after a low pressure system pushed across northwestern Sahara. Preliminary NASA satellite data showed nearly 8 inches of rain in some parts of the region. Tap the link in bio to read more. 📸: AP

Whoopi Goldberg lost her brother, Clyde, and her mother, Emma, five years apart in 2005 and 2010. She shared how, for her, grief can manifest as a sense of abandonment with CNN's For more of "All There Is with Anderson Cooper," tap the link in bio and follow the show wherever you get your podcasts.

CNN's Sara Sidner talks about the first time she cried after her breast cancer diagnosis, and shares how she brought up her own research during conversations with her doctor. Watch the rest of the conversation at the link in our bio.

CNN's Jeremy Diamond tours southern Lebanon's battlefield ground operation with Israeli military forces.

Police in Bay Village, Ohio, shared dashcam video of officers dispatched to remove a giant inflatable pumpkin from the road.

CNN's David Culver traveled to Sichuan Province in China to meet panda trackers, who help the animals get reintroduced to the wild. Read more at the link in our bio.

A 46-year-old Russian man was rescued after 67 days adrift on a small boat in the bitterly cold sea off the Siberian coast. The man, Mikhail Pichugin, will be taken to a hospital for medical treatment in the town of Magadan, in Russia's far east, RIA reported. He is "in serious condition, emaciated, but conscious," the director of the fishing company that stumbled upon the adrift boat told RIA. Tap the link in bio for more.

Sherri Rowell remembers her grandfather telling her, “Republicans were for rich people.” “That’s what I was always taught. Democrats were for us poor people,” she said. Money is still tight for many in Brantley County in southeast Georgia, but its people no longer look to Democrats to help. In fact, with more than 90% of voters picking former President Donald Trump in the 2020 election, it’s the most pro-Trump county in the six battleground states that could decide the presidency this year. Tap the link in bio for more.

Jane Xue sent her dog, a 2-year-old Samoyed named OK, off to her first day of work in mid-September. Her employer? A dog cafe in Fuzhou, in southeastern China. Xue's idea might sound unconventional, but it's a growing trend in China. Called "Zhengmaotiaoqian" in Chinese, it translates to "earn snack money." The phrase stems from the idea that these pets are actually working – either part-time or full-time – at cat and dog cafes and then returning home to their families at night, just like humans. In addition to being surrounded by playmates, Xue says OK's job in the cafe allows her and her partner to save money. If they leave her at home, they have to run the air-conditioning all day, which gets pricey. Though the snack money trend may seem cute and fun, it's a sign of the times, too. China is expected to have more pets than toddlers by the end of this year, according to Goldman Sachs. In recent months, cafe owners and pet owners alike have been posting recruitment ads and CVs on Xiaohongshu, China's answer to Instagram. In one viral post titled "What is the salary for working in a cat cafe?" a cat café owner wrote: "Many people say they want to send their cats to work in our cat café, if that is the case, let me introduce the salary of our café, as we just paid some of our old employees!" According to the tongue-in-cheek post, which has garnered hundreds of likes, a gray and white cat named Datou ("big head") ended up getting five cans of cat food "after taxes." Tap the link in bio for more. 📸 : Jane Xue