TRUMP said he will hold a phone rally at 3:30 p.m. ET on Saturday, to be broadcast live (03:30 Beijing time Sunday).

Germany's education and family minister Karin Prien has proposed a tax on value created by artificial intelligence; levies on AI service providers could affect U.S. companies, and a broader tax on AI-generated commercial activity would hit U.S. firms operating in Germany. Stanford University's 2026 AI Index shows U.S. private-sector AI investment in 2025 at $285.9 bln versus $20.9 bln for all of Europe. Prien said such a tax could lower returns for U.S. AI vendors selling into Germany or raise costs for their customers and could penalize firms adopting productivity-enhancing technologies. No concrete government coalition plan exists; tax rates and scope remain undecided.

A magnitude 6.1 earthquake struck southern Panama at 10:50 a.m. local time on Oct. 31; the epicenter was about 18 km east of Tonosí in Los Santos province and the depth was 10 km, the University of Panama Institute of Earth Sciences said.