Catching Our Eye News Roundup, Oct. 23, 2026

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Catching Our Eye

• Domestic violence. The Statehouse News Bureau’s Sarah Donaldson reports, “Ohio saw the second-highest domestic violence fatalities in a decade.”

Domestic violence fatalities in Ohio fell about 15% since last year, according to the annual fatality count released Wednesday morning by the Ohio Domestic Violence Network.

But the decrease followed a 37% surge last year, and the number of deaths was still the second-highest recorded in the last decade.

• Vance’s Trump politics. Axios reports, ““Stop whining”: What Vance’s take on Ohio ad controversy means for 2028.”

Vice President Vance’s call for fellow Republicans to “stop whining” about Vivek Ramaswamy’s controversial attack ad in Ohio’s race for governor showed a key part of his political mindset ahead of his expected run for president in 2028: Never back down.

Why it matters: Channeling President Trump, Vance has shown contempt for what he sees as the old-guard GOP’s reflex to cave under pressure from Democrats and the media.

• Breaking Eisenhower’s globe. The Washington Post reports, “Hegseth wanted Eisenhower’s globe for his office. His staff broke it.”

Ordinarily, moving historical items within the building is a deliberate process overseen by trained curators. Instead, Hegseth’s staff dispatched its own team to relocate an Eisenhower globe. They lost control of the artifact and dropped it, sending the globe crashing onto its base and impaling the fragile shell near Antarctica, according to those familiar with the incident. The resulting gash appears to be several inches wide.