The phrase "confronted today" is correct and can be used in written English.
It can be used to describe a current situation or issue that someone is facing or dealing with in the present moment. Example: "The world is confronted today with various challenges, from climate change to political unrest."
In his third appearance before the international war crimes tribunal that will try him, Slobodan Milosevic was confronted today with the accusations of bloodshed in the Balkans ascribed to him, charges that until now he had deliberately ignored.
The bank, confronted today with demonstrations by Swissair employees carrying "United Bandits of Switzerland" placards, said the rescue package, while "tough," was realistic and "unprecedented in size in Swiss history," and said Swissair had waited far too late before asking for help.
Across the continent from the vote-counting imbroglio in Florida that will determine the winner of the presidency, Washington state officials were confronted today with another remarkably close contest whose outcome may well determine whether Democrats can lay claim to exactly half the seats in the United States Senate.
Whatever the ideology and objective in the understanding of integration, states are confronted today with the transnational actions of activists who try to bypass states in order to reach a global perspective of their identification and action.
It offers small comfort to today's American Muslims that the prejudice and ignorance they confronted today has precedents in America's Catholic past.
The problems being confronted today started much earlier and we all have some responsibility in creating this situation by our allowing these kinds of actions to continue on without the people involved in them being penalized.
It is a shocking truth that I first confronted seven years ago.
When confronted last week with pervasive rumors that he is on the way out, Tillerson pleaded ignorance.
His opponent is Leonid Kotov, the son of the Soviet officer Mr. Aivers's father confronted 45 years ago.
That is what Mr. Godager, game director for Anarchy Online (www.anarchy-online.com), confronted last week.
Manuel later said he might have confronted 2007 a little more openly.
