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Monday, November 9, 2026

Today's stories, unbiased and brief: the facts, why they matter for your life, and a link to go deeper.

Tech

Nvidia's board investigates Jensen Huang after he admits affair with suspected spy

The CEO told staff he was unfaithful to his wife and that the board has opened an independent inquiry into the espionage allegations.

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The New Zealand Parliament building, known as the Beehive, in Wellington

World

New Zealand's conservative bloc takes an early lead as vote counting continues

Official results are not expected until November 27 because special votes have yet to be tallied.

The West Wing entrance to the White House under overcast skies

Politics

White House deputy chief of staff Walters leaves as Stephen Miller takes charge

The departure is the first major staff exit in what Axios calls an expected shakeup under the new chief of staff.

A fluorescence microscope image of a cultured rat hippocampal neuron

Health

Stanford AI finds a natural molecule that suppresses appetite like Ozempic

The 12 amino acid peptide cut food intake by up to 50% in animals and preserved muscle, unlike existing GLP-1 drugs.

Bar chart showing monthly CPI changes in 2026 with October's missing annual rate highlighted

Money

Tuesday's CPI report will have no annual inflation rate for the first time

The Bureau of Labor Statistics never collected October 2025 prices during the federal shutdown, leaving a hole in the data that could confuse markets.

A large gas turbine at an industrial power generation facility

Business

Anthropic spends $3.4 billion on gas generators to power its AI data centers

The deal with a Texas supplier covers 1.7 gigawatts of generating capacity, the largest known single power purchase by an AI lab.

A wide view of the Antalya coastline in Turkey where the COP31 summit is being held

World

COP31 climate summit opens in Turkey after a year of deadly heat waves

Nearly 200 countries begin 12 days of negotiations in Antalya, with updated emission pledges due by February.

The White House and South Lawn in Washington, D.C.

World

Trump to meet Qatar's prime minister Monday on Iran ceasefire and nuclear talks

The White House meeting comes as Trump says new strikes are highly unlikely if negotiations make progress, while Rubio calls Iran's demands outrageous.

Sunday, November 8, 2026

A Roku Streaming Stick 4K device and remote control

Business

Fox closes Roku acquisition, reaching 100 million households

An IBM Quantum System One computer inside a glass enclosure

Tech

IBM puts its most advanced quantum computer online in Chicago

Ballistic missiles displayed inside an Iranian underground facility

World

Iran lifts its 2,000-kilometer limit on ballistic missiles

The Knesset parliament building in Jerusalem, Israel

World

Israel taps Gadi Eisenkot to try forming a new government

Suburban houses along a residential street

Money

Mortgage rates fall for a third week but remain above last year

Nvidia headquarters building in Santa Clara, California

Tech

Nvidia CEO faces scrutiny over alleged ties to a Chinese spy

The Chase Center arena exterior in San Francisco

Sports

Stephen Curry sets post-35 record with 41-point overtime win

Saturday, November 7, 2026

Rows of black computer server racks inside a brightly lit data center

Tech

METR finds Anthropic's AI research progress is moving nearly twice as fast

Levi's Stadium filled with football fans before a San Francisco game

Sports

NFL says Brandon Aiyuk owes the 49ers about $13 million in bonuses

A Shenzhou spacecraft and launch vehicle being rolled toward its pad

Science

Pakistani astronaut set to be first foreigner on China's space station

Amsterdam canal boats and narrow buildings illuminated at dusk

Tech

Protesters breach a Microsoft data center site as AI backlash spreads

The White House viewed across its landscaped South Lawn in Washington

Politics

Stephen Miller replaces Susie Wiles as Trump's White House chief

A silver Tesla Cybertruck parked outdoors and viewed from the front

Business

Tesla will end Cybertruck production by mid-2027 to expand Cybercab

An oil tanker underway on open water near a mountainous coast

World

US strikes Iran again as Qatar offers a two-day path to nuclear talks

Vaccination certificate showing a recorded measles, mumps and rubella immunization

Health

Wisconsin records its first measles death in 36 years amid 431 cases

Friday, November 6, 2026

Bar chart of the median age of US first-time home buyers by how they paid for the house

Money

A record 1 in 10 first-time home buyers paid all cash this year

Bar chart comparing the UK inflation target, September 2026 CPI and the Bank of England projection

Money

Bank of England raises rates to 4% in its first hike in over three years

Bar chart of European flights searched, delayed or diverted by bomb hoaxes each day this week

World

Hoax bomb threats disrupt at least 34 European flights in one week

Bar chart comparing reported purchase prices of New York Times Company acquisitions

Culture

The New York Times is in talks to buy Letterboxd for $330 million

Empty lethal injection chamber with a gurney and restraints at San Quentin State Prison

US

Newsom commutes all 548 California death sentences to life terms

Los Angeles City Hall tower seen from the west above the downtown skyline

Politics

Nithya Raman ousts Karen Bass in the Los Angeles mayor’s race

Bar chart of one-day share price declines on November 5, 2026, with Nvidia highlighted

Business

Nvidia sheds almost $450 billion as AI fears erase $2.5 trillion

Rows of blue-lit server racks inside an empty data center hall

Tech

OpenAI pledges to drop NDAs with officials at its data centers

Exterior steps of the Palacio Legislativo, the congress building in Asuncion, Paraguay

World

Paraguay’s president resigns and is impeached after a bank collapse

Exterior of the Wendy’s flagship restaurant in Dublin, Ohio under a blue sky

Business

Wendy’s rejects a $1.4 billion bid and adopts a poison pill

Thursday, November 5, 2026

Bar chart showing oil futures gaining 10 percent in October and falling 14 percent this week

Money

Crude oil plunges below $90 after Vance blames the Iran war

Bar chart of JetBlue first checked bag fees before and after the increase, off peak and peak

Money

JetBlue raises its first checked bag to $50 before the holidays

Hong Kong activist Joshua Wong standing in front of a painted protest banner

World

Joshua Wong sentenced to 10 more years in Hong Kong security case

Sports

LIV Golf faces liquidation as BC Partners drops its $300M rescue

Bar chart comparing McDonald's US comparable sales growth of 2.4 percent in 2025 with 0.2 percent in 2026

Business

McDonald's tests cheaper menu items at 1,900 US restaurants

Official portrait of House Speaker Mike Johnson with the Washington Monument behind him

Politics

Mike Johnson steps aside as House Republican leader after rout

The Delta II rocket that carried NASA's Swift Observatory standing on its Cape Canaveral launch pad

Science

NASA's Swift telescope burns up over Sumatra after 22 years

Bar chart of Qualcomm fiscal fourth quarter revenue by product line: handsets, automotive and IoT

Business

Qualcomm handset chip revenue falls 26% as it pivots to data centers

Bar chart of Navy SEAL candidate attrition by training stage, highest in the three weeks before Hell Week

US

Two women reach Hell Week in Navy SEAL training for the first time

Bar chart comparing 40 data center ballot measures that went against the industry with the single one that did not

Tech

Voters rejected data centers in 40 of 41 local ballot measures

Wednesday, November 4, 2026

Bar chart of Astera Labs quarterly revenue, operating income and net income

Business

Astera Labs revenue jumps 154% as AI fabric switches scale up

Bar chart of Chloe Donnell's points and record-setting three-pointers

Sports

Chloe Donnell ties the NCAA record with 14 three-pointers

The United States Capitol illuminated beneath a blue evening sky

Politics

Democrats win the House and Senate in a sweeping midterm rebuke

The Texas State Capitol building and grounds in Austin

Politics

James Talarico breaks Texas' 38-year Democratic Senate drought

The Georgia State Capitol and its gold dome in Atlanta

US

Keisha Lance Bottoms becomes America's first Black woman governor

Bar chart comparing engineering benchmark scores for two OpenAI models

Tech

OpenAI built a working device with no direct human design edits

Bar chart of capabilities, barriers and recommendations in the sovereign agent framework

Tech

Report warns self-sustaining AI agents could escape kill switches

Bar chart of average 30-year, 15-year and adjustable mortgage APRs

Money

The 30-year mortgage APR starts November at 7.07% nationwide

Bar chart of United States military financing and missile defense support for Israel

World

US to end nearly $4 billion in annual military aid to Israel

Tuesday, November 3, 2026

Bar chart of Anthropic revenue rising from $41 million in 2023 to $33.2 billion in nine months of 2026

Business

Anthropic discloses $33.2 billion of revenue in nine months before IPO

Bar chart of Apple fiscal Q4 2026 revenue of $114.5 billion against iPhone revenue of $57.58 billion

Tech

Apple posts a record $114.5 billion quarter as iPhone Duo sells out

Bar chart of the Florida homestead exemption at $51,411 today, $150,000 in 2027 and $250,000 in 2028

Money

Florida Amendment 3 would lift the homestead exemption to $250,000

The curved white exterior of the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York

Culture

A Kandinsky the Guggenheim sold for $62,000 returns with an $80M estimate

Open refrigerated display cases lined with chilled and frozen food in a supermarket aisle

Tech

Hackers push European supermarket freezers to 122F in sabotage wave

Mounted skeleton of a small theropod dinosaur on display in a museum case

Science

Heme found inside blood cell structures in a 115 million year old bone

Bar chart comparing the $115 billion Marvell deal value with the $550 billion market opportunity

Business

Marvell buys Lumentum for $115 billion in an all-stock AI optics deal

Map of Ukraine with the Zaporizhzhia region shaded in the south east of the country

World

Russian bombs kill at least 26 at a Ukrainian aid hub in Komyshuvakha

The west facade of the United States Supreme Court building in Washington at dusk

Politics

Supreme Court lets California count 20,000 ballots the DOJ disputed

Satellite view of Qeshm Island along the Iranian coast of the Strait of Hormuz

World

US strikes Iran's Qeshm Island hours before the midterm elections

Monday, November 2, 2026

Kimi Antonelli's black number 12 Mercedes Formula 1 car at speed on track

Sports

Antonelli becomes F1's youngest champion at 20 in his second season

Kylian Mbappé walking on the pitch in a white Real Madrid shirt during a La Liga match

Culture

China's CCTV keeps La Liga off Chinese TV after Mbappé's Mao joke

Bar chart comparing Ebola deaths across three outbreaks: 11,325, 5,000 and 2,299

Health

Ebola deaths in DR Congo pass 5,000 in the country's deadliest outbreak

An IDBI Bank branch building with the bank's orange and blue signage

Business

Fairfax's $5.5 billion IDBI Bank deal draws a nationwide strike call

The Frankfurt banking district skyline rising above the city on a clear day

World

German cost-of-living protests turn violent as Frankfurt shops are looted

Official congressional portrait of Representative Haley Stevens in front of a US flag

Politics

Haley Stevens endorses Mike Rogers two days before the Michigan vote

A white Learjet 60 business jet taxiing on an airport apron beside a windsock

US

Learjet 60 nosedives into Palm Beach County, killing all nine aboard

An oil refinery with tall red and white chimneys at dusk

Money

OPEC+ holds December output steady with Brent near $118 a barrel

Tech

OpenAI sued after ChatGPT guided a woman off her seizure medication

Bar chart of South Korean 2027 budget lines for defense, chips and AI, and a sovereign AI model

Tech

South Korea stakes a record budget on chips and a sovereign AI model

The Hubert H. Humphrey Building in Washington, headquarters of the Department of Health and Human Services

Money

ACA open enrollment opens with new ID checks and a broker freeze

Bar chart of Binance withdrawals of $4.65 billion, deposits of $1.01 billion and a $3.64 billion net outflow

Tech

Binance sees $3.64 billion flow out in a day as withdrawals reopen

Official United States Senate portrait of Senator Chris Murphy of Connecticut

Health

Chris Murphy has a stroke, and arm numbness was the first sign

Two Renfe AVE high-speed trains at the platform in Madrid Puerta de Atocha station

World

Four Americans among the 69 killed in Spain's Urda train crash

The Hubble Space Telescope in orbit after release from the Space Shuttle Atlantis

Science

NASA asks private industry to boost or retire Hubble by 2032

Donut chart showing Gartner forecasts 80% of neocloud firms will cease independent operations by 2030

Business

Neocloud debt piles up as CoreWeave sheds a quarter of its value

Night view from the International Space Station of the Gulf of Oman and the Strait of Hormuz

World

Qatar leads 72 hours of talks to head off new US strikes on Iran

Street view of the Samsung Electronics complex in Suwon, South Korea, with Korean flags along the road

Tech

Sam Altman makes an unannounced South Korea visit on AI chip supply

The Chase Center sign on the arena facade in San Francisco

Sports

Valkyries win the WNBA title in year two with a 68-63 Game 7

Monday, October 26, 2026

Bar chart of 55 pension systems split by fertility rate: 43 below 2.1 and 23 below 1.5

Money

43 of 55 pension systems sit below replacement-level fertility

The gold-domed Georgia State Capitol building in Atlanta

Tech

Anthropic says Claude bypassed a state fee gate to pull vote counts

Audi four-ring logos on buildings and flags at the Audi site in Ingolstadt

Business

Audi commits $4 billion to its first US factory, in Macon, Georgia

Bar chart of Brazil's runoff result: Lula 51.79% against Flavio Bolsonaro 48.21%

World

Lula wins a fourth term as Brazil's president with 51.79% of the vote

Maria Corina Machado speaking on a panel at a World Economic Forum event

World

Maria Corina Machado returns to Venezuela after 10 months in exile

A loaded Olympic barbell resting on a weightlifting platform

Sports

Moscow lands the 2030 weightlifting worlds, a first since 2022

Bar chart of projected Serbian parliament seats: Student List 138, Vucic's SNS 104

World

Serbia's Vucic concedes to a student movement after 12 years in power

Bar chart comparing announced Malaysia tech investments: SoftBank $50B, AWS $6.2B, Google $2B, Microsoft $2.2B

Tech

SoftBank plans $50 billion of AI investment in Malaysia, PM says

Bar chart of SpaceX Super Intelligence quarterly revenue rising from $813 million to $7.56 billion

Business

SpaceX closes $40 billion in debt to buy AI chips, Musk says

Howard Hall on the Florida A&M University campus in Tallahassee

US

Twelve injured, six of them children, at Florida A&M homecoming

Sunday, October 25, 2026

Tech

Banks find unvetted AI agents operating inside customer accounts

Donut chart showing teams with a 2-0 World Series lead won the title 80.7% of the time

Sports

Brewers erase a 4-0 deficit to take a 2-0 World Series lead

Karak Castle on a hilltop above the town of Karak in southern Jordan

World

Gunmen kill nine at a Greek Orthodox church funeral in Jordan

Bar chart comparing 600,000 Humana members and 390,000 UnitedHealthcare members losing plans

Money

Humana and UnitedHealthcare drop Medicare plans for 1M seniors

A Brazilian electronic voting machine with its numeric keypad and voter terminal

World

More than a million rally for Lula on the eve of Brazil's runoff

A Starlink flat panel dish mounted on the roof rack of a truck on a dirt road at dusk

World

Musk says SpaceX throttled Ukraine's Starlink over drone strikes

The Gothic facade and twin spires of St. Patrick's Cathedral in Manhattan seen from below

US

New York archdiocese agrees to an $800 million abuse settlement

Horizontal bar chart of Nvidia AI commitments of $105 billion, $36 billion and $20 billion

Business

Nvidia's AI financing machine faces its first credit stress test

The Pennsylvania State Capitol in Harrisburg with its green dome against a blue sky

Tech

Pennsylvania will require labels on AI-generated advertising

Bar chart of the US general fertility rate falling from 53.8 in 2024 to 53.2 in 2025

Health

US fertility rate hits a record low as births to women over 30 rise

Saturday, October 24, 2026

Bar chart comparing Friday oil settlements: Brent crude at $116.72 and WTI at $103.27 a barrel

Money

Brent crude settles at $116.72, a six-month high, as Iran risk builds

Bar chart of US average diesel prices: $3.63 a year ago, $6.52 a month ago, $6.33 a week ago and $6.32 today

Money

Diesel averages $6.32 a gallon, against $3.63 at this time last year

The Kehlsteinhaus perched on a rocky summit above the Bavarian Alps near Berchtesgaden

Culture

Fire tears through Hitler's Eagle's Nest and Bavarian police detain a man

The terminal and apron at Entebbe International Airport in Uganda, with the Entebbe hillside sign behind

Health

Kenya reports a second Ebola death as Nigeria finds a genetic link

The town hall of Trappes in Yvelines, west of Paris, with its Liberte Egalite Fraternite lettering

World

Macron calls a drive-by shooting near Paris a racist terrorist attack

The Meta Platforms sign at the company's headquarters entrance at 1 Hacker Way in Menlo Park, California

Tech

Facebook Pages now get two free links a month, then Meta charges $50

The exterior of the Milwaukee Brewers ballpark and its fan-shaped roof under heavy storm clouds

Sports

Misiorowski opens the World Series with a record 103.5 mph fastball

NASA's Orion spacecraft crew module and service module stacked inside a Kennedy Space Center high bay

Science

NASA leaves the 2028 Moon landing open to either SpaceX or Blue Origin

Keelung harbour on Taiwan's northeast coast, with the hillside city rising behind the port

World

Typhoon Champi kills one and injures 527 as it sweeps past Taiwan

The lit entrance of Volvo Cars headquarters in Gothenburg, Sweden, photographed at night

Business

Volvo Cars cuts 2,500 jobs as China revenue falls by almost half

Friday, October 23, 2026

Bar chart showing annual US homeowner costs of $11,171 for maintenance, $3,129 for property taxes and $2,266 for insurance

Money

Hidden costs of owning a US home reach $16,566 a year, up 32% in 5 years

The curved stone facade of BBC Broadcasting House in central London under a clear blue sky

Politics

Judge orders Trump to sit for a deposition by December 11 in BBC suit

A L'Oreal office building with the company name in large letters across the roofline

Business

L'Oreal says GLP-1 drugs are reshaping skincare as sales rise 7.7%

Yaks grazing on the open grassland of the high Tibetan plateau under a cloudy blue sky

World

Magnitude 7 earthquake in Tibet kills 16 and collapses 339 homes

Marshall Faulk following through on a golf swing at a celebrity tournament with spectators behind him

Sports

Marshall Faulk reveals a Parkinson's diagnosis he caught on a golf course

Bar chart comparing two-year recurrence-free survival of 82.2% with intismeran plus Keytruda against 70.0% for Keytruda alone

Health

mRNA cancer vaccine cuts melanoma recurrence or death risk by 42%

A line of blanketed carriage horses and parked carriages waiting along a snowy Manhattan curb

Culture

New York council votes 40-7 to end Central Park horse carriages

A Google data center building with rows of cooling units set against dry hills in The Dalles, Oregon

Tech

OpenAI puts its frontier models on Google Cloud, its sharpest rival

An automated clinical laboratory analyzer with a purple-capped specimen tube loaded on its sample track

Tech

Quest Diagnostics says hackers reached certain patient records

Rendering of an ICEYE synthetic aperture radar satellite with solar panels extended above a sunlit Earth

Science

US says a Russian satellite behaved like an on-orbit weapon in orbit

Thursday, October 22, 2026

Bar chart of the NAHB builder confidence index: 32 in September, 29 in October, against a breakeven level of 50

Money

43% of US homebuilders cut prices in October, the most since 2020

PHP source code displayed in a text editor

Tech

AI uncovered two PHP flaws that affect roughly 70% of the internet

A kitchen sink piled high with unwashed dishes, bowls and glasses

Money

Airbnb bans hosts from making guests strip beds or wash the dishes

Angel Reese on the court during a WNBA game

Sports

Angel Reese sets a Finals record as Atlanta moves within two of a title

A Boeing 737 MAX airliner on approach to land

Business

Boeing's 737-10 wins FAA certification after nearly a decade of delay

Bar chart comparing Meta penalties: $942 million in March, $17 billion in August and $25 billion in October

Business

Meta ordered to pay New Mexico $25 billion over Facebook privacy claims

Bar chart of the DR Congo Ebola Bundibugyo outbreak: more than 9,500 cases and more than 4,200 deaths as of October 18, 2026

Health

Nigeria confirms its first Ebola case as the outbreak reaches five countries

The control tower and apron at Pulkovo Airport in St Petersburg, Russia

World

Russia frees 74-year-old American Stephen Hubbard with no prisoner swap

A box of metformin 500mg tablets beside two blister packs

Science

A UK trial will test metformin and an ADHD drug against Alzheimer's

Aircraft parked at the general aviation terminal of King Fahd International Airport in Dammam

World

US orders diplomats out of Saudi Arabia as Houthi strikes kill three

Wednesday, October 21, 2026

Donut chart showing 75% for remaining in Canada and 25% for beginning separation

World

Alberta voters reject a separation process by three to one

Bar chart comparing the Brewers' 103 wins with the Rays' 98 wins

Sports

Brewers-Rays World Series will crown a first-time champion

Close view of the cratered Martian moon Phobos against black space

Science

Japan launches the first Mars moon sample return mission

A deli meat sandwich with lettuce, tomato and red onion

Health

Kayem recalls 1.58 million pounds of ready-to-eat meats

A glass laboratory flask photographed against a black background

Tech

OpenAI buys Orchestra Bio to build drug development agents

A rocket lifting off from a coastal launch pad at dusk

Business

SpaceX and Tesla form merger committees after a $4.4B profit

Bar chart showing US measles cases rising from 285 in 2024 to 4,410 in 2026

Health

US measles cases nearly double as CDC confirms a third death

The ornate interior of the United States Capitol dome

US

White powder letters hit offices across at least 32 states

Ukrainian flags behind a white statue of two cherubs

World

Witkoff takes a Ukraine peace proposal to Putin after Oslo talks

Tuesday, October 20, 2026

Diagram comparing Pacific surface water movement and temperature under normal conditions and during El Nino

Science

A Kelvin wave lifted West Coast sea levels, and more are coming

Donut chart showing Mac sales were about 10 percent of Apple revenue in the most recent quarter

Tech

Apple sets an October 28 launch expected to add a touchscreen Mac

Boats on the Nile in Khartoum, Sudan, with a road bridge and the city skyline behind

World

Drone strike near a Sudanese market kills 80, mostly commuters

Sign outside the Internal Revenue Service building at 1111 Constitution Avenue NW in Washington

Money

IRS can now take card payments directly and charge you the fee

Philadelphia Eagles quarterback Jalen Hurts rolling out with the football during a 2020 game

Sports

Jalen Hurts out for the season with blood clots in both lungs

Bar chart of JPMorgan's year-one security initiative figures: $5 billion equity deployed, $1.4 billion Hadrian round and $1 billion Castelion round

Business

JPMorgan puts $5 billion into defense startups in its first year

View across the coastal town of Malindi, Kenya, with a mosque minaret above the rooftops

World

Kenyan cult leader found guilty of 191 murders, 190 of them children

Horizontal bar chart showing the 72 million SpaceX shares Musk pledged against the 4.8 billion he owns outright

Business

Musk pledges one SpaceX share to every child in America next year

Bar chart of Siemens estimates that AI could cut production engineering work 85% and production planning costs 20%

Tech

Nvidia backs four German startups as Merz pushes industrial AI

Two large copper pot stills with swan-neck lyne arms inside a distillery

US

Supreme Court will review the 1860s federal ban on home distilling

Monday, October 19, 2026

Bar chart comparing the 5% share commitment to the roughly 20% of Anthropic equity now pledged to the public good

Business

Anthropic commits 5% of its shares to a new public benefit fund

Bar chart of Chinese GDP growth by 2026 quarter: 5.0% in the first, 4.3% in the second and 4.5% in the third

Business

China's economy grew 4.5% as September exports jumped 29.6%

Cindy Crawford photographed at the WWD Style Awards in 2026

Culture

Cindy Crawford speaks on the death of her son Presley Gerber at 27

Aerial view of oil storage tanks and tanker berths at the Russian Baltic port of Ust-Luga

World

Drones hit two St Petersburg oil sites, a data centre and Ozon

Bar chart comparing the 24.4 cent federal diesel excise tax with South Dakota 28 cent state diesel tax

Money

IRS waives the 24.4 cent diesel tax penalty through December 31

Bar chart of peak power draw: 30MW for the fastest US supercomputer, 50MW for Loughton at opening and 90MW upgraded

Tech

Microsoft pulls out of the UK's largest AI data centre project

Vladimir Putin and Xi Jinping shake hands between Chinese and Russian flags in a Kremlin hall

World

Putin floats a summit with Trump and Xi to settle the Ukraine war

Bar chart of career NFL touchdown passes: Brady 649, Brees 571, Manning 539 and Rodgers 539

Sports

Rodgers ties Peyton Manning at 539 touchdown passes in an OT win

Benjamin Netanyahu and Donald Trump stand at separate podiums beside Israeli and US flags at a White House press conference

Politics

Trump endorses Netanyahu eight days before Israel's election

Sunday, October 18, 2026

Bar chart comparing US economic output now at 30 trillion dollars with a 44 trillion forecast for 2030

Tech

Anthropic's own model forecasts US output near $44 trillion by 2030

Hoover Dam intake towers above Lake Mead, with a pale ring marking former water levels

US

Arizona sues over Colorado River cuts of up to 3 million acre-feet

Bar chart showing Miro valued at 17.5 billion dollars at its peak against a 1.36 billion sale price

Business

Berkshire has put over $900 million into software buyer Bending Spoons

A Blue Origin New Glenn rocket lifting off from a launch pad in Florida

Science

Blue Origin puts $330 million into Florida to fly New Glenn weekly

Bar chart comparing Friday crude oil settlements: WTI at 101.41 and Brent at 109.86 dollars per barrel

Money

Brent oil touches $110 as Iran attacks ships in the Strait of Hormuz

A Chinook helicopter silhouetted at dusk during the Canadian Army's Maple Resolve training exercise

World

Deaths confirmed in a fire at Canada's busiest army training base

The stone facade and clock tower of the Limoges town hall in France

World

France arrests 1,200 as riots gut the 143-year-old Limoges town hall

The empty podium and press seats in the White House briefing room

Politics

Katie Zacharia leaves the White House podium after five days on the job

Amelia Earhart smiling in front of the metal fuselage of her aircraft

Culture

New Zealand museum releases 47 photos of Earhart's suspected island

Exterior of the Florida Panthers arena in Sunrise, Florida, seen across a lake

Sports

Panthers set an NHL first with natural hat tricks in three straight games

Saturday, October 17, 2026

Horizontal bar chart of the share of women reporting hot flashes and sleep disruption

Health

US OB-GYNs back hormone therapy in their broadest menopause guidance yet

Bar chart comparing Amazon deforestation in 2012, 2024-25 and 2025-26

World

Brazil's Amazon deforestation falls 42% to the lowest level on record

Interior view of the Amazon Spheres campus building in Seattle

Tech

Amazon launches a $75 Bee wearable that listens all day and takes notes

A hand holding a smartphone with a blank screen above a desk

Tech

Researchers confirm spyware installed through ordinary targeted online ads

Bar chart comparing the broker spending on tickets with its resale profit

Money

FTC sues a broker that bought 18.5 million tickets using fake accounts

Horizontal bar chart of Friday percentage declines for AMD, Intel, Micron, Broadcom and the Nasdaq

Business

Nasdaq posts its worst week since June as AI debt fears hit chip stocks

Autumn trees reflected in the river at Drake Park in Bend, Oregon

US

Oregon teacher tackled the school gunman before an armed father shot him

Stacks of hardback books viewed from above on a shelf

Culture

Sally Rooney's books pulled from UK sale over her Palestine Action pledge

A black analogue alarm clock on a table in dim light

Science

World timekeepers vote to scrap the leap second and adopt a leap hour

Bar chart of the added duty rates set and then waived by the executive order

World

Trump waives the Russia sanctions and tariffs he signed into law last month

Friday, October 16, 2026

An Apple Mac Studio desktop computer next to a Studio Display and Magic Keyboard on a wooden desk

Tech

Apple and Meta team up to run Meta’s 816-billion-parameter Muse on Macs

Interior view of American Family Field in Milwaukee during a Brewers game, with the scoreboard and crowd

Sports

Brewers sweep the Dodgers to reach their first World Series since 1982

Sign outside the Federal Trade Commission Building at 600 Pennsylvania Avenue NW in Washington

Tech

FTC demands documents from OpenAI and Anthropic over AI safety incidents

Bar chart comparing the S&P 500 total return of 22.3% with Harvard endowment return of 27.1%

Business

Harvard’s endowment returned 27.1% in 2026 with SpaceX as top holding

Joni Mitchell in a gold beret and sunglasses at the Library of Congress Gershwin Prize event

Culture

Joni Mitchell becomes a US citizen at 82, six decades after moving south

The red storefront and sign of a KFC restaurant on a city street

Business

KFC drops Pepsi for Coca-Cola in US restaurants, its first switch since 1986

Close-up of empty clear plastic drink bottles lined up in low light

Science

Microplastics generate damaging radicals in water, a Nature study finds

Bar chart of the Freddie Mac 30-year fixed mortgage average in 2026: 5.98% in February, 6.76% in September, 7.40% in October

Money

Mortgage rates hold at 7.40%, the highest level since November 2023

Aerial night view of the Bangkok skyline with traffic light trails along an expressway

World

Russia’s finance minister returns to the G20 table on a US invitation

A white first-generation Tesla Roadster parked on a gravel shoulder in morning fog

Business

Tesla reveals a hovering Roadster that hits 60 mph in under a second

Thursday, October 15, 2026

Bar chart of Anthropic quarterly revenue in 2026 rising from $4.7 billion to $11.6 billion to $16.8 billion

Business

Anthropic tells investors third-quarter revenue hit $16.8 billion

The Adelaide skyline at night across the River Torrens with the illuminated fountain

Culture

Australia's first Michelin stars go to 11 South Australia restaurants

Bar chart showing 42 MLB teams fell behind 3-0 in a best of seven series and only one won

Sports

Brewers take a 3-0 NLCS lead, one win from ending a 44-year wait

Bar chart of October 14 share price declines led by CoreWeave down 15.5% and Dell down 11%

Business

CoreWeave bond yields near 15% as AI debt worries hit tech stocks

The Pioneer Building in San Francisco, which houses OpenAI headquarters

Tech

Eight states sue OpenAI, saying ChatGPT harmed kids and misled parents

Bar chart of 12-month price changes through September 2026, with gasoline up 34.2% and all items up 3.7%

Money

Inflation hit 3.7% in September as gasoline prices jumped 9.1%

A flat panel Starlink dish mounted on the roof rack of a vehicle on a dirt road

World

Musk says the US military sets the Starlink limits hitting Ukraine

The Netflix sign outside the company office campus in Los Gatos, California

Business

Netflix cuts about 1,000 jobs, 6% of staff, in its largest layoff

Satellite view of the Strait of Hormuz between Iran and the Musandam Peninsula

World

Singapore container ship sinks in the Strait of Hormuz after strike

Bar chart comparing the 3.6% 2027 Social Security raise with gasoline up 34.2% and airline fares up 22.4%

Money

Social Security raises benefits 3.6% for 2027, about $75 a month

Wednesday, October 14, 2026

A U.S. Air Force air-launched cruise missile against a black background

Tech

Anduril unveils modular Steelfin missiles for layered air defense

Bar chart comparing the total Bank of America fine with the OCC portion

Business

Bank of America gets a record $1.2 billion money-laundering fine

Bar chart showing September existing-home sales and available inventory

Money

Home sales rise 1.5% as inventory gives buyers more leverage

Chart of deaths, missing people and rescues after storms in Mexico

World

Two Pacific storms kill six as floods sweep Mexico's coast

Aerial view of San Francisco where OpenAI is headquartered

Tech

OpenAI engineer charged over a device hidden behind a TV

Historic interior view of the Sistine Chapel at the Vatican

Health

Pope Leo has cancerous lung lobe removed in successful surgery

An empty baseball field awaiting players before a game

Sports

Rays even the ALCS behind Freddy Peralta's 99.4 mph fastball

Las Vegas Strip illuminated at night near the site of Tupac Shakur's shooting

Culture

Tupac Shakur murder organizer gets 40 years to life in prison

Tuesday, October 13, 2026

Bar chart comparing the search timing with the Justice Department election quiet period

Politics

Federal agents search Ilhan Omar's home three weeks before election

Bar chart comparing cancer cachexia prevalence across five cancer types

Health

Cancer weight-loss atlas maps warning patterns across 52,236 patients

Bar chart showing the ages of economics Nobel winners Robert Hall and Michael Woodford

Business

Hall and Woodford win economics Nobel for models that manage shocks

Bar chart of IMF global growth and inflation forecasts for 2026 and 2027

Money

IMF sees 4.7% inflation as the global economy's buffers shrink

Bar chart comparing launch access paths for Meta's two Muse Wonder models

Tech

Meta launches two Muse Wonder models built for long-running agents

Bar chart of three Michael Jordan jersey sales from the 1998 NBA Finals

Sports

Michael Jordan Finals jersey sells for a record $14 million

Bar chart of Microsoft Maia 300 performance improvements over Maia 200

Tech

Microsoft makes Maia 300 its primary AI inference system in 2027

Bar chart of arrests, vans and charges in the RAF Fairford investigation

World

UK says Iran directed a suspected plot at a US-run air base

Monday, October 12, 2026

Kyiv skyline and the Dnipro River at sunset

World

Trump declares an energy ceasefire as Russia keeps hitting Ukraine

Donut chart showing the shooter's relationship to eight victims

US

An Erie grandfather killed eight relatives and family friends

Bar chart of Hurricane Simon wind field radii

World

Hurricane Simon pounds Puerto Vallarta with 120 mph winds

Bar chart of the Jaguars and Eagles final scores in London

Sports

Jaguars win in London on a 57-yard kick with one second left

Bar chart comparing weekend movie opening grosses

Business

'Other Mommy' wins the weekend with a $27.5 million opening

Interior of Saint Peter's Basilica at the Vatican

Health

Pope Leo will have surgery this week to remove a lung nodule

Bar chart comparing injuries in two Riyadh airport attacks

World

Riyadh airport is struck for a fourth time in five days

Illuminated box office marquee at a London theater

Culture

Tarantino's first stage play will open in London in March

Sunday, October 11, 2026

Bar chart showing US families with debt payments above 40% of income rising from 6.5% in 2022 to 8.6% in 2025

Money

Fed survey finds families furthest behind on debt since 2010

Departures hall signage at King Khalid International Airport in Riyadh

World

Houthi attack on Riyadh airport kills 12 and wounds 309, Saudis say

Satellite view of a hurricane with a visible eye spinning over open water near land

US

Hurricane Isaias leaves four dead and 550,000 without power

Eliud Kipchoge running among the lead group at the 2023 Berlin Marathon

Sports

Kipchoge wins his first marathon in three years at the age of 41

Satya Nadella speaking on stage while wearing a headset microphone

Tech

Nadella calls for an emergency brake on advanced AI systems

The International Space Station in orbit above Earth with its solar arrays extended

Science

NASA opens bidding for the private space stations that will replace the ISS

Bar chart of worldwide PC shipments falling from 78.5 million in Q3 2025 to 62.7 million in Q3 2026

Business

PC shipments fall 20% as AI demand drives up memory prices

A Tesla sedan plugged in and charging, seen from behind with a European license plate

Business

Tesla drops the Full Self-Driving name in Europe after German pushback

Bar chart of US average diesel prices: $3.68 a year ago, $5.94 last month and $6.28 now

World

Trump says it is time for Ukraine to get a new president

Rows of illuminated server racks lining an aisle inside a data center

Tech

Ukrainian drones knock out two of Yandex's five data centers

Saturday, October 10, 2026

Giant Victoria waterlily pads with upturned rims floating on a pond, a bird standing on one

Science

A giant waterlily spotted on Instagram is a new species, and already rare

The clock tower of Philadelphia City Hall topped by the William Penn statue

Tech

An Anthropic model filed a fabricated tip on a Philadelphia murder site

Bar chart of Delta September quarter revenue growth by stream, from 16% total to 29% cargo

Business

Delta absorbs a $6 billion fuel bill and still expects $4.5 billion profit

Rows of black server racks threaded with blue network cabling in a data centre

Business

Firmus scraps a $44bn listing, Australia’s biggest float since 1997

Sign reading Clinical Center Building 10 South Entrance outside the NIH campus in Bethesda

Health

HHS opens an NIH vaccine injury clinic and may pay doctors to report

Bar chart of the magnitude 7.7 Panama quake and three aftershocks at 6.6, 6.0 and 5.8

World

A magnitude 7.7 earthquake hits Panama and sends thousands into streets

Navi Pillay seated in an orange jacket holding a document

World

Navi Pillay wins the 2026 Nobel Peace Prize for advancing international law

Bar chart of Russia’s promised diesel deliveries rising from 300,000 to 3,000,000 tonnes

World

Trump strikes a Russian diesel deal as Zelensky calls it a gift to Putin

Renoir’s painting Le Cannet, a southern French landscape of olive trees and tiled roofs

Culture

Two Renoirs stolen from his former home are recovered, six arrested

Friday, October 9, 2026

Business

Adidas sues White Fox in Australia over a four stripe clothing design

The Svenska Akademien building on Stortorget in Stockholm, home of the Swedish Academy

Culture

Anne Carson wins the 2026 Nobel Prize in Literature for genre-blending work

High voltage transmission equipment and insulators at an electrical substation switchyard

Tech

Anthropic offers free AI security scans for open source projects

A Microsoft sign in gold lettering mounted on a stone wall at a company entrance

Business

Labor Department suspends Microsoft and Adobe from a green card program

NOAA map showing the peak storm surge forecast along the Gulf Coast from Louisiana to Florida

US

Hurricane Isaias reaches 105 mph as the Gulf Coast braces for landfall

$A domain coloring plot of the Riemann zeta function showing its zeros along the critical line$

Tech

OpenAI releases 372 math results and draws demands for proof

A welcome sign for III Corps and Fort Hood at Robert Gray Army Airfield in Texas

US

Pentagon will livestream the firing squad execution of the Fort Hood shooter

A SpaceX rocket arcs across a night sky above the coastline after a launch

Tech

SpaceX buys low band spectrum to turn Starlink into a fourth US carrier

Two Aldabra giant tortoises feeding on grass, their domed shells close together

Science

Survey finds 180,000 giant tortoises on a single Seychelles island

An oil and chemical tanker escorted by a tugboat in coastal water

World

Tanker struck by multiple projectiles deep inside the Gulf off Qatar

Thursday, October 8, 2026

Horizontal bar chart of the four commitments making up the $1.8 billion Virtual Biology Initiative

Tech

Biohub, the Energy Department and Google put $1.8B behind a virtual cell

The Centre Block and Peace Tower of Canada's Parliament Hill in Ottawa under a clear sky

Health

Canada drops its plan to open assisted dying to mental illness alone

Donut chart showing 16 of 18 Fed officials expect another rate hike in 2026

Money

Fed minutes show 16 of 18 officials expect another rate hike this year

Horizontal bar chart of forecast peak storm surge by Gulf Coast stretch, topping out at 7 feet

US

Isaias is the Atlantic's latest first hurricane since 1905, and it targets the Gulf

A can of Sapporo premium beer on a wooden table beside a plate of sashimi

World

Japan raids its four biggest brewers over a suspected beer price cartel

Margaret Hamilton seated inside the Apollo Command Module reaching up to a control panel

Science

Margaret Hamilton, who led the software that landed Apollo 11, dies at 90

The exterior facade and Gate 4 entrance of Yankee Stadium in the Bronx

Sports

Rays sweep the Yankees for the first postseason sweep in club history

Bar chart of Samsung quarterly operating profit rising from 12.17 to 107.40 trillion won

Business

Samsung's quarterly operating profit tops 100 trillion won for the first time

Bar chart of announced US prices for Microsoft RTX Spark Windows hardware from $2,600 to $6,000

Tech

Microsoft opens Windows to AI agents and ships an Nvidia-powered Surface

Wednesday, October 7, 2026

Sam Altman wearing a headset microphone while speaking on stage

Tech

Altman says the world should accept some bad things from AI

Bar chart comparing DeepSeek's original 50 billion yuan funding target with the 100 billion yuan now under discussion

Business

DeepSeek weighs doubling its round to $14.9 billion before a 2027 IPO

Black and white studio portrait of actress Eva Marie Saint from around 1951

Culture

Eva Marie Saint, Oscar winner for On the Waterfront, dies at 102

Rows of stamped gold bars laid out side by side

US

Ex-CIA officer pleads guilty to a $194 million fraud and 298 gold bars

The long stone facade of the BND foreign intelligence headquarters in Berlin at dusk

World

Germany arrests its former spy chief over 2,000 leaked BND documents

A heating oil delivery tanker truck parked on a residential street in Massachusetts

Money

Heating oil bills to rise 21% while gas and propane costs fall

The stone facade of the Reserve Bank of India building on a street in Mumbai

Money

India raises rates for the first time since 2023 as war lifts prices

Gatorade bottles lined up on a supermarket shelf above a promotional display

Health

PepsiCo recalls 122,000 cases of Gatorade in 37 states over dyes

Tech

Pornhub returns to Australia for adults who pass Apple's age check

Tuesday, October 6, 2026

Bar chart of 10-year Treasury closing yields: 5.24% Oct 1, 5.28% Oct 2, 5.31% Oct 5 and 5.27% Oct 6

Money

The 10-year Treasury yield tops 5.3%, a level last seen in April 2002

A US Navy nuclear-powered submarine on the surface with a forested shoreline behind it

Business

Anduril will build a $3.7 billion submarine shipyard at Sparrows Point

The IceCube Laboratory at the South Pole under the Milky Way at dawn

Science

Francis Halzen wins the physics Nobel for catching neutrinos in Antarctic ice

The facade of Lycée Hélène Boucher, a public high school in the 20th arrondissement of Paris

World

French police fire tear gas as 266,000 rally nationwide for school funding

Electron microscope image of Ebola virus particles

Health

Kenya confirms its first Ebola case as Congo's outbreak passes 8,500 cases

Rows of blue-lit server racks inside a data center hall

Tech

Mistral launches Large 4, a 1 trillion-parameter model trained in Europe

Alex Ovechkin of the Washington Capitals takes a shot during a 2022 game at Capital One Arena

Sports

Ovechkin says his 22nd season is his last, 11 goals shy of a Gretzky mark

The Paramount Pictures Melrose Gate in Los Angeles with the studio water tower behind it

Business

Paramount completes its $111 billion Warner Bros. takeover, creating Skydance

Monday, October 5, 2026

A United States federal building with the Great Seal above its entrance

US

FBI arrests a California realtor accused of tailing Taiwan's first family

Bar chart of Brazil's first-round presidential vote share: Flavio Bolsonaro 47.0%, Lula 45.1%, Renan Santos 2.2%, Ronaldo Caiado 2.1%

World

Flavio Bolsonaro leads Lula into Brazil's October 25 runoff vote

Inscribed stone columns of the temple at Abydos, Egypt, in a 19th-century photograph

Science

Forensics suggests Egypt's first kings had their servants killed

A green printed circuit board photographed in close-up

Tech

Nvidia-backed Reflection readies an open-weight AI model release

An oil refinery with distillation towers and storage tanks under a clear sky

Money

OPEC+ holds November oil output steady as supply risks mount

Aerial view of a packed baseball stadium and infield at dusk

Sports

Drew Rasmussen one-hits the Yankees as the Rays take ALDS Game 1

Stacked petri dishes and sample tubes on a microbiology laboratory bench

Health

Russia monitors 189 people after a plague lab worker's death

Rows of illuminated server racks inside a data center hall

Business

Schneider Electric buys software maker PTC for $22.6 billion in cash

An art deco cinema marquee listing current film titles

Culture

Tom Cruise's 'Digger' opens to $8 million as Warner film chiefs exit

A US Air Force B-1B Lancer bomber on a runway with heat haze rising behind it

US

US pulls all of its B-1 bombers from RAF Fairford over Iran threat

Sunday, October 4, 2026

An open MacBook laptop on a desk beside a notebook and pen

Tech

Apple tightens Mac full disk access as AI agents get more capable

Lava from Kilauea pouring into the Pacific Ocean along a dark sea cliff at dusk

Culture

Hawaii’s 550-year-old Hōlei Sea Arch collapses into the Pacific

The South Lawn facade of the White House in Washington, DC

Tech

Jay Clayton is named AI czar to lead a Super Intelligence Force

Bar chart of bird flu drill results: 93% screened, 82% masked, 71% isolated, 60% did both, 25% full PPE

Health

Mystery patient drills found 40% of clinics missed the basics

A line of heavy semi trucks parked nose to tail on a roadway

Business

Navistar layoffs of 1,400 erase a year of Dayton area job growth

Bar chart of driverless vehicles authorized in Texas: Waymo 1,154, Tesla Cybercab 169 now and 45 at launch

Business

Tesla has 169 Cybercabs cleared in Texas while Waymo runs 1,154

A golf course fairway with bunkers and greens under a clear summer sky

Sports

Tom Kim’s Asian Games gold buys him out of 18 months of service

Prescription tablets spilling from a white pill bottle on a dark surface

Money

Trump sends one-time $90 Medicare payments to 20 million seniors

A Boeing 737-800 passenger jet of the type flydubai operates, in flight

World

UAE says the flydubai co-pilot used a cockpit crash axe in the attack

Distillation towers and storage tanks at an oil refinery under a clear sky

World

Zelenskyy says Ukraine will hit Russian refineries harder this winter

Saturday, October 3, 2026

Bar chart comparing about 4,000 Basecamp completions with a 10,000 Frontier Deployed Engineer target

Tech

Anthropic commits $100 million to train 10,000 enterprise AI engineers

Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva speaking at a lectern beside the national flag

World

Brazil votes Sunday with Lula and a Bolsonaro separated by five points

Bar chart of projected employer health benefit cost increases: 6.7% in 2026 and 8.2% in 2027

Money

Employer health costs to jump 8.2% in 2027, the most since 2003

Bar chart of coordinated oil reserve releases: 182 million barrels in 2022, 400 million in March 2026, 100 million now

World

G7 frees 100 million barrels of diesel and crude after Trump threat

A car parked on a street with the pink furry mustache that Lyft drivers once mounted on the grille

Business

Lyft to pay $272.5 million in California's largest wage settlement

Bar chart of Nike fiscal Q1 2027 revenue declines by segment, led by Converse down 28%

Business

Nike revenue falls 4% and its new Pace plan brings job cuts

Bar chart of monthly US payroll changes: July down 10,000, August up 133,000, September up 29,000

Business

US payrolls rose just 29,000 in September as July turned negative

Pope Leo XIV seated in a white chair during an audience at the Vatican

Culture

Pope Leo tells artists that algorithms lack the spark of the human

A Delta IV Heavy rocket lifting off at night carrying a Defense Support Program early warning satellite

Science

Space Force retires the satellites that watched for nuclear launches

Rows of black server racks and bundled power and network cables in a data center room

Tech

US charges California CEO with smuggling $300 million in AI servers

Friday, October 2, 2026

Vincent van Gogh’s painting Starry Night Over the Rhône, shown as an example of the artist’s work

Culture

A van Gogh hidden for 50 years leads a half billion dollar Sotheby’s sale

Bar chart of Trump approval ratings on cost of living, the economy and immigration

Politics

Only 26% approve of Trump’s handling of the economy, an AP-NORC low

Bar chart comparing the original and revised onsemi offers for Synaptics in billions of dollars

Business

Onsemi cuts its Synaptics takeover to $5.7 billion after a rival bid

Rows of networking and server racks inside a data centre

Tech

OpenAI fires three researchers over mishandled sensitive information

The skyline of Seoul, South Korea, seen across the Han River

World

Seoul threatens further action against Ukraine over a prisoner disclosure

A SpaceX rocket standing on its launch pad at sunset

Science

SpaceX Crew-13 reaches the space station in 7 hours and 55 minutes

A stack of white sugar cubes on a plain white surface

Health

Eating sweets during antibiotics worsens gut damage, a Nature study finds

Bar chart of average UK diesel pump prices in pence per litre, a year ago versus this week

Money

Trump weighs a diesel export ban as the US presses Europe to release fuel

An aircraft carrier under way at sea, seen from directly overhead with jets on deck

World

US sends a third carrier and 9,000 troops to the Mideast as Trump weighs strikes

Thursday, October 1, 2026

A bunch of ripe yellow bananas with brown spots resting on an orange against a blue-gray background

Science

Gene-edited bananas that resist browning clear a UK approval hurdle

Earth seen from low orbit, with a cloud-covered ocean below and a spacecraft module at the edge of the frame

Tech

Google put four AI chips in orbit to test data centers powered by the sun

Bar chart of August 2026 monthly changes: consumer spending 0.9%, after-tax income 0.3%, PCE price index 0.3%, core PCE 0.2%, personal income 0.2%

Money

Inflation ran at 3.4% in August as consumer spending jumped 0.9%

Business

Judge clears Paramount's $111 billion Warner Bros. Discovery takeover

Donut chart splitting Ken Griffin’s $3 billion gift: $2 billion for CMU Miami and $1 billion for the Pittsburgh campus

Business

Ken Griffin's $3 billion to Carnegie Mellon is higher education's largest gift

A Flydubai Boeing 737-800 taxiing head-on along a runway lined with trees at Dhaka airport

World

Netanyahu credits stabbed Flydubai captain with stopping a midair crash

Bar chart of new SNAP maximum monthly benefits by household size, from $306 for one person to $1,463 for six

Money

SNAP's new limits start today: $1,023 a month for a family of four

The Tennessee State Capitol in Nashville under a clear blue sky, with the Andrew Jackson equestrian statue in the foreground

US

Tennessee halts executions after Christa Pike survives two lethal doses

Horizontal bar chart comparing 19.2 million people enrolled in ACA marketplace plans with 0.95 million receiving a $500 refund check

Money

$500 Obamacare refund checks start going out to 950,000 people in 30 states

A gray shark swimming in open blue water, file photo

Culture

A shark stuck in a Busan canal for two weeks has drawn 600,000 visitors and a name

Caitlin Clark dribbling up the court in a red Indiana Fever uniform during a 2026 WNBA game

Sports

Caitlin Clark posts WNBA's first 25-point, 15-assist game to save Indiana's season

The curved columned facade of the Federal Trade Commission headquarters in Washington, D.C., under a cloud-streaked sky

Tech

FTC opens investigation into OpenAI, Anthropic and other AI labs over product risks

Horizontal bar chart of 2024 cancer cases caused by infections: H. pylori 760K, HPV 750K, hepatitis B 360K, Epstein-Barr virus 260K, hepatitis C 160K

Health

One in eight cancers worldwide is caused by an infection, and most are preventable

Bar chart showing mortgage applications versus a year earlier: refinance down 56%, purchase down 14%

Money

Mortgage rates hit 7.30%, the sixth straight weekly rise and a near 3-year high

The front steps and marble columns of the U.S. Supreme Court building in Washington, D.C.

US

Supreme Court lets third-country deportations resume while it hears the case

Aerial view of the Pentagon in Arlington, Virginia, with the Potomac River and Washington, D.C. skyline behind it

World

Pentagon says the last US troops have left Iraq, ending a 12-year ISIS mission

Bar chart of the three second-quarter 2026 GDP estimates: 1.5%, 1.5% and a final 2.2%

Business

US economy grew 2.2% in the second quarter, revised up sharply from 1.5%

Wide view of the Yankee Stadium field and stands from the upper deck at dusk

Sports

White Sox win their first playoff series since 2005 as the Yankees also sweep

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