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Oct 06, 2026
Thousands of people gathered at Cornell University in Ithaca, N.Y., on Monday in support of "Jane Doe," the former student who alleges she was drugged and raped by multiple members of a fraternity in October 2024.
The "Justice for Survivors" rally was organized by over 20 student organizations who led a late afternoon march to Day Hall, which houses the university's administrative offices and had been vandalized by activists overnight.
Students, faculty, and residents from across the state took part in the protest calling for Cornell administrators to resign over their handling of the case.
"We are known as the rape school," Saya Taylor, a Cornell sophomore, said at the rally. "We can be known as leading a nationwide reform movement."
Demonstrators held signs accusing the Ivy League school of protecting the alleged rapists and demanding accountability.
"Jane Doe deserved a campus that supported her," Taylor said. "Jane Doe deserved an administration that delivered a fair and proper judicial process. Jane Doe deserved a police department that would actually follow up on her case. Instead, she was silenced."
Late Monday, the Cornell University faculty introduced a resolution declaring it has no confidence in the administration's ability to address the "ongoing crisis of sexual assault" on campus.
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Oct 06, 2026
The $110 billion merger of Paramount Skydance and Warner Bros. Discovery closed on Tuesday after Supreme Court Justice Elena Kagan denied a last-minute effort to halt the deal.
The new company — known as Skydance — brings the HBO Max and Paramount streaming services under one umbrella, roughly seven months after Paramount won a long bidding war with Netflix (NFLX) for Warner Bros.
Skydance stock began trading on Tuesday under the symbol SKYD.
The merger faced plenty of pushback and a long road to closing. "The completed transaction unites two of media and entertainment's most storied companies, each with a history spanning more than a century, giving the combined business a rare legacy to build on," Skydance
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Oct 06, 2026
The interior ministry said 86,000 had joined the protests, unions gave a higher figure (ROMEO BOETZLE)Tens of thousands of demonstrators took to the streets across France on Tuesday, as unions and teachers joined high school students who for days have been demanding better learning conditions in protests punctuated by violent confrontations.
Students have blocked the entrances to hundreds of high schools for 15- to 17-year-olds since late September, complaining of missing teachers, overloaded timetables, dilapidated classrooms and buildings that cannot cope with rising temperatures.
Unions, rights groups and the children have accused the authorities of using disproportionate force -- a police stun grenade tore the hand off one teenager on Monday and another youngster had his teeth knocked out last week after police fired a grenade launcher at his head.
"I'm afraid for my future," Selma, 15, told AFP without giving her surname, among the thousands marching in the country's second largest city of Marseille.
The unrest has erupted with just months to go before the 2027 election to choose a successor to centrist President Emmanuel Macron, with far-right veteran candidate Marine Le Pen riding high in the polls despite a graft conviction.
"We just want to save our education and be educated," said Oceanne, 18, also at the protest in the southern port city.
She said she had suffered from absent teachers who were either not replaced or replaced by "pointless substitutes".
Another student held up a sign complaining of long hours at school.
"Timetables as packed as Le Pen's criminal record," it read, in a jab at the far-right presidential hopeful.
A major march was set to depart from central Paris in the early afternoon.
The interior ministr
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Oct 06, 2026
LONDON (AP) — British police on Tuesday arrested a 22-year-old man in London on suspicion of a terror offense over a security incident at a U.S.-run military air base in England that authorities have linked to Iran.
The arrest is the seventh in connection with a suspected plot against RAF Fairford, located 100 miles (160 kilometers) west of London, which has been used by American bombers to strike Iran during this year's war.
Five British men in their 20s were detained near the perimeter of the base in the early hours of Sept. 27, and a 25-year-old British-Iranian man was arrested in London on Thursday. All six have been released on bail under investigation.
Counter Terrorism Policing said a British national was detained Tuesday in the Westminster area of central London on suspicion of preparing terrorist acts.
Vicki Evans, the senior national coordinator for counterterrorism policing, said detectives "continue to pursue multiple lines of inquiry" and "remain committed to investigating all possible angles."
Scores of residents were evacuated from their homes near the base as armed police officers and army bomb-disposal experts swooped on the rural area late at night. Police later said they had found a quantity of an accelerant — gasoline — in three vans linked to the five suspects, but no explosives.
Prime Minister Andy Burnham said the United Kingdom saw "strong indications" that Iran played a part in the incident, without saying why or what the nature of the suspected plot was.
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Oct 06, 2026
Two injured crew members from one of the ships have been sent for treatment [Petko Momchilov / Reuters]
A civilian cargo ship has sunk and its crew is missing after being attacked by drones in the Black Sea, Bulgarian officials say.
A second vessel - carrying grain - was also hit within Bulgaria's exclusive economic zone, Prime Minister Rumen Radev said. Its 18 crew were rescued.
Radev did not say who was behind the attacks, which come as Russia intensifies strikes in the Black Sea, particularly the eastern side, as part of its war against Ukraine.
Moscow has not commented on the latest incident, a day after it was accused by Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky of striking a civilian vessel carrying corn. EU Commission President Ursula von der Leyen said the attacks were "unacceptable".
Air and sea drones were involved in the attacks at about 03:00 (23:00 GMT), some 70 miles (112 km) off the coastal town of Byala in eastern Bulgaria, Radev said.
The sunken ship was flying under the flag of Togo, he said. Named the Alfa Watan, it was a Turkish-owned general cargo ship and was reportedly heading for Sulina, Romania.
It is not clear what the Alfa Watan was carrying or how many people were on board.
A Bulgarian vessel was close by, but when they arrived all they saw was an overturned boat and rafts as well as life jackets. A search operation has been launched.
Radev said Bulgarian sailors had rescue
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Oct 06, 2026
MOSCOW, Oct 6 (Reuters) - Russia's health watchdog said on Tuesday that no cases of plague had been detected among people who had come ?into contact with a Siberian plague institute laboratory worker who died ?last week.
Authorities say the 28-year-old woman died on Friday from pneumonia of an as-yet unestablished origin, in ?a case that has prompted international concern, including from US President Donald Trump.
Rospotrebnadzor, the watchdog, said in a statement that no infectious diseases had been reported among the staff of the same plague research institute in Irkutsk over the past 10 ?days and that extensive testing ?had found no microorganisms in the deceased woman's body linked to her work.
Elena Sofina, deputy head of the Shelekhov district near Irkutsk, ?where a local hospital was placed under quarantine, said that what she called "a dangerous diagnosis" had not been confirmed.
She added that 60% of those placed under quarantine as ?a ?precaution had already been released. Local media ?said around 200 people had previously ?been quarantined.
Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov expressed appreciation for an offer of help on Monday from Trump, although without making clear if Moscow planned to accept it.
"It's always good when mutual assistance is offered," Peskov told reporters.
He said the public health watchdog was handling the situation and would provide further information as it became available.
Trump ?on Monday described the situation as a "big problem ?for Russia". US Secretary of State Marco ?Rubio said on Tuesday it was ?incumbent on Moscow to share more information.
World Health Organization spokesperson ?Christian Lindmeier said on Tuesday that Russian ?authorities had yet to ?officially respond to a WHO request for information about the death of the lab worker.
"All of the patient's contacts have been reportedly identified and ?are being monitored
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Oct 06, 2026
Nidal Malik Hasan, a former Army major who killed 13 people in a 2009 mass shooting at Fort Hood, Texas, will be executed by firing squad, the Pentagon announced Monday.
"Secretary of War Pete Hegseth has recommended — and President Donald J. Trump has approved — death by U.S. Army firing squad for convicted terrorist Nidal Malik Hasan, the jihadist who opened fire on unarmed American soldiers at Fort Hood in 2009," chief Pentagon spokesman Sean Parnell wrote on X.
He added, "The Secretary of the Army will set the time and place of the execution. Judgement day for Hasan has finally come."
The U.S. military has not carried out an execution since 1961 and has not used a firing squad to execute a service member since World War II.
The announcement of Trump's approval came days after a failed attempt to execute Christa Pike by lethal injection. The failed execution prompted Tennessee's governor to halt further executions this year and order a third-party review.
Asked whether the failed execution in Tennessee would lead him to seek changes to capital punishment, Trump called it "an interesting situation." He told reporters in Denton, Texas, that carrying out lethal injections "shouldn't be very difficult."
Trump's approval sets in motion a series of procedural steps toward carrying out Hasan's execution. But Hasan could put the process on hold — potentially for years — by filing a habeas corpus appeal challenging the leg
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Oct 06, 2026
The battle over Americans' clocks reemerged in an unlikely way over the weekend, with President Donald Trump picking a fight with one of his top allies over the issue.
There have been many fights in Congress over the nearly two years that Trump has been in office for his second term that either ended in partisan victory or gloriously fizzled out, but one has quietly gone onto the shelf despite his pressure on Republicans to do something about it.
And that fight is over allowing states to voluntarily observe daylight saving time year-round to effectively do away with the twice-a-year ritual of changing clocks. It's a popular issue with voters and the president, and there's a bill that passed the House this summer to enact the change. But it's a policy issue that has divided both sides of the aisle and ground to a halt in the upper chamber.
Trump Urges Senate To Pass Bill Making Daylight Saving Time Permanent After Overwhelming House Vote
President Donald Trump wants to make daylight saving permanent, but a geographic coalition of northern versus southern states are in a heated debate over the merits of the change, which spells doom for the bill.Sen. Tom Cotton, R-Ark., has been one of the more vocal opponents of the bill, vowing to block any attempts to fast-track it on the floor. That resistance earned him a Truth Social p
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Oct 06, 2026
A statue of Walt Disney and Mickey Mouse at Disneyland on August 6, 2026. - Christina House/Los Angeles Times/Getty Images
Disney raised prices on many of its theme park offerings today, coinciding with the start of the company's new fiscal year. But consumers aren't pushing back the way they did a few years ago.
Disney's price hikes are an annual October ritual for the company, and it's always a tricky balancing act between increasing revenue and consumers' willingness to pay.
Many ticket types, passes and add-ons at Disneyland are not increasing at all this time. But premium products are getting more expensive, like the highest-level, skip-the-line service at Walt Disney World, which could now run just shy of the $500 mark during peak demand.
It's a reflection of the company's strategy: Spread the price boosts across different audiences, while leaving bottom-tier prices - like the slowest season, one-day, one-park tickets - unchanged.
Its theme parks strategy, Disney said, has evolved over time. Higher-priced premium products and add-ons, alongside targeted discounts and a refresh of older attractions, allowed the company this summer to generate the strongest parks and cruises revenue in two years.
The company kept entry-level prices stable this year, when many consumers are reigning in discretionary spending.
"Our goal is to put guests at the
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Oct 06, 2026
Oct 6 (Reuters) - Governments, courts and companies are considering restrictions and examining existing rules on smart glasses amid worries that the technology, ?brought to mainstream by Meta's Ray-Bans, could be used to photograph, film or ?audio-record confidential materials or people without their knowledge.
Here is a summary of what countries and regions ?are doing to protect people's privacy, in alphabetical order.
AUSTRALIA
The federal government said in September it was considering barring the use of camera-equipped smart glasses in government workplaces due to privacy and security concerns.
Public Service Minister Katy Gallagher asked the country's Public ?Service Commission for advice on ?whether their use should be prohibited and what exemptions might be required.
BRITAIN
Courts in England and Wales have prohibited the use ?of Meta smart glasses because of restrictions on taking images and videos in courts.
British cinema operators are also introducing policies to prohibit or restrict camera-enabled smart glasses, the ?UK ?Cinema Association said in August.
EUROPEAN UNION
Smart glasses ?have attracted scrutiny from European privacy ?regulators and some lawmakers, and the European Data Protection Board has commissioned a report into their "social acceptability".
Member of the European Parliament Veronika Cifrová Ostrihonová also urged the European Commission, which has not proposed legislation specifically targeting smart glasses, to consider possible action.
NORWAY
The government said it planned to propose a temporary ban on the ?use of AI glasses in places where the ?public regularly gather, such as parks, beaches, museums, ?shopping centres and public events.
Norway's ?capital Oslo banned smart glasses in schools in August.
UNITED STATES
New ?York's Unified Court System banned smart glasses ?from all its
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Oct 06, 2026
Christa Pike remains unconscious and critically ill after surviving Tennessee's attempt to execute her last week, her lawyer said, and doctors do not yet know whether she will recover.
"We don't know the prognosis and may not know for several days," attorney Stephen Ferrell said on CNN's State of the Union. Ferrell said he has not been allowed to see her and doesn't know of her speaking or regaining consciousness.
"I think at the very least the governor should commute Ms. Pike's death sentence to a life sentence," Ferrell added. "We don't know what her physical state will be, but it is clear that she has endured a torturous attempt at executing her."
On Monday, Ferrell reiterated his calls to CBS Mornings, saying: "The least that could happen now is that we at least take death off the table and start looking for what the future could be for her." He said it was not clear when Pike would be able to participate in any legal process were she to recover.
The failed execution led to Gov. Bill Lee announcing on Saturday that Tennessee's top prison official is stepping down.
In a statement, Correction Commissioner Frank Strada said resigning was "in the best interest of Tennesseans" while an independent review examines what happened on Sept. 30, when Pike survived two doses of pentobarbital.
Strada said he still believes the state "carried out its responsibilities in accordance with the established protoco
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Oct 06, 2026
President Donald Trump arrives to speak at Butler High School in Vandalia, Ohio, on Sunday. (Mark Schiefelbein / AP)Republicans are swamping House and Senate races with an unprecedented flood of late ad spending as the party tests whether hundreds of millions of dollars can buy it some reprieve from the eroding political environment that's threatening longtime Republican states and districts.
Since the start of September, Republicans have made more than $700 million worth of new advertising bookings in congressional races alone, according to an NBC News analysis of data from AdImpact, a political ad-tracking firm. That's new money on top of what had already been committed to those races in ad reservations made over the summer.
By comparison, Democrats booked more than $430 million in new ad reservations across those races last month.
The disparity is greatest in the battle for the Senate majority, where almost 7 of every 10 newly booked advertising dollars are coming from Republicans. That's led by a massive, late investment in the Senate race in Texas, where Democrat James Talarico is threatening a longtime Republican seat and the GOP has poured in almost $150 million in new ad dollars to back up its nominee, Ken Paxton.
The gap is smaller in the House, where a bit less than 6 in 10 of those new ad dollars are coming from the GOP.
Democrats still have a number of advantages in their corner, including President Donald Trump and his party's eroding standing among voters, Democrats' own well-funded candidates, and help from outside groups. Candidates can take advantage of a rule that allows them to buy television ads at cheaper rates than outside groups, too.
But the color of the
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Oct 06, 2026
After reports that a lab technician's death was possibly linked to pneumonic plague in Russia, U.S. officials said they are closely watching the situation.
The lab technician is a 28-year-old woman who worked at the Irkutsk Antiplague Research Institute of Siberia and the Far East, which was set up in the 1930s as an anti-plague body and later expanded its scope to other highly dangerous diseases. The woman died after being diagnosed with pneumonia of "unknown" origin, according to the public health agency, Rospotrebnadzor.
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Secretary of State Marco Rubio told reporters on Monday morning that Russian officials had shared some information about an infected lab worker and their concerns that other Russians could be affected.
"There's very limited travel between the U.S. and Russia, obviously, but … if something like that gets out, it could quickly spread," said Rubio, who added that he didn't think it was cause for alarm. "We're watching and monitoring it closely."
Here's what to know about the pneumonic plague.
Is this like the bubonic plague?The main clinical forms of plague are bubonic, pneumonic and septicemic.
All forms - caused by the bacteria Yersinia pestis - are treatable, particularly when detected early.
Bubonic plague is the most common form of plague globally, according to the World Health
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Oct 06, 2026
STOCKHOLM (AP) — Francis Halzen won the Nobel Prize in physics on Tuesday for his efforts to demystify a rare group of neutrinos, tiny cosmic particles that scientists believe offer clues to how the universe evolved.
"It was a great surprise and I obviously didn't expect it," Halzen said, speaking to the committee by phone from Italy, in a call broadcast at the news conference to announce the winner.
Halzen said it was predicted before that he would win the Nobel Prize but the announcement still made him feel "strange."
"I'm working on a proposal and I hope winning this will help getting it approved," he said to chuckles from the audience.
Halzen paved the way for a new kind of astronomy
The Nobel Committee for Physics also said Halzen's work was instrumental to the construction of the IceCube Neutrino Observatory in Antarctica.
"Francis Halzen realized that the ice at the South Pole could visualize these neutrino messengers from cosmos," committee member Eva Olsson said during the news conference. "People joined him in the quest for these neutrino messengers. The messenger is bringing information from cosmos. They opened the door to distant galaxies and tell us about the processes of exploding stars."
Born in Belgium, the 82-year-old scientist is affiliated with the University of Wisconsin-Madison in the U.S, which operates the IceCube Neutrino Observatory. Efforts by The Associated Press to reach him were not immediately successful.
Neutrinos are tiny cosmic particles with a mind-bogglingly small mass. Yet they are everywhere: they spew from stars like the sun and trillions zip through our bodies every second.
Scientists can't glimpse the mysterious g
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Oct 06, 2026
Jim Bakker, who along with his first wife Tammy Faye built an evangelical empire around the hugely successful "The PTL Club" TV show, only to lose it all over a sex scandal and financial crimes, has died. He was 86.
Bakker died Monday, his second wife, Lori Bakker, said in a statement. His cause of death was not immediately clear.
"He was a pioneer of Christian television, but to me, he was my husband, my best friend, and the man I was honored to walk beside through so many seasons of life and ministry," she said.
The pair lived near the Missouri entertainment town of Branson and filmed their TV show "The Jim Bakker Show" there since it launched in 2003. Bakker suffered a stroke in 2020.
But it was another evangelical program that made Jim and his first wife Tammy Faye Bakker cultural icons — so much so that they were often skewered in the 1980s and 1990s by late-night comedians and parodied on "Saturday Night Live." A theatrical movie on their lives, "The Eyes of Tammy Faye," was released in September 2021.
At its peak in the mid-1980s, the Bakkers' ministry included not only the TV show drawing up to 13 million nightly viewers but also the Christian-based Heritage USA theme park and hotel in Fort Mill, South Carolina.
Bakker got his start as a traveling preacher
Bakker was born in Muskegon, Michigan, and attended North Central Bible College in Minneapolis, where he met Tammy Faye. They married in 1961 and dropped out of college to start their own traveling ministry — he preached, she sang and played the accordion as they crossed the country visiting churches and tent revivals.
They caught the attention of televangelist Pat Robertson, and in 1965 launched a children's show on Robertson's Christian Broadcasting Network. By 1966, he was hosting "The 700 Club," a Christian talk show.
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Oct 06, 2026
Speaking at a midterm-election rally in Grand Island, Nebraska, Trump discussed higher gasoline prices resulting from the conflict and argued that Americans should accept the economic impact.
"They can take out a city. Let 'em take out Los Angeles, let 'em take out San Diego. This is a very small price to pay," Trump said, adding that the war was nearly over and describing the costs as "a small price to pay for keeping the world safe."
— Headquarters (@HQNewsNow) October 6, 2026
Los Angeles and San Diego are California's two largest Southern California metropolitan areas and together are home to millions of residents, major military installations, international trade hubs and critical economic infrastructure.
The remarks quickly circulated online, drawing sharp condemnation from California officials who accused the president of treating millions of Californians as expendable.
Gov. Gavin Newsom responded on social media by linking Trump's remarks to the administration's recent deployments of federal forces into California.
"After sending the National Guard and Marines to occupy California, Donald Trump is now saying our foreign enemies should 'take out' Los Angeles and San Dieg
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Oct 05, 2026
President Donald Trump said Monday night that he will no longer use taxpayer funds to pay for a multimillion-dollar pro-Trump ad blitz ahead of the midterm elections, saying his super PAC will now pay for them.
While he dismissed criticism of the ads as "a rather standard thing to do," he said he had decided to run them on his own dime rather than that of the U.S. government in a post on his social media platform.
"I have decided to do the Patriotic Ads, among others, and pay for them myself, and with money I raised for MAGA, Inc," Trump wrote, referring to his super PAC.
Eric Lee/Reuters - PHOTO: President Donald Trump speaks with media before boarding Marine One as he travels to Grand Island, Nebraska, on the South Lawn of the White House, Oct. 5, 2026.The move comes after the U.S. government bankrolled a series of ads that aired nationally and heavily featured the president. One of the ads was a direct copy of a spot Trump's campaign ran in 2024.
A White House official confirmed to ABC News Monday night that MAGA Inc. will pay for ads moving forward but defended them as something previous administrations have used.
"Presidential Public service announcements are nothing new. Administrations of both parties have used public service announcements to explain policy and make the case for the nation's direction," the official said.
Trump defends spending millions on taxpayer-funded promotional ads: 'For the country'Earlier Monday
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Oct 05, 2026
President Donald Trump said Monday night that he will no longer use taxpayer funds to pay for a multimillion-dollar pro-Trump ad blitz ahead of the midterm elections, saying his super PAC will now pay for them.
While he dismissed criticism of the ads as "a rather standard thing to do," he said he had decided to run them on his own dime rather than that of the U.S. government in a post on his social media platform.
"I have decided to do the Patriotic Ads, among others, and pay for them myself, and with money I raised for MAGA, Inc," Trump wrote, referring to his super PAC.
Eric Lee/Reuters - PHOTO: President Donald Trump speaks with media before boarding Marine One as he travels to Grand Island, Nebraska, on the South Lawn of the White House, Oct. 5, 2026.The move comes after the U.S. government bankrolled a series of ads that aired nationally and heavily featured the president. One of the ads was a direct copy of a spot Trump's campaign ran in 2024.
A White House official confirmed to ABC News Monday night that MAGA Inc. will pay for ads moving forward but defended them as something previous administrations have used.
"Presidential Public service announcements are nothing new. Administrations of both parties have used public service announcements to explain policy and make the case for the nation's direction," the official said.
Trump defends spending millions on taxpayer-funded promotional ads: 'For the country'Earlier Monday
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Oct 05, 2026
Thune's comments, made to Politico, come days after President Donald Trump appeared to give out Sen. Tom Cotton's phone number amid the senator's objections to the bill.
"The president feels strongly on it like he does a lot of issues," Thune told Politico. "It's something we're having conversations about, but there's no clear path forward or consensus on it yet."
When to set your clocks back. The 2026 daylight saving time start, end
In July, the House of Representatives voted to allow states to enact year-round daylight saving time, but the bill has stalled in the Senate. Cotton emerged as one of the leaders of the opposition to the Sunshine Protection Act.
During an October 2025 Senate floor speech, Cotton pointed to when daylight saving was briefly made permanent by Congress in 1974 a
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Oct 05, 2026
Thousands of students and faculty gathered for a demonstration at Cornell.Photograph: Olga Fedorova/EPA
Mass protests erupted at Cornell University on Monday, with students criticizing officials' handling of gang-rape allegations, demanding the president's resignation and painting "SMASH THE PATRIARCHY" on an administration building.
Thousands of students and faculty gathered for a demonstration, sparked by the high-profile case of a former student known as Jane Doe, who said in a recent lawsuit that she was plied with drugs and raped at a fraternity house in 2024. The case has prompted international outrage and intense scrutiny of college fraternities and sexual violence on US campuses.
Protesters shouted, "Ban the frats" and held signs saying, "At Cornell, rapists are safer than women" and "Stop rape culture." Some demonstrators directed their anger at Michael Kotlikoff, Cornell's president, arguing he had failed to keep students safe and chanting, "Kotlikoff, resign!"
The demonstration took place after some students had smashed a glass door at the entrance of Day Hall, a building that houses
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Oct 05, 2026
By Jarrett Renshaw and Kanishka Singh
GRAND ISLAND, Nebraska, Oct 5 (Reuters) - US President Donald Trump signed an executive order on Monday to expand access to tax-exempt diesel that ?he unveiled from a rally stage in Nebraska.
High diesel prices, which shot to a ?record of about $6.50 a gallon last month, are a risk to Trump ahead of the November 3 midterm US elections ?in which control of Congress is at stake. Trump's Republican Party currently holds a narrow majority in the Senate and House of Representatives.
Prices for the fuel integral to trucking goods have risen in response to the US-Israeli war on Iran and the Russian invasion of Ukraine, with the conflicts having led to ?attacks on refineries in the Middle ?East and Russia.
Trump said the directive will waive the off-road requirement for tax-free diesel and allow anyone to buy the red dye diesel fuel that ?is used by the agriculture industry and by some off-road vehicles.
"We are not going to need it long, I hope," Trump said of the waiver.
The order released by the White House directs the treasury secretary, in ?consultation ?with the Pentagon chief, "to defer payment of the federal ?excise tax imposed for on-road use of ?dyed diesel fuel for the remainder of the year without interest or penalties, and to explore pathways to eliminate the obligation to pay the deferred taxes."
It also directs the US agriculture secretary to "ensure farmers' access to dyed diesel in high-demand areas" while asking the transportation secretary to coordinate with states, industry leadership, and labor organizations on access to dyed diesel.
G7 countries announced last week that they ?would release 100 million barrels of diesel, after pressure ?from Trump who had considered banning US exports of the ?fuel. But it was not clear how ?much of that release would be entirely new supplies or compliance with a ?global agreement in March.
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Oct 05, 2026
Democratic Senate candidate Annie Andrews speaks at the Spratt Issues Conference in Florence, S.C., on Aug. 22. (Sean Rayford / Getty)President Donald Trump used an anti-trans slur Monday to attack the Democratic nominee for the Senate in South Carolina as he urged voters to back Republican Sen. Darline Graham.
In a Truth Social post, Trump referred to Democratic candidate Annie Andrews three times as "trannie." He said Andrews, who is not transgender, is "not for South Carolina."
"And South Carolina must show, in the upcoming Election, that it is not for her," Trump added.
Andrews responded by largely ignoring the insult, saying in a statement first shared with NBC News that she will "work with anyone to put South Carolina first."
"As a mom and a pediatrician, I'm in this race to fight for my patients, my three kids, and South Carolina," Andrews said, adding that "lowering costs and making life better for families across our state is going to take all of us working together."
"If you care more about your bills than the politics in Washington, this campaign is for you," she said.
Graham's campaign did not immediately respond to a request for comment on the post by Trump, who often uses insulting nicknames for politicians and officials he dislikes.
Reached for comment on why Trump used the slur, the White House referred NBC News to his social media post.
The Human Right
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Oct 05, 2026
Nidal Malik Hasan, a former Army officer and psychiatrist who killed 13 people and injured 32 others during a mass shooting at Fort Hood, Texas, in 2009, will be executed by a U.S. Army firing squad, the Pentagon announced Monday.
"Secretary of War Pete Hegseth has recommended — and President Donald J. Trump has approved — death by U.S. Army firing squad for convicted terrorist Nidal Malik Hasan, the jihadist who opened fire on unarmed American soldiers at Fort Hood in 2009," Chief Pentagon Spokesman Sean Parnell announced. "He killed 13 people and wounded 32 others while shouting ‘Allahu Akbar' during the attack.
"The Secretary of the Army will set the time and place of the execution," he continued. "Judgement day for Hasan has finally come."
If Hasan's execution is indeed carried out by a firing squad, it would mark the first such case for the service since Jan. 31, 1945, when Pvt. Eddie D. Slovik was executed by a U.S. Army firing squad in France for desertion during World War II.
The last death sentence carried out by the U.S. military was in 1961, when Army Pvt. John Bennett was executed by hanging at the gallows in Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, after he was convicted of raping and attempting to kill a young girl.
Hasan, who was born in northern Virginia, walked into a Fort Hood readiness processing center on Nov. 5, 2009, and opened fire using a semi-automatic handgun.
Thirteen people were killed, including a pregnant soldier.
Former Army Staff Sgt. Patrick Zeigler, a two-time combat veter
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Oct 05, 2026
Nidal Malik Hasan, a former Army officer and psychiatrist who killed 13 people and injured 32 others during a mass shooting at Fort Hood, Texas, in 2009, will be executed by a U.S. Army firing squad, the Pentagon announced Monday.
"Secretary of War Pete Hegseth has recommended — and President Donald J. Trump has approved — death by U.S. Army firing squad for convicted terrorist Nidal Malik Hasan, the jihadist who opened fire on unarmed American soldiers at Fort Hood in 2009," Chief Pentagon Spokesman Sean Parnell announced. "He killed 13 people and wounded 32 others while shouting ‘Allahu Akbar' during the attack.
"The Secretary of the Army will set the time and place of the execution," he continued. "Judgement day for Hasan has finally come."
If Hasan's execution is indeed carried out by a firing squad, it would mark the first such case for the service since Jan. 31, 1945, when Pvt. Eddie D. Slovik was executed by a U.S. Army firing squad in France for desertion during World War II.
The last death sentence carried out by the U.S. military was in 1961, when Army Pvt. John Bennett was executed by hanging at the gallows in Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, after he was convicted of raping and attempting to kill a young girl.
Hasan, who was born in northern Virginia, walked into a Fort Hood readiness processing center on Nov. 5, 2009, and opened fire using a semi-automatic handgun.
Thirteen people were killed, including a pregnant soldier.
Former Army Staff Sgt. Patrick Zeigler, a two-time combat veter
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Oct 05, 2026
Christa Pike, the death row inmate who last week survived Tennessee's attempt to execute her, remained hospitalized on a ventilator Monday, according to her attorney.
He said it was still unclear whether Pike would regain consciousness but urged the state to "take death off the table" by commuting her sentence, renewing an earlier request that the governor denied before her botched lethal injection.
"The least that could happen now is that we at least take death off the table and start looking for what the future could be for her," attorney Steve Ferrell, of the Federal Defender Services of Eastern Tennessee, told "CBS Mornings."
Ferrell added that he and the rest of Pike's legal team were "certainly willing to discuss that with the governor, with whoever could make that decision."
He told "CBS Mornings" that, although Pike was alive, her condition was considered critical and hospital staff continued to work to clear her body of the lethal drug pentobarbital. Even if she were to wake up, her future would be uncertain, he added.
"It may still be a long time before she's able to participate in the legal process," said Ferrell.
However, in hopes of preventing the possibility of Tennessee trying to execute Pike a second time, which is historically what has happened to inmates who've survived botched execution attempts, he said Pike's legal team would push for the state to commute her death sentence to life in prison.
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Oct 05, 2026
An activist is seen retrieving a bucket from the tree sitter in the "grandmother" cottonwood tree on Sept. 24. - (Cassidy Araiza/For The Washington Post)LOCHIEL, Ariz. — For more than two months, activists sat high up in the branches of a giant cottonwood tree here on the border with Mexico in an effort to block federal contractors from knocking it down to make way for President Donald Trump's $46.5 billion border wall expansion.
But that standoff came to an end Monday when demonstrators say more than 50 Customs and Border Protection agents raided the activist camp and an excavator knocked down what they called a "grandmother" tree, estimated to be 150 to 250 years old.
Footage taken by protesters shows the massive tree crashing down as border agents look on, and the activists who worked to protect it wail.
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"We have been raided, assaulted, battered, bruised, bleeding by the Border Patrol agents," said Kate Scott, an activist who kicked off the group's tree sit, in a call following Monday's raid. As CBP cleared the area, about 10 people were arrested, the group of activists estimates, and another 10 received citations, including for "violation of a closure order" for being in the border-wall zone.
At least one activist showed images of scrapes and bandages on a Monday video call.
Customs and Border Protection previously identified cottonwood trees on federal land in Lochiel "that
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Oct 05, 2026
President Trump said Monday he will start paying for the pro-Trump ads that have blanketed the airwaves in recent weeks with money raised by his super PAC, after his administration drew intense pushback for using public funds on the ads.
"The Radical Left is upset with the fact that I am taking Ads, which I consider to be a positive promotion for our Great U.S.A., and paying for them with U.S.A. money," the president wrote on Truth Social. "This is a rather standard thing to do but, rather than doing that, although nothing will make them happy, I have decided to do the Patriotic Ads, among others, and pay for them myself, and with money I raised for MAGA, Inc."
Emblazoned with the message "Paid for by the U.S. Government," the ads began popping up late last month on national cable and broadcast networks, including CBS, as the November midterm elections approach.
Several variations have aired, including one that features a recording of Mr. Trump saying, "We will defeat communism, socialism and Marxism in America," as photos of the president flash across the screen. Another recounts the U.S. capture of former Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro.
CBS News reported last month that there are multiple versions of the ads. The U.S. government produced the content and paid for the airtime through an ad agency.
The Department of Homeland Security awarded LMD Agency $20 million for a "National Media Campaign" starting on Sept. 20, contracting records show. A day earlier, the White House Office of Management a
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Oct 05, 2026
CHICAGO (WGN) — A Chicago woman who was shot five times by a Border Patrol agent during Operation Midway Blitz filed a lawsuit against the federal government Monday, calling for more action against the agent who shot her.
Marimar Martinez said the encounter with Border Patrol agents happened in Oct. 2025. She was allegedly heading to church to drop off clothing donations when she noticed immigration officers on her street.
"For the next 15 to 20 minutes, I followed these Border Patrol agents through my neighborhood, honking my horn, shouting out ‘La Migra,'" Martinez said while testifying on Capitol Hill in Feb.
Martinez said the driver of the Border Patrol vehicle she was following made eye contact with her before swerving into and hitting her truck.
"I drove forward and went around the Border Patrol agent who jumped out of his car and pointed his gun at me. I moved to the far-left lane, striking the curb on the far-left side of Kedzie (Avenue). The next thing I knew, I felt a burning sensation in my arms and legs," Martinez said. "As I continued trying to drive past the Border Patrol agents, I could hear my back passenger window shatter, and I felt bullets continue to pierce my body."
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Oct 05, 2026
President Donald Trump said the US was ready to help Russia with the reported plague case (Brendan SMIALOWSKI)Russia on Monday sought to downplay reports that a laboratory technician had died of plague, even as President Donald Trump said Washington was closely monitoring the situation and offered US help.
Reports on Friday that pneumonic plague had killed a 28-year-old woman named Darya Shipilova, who had been working for the anti-plague institute in Siberia's Irkutsk region, sparked alarm.
"We're looking at it very strongly, we just heard about it," Trump told reporters at the White House when asked what Washington was going to do about the risk of plague coming from Russia.
"We'll help them, we'll help them as much as we can."
The Russian news outlet People of Baikal, citing unnamed sources close to the regional security services, said the dead woman may have contracted pneumonic plague from a broken test tube.
Other media reported a possible link between her death and a lab accident at the facility.
As many as 200 people with whom she may have had contact were under quarantine, the People of Baikal outlet added, without elaborating.
But Russian officials stressed that postmortem tests had not detected the disease.
Irkutsk Regional Governor Igor Kobzev said Monday that a special expert commission inspection in the region had found that "the cause of death was pneumonia of undetermined aetiology".
He said on Telegram that Russia's consumer and health watchdog Rospotrebnadzor had determined, following tests, that "no microorganisms linked to the young woman's professional work were found in her biological samples".
He added that there had been "no new cases of staff from the anti-plague institute seeking medical attention" since t
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Oct 05, 2026
By Kate Holton and Steve Holland
LONDON/WASHINGTON, Oct 5 (Reuters) - US President Donald Trump said on Monday that a threat linked to Iran had prompted the removal of American B-1 bombers from a British airbase.
The planes had been stationed at RAF Fairford, the preferred European base for US bombers, and had recently been used in US strikes on Iran. Last week, five British ?men were arrested near the base — which Iran's Revolutionary Guards previously said was a legitimate target — on suspicion of preparing terrorist acts.
"We had an idea that there might be a threat, and why ?would I leave them there? It costs very little money to move them," Trump told reporters on Monday. "So we had a threat, and if we're going to be threatened, we just move them, and that sort of alleviates that. And we actually know the people ?that made the threat."
When asked if they were linked to Iran, Trump responded: "They would be linked to Iran."
Earlier on Monday, Vice President JD Vance said the US moved the bombers out of an abundance of caution.
"We do feel with some confidence that the Iranians are, you know, they're trying to do what the Iranian state has done for 49 years, which is engaged in acts of terrorism against the United States (and others), so we are being extremely cautious, and that's all I'd say about that," Vance told reporters.
However, US Secretary of State Marco Rubio said there was no direct link between the sudden removal of the bombers and the suspected Iranian plot. He said the Pentagon is "constantly reallocating resources where ?they need to be."
A NATO military source had said on Monday: "It is still ?believed that Iran poses an acute threat to US assets in the UK."
While much about the incident remains unexplained, British Prime Minister Andy Burnham said any plot was likely backed by Iran.
Iran has said accusations that it was involved in any plot are
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Oct 05, 2026
The US Strategic Petroleum Reserve (SPR) dropped by almost 800,000 barrels last week, and the Trump administration moved forward with plans to sell another 40 million barrels in the coming months.
New data released on Monday by the US Department of Energy showed the US energy backstop sitting at 283 million barrels, down from 283.77 million the week prior.
That leaves about two weeks of US oil consumption in the reserve amid widespread worries about global stockpiles, which the head of Saudi Arabia's state producer on Monday called "scarily thin."
Amin Nasser, chief executive of Saudi Aramco, added at an Energy Intelligence Forum in London on Monday that releasing stockpiles will buy economies some time but won't fix the imbalances that have developed between supply and demand.
Yet these withdrawals in the US could soon accelerate after the Trump administration unveiled a request for bids from companies to buy up to 40 million barrels of crude oil from the SPR, with the aim of having the companies return those supplies "with additional premium barrels." The solicitation process is ongoing, and it's unclear if companies will agree to those terms.
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Oct 05, 2026
An Ohio man who was found guilty of murdering his wife and staging the crime scene to make it seem as if an intruder had broken into their home and fatally shot the mother of two was sentenced to life without the possibility of parole.
Caleb Flynn, 40, a former pastor who once appeared as a contestant on "American Idol" in 2013, was found guilty of aggravated murder and multiple counts of murder, felonious assault and tampering with evidence in connection with the death of his wife, 37-year-old Ashley Flynn.
Judge Jeannine Pratt called the former pastor's actions "abhorrent" and "quite honestly impossible to fathom."
Caleb Flynn called 911 early on Feb. 16 to report that his wife had been shot by an intruder at their home in Tipp City, north of Dayton. He was arrested three days later. Prosecutors alleged that Caleb Flynn "executed" his wife by shooting her twice in the back of the head in bed so that he could be with his mistress and manipulated the crime scene to make it seem as if an intruder had broken in through the garage.
Pool via ABC News - PHOTO: Caleb Flynn appears for his sentencing in the Miami County Court of Common Pleas, Oct. 5, 2026, in Troy, Ohio.Pratt said that after considering the evidence in the case, there is "one clear and obvious conclusion" -- that Caleb Flynn poses the "highest risk" of harm to the public -- and admonished the "layers of deceit, manipulation and cruelty" that he has shown.
"You could have walked away. You cou
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Oct 05, 2026
When it comes to the battle for control of the U.S. Senate, Republicans are mostly playing defense. The lion's share of the races that will decide which party secures a majority in November are in red states — including Texas, Iowa and Ohio — where the GOP is hoping to hold on against ascendant Democratic challengers.
Minnesota is one of the few states in the country where the party is in a position to go on offense and potentially turn a blue seat red.
In pursuit of that goal, the GOP has put its hopes in Michele Tafoya, a former sports broadcaster and NFL sideline reporter turned politician who polls suggest has a real chance of winning in a state that has been dominated by Democrats in recent election cycles.
Tafoya is running for the seat currently held by Democrat Tina Smith, who is not pursuing re-election. Instead her opponent will be Minnesota Lt. Gov. Peggy Flannagan, a progressive who supports policies like Medicare for All and abolishing Immigration and Customs Enforcement.
Minnesota has been at the center of some of the biggest controversies of President Trump's second term, particularly his administration's sweeping immigration crackdown. Though a majority of Minnesotans disapprove of Trump's performance as president, Tafoya has steadily chipped away at Flanagan's lead in polls since the primary.
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Oct 05, 2026
WASHINGTON (AP) — Republican Sen. Thom Tillis says in a new book that his deciding vote to confirm Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth in January 2025 is the "biggest regret of my career" and that he also "should've stopped" Robert F. Kennedy Jr. from becoming Health and Human Services secretary in the early days of President Donald Trump's second term.
In "How to Lose Friends and Antagonize Presidents," to be published Tuesday, the North Carolina senator defends his decision at the time to not be "the lone voice in the wilderness" preventing Trump's nominees from confirmation. But Tillis makes clear he was always skeptical of allegations about Hegseth's turbulent management style, treatment of women and excessive drinking. Hegseth denied all the allegations.
"I know for a fact that there are others like me," Tillis writes, "Republicans who agreed to go along with the early demands of the Trump team no matter how ridiculous they were, believing that failing to do so would mean the end of their political career, and who now see that things have gone way too far."
He writes that he can count at least 30 of his GOP colleagues who have "expressed reservations (to put it mildly) about many of the president's actions in private. Then, when the reporters showed up with their cameras and microphones, they'd have nothing but nice things to say."
Tillis, who announced last year that he would not run for reelection in a "breaking point" with the president on his sweeping
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Oct 05, 2026
An expedition began on Oct. 2 as researchers left Purdue University on a mission that hopes to find the lost plane of aviator Amelia Earhart, who went missing along with her navigator Fred Noonan in 1937.
Three members of the Taraia Object expedition, a joint effort among the Indiana-based university, Purdue's Archaeological Legacy Institute and the Purdue Research Foundation, then traveled from Los Angeles to meet others in the 17-person team. Next, they'll travel to Fiji and Kiribati in the South Pacific in search of the Lockheed Electra 10-E flown by Earhart nearly 90 years ago.
On Oct. 7, the entire group will travel to Nikumaroro, a remote Pacific island between Australia and Hawaii, where a popular theory suggests Earhart and Noonan landed after failing to complete their journey to circle the globe at the equator.
"I am feeling very confident about this," lead archaeologist Richard Pettigrew previously told USA TODAY. "I'm pumped."
The search, one of countless efforts to locate the lost aviator since her disappearance, centers around the "Taraia object," a visual anomaly discovered through satellite imagery in the island's lagoon.
The search through the years: Amelia Earhart vanished in 1937. New evidence could find her plane.
The mission, originally set for October 2025, was delayed due to weather conditions. Permission from Kiribati's government was also a factor; Kiribati is the island nation that controls Nikumaroro, and has now allowed the mission to proceed.
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Oct 05, 2026
Several Supreme Court Justices appeared skeptical Monday of a request from oil companies to preemptively block a climate change lawsuit that could hold them liable for climate damages.
Many of the justices raised questions about the court's ability to even take up the case at this time.
"A number of the discussions that you've had with my colleagues make me think that we're really early in this case - that this is sort of premature from the standpoint of this court exercising its jurisdiction," liberal Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson told Suncor Energy lawyer Kannon Shanmugam.
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Oct 05, 2026
The woman who alleges she was drugged and raped by multiple members of a Cornell University fraternity in October 2024 told one of the accused men in a recorded phone call weeks later that she was "10 shots deep" when she arrived at the Chi Phi house and was now struggling to remember what had caused "so much damage on my body and brain."
"The only way for me to heal is to know what happened," the woman, identified as "Jane Doe" in a civil lawsuit, said during a Nov. 7, 2024, call, according to audio obtained by ABC News. "That's why I'm trying to just piece it together, you know, like I'm just like confused."
During the call, the Chi Phi fraternity member told her that she consented to having a threesome with him and another fraternity brother.
He also insisted that Jane Doe had told him she had not been drinking when she showed up.
"You did tell me you were sober, by the way," he said. "You said you hadn't been anywhere."
"That is not true. I never would have said that," she replied.
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Oct 05, 2026
A British Airways Boeing 777 similar to the one used for the Chicago flight. (John Keeble / Getty)LONDON — A British Airways passenger jet flying from London to Chicago descended 28,000 feet in just seven minutes after declaring an emergency due to an unspecified "technical issue," the airline said Monday.
The Boeing 777 took off at 12:15 p.m. local time (7:15 a.m. ET) but started descending just 30 minutes later while flying over Ireland, according to flight-tracking website FlightAware.
The plane turned around and spent around four hours zigzagging over the Bristol Channel, a waterway to the west of England, before landing back at London Heathrow Airport at 5 p.m. local time (noon ET).
"The aircraft landed safely after our highly-trained pilots returned to Heathrow following a technical issue," British Airways said in an emailed statement. "Customers disembarked the aircraft normally and our teams are working to get their travel plans back on track as quickly as possible."
Heathrow did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
Passengers will likely be put up in hotels by the airline until another flight can be arranged, as stipulated by the U.K. Civil Aviation Authority.
Britain's National Air Traffic
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Oct 05, 2026
Former Army secretary Dan Driscoll has given his first interview since resigning from the Pentagon in September after clashing with Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth.
Driscoll is just one of a series of high profile departures since Hegseth took over, with the secretary carrying out a purge so substantial it reportedly even raised President Donald Trump's concerns.
Speaking to Rolling Stone, Driscoll acknowledged the pair had disagreements on a number of issues, without going into specifics.
"Once he makes a decision, there's nothing I can do about it. I don't have to like it," he said of Hegseth. "But I think it's unfair to describe our relationship so flatly - that every interaction was bad, or that we disagreed on everything.
"If you polled us, we probably agreed on more than 50 percent of things. What's been reported is all the things we disagree on.
"I'll never talk about our private conversations but we were both very passionate about our positions, and I would advocate as strongly as I possibly could - knowing I'm talking to my boss, and the final decision-maker."
Former Army secretary Dan D
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Oct 05, 2026
The Supreme Court began its latest term on Monday with a docket full of high-stakes cases that touch on some of the most contentious issues in American politics, including guns, voting and transgender rights.
This will be the second full term for the nation's highest court since President Trump returned to the White House. The previous term, which wrapped up in June, was packed with landmark rulings in a long list of major cases, including Trump's tariffs, birthright citizenship and a slate of key immigration decisions.
The justices will likely take on additional cases over the course of the term, but there are already plenty of pivotal cases for the court to consider in the coming months.
Here's a rundown of the big cases headed to the Supreme Court this term and what their eventual rulings might mean for the country.
GunsOver the past two decades, the Supreme Court has issued a series of decisions that have significantly expanded gun rights. It could go even further next term when it considers whether laws banning certa
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Oct 05, 2026
The Supreme Court began its latest term on Monday with a docket full of high-stakes cases that touch on some of the most contentious issues in American politics, including guns, voting and transgender rights.
This will be the second full term for the nation's highest court since President Trump returned to the White House. The previous term, which wrapped up in June, was packed with landmark rulings in a long list of major cases, including Trump's tariffs, birthright citizenship and a slate of key immigration decisions.
The justices will likely take on additional cases over the course of the term, but there are already plenty of pivotal cases for the court to consider in the coming months.
Here's a rundown of the big cases headed to the Supreme Court this term and what their eventual rulings might mean for the country.
GunsOver the past two decades, the Supreme Court has issued a series of decisions that have significantly expanded gun rights. It could go even further next term when it considers whether laws banning certa
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Oct 05, 2026
A school bus filled with children rolled over in a multi-vehicle crash Monday morning in central Florida, killing two and injuring multiple others, according to authorities.
The bus was traveling to a high school and carrying 39 passengers, including 37 high schoolers, the bus driver and the driver's 9-year-old daughter, Polk County Sheriff Grady Judd said in a press conference Monday morning.
Two people died in the crash, including a tenth-grade girl on the bus and an individual in a Jeep involved in the crash, Judd said.
WFTV - PHOTO: A school bus filled with children flipped over on Monday, Oct. 5, 2026, in Winter Haven, Fla.Five to seven trauma alerts were issued and multiple people are being treated at the hospital, including one in critical condition, according to Judd.
The crash occurred in Winter Haven, Florida, and was reported at about 6:15 a.m. on Monday, according to authorities.
A preliminary review of video footage shows that the school bus was driving in its lane when a white Chevy Malibu traveling the opposite direction drifted over the center line for unknown reasons, hitting the bus, Judd said. This caused the bus to crash into a silver Jeep head-on, he said.
10 injured after car crashes into crowd of rugby fans lining street in Australia; driver arrestedAnother vehicle was involved, bringing the total to four vehicles impacted by the crash, officials said.
"It was a horrible crash," Judd said. "It was a terrible, tragic morning."
Emergency helicopters flew some victims to the hospital, while others left in ambulances or private vehicles, accordi
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Oct 05, 2026
By John Kruzel and Andrew Chung
WASHINGTON, Oct 5 (Reuters) - The US Supreme Court opened its new nine-month term on Monday by hearing a bid by oil companies ExxonMobil and Suncor Energy to thwart a lawsuit by officials in Boulder, Colorado, seeking monetary damages for harms ?caused by climate change.
US-based Exxon and Canada-based Suncor appealed after the Colorado Supreme Court let Boulder's lawsuit accusing them of state law violations ?proceed. President Donald Trump's administration has backed Exxon and Suncor, arguing that the federal government's authority to regulate air pollution precludes Boulder's claims.
"This case involves an unprecedented effort to use state law to ?regulate global conduct," Kannon Shanmugam, a lawyer for the oil companies, told the justices.
Boulder is suing the oil companies under Colorado law, Shanmugam added, "on the theory that their global conduct increased the global use of fossil fuels, which led to an increase in global greenhouse gas emissions, which contributed to global climate change, which resulted in global harms."
"Our constitutional system does not permit state law to be used in that manner. The Constitution bars the application of state law to certain inherently federal areas," Shanmugam said.
"Because ?of the ambient nature of air and water and ?the conflicting rights of states, this court has held for over a century that federal law governs interstate pollution claims. That principle applies with even greater force to claims involving global climate change," Shanmugam said.
Arguments were ongoing in the case.
The top US ?judicial body opened its new term on the first Monday in October, as is its custom. It also has major cases involving Trump's hardline immigration policies and state-level bans on assault-style rifles, among others, lined up for the term.
Boulder's city and county governments have accused Exxon and Suncor
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Oct 05, 2026
Washington — Former Speaker of the House Dennis Hastert, who represented Illinois for two decades in Congress and was jailed for violating banking laws, has died, a coroner in Illinois said. He was 84.
Both the longest-serving Republican House speaker and the highest-ranking elected U.S. official to serve a prison sentence, Hastert's stunning fall from grace came in 2016, when he was sentenced to 15 months in prison on charges related to his concealment of hush money payments made to cover up his sexual abuse of teenage boys during his time as a high school wrestling coach.
Kendall County Coroner Jacquie Purcell confirmed Monday that Hastert died at his home over the weekend due to natural causes. No further details were given.
Born in 1942 in Aurora, Illinois, Hastert grew up in a farming community. He went on to graduate from Wheaton College, where he received a degree in economics, before earning a teaching degree from Northern Illinois University. Hastert married Jean Kahl in 1973. The couple had two sons.
Hastert worked as a teacher in Illinois for 16 years while coaching wrestling. In 1976, he was named Illinois Coach of the Year. Four decades later, he would admit to sexually abusing boys during his time as a coach.
Hastert then served in the Illinois legislature, before going on to be elected to represent Illinois' 14th district in the U.S. House in 1986.
Hastert served in Congress from 1987 to 2007. With the mentorship of House Minority Leader Robert. H Michel, Hastert's profile grew among the GOP ranks, and in 1995, he became chief deputy whip. When former House Speaker Newt Gingrich stepped down in 1998, Hastert became the conference's second choice for his successor, following Rep. Bob Livingston's decision to step aside amid a scandal over extra-marital affairs.
Known as the "accidental
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Oct 05, 2026
Washington — Former Speaker of the House Dennis Hastert, who represented Illinois for two decades in Congress and was jailed for violating banking laws, has died, a coroner in Illinois said. He was 84.
Both the longest-serving Republican House speaker and the highest-ranking elected U.S. official to serve a prison sentence, Hastert's stunning fall from grace came in 2016, when he was sentenced to 15 months in prison on charges related to his concealment of hush money payments made to cover up his sexual abuse of teenage boys during his time as a high school wrestling coach.
Kendall County Coroner Jacquie Purcell confirmed Monday that Hastert died at his home over the weekend due to natural causes. No further details were given.
Born in 1942 in Aurora, Illinois, Hastert grew up in a farming community. He went on to graduate from Wheaton College, where he received a degree in economics, before earning a teaching degree from Northern Illinois University. Hastert married Jean Kahl in 1973. The couple had two sons.
Hastert worked as a teacher in Illinois for 16 years while coaching wrestling. In 1976, he was named Illinois Coach of the Year. Four decades later, he would admit to sexually abusing boys during his time as a coach.
Hastert then served in the Illinois legislature, before going on to be elected to represent Illinois' 14th district in the U.S. House in 1986.
Hastert served in Congress from 1987 to 2007. With the mentorship of House Minority Leader Robert. H Michel, Hastert's profile grew among the GOP ranks, and in 1995, he became chief deputy whip. When former House Speaker Newt Gingrich stepped down in 1998, Hastert became the conference's second choice for his successor, following Rep. Bob Livingston's decision to step aside amid a scandal over extra-marital affairs.
Known as the "accidental
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Oct 05, 2026
Former White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt will provide commentary across the Fox News lineup.Former White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt is joining Fox News Channel as an on-air contributor, FOX News Media CEO Suzanne Scott announced on Monday.
Leavitt, 29, who will provide commentary across the Fox News lineup, starts on Nov. 1. She most recently served as the 36th White House press secretary during President Donald Trump's second administration, from January 2025 until August 2026.
"Karoline's firsthand experience in the White House and on the presidential campaign trail gives her a distinct understanding of today's political landscape. We look forward to her providing our audience with authentic and sharp insight across all FOX News Media platforms," Scott said in a statement.
Trump Says Karoline Leavitt Will Leave White House Press Secretary Role, Become Outside Advisor
Former White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt will join FOX News Media on Nov. 1.Leavitt added, "I am grateful for the opportunity to continue appearing on Fox News Channel as an official member of the extrao
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Oct 05, 2026
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Persian Gulf oil producers are paying as much as $40 million per tanker trip to keep crude flowing through the Strait of Hormuz as attacks on commercial vessels continue during the Iran war, The Wall Street Journal reported.
Oil nevertheless is moving out of the Gulf at its fastest pace since the war began, according to the outlet. Producers increasingly are turning to journeys known as "shuttle runs," which allow customers to avoid sending their own tankers into the dangerous waterway.
Under the system, very large crude carriers, or VLCCs, enter the Gulf through Hormuz, load crude at regional ports, and make the hazardous trip back through the strait. The oil is then transferred to another tanker waiting outside the Gulf for shipment to global markets, the Journal reported.
Producers are paying between $30 million and $40 million for each round trip, or roughly $15 to $20 a barrel before insurance, according to shipbrokers cited in the report.
"For many shipowners, the current market is generating revenues at levels rarely seen in the industry's recent history," Dimitris Maniatis, founder and CEO of maritime-risk company Marisks, told the Journal.
Shipping crude directly from the Gulf has become even more expensive.
The cost of hiring a supertanker to sail from the Persian Gulf to China topped $1.2 million a day in late September, up from about $231,400 before the war and less than $40,000 in early January, according to maritime data provider Clarksons Research.
Sailors willing to enter the war zone are also commanding sharply higher pay, accordi
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Oct 05, 2026
Former White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt has landed her next job after leaving the Trump administration.
Leavitt, who stepped down from her post at the end of August, had remained tight-lipped about her plans for what came next.
But now, Fox News has announced that the 29-year-old will be joining the network as an on-air contributor from November 1. She is expected to appear on multiple shows on the network, providing commentary across opinion and news programs.
Fox News Media CEO Suzanne Scott said in a statement: "Karoline's firsthand experience in the White House and on the presidential campaign trail gives her a distinct understanding of today's political landscape. We look forward to her providing our audience with authentic and sharp insight across all Fox News Media platforms."
Leavitt added in a statement of her own: "I am grateful for the opportunity to continue appearing on Fox News Channel as an official member of the extraordinary team at Fox News Media. I look forward to bringing my unique perspective from my experience as White House Press Secretary, along with the same energy and candor that defied my tenure, to Fox's millions of viewers across their many platforms."
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Oct 05, 2026
By Johan Ahlander, Marie Mannes and Bhanvi Satija
STOCKHOLM, Oct 5 (Reuters) - American Karl Deisseroth and Germans Peter Hegemann and Georg Nagel won the 2026 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine on Monday for developing optogenetics, a technique that uses light to control individual nerve cells in the brain.
The Nobel Assembly of Sweden's Karolinska Institute said Deisseroth, 54, Hegemann, 71, ?and Nagel, 73, had been selected for their "discoveries concerning light-gated ion channels and optogenetics."
"This method (optogenetics) makes it possible to switch on, or off, the activity of individual nerve cells in a living ?brain," said Thomas Perlmann, Secretary-General of the Nobel Assembly at Karolinska Institutet.
"This method is now being used in laboratories around the world to reveal the brain's mysteries," he said.
Anna Wedell, a professor in genetics and a member of the Nobel Committee for Physiology ?or Medicine, said a new era in neuroscience had opened but it was only the beginning.
"For the first time we can actually start to understand how the brain processes information and how different neurons interact across the brain," she said.
The trio will share a prize sum of 12 million Swedish crowns ($1.2 million). Announcements will follow in the coming days on this year's Nobel physics, chemistry, literature, peace and economics prizes, with the winner or winners of the 2026 Nobel Peace Prize to be announced on Friday.
BREAKTHROUGH FROM ALGAE
The breakthrough began in the early 1990s when Hegemann investigated how the alga Chlamydomonas reacts to light in half a millisecond. He hypothesised that a single protein ?both captured light and acted as an ion channel.
Nagel tested this hypothesis ?by injecting Chlamydomonas genes into frog eggs, discovering channelrhodopsin-2, a light-sensitive ion channel.
In 2003, Nagel and Hegemann published finding
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Oct 05, 2026
As Houthi militants in Yemen attacked ships with missiles and drones in the Red Sea early last year, top U.S. officials gathered at the Pentagon to prepare military options for President Donald Trump. Their meetings repeatedly grew tense.
On one side were Gen. Michael "Erik" Kurilla, then overseeing U.S. operations in the Middle East, and other hawks ready for action. The general was keen on military action not only against the Houthis, but also against Iran, which had backed the Yemeni paramilitary group for years with weapons and training, according to people familiar with the matter. Like others, they spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss internal government deliberations.
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On the other side were officials hesitant to launch military strikes so early in the second Trump administration, including the Joint Chiefs chairman, Gen. Charles Q. Brown Jr., who suggested that new U.S. assessments of what military action might yield would be wise before presenting the president with military options.
That triggered an abrupt response from Kurilla, people familiar with the matter said.
"General," Kurilla said, "the time for assessments is over."
The exchange, which has not previously been reported, surprised some in the room. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, then new to his role, agreed with Kurilla, people familiar with the matter said.
The disagreement came as other Pentagon appointees, including then-senior adviser Dan Caldwell and policy official Alex Velez-Green, repeatedly raised questions in meetings about how an extended military campaign against the Houthis could deplete stocks of key U.S. munitions, the people fa
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Oct 05, 2026
TOKYO (AP) — The arrest of a U.S. Marine on suspicion of robbing and killing a local woman on Okinawa has drawn condemnation from Japan's leaders and renewed protests against the heavy American military presence on the southern island.
The alleged killing could complicate Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi's push to strengthen Japanese military defense on the island and to work more closely with the U.S. military to deter China in the region.
Okinawa prefectural police said they arrested Devin Jacob Ballard, 20, who is stationed at Futenma Air Station, on suspicion of strangling Anna Yagi, 39, at a hotel in the island's capital city of Naha early Saturday and stealing her wallet and backpack. He has denied the allegations, according to Japanese media.
Security camera footage showed a man wearing a black top, trousers and white sneakers entering the hotel with the woman and later leaving alone.
Ballard was arrested when a patrolling officer saw him walking later Saturday in an entertainment district in Okinawa City, about 25 kilometers (15 miles) northeast of Naha. His shaved head and the tattoos on his arms matched those of the man in security footage, Kyodo news agency reported.
"I'm outraged and flabbergasted to hear that a suspect came to the (entertainment area) after committing a murder," Kenji Higa, who lives in Okinawa City, told the Okinawa Times.
There is longstanding anger over the behavior of some Americans
People in Okinawa have long been wary of the U.S. presence on the island but many have come to see it
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Oct 05, 2026
The Atlantic Ocean hasn't seen a hurricane yet this year in a season that remains among the quietest on record, driven by a strong El Niño pattern that's getting even stronger. But the Gulf of Mexico may be about to cook up a storm, and there's at least some chance of U.S. impacts.
The National Hurricane Center is monitoring a nascent disturbance in the Bay of Campeche, or southwestern Gulf of Mexico, west of the Yucatán Peninsula. The agency estimates development odds at 70 percent, with weather models — including Google's DeepMind — indicating increasing chances.
Infrared satellite imagery Sunday night revealed a flare-up of thunderstorm activity. The tropical wave was still disorganized, though, and lacked any cohesive spin or a center. For now, it's merely a disturbance.
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However, it's possible that spin will consolidate in the coming days, becoming a more organized system. Some of that spin is caused by northerly winds being funneled down Mexico's Sierra Madre Occidental mountain range; there, they meet southeasterly winds from the Caribbean. Like an atmospheric waterwheel plopped in between opposing currents, this makes the fluid spin.
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Oct 05, 2026
Christa Pike in court in Nashville in 2012.Photograph: Dipti Vaidya/USA TODAY NETWORK/Imagn Images/Reuters Connect
A former lawyer for Christa Pike says he was not surprised that Tennessee botched its attempt to execute her because attorneys had warned that problems accessing her veins could make the procedure dangerous and potentially cruel.
James Crowson, who represented Pike during part of her post-conviction appeals, said he had followed the case from afar before the failed execution at Riverbend Maximum Security Institution in Nashville on 30 September.
"Well, I can't say I'm surprised," said Crowson, who represented Pike while working for the Tennessee Post-Conviction Defender. "I knew that there were a number of defense filings saying that she had compromised veins, and that was going to be a difficult and perhaps cruel procedure for her because it was going to put her at risk for exactly what happened."
Pike, 50, on Sunday remained hospitalized and on a machine helping her breathe after Tennessee administered two doses of pentobarbital that failed to kill her, as far as an attorney now representing her knew, the lawyer said on the CNN program State of the Union.
"She's still in the hospital, on a ventilator, critically ill - we don't really know the prognosis yet and may not know for several days," Stephen Ferrell, an assistant federal defender, said to CNN host Jake Tapper.
Ferrell told Tapper that he had not been able to personally see Pike, but
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Oct 05, 2026
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman admits "something's clearly not working" with the artificial intelligence money that has flooded the midterm elections — and he doesn't expect President Donald Trump's rebrand of the technology to improve his industry's image with the American public, either.
"I get why AI has a really negative perception right now," Altman told Brendan Bordelon in an exclusive interview marking the launch of Decoded by POLITICO. "I don't think spending money on politics is what's going to make people feel better about it. The industry needs to figure out a way to address what the actual concerns are, and right now, a lot of people in the industry are being quite tone deaf."
In the wide-ranging conversation, Altman offered a window into how OpenAI is confronting new political pressures and intensified competition with Anthropic, its corporate archrival run by former employee Dario Amodei.
Altman says OpenAI is more tolerant than Anthropic of less-than-catastrophic harms from AI, drawing out what he sees as a fundamental split in worldview between the two leading labs even as they converge on tougher rules in the wake of high-profile autonomous hacking incidents.
"We believe that the world should accept some bad things happening for the benefits of this technology and people having the agency," said Altman, who characterized those harms as linked to "the lighter touch regulatory stance that we advocate for."
"I wouldn't take a trade of saying like, 'We'll make sure there's no major hacks, there's no kind of like
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Oct 05, 2026
The shrapnel hit Army Lt. Col. Arturo Lincón's body like shattered glass.
One chunk of metal lodged into the left side of his jaw. Another piece sliced through his salivary gland before bouncing off his jaw and piercing the back of his neck, severing an artery and embedding in a vertebra.
Lincón was among dozens of U.S. soldiers injured in an Iranian drone strike on March 1. The attack on the second day of the U.S. war with Iran killed six troops who were providing logistical support of critical supplies at Port Shuaiba in Kuwait.
Whether the military was properly prepared for treating its wounded has become a sharp point of contention. Soldiers and family members have told The Associated Press of a failure to recognize the seriousness of injuries, a poor plan to get the wounded to hospitals and red tape that has hindered follow-up care. The Pentagon has said that the medical care was appropriate.
Nine U.S. service members who were wounded spoke to the AP on the record — rare for troops still in the Army — about what they describe as a medical system that left them in many ways fighting to get treatment on their own.
The medical care was just one of the military's failures stemming from the Port Shuaiba attack that soldiers described to the AP. The Army declined to comment on the AP's reporting, saying it had not yet briefed
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Oct 05, 2026
Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor photographed leaving a police station in February [Reuters]
Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor is taking legal action against Thames Valley Police over his arrest in February.
The former Prince Andrew was arrested on suspicion of misconduct in public office, in the wake of information that emerged from the Epstein files in the United States.
Mountbatten-Windsor's lawyers are challenging the search warrants used in Sandringham and at Royal Lodge in Windsor relating to his arrest, as first reported by the Telegraph.
Thames Valley Police confirmed: "We are engaged in legal proceedings in relation to warrants previously obtained from the Central Criminal Court."
"As these legal proceedings are currently ongoing, it would be inappropriate for us to comment further," a spokesperson for the force that carried out the arrest said.
Mountbatten-Windsor, who lost his titles as a prince and Duke of York over his connections to the sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, wants a judicial review to consider the legality of the search warrants.
A court hearing will be held on Thursday afternoon to begin considering this bid to quash the warrants, with the hearing set to begin in private. The judge will initially hear a request by the police to keep some documents private.
The warrants had been issued by a judge at the Central Criminal Court on 18 February - the day before Mountbatten-Windsor had been arrested - and the legal challenge is against the chief constable of Thames Valley Police and the Centr
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Oct 05, 2026
WASHINGTON (AP) — On a sunny, cloudless morning on March 1, the day after President Donald Trump started the war against Iran, Chief Warrant Officer 3 Robert Marzan was coordinating critical Army supplies out of Port Shuaiba in Kuwait.
In an instant, a drone crashed through the ceiling and exploded, killing Marzan, who had served in the military for 36 years. The force flung soldiers into the air, fragments of sheet metal and glass shards impaling them. The tin roof was peeled back "like opening up a sardine can," one soldier recalled.
Six soldiers were killed and dozens were injured in the deadliest known strike on U.S. troops since Operation Epic Fury commenced on Feb. 28.
For many, the attack at Port Shuaiba has receded into memory as the war nears its eighth month. But to those there that day and their families, it showed the cost of a hastily drawn conflict. The planning had apparent flaws, and commanders did not take intelligence reports of the Iranian threat seriously enough, leaving wounded soldiers questioning Army leadership and the military medical system.
In the aftermath, many of the wounded — some with decades of service and combat experience — told The Associated Press that commanders had been warned that the facility, a rectangular building with wooden sides at a working seaport and industrial area south of Kuwait City, was particularly vulnerable to a drone strike.
That warning went unheeded, the soldiers say. Some also said higher-ranking officers pushed for an all-clear to be called, but it's not certain from their ac
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Oct 05, 2026
(Dani Serrano/Moment RF/Getty Images)
Experts say we need more options for treating ADHD, and a 2025 study suggests one option might already be stocked at the chemist.
Around a quarter of patients with ADHD (attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder) find that existing medications for the condition do not improve their symptoms.
And for others, the benefits of the stimulants commonly prescribed for ADHD are outweighed by the side effects: raised blood pressure, loss of appetite, headaches, trouble sleeping, and the risk of misuse.
In a search for alternative treatments, a team of researchers from institutions across Europe has found a common blood pressure medication could be a good candidate: amlodipine, often sold under the brand name Norvasc.
In an initial experiment, seven groups of spontaneously hypertensive rats (which are sometimes used as a model of ADHD) were each given a regimen of a different treatment and then faced with a regular test designed to assess their movement and level of spontaneity.
The only drug that had a significant effect on rat behavior was amlodipine, administered daily for 30 days.
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Oct 05, 2026
Democrats are heading into the last month of the midterm elections campaign with ambitions going deeper and deeper into red territory, while Republicans are grim about their hopes of holding on to either chamber of Congress.
Historically, the opposition party almost always makes gains in the midterms, and President Donald Trump is less popular than ever. His support has weakened especially with independents in high-quality polls and among swing demographics that propelled his 2024 majority.
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Republicans have also tended to underperform when Trump isn't on the ballot because more consistent voters have shifted toward the Democrats. More Democrats voted in this year's primaries - a sign that they are also more likely to turn out now, with early and mail voting already underway in 43 states leading up to Election Day on Nov. 3.
The Democrats' lead in national and battleground polls has expanded since Labor Day. There are reasons to suspect polls could be overestimating Democrats' strength, though surveys did not systematically favor Democrats in the last two midterms.
Republicans' main advantage is money. GOP campaigns and allies are outspending Democrats in almost all the most contested races, thanks in large part to more than $180 million that has been pumped in from Trump's war chest since Labor Day.
The outcome will define the remainder of Trump's presidency - the fate of his legislative ambitions and the pressure of oversight investigations. It will also immediately set the stage for the 2028 presidential primaries, with both parties' hopefuls reading the results for clues to the electorate's mood.
Here are four possibl
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Oct 05, 2026
By Alexander Cornwell and Maayan Lubell
JERUSALEM, Oct 5 (Reuters) - The flydubai co-pilot who stabbed his captain in a suspected attempt to crash the plane has told UAE interrogators he planned the attack before he was hired by the Dubai state-owned airline, according to two Israeli ?officials with knowledge of the probe.
A third source briefed on the UAE probe said the co-pilot, an Omani national, had planned to crash ?last Wednesday's flight into Ben-Gurion airport near Tel Aviv. He had also operated a flight to Tel Aviv earlier this year and intended to hijack and crash the plane then, but opted not ?to, the source added.
It was not immediately clear why the co-pilot changed his mind on that previous flight, although the co-pilot is thought to have known someone onboard, the source said.
All of the sources spoke on condition of anonymity to discuss the investigation. UAE and Israeli authorities did not immediately respond to a request for comment, nor did flydubai.
The co-pilot of flydubai flight FZ1073, which had been bound for Israel from Dubai, attacked the pilot with an emergency crash axe, the United Arab Emirates prosecutor general ?has said, calling the incident a "terrorist attack".
Two sources have ?said the co-pilot is an Omani national named Hamam al-Hammami. Israeli officials have not named the co-pilot but have said he is from Oman. UAE authorities and flydubai have not publicly disclosed the co-pilot's identity.
Reuters has not been able to independently reach ?al-Hammami, who is in UAE custody, for comment. The UAE has not announced any formal charges against him and it is not known if he has appointed legal counsel. Oman has not commented on the incident.
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The two Israeli officials said the co-pilot told interrogators that he had applied for a ?job ?at Dubai state-owned flydubai after searching for airli
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Oct 05, 2026
Christa Gail Pike, on death row for a slaying, appears in court on April 12, 2012, to fight a conviction in a 2001 attack on an inmate. - Dipti Vaidya/USA Today Network/Imagn Images/Reuters
Before the botched execution of Christa Pike, Frank Strada reportedly had a history of overseeing execution missteps in two states.
Tennessee Gov. Bill Lee on Saturday announced Correction Commissioner Strada would step down later this month following the backlash after the attempted execution left Pike on a ventilator, unconscious in a hospital. Less than three years earlier, Lee brought Strada on to lead the Department of Correction, tasking him with reforming Tennessee's execution system after enduring concerns over the state's approach to the death penalty.
But in Strada's previous role as an official in Arizona's prisons system, he oversaw three executions that administrators and observers raised concerns over, saying executioners flouted the state's official policies. Now under his current supervision, Pike is the second person this year who Tennessee officials have failed to execute after problems with the IV injections.
The Tennessee Department of Correction declined to comment when asked by CNN about Strada's involvement in these prior execution problems.
Pike's debilitating survival has brought to light Strada's history overseeing executions that didn't follow typical protocol, and larger questions about the death penalty by both
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Oct 05, 2026
ADEN, Yemen (AP) — Forces of Yemen's internationally recognized government began a major offensive Monday against the Iranian-backed Houthis rebels on the country's Red Sea coast, under an intensified air campaign by the Saudi-led coalition.
The offensive came just after the rebels said they had captured more territory in the southwestern part of Yemen, taking a key town in a blow to the Saudi-backed forces as they advanced toward a strategic provincial capital in the region.
The Saudi-led coalition spokesman, Maj. Gen. Turki al-Malki, said 100 fighter jets were providing support to the forces of Yemen's internationally recognized government fighting against the Houthis. He said the coalition has secured "air protection" of the strategic Bab el-Mandeb Strait and destroyed hundreds of Houthi targets as part of the ongoing campaign.
The campaign and its details could not be immediately independently verified.
The air campaign follows the fall of a key town in Yemen
The Houthi rebels seized the town of Turbah on Sunday, shortly before the internationally recognized government announced a major military operation against them.
The escalation between Saudi Arabia and the Houthis has revived Yemen's civil war after a four-year ceasefire.
Turbah sits on a main road linking the provincial capital of Taiz with the port city of Aden, which serves as an interim seat of Yemen's government. Over the years, the town was a major post for the government forces defending Taiz against the Houthis.
Earlier, the Houthis seized several villages and area
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Oct 05, 2026
STOCKHOLM (AP) — The Nobel Prize in medicine was awarded Monday to three scientists working on the mechanisms the brain uses to switch on, or off, the activity of individual nerve cells.
Karl Deisseroth, 54, Peter Hegemann, 71, and Georg Nagel, 73, have carried out research into light-gated ion channels and optogenetics.
The Nobel Assembly lauded their work, writing on X that the method "is now being used in laboratories around the world to reveal the brain's mysteries."
The assembly said Deisseroth is based at Stanford University in California, while Hegemann is at Humboldt University in Berlin and Nagel at the University of Würzburg, also in Germany.
Deisseroth, a self-described night owl, said he was up late in his Northern California home working on papers and emailing his students. He had just gone to lie down when he got the call from the Nobel assembly.
"No real sleep was achieved," he told The Associated Press in a phone call an hour after the announcement.
Thomas Perlmann, the secretary of the medicine committee, said he was able to reach all three winners Monday. The AP's efforts to reach Hegemann and Nagel were not immediately successful.
Optogenetics opened what the Nobel assembly called a new era in neuroscience, the discovery of a light-controlled switch to turn on and off nerve cells and circuits in the brain to better learn how it works — to start unraveling the pathways that lead to behavior and disease.
It started when Hegemann explored how a single-celled type of green algae can swim toward light. He and Nagel discovered a parti
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Oct 05, 2026
Two people killed after gunfire erupted at a neighborhood homecoming party in Georgia on Sunday have been identified.
The shooting, which left another 35 injured, began at about 1:25 a.m. Sunday at a neighborhood party that spanned four blocks in the city of Vienna.
Dooly County Sheriff Craig Peavy in a press conference described it as a "senseless act of violence" and said the investigation is ongoing. No arrests have been reported.
The two victims killed have been named as Ja'Quavion Aderious Jackson, 21, and Macaleb Malik Jackson, 23.
File image: Police tape is seen at the scene of a shooting.The 35 other victims ranged in age from 14 to 51, with their conditions ranging from stable to critical, Peavy said.
The Georgia Bureau of Investigation has appealed to anyone with information about the shooting to contact authorities or submit an anonymous tip as law enforcement continues to investigate.
Newsweek contacted the Georgia Bureau of Investigation for comment via email on Monday, outside of regular working hours.
Authorities estimated that around 1,000 people had been at the party at the time of the shooting.
"If you can imagine over 1,000 people, I would say, and they're going every direction. Even while we were on scene, there was still gunfire about a block away while all of us were on scene trying to get attention, medical attention to the ones that needed it," Peavy told WMAZ-TV.
It was not immediately clear how many of the injured had been shot, with victims taken to several local hospitals.
Dooly County Coroner Brett Walls, who responded to the incident, told the Atlanta Journal-Constit
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Oct 05, 2026
A Rockwell B1 Lancer heavy bomber takes off from RAF Fairford in Fairford, United Kingdom, on October 04. - David Bown/Getty Images
The United States has moved long-range bombers back to their American home stations after an unspecified new threat, according to a US official, days after the British government arrested a number of individuals in connection with an alleged Iranian plot to target the UK airbase where the planes had been stationed.
"We can acknowledge now that all U.S. bombers that were deployed to RAF Fairford have re-deployed to their home stations in the United States," the official told CNN. The statement did not include details on why the planes were moved.
The source familiar called the latest threat a "real world incident." It is unusual that the US military would move the bombers back to their home stations instead of deploying them to another base in the region, the official said.
The UK Ministry of Defense declined to comment.
The Royal Air Force base at Fairford has been used to deploy US B-1 bombers involved in the war against Iran and is an operating location for US Global Strike Command, which is tasked with managing long-distance strikes.
CNN national security analyst Alex Plitsas said it was likely several dozen bombers were stationed at Fairford, adding that it was unusual to move all the aircraft.
"It speaks to the credibility and the seriousness of the threat overall to the base that we're talking about," he told Ben Hunte on CNN Newsroom.
The relocation of the bombers comes amid the investigation into the alleged plot. British police on Septe
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Oct 05, 2026
Jane Doe's lawsuit has sparked uproar and criticism of Cornell University and the DA's handling of her allegations. (Heather Ainsworth for NBC News)A Cornell University student gave campus police leads in the alleged rape of Jane Doe in 2024 but expressed dismay over how the authorities handled the case.
The student, who spoke to NBC News on Sunday on condition of anonymity over concerns about repercussions, said she first heard about allegations that Doe was raped as a rumor on campus about 24 to 48 hours after the incident. Doe, who filed a lawsuit last month, claimed she was plied with alcohol and ketamine and gang-raped at the Chi Phi fraternity house the night of Oct. 19-20.
The student recalled rumors that Doe was planning to have a threesome but that it had "gone off the rails," and she remembers being "really horrified by it."
"From that night, I think, we just kind of started, like, hearing more," the student said.
Talk of the alleged sexual assault became widespread on campus after the school issued a crime safety alert about a report of a sexual assault at a fraternity.
"The thing I think we all feel, like, betrayed in regards to is that, like, it wasn't handled," she said. "When we got the police report, I think we all assumed it was being, you know, it would be, like, handled properly, yeah, and it was, like, in good hands."
The st
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Oct 04, 2026
WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. military said it attacked a boat suspected of being used to smuggle drugs in the Caribbean Sea on Sunday, killing four people, as the Trump administration continues its yearlong campaign against alleged traffickers in Latin America.
The latest attack brings the number of people who have been killed in boat strikes by the U.S. military to at least 235 in 70 strikes since the Trump administration began targeting those it calls "narcoterrorists" in September 2025. As with most of the military's statements on strikes in the eastern Pacific Ocean and Caribbean Sea, U.S. Southern Command said it targeted the alleged drug traffickers along known smuggling routes.
The military did not provide evidence that the vessel was ferrying drugs. A video posted on X showed what appeared to be an explosion destroying a moving boat, which the military said was a go-fast vessel.
The Trump administration is pursuing deals with allied nations to extend its offensive to land across multiple Latin American countries. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said during a visit to Panama in August that Colombia, Guatemala and Honduras had agreed to allow the U.S. to carry out joint military operations against criminal groups on their soil. Guatemala denied reaching such a deal. Ecuador launched similar missions with the U.S. in March.
President Donald Trump has said the U.S. is in "armed conflict" with cartels in Latin America and has justified the attacks as a necessary escalation to stem the flow of drugs into the United States and fatal
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Oct 04, 2026
Immigration, gun rights and climate change are on the Supreme Court docket (Stefani Reynolds)The US Supreme Court opens its new term on Monday with the Trump administration's immigration crackdown, gun rights and the fate of climate change lawsuits on the docket.
The session opens one month ahead of a crucial midterm vote that could see President Donald Trump's Republican Party lose its majority in the House of Representatives and possibly even the Senate.
Losing control of Congress would force the president to have to rely even more on the conservative-dominated top court to push through his policies.
Not that it has always been in lockstep with Trump.
Trump suffered stinging defeats this year over his tariffs and bid to restrict birthright citizenship, sparking tirades by the president against the court, particularly the three justices he appointed during his first White House term.
"I gave them the position of a lifetime, and they vote against me often," he told Time magazine in a recent interview.
At the same time, the 6-3 conservative majority has allowed Trump to vastly expand his executive powers and handed him a number of victories on what is known as the emergency docket, where cases are fast-tracked without oral arguments.
At the end of September, for example, in an immigration case in which the three liberal justices dissented, the court allowed the administration to continue for the time being to deport undocumented migrants to countries that are not their own.
The court will hear oral arguments in that case during the fall term and a ruling in the administration's favor could open the floodgates to more so-called "third country" deportations.
More than 25,000 people have been sent to third countries since Trump returned to of
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Oct 04, 2026
FBI Director Kash Patel is engaged to his country singer girlfriend, Alexis Wilkins, the pair announced in a post to X on Sunday evening.
Wilkins, 27, posted a black-and-white photo of herself standing with Patel, 46, flashing her hand in front of them to show off her ring with the caption, "Went and got the law involved." The two have been dating since before Patel took over as head of the FBI in 2025, when she attended his swearing in.
The country singer and political commentator released her debut album in 2023. Wilkins has been affiliated with conservative groups and writes on her website that she "honors country tradition while adding relevance and current commentary."
Patel, who reposted Wilkin's photo, has faced criticism for traveling on government aircraft on trips that have no known or apparent law enforcement purpose, including using an FBI jet to fly to State College, Pennsylvania, for a pro wrestling event where Wilkins performed the national anthem. Photos posted to social media by Wilkins afterward showed the couple smiling while she held an oversized golden championship belt.
Wilkins also made headlines as a performer at President Donald Trump's Great American State Fair on the National Mall as part of America 250, as other artists pulled out of the event after finding out it was not a non-partisan celebration.
This article originally appeared on Associated Press at https://www.yahoo.com/news/politics/articles/fbi-director-kash-patel-gets-005549284.html
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Oct 04, 2026
The FBI arrested a suspected Chinese agent at Los Angeles International Airport after she allegedly surveilled the Taiwanese president's U.S.-based son, law enforcement sources told CBS News.
Wanying "Heather" Zhang, an Irvine, California, realtor, was cuffed by federal law enforcement on Sunday before she boarded a flight to Shanghai, China, from LAX, on a charge of acting as an unregistered agent of a foreign government.
Zhang's husband Edric Ding, a realtor at the same firm, told CBS News when reached by phone Sunday: "I don't know anything yet," and declined to comment further.
It was not immediately clear if Zhang has an attorney.
A criminal complaint, filed in federal court by a member of the FBI's counterintelligence squad in L.A., accused Zhang and an accomplice of traveling to Seattle, Washington, in September 2025 and taking pictures at the suburban home of a top Taiwanese official's family.
Law enforcement sources told CBS News that the target was Ting-Yu Lai, the son of Taiwanese President Ching-Te Lai.
Ting-Yu, an engineer in his 30s, attended college in America and has a young U.S.-born son with his wife, Hsiao Chen, according to Taiwanese media reports. He now works for the Dutch multinational electronics firm Philips.
"If the PRC [People's Republic of China] wish to obtain leverage over the President of Taiwan during any potential conflict, the location and pictures of the close relatives of a high-ranking Taiwanese government official, including pictures of their homes and cars, could be useful to the PRC," wrote FBI Special Agent Kevin Holt in the Oct. 3, 2026, criminal complaint.
Taiwan has been the focus of high geopolitical tensions fo
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Oct 04, 2026
As Sen. Thom Tillis exits the Senate, he's blasting many of the advisers President Trump has surrounded himself with as "sycophants, and calling on his colleagues to stand up to executive power like the co-equal branch of government they are."
The 66-year-old senior senator from North Carolina unloads on what he calls the "WTF moments" of the second Trump Administration in a new book, "How to Lose Friends and Antagonize Presidents." Having served in the Senate during the Barack Obama, Joe Biden and both Trump presidencies, Tillis said he's increasingly worried about how the nation's system of checks and balances is being tested by the outsized influence of the executive branch.
"We will have a sort of dictator king if we're not careful," he said.
Make the Senate great again?Every recent White House has been eager to govern by executive order, something that's been especially true during the current Trump administration, Tillis said. Presidents, he said, fail to understand that Congress is a coequal branch that should be treated as a peer, and that Congress needs to act as such.
"I would say the same thing for Democratic-controlled Senate under Biden and Obama," he said. "We always make the mistake when our guy's in office of conveying power to the White House. And I've had a real problem with that because it almost always comes back to bite you."
He writes in his book of the risks of authoritarianism. Tillis said there's been "constant escalation" across four administrations of presidents ignoring Congress.
"I want checks and balances. I want all three branches to have their individual role and continue to check power as they have for 250 years," he said. "I think because we've been such a successful democracy for so long, it
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Oct 04, 2026
The State Department is monitoring reports of a suspected fatal pneumonic plague case in Russia and is urging Moscow to share accurate information quickly as details remain unconfirmed.
A State Department official told Fox News that the U.S. is aware of reports of a death in Irkutsk Oblast, a region in southeastern Siberia, and is watching the situation closely with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and other federal agencies. The official stressed that many details have not been confirmed and called on Russian authorities to reveal what they know.
Former CIA officer Dan Hoffman told Fox News Digital that the U.S. intelligence community is likely to be collecting all-source intelligence on the incident.
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FILE - A man has his nose swabbed. The State Department is monitoring reports of a suspected fatal pneumonic plague case in Russia."I would also expect our embassy in Moscow to be engaging with their diplomatic counterparts at an official level because we might have people in Russia who might be at risk," Hoffman warned.
"Washington will be speaking to all of our allies and partners in the region and sharing what we know."
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Oct 04, 2026
The State Department is monitoring reports of a suspected fatal pneumonic plague case in Russia and is urging Moscow to share accurate information quickly as details remain unconfirmed.
A State Department official told Fox News that the U.S. is aware of reports of a death in Irkutsk Oblast, a region in southeastern Siberia, and is watching the situation closely with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and other federal agencies. The official stressed that many details have not been confirmed and called on Russian authorities to reveal what they know.
Former CIA officer Dan Hoffman told Fox News Digital that the U.S. intelligence community is likely to be collecting all-source intelligence on the incident.
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A man has his nose swabbed. The State Department is monitoring reports of a suspected fatal pneumonic plague case in Russia."I would also expect our embassy in Moscow to be engaging with their diplomatic counterparts at an official level because we might have people in Russia who might be at risk," Hoffman warned.
"Washington will be speaking to all of our allies and partners in the region and sharing what we know."
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Oct 04, 2026
The U.S. Coast Guard on Sunday suspended the search for six people in a medical jet that went missing near Nantucket, Massachusetts, a day after debris from the plane was found.
Search and rescue crews operated for approximately 66 hours to locate four Canadians and two Bermudian nationals on the plane that was traveling to Boston from Bermuda early Saturday morning, according to the U.S. Coast Guard.
The Canadian-registered air ambulance jet had four crew members and two passengers aboard. Their next of kin have been notified, the Coast Guard said.
Earlier, the Coast Guard confirmed that a debris field belonging to the missing Gulfstream G-100 was found Saturday night. The search for the missing passengers continued overnight off the coast of Nantucket, according to the Coast Guard's Northeast District, and spanned 4,445 miles before it was suspended.
The Coast Guard outlined the extensive assets involved in the search, including an HC-144 Ocean Sentry airplane, an HC-130 Hercules airplane, an MH-60 Jayhawk helicopter, a 47-foot Motor Lifeboat and the FRC William Sparling, a Sentinel-class fast response cutter.
"Suspending a search is not an easy decision," Rear Adm. Matthew Lake, Commander of the Northeast District, said in a statement. "We express our deepest condolences to the families and loved ones affected by the tragedy and our gratitude for our partner agencies who helped support search efforts."
The plane took off from Bermuda's L.F. Wade International Airport at
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Oct 04, 2026
More than 35 million people are under heat alerts on Sunday afternoon as a dangerous multi-day October heat wave continues across nearly all of California.
Temperatures are expected to soar up to 20 degrees above normal for this time of year, into the 90s and 100s, from Northern California, including the San Francisco Bay Area, to the Mexico border.
Anadolu via Getty Images - PHOTO: People flock to Baker Beach near the Golden Gate Bridge as a heat advisory is issued in San Francisco, California, October 3, 2026. In some areas of California, especially urban areas, warm nights will provide little to no relief.
Los Angeles and San Diego remain under an extreme heat warning, with heat advisories posted on Sunday for San Francisco and Sacramento.
ABC News - PHOTO: The high-temperature forecast for California, October 4, 2026.Temperatures Sunday afternoon once again soared into the 90s across much of California, with some areas surpassing 100 degrees.
High temperatures on Sunday afternoon will be near 104 in downtown Los Angeles, 103 in Bakersfield, and will climb well into the 90s in San Diego and Sacramento.
ABC News - PHOTO: Afternoon temperatures, October 4, 2026, are expected to top 100 degrees in multiple Southern California citi
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Oct 04, 2026
WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. Air Force has brought home its bombers stationed at a U.S.-run military air base in England used to strike Iran following an investigation into a planned terror attack at the RAF Fairford base.
The bombers were redeployed to their home bases in the United States, according to a Pentagon official who was not authorized to discuss sensitive military movements and spoke Sunday on condition of anonymity.
Aviation watchers such as the Military Air Tracking Alliance have observed dozens of B-52 and B-1 bombers operating out of RAF Fairford since the opening days of the Iran war. Observers noticed a host of B-1 bombers fly out of the base on Sunday.
The move comes as President Donald Trump weighs options for his war on Iran — including new strikes — despite his initial promises to Americans that the campaign would last a matter of weeks.
"We have decisions that I'll make about Iran. Iran's been decimated. So the only question is — it'll either be the easy way, or the hard way," Trump told reporters on Saturday as he left the White House for a rally in Ohio.
A dual British-Iranian national was arrested in central London last week on suspicion of plotting a terror attack, following a security incident at RAF Fairford in late September. In total, six people have been taken into custody and then released on bail during the investigation.
British authorities have
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Oct 04, 2026
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said there remains a fundamental difference in worldview between his company and rival Anthropic on artificial intelligence regulation, arguing in an exclusive interview with Decoded by POLITICO that the technology's benefits justify accepting some risks — and that AI should remain broadly accessible to the public.
"I think there's a lot of daylight," Altman told Decoded co-author and POLITICO senior tech reporter Brendan Bordelon. Asked specifically where he diverges from Anthropic and its CEO Dario Amodei, Altman said, "we believe that the world should accept some bad things happening for the benefits of this technology and people having the agency."
Anthropic has long been viewed as the strongest proponent of AI regulations within the industry, a stance that until recently was at odds with the lighter-touch approach favored by OpenAI. But the policy differences between the two leading AI firms have narrowed in recent months, with OpenAI backing tougher rules as it grapples with high-profile hacking incidents and rogue behavior by its models.
Altman agreed with Amodei's call last month to slow the development of the most advanced AI models. His company has followed Anthropic in endorsing new state laws that impose stricter safety requirements than what the maker of ChatGPT had previously supported — a subtle shift from its prior state strategy. And OpenAI lobbyists recently endorsed a bipartisan House proposal that would require top AI companies to embed outside safety evaluators.
Despite the convergence, Altman t
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Oct 04, 2026
A 12-year-old girl was killed in Baltimore over the weekend during an apparent disagreement over a parking space, police in the US city said.
The girl was caught in the crossfire of bullets between two men who police said were allegedly fighting over a parking space in a park where children were playing American football.
In addition to the young girl, a woman was also found with gunshot wounds when police arrived on the scene. Two men also visited area hospitals for injuries believed to be related to the shooting, police said.
Police are now searching for at least two suspects, Baltimore Police Commissioner Richard Worley said at a news conference. No arrests have been made.
"What we know is there was some type of argument between two cowards," Worley said. "They both opened fire on each other. In the crossfire, a 12-year-old little girl, who was probably down there watching football, was shot and killed."
Worley said the girl, who police have not named, was not a target of the shooting.
The girl was pronounced dead in hospital. The other three individuals who were injured have non-life-threatening injuries, Worley said.
The incident happened after 18:00 EDT (23:00 BST) on Saturday.
Authorities are still investigating the shooting and have asked any witnesses to bring information to police.
It remains unclear how many shots were fired, Worley said.
"Two grown men got into an argument, and now a 12-year-old is gone," Baltimore Mayor Brandon Scott said at the news conference.
"We never should have to say something like that. What happened out here today is one of the most disgusting things I've ever seen in my life."
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Oct 04, 2026
Kevin Hassett (Jacquelyn Martin/AP)
National Economic Council Director Kevin Hassett insisted to CNN's "State of the Union" on Sunday that he doesn't believe in recent polls that show the public's negative feelings about the economy.
"Ahead of an election cycle, the fact that there's, you know, possibly partisan pollsters telling us that the people are really, really depressed, it's a classic Democrat move, and I just don't buy it," Hassett said.
"Because if it were true, if the polls were any value for thinking about what's going on with consumers, then we should look at the consumption data and say, Jeez, yeah, that's right. People aren't spending. But, in fact, the retailers are doing well."
Hassett added that he's often put in a double bind by the type of questions asked by opponents of the Trump administration.
"If I say, 'Oh, people are wrong, the economy's great,' then it looks like I'm insensitive. And if I then go into why the economy is great, then it looks like I'm insensitive," he said. "And so let's just unpack it and start with, well, people are saying that the economy's not great.
"It's true that the polls, which have gotten the president's success wrong every time, have been saying that people are looking a little bit depressed about the economy. But if you look at their actions, the actions speak way louder than words."
Hassett explained that "what we know from the economic literature is that, if people are worried about whether they're going to lose their job, if they're worried about whether they're going to get a pay cut, then they start reducing their consumption and increasing their savi
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Oct 04, 2026
Even with bond yields hovering at more than 20-year highs, the stock market has barely flinched.
The S&P 500 (^GSPC) rose Friday to sit less than 1% from its record high while the Nasdaq Composite (^IXIC) was near an all-time high as a weak jobs report lowered expectations for a Federal Reserve rate hike this year.
Up until now, elevated oil prices, AI-related risks, and deteriorating market breadth have suggested a pullback may be just around the corner.
"The market has had every reason to sell off, and it hasn't sold off yet, and to me it feels like it's running out of time," Sean McLaughlin, chief options strategist at All Star Charts, told Yahoo Finance. "The path of least resistance appears to be higher."
Seasonality also leans bullish as October, while traditionally volatile, has posted a 63% win rate over the past 20 years.
And looking at the four-year presidential cycle, the S&P 500 has posted an average return of 18.3% over the next seven months during the past 50 years, McLaughlin noted.
"We've got earnings season coming up, and if we get any glimmer of good news, I think the market is going to be cau
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Oct 04, 2026
Thomas Giuffra told CNN's "State of the Union" that people attempting to unmask his client's identity had also targeted at least three women mistakenly identified as her. The former Cornell student is identified as Jane Doe in court documents.
"She's received multiple threats, and women who aren't even Jane Doe receive threats," Giuffra said. He added that he had received a threat Sunday morning.
Giuffra did not identify those responsible or say whether the threats had been reported to law enforcement. He did not immediately respond to NBC News' request for more information about the threats.
Jane Doe filed a lawsuit last month against Cornell and seven Chi Phi fraternity members, alleging she was sexually assaulted over the course of hours on Oct. 19-20, 2024, while she was under the influence of ketamine, alcohol and marijuana.
The allegations have sparked renewed scrutiny of the university's and local authorities' handling of the allegations. Gov. Kathy Hochul last week appointed New York Attorney General Letitia James as a special prosecutor to consider whether criminal charges are appropriate.
NBC News reported Friday that Cornell police interviewed witnesses and received anonymous tips during their investigation in 2024, but Tompkins County District Attorney Matthew Van Houten did not review that additional
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Oct 04, 2026
Merz is in Kyiv to display support for Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky amid Russia's escalation of strikes on the city.
"Ukraine needs all our support in the coming weeks," Merz said.
Highlighting attacks on Ukraine's towns, residential buildings and energy, he said: "If Russia is not stopped, sooner or later its war machine will turn ?against us."
Video footage from Sunday morning's strike showed the moment the city's Northern Bridge was attacked, sparking a huge plume of fire and black smoke while cars were still traveling across. Two people were injured, the city's mayor, Vitaliy Klitschko said.
It is the second time the Northern Bridge has been hit in as many days. On Thursday and Friday, Kyiv's Southern Bridge, which serves ground transportation and the city's subway system, was hit five times in less than 24 hours.
Ukrainian officials have said that Russian strikes on the capital's infrastructure are attempting to cut the capital into two, as Kyiv is split along the Dnipro River, with businesses offices and government institutions on the right back, and the left bank mostly residential.
Kyiv plans to start building several alternative crossings over the Dnipro in case the attacks on the bridges continue, the minister of infrastructure said Sunday.
Russia's defense ministry said it struck the Northern Bridge on Sunday, saying that it was targeting a route used for transporting troops and military
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Oct 04, 2026
Two of the seven men accused of sexually assaulting a Cornell University student at a fraternity house in 2024 were expelled, while others were ordered to take sexual harassment training and write "reflection papers," according to university disciplinary records obtained by the New York Times.
The records offer the most detailed look yet at how Cornell handled the case, which has drawn national outrage and is now under criminal investigation by New York Attorney General Letitia James.
On Friday, New York Gov. Kathy Hochul said that a woman who alleges she was drugged and raped by multiple members of a Cornell University fraternity in 2024 was "failed" by those obligated to protect her.
Hochul's comments came a day after announcing she had lost faith in the district attorney overseeing the Cornell University rape case and signed an executive order appointing James as a special prosecutor to lead the investigation.
"In what world would the police learn from a victim that she'd been literally gang raped while intoxicated by five men in a fraternity house and not elevate those allegations to the district attorney?" Hochul said at a press conference with James in New York. "In what world does the district attorney not even interview her o
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Oct 04, 2026
The ongoing global energy crunch doesn't just cause pain at the gas pump: As winter approaches, millions of Americans are facing dramatic spikes in their home heating costs.
The price of heating oil, which some 4.8 million households, mostly in the Northeast and Alaska, use to heat their homes, is approaching all-time highs as two wars strain global supply.
Heating oil costs are expected to jump 50% this winter, according to one estimate from the National Energy Assistance Directors Association, adding nearly $900 to the average home's heating bill. The jump is catching consumers by surprise at a time of year when many households fill their tanks for winter, and it's stoking concern that the high prices will force low-income families to make tough choices between warming their homes and paying for necessities.
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"There's a lot of sticker shock," said Chris Herb, president of the Connecticut Energy Marketers Association, a trade group for local fuel providers and other energy companies in the state.
Heating oil is nearly identical to diesel, and diesel prices have continued to rise while
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Oct 04, 2026
Christa Pike remains unconscious and critically ill four days after surviving Tennessee's attempt to execute her, and doctors don't yet know whether she will recover, her lawyer said Sunday.
"We don't know the prognosis and may not know for several days," attorney Stephen Ferrell told CNN's "State of the Union." Ferrell said he has not been allowed to see her and doesn't know of her speaking or regaining consciousness.
"I think at the very least the governor should commute Ms. Pike's death sentence to a life sentence," he said. "We don't know what her physical state will be, but it is clear that she has endured a torturous attempt at executing her."
On Saturday, Gov. Bill Lee announced that Tennessee's top prison official is stepping down.
In a statement, Correction Commissioner Frank Strada said resigning was "in the best interest of Tennesseans" while an independent review examines what happened Wednesday, when Pike survived two doses of pentobarbital.
Strada said he still believes the state "carried out its responsibilities in accordance with the established protocol."
Strada will leave at the end of October, and an interim commissioner will be named later, Lee said.
Pike's lawyers said the resignation "is justified, but it does nothing to help Christa now." "What happened to her Wednesday reflects a systemic failure that goes far beyond any one person," they said in a statement, according to ABC News.
Pike, who was sentenced to death in 1996, was unconscious, intubated and breathing with help from a ventilator
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Oct 04, 2026
VIENNA, Ga. (AP) — Law enforcement officials are still working to determine just what happened when a chaotic homecoming party spanning a four-block radius of a southern Georgia town erupted in gunfire early Sunday, leaving two people dead and nearly three dozen others injured.
Dooly County Sheriff Craig Peavy identified the two people killed as 21-year-old Jaquevion Jackson of Cordele and 23-year-old Macaleb Jackson of Hawkinsville, Georgia.
Some of the three dozen injured had gunshot wounds, Georgia Bureau of Investigation Chris Hosey said Sunday evening, but he could not provide a number.
"We're still trying to work through that," Hosey said during a news conference Sunday evening.
No arrests had been reported hours later, and authorities gave no possible motive for the gunfire.
The injured ranged in age from 14 to 51, and they were taken to several regional hospitals, Peavy said. Some were in critical condition Sunday evening and others were stable, he said.
More than 1,000 people attended the party
More than 1,000 people had gathered at the site, and more than 50 shots were fired in at least two locations about a block apart in Vienna, Peavy told WMAZ-TV. Vienna is a small, rural community about 130 miles (about 210 kilometers) south of Atlanta.
Deputies were near the scene when the shooting began, Peavy said, and after they arrived more gunfire erupted about a block away.
"We don't know if it's coming at us or someone else," he said. "You just have to keep doing what you're doing and hope you don't get hit by gunfire."
The incident took place over hom
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Oct 04, 2026
President Trump on Sunday named Director of National Intelligence Jay Clayton as his new "AI czar," adding a different category of intelligence, the "artificial" kind, to the U.S. spy chief's portfolio.
In a post on Truth Social, Trump said Clayton will lead a newly formed "Super Intelligence Force" alongside Federal Trade Commission Chair Andrew Ferguson, Under Secretary of Defense for Research and Engineering Emil Michael and Office of Personnel Management Director Scott Kupor. The group will report directly to Trump and White House chief of staff Susie Wiles.
Its goal, Trump wrote, is "to ensure that America continues to lead the World in Super Intelligence, which many say is bigger than the Industrial Revolution, and the Internet, and will protect the interests, and improve the lives, of all Americans."
Clayton will keep his job as DNI, which oversees the nation's 18 intelligence agencies.
Trump's announcement follows meeting last Tuesday at the White House where top AI executives signed what he called a "morally binding" agreement to police themselves in order to prevent their increasingly powerful models from going rogue and
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Oct 04, 2026
Multiple law enforcement agencies responded to a mass shooting from early Sunday morning, leading to two deaths and possibly dozens injured.
Dooly County Coroner Brett Walls confirmed to WALB and WMAZ that two people were dead, a 20-year-old man and a 23-year-old man.
The Georgia Bureau of Investigation confirmed to that they were assisting with response to the incident on Pine Street, working with the Dooly County Sheriff's Office.
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Oct 04, 2026
Democratic House members are writing bills to rein in a president's emergency powers. Lawyers are strategizing about how to insulate the Justice Department from presidential influence. A House measure would block a president from unilaterally remodeling the White House. Ethicists are writing rules to prevent a future first family from self-dealing.
Throughout Washington and beyond, President Donald Trump's opponents are scrambling to ensure that after he leaves office, the changes he has imposed on the presidency, and the country, will fade with him.
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Whether they succeed could determine whether Trump's aggressive exercise of executive powers will be limited to a finite stretch of U.S. history or will instead become a model for every president to come.
Rep. Jamie Raskin (Maryland), the top Democrat on the House Judiciary Committee, said that Trump's uses of presidential power can and must be reversed - but doing so will take decades.
"We have a massive reconstruction task ahead of us," Raskin said in an interview. "Fortunately, reconstruction has a great history in our country, and when it's allowed to work, it has been a lot more successful than either authoritarianism or revolution. … We will have to go department by department, subject by subject, and public purpose by public purpose to determine what we salvage and what we re-create."
From the beginning of the republic, the three branches have jostled for control over spending, war-making, immigration and virtually every other government function. Trump is hardly the first president to try to sharply elbow the other branches out of the way.
In 1981, Ronald Rea
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Oct 04, 2026
(NEXSTAR) - More Canadians will not set their clocks back in November as they instead start to observe permanent daylight saving time, a move more than a dozen U.S. states stand ready to make but cannot.
Spurred by a survey of nearly 72,000, Manitoba officials announced in mid-September that daylight saving time is now permanent in the province.
"We heard from Manitobans loud and clear - no more changing the clocks in Manitoba," Premier Wab Kinew said in a press release. Of surveyed residents, 92% wanted to see an end to seasonal time change, with 58% indicating they prefer permanent daylight saving.
A report by the Manitoba Health, Seniors and Long-Term Care department determined that getting rid of the twice-a-year clock change "would be better for population health than maintaining the status quo," an argument some health officials in the U.S. agree with (though they support permanent standard time).
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Oct 04, 2026
President Donald Trump has appointed far more federal judges who are under 40 than his predecessors — ensuring that his imprint on the judiciary will last for decades.
Over the course of his two terms to date, Trump has appointed 31 people in their 30s to federal judgeships, and at least two more are pending in the Senate, according to a POLITICO analysis of government data. By contrast, President Joe Biden appointed 13 people in their 30s. President Barack Obama appointed just nine judges younger than 40 during his two terms.
A judge in his or her 30s can remain in place for as long as 60 years — there are multiple sitting judges in their 90s and one who is 102 — allowing the president who appointed them to leave a particularly long-lasting imprint on the courts.
"President Trump selects highly-qualified and credentialed judicial nominees who have passed the White House's rigorous vetting process. Wherever there are judicial vacancies, President Trump will select highly qualified nominees with great respect for our Constitution and rule of law to be confirmed expeditiously," White House spokesperson Lauren Bis said.
Trump's young nominees include Samuel Adkisson, an associate in the White House Counsel's Office who was 33 when Trump nominated him — making him one of the youngest people ever nominated to the federal bench. In his social media post announcing Adkisson's nomination, which is currently pending in the Senate, Trump praised his work on a case that resulted in the Supreme Court widening the president's power to cont
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Oct 04, 2026
NBC NewsLatino voters helped propel Donald Trump back to the White House. Now, they are turning on him, according to a new NBC News/Telemundo poll — a shift that gives Democrats a major opportunity to capitalize in a 2026 election that could hinge on states and districts with sizable Latino populations.
Like the broader electorate, Latino voters are racked by major concerns about high prices and Trump's approach to immigration enforcement. The president's approval rating sits at 27% among Latino voters. Two-thirds say his administration's deportation policies have gone too far and three-quarters disapprove of how he has handled the economy and the cost of living.
NBC NewsThere are clear signs his party is paying the price.
A greater share of Latino voters hold negative views of the Republican Party than at any time since 2016, and Democrats have leads on issues like dealing with the economy, immigration, the cost of living, corruption and healthcare. Two years ago, Latino voters gave Trump a 4-point edge over then-Vice President Kamala Harris on handling the economy. Today, they give Democrats a 21-point advantage on the same question.
Against that backdrop, Democrats have a 24-point lead on whom Latino voters want to see in control of Con
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Oct 04, 2026
REDDING, Calif. - Clint Curtis thinks something doesn't smell right in Shasta County. Literally.
As the registrar of voters for this Northern California community, Curtis was both election administrator and candidate this summer. After he lost, he certified the results as "full, true and correct."
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He nonetheless harbored doubts. Some ballots smelled too inky, he said. Some seemed too heavy. Some felt too rough.
He stashed the ballots in a storage room, slapped a padlock on the door, ordered subordinates to destroy the keys and reported his suspicions to President Donald Trump's administration.
In another place or era, Curtis's concerns would be dismissed as kooky. But in Shasta County in 2026, they have been taken seriously enough to spur FBI agents to show up with bolt cutters so they could take a look.
For years, Shasta County has been a center of election denialism. Citing debunked conspiracy theories about voting machines, its conservative county supervisors dumped their contract with Dominion Voting Systems and toyed with counting ballots by hand. Activists sued over election practices. And during this summer's election, voters approved a measure that would require photo ID to vote, restrict mail ballots and mandate hand counts - policies that courts have blocked.
Shasta County offers a glimpse of what happens when distrust in elections takes root in a community. Across the United States, both Democrats and Republicans have seen their confidence in elections wane, especially when their side loses. In Shasta County, the doubts run so deep that some residents don't trust the results even when the candidates they back
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Oct 04, 2026
Halloween candy including Sour Patch Kids, KitKat, Skittles and Reese's is displayed in Lafayette on Sept. 14. Chocolate candy prices have risen in recent years, putting pressure on Halloween shoppers. (Smith Collection/Gado/Gado via Getty Images)
That's because a collision of factors have driven up chocolate candy prices in recent years. Cost-conscious shoppers might be reaching for non-chocolate options: gummies, licorice, marshmallows, sour or freeze-dried hard candy, and the ever-controversial candy corn.
Chocolate's main ingredient is cocoa, which is primarily grown in West Africa. Extreme weather due to climate change, structural underinvestment from farmers and aging trees led to a poor growing season in 2023, said Ron Sweetser, the cocoa sourcing and flavor development manager for San Francisco's Dandelion Chocolate.
Three years ago, the cost of a metric ton of cocoa was about $3,434, according to the International Monetary Fund. Those prices reached a peak of just over $10,710 in January 2025 and have declined since then, landing at $5,619 as of July this year.
Like everything else, the cost of candy has also risen due to overall inflation, said Daniel Sumner, a professor of agricultural economics at UC Davis. Diesel, which powers tractors on farms and the trucks that bring products to factories and then to grocery stores, reached an
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Oct 04, 2026
The FlyDubai alleged attempted hijacking was likely a lone-wolf attack, an early investigation by Israel shows, according to people familiar with the matter.
The investigation is still in full swing and all avenues are still being explored, the people familiar told CBS News.
The flight Wednesday from Dubai to Tel Aviv was approaching Israel when the co-pilot allegedly stabbed the flight captain and attempted to crash the aircraft, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, passengers on board the plane and the flight captain have said.
The captain was able to fight off the co-pilot long enough to unlock the cockpit door. A group of Israeli passengers and FlyDubai staff then overpowered the co-pilot, and two off-duty pilots who were on the flight managed to gain control of the aircraft and make an emergency landing in Tabuk, Saudi Arabia.
The co-pilot is currently in the United Arab Emirates, where he is undergoing a second round of interrogation after first being questioned by Saudi authorities when the plane made its emergency landing. Israel has sent its own representatives to the UAE to participate in the investigation.
President Trump suggested Thursday that the co-pilot may be linked to Iran, "based on what I'm hearing."
"We're working on it right now," Mr. Trump said. "They're being very open with us. I woul
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Oct 04, 2026
Bobby Pulido pictured for the Guardian in September 2026.Photograph: Brenda Bazán/The Guardian
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It took all of two minutes for Bobby Pulido's electoral stealth weapon to come into play. The Tejano music star turned Democratic congressional candidate had barely begun canvassing in the high school football stadium in Edinburg, Texas, when a 15-year-old girl came rushing up to him.
"Señor Pulido! Señor Pulido!" she cried. A few months ago, she told him, he had made a surprise appearance at her quinceañera, the coming-of-age girls' 15th birthday party that is a rite of passage in these US borderlands.
He had serenaded her with Desvelado, his blockbuster love song, which though released three decades ago retains a treasured place in Tejano - that is Hispanic Texan - culture.
The brief encounter gave a glimpse into one of the key dynamics of Pulido's bid to flip Texas's 15th congressional district. He calls it the "quinceañera strategy".
The tactic was handed to him, inadvertently, by his rival, the two-term incumbent Republican congresswoman Monica De La Cruz. In March, she posted a video deriding her opponent as a lowly quinceañera singer.
The election, she said, "isn't about who you want performing at your niece's quinceañera. It's about who you trust with your family's future."
Pulido pounced. He counter-posted his own video in which he accused De La Cruz of belittling a cherished local tradition and encouraged families in the district planning a quinceañera to invite him. "I'd be honored to
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Oct 04, 2026
Patrick Roden-Reynolds, a public health biologist, uses tweezers to remove ticks from a deer carcass in West Tisbury, a town on Martha's Vineyard, Mass. (Molly Peters / For The Times)Like a matador swirling his cape, Patrick Roden-Reynolds pulled a swatch of white flannel this way and that on the grass and leaf litter in my yard. After a minute or so, he plucked 11 tiny ticks from the cloth with tweezers, and stuck them on a lint roller.
"It's like a plague," he said, peering at his haul. "Ticks are everywhere now."
I had asked Roden-Reynolds, a public health biologist, to inspect my yard because a lone star tick bit me as I was chopping wood last fall. It wasn't painful, but after several weeks I developed alpha-gal syndrome, an increasingly common allergy to red meat, dairy and other mammalian food products.
Roden-Reynolds, 33, drags white cloth flags across a grassy area to collect ticks on Martha's Vineyard.Like many on Martha's Vineyard, a resort island off Cape Cod that's teeming with ticks this year, I bid a sad farewell to hamburgers, bacon and lamb chops. No ice cream. No pizza. My medicine cabinet became a minefield of animal-derived byproducts, including gelatin capsules and pain meds with lactose.
If I err, and I do, my legs some
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Oct 04, 2026
Ships anchored off the coast of Musandam governorate in Oman near the Strait of Hormuz on Friday (-)Iran's top diplomat insisted on Sunday that there would be no military solution to the United States' war against the Islamic republic, with talks on ending the conflict apparently at an impasse.
A campaign of heavy bombardment failed to bring a decisive close to the war launched by the US and Israel in late February, and Washington in recent weeks has dialled back military operations in favour of economic pressure.
The main point of contention remains Iran's attempt to blockade the Strait of Hormuz, a vital conduit for Gulf oil and gas where a UK maritime agency reported on Sunday another tanker struck by an unknown projectile.
"If our enemies again choose the path of military confrontation, our response will be stronger than before, and we will defend ourselves with even more force," Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi said at a gathering of foreign ambassadors.
"There is no military solution, nor any solution based on new sanctions," he continued, adding "only negotiations based on justice and fairness" could end the conflict.
The two sides agreed a memorandum of understanding in June that spelled out a framework for a permanent resolution, but Iranian attacks on vessels in the Hormuz prompted a return to US military operations.
Iran has sought to impose its control over the vital shipping lane since the start of the war, striking vessels that attempt to transit without its authorisation.
The US has imposed its own counterblockade of Iranian ports, and has also struck vessels it accuses of violating it.
On Sunday, the British maritime security agency UKMTO said a tanker in the Hormuz "reported being struck by an unknown projectile, causin
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Oct 04, 2026
A potentially record-breaking El Niño could leave Thanksgiving and Christmas travelers in southern states battling storms and heavier rainfall but reduce the chance of snow and ice-related travel disruption for those in northern states, forecasters have told Newsweek.
The developing super El Niño, which has already broken a 170-year record, is expected to continue strengthening over the fall meaning its impact on the weather patterns in the United States will likely be affected over Christmas and Thanksgiving.
All forecasters Newsweek spoke to stressed that it is too early to know for sure what the climate phenomenon will do during the festive season, but, "based on past events there is a tendency for cooler, wetter and stormier conditions to affect the southern United States over the winter, but with warmer and drier conditions in the northeast," Professor Richard Allan, a climate scientist at the University of Reading in the U.K., said.
This could mean states that typically experience what the NOAA describes as "exceptionally stormy winters and increased precipitation" during El Niño months, such as Texas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama and southern California, could be in for flooded roads, reduced visibility on the roads and weather-related flight delays.
Conversely, northeastern states, such as New York, Massachusetts, Pennsylvania and New Jersey, often see drier and warmer conditions during El Niño winters, meaning they coul
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Oct 04, 2026
WASHINGTON - A new Supreme Court term will get off to a fast start when the justices on Oct. 5 take up a landmark case about climate change that could have broad implications for local governments to tackle national issues.
In other politically charged cases that will be debated over the next few months, the court - which has a 6-3 conservative majority - is expected to continue expanding rights for both gun owners and religious groups.
The Trump agenda may also dominate the Supreme Court again this year. The justices will continue weighing in on Trump administration policies - including on President Donald Trump's hardline approach to immigration - in cases that will
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