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Hamas releases more bodies of hostages - as Trump threatens 'violent' disarmament | World News
- Donald Trump has suggested Hamas "misrepresented" the number of hostages it could free during ceasefire negotiations - and also threatened the group with consequences should it not disarm. Israel has received the bodies of four hostages taken by Hamas during the October 7 attacks, as pressure grows on the group to locate the remaining victims as part of the Gaza ceasefire deal. After all 20 remaining living ...

Source: news.sky.com
US   POLITICS  
Government Shutdown Day 14: Senate Fails To Pass Funding Bill Again
- Breaking Government Shutdown Day 14: Senate Rejects Republican-Backed Funding Bill For Eighth Time Sara Dorn is a Forbes news reporter who covers politics. Sens. Catherine Cortez Masto, D-Nev., and Sen. Angus King, I-Maine, voted alongside Republicans, while Sen. John Fetterman, D-Pa., who had supported the measure in the past, was not present and Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., was the GOP's lone "no" vote. a post on X The ...

Source: forbes.com
POLITICS  
Some airports refusing to air Kristi Noem's government shutdown video
- Airports across the country will not play a video that features Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem blaming the government shutdown on Democrats, with one New York county official calling the video "inappropriate." At least seven airports so far have refused the Transportation Security Administration's (TSA) request to play a Department of Homeland Security (DHS) video of Noem warning about potential changes to ...

Source: thehill.com
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Maine Gov. Janet Mills launches Senate run against one of Democrats' top 2026 targets
- Maine Gov. Janet Mills announced Tuesday that she is running for the Senate, pitching herself as the Democratic Party's best chance to beat Republican Sen. Susan Collins next fall — and saying she does not plan to serve more than one term. "I've won two statewide offices, and unlike other people in the primary right now, I've actually won public office, won elections," Mills said in an interview ahead of her ...

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POLITICS  
Trump touts another US strike near Venezuela that killed six alleged drug smugglers
- You can now listen to Fox News articles! President Donald Trump announced Tuesday that the U.S. military carried out another strike on a suspected drug vessel off the coast of Venezuela, killing six suspected smugglers. "Under my Standing Authorities as Commander-in-Chief, this morning, the Secretary of War, ordered a lethal kinetic strike on a vessel affiliated with a Designated Terrorist Organization (DTO) ...

Source: foxnews.com
US   POLITICS  
North Carolina Republicans will redraw maps to gain extra seat in Congress
- State is the latest in the US conducting mid-decade gerrymandering to favor one party before the midterms Republican leaders in North Carolina said they will redraw their state's congressional maps to add another Republican seat, becoming the latest in a growing list of states conducting mid-decade gerrymandering to favor one party before the 2026 midterms. Legislative leaders in the southern state said they would ...

Source: theguardian.com
TECHNOLOGY  
NetApp strengthens its enterprise data platform with new AI-focused innovations
- Help Net Security newsletters : Daily and weekly news, cybersecurity jobs, open source projects, breaking news – subscribe here! NetApp unveiled new products, strengthening its enterprise-grade data platform for AI innovation. The new NetApp AFX decouples performance and capacity with a disaggregated NetApp ONTAP that runs on the new NetApp AFX 1K storage system. NetApp AI Data Engine is a secure, unified ...

Source: helpnetsecurity.com
BUSINESS   SCIENCE  
SpaceX finally got exactly what it needed from Starship V2
- This was the last flight of SpaceX's second-gen Starship design. Version 3 arrives next year. SpaceX closed a troubled but instructive chapter in its Starship rocket program Monday with a near-perfect test flight that carried the stainless steel spacecraft halfway around the world from South Texas to the Indian Ocean. The rocket's 33 methane-fueled Raptor engines roared to life at 6:23 pm CDT (7:23 pm EDT; 23:23 ...

Source: arstechnica.com
US  
Closing Windows: Microsoft users eulogize iconic Windows 10 operating system — now shut down after a decade
- They've closed down these "windows" for the last time. As of October 14, 2025, Microsoft's Windows 10 has reached the end of its usable life, prompting an outpouring of tributes from tech-heads devastated over the operating system's retirement. This marks the end of an era for the operating system, which has been powering millions of desktops since its release to th e public on July 29, 2015. "Windows 10 has ...

Source: nypost.com
WORLD   POLITICS  
Elite military unit says it has seized power in Madagascar
- Announcement comes after country's parliament impeaches president after weeks of anti-government protests An elite military unit said it had taken power in Madagascar on Tuesday, after the country's parliament impeached president Andry Rajoelina after weeks of anti-government protests. Rajoelina, who said on Monday in a Facebook Live video that he had gone into hiding after attempts to kill him, had refused demands ...

Source: theguardian.com
US  
Supreme Court refuses to hear Alex Jones appeal of Sandy Hook judgment
- Oct. 14 (UPI) -- The U.S. Supreme Court Tuesday refused to hear the appeal of right-wing conspiracy theorist Alex Jones, who wanted his judgment of $1.44 billion overturned in his libel case brought by the families of victims of the Sandy Hook, Conn., elementary school shooting. Jones, who owns InfoWars, had repeatedly claimed that the Sandy Hook shooting wasn't real and the events were staged by crisis actors. In ...

Source: upi.com
SCIENCE  
Coral reefs have become Earth's first ecosystems to pass the "planetary tipping point"
- Follow Earth on Google Earth is moving past key climate thresholds faster than expected. Scientists warn these tipping points mark moments when natural systems shift abruptly, triggering irreversible global effects. A new report from the University of Exeter and global partners warns that one of these points has already tipped. Warm-water coral reefs – vital to ocean life and coastal communities – are ...

Source: earth.com
Facebook takes down page that Justice Department says was used to harass ICE agents
- WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The U.S. Justice Department said on Tuesday that Meta had complied with its request to take down a page on its Facebook platform that the agency said was being used to harass ICE agents in Chicago. In a post on X, Attorney General Pam Bondi said the page was part of an effort to "dox and target" the approximately 200 Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers who have descended on the city ...

Source: news.yahoo.com
US   POLITICS  
CDC set to lose quarter of staff with latest layoffs, union says
- WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Layoff notices sent over the weekend to U.S. CDC staff would see the agency lose almost a quarter of its workforce since President Donald Trump took office this year, the union representing them said on Tuesday. The CDC notified some 1,300 employees they would be laid off on Friday night only to rescind around 700 on Saturday. The Department of Health and Human Services blamed a "coding error" ...

Source: news.yahoo.com
D'Angelo, Grammy-winning neo-soul pioneer, dies aged 51
- Singer known for tracks such as Brown Sugar and Untitled (How Does It Feel) died at home from pancreatic cancer D'Angelo , the Grammy-winning R&B singer who helped pioneer the sound of neo-soul, has died. He was 51. The singer, born Michael Eugene Archer, died on Tuesday morning at his home in New York after privately suffering from pancreatic cancer, his family confirmed to Variety . "The shining star of our ...

Source: theguardian.com
DIGITAL   BUSINESS  
Apple TV+ quietly announces a rebrand - here's what to call it now
- Apple TV+ drops the plus sign, so you can now watch - wait for it! - Apple TV on Apple TV on your Apple TV. Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. ZDNET's key takeaways Apple TV+ is rebranding by losing its plus sign. There's no longer a plus appended to Apple's streaming service. Buried at the bottom of a press release about F1 The Movie making its streaming debut later this year, Apple quietly ...

Source: zdnet.com
US   POLITICS  
Trump honors Charlie Kirk with Presidential Medal of Freedom on what would be his 32nd birthday
- WASHINGTON (AP) — President  Donald Trump  on Tuesday is posthumously awarding America's highest civilian honor to  Charlie Kirk , the assassinated activist who inspired a generation of young conservatives and helped push the nation's politics further to the right. The ceremony coincides with what would have been Kirk's 32nd birthday. It comes just over a month after the Turning Point USA ...

Source: wfla.com
US  
Instagram introduces new restrictions for teen accounts, guided by PG-13 movie ratings
- Instagram-parent Meta announced Tuesday that teen users will now see content on Instagram that's similar to what they might see while watching a film with a PG-13 rating. That's because new content settings for Instagram users under 18 will adhere to the same regulations. The new automatic protections are being rolled by the company starting Tuesday and will be fully implemented by the end of the year, according to ...

Source: cbsnews.com
US  
California Governor Signs New Artificial Intelligence Laws
- Gov. Gavin Newsom on Monday announced a handful of new laws regulating artificial intelligence and social media even as he vetoed what he said were overly broad measures to regulate the technology. (TNS) — Gov. Gavin Newsom on Monday announced a handful of new laws regulating artificial intelligence and social media even as he vetoed what he said were overly broad measures to regulate the technology. The ...

Source: govtech.com
US  
More than 150 unvaccinated students quarantined in South Carolina measles outbreak
- More than 150 unvaccinated students in South Carolina are under mandatory 21-day quarantine due to a measles outbreak affecting two schools in Spartanburg County. State health officials confirmed measles cases at both schools — Global Academy of South Carolina and Fairforest Elementary School — as part of an outbreak that has contributed to South Carolina's total of 11 confirmed measles cases this year. ...

Source: aol.com
US   MARKETS   POLITICS  
US Fed chair flags concern about sharp slowdown in job creation
- US Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell warned Tuesday that risks to employment had risen in recent months, noting there had been a sharp slowdown of job creation in the world's leading economy. "While the unemployment rate remained low through August, payroll gains have slowed sharply, likely in part due to a decline in labor force growth due to lower immigration and labor force participation," he told a conference ...

Source: digitaljournal.com
US   POLITICS  
Judge accuses Homeland Security of bullying states into accepting conditions to get FEMA money
- By MICHAEL CASEY, Associated Press A federal judge in Rhode Island on Tuesday accused the Trump administration of trying to "bully" states into accepting conditions that require them to cooperate on immigration enforcement actions to get disaster funding after he ruled earlier that those actions were unconstitutional. U.S. District Judge William Smith, who was appointed by former Republican President George W. ...

Source: orlandosentinel.com
SCIENCE  
Global antibiotic resistance reaches alarming levels in 2023
- One in six laboratory-confirmed bacterial infections causing common infections in people worldwide in 2023 were resistant to antibiotic treatments, according to a new World Health Organization (WHO) report launched today. Between 2018 and 2023, antibiotic resistance rose in over 40% of the pathogen-antibiotic combinations monitored, with an average annual increase of 5–15%.  Data reported to the WHO ...

Source: news-medical.net
BUSINESS   TECHNOLOGY  
Google Invests Big in India's Visakhapatnam AI Data Center
- Tuesday, October 14, 2025 Google Invests Big in India's Visakhapatnam AI Data Center Google has lately announced plans for investing $15 billion in India. The investment is to be spread in the period of next five years. It is to help in building a state-of-the-art Artificial Intelligence (AI) hub in Visakhapatnam, Andhra Pradesh. It is to be the largest investment of Google in India and to highlight growing role of ...

Source: techiexpert.com
DIGITAL   TECHNOLOGY  
Microsoft AI Unveils Its Own Image Generator, Says It's Faster Than Rivals
- AI image and video generators are the kind of AI products that go viral frequently, effectively becoming marketing tools for their creators. OpenAI's 4o Image Generation model and the Sora 2 video model are such examples. ChatGPT went viral earlier this year for its image generation abilities, helping a new AI image generation model developed in-house (MAI-Image-1), and tease its exciting performance and speed, is ...

Source: bgr.com
WORLD  
Trump threatens China with cooking oil embargo over soybean snub
- President Donald Trump said his administration is considering "terminating business with China having to do with Cooking Oil" in retaliation for Beijing refusing to buy U.S. soybeans. The president's latest criticism follows a recent spate of critical remarks he has made about China, raising questions about the status of ongoing trade talks and sending stocks careening up and down. China has been the top buyer of ...

Source: cnbc.com
US  
Data Center Could Be Largest Lake County, Ill., Development
- Amid an ongoing conversation about such projects in the Great Lakes region, Grayslake officials are moving forward with a data center campus that, if fully built, would be more than 10 million square feet. (TNS) — Grayslake is moving forward with potentially one of the largest single development projects in Lake County's history, with a multi-billion-dollar data center campus that, if fully built out, would ...

Source: govtech.com
US   POLITICS  
Supreme Court Weighs Ending Race-Based Districts Before Election
- The US Supreme Court is poised to consider further cutting a landmark 1965 civil rights law with a case that could boost Republican election hopes and call into question as many as 19 congressional districts with primarily Black or Hispanic populations. In an unusual re-argument of a Louisiana redistricting clash Wednesday, the conservative-dominated court will weigh GOP calls to undercut the most significant ...

Source: news.bloomberglaw.com
DIGITAL   TECHNOLOGY  
Try Google's Nano Banana image generator in Search and NotebookLM - here's how
- Google's AI image editor is coming to a new lineup of applications. Follow ZDNET:  Add us as a preferred source  on Google. ZDNET's key takeaways  The tool offers new styles for illustrations and Briefs.  Nano Banana, Google's image-generating AI model also known as Gemini 2.5 Flash Image, is coming to Google Search and NotebookLM , and will be available in Photos soon, Google announced Monday . ...

Source: zdnet.com
MARKETS  
US Consumers Paying the Most for Tariffs: Wall Street Giant's Report Exposes Trump Lies
- New research from investment bank Goldman Sachs affirms, as progressive advocates and economists warned , that US consumers are bearing the brunt of President Donald Trump's trade wars. As reported by Bloomberg on Monday, economists at Goldman released an analysis this week estimating that US consumers are shouldering up to 55% of the costs stemming from Trump's tariffs, even though the president has repeatedly ...

Source: commondreams.org
POLITICS  
French prime minister proposes suspending controversial retirement age law until 2027 election
- PARIS (AP) — French Prime minister Sebastien Lecornu will propose the suspension of a contested plan raising the retirement age from 62 to 64, in a move to avoid his fragile minority government being immediately toppled. Lecornu said Tuesday in a speech at the National Assembly that the law, a flagship policy of French president Emmanuel Macron, would be put on pause until after the next presidential ...

Source: aol.com
You Only Need $750 of Equipment to Pilfer Data From Satellites, Researchers Say
- reading time 3 minutes Data transmitted via satellite may not be as secure as previously thought. A new study published on Monday found that communications from cellphone carriers, retailers, banks, and even militaries are being broadcast unencrypted through geostationary satellites. Researchers from the University of California, San Diego (UCSD) and the University of Maryland scanned 39 of these satellites from a ...

Source: gizmodo.com
US  
ChatGPT will soon allow erotica for verified adults, says OpenAI boss
- OpenAI plans to allow a wider range of content, including erotica, on its popular chatbot ChatGPT as part of its push to "treat adult users like adults", says its boss Sam Altman. In a post on X on Tuesday, Mr Altman said upcoming versions of the popular chatbot would enable it to behave in a more human-like way - "but only if you want it, not because we are usage maxxing". The move, reminiscent of Elon Musk's xAI ...

Source: aol.com
BUSINESS  
Broadcom's valuation surges by US$150 billion after chip deal with OpenAI
- OpenAI agrees to buy custom chips and networking components from Broadcom to help power its AI services Reading Time: 4 minutes Broadcom became the latest chipmaker to forge a blockbuster data centre deal with OpenAI, triggering a rally that added more than US$150 billion to its market value. In a pact announced on Monday, OpenAI agreed to buy custom chips and networking components from Broadcom to help power its ...

Source: scmp.com
Taylor Swift announces behind-the-scenes Eras tour docuseries, plus new concert film
- The End of an Era will air across six episodes on Disney+, with Swift promising 'all the stories woven throughout' record-breaking tour Taylor Swift has announced a docuseries that will follow the creation of her history-making Eras tour. Disney+ will air the six-episode series The End of an Era from 12 December onwards, with the first two episodes launching on that date. Two episodes will air each week in the ...

Source: theguardian.com
POLITICS  
Some Indigenous Peoples Day events strike conciliatory tone amid Trump's focus on Columbus
- From Seattle to Baltimore, many Americans were celebrating Monday as Indigenous Peoples Day, determined to see it as a triumph of perseverance over centuries marked by trauma. Tribal nations and communities gathered at powwows, markets and musical performances among other joyful events to honor their culture and their history. Some states and cities have for decades now made the second Monday in October about ...

Source: cleveland.com
LendingTree founder and CEO Doug Lebda dies in ATV accident
- Doug Lebda, the founder and CEO of LendingTree, died Sunday in an ATV accident, the online loan marketplace company announced. He was 55. "The LendingTree family is absolutely heartbroken," LendingTree said in a statement to CBS News. Lebda founded LendingTree in 1996 in a move to simplify the process of shopping and applying for loans. Part of his vision was to create a platform that allowed customers to avoid ...

Source: cbsnews.com
POLITICS  
Tears and cheers in West Bank and Gaza as nearly 2,000 Palestinians are released from Israeli prisons
- Israel freed almost 2,000 Palestinians from its jails on Monday as part of a Gaza ceasefire deal , prompting emotional scenes of families reunited with loved ones, some of whom had spent decades behind bars. More than 1,700 of those released were detainees who had been held without charge by Israeli forces in Gaza since the start of the war, which began with the Hamas-led attacks on Israel on October 7, 2023. ...

Source: aol.com
Nobel economics prize goes to 3 researchers for explaining innovation-driven economic growth
- Joel Mokyr, Philippe Aghion and Peter Howitt won the Nobel memorial prize in economics Monday for their research into the impact of innovation on economic growth and how new technologies replace older ones, a key economic concept known as "creative destruction." The winners represent contrasting but complementary approaches to economics. Mokyr is an economic historian who delved into long-term trends using ...

Source: phys.org
US  
Amazon Seeks 250K Holiday Workers Amid Muted Hiring Season | PYMNTS.com
- Amazon plans to keep its hiring levels flat for the 2025 holiday season. The eCommerce giant is expecting to hire 250,000 for its busiest season, according to a Monday (Oct. 13) press release . That's the same hiring level as in 2023 and 2024. "We find that our seasonal roles are really popular—often filling up within minutes of being posted—because they meet different needs for so many different ...

Source: pymnts.com