Wednesday, October 7, 2026

The Los Angeles Dodgers beat the Atlanta Braves 4-1 on Wednesday night to win their NL Division Series three games to one. Andy Pages broke a 1-1 tie with a two-run single in the seventh inning, and the bullpen threw 5…

The Cleveland Guardians beat the Chicago White Sox 9-3 on Wednesday to stay alive in their American League Division Series. Jo Adell and José Ramírez hit two-out triples, and Cleveland pitchers struck out 19 batters…

Russian attacks across Ukraine killed 28 people Wednesday, Interior Minister Ivan Vyhivsky said, as the toll at a Pryluky apartment block rose to 20, including five children. Two more people died in evening shelling of…

U.S. stocks closed lower Wednesday, a day after a record, as the 10-year Treasury yield touched its highest level since 2002. The Dow fell 341 points, or 0.7%, while the S&P 500 and the Nasdaq each slipped 0.2%. Fed…

Attacks on two Saudi airports that the Houthis claimed killed three foreign residents and hurt 36 people on Tuesday and Wednesday, Saudi officials said. In Yemen, government troops pushed into hills near the Red Sea…

Bulgaria's security council on Wednesday condemned the drone attacks that sank one cargo ship and set another on fire. It called for an inquiry to find who did it and said Bulgaria should push for a halt to fighting in…

Israelis held ceremonies and protests at hundreds of sites Wednesday, three years after Hamas killed more than 1,200 people and took 251 hostages. That night, tens of thousands went to a big memorial in Tel Aviv run by…

The National Hurricane Center issued a hurricane watch Wednesday from Bay St. Louis, Mississippi, to Indian Pass, Florida, as Tropical Storm Isaias grew to 45 mph in the Gulf. A storm surge watch runs from the mouth of…

Oman's air force flew injured sailors off the tanker On Peace after it was hit in the Strait of Hormuz on Tuesday. A U.K. maritime agency has logged nine attacks in the waterway this month. Qatar says messages between…

British police are holding a 22-year-old man arrested Tuesday in London on suspicion of preparing terrorist acts, the seventh arrest tied to a suspected plot near RAF Fairford. Six other men are out on bail and no one…

A Southern California couple with 21 children, most born through surrogacy, were arrested and charged with conspiracy to commit child abuse. Prosecutors say nannies beat young children at the couple's Arcadia mansion…

Former senior CIA official David Rush pleaded guilty Tuesday to wire fraud. He admitted inventing fake secret programs to steer government money into Florida mansions and nearly 300 gold bars. He agreed to forfeit at…

Supreme Court justices on Wednesday doubted the Air Force's claim that no one can sue yet over its Guam bomb site. Several said a law that requires an environmental review still applies unless Congress says it does…

The Army plans to put Nidal Hasan to death by firing squad on Dec. 3 at Fort Hood, the Texas base where he killed 13 people in 2009. The Army's acting leader, Adam Telle, set the date after President Donald Trump…

The Senate Leadership Fund plans to spend $14 million defending Sen. Roger Marshall in deep-red Kansas. The GOP super PAC also scaled back North Carolina ads as that race slipped. Democrats have not won a Kansas Senate…

A Miami federal judge dismissed a noncitizen-voting charge, saying states alone set who may cast ballots. The ruling covers one Broward County case and does not change Florida's own ban. The Justice Department has…

Republican Sen. Susan Collins and Democrat Troy Jackson sparred over President Trump, abortion and prices in their first debate Tuesday night. Collins said she is "not exactly" Trump's favorite senator, while Jackson…

A new Reuters/Ipsos poll finds 32% of Americans approve of the job President Trump is doing, tied for the poll's record low. Sixty-five percent disapprove. And 86% say it is wrong to use tax money for election-season…

Maryland Gov. Wes Moore and Republican Dan Cox clashed Tuesday over taxes, data centers and the Key Bridge in their only scheduled debate. Cox promised no tax or fee hikes, while Moore tied Cox to President Trump. A…

Iowa Republican Ashley Hinson and Democrat Josh Turek debate at 7 p.m. Wednesday on Iowa PBS for an open Senate seat. Michigan's Abdul El-Sayed and Mike Rogers follow Thursday at 7 p.m. on WOOD TV8. Both races could…

The White House said Tuesday that President Trump will not pay taxpayers back for TV ads that praise his record. A day earlier, he said his super PAC would pay for future ads. About $11.6 million in public money has…

A federal judge holds a hearing Thursday on whether to extend an order protecting White House access for CNN, MS NOW and Politico. The short-term order expires soon, and the White House has kept CNN and Politico off…

President Trump visited Tradepoint Atlantic in Baltimore County on Tuesday to promote Anduril's plan for a $3.7 billion shipyard making parts for Navy submarines. The company says it will create 3,100 permanent jobs…

Arizona opens early voting and mails ballots Wednesday, a day after in-person early voting began in Ohio and New Mexico. One Ohio county saw 30% more first-day voters than four years ago. Election Day is Nov. 3, with…

President Trump has set up a "Super Intelligence Force" to steer the government's work on artificial intelligence. Intelligence chief Jay Clayton will lead it. A charter seen by Politico gives the group wide power to…

Most Federal Reserve officials expect to raise interest rates again before the end of the year, minutes of their September meeting showed Wednesday. But the minutes gave no sign of when. The Wall Street Journal and…

The U.S. trade gap widened to $105.6 billion in August, up from $92.8 billion in July, the government said Tuesday. Imports rose much faster than exports. PNC economists said it was the largest deficit on record…

Uber agreed Tuesday to buy ezCater, a Boston company that delivers group meals to offices, for $2.3 billion in cash. The deal pushes Uber Eats into workplace catering, where ezCater's average order tops $400. The deal…

Emera, based in Halifax, agreed Tuesday to merge with Calgary's Canadian Utilities in a stock deal worth about C$14.3 billion. The new company would serve about 6 million customers. The firms say it is the biggest…

The average 30-year mortgage rate sat at 7.534% on Wednesday, barely below Tuesday's level, according to Mortgage Research Center data reviewed by Fortune. NerdWallet's average was 7.43%, its highest since May 2024…

Private equity firm CD&R and drug distributor McKesson agreed Tuesday to buy Option Care Health for $32.05 a share, a deal valued at about $5.8 billion. Option Care is the nation's largest independent provider of…

President Trump's order letting truckers burn tax-deferred red diesel on highways is not working yet. Treasury has until about Oct. 10 to confirm it has the legal power and issue rules. Fuel groups warn that state laws…

Constellation Brands, which sells Modelo and Corona in the U.S., beat profit and sales forecasts Tuesday as sales rose 6% to $2.63 billion. But its two biggest beers sold fewer cases, and it trimmed a margin forecast…

The Supreme Court heard a case Tuesday from Intel workers who say their 401(k) plan was badly managed. The justices seemed ready to require workers to compare their fund to a similar one. They were unsure how much to…

HubSpot, the Cambridge, Massachusetts, marketing software maker, will lay off about 660 workers, or 7% of its staff. CEO Yamini Rangan said the company needs fewer management layers as it shifts to selling results with…

PepsiCo posts third-quarter results Thursday at about 6 a.m. ET, with analysts expecting about $2.30 a share. The real test is whether price cuts on chips have won back shoppers. Delta Air Lines reports Friday, as…

Latvian airline airBaltic plans to cut 500 to 700 jobs in Riga, Vilnius and Tallinn as it restructures under U.S. Chapter 11 bankruptcy. The carrier, with about 3,000 workers, was hit hard by soaring jet fuel prices…

The Atlanta Dream beat the New York Liberty 101-98 in overtime on Wednesday to take a 2-0 lead in their WNBA semifinal, even without injured top scorer Allisha Gray. Angel Reese and Jordin Canada scored 23 points each…

Baltimore Ravens quarterback Lamar Jackson was not at practice Wednesday, three days after he sprained his left ankle, the AP and the Ravens' website reported. NFL Network says he has only an outside chance to play…

Alex Ovechkin plays his final NHL home opener Wednesday night when the Washington Capitals host Sidney Crosby and the Pittsburgh Penguins. It is Washington's first home game since Ovechkin said this season will be his…

Dallas Cowboys guard Tyler Smith could make his season debut Thursday night against the winless Tampa Bay Buccaneers if he says he feels ready after thumb surgery, coach Brian Schottenheimer said. Undrafted rookie…

Philadelphia Eagles right tackle Lane Johnson retired Tuesday after 14 seasons, saying he needs to focus on his mental health and family. The six-time Pro Bowler and two-time first-team All-Pro helped win the…

Gavin McKenna, the top pick in the 2026 NHL Draft, scored his first NHL goal on Tuesday and added an assist. His Toronto Maple Leafs came back from three goals down to beat Nashville 5-4. Auston Matthews scored the…

No. 1 Texas and 2-2 Oklahoma spent Tuesday talking about turnovers and the run game before Saturday's Red River Rivalry in Dallas. Sooners quarterback John Mateer is trying to bounce back from three turnovers in a loss…

George Russell will likely start Sunday's Singapore Grand Prix near the back of the grid. An engine failure last race means he needs a new one, which puts him over the season limit, Sky Sports and Motorsport.com…

Harry Kane scored twice and set up an own goal Tuesday as England beat Czechia 3-0 at Wembley in the Nations League. It was Kane's 125th cap, tying Peter Shilton's England record that had stood for 36 years. In Split…

The Shanghai Masters main draw starts Wednesday without world No. 1 Jannik Sinner, who withdrew with a knee injury. Top seed Alexander Zverev and No. 2 Carlos Alcaraz are in opposite halves and can only meet in the…

Rookie Yaxel Lendeborg scored 17 points as the Golden State Warriors routed a shorthanded Los Angeles Lakers team 124-98 in a preseason game Tuesday in San Francisco. The Lakers rested Luka Doncic and sat Austin Reaves…

The PGA Tour's Baycurrent Classic starts Thursday in Japan, with Xander Schauffele defending his title at Yokohama Country Club. The 72-player, no-cut event pays $1.44 million to the winner from an $8 million purse…

India's central bank raised its main interest rate by a quarter point to 5.50% on Wednesday, its first hike in nearly four years. All six members of the rate panel voted yes as higher oil and food prices, partly tied…

A federal judge ordered former German spy chief August Hanning kept in custody on Wednesday, prosecutors said. The 80-year-old is charged with spying and attempted treason after his old office chief allegedly passed…

Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif on Tuesday told Imran Khan's party to call off its protest march or face the law. The march, led by the chief minister of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, is due at Khairabad on Thursday…

Romanian President Nicușor Dan signed a decree Tuesday naming diplomat Luca Niculescu as candidate for prime minister. Niculescu now has about 10 days to win a vote in parliament. The biggest party, the Social…

Two centrist parties with seats in President Lula's cabinet said Tuesday they will back Sen. Flávio Bolsonaro in Brazil's Oct. 25 runoff. Former rivals and ex-President Michel Temer also endorsed him. Bolsonaro, who…

Latvian President Edgars Rinkēvičs on Tuesday asked Prime Minister Andris Kulbergs to form the next government. Kulbergs' United List won a record 41 of 100 seats in Saturday's election. He will first talk with his…

Quebec premier-designate Paul St-Pierre Plamondon said Tuesday his new minority government will start with homelessness, food banks and the cost of living. His Parti Québécois won 59 of 127 seats with about 28% of the…

Spain's conservatives and the far-right Vox party would win a clear majority if the Nov. 29 snap election were held now, a new polling average shows. The People's Party leads with about 33%, ahead of Prime Minister…

Police in New Delhi briefly detained opposition leader Rahul Gandhi and other lawmakers on Tuesday as they marched to demand that India's election chief resign. The opposition says a review of voter lists helps Prime…

Mexico has sent 500 soldiers and National Guard members to a stretch of the Tamaulipas border after U.S. officials said Coast Guard crews on the Rio Grande came under fire. Joint patrols on both sides have begun. But…

Haiti's electoral council has postponed the campaign for its first national election since 2016 and extended candidate sign-ups to Oct. 31. A council member told AFP the planned Dec. 13 vote date "no longer stands."…

French Prime Minister Sébastien Lecornu suspended high school classes for the rest of the week after another day of mass student protests on Tuesday. Students are demanding more teachers and better school buildings…

Long, daily power cuts are fueling protests across Venezuela, with residents blocking roads and banging pots in several states. Nearly two in three households now face daily outages, one survey found. The interim…

Elon Musk said Wednesday that his companies will build and run Terafab, his planned chip complex in Texas, and that TSMC might at most rent part of the site. Intel, which joined the project in April, says it will stay…

OpenAI on Tuesday evening posted 722 papers covering 372 math results made by an AI model it has not released to the public. The company says the work solves or advances major open problems. Mathematicians say checking…

Anthropic on Tuesday widened a program that lets vetted security teams use its strongest AI models with fewer blocks. The company says partners in its Project Glasswing found at least 129,000 verified software flaws…

Several Japanese firms and a university have reported hacks or data leaks since Monday. Osaka Metropolitan University canceled classes after a suspected ransomware attack shut down about 500 servers. Store chain Mr Max…

Waymo began running fully driverless cars in Detroit on Tuesday, with no one behind the wheel. For now, only Waymo workers can ride, in downtown and nearby areas. The company has not set a date for the public, saying…

Sierra, Meta, Walmart, Stripe and other companies on Tuesday announced the Personal Agent Protocol, an open standard for how AI assistants deal with businesses on a person's behalf. It aims to let a store tell whether…

Apple is now taking App Store submissions for apps built for the iPhone Duo, its first folding iPhone. Shoppers can start picking options on Monday, Oct. 12, before pre-orders open Friday, Oct. 16, at 8 a.m. ET. The…

Nvidia shares closed at a record $238.90 on Monday, leaving the AI chipmaker within about 4% of a $6 trillion market value. No company has ever reached that mark. Because Nvidia makes up about 8% of the S&P 500, its…

Google released Nano Banana 2.1 on Tuesday, an update to its AI tool for making and editing images. It is rolling out in the Gemini app, AI Mode in Search and Google's developer tools. For developers, a standard image…

Paris-based Mistral on Tuesday opened a preview of Mistral Large 4, a 1-trillion-parameter AI model, through its API. The company says it is the most capable open-weight model built outside China. Anyone will be able…

Danish officials said Tuesday that the theft of ID numbers and addresses for 8.8 million people came to light only because a small company ran up an unusually large bill for registry searches. The firm had legal access…

A ransomware attack on Vicksburg, Mississippi, has left city workers unable to pull up water and gas accounts or take payments properly. Water and gas still flow, and the city has suspended late fees and shutoffs. The…

Jessica Chastain's horror film Other Mommy opens Friday, and trackers expect it to take in $22 million to $29 million or more. That would be the best start for a horror book movie since It Chapter Two. Aaron Sorkin's…

Paramount and the owner of Warner Bros., HBO and CNN merged Tuesday into one company called Skydance, led by David Ellison. The $111 billion deal also puts CBS, Paramount+ and HBO Max under one roof. The company plans…

The Primetime Emmys are moving to Amazon's Prime Video in a six-year global deal starting in 2027. The show will be free to watch, with no subscription needed. It ends the network "wheel" that rotated the Emmys among…

Eva Marie Saint, who won an Oscar for her first movie, On the Waterfront, and starred in Hitchcock's North by Northwest, has died at 102. She died Tuesday at her home in Los Angeles. Her career ran for more than 70…

Avengers: Endgame is the top-grossing movie of all time again, after its Encore re-release added $18 million worldwide last weekend. Its total is now about $2.926 billion, just ahead of Avatar's $2.924 billion. The…

Steven Spielberg will lead the creative side of Paramount's next live-action Transformers movie, the eighth in the series. Deadline reports Michael Bay is in early talks to return as director, while Variety says his…

Artificial, Luca Guadagnino's dark comedy about the founding of OpenAI, premiered Monday at the New York Film Festival with Andrew Garfield as Sam Altman. Critics praised Garfield but split on the film, from "the most…

The National Book Foundation named 25 finalists for the 2026 National Book Awards on Tuesday, five in each of five categories. Fiction finalists include Edwidge Danticat and Valeria Luiselli. Winners get $10,000 and…

Sony Music says it has asked streaming platforms to remove more than 260,000 AI-made songs that copy its artists' voices without permission. That is nearly double the 135,000 it reported in March. Sony called the fight…

California lawmakers and Hollywood unions rallied Tuesday for a federal tax credit of 20% to 30% on U.S. labor for films and TV shows. Sen. Adam Schiff said 12 senators, six from each party, back the bill. Supporters…

Jessica Chastain says she had to speak up when Apple TV delayed her series The Savant after Charlie Kirk's assassination last year. In a new Porter interview, she said she felt responsible to her castmates and the real…

Slash featuring Myles Kennedy & the Conspirators will release their fifth album, Flying Blind, on Feb. 26, followed by a 2027 world tour. The tour starts in South America in April, then hits U.S. cities including New…

President Trump said Wednesday the U.S. does not think a bioweapon caused the death of a worker at a Siberian plague research lab, and he plans to speak with Vladimir Putin. The U.S. has sent Russia a formal complaint…

Kenya has listed 57 people who had contact with its first Ebola patient, and 10 are in quarantine, the Health Ministry said Wednesday. Officials are using flight lists and airport video to find more. No second case has…

A federal appeals panel in Boston heard arguments Tuesday but did not rule on an order that keeps 13 of Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s picks off the CDC's vaccine advisory panel. The panel has not met since…

Flu is rising about a month earlier than usual, starting on the West Coast, NPR and Nature reported Tuesday. H1N1 caused 96% of typed U.S. flu cases in late September, and many Seattle samples carry a mutation that may…

The CDC lists 3,887 U.S. measles cases this year, the most since 1991, but Johns Hopkins University's own count has passed 4,000. The CDC site shows two measles deaths, though Pennsylvania alone has reported five…

Medicare's trustees project the standard Part B premium will rise $6.60 to $209.50 a month in 2027, AARP and Kiplinger report. CMS will set the real figure later this fall. Meanwhile, about 20.8 million people in…

EAK Distribution has recalled one lot of HOME GROWN broccoli sprouting seeds sold on Amazon after the FDA found Salmonella in the seed. The seed lot also went to a commercial sprout grower tied to a federal outbreak…

Eight U.S. communities will share $96 million over four years from a new federal program that takes mental health and addiction care to people living on the streets. Each gets $3 million a year. In Miami, the Homeless…

Indiana says about 58,000 people on Medicaid do not yet meet work rules that start Jan. 1, WFYI reported Tuesday. Adults who are not exempt must log 80 hours a month of work, school or volunteering. Missouri…

A study of more than 1.4 million women in England found that problems in any pregnancy, not just the latest, were linked to higher later rates of heart disease, type 2 diabetes, high blood pressure or kidney disease…

All 16 head and neck cancer patients who got a personalized vaccine called TG4050 after standard treatment stayed cancer-free for more than three years, England's Clatterbridge Cancer Centre said Tuesday. Cancer…

The FDA on Tuesday told hospitals and clinics to stop using Yimmugo lot C795314 after more reports of allergic reactions. Some patients needed epinephrine or a hospital stay. Yimmugo, made by Biotest AG, gives…

Henri B. Kagan of France and Kenso Soai of Japan won the 2026 Nobel Prize in Chemistry on Wednesday. They found ways to make a chemical reaction turn out mostly one of two mirror-image forms of a molecule. That helps…

Four Crew-12 astronauts undocked from the International Space Station at 8:05 a.m. ET Wednesday in SpaceX's Dragon Freedom, NASA said. If the weather holds, they splash down off California at about 11:34 a.m. ET…

Sea surface temperatures in the tropical Pacific have hit record levels, a sign El Niño keeps strengthening, NBC News reported. NOAA puts the odds of a historic event this fall at 75%. UNICEF says more than 347 million…

A broad bulge of warm water called a Kelvin wave reached Southern California's coast last week and is moving north toward Oregon and Washington, National Geographic reported. It can raise sea level 6 to 12 inches…

SpaceX now targets 12:54 a.m. PT Thursday, or 3:54 a.m. ET, to launch 21 Space Development Agency satellites from Vandenberg Space Force Base in California. Monday's try ended in an automatic abort, and SpaceX skipped…

The Supreme Court opened its term Monday by weighing whether Boulder, Colorado, can sue Exxon Mobil and Suncor in state court over climate costs. Eight justices heard the case after Justice Samuel Alito stepped aside…

In August 2024, a hole nearly the size of Portugal opened in the winter sea ice of East Antarctica's Breid Bay, something scientists had never seen there at that time of year. A new study blames six strong atmospheric…

California's coast redwoods slow photosynthesis, the process that feeds them, during heat waves, a UC Davis study finds. When the air topped 86 degrees, some leaves ran nearly 20 degrees hotter than the air. It is the…

Earth's first animals may have evolved 800 million to 700 million years ago, far earlier than their oldest clear fossils at 574 million years, a study in Science Advances suggests. Mongolian rocks full of tiny fossils…

For the first time, Yale researchers recorded single cells in the claustrum, a thin sheet of tissue hidden deep in the human brain. In seven epilepsy patients playing a spaceship game, the cells tracked doubt and…

Switzerland's glaciers lost 5.5% of their remaining ice in 2026, the GLAMOS monitoring network reported, the second-worst year on record after 2022. Nearly a fifth of the country's glacier ice has vanished in five…

Scientists at Germany's University of Konstanz found an enzyme made by soil bacteria that breaks down some bioplastics. They call it the 'Pac-Man enzyme' because its grabbing site is so wide open. In lab tests it also…

Amazon's Prime Big Deal Days sale ends tonight at 11:59 p.m. Pacific, which is 2:59 a.m. Thursday on the East Coast. A Numerator survey found the average household spent $86.98 on the first day, down 22% from last…

Homes that heat with oil, most of them in the Northeast, should pay about 21% more this winter, the U.S. Energy Information Administration said Tuesday. About half of U.S. homes, those using natural gas or propane…

Federal student loan borrowers now have until Dec. 31 to sign up for autopay and get a 1 percentage point cut in their interest rate, the Education Department says. The lower rate lasts through June 2028. The extension…

Freeze warnings covered parts of upstate New York and western Massachusetts early Wednesday, with frost advisories from the Hudson Valley to inland Connecticut and the Champlain Valley. The alerts end between 7 and 9…

Fall color is at or near peak in New Hampshire's western White Mountains and northern and western Maine, state reports show. Color is spreading south toward central Vermont and New Hampshire's Lakes Region in time for…

The Social Security Administration will announce next year's cost-of-living raise on Oct. 14, using September inflation data. The Senior Citizens League and analyst Mary Johnson expect 3.5%, while AARP expects 3.6%. A…

The national average for regular gas is $4.37 a gallon Wednesday, according to AAA, down about 7 cents from a week ago. That's still about $1.25 more than a year ago, after a record-setting September at the pump…

Flowers Foods is recalling Nature's Own Hawaiian Bread sold in Arkansas, Louisiana, New Mexico, Oklahoma and Texas because the label leaves out milk. The recall covers 20-ounce loaves with best-by dates from Oct. 8 to…

The USDA warned shoppers not to eat Grace brand chicken Vienna sausages that were illegally brought in from Jamaica and sold in five states. Separately, a Miami importer recalled Yupi snack chips with Colombian pork…

Burger King's new Game Day menu, with a pretzel-bun burger and nacho cheese for Chicken Fries, reached U.S. restaurants Tuesday. KFC launched Go Buckets starting at $3.49, built to fit a car cupholder, and Smashburger…

Post offices will close and regular mail won't be delivered Monday, Oct. 12, for the federal Columbus Day holiday, the Postal Service says. Most banks and federal offices also close, but the stock market stays open…

Dollar Tree is recalling about 360,500 pink electric balloon pumps because they can overheat and burn users, safety regulators say. One pump caught fire inside and another exploded, but no one was hurt. Regulators also…