Thursday, October 8, 2026

Isaias strengthened into a Category 2 hurricane Thursday with winds near 100 mph, and at 7 p.m. CDT it was about 290 miles south of the Mississippi River mouth. A hurricane warning runs from Ocean Springs, Mississippi…

Federal prosecutors on Thursday charged Nicolás Maduro and his wife, Cilia Flores, with conspiracy to commit torture, including abuse of U.S. citizens held in Venezuela. A New York judge denied Flores' request for bail…

A federal judge on Thursday extended his order that keeps CNN, MS NOW and Politico in the White House press pool through Tuesday. Judge Timothy Kelly said he will rule by then on a longer injunction. He questioned the…

Brazil's first Datafolha poll of the Oct. 25 presidential runoff gives Flávio Bolsonaro 49% to President Lula's 45%, or 52% to 48% in valid votes. The institute calls it a technical tie at the edge of the two-point…

A tanker sailing off Qatar's north coast was struck by multiple projectiles Wednesday, causing casualties, a British maritime agency said. Iran's Revolutionary Guards said they would close a southern route ships use to…

Ukraine's emergency service says 22 people, including five children, died when a Russian missile hit an apartment building in Pryluky on Wednesday. Reuters puts the day's nationwide toll at 32 or more. Overnight…

The Milwaukee Brewers beat the San Diego Padres 3-1 Wednesday night to win their NL Division Series in four games. Garrett Mitchell scored the go-ahead run and robbed Manny Machado of a tying homer. Milwaukee hosts the…

The Tampa Bay Rays beat the New York Yankees 4-3 in the Bronx Wednesday night to sweep their AL Division Series. Victor Mesa Jr. hit a go-ahead two-run homer, and a replay review took away an apparent tying homer when…

Yemen's Saudi-backed government says its forces have taken key mountain positions in western Taiz overlooking the Red Sea coast near Mokha. The Houthis say they targeted airports in Riyadh and Abha, where Saudi…

U.S. stock futures fell early Thursday after Wall Street pulled back from records, with the 10-year Treasury yield near its highest since 2002. Brent crude rose above $103 a barrel on Gulf shipping attacks and Houthi…

The Kremlin said Thursday that no phone call between Vladimir Putin and President Trump has been agreed, a day after Trump said one was arranged. The two leaders would be talking as the WHO presses Russia about a…

The Chicago White Sox can close out the Cleveland Guardians in ALDS Game 4 tonight at 8 p.m. Eastern at Rate Field. Chicago leads the series 2-1 after Cleveland won 9-3 Wednesday. The winner faces the Tampa Bay Rays…

Republican Rep. Ashley Hinson and Democrat Josh Turek met Wednesday night in their first Iowa Senate debate. They clashed over how to end the Iran war, how to save Social Security and over Medicaid cuts. The open seat…

The Democratic National Committee sued the Trump administration Wednesday over TV ads paid for with public money. It says the ads are illegal propaganda to help Republicans. The government has spent more than $20…

Two of the country's top Senate races hold debates Thursday at 7 p.m. ET. Democrat Abdul El-Sayed and Republican Mike Rogers meet for the first time in Michigan. In Georgia, Democratic Sen. Jon Ossoff faces Republican…

Republican Sen. Susan Collins and Democrat Troy Jackson hold their second debate Thursday at 8 p.m. ET on WMTW. In Tuesday's first debate, Jackson tied Collins to President Trump while she stressed her independence and…

President Trump rallied for Senate hopeful Ken Paxton in San Antonio on Wednesday night as protesters interrupted him again and again. Republicans have spent more than $300 million to defend Texas. Polls show Paxton in…

President Trump said Wednesday that every eligible child under 18 now has a Trump Account. The Treasury opened about 60 million of the investment accounts on its own starting Oct. 1. Parents must still claim them to…

The Homeland Security Department wants schools to pay $70,000 for each international student who joins a popular work program after graduation. Renewals would cost $30,000. DHS says it wants to curb fraud and protect…

President Trump says his administration is "thinking about" suspending the 18.4-cent federal gas tax as fuel prices stay high. Only Congress can do that, and lawmakers are not due back until after the Nov. 3 election…

President Trump said Wednesday he will give pitcher Roger Clemens the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the nation's top civilian honor. Clemens won seven Cy Young Awards. But steroid suspicions, which he has always…

A Nashville judge on Wednesday ordered Tennessee to preserve all evidence from the failed Sept. 30 execution of Christa Pike. Pike survived two lethal doses and woke up after nearly six days. The state has not said…

The average 30-year mortgage rate rose to 7.40% this week from 7.28%, Freddie Mac said Thursday. That is the highest since November 2023 and the seventh weekly rise in a row, National Mortgage News reported. A year…

PepsiCo beat Wall Street's estimates for the third quarter on Thursday, earning $2.34 a share on an adjusted basis on $25.27 billion in sales. But it lowered its profit forecast for the year, as its North American…

Minutes from the Federal Reserve's September meeting, released Wednesday, show most officials think another rate hike will likely be needed by year-end. That matters for anyone with a credit card, car loan or mortgage…

Wittington Investments, the Weston family's holding company, agreed Wednesday to buy Boots, Britain's biggest pharmacy chain, from Sycamore Partners and the Pessina family. The deal covers about 1,800 stores and 51,000…

Porsche said Wednesday it will cut about 9,000 jobs by 2030, roughly a quarter of its workforce, as its sales in China slide. The Volkswagen-owned sports car maker will sell fewer cars at higher prices. Its profit…

The Treasury has until Saturday to decide whether it has legal power to delay federal tax on red-dyed diesel used on highways, under President Trump's Oct. 5 order. Truckers and farmers paying more than $6 a gallon…

Levi Strauss said Wednesday its third-quarter adjusted profit was 48 cents a share, beating forecasts, and it raised its full-year profit outlook. But fewer U.S. shoppers came to its own stores and website, and sales…

Federal Reserve data released Wednesday show consumer credit grew at a 1.9% yearly pace in August, less than half of July's rate. Credit card balances shrank as card interest rates topped 22%. Total borrowing rose…

Applied Digital, a Dallas company that builds data centers for AI, said Wednesday its quarterly revenue rose 322% from a year ago to about $342 million. Its campuses lease computing space to big tech firms racing to…

Apollo Global Management has made a non-binding offer for Uniper, the German gas importer Berlin rescued in 2022, two people told Reuters. The sale will decide who controls a key part of Germany's energy supply…

Amazon confirmed Wednesday it cut a small number of jobs, mainly in its Stores unit, which runs its shopping website. Fewer than 1,000 office workers in the U.S., India and the U.K. were affected, a person familiar…

Delta Air Lines reports third-quarter results before the market opens Friday, the first big U.S. airline to do so. Its results will show who paid for this summer's fuel spike, travelers or the airline. Delta planned on…

Veronica Burton hit a deep 3-pointer with 41 seconds left, and the Golden State Valkyries beat the Las Vegas Aces 83-81 on Wednesday night. Golden State leads the best-of-five WNBA semifinal 2-0 in only its second…

The Atlanta Dream beat the New York Liberty 101-98 in overtime Wednesday to take a 2-0 lead in their WNBA semifinal, even without top scorer Allisha Gray. Atlanta is one win from its first Finals since 2013. Game 3 is…

The 0-4 Tampa Bay Buccaneers visit the 2-2 Dallas Cowboys on Thursday at 8:15 p.m. ET on Prime Video. Undrafted rookie Jalon Daniels makes his second start, with Baker Mayfield out. Dallas lists guard Tyler Smith as…

Tom Wilson had a goal and two assists as the Washington Capitals beat the Pittsburgh Penguins 5-3 on Wednesday in Alex Ovechkin's final NHL home opener. Goalie Logan Thompson made 27 saves at Capital One Arena…

Kyle Connor scored his second goal with one minute left Wednesday, and the Winnipeg Jets beat the Colorado Avalanche 3-2. It was Colorado's first loss of the season. Goalie Stuart Skinner made 32 saves, and Winnipeg…

No. 1 Texas put just four players on its first injury report for Saturday's game with Oklahoma in Dallas. Leading rusher Hollywood Smothers was not listed, a sign he will play. Oklahoma named 13 players, including left…

Formula 1 opens the Singapore Grand Prix weekend Friday, the season's final Sprint event. Defending race winner George Russell will start Sunday's race from the back after an engine change. Mercedes teammate Kimi…

Jacob Bridgeman shot a bogey-free 8-under 63 to lead the PGA Tour's Baycurrent Classic after the first round in Yokohama, Japan. England's Jordan Smith is one shot back at 64. Defending champion Xander Schauffele…

Rookie Brayden Burries scored late and the Milwaukee Bucks came back from a big first-half deficit to beat the Oklahoma City Thunder 128-126 in a preseason game Wednesday. Myles Turner led Milwaukee with 19 points…

UTSA hosts South Florida at the Alamodome on Thursday at 7:30 p.m. ET on ESPN, with both teams at 4-1. Coach Jeff Traylor's Roadrunners are 35-5 at home since 2020. South Florida, under first-year coach Brian Hartline…

Stefanos Tsitsipas beat qualifier Kimmer Coppejans 6-3, 7-5 on Thursday in the first round of the Shanghai Masters. Top seed Alexander Zverev, Carlos Alcaraz and four-time champion Novak Djokovic open later after…

Baltimore Ravens quarterback Lamar Jackson missed Wednesday's practice with a sprained left ankle, and coach Jesse Minter said his status for Sunday night at Atlanta will be decided later in the week. Backup Tyler…

A tanker carrying Russian crude caught fire off Sochi after what Russia calls a Ukrainian sea-drone strike. It follows drone attacks that sank two cargo ships near NATO members Romania and Bulgaria. Bulgaria's prime…

Britain's consulate in East Jerusalem got a new name Thursday, the "UK Mission, Jerusalem," after a last-minute deal with Israel. Israel says the consul general and 19 diplomats must leave, and only seven may stay…

The bottom three floors of a seven-story apartment building in Istanbul's Maltepe district collapsed before dawn Thursday. Rescuers pulled 10 people out alive and recovered two bodies, Turkey's Star newspaper reported…

Imran Khan's party marched into Peshawar on Thursday instead of stopping at Khairabad as first planned. Provincial chief minister Sohail Afridi says he will reveal the next step in Swabi, now set for Oct. 12. The…

Romania's Social Democrats say they will not give prime minister-designate Luca Niculescu a free pass. Party leader Sorin Grindeanu wants an end to austerity and is due to meet Niculescu on Thursday. Niculescu must…

Classes were fully or partly halted at 375 French schools on Thursday as high school students held a fourth day of protests, the education ministry said. That is about 30% fewer than Wednesday. Education Minister…

Germany's former spy chief, August Hanning, 80, is being held in jail on treason and spying charges. Prosecutors say an old aide gave him about 2,000 secret files over 12 years for pay. They have not named the foreign…

Latvian Prime Minister Andris Kulbergs says he will pick partners who will carry out the changes voters want. His United List won 41 of 100 seats on Saturday. Second-place Latvia First offered to back even a minority…

Spain's campaign for the Nov. 29 snap election is under way. Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez opened his pitch by putting housing at the center and asking for a broader progressive majority. Conservative leader Alberto…

The Norwegian Nobel Committee names the 2026 Peace Prize winner Friday at 11 a.m. in Oslo, or 5 a.m. ET. Experts told Reuters that President Trump will not win as he wages war with Iran. Pope Leo, the world's top…

Four days after Peru's local elections, the race for mayor of Lima is still undecided. Rafael López Aliaga's list leads Francis Allison by 44,978 votes, but more than 1,900 flagged tally sheets must go to election…

Indian police detained opposition leader Rahul Gandhi and his sister Priyanka for a second straight day on Wednesday. They were trying to reach a Delhi protest site to demand that Chief Election Commissioner Gyanesh…

Indian stocks fell more than 1% on Thursday, a day after the central bank raised interest rates for the first time in nearly four years. The Sensex dropped over 900 points by midday. Traders focused on the bank's shift…

Pakistan's army says its troops are already serving in Saudi Arabia under a new defense pact. Pakistan, Turkey and Saudi Arabia agreed Monday to rush agreed forces to the kingdom. No troop numbers are public, and…

OpenAI began rolling out GPT-6 in ChatGPT on Wednesday with a feature called Intelligent UI, which answers questions with charts, diagrams, buttons and small built-in tools. Free and low-cost Go users get it Thursday…

At its first live event in two years, Microsoft showed new Windows tools on Wednesday that let AI agents run on a laptop instead of in the cloud, plus a Surface Laptop Ultra built on Nvidia's new RTX Spark chip…

Samsung Electronics estimated Thursday that its third-quarter operating profit hit a record 107.4 trillion won, about $80 billion, up 782.5% from a year ago. The AI-driven shortage of memory chips behind that windfall…

Apple had not sent invitations as of Wednesday for an Oct. 13 launch that Bloomberg reports will bring a smart home hub, a new HomePod mini and a new Apple TV. Shoppers weighing a speaker or streaming box may want to…

Google has opened its SynthID Detector website to anyone, letting people upload images, video or audio to check for hidden AI watermarks. That gives regular users a way to test suspicious media before they share it…

Google Labs launched Playground on Wednesday, a website where U.S. users 18 and older can make browser games just by describing them, with no coding needed. It puts game-making within reach of people who have only ever…

Chipmaker Wolfspeed said Wednesday it won a conditional promise of up to $1.5 billion in 30-year loans from the Defense Department to expand U.S. production of chip materials. The parts go into drones, radars and…

South Korean police are investigating hacks at seven financial firms that exposed data on about 66,000 people, with signs an AI hacking tool was used. Two Seoul megachurches say member records were stolen too…

Elon Musk said Wednesday that Tesla and SpaceX will build and run Terafab, their planned AI chip plant in Texas, and that Taiwan's TSMC could at most rent space there. That matters for Intel, whose CEO said the same…

The Federal Communications Commission approved SpaceX's plan for 15,000 new satellites that send service straight to ordinary phones, PCMag and Light Reading reported. That could bring faster coverage to dead zones and…

Google DeepMind, Meta and Isomorphic Labs are putting $300 million into a Biohub project to build data for AI models that predict how living cells behave, the groups said Wednesday. The aim is faster and cheaper…

The Everest ransomware gang has listed Dubai airline flydubai on its leak site, claiming it stole 4.36 gigabytes of data, Cybernews reported. If the claim is true, airline staff could face phishing and Boeing software…

Canadian poet Anne Carson won the 2026 Nobel Prize in Literature on Thursday, with the Swedish Academy praising her bold work that mixes the classics with new forms of writing. Carson, 76, is known for Autobiography of…

The horror film Other Mommy, starring Jessica Chastain, is on track for about $20 million this weekend, Variety and Deadline report. Sony's Social Reckoning, a follow-up to The Social Network, should open near $7…

Tom Cruise's Digger is on track to lose about $250 million, TheWrap reported, counting money from streaming and home video. The Warner Bros. film opened to just $21 million worldwide on a budget of more than $160…

Drake did not submit his albums Iceman, Habibti or Maid of Honour for the 2027 Grammys, Billboard reported. He hinted at it in a lyric: "This album, I'm never submittin' it." K-pop stars BTS and Stray Kids are also…

New York Comic Con opens Thursday at the Javits Center for its 20th anniversary, with a Coney Island theme. The first day features panels for Final Fantasy VII Revelation, Dexter: Resurrection and a Brooklyn Nine-Nine…

Netflix has renewed The Hunting Wives for an eight-episode third season, weeks before Season 2 arrives on Nov. 26. The thriller stars Brittany Snow and Malin Åkerman. Season 1 reached No. 2 on Netflix's global Top 10…

Universal released a short first teaser for Mike Flanagan's The Exorcist: Martyrs, with the full trailer due Friday. Scarlett Johansson plays a New York detective who catches a serial killer called Father Sunday. The…

Jessica Biel has joined Playmates, a Searchlight drama set at the Playboy Mansion. Biel plays the wife of Hugh Hefner, who is played by Bill Pullman, with Lily-Rose Depp in the lead. Biel also stars with John Cena in…

Taylor Swift's "Patient Zero" debuted at No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100, ending Ella Langley's record 24-week run with "Choosin' Texas." It is Swift's 16th No. 1. Three more new songs from her Encore album hold Nos. 3…

Ted Lasso's fourth season ended Wednesday on Apple TV with big changes for Ted, Roy and Rebecca. Apple has not said whether there will be a fifth season. Co-creator Brendan Hunt said there is no sign yet that the show…

Paramount chief David Ellison said the long-term plan is to combine HBO Max and Paramount+ into one service. For now, the apps stay separate and will be bundled first. HBO content chief Casey Bloys has favored bundling…

Comedian Shane Gillis will host Saturday Night Live this weekend for the third time, NBC said. Spanish singer Rosalía is the musical guest. The episode airs live Saturday at 11:30 p.m. ET on NBC and streams the next…

Kenya is racing to find everyone who came near its first Ebola patient, a man who died in Nairobi after falling ill in Congo. Officials have listed 57 contacts, and at least 10 are in quarantine. Health leaders say…

About 20.8 million people in original Medicare should start getting a one-time $90 rebate by direct deposit around Thursday. It is meant to help with Part B premiums, which are expected to rise next year. Medicare's…

UnitedHealthcare will stop selling Affordable Care Act plans in Georgia next year after state regulators objected to a 54% rate hike. Its members must pick a new plan when enrollment opens Nov. 1. Nationally, insurers…

Pennsylvania now counts 1,078 measles cases in 41 counties this year, adding 74 since Monday. Many of the new cases were older illnesses only recently reported. Nationally, the CDC counts 3,887 cases in 2026, while a…

The FDA on Wednesday approved Pfizer's pill tucatinib, taken with two antibody drugs, as maintenance treatment for advanced HER2-positive breast cancer. In a trial, it kept cancer from growing for about 8.6 months…

Adults with ADHD were more than four times as likely to develop dementia or mild memory and thinking problems later in life, a large U.S. study found. People with higher genetic risk for ADHD also faced more risk. The…

The FDA approved Novartis' pill Rhapsido on Wednesday as the first treatment for symptomatic dermographism, a condition where light scratching or rubbing raises itchy hives. It is for adults whose symptoms are not…

Eden Brothers has recalled Calabrese broccoli seeds sold online and on Amazon because they may carry Salmonella. The seeds came from the same lot linked to an outbreak that has sickened 32 people in six states. People…

Flu cases are inching up across the country, and San Francisco has already reported a flu death. Doctors' groups say October is the time to get vaccinated, since protection takes about two weeks. With the CDC's vaccine…

Utah health officials say four people died after using products laced with powerful lab-made kratom chemicals. The products were often labeled as the herbal supplement cat's claw and sold under names like Buzzers…

Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. opened a new clinic at the National Institutes of Health to study and care for people with suspected vaccine injuries. The plan also would pay doctors to report possible injuries…

A 10-year study in four African countries found that hydroxyurea, a daily pill for sickle cell anemia, did not raise children's risk of infections. Higher doses were tied to fewer cases of malaria and other infections…

Three astronauts and a cosmonaut from Crew-12 splashed down safely in the Pacific off Los Angeles at 11:34 a.m. ET Thursday, NASA said. Their SpaceX Dragon, Freedom, ended a 237-day stay at the International Space…

SpaceX did not launch 21 Space Development Agency satellites from California early Thursday as planned. Launch trackers now list the Falcon 9 for no earlier than 12:29 a.m. PT Saturday, or 3:29 a.m. ET. It is the…

El Niño is strengthening fast and should peak around December at record strength, the World Meteorological Organization said Thursday. A key Pacific temperature gauge is forecast to run 3.7 degrees Celsius above normal…

Sri Lanka has been stuck in drought for months, leaving reservoirs dry and farmers in debt, AP reported Thursday. The southwest monsoon brought little rain through late September. Climate experts say a strong El Niño…

Indigenous and civic groups in Indonesian Borneo are suing President Prabowo Subianto and other officials over wildfires and toxic haze. No defendants showed up for Wednesday's first hearing, so judges put it off to…

A 165-million-year-old fossil from China shows an early mammal relative could chew food and swallow it one bite at a time, as mammals do today. Scientists named it Megacauda sungei, or 'big tail.' The find, published…

Hunter-gatherers in Tanzania and forest farmers in Bolivia share more than 1,200 kinds of gut bacteria, a new study found. Many of these microbes are rare or gone in people in rich, industrial countries. The…

NASA's James Webb Space Telescope studied 21 rare dusty disks around young stars that show signs of huge collisions. Some look like crashes between Mars-size worlds, like the one thought to have formed our Moon. The…

NASA has released the full science dataset from the Artemis II flight around the Moon. It holds more than 11,000 images and videos, 8.5 hours of crew audio and notes from the astronauts. Anyone can download it from…

A new image from NASA's James Webb Space Telescope peers through dust into NGC 7129, a star nursery about 3,300 light-years away. It reveals many young stars and the jets they shoot into surrounding gas. NASA calls the…

An ALMA telescope survey of young stars has found methanol made entirely with heavy hydrogen, a first in space. There is about 100 times more of it than chemistry models predict. The finding helps show how ingredients…

Researchers have grown a semiconductor with a bandgap above 7 electron volts and built working devices from it, a study in Nature reports. That is about double silicon carbide and gallium nitride. Such materials could…

The national average for regular gas fell to $4.36 a gallon Thursday, AAA says, down about 5 cents from a week ago. That is still $1.25 more than a year ago. Diesel, which moves the trucks that stock stores, averages…

Peak fall color now covers northern New England, and the wave is moving south toward New Hampshire's Monadnock Region and the Massachusetts Berkshires for the holiday weekend. Saturday looks like the best day to go…

A Chilean supplier has added five more lots of Great Value organic frozen berries sold at Walmart and one lot of Trader Joe's Organic Mixed Berry Blend to an E. coli recall. The Walmart bags went to 30 states and…

Social Security's 2027 cost-of-living raise will be announced Wednesday, Oct. 14, when September inflation data comes out. The Senior Citizens League's final estimate is 3.5%, which would add about $67.90 to the…

Amazon's two-day Prime Big Deal Days sale ended overnight with shoppers buying mostly small, everyday items. Numerator's latest read found average spending of $102.61 per household, with about two-thirds of items under…

One lot of Babies' Magic Tea Baby Sleep Gripe Water is being recalled after FDA testing found ethanol, methanol and isopropanol not listed on the label. The 4-ounce bottle was sold online, including on Amazon. Ethanol…

Leader Formulas of Tomball, Texas, is recalling one lot of RAPTURE preworkout powder nationwide because it contains DMAA, a stimulant not listed on the label. The FDA says DMAA can raise blood pressure and could lead…

About 730 LandTale adult portable bed rails sold on Amazon are being recalled because users can get trapped and suffocate, federal safety regulators say. Separately, about 400 ZAREI camping shower sets sold on Amazon…

Domestic Thanksgiving fares have historically hit their low about five weeks before the holiday, so travelers should book before the end of October, KAYAK says. A September survey found 65% of holiday travelers had…

Beef and veal prices were 5.9% higher in August than a year earlier, even as overall grocery prices rose just 2.2%, University of Illinois economists report. USDA expects beef prices to rise 9.4% this year. The U.S…

Halloween spending is expected to reach $13.5 billion this year, the National Retail Federation says, up from last year's record $13.1 billion. The average shopper plans to spend about $115. Candy is the top buy, and…

To get gifts delivered by Christmas, the Postal Service says to send Ground Advantage and First-Class packages by Dec. 17 in the lower 48 states. Priority Mail goes by Dec. 18 and Priority Mail Express by Dec. 19…