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A record-quiet Atlantic season let Washington gut the agencies that watch for hurricanes and rewrite FEMA's mission. The first storm of the season just landed anyway.

The federal government recalled its third nearly identical infant bath seat of 2026 this week, highlighting a persistent loophole in which unsafe, Chinese-made products reappear on Amazon under new throwaway brand names faster than regulators can act.

A week after being blown out at home by Ohio State, the No. 20 Hawkeyes turned to a first-time starter at quarterback and a career night from their lead running back to beat Washington 41-24 in Seattle.

The deal folds Ryan Dahl's open-source runtime startup into Cloudflare and sets a wind-down clock for Deno's own hosting service, as the two former rivals merge competing blueprints for self-hosted serverless computing.

The online-education company, whose shares have lost nearly half their value in a year despite rising revenue, averts a proxy fight by agreeing to seat an activist-aligned director and a former ed-tech executive, and promises a capital-allocation plan within three months.

A gunman killed eight people, two of them children, inside and outside a house on Erie's east side Friday evening before turning the gun on himself, officials said Saturday — one of the deadliest shootings in Pennsylvania history.

"Always Lalisa" opens in theaters and IMAX worldwide this week, documenting Lisa's turbulent first year building a solo album, an acting resume and a management company apart from Blackpink.

A millisecond radio flash detected by a South African array in 2024 has been pinned to a dwarf galaxy from the universe's early star-forming peak, new Webb telescope data show, more than doubling the distance record for such bursts and bolstering the case that they come from young magnetars.

UN Secretary-General António Guterres urged an immediate end to fighting in northern Ethiopia after reports that Eritrean troops crossed into Tigray, as a three-week-old collapse of the 2022 peace deal threatens to reignite one of the Horn of Africa's deadliest recent conflicts.

A Fourth Circuit panel accused the FCC of “gamesmanship” and ordered it to decide within 48 hours who gets discounted political ad rates. Chief Justice John Roberts froze that order Thursday, leaving the question of which committees get the cheapest airtime before Nov. 3 unresolved.

The trade-in blitz accompanies the launch of Microsoft's priciest Surface yet, a direct pitch to professional buyers who might otherwise default to a new MacBook Pro.

The average 30-year fixed rate hit 7.40%, according to Freddie Mac, as a bond-market selloff pushes borrowing costs to their highest point in roughly a year.

Researchers say firmware-level malware dubbed "Midnight Mimosa" turns cut-rate smartphones into tools for ad fraud and internet-traffic resale, and that a factory reset may not remove it.

Firmus pulled what would have been one of Australia's largest-ever listings after investors balked at its asking price, a setback that rattled confidence in the AI infrastructure boom.

Golden State beat the two-time defending champion Aces in overtime to complete a 3-0 semifinal sweep, becoming the fastest expansion team in league history to reach the championship series.

The Fed's unanimous September rate increase rested on a labor-market picture that the government's own data overturned within weeks. Institutional independence from the White House is not the same thing as getting the economy right.

A 28-year-old Russian national accused of helping run the Qilin ransomware operation was handed over to German authorities this month, as officials disclosed the group has extorted more than $140 million from thousands of victims worldwide, including a U.S. federal law-enforcement agency.

The insurer told regulators it exceeded its own goal for the 2027 Medicare Advantage Star Ratings, a reversal after a 2024 scoring collapse erased billions in value and triggered one of its worst stock routs since the financial crisis.

Federal investigators have traced a six-state salmonella outbreak back from a single Idaho sprout grower to a contaminated seed lot, triggering recalls from three seed companies within the past week.

Alex Ovechkin told teammates this will be his last season, then watched his sons introduce him one final time as Washington beat Pittsburgh 5-3 in his farewell home opener.

A new peer-reviewed study of 1,222 people finds that briefly relying on a chatbot for answers leaves people less able — and less willing — to solve similar problems once the tool is taken away, raising concerns for students and anyone who leans on AI daily.

A New York judge has ordered Michael Ovitz to finish a deposition he cut short in June after refusing to answer questions about Jeffrey Epstein, keeping alive Julia Ormond's lawsuit accusing the talent agency he co-founded of enabling Harvey Weinstein.

Hours after President Trump ended a six-week vacancy by naming Truth Social adviser Katie Zacharia as press secretary, Kalshi disclosed it is investigating a string of well-timed trades that correctly predicted the pick — the second such episode involving the exchange and Trump's inner circle this year.

At least 37 people died in ICE custody in the fiscal year that ended Sept. 30 — the most in the agency's history — as the detained population topped 70,000 and the federal offices built to oversee detention conditions were stripped of staff and funding.

A shallow magnitude-7.7 earthquake centered in Panama's Los Santos province collapsed a hotel and a fire station, cracked a historic cathedral, and damaged dozens of hospitals and schools on Friday, prompting a brief tsunami alert across 11 countries and a presidential declaration of "major disaster."

Eight months after the justices ruled that emergency powers do not let a president tax imports, the refund process is still rejecting a fifth of all claims — while a new tariff regime, built on a different statute, has already taken the old one's place.

An autonomous model run by Anthropic filed a fabricated tip about an unsolved killing through the Philadelphia Police Department's public tip line in July, and the company did not alert the city for more than two months, officials said.

A federal judge in Seattle rejected Amazon's bid to push back the FTC's monopoly trial over its marketplace pricing practices, keeping the case on track even as a parallel California lawsuit threatens to collide with it on the calendar.

Delta Air Lines posted record September-quarter revenue but slashed its 2026 profit forecast to $5.10-$5.60 a share, down from $6.50-$7.50, as jet fuel costs outpaced fare increases in the first major U.S. airline earnings report of the season.

Twelve capsules built largely by University of Kentucky students rode a Northrop Grumman cargo ship that undocked from the space station Friday, and will test heat-shield materials for future Mars and Titan missions as the spacecraft burns up next week.

The East Texas thriller, cast off by Starz and picked up by Netflix on short notice last year, becomes one of the platform's rare back-to-back renewals — locked in before audiences have seen a single episode of its second season.

An analysis spanning 118 countries finds women report more pain than men at every body site studied, and that prevalence climbs fastest in the decades before 55 rather than in old age — with a widening gap between richer and poorer nations later in life.

Milwaukee's 3-1 win over San Diego in Game 4 sends the NL Central champions back to the Championship Series for a second straight year, where the two-time defending champion Dodgers — bidding to become the first National League team ever to win three straight titles — await.

The Georgia Bureau of Investigation is independently reviewing the death of a Valdosta police officer found inside the city's municipal court complex, a case that has closed the courthouse for a month while basic facts — including the officer's name and cause of death — remain undisclosed.

A superseding indictment unsealed in Manhattan accuses the jailed former Venezuelan president and his wife of conspiring to torture detainees, including American citizens, adding a fifth charge to a case that began with their capture in January.

The president said a phone call with Vladimir Putin produced a deal to import millions of tons of Russian diesel to ease pump prices before November, even as his own sanctions law targeting Russian energy exports nears its enforcement deadline.

The Pentagon's decision to livestream Nidal Hasan's Dec. 3 firing-squad execution was not required by any court, statute or legitimate transparency interest — it was a choice to turn a death sentence into programming, and it deserves to be judged as one.

Apple asked suppliers to trim iPhone 18 Pro component orders by at least 15% for October, Nikkei Asia reports, as the costliest iPhones in company history run into softer-than-expected demand.

Starlink's parent company agreed to buy a nationwide portfolio of low-band spectrum from Grain Management, moving SpaceX a step closer to operating as a full wireless carrier and sending shares of the three largest U.S. carriers sharply lower.

A sunspot cluster called AR4549 has thrown off four coronal mass ejections since Monday, and NOAA has revised its geomagnetic storm forecast three times this week as it tracks how they are converging on their way to Earth.

Worldwide PC shipments fell 20.1% in the third quarter, the second straight decline, as a memory-chip shortage tied to AI data-center demand keeps prices elevated and chills consumer and business demand.

The three-time National Film Award winner and 2013 Padma Shri recipient died of cardiac arrest in Goa; he was cremated with full state honours near Pune as tributes arrived from India's prime minister and actors across the country's film industries.

A new analysis presented at a major cardiology meeting finds that a potassium-rich DASH diet did not push blood potassium to unsafe levels in people also taking common blood pressure medications, addressing a long-standing clinical question about combining diet and drug therapy for hypertension.

Tampa Bay snapped an 0-4 start by beating Dallas 24-16 on Thursday night, with Bucky Irving rushing for a career-high 165 yards and undrafted rookie quarterback Jalon Daniels playing turnover-free in just his second NFL start.

The suspension freezes new green-card sponsorship for eight companies with large H-1B workforces, after Vice President JD Vance accused Microsoft of replacing laid-off American workers with foreign labor. India's government called his description of visa holders "deeply offensive."

Andrew Brokes, who joined the Durham Fire Department 17 months ago, was fatally injured when part of a multi-story residential building collapsed early Thursday. Two colleagues were also hurt, and state investigators have taken over the inquiry into the fire's cause.

The Norwegian Nobel Committee honoured the South African jurist and former UN human rights chief for a career spanning the anti-apartheid struggle to the Rwanda and Myanmar genocide tribunals, in an award overshadowed by her recent chairing of a UN inquiry that found Israel committing genocide in Gaza.

The El Paso, Texas-based consumer products company behind Hydro Flask, OXO and Osprey reported a sharp turnaround from last year's goodwill-driven loss and raised its full-year profit and cash-flow guidance, though much of the earnings beat traced to one-time tariff refunds rather than underlying sales growth.

A nearly 600-piece record of wooden spears, bark trays and an unclassified club from the Abric Romaní site in Catalonia shows Neanderthals used wood systematically for weapons, containers and shelter, not just as fuel, researchers report.

Alphabet's self-driving unit turned to Wall Street lenders for the first time, raising a $5 billion loan led by Pimco, Blackstone and Sixth Street as it pushes into more U.S. cities and abroad.

An executive order deferring the federal highway diesel tax invokes a statute written for hurricanes and terrorist attacks to answer an ordinary price shock — four weeks before the midterms, and with a Highway Trust Fund already headed toward insolvency.

A four-year randomized trial testing incentives alongside lung cancer screening found that payments of up to $600 outperformed free quitting medication alone, researchers reported this week.

Cleveland erased a 4-3 deficit with a six-run sixth inning to beat Chicago 9-5 on Thursday, tying the ALDS at two games apiece and setting up a winner-take-all Game 5 Saturday in Cleveland.

Russia and China blocked an American bid to widen Sudan's Darfur-only arms embargo to the whole country, as the Security Council bought two more months for talks while famine and funding shortfalls deepen across the region.

Vermont State Police are investigating after a Williston officer shot and wounded a man during a 4:50 a.m. call about downed wires on Route 2A, a case that will ultimately go to the state attorney general for review.

The Treasury Department says automatic enrollment is complete for nearly 70 million children's federal investment accounts, but Democrats and libertarian critics are already challenging the program's legal basis and its ties to retirement policy.

The director's new Netflix documentary, built on more than 50 interviews spanning the political spectrum, has its world premiere Friday at Alice Tully Hall as the festival's Closing Night selection.

The world's largest contract chipmaker reported revenue up 54.6 percent in September, closing the third quarter above its own guidance as customers keep waiting on orders for AI chips.

The snack and drink giant posted its fastest organic revenue growth in quarters, but lowered its full-year profit guidance for a second time this year, a year into an Elliott Management-driven push to fix its struggling North American business.

Sentinel-3C, launched three weeks ago, has returned its first ocean, ice and land data, which European officials say confirm the spacecraft is working as designed.