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The eastern Pacific has a new problem, and it’s getting stronger by the hour. Tropical Storm Vance, which formed on Wednesday, October 21, is churning several hundred miles south of Acapulco — and the National Hurricane Center says it won’t stay a tropical storm for long. Vance is forecast to become a hurricane tonight, October … Read more
Here’s a number that keeps defying the gloom. US jobless claims fell 6,000 to a seasonally adjusted 194,000 in the week ended October 17, the Labor Department reported Thursday — beating the 200,000 economists polled by Reuters had expected and landing within striking distance of a 57-year low. It was the sixth straight week claims … Read more
The AI agent wars just got a third heavyweight. The Anthropic new AI agent, called Claude Duet, launched Wednesday as a research preview for paying U.S. subscribers — aimed squarely at Meta’s Muse and OpenAI’s dots, which beat it to market. Anthropic, which could file for its IPO as soon as Friday per Investopedia, is … Read more
Wednesday night in Columbus belonged to the visitors. The St. Louis CITY first trophy celebration spilled onto the field at ScottsMiracle-Gro Field after the club beat the Columbus Crew 5-3 in a penalty shootout to lift the 2026 Lamar Hunt U.S. Open Cup. One hundred and twenty scoreless minutes solved nothing, so the 111th final … Read more
Construction on President Donald Trump’s controversial 250-foot triumphal arch in Washington could begin as early as November 5 — two days after the November 3 midterms. The date was revealed in a Trump administration court filing Wednesday, per CNN, setting off a fresh wave of opposition. The Trump DC arch has been fought over for … Read more
Meta Platforms just delivered one of the strangest earnings reports of the season: revenue of $64.6 billion, up 26% from $51.24 billion a year earlier and above the roughly $63.3 billion expected — paired with net income of only $9.86 billion because a single roughly $9.89 billion legal charge ate almost everything. The stock initially … Read more
Americans are voting early in numbers that have caught both parties’ attention. An Associated Press analysis finds early voting in Texas up 74% versus the same point in 2022. Kansas has more than doubled its early vote totals; Maine, North Carolina, and Ohio are each up more than 30%. With the November 3 midterms less … Read more
Saudi Arabia woke up on Thursday to its worst week of Houthi strikes in months. The Saudi Civil Aviation Authority announced early Thursday that one person was killed and eight injured in a late Wednesday attack on King Fahd International Airport in Dammam. The latest Houthi attacks Saudi Arabia has absorbed mark a sharp escalation: … Read more
An arizona severe storm tornado warning jolted Flagstaff awake before sunrise on Wednesday, the sharpest alert in a climatologically rare outbreak that kept most of Arizona under some kind of weather alert through Thursday. By midmorning, forecasters had issued six tornado warnings across northern Arizona, hail was smashing cars in Mesa, and floodwater had shut … Read more
The eBay layoffs 1100 jobs announcement arrived on October 21 in the form that has become grimly routine in corporate America: a staff memo, a carefully worded statement about "thoughtful choices," and roughly eleven hundred people about to learn their jobs are gone. Reuters reviewed the internal memo from CEO Jamie Iannone, who told employees … Read more
