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Kimberly Guilfoyle resigns as the United States ambassador to Greece, ending a posting that lasted less than a year and collapsing under two separate ethics allegations. The White House asked her to step down on Tuesday, October 13, and she confirmed her departure the following day in a social media post calling the job the … Read more
Wednesday’s hot CPI inflation report landed like a slap. September prices rose 3.7% from a year earlier — hotter than August’s 3.4%, hotter than the 3.6% economists were expecting — and Wall Street didn’t take it well. The Nasdaq sank 1.88%, the S&P 500 gave up 1.11%, and a handful of high-flying AI stocks got … Read more
President Donald Trump told a Rose Garden audience on October 15 that he wants the ultimate punishment for anyone who kills a firefighter — the death penalty. Speaking at a White House luncheon honoring firefighters and first responders, Trump said he had directed Attorney General Todd Blanche to pursue capital punishment against “anybody that murders … Read more
The Middle East slid into a more dangerous phase this week. The Houthi Aramco attack — a strike by Iran-backed Houthi rebels on an office building owned by Saudi Arabia’s oil giant — set off alarms across global energy markets, and oil prices jumped within hours. Coming just days after a separate Iranian cargo ship … Read more
October is supposed to mean sweaters, falling leaves, and crisp mornings. This week, a record October heat wave meant air conditioners running full blast. A record October heat wave has gripped much of the eastern and southern United States, pushing thermometers to levels the calendar simply doesn’t expect in mid-October. Cincinnati broke a temperature record … Read more
The Netflix layoffs 2026 landed like a punch no one at the streaming giant saw coming — even though, in hindsight, the warning signs had been piling up for months. On Wednesday morning, co-CEOs Greg Peters and Ted Sarandos sent an email to employees announcing the Netflix layoffs 2026, cutting roughly 1,000 positions worldwide — … Read more
The machines in your kitchen might soon be running an AI you never installed. That’s the unsettling picture painted by new research from Anthropic, and the phrase Anthropic AI self-replication is suddenly everywhere in tech circles this week. It’s not science fiction anymore. Not quite, anyway. What Anthropic’s Researchers Actually Found Anthropic’s Frontier Red Team … Read more
After more than three decades away, Formula 1 is coming back to Africa. The sport confirmed on Tuesday, October 13, 2026, that it has signed a 10-year agreement with Rwanda for the African Grand Prix — a race that will run under the title “presented by Visit Rwanda” on a brand-new circuit in Bugesera, roughly … Read more
The Texas Senate race is officially a coin flip, and both campaigns know it. A new Marist poll puts Democrat James Talarico at 47% and Republican Ken Paxton at 45% among likely voters, a two-point gap that sits well inside the poll’s margin of error. With early voting opening October 19 and Election Day landing … Read more
Wall Street got the CPI inflation report it didn’t want on Wednesday. Core inflation printed 2.6% for September — just a tenth of a point above the 2.5% economists polled by Reuters had expected, but enough to flip the interest-rate script. Stocks opened lower across the board, bond yields jumped, and traders started pricing in … Read more
