President Donald Trump announced a surprise russia ukraine energy ceasefire on Sunday, declaring on Truth Social that both sides had agreed to stop hitting each other’s energy infrastructure, effective immediately. The post landed like a thunderclap — not least in Kyiv, where President Volodymyr Zelensky admitted the announcement was news to him. “Effective immediately, there … Read more
Hurricane Isaias tore into the Florida Panhandle on Friday night, October 9, 2026, and by Saturday morning the scope of the damage was coming into focus. The storm made landfall near Destin around 8:30 p.m. as a Category 2 hurricane with 105-mph winds, then pushed north through Alabama, weakening to a post-tropical cyclone by the … Read more
The Netflix layoffs story is back — this time reportedly bigger than anything the company has done in four years. Streaming giant Netflix is preparing to cut about 5% of its global workforce, with an announcement expected as early as next week, the entertainment newsletter Puck reported on Friday, October 9, 2026. The company declined … Read more
Nvidia Reflection AI — Nvidia wants more of Reflection AI, and this time it might not settle for a stake. The Financial Times reported Saturday that Nvidia is in talks to either deepen its investment in the open-weight AI startup or acquire it outright, citing people with direct knowledge of the matter. The discussions are … Read more
One game decides it all. Saturday night at Progressive Field, the Chicago White Sox and the Cleveland Guardians meet in ALDS Game 5, a winner-take-all battle with a trip to the American League Championship Series on the line. The Tampa Bay Rays, already through, are waiting on the other side. First pitch is set for … Read more
Donald Trump walked onto the stage in Syracuse on Saturday night with a promise wrapped in a deadline. Less than a month before the November 3 midterm elections, the president laid out a sweeping campaign agenda — and its centerpiece was cash: $5,000 for every adult American citizen, a payout he calls the Trump dividend. … Read more
American shoppers have had it. Consumer sentiment sank again in early October, sliding to 46.3 on the University of Michigan’s closely followed index — the second-worst reading since the survey began in 1952. Only this past May’s record low of 44.8 was gloomier. The preliminary October number, released Friday, missed expectations badly. Economists polled by … Read more
The ICE shooting Bronx confrontation on Thursday afternoon, October 8, started as a targeted arrest and ended with gunfire in a residential street, a man wounded in the neck, and a 5-year-old boy sitting in the back seat of the car that agents fired into. Within hours, the ICE shooting Bronx incident had become the … Read more
The Trump Putin call on Friday, October 9, was supposed to be about something else entirely. White House aides had said the two presidents would discuss a suspected case of plague in Russia. Instead, the 90-minute conversation ended with a stunning announcement: Russia would ship millions of tons of diesel fuel to the United States … Read more
Southern California can't catch a break this week. Tropical Storm Rachel is churning northward off Mexico's Pacific coast and steering straight for a weekend collision with a region that just spent days baking under record-breaking October heat. Forecasters say the storm's remnants could dump heavy rain, whip up dangerous surf, and trigger coastal flooding across … Read more
