Fewer Americans filed for unemployment benefits last week than almost anyone expected. US jobless claims slipped to 197,000 for the week ended October 3, according to the Labor Department's Thursday report, coming in below the 200,000 economists had penciled in. It's the fourth straight week that new claims have hovered near 57-year lows — a … Read more
The Apple October 27 event is the date every Mac fan should circle — if Bloomberg's Mark Gurman is right. Fresh reporting says Apple will hold its second product launch of October on or around Tuesday, October 27, and the headline act is something Apple watchers have waited decades for: the company's first-ever touchscreen Mac. … Read more
The Messi Argentina retirement became official on Tuesday night in Buenos Aires, and somehow the script felt too perfect to be real. A packed Estadio Monumental. A giant “Gracias” jersey stretched across the pitch. And Lionel Messi — 39 years old, playing his 208th and final match for the national team — scored one and … Read more
With less than a month until the November 3 midterms, the Supreme Court handed the Trump administration its second victory in a quiet but high-stakes fight over how much political ads cost on television and radio. On October 8, the justices blocked a lower court’s attempt to force the Federal Communications Commission to rule on … Read more
The typical American family earned more and owned more in 2025 than it did three years earlier — and yet, a growing number of households were buckling under the weight of their own debt. That's the headline from the Fed Consumer Finances Survey released on Friday, October 9, 2026, a sweeping snapshot of how the … Read more
Michigan’s attorney general just declared war on the biggest name in the state’s health insurance market. On Thursday, October 8, 2026, Attorney General Dana Nessel filed a sweeping federal complaint accusing Blue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan of running an illegal monopoly — one that allegedly drove premiums up, pushed provider payments down to some … Read more
On Friday, October 9, 2026, Washington took the most aggressive step yet in its long-running fight with the International Criminal Court. The Trump administration announced sweeping US sanctions ICC measures targeting the court itself as an institution — not just individual judges and prosecutors. The announcement landed just hours after the Norwegian Nobel Committee awarded … Read more
While the Southeast watches Hurricane Isaias churn toward the Gulf Coast, the other side of the country is getting a very different storm. The Rockies snowstorm October 2026 is expected to deliver the first widespread snowfall of the season across the northern Rockies this weekend, with up to a foot possible at the highest elevations. … Read more
The Amazon layoffs October 2026 arrived with brutal timing. On Wednesday, October 7, Amazon confirmed it had eliminated what it called a “small number” of corporate jobs, most of them inside its Stores division — the unit that runs the company’s main e-commerce website. The cuts landed right as Prime Big Deal Days, one of … Read more
The SpaceX Crew-12 splashdown happened right on schedule Thursday morning. At 11:34 a.m. Eastern time, a SpaceX Crew Dragon capsule parachuted into the Pacific Ocean off the coast of Los Angeles, carrying four astronauts home after nearly eight months aboard the International Space Station. It was the 20th time SpaceX has sent humans into orbit … Read more
