The Fed December rate hike debate took a sharper turn on Thursday. Speaking at an economic forum in Istanbul, Federal Reserve Governor Christopher Waller said additional interest-rate increases will probably be needed to drag inflation back to the Fed’s 2% target — then immediately softened the blow by saying the Fed doesn’t have to move … Read more
The USA Today OpenAI Lawsuit landed Thursday in Manhattan federal court. USA Today Co. and several newspapers it owns are accusing OpenAI of copying hundreds of thousands of their copyrighted articles — without permission — to train the large language models behind ChatGPT. They’re asking for more than $250 million in damages and a court … Read more
The Houthi attacks Saudi airports this week killed three people and wounded 36 others in two missile and drone strikes — one in the capital Riyadh, one in the southern city of Abha. Saudi Arabia answered with dozens of airstrikes inside Yemen, and by Thursday afternoon, hundreds of flights out of Riyadh were cancelled or … Read more
CNN Polling Team Senate Races Iowa Ohio Analysis: Polling Error Risks The CNN polling team Senate races Iowa Ohio data analysis reveals a nuanced picture of the Senate battleground landscape. Public surveys across key Midwestern states show surprisingly competitive numbers for Democratic candidates, but historical polling patterns urge caution. CNN chief data analyst Harry Enten … Read more
Anne Carson Nobel Prize — The 2026 Nobel Prize in Literature has a winner, and she was listening to the wind when she found out. Canadian poet, essayist, and translator Anne Carson was named this year’s laureate by the Swedish Academy on Thursday, October 8, honored “for her bold and inventive oeuvre that, in playful … Read more
Samsung Electronics just did something no technology company has ever done. On Thursday, the South Korean giant forecast a Samsung record quarterly profit of 107.4 trillion won — about $80 billion — for the July-to-September period, a nearly nine-fold jump powered by insatiable global demand for the memory chips that feed artificial intelligence. It’s the … Read more
Buckle up: the Pacific is about to get a lot more interesting. The El Nino peak December 2026 outlook from the World Meteorological Organization, issued Thursday, October 8, 2026, says this year’s El Niño will keep intensifying before peaking in December — and it could rank among the strongest such events since records began in … Read more
Margaret Hamilton Apollo dies — the computer scientist whose code carried Apollo astronauts to the moon, and who gave the world the very term “software engineering,” died at 90. The Massachusetts Institute of Technology, her longtime professional home, announced her death on Wednesday; she passed away on September 30 in Cambridge, Massachusetts. The Margaret Hamilton … Read more
The war with Iran is costing the United States far more in the air than previously known. A new Congressional Research Service report, dated October 5, puts the US aircraft losses Iran war tally at 81 aircraft lost or damaged since operations began — nearly double the 42 counted in May, with a total value … Read more
The 2026 Atlantic hurricane season finally has its threat. Tropical Storm Isaias — the ninth named storm of the year — formed Wednesday morning, October 7, in the Gulf of Mexico, and it is gathering strength fast. The National Hurricane Center projects Tropical Storm Isaias will become a hurricane by Thursday morning and could approach … Read more
