Italian officials fear the Mafia may be linked to the theft of 4 Renaissance paintings by Antonello da Messina in Sicily.

Alphabet is reportedly seeking $3,600,000,000.00 in its first-ever Australian bond sale to help fund its AI spending boom.

UK Labour MP Bayo Alaba has been suspended from the party as it investigates allegations involving unpaid Covid business loans.

Study reveals 64% of young men who day trade stocks daily say they feel like “failures.”

AOC is distancing herself from past positions on defunding police, prison abolition, & decriminalizing border crossings ahead of a potential 2028 run. — Axios

Slovak police carry out controlled explosion of a WWII mine found in the Danube River.

UK PM Andy Burnham reportedly exchanged messages with someone impersonating White House Chief of Staff Susie Wiles.

Alibaba launches AI music generation model “HappyShrimp”

Russia sentences opposition politician Lev Shlosberg to 11 years in a penal colony for speaking against the war in Ukraine.

Goldman Sachs declares a September Fed rate hike is “unlikely.” 24% chance.

GitHub is currently experiencing a widespread outage.

Senator Elizabeth Warren calls for a crackdown on “dynamic pricing”

Nike stock crashes to a 12-year low.

Social media users are calling for Halloween to become “De-Flock America” night, targeting Flock surveillance cameras while people are out in masks.

Trump threatens military action against Oman if it "interferes" with U.S.-Iran negotiations.

European Central Bank warns the AI stock boom is “likely” headed for a correction.

Wispr Flow surges to a $2,000,000,000.00 valuation after raising $280 million in fresh funding.

Trump declares Iran should “put up the white flag of surrender.”

Uber Eats to launch drone delivery with Zipline in the U.S., with the companies aiming for 1 million daily deliveries by 2029.

U.S. robotics company Foundation pitches deploying humanoid robots to patrol the southern border, saying a pilot could begin “tomorrow.”

UBS reiterates a "Buy" rating on SpaceX with a $210 price target, citing major upside from Starlink growth.

U.S. Navy awards Raytheon $22,900,000,000.00 to ramp up Tomahawk missile production.

Iran reveals an “understanding” has been reached with Oman on a new Strait of Hormuz transit route.

AI startup Higgsfield quadruples its valuation to $5,400,000,000.00 in just six months.

Trial begins for Duane “Keffe D” Davis, accused of masterminding Tupac Shakur’s 1996 murder in Las Vegas.

Grubhub partners with Serve Robotics to deploy autonomous food delivery robots across multiple U.S. cities.

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DR Congo’s Ebola outbreak officially becomes the deadliest in the country’s history.

France calls a crisis meeting after a cyberattack exposed data from 678,000 individual & business tax accounts.

Reform UK proposes banning all foreign nationals, including EU citizens with settled status, from claiming most welfare benefits.

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Türkiye’s Erdogan urges immediate reopening of the Strait of Hormuz.

Iran advances a bill that would criminalize interviews with U.S., Israeli, & other media deemed “hostile,” carrying up to 2 years in prison.

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Jared Kushner meets directly with Hamas leaders in Egypt to push Trump’s Gaza peace plan.

China aims to build a closed-loop recycling system for EV batteries, wind equipment, & solar panels before 2030.

Sophie Cunningham's name banned from the r/WNBA subreddit.

Ferrari’s first production Luce EV sells for a record $40 million at charity auction.

Bitcoin has remained in the “Fire Sale” zone for longer than at any point in its history, according to the Bitcoin Rainbow Price Chart.

Trump declares that anyone who thinks the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool wasn’t vandalized should “go back to law school”

Granola sold nationwide on Amazon is recalled over potential salmonella contamination.

China’s burger market is booming, with the category projected to grow 8.7% annually through 2035 as Five Guys, Wendy’s, & more race to expand. — Reuters

Strait of Hormuz traffic nearly grinds to a halt, with just 5 commodity vessels crossing Saturday & zero on Sunday.

Mississippi 4th graders rank No. 1 in U.S. for reading & math score improvement since 2013, after ranking 49th in reading & 50th in math that year.

UC Berkeley calculus professor reveals some students are “five to eight years behind in mathematics,” blaming the university’s abandonment of SAT & ACT requirements.

Analysis reveals Bernie Sanders leads Congress in total social media following at 35.7 million, with AOC the only lawmaker close behind at 28.6 million

Anthropic's Claude is currently experiencing a "major outage."

Wanted man in the U.K. climbs onto a roof & refuses to surrender for 48 hours — officers wait until he falls asleep, then climb up & apprehend him.

Man arrested at Tokyo airport attempting to smuggle roughly 200 lizards stuffed inside 22 pairs of socks.

Trump orders U.S. to “substantially reduce” joint military exercises with South Korea, calling them inappropriate & hostile toward North Korea.

Stripe is reportedly nearing a deal to acquire AI platform OpenRouter for more than $7,000,000,000.00.

The 60-day US-Iran Memorandum of Understanding is set to expire tomorrow, with no extension agreed.

Axios partners with OpenAI to automate parts of its local news production.

Researchers warn violent AI “slop” videos could push young users toward increasingly graphic content & online radicalization.

Startup Amble launches a $345 “Oh Sh*t Bag” containing radiation exposure drugs in case of a nuclear catastrophe — available through Klarna’s buy-now-pay-later service.

Sergey Brin has reportedly now spent $102 million fighting California’s proposed billionaire tax.

CBS poll reveals 58% of Democrats now view socialism positively, compared with just 32% who view capitalism positively.

Cristiano Ronaldo reveals this season is “probably my last year of football.”

OpenAI’s “Astra” model now projected to be released within a month. 52% chance.

Greek officials urge Trump to pressure Britain into returning the Parthenon Marbles, saying he would be celebrated by the Greeks for “thousands of years.”

Hundreds of migrants stage a protest in Ceuta, chanting “We don’t want to go back to Morocco” & demanding asylum.

NYC Mayor Mamdani delivers an announcement entirely in Mandarin Chinese, unveiling 2,000+ free Broadway tickets for students.

“Spider-Man: Brand New Day” officially surpasses $2,000,000,000.00 worldwide after just three weekends.

Crypto wallet provider SafePal discloses a data breach exposing personal & purchase information for nearly 40,000 customers.

Belgium’s largest wildfire on record advances toward the German border.

Pet owners are increasingly giving their dogs & cats experimental anti-aging treatments, including rapamycin, peptides, & red light therapy. — Bloomberg

Vivek Ramaswamy surges to reclaim the lead in the odds for Ohio governor. 53% chance.

Nvidia reportedly in talks to invest up to $3 billion in SoftBank’s SB Energy to help develop a massive OpenAI data center in Ohio.