Europe / Defence — The Commission opened the €21.3 billion left unclaimed in the EU’s €150 billion SAFE defence-loan scheme to all member states on Thursday — leftover borrowing capacity, not new money — and urged capitals to spend it on joint procurement with Ukraine, starting with air defence, drones and ammunition.
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Economy / Markets — The Nasdaq Composite fell 1.38 percent to 26,184.72 and the S&P 500 slipped 0.30 percent as Alphabet plunged 12.6 percent after earnings — while small caps, health care and financial stocks rose.
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The Jeffery Simmons trade is the kind of deal the NFL almost never makes. The Chicago Bears have agreed to acquire the All-Pro defensive tackle from the Tennessee Titans for first-round picks in 2027 and 2028 plus a…
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The headline indexes fell on Thursday, but the selling was really one company's story. Alphabet's worst day in years dragged the Nasdaq down 1.4 percent, while small caps, health care and financial stocks rose — a…
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The Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant drone attack reportedly killed a welder at its repair workshop, the IAEA said. Grossi called attacks on plant staff unacceptable.
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The UN nuclear watchdog says it has been informed that an employee of Europe's largest nuclear plant was killed by a drone. The victim was reportedly a welder in the plant's repair workshop. The agency named no…
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A Sterlitamak drone strike hit the Bashkir Soda plant, Russia's only maker of a key body-armor chemical, in a record 1,214-drone overnight wave, reports say.
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Thick white smoke rose over the Bashkir Soda Company in Sterlitamak on Thursday morning — a plant that is Russia's only source of a chemical that goes into body armour — during an overnight wave Moscow says was the…
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Four Italian personnel — two Army sergeants and two Italian Red Cross military volunteers — were killed and 11 injured when their CH-47 Chinook came down near Brcko on a training flight for the EU's Operation Althea.
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Four Italian personnel — two Army sergeants and two Italian Red Cross military volunteers — were killed and 11 injured when their CH-47 Chinook came down near Brcko on a training flight for the EU's Operation Althea.
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Operation Dragon Covenant tested whether one engineer company could bury 2,400 fallen troops in 24 hours — and the Army's own numbers explain why a skill buried since 1953 is being dug back up.
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Operation Dragon Covenant tested whether one engineer company could bury 2,400 fallen troops in 24 hours — and the Army's own numbers explain why a skill buried since 1953 is being dug back up.
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US / Colorado — Kaden Matsuda, 19, and Jackson Donlon, 20, set out for Ice Mountain with a map, a plan and the right gear. A Saturday snowstorm turned the climb fatal, and searchers found them Wednesday in a basin of West Apostle Mountain. The sheriff who ran the search says they had followed almost every safety rule he teaches.
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US — Two Colorado Mountain College students who set out for Ice Mountain with a map, a plan and the right gear were found dead Wednesday in a basin of West Apostle Mountain, after a days-long search through the…
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Erin Patterson went to court on Friday hoping to win a retrial. She lost everything twice: her conviction appeal was dismissed, and the 33-year parole chance that was her only road out of prison was scrapped — she will now die in prison unless Australia's High Court intervenes.
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Erin Patterson went to court on Friday hoping to win a retrial. She left it — on a video link from her maximum-security cell — having lost everything twice: Victoria's Court of Appeal dismissed her appeal against her…
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World / Europe — An eight-year-old girl was seriously injured when at least one Arctic wolf attacked her inside an enclosure during a children’s zookeeper experience at Wildpark Johannismühle. Police are investigating the employee who was present, and regulators — not the park — will decide when it can reopen.
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World — An eight-year-old girl was seriously injured inside an Arctic wolf enclosure during a children’s zookeeper experience at Wildpark Johannismühle in Brandenburg. Police are investigating the employee who was…
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Economy / Markets — The U.S. economy grew at a 3.4% annual rate in the third quarter — the fastest pace in a year and stronger than economists forecast — powered by an AI-driven investment boom, a government-spending rebound and a consumer who keeps spending. But the same morning brought the other half of the story: September inflation rose to 3.6%, real take-home pay fell, and the saving rate sank to its lowest in nearly four years.
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Europe / Defence — The European Commission on Thursday opened the €21.3 billion left unclaimed in the EU SAFE defence fund — the bloc’s €150 billion joint-borrowing scheme for weapons — to every member state, and…
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Economy / Markets — The U.S. economy grew at a 3.4% annual rate in the third quarter — the fastest pace in a year and stronger than economists forecast — powered by an AI-driven investment boom, a government-spending…
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A viral post claiming Australia had issued an emergency request to stockpile food and water is false: it splices Britain's Be Ready campaign, an Australian opinion piece and a Japanese minister's planned announcement — and the Australian Red Cross says explicitly that Australians should not stockpile.
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World / Fact check — The Australia stockpile emergency request is false: a viral post viewed about 214,000 times spliced a British government campaign, an Australian opinion piece and a Japanese minister’s planned…
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U.S. District Judge David Carter rejected the Justice Department’s emergency bid to stop California counting mail ballots from more than 20,000 voters the administration alleges are likely noncitizens — the second federal court in a week to refuse — and warned that threats to state and county election employees must cease immediately. The underlying lawsuit continues.
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War / Sudan — Kamikaze drones knocked out the Um Dabaker power station at Rabak early on Thursday, cutting power to White Nile and North Kordofan on the fourth day of strikes on Sudan’s grid — hours after Khartoum accused Ethiopia of hosting the launch sites.
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Business / Markets — The DoorDash buys Instacart deal is signed. DoorDash announced on Thursday, October 29, 2026, alongside its third-quarter results, that it has reached a definitive agreement to acquire Instacart — formally Maplebear Inc. — for about $17 billion, or $65.00 a share in cash and stock. The deal ends Instacart’s run as an independent company three years after its stock-market debut, hands DoorDash the grocery technology it has spent years trying to build, and sets up a regulatory review that is not expected to conclude until late 2027 or the first half of 2028.
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Business / Markets — The DoorDash buys Instacart deal is signed. DoorDash announced on Thursday, October 29, 2026, alongside its third-quarter results, that it has reached a definitive agreement to acquire Instacart…
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Amazon’s cloud unit grew 39% to $46 billion in the third quarter, its fastest pace in nearly five years, and group operating income beat forecasts at a record 13.9% margin. But earnings per share missed, quarterly capital spending hit $77.3 billion, and free cash flow swung to a $42.4 billion outflow over the past year — and Amazon stock fell after earnings as investors weighed the AI bill.
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Twitch streamer Hasan Piker has filed a 38-page federal defamation complaint against CNN commentator Scott Jennings, seeking $72.5 million and alleging Jennings aired a manipulated 42-second clip, invented a quotation, and falsely told a national audience Piker was calling for Black voters to be lynched. The claims are allegations in a complaint, not court findings; Jennings declined or did not respond to requests for comment.
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A federal judge refused the Justice Department’s emergency demand to stop California counting mail ballots from more than 20,000 voters the Trump administration alleges are likely noncitizens — and warned federal…
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