Health / Economy — KFF's 2026 benchmark survey: total family premiums hit $28,303, workers' share jumped $621 in a year — two and a half times the pace of wage growth — and small-firm workers pay $2,847 more than…
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Economy / Bonds — France's 10-year yield hit 5.06% on Thursday, October 22 — its highest since 2002, above U.S. Treasuries for the first time since 2013, and 164 basis points over Germany, the widest gap since the…
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Technology / Edge AI — BrainChip's new AKD1500 SPI chip pairs its event-based Akida processor with a standard microcontroller, opening neuromorphic AI to the high-volume consumer, industrial and healthcare devices…
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Technology / Semiconductors — South Korea's Maeil Business Newspaper reports Nvidia and Tesla will finance about $2.8 billion of new FC-BGA substrate plants for Samsung Electro-Mechanics — the unglamorous layer every…
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Technology / AI Chips — At GTC Berlin, Nvidia committed $1.1 billion to chip testing, a 15-fold expansion of optics capacity and 2.5 times more substrate supply by 2028 — while CEO Jensen Huang argued its chips…
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Politics / Polling — The major national trackers put President Donald Trump's approval between 31% and 39% on October 22, averaging about 38% — with Republican approval holding at 70–75% and independents driving the…
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Politics / Energy — An executive order letting farmers burn tax-exempt red-dyed diesel on public roads was meant to cut harvest fuel costs. Farmers told Reuters the saving is small, the residue lasts for years, and…
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Politics / U.S. Midterms — President Donald Trump rallies in Sioux City on Thursday, October 22, in a state he won by 13 points two years ago — where Republicans now defend a Senate seat, three House districts and…
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Markets — Wall Street pointed sharply lower on Thursday, October 22, after Meta and Tesla earnings failed to calm investors about the cost of the AI buildout, while Brent crude above $112 added an energy shock on top…
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Sports / Hockey — Ron Duguay dies at 69 after a battle with stage 4 colon cancer, and the tributes tell you what the numbers alone cannot: for a generation of New York Rangers fans, he was not just a 40-goal scorer,…
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Sports / Cricket — The James Anderson Lancashire contract story has reached the point nobody at Old Trafford wanted to say out loud: the club will not offer England's greatest fast bowler a new deal for 2027, and at…
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US Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth met Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu during an unannounced visit to Israel on Monday and discussed Iran with him, three Israeli officials told Reuters, as tensions flare…
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A market that exists so two communities can trade with each other became, on Monday morning, the deadliest reported scene in Sudan's widening drone war outside the Kordofan strikes of the day before. At least 153…
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Some cellphone users in Riverside County have been unable to reach 911 since the early hours of Thursday, October 22, 2026, in a failure that began with T-Mobile customers in Palm Springs, took down the city of…
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Health / Explained — The Shamonda Schmallenberg bluetongue difference confuses even farmers: all three arrive by midge, all three emptied milk tanks in Europe — but they are different viruses, with different dangers,…
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Health / Explained — Is Shamonda virus dangerous to humans? The honest answer, after the first confirmed human infection in France, is: dangerous to one exceptionally vulnerable man, possibly; to the general public,…
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World / China — The Tibet earthquake magnitude 7.0 recorded late on Thursday struck a high-altitude county in Nagqu prefecture, the strongest earthquake to hit China since January 2024. It was far from certain on…
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World / Science — Ask why does Tibet have earthquakes and the answer starts 50 million years ago, with an entire subcontinent that refused to stop. Thursday's magnitude 7.0 near Nagqu is the latest receipt from the…
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World / China — The blank has filled in, and it is grim: 16 people are confirmed dead and 65 injured after the magnitude 7.0 Nagqu earthquake, with at least 339 homes down and more than 12,000 people relocated. Here…
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Health / Explained — How does Shamonda virus spread? Not from animal to animal, and not from person to person. It travels the way it has for sixty years: inside a biting midge two millimetres long, on legs — and on…
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Health / Explained — What is Shamonda virus? It is a midge-borne livestock virus isolated from a cow's blood in Nigeria in 1965, filed away for sixty years as an animal-only pathogen — until France confirmed it in a…
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Sports / Cricket — The Harry Brook fastest ODI double century anyone has ever seen arrived on Thursday in Rawalpindi: 202 off 116 balls against Sri Lanka, the first double hundred by an England batter in one-day…
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Health / France — The Shamonda virus first human case was confirmed by France on Thursday: a livestock virus carried by biting midges, known to science since the 1960s and long considered unable to infect people, has…
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Politics / Virginia — Louise Lucas indicted was the headline nobody in Richmond expected to read twelve days before a midterm election: the Virginia Senate's president pro tempore, in office since 1991, surrendered…
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World / Nepal — Two Japanese climbers missing in Nepal have not been heard from since October 15, high on Gangapurna West, an unclimbed 7,140-metre Himalayan peak. Helicopter searchers have found a bag — and nothing…
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World / Defence — UK large calibre weapons manufacturing has restarted after a gap of two decades. Rheinmetall UK has begun production at its new gun hall in Telford, making barrels and breeches for 120mm and 155mm…
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Entertainment / India — The Tiger Shroff shooting case began as a drive-by attack on a Bollywood star's car in Juhu. Four days of arrests later, Mumbai Police say the gunmen allegedly surveyed Salman Khan's home…
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Weather / United States — Heber-Overgaard tornado damage is the hard edge of a day forecasters had warned about since morning: a likely tornado, not yet confirmed by the National Weather Service, damaged homes and…
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World / Niger hostages freed — an Austrian woman and a Swiss woman, kidnapped separately in the desert city of Agadez in 2025 and held for more than a year and a half, have been released and have arrived in Benghazi,…
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Politics / The Canada election interference US midterms row escalated on Wednesday, October 21, when the US Embassy in Ottawa published a formal fact sheet accusing the Canadian government of brushing off concerns…
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