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Well there are many who would agree with the upside down USA flag. It means the country is in distress. Many feel US is in distress. I am really shocked how Minnesota has changed.

Amy Klobuchar kisses Somali flag at campaign event — but watch what happens to the American flag - The Daily Bo Snerdley Minnesota gubernatorial candidate Amy Klobuchar appeared before a Somali audience in a video circulating Sunday. Klobuchar accepted a small American flag that was upside down and held it that way while addressing the crowd. She also kissed a Somali flag and touted her work involving remittances sent from Minnesota to Somalia.

In an effort to expand their proselytizing, evangelical Christians have taken to waiting until packed airliners are in flight before bearing witness to unsuspecting fellow travelers. According to a Washington Post report highlighted by Hemant Mehta of the "Friendly Atheist" Substack, evangelicals are unapologetically taking center stage on flights thousands of feet in the air with passengers at their mercy. Those evangelical preachers are also filming their "witnessing" for "social media clout." In an interview with the Post, Whitney Lynn, an evangelist, producer and singer-songwriter from Orlando, confessed she makes a point of speaking on all of her flights, explaining, "They have no choice but to hear the truth. When I have a gift and I have a life raft, if you’re drowning, I want to give you that life raft so you can be saved.” "Brett Raio, 24, a Maine-based music artist and producer, said he has been nervous before urging people to seek Jesus on planes. But he feels compelled to follow the biblical teaching to go into the world and preach the gospel to all creatures. He said he only speaks up on a plane when he feels led by God to do so, and takes seriously the thought that anyone could be spending their last day on Earth," the Post is reporting. Mehta, of the "Friendly Atheist," wrote on his social media platform that there is little airline staff can do to stop this. "There’s unfortunately very little airline staff can do to stop this. While there are rules regarding passengers who are disobedient or belligerent, preaching doesn’t necessarily cross a line. Flight attendants can politely ask them to stop, but I have yet to see any examples of plane preachers getting kicked off flights because they wouldn’t shut up," he wrote. Noting that in a separate TikTok video that Lynn bragged, “I just love a captive audience,” he observed, "The fact that the sermons are unwanted doesn’t bother the evangelists at all because, for once, they have an audience that can’t walk away. And the hope that strangers might convert outweighs any concern that they’ll conclude Christians are lunatics." "Which means we’re just stuck with the possibility Christians may hijack a flight with their voices," he added.

Correction: Having a murderer [not a "murdered"]put to death.....

Christa Pike is angry and confused after surviving execution attempt, attorney says NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Christa Pike was “angry and confused” in the hours after regaining consciousness following Tennessee’s failed execution attempt, first asking, “Where am I?” her lawyer said Wednesday. https://apnews.com/article/christa-pike-tennessee-failed-execution-court-bb47b2ff362d989f642d9f498413aed9?

Christa Pike, a convicted murderer condemned to death, has become a cause celebre. She is more or less a hero to some people. According to the Word of God, she has no right to be alive. By preserving her life, even celebrating it, her supporters are incurring blood guilt. This is true of the State itself, Tennessee. According to Scripture, if a body was found, it would be determined which city the corpse was nearest to. The elders of that city would then be responsible to atone for the death. The guilt of innocent blood would be reckoned to the city if they failed to do this. Unatoned innocent blood incurred the curse of God. Jeremiah 19: 1-10 states that the shedding of innocent blood brought destruction upon Jerusalem. 2 Kings 21 says that Manasseh shed innocent blood, bringing the wrath of God upon Judah and Jerusalem. 2 Kings 24 explicitly states that the destruction of Jerusalem by Nebuchadnezzar was a consequence of the innocent blood Manasseh had shed in Jerusalem. Proverbs 6: 16, 17 lists the shedding of innocent blood as one of the things God hates. I Kings 2 describes the fear Solomon had of innocent blood. Having a murdered put to death was one of his first acts as king.

👋 Good morning! Happy Hump Day. In today's edition: A generation-defining rivalry, Padres survive, Dodgers seize control, EuroLeague rebuffs NBA, Djoker and Carlos win titles, baseball's haves vs. have nots, USMNT wins again, 222-0, and more. Yahoo Sports AM is written by Kendall Baker and Jeff Tracy. Let's sports...   🚨 ICYMI HEADLINES 🏀 EuroLeague rebuffs NBA: The EuroLeague has reportedly rejected the NBA's initial offer to merge and create a single NBA Europe entity, with the offer described as "colonialist." Despite the rejection, negotiations are expected to continue as the NBA aims to launch a 16-team league across the pond as soon as 2027. 🎾 Tennis headlines: Novak Djokovic won the China Open for his 102nd career singles title; Carlos Alcaraz defended his crown at the Tokyo Open; Jannik Sinner ended his season early, meaning Alexander Zverev will become the new ATP World No. 1 (30th in history). 🏈 Eagles legend retires: Six-time Pro Bowl right tackle Lane Johnson abruptly announced his retirement on Tuesday, ending a 14-year career spent entirely in Philadelphia. To sum up his impact: The Eagles were 122-63-1 (.659) when he played and 18-30 (.375) when he didn't. 🏀 WNBA arena upgrade: The Atlanta Dream will play home games at State Farm Arena (home of the Hawks) next season, moving from a 3,500-seat venue to an arena that holds 17,000. The Dream held six regular season games there this season, and sold out five of them. 🌀 Hurricane watch: Saturday's college football showdown between No. 2 Georgia and No. 6 Alabama in Tuscaloosa is set to proceed as scheduled — for now — as Tropical Storm Isaias approaches the Gulf Coast. But the hurricane threat is serious enough that moving the game is "clearly on the table," says Alabama's foremost meteorologist.   🏒 FACING OFF A GENERATION-DEFINING RIVALRY (Ethan Palowitz/Yahoo Sports) The Capitals' home opener tonight should be quite a spectacle after Alex Ovechkin announced Monday that this will be his final season. Fittingly, it comes against Sidney Crosby, whose decades-long rivalry with Ovi has defined hockey in the 21st century. Parallel paths: The 41-year-old Russian and 39-year-old Canadian were picked No. 1 overall in back-to-back years, and debuted on the very same night (Oct. 5, 2005). They weren't enemies, per se (though sharing a division didn't help), but the context of their arrival didn't exactly foster friendship, either. "You come into the league at 18 years old, and before we even met, we were kinda built up against each other," Crosby said this week. "I think with how competitive we are … it would've been difficult to be too close." Ovechkin, perhaps not quite as eloquently, but no less honestly, echoed those sentiments years ago when he told longtime hockey journalist Michael Farber, "He is he. I am I." As you can see below,* both guys have compiled astronomical point totals, but they've arrived at those totals in ways befitting their style of play: Ovechkin the pure goal-scorer, Crosby more of the playmaker. "He is he. I am I," indeed. Tale of the tape: From the moment they finished 1-2 for the Calder Trophy (ROY) in 2006, "The Great 8" and "Sid the Kid" have racked up accolades matched by few in the league besides each other. In addition to winning ROY, Ovechkin has three Hart Trophies (MVP) to Crosby's two, 12 All-Star nods to Crosby's eight, and is of course the NHL's all-time leader in goals (929). Crosby holds the edge in Stanley Cups (3 to 1), points (1,763 to 1,688) and assists (1,109 to 759). And for all we know, he plans to continue playing and adding to those tallies well into his 40s. Head-to-head: They've played each other exactly 100 times entering tonight's matchup. Crosby leads the all-time series in both the regular season (43-28-4) and playoffs (13-12). Crosby and Ovechkin after the Penguins beat the Capitals in Game 7 of the 2009 Eastern Conference Semifinals. (Mitchell Layton/NHLI via Getty Images) Big picture: Ovechkin and Crosby arrived when the NHL needed them most. Ratings and quality of play were falling after Wayne Gretzky's retirement in 1999, and the nadir came when the entire 2004-05 season was lost to a lockout. "The game needed something special to come along," writes The Athletic's Josh Yohe. "That's precisely what happened." In that way, they mirrored Larry Bird and Magic Johnson a quarter-century earlier: two lightning-rod superstars who entered a struggling league together and helped mold it into something bigger and better. Ovi and Sid may never loom quite as large in broader sports history as Magic and Bird, but their shared reign has lasted longer: Here they are tonight, 22 years after arrival, still sharing the ice. Bottom line: The NHL is in far better hands now than it was two decades ago, with future Hall of Famers like Connor McDavid and phenoms like Macklin Celebrini already bending the league to their will. But we may never again see two all-time greats so completely — and simultaneously — define an entire era. *Neil Paine officially joined us on Monday and he's already contributing beautiful charts. Expect to see a lot more data visualizations now that he's on the team. We'll more formally introduce Neil soon.   ⚾️ THE GOLDEN STATE NLDS: PADRES SURVIVE, DODGERS REBOUND (Orlando Ramirez/Getty Images) Padres 4, Brewers 3 — Facing a sweep after a deeply frustrating pair of games in Milwaukee, the Padres pulled out all the stops to keep their season alive in front of a raucous home crowd, who will be back for more tonight. As for the Brewers, they've now lost 12 straight road postseason games, extending an MLB record. Next man up: With All-Star closer Mason Miller unavailable due to the birth of his first child, Game 2 starter Michael King entered in relief and delivered a six-out save on two days' rest. Here's the double play that sealed it. (Daniel Shirey/MLB Photos via Getty Images) Dodgers 3, Braves 1 — The reigning champs seized control of the series in Atlanta thanks to yet another playoff gem from Yoshinobu Yamamoto (7 IP, 4 H, 1 ER, 10 K, BB), whose 2.14 career postseason ERA is the second-lowest in MLB history among pitchers with at least 10 starts, trailing only Madison Bumgarner's 2.11. Señor Octubre: Dodgers cult hero Kiké Hernández hit a two-run blast in the fourth, giving him 17 postseason homers (out of 151 total). In other words: More than 10% of his career home runs have come in the playoffs, which is something no other player with at least 100 HR can say. Reggie Jackson would be proud.   ⚾️ MONEYBALL BASEBALL'S HAVES VS. HAVE NOTS (Grant Thomas/Yahoo Sports) In sports, there's always a game within the game. MLB's Division Series is no different; the subtext is the battle between the league's huge payrolls and its frugal underdogs. The results could shape the ongoing labor war. Tale of the tape: The National League field is more financially robust, with three of the four remaining teams ranking among MLB's top 10 tax payrolls. The American League, however, features a $229 million payroll divide between the Yankees and Rays. The other matchup pits the 26th-ranked White Sox against the 29th-ranked Guardians. Wild stat: The combined tax payroll of the Brewers, White Sox, Rays and Guardians is only $45 million higher than the Dodgers' alone. Battle lines drawn: Ownership's party line in the labor battle focuses on restoring competitive parity, framing their push for a salary cap as a rallying cry for the small market fan who doesn't believe their team can win. The composition of the remaining postseason contenders spits in the face of that argument. Four Division Series participants rank in the bottom half of the league's payrolls. Three are in the bottom five. Counterpoint: As Billy Beane's "Moneyball" character surmises, "If you lose the last game of the season, nobody gives a sh*t." He wasn't wrong. A small-market team hasn't won it all since the Royals in 2015, and that's no small part of the competitive balance argument. Food for thought: Both camps have reasonable questions worth asking to frame the conversation. If teams like the Rays so consistently achieve more with less than their deep-pocketed rivals, shouldn't they have a better opportunity to collect hardware? Or should those teams always have to accomplish mission impossible to earn a ring? More bluntly, should their owners simply invest more money in talent? Play ball: The game within the game is afoot. The results could chart the future of baseball. This story was written by Dylan Dittrich, author of our new sports business newsletter. Subscribe to Yahoo Sports Biz: yahoosports.com/biz   🌎 SNAPSHOTS THE WORLD IN PHOTOS (Taylor Banner/USSF/Getty Images) 🇺🇸 St. Paul, Minnesota The USMNT beat Canada, 1-0, on Tuesday to complete a perfect post-World Cup break that featured four wins (in four matches), 13 debutants (eight teenagers), 12 goals (seven by those teenagers) and two clean sheets against their biggest regional rivals (Mexico and Canada). What they're saying: "Like we said going into this camp, there's no pressure for any of these kids to perform right now, but a lot of them did perform right now," said captain Tyler Adams. "They obviously set the standard. Now it's about continuing to keep that standard." (Marcelo Endelli/Getty Images) 🇦🇷 Buenos Aires, Argentina Lionel Messi played his final international match for Argentina on Tuesday. And because he is Lionel Messi, he had a hand in every goal, scoring once and assisting twice in a 3-0 win over Benin. "Not coming back is going to hurt so much," he said postgame. "Playing for the Argentina national team is the most beautiful thing that can happen to you." Meanwhile, in Portugal: Fellow footballing legend Cristiano Ronaldo is authoring a far less graceful final chapter. The 41-year-old quit the squad last week after being an unused substitute against Norway, and he's apparently very mad at his manager. (Thomas Skrlj/NHLI via Getty Images) 🇨🇦 Toronto, Canada No. 1 overall draft pick Gavin McKenna scored his first NHL goal (and recorded his first NHL assist) in the Maple Leafs' 5-4 (OT) victory over the Predators. "Big monkey off the back," said the 18-year-old Yukon native. "That's a goal I'll obviously remember forever." A little help from his friends: McKenna lives with veteran teammate John Tavares and his family, so it was only fitting that his assist set up a Tavares goal. It was also fitting that McKenna's goal was assisted by Auston Matthews, who hosted him for a sleepover on Sunday. "We might have to have a weekly sleepover now," said the rookie.   📺 VIEWING GUIDE WATCHLIST: WEDNESDAY, OCT. 7 (Giphy) ⚾️ MLB Division Series This is the final day of the year with more than two scheduled MLB games — and the baseball gods gave us four. Buckle up: The White Sox (up 2-0) host the Guardians (4pm ET, TBS) to get things started, then it's off to Atlanta for Braves (down 2-1) vs. Dodgers (6pm, FS1). We then travel to the Bronx for Yankees (down 2-0) vs. Rays (8pm, TBS) before the Padres (down 2-1) host the Brewers (10pm, FS1) in the nightcap. 🏀 WNBA Semifinals Both road teams will try to draw even tonight as the Liberty (down 1-0) visit the Dream (7:30pm, ESPN) and the Aces (down 1-0) visit the Valkyries (9:30pm, NBCSN/Peacock). Making the leap: After years of being a defensive stopper, Golden State's Gabby Williams has blossomed into a bonafide superstar, particularly in these playoffs, where she's averaging 25.0 points, 6.0 rebounds and 4.5 assists. More to watch: 🏒 NHL: Penguins at Capitals (7:30pm, TNT) … Alex Ovechkin's final home opener comes against Sidney Crosby and the Pens. Well played, scriptwriters. Well played. 🏀 NBA Preseason: Timberwolves at Pacers (7pm, NBA); Warriors at Trail Blazers (10pm, NBA) … Pregame reading: Ant-Man, LaMelo and Minnesota's most polarizing pair yet Got plans tonight? Gametime is the best place to score last-minute tickets to the events in your city.   🏒 LET'S PLAY TRIVIA TIME Ovi and Sid during the 2023 NHL All-Star Skills Competition. (Bruce Bennett/Getty Images) Alex Ovechkin (929) and Sidney Crosby (654) rank first and second in goals among active NHL players. Question: Who ranks third? Hint: Two-time Stanley Cup champion. Answer at the bottom.   📆 ON THIS DAY 222-0 (Georgia Tech Athletics) 110 years ago today, Georgia Tech — coached by John Heisman — beat Cumberland College, 222-0, in perhaps the most lopsided outcome in sports history. Not a fair fight: Georgia Tech was a national powerhouse in the midst of a 33-game unbeaten streak. Cumberland, meanwhile, had disbanded its football program that spring and assembled a makeshift team to avoid a $3,000 cancellation fee (about $90,000 today). The Yellow Jackets scored 32 touchdowns in 55 minutes, good for one every minute and 43 seconds. Cumberland had 15 turnovers, zero first downs and -33 total yards. As legendary sportswriter Grantland Rice, who was there, put it: "Cumberland's greatest individual play occurred when fullback Allen circled right for a six-yard loss." Revenge game: Heisman, who was also Georgia Tech's baseball coach, reportedly ran up the score as payback for a baseball game the prior year, when Cumberland fielded a team of minor league ringers and embarrassed Tech in a 22-0 win.   Trivia Time answer: Steven Stamkos (625 goals)

Democrats more trusted on healthcare costs, survey shows WASHINGTON — Democrats are more motivated to vote in November’s midterm elections than Republicans, potentially giving the party an advantage to flip at least one chamber of Congress, according to a poll released Tuesday by the nonpartisan health organization KFF. https://floridaphoenix.com/2026/10/06/repub/democrats-more-trusted-on-healthcare-costs-survey-shows/?

Love, War, and Diplomacy and the Bronze Age In an age of social media and 24/7 news coverage, politics has never felt more personal. Yet in his new book, Eric Cline argues that ancient rulers and diplomats were as invested as their modern counterparts in managing their own images, responding to perceived slights, and reading between the lines of official communication (even if dense cuneiform writing often made this difficult!). https://www.biblicalarchaeology.org/reviews/love-war-and-diplomacy-and-the-bronze-age/?

Mike Ditka, the quintessential Chicago Bear and a Pro Football Hall of Famer, dies at 86 CHICAGO (AP) — Mike Ditka, who personified the toughness and grit of Chicago in a Hall of Fame career as a player and coach of the Bears and the leader of arguably the most dominant team in NFL history, has died. He was 86. https://apnews.com/article/mike-ditka-dies-bears-74ce49079f324ca0a9fa8e61857783fb

October 9, 2026 Tlhis w eek, an estimated 20,000,000 people who are on Medilcare, began recieving $90 deposilts to their bank account, as direted by President Trump. His stated reason: This is to reduce the cost of Medicare this coming year.

🏆 1 for the road: American Ironman Matthew Marquardt crosses the finish line in the Men's Pro Series Ironman race in Kalmar, Sweden, on Aug. 15. He placed second. Photo: Nigel Roddis/Getty Images An Ohio native hopes to win one of the world's most grueling sporting events this weekend — before returning to Columbus to finish becoming a doctor. Matthew Marquardt wants to be the first American man since 2002 to win the Ironman World Championship, being held tomorrow in Kona, Hawai'i. 🩺 Zoom in: The 28-year-old isn't just a professional Ironman athlete, Axios Columbus' Andrew King writes. He's also a Princeton graduate, third-year medical student and cancer researcher at Ohio State who's planning his postdoctoral residency. He rides with the initials of cancer patients he knows written on his bike.

🍭 Your state's craving Data: DoorDash. Map: Sami Sparber/Axios Reese's rules Halloween candy nationally — but some states have their own favorites, Axios' Sami Sparber writes from new DoorDash data. Sweet Smiles, a Dollar General brand that sells an assortment of sweets, stands out in seven Southern states. Laffy Taffy claims five states across the Midwest.

💰 The $167 voter Data: AdImpact. Chart: Stef W. Kight/Axios Every voting-age Mainer could get a $167 voucher for home heating oil with what Democrats and Republicans are spending on ads in the Senate race, according to an analysis of AdImpact data by Axios' Stef W. Kight and Hans Nichols. Why it matters: Every senator gets one vote, but Senate seats aren't created equal — and they don't cost the same. 🎣 Zoom in: Like two years ago, the less-populated states have a dramatically higher dollar-per-voter ratio in 2026. Maine is in first place, followed by Alaska, which is scheduled to be hit with $76 million in ads — enough to suck up most of the state's inventory. Ohio is in fifth place on the dollar-per-voter metric, but it's on track to host the most expensive Senate race in the country — for the second cycle in a row. Keep reading.

💼 Immigration split-screen The Trump administration said yesterday that it was suspending Microsoft from a key program used to sponsor employees for green cards. Later in the day, the administration honored the tech giant's CEO with a medal for innovation. Why it matters: The split-screen highlights the tension between the administration's championing of Big Tech and its immigration policies, which constrain an industry that has long relied on hiring foreign-born workers, Axios' Emily Peck writes. Tech leaders have said that restrictions on hiring hamper the country's ability to compete — especially at a moment when the U.S. is in a race with China on AI. Vice President Vance addressed the apparent contradiction at a press conference yesterday: "Our message to Microsoft is not that we want to harm your company; it's that we want your company to thrive, but we want it to thrive by employing and empowering your fellow Americans." Microsoft said 80% of the applications it submitted in the last fiscal year were to extend or change the status of existing employees — not to hire new people. Read on ... Brittany Gibson contributed reporting.

Chart du jour: Data center dominance Data: Bureau of Labor Statistics, FactSet. Chart: Matt Phillips/Axios More and more, there's the AI economy — and everything else, Axios markets correspondent Matt Phillips writes. Why it matters: The growing chasm between the breakneck growth of the AI world and the slower pace of the economy where most Americans work and live has huge implications, especially for the markets. The most recent numbers on U.S. construction spending through August — shown above — paint the picture remarkably clearly.

🏛️ Dems weigh another Trump impeachment Illustration: Sarah Grillo/Axios. Stock: Getty Images Democrats believe President Trump has committed impeachable offenses. But they're divided over whether they should try to impeach him if they win control of the House, Axios' Marc Caputo and Alex Thompson report. Why it matters: If Democrats win the House, as expected, their 2027 decision on whether to try to impeach Trump could have major consequences for the 2028 presidential race. Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-Md.), who led the second Trump impeachment, following the Jan. 6 Capitol riot, said of impeachment: "t is not a fetish with us ... On the other hand, it's definitely not a taboo." Raskin — who's in line to lead the House Judiciary Committee, which would be at the heart of any impeachment — said impeachable offenses could include going to war without congressional consent, imposing tariffs outside presidential authority and engaging in "unprecedented scales of corruption." 🔎 Friction point: Many top Democrats note that Trump survived a record two impeachments in his first term — and that he'd be unlikely to be removed from office. That would require a two-thirds, bipartisan vote in a Senate that's likely to be closely divided. But Democrats' more progressive wing is already talking about an impeachment drive. Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) told The Floridian in March: "If you are asking me if I support impeachment, I do. I think that it's on very objective grounds of following the law or not." 🔭 What we're watching: Trump, who denies wrongdoing, is already preparing for his third impeachment. He told reporters Wednesday that he was "never even worried" about his first two impeachments. "I can do whatever I want, if I want," Trump said, calling the impeachments and subsequent criminal cases against him "very illegal things." Deep down, Trump might welcome an impeachment, one adviser said, "because he's in his element in chaos and when he's being persecuted." Keep reading. ps:Don't bother, he was guilty before and got away with it!! Just because the Demos think they'll have an advantage this time doesn't mean it will happen!!!!

🗳️ Fight night: Dems pile on Trump President Trump wants midterms, 25 days from now, to be about him. Democrats couldn't agree more: In a trio of fiery Senate debates last night, the Democrats all glued their GOP opponents to Trump, his war and tariffs. Attacks in all three featured personal insults: 🚗 In Michigan, former Rep. Mike Rogers (R-Mich.) and Democrat Abdul El-Sayed repeatedly traded personal attacks, talked over each other and even continued arguing during a commercial break. (AP) One of the most heated moments was during an exchange about Flock cameras: Rogers said they were useful for catching suspected terrorists, adding, "Why would that bother you? Well, if you have someone in your family that might be on the, on the watch list …" "El-Sayed, who is of Egyptian descent and would become the country's first Muslim senator if elected — and who has faced racist and Islamophobic attacks on the campaign trail — seemed to suggest in his response that Mr. Rogers was accusing him of being tied to terrorism," The New York Times notes. "Go ahead and say it," El-Sayed said. "You've been tiptoeing around it the whole time." 🍑 In Georgia, Sen. Jon Ossoff (D-Ga.) and Rep. Mike Collins (R-Ga.) faced off in "an hour-long brawl dressed up as a debate," The Atlanta Journal-Constitution reports. Ossoff accused Collins of having a "childlike devotion" to President Trump and ties to white nationalists and neo-Nazis, saying, "You've hired half the Third Reich." Collins called Ossoff an out-of-touch "radical." 🦞 In Maine, Democrat Troy Jackson tried to tie Sen. Susan Collins (R-Maine) to Trump, while Collins tried to distance herself, as they sparred over the Iran war, energy costs and abortion rights. Debate takeaways.

AI labs war-game "the day after" Illustration: Aïda Amer/Axios. Stock: Getty Images Top executives at Anthropic, OpenAI and other AI companies are privately gaming out scenarios for "the day after" — a public and political revolt after a catastrophic AI event, Axios' Maria Curi reports. Why it matters: These officials anticipate a large-scale event, most likely a cyberattack, that shuts down access to financial services, internet connectivity, or even power and water. 🔎 The risk: While scenario planning is common within many companies and national security settings — the Pentagon has been running war games for decades — the difference is that many top AI researchers and executives believe a major incident is inevitable. "OpenAI conducts preparedness exercises where teams discuss and work through a range of potential scenarios," a company spokesperson said. "These scenarios are not treated as inevitable, but are meant to help us prepare for a variety of circumstances." Anthropic declined to comment. Zoom in: The blame game will start whether a rogue-agent swarm breaks containment from an internal testing environment or a bad actor finds unexpected ways to use available models. A recent campaign targeting South Korean financial organizations — including reported breaches at two banks — shows the damage a single person can do. A hacker from China allegedly used AI tools from China-developed models, including DeepSeek, to steal data from tens of thousands of bank customers. The attacker used Claude Code to ask for help finding places to sell the stolen data, according to cybersecurity firm CrowdStrike. 🏛️ Top AI planners assume Democrats, ascendant after the midterms, will move fast to shut down AI but will face significant challenges. An aging Congress, out of touch with the AI revolution, could find itself out of its depth. The global economy is now heavily intertwined with an AI infrastructure buildout. Slowing it down could hit an already fragile economy hard. Too many open-weight models exist that can already be freely downloaded and used to cause harm, a problem most cybersecurity pros see as solvable only by using AI to fight rogue AI. Between the lines: Planning involves red-teaming for worst-case scenarios and racing to educate members of Congress. Company executives know regulation has no chance of passing right now, but still want to shape the legislation and policies U.S. leaders will turn to after a first catastrophic event. Some of the most heavy-handed Democratic proposals include banning superintelligence or pausing advanced AI development. Others have bipartisan support and even some industry buy-in, including a required kill switch on advanced AI. But experts have questioned the viability of trying to turn off all AI systems. 🚨 What we're watching: Many AI industry insiders told Axios they believe a major event will occur in the next six to 12 months. In a real crisis, Washington can set partisan differences aside. One Democratic aide pointed to cooperation during COVID and the 2008 financial crisis.

October 9, 2026 By Sam Sifton Good morning. The Nobel Peace Prize was awarded to Navi Pillay, a South African human rights lawyer who led a United Nations commission last year that found that Israel had committed genocide against Palestinians in Gaza. (The Israeli government denounced the report.) And Hurricane Isaias is strengthening. The Gulf Coast could start feeling its impact as soon as this afternoon. There’s more below. But first, let’s see where our fish comes from. The New York Times Fish food We humans eat a lot of seafood. Global consumption of fish has doubled in the last 60 years. Unsurprisingly, that is having an effect on the number of fish in the sea. Something like a third of the world’s stocks are being harvested at unsustainable levels. We can’t go on like this. Fish farming — aquaculture is the fancy term — was meant to help. After all, why harvest what’s left of our wild fish under unpredictable conditions out at sea when you can grow fish under relatively controlled ones? And by some measures, it’s working. More than half of the fish we consume now comes from fish farms, most of them in China, India, Indonesia, Vietnam, Bangladesh and Norway. But what do you think those farmed fish eat? Wild fish, harvested all over the world and ground into fish meal. They eat a lot of it. At some Norwegian fish farms, for example, a single salmon might consume up to five times its weight in fish meal as it grows to market size. That’s a lot of anchovies. The New York Times Which is a conundrum. Aquaculture, meant to relieve the pressures of overfishing, is actually making overfishing worse. Beyond this, a new investigation shows that it is powered by murky, dangerous, environmentally destructive and sometimes illegal economic engines. The investigation was led by Ian Urbina, a former Times journalist who for years has run the Outlaw Ocean Project, an investigative journalism nonprofit based in Washington. Ian worked with dozens of reporters from as many countries to research and independently corroborate it, boarding fish meal ships and visiting fish meal factories and aquaculture farms all over the world to find evidence of the industry’s dangers. The work took five years, Ian told me yesterday. The team found many tales of bad actors at sea and on the mainland. Here are some of the highlights: The ships. More than 10,000 vessels around the world supply the fish meal industry. Reporters went aboard ships in the South China Sea and at the far edges of the North Atlantic Ocean. They reviewed logbooks and interviewed workers. Working conditions on some of the ships were wretched. The work was dangerous, occasionally fatal. And hundreds of the vessels were discovered fishing in closed or protected waters, ignoring quotas on certain species, or fishing without licenses. Their nets scraped the ocean floor, destroying ecosystems that used to feed humans directly, but now were being used to provide feed for farms far away. The plants. There are 1,400 fish meal factories around the world. Ian’s team visited some in Peru, Gambia, India, Indonesia, Mauritania, Senegal and Thailand. Workers in them shovel mounds of decaying fish into giant machines that cook them, press them dry and grind them into fish meal. That’s not just smelly work. It’s a health hazard. The awful stench of rotting fish, which radiates for miles in every direction, comes from a chemical that has been found to be carcinogenic. Occasionally, the plants burst into flames. More than 16.5 million people — including nearly two million under the age of 15 — live within a mile of one. The tension can lead to unrest, to protests or strikes. Sometimes there has been violence. The farms. Aquaculture facilities are where the stinky fruit of all this labor ends up — sometimes well inland from the sea, as in China, which has made remarkable progress in fish farming. (They use a lot of antimicrobials and antiseptics, though, which bring other dangers.) In Norway, by contrast, fish farms are made up of huge pens in the open ocean. Fed a diet of fish meal, the salmon within them produce, Ian writes, “three times as much waste in a year as the country’s 5.6 million residents flush down their toilets.” That sewage falls to the ocean floor, where it forms a toxic sludge that asphyxiates all beneath it. The plate. Since 2022, the United States has been the world’s largest importer of seafood, bringing in enormous quantities of farmed shrimp, salmon, tilapia and catfish. In part that’s because American health and environmental regulations make it very expensive to farm fish here. So grocery chains and restaurants buy the cheaper stuff from abroad and sell it to us beneath advertising claims that claim it’s ethical and sustainable. Often, it’s anything but. “By using seafood caught in poor countries to grow seafood for rich countries,” Ian told me yesterday, “today’s fish farming is driving ocean depletion, labor abuse, rampant pollution and violent civil unrest far from our dinner plate.” Which is to say, I’ve only scratched the surface. I really urge you to read the whole story. The United Nations says that by 2035, almost two-thirds of the seafood eaten worldwide will be farmed. Most of it will likely be raised on fish meal. That’s what’s for dinner. THE NOBEL PEACE PRIZE Navi Pillay Fabrice Coffrini/Agence France-Presse — Getty Images Navanethem Pillay, known as Navi, resisted the apartheid regime in her native South Africa and later served as a judge on the International Criminal Court. The Norwegian Nobel Committee, which organizes the prize, said that Pillay’s work had “significantly enlarged the scope and impact of international law” and “shown that legal measures can help prevent acts of war and violence.” The committee’s chair said Pillay’s award was “a message to those who are attacking” and undermining international law. Learn more about Pillay. THE LATEST NEWS Hurricane Isaias Hurricane Isaias, already a Category 2 storm, is gathering strength as it approaches the Gulf Coast. Track it live here. Residents in Mississippi, Alabama and Florida were stocking up on food and water. Midterm Elections The Michigan Senate candidates Dr. Abdul El-Sayed and Mike Rogers debated last night. Pool photo by Paul Sancya Personal attacks dominated the first debate between Michigan Senate candidates: “You going after my mom?” In Maine, the rising cost of heating oil driven by the war with Iran is putting Senator Susan Collins on the defensive. Use this interactive tool to map each party’s path to the majority. The Military The U.S. is preparing options to restart major combat operations against Iran, although Trump appears ambivalent. The U.S.S. Abraham Lincoln, whose crew endured food shortages and mental struggles during a 322-day deployment, returned to its home port in San Diego. The Pentagon said the execution by firing squad of the Army officer convicted in the 2009 Fort Hood shooting would be public and streamed live. Trump Administration A federal judge temporarily extended a pause on Trump’s effort to bar CNN, MS NOW and Politico from the White House. Trump’s attempts to uncover a “grand conspiracy” at the Justice Department have increased dysfunction and infighting there. Vice President JD Vance said Microsoft would be suspended from the H-1B visa program, which allows companies to hire skilled foreign workers and is popular with tech firms. On the campaign trail this week, Trump was spotted wearing a suit from a chain store. Was it a comment about affordability? Around the World A rural village in Britain voted to become independent in protest of a government plan to house asylum seekers nearby. In Spain, thousands of people took to the streets in memory of the woman who became the face of the country’s housing crisis. A vague account of the death of a woman who worked at a plague research institute is a typical response for Russia. Other Big Stories An ICE agent in New York shot and wounded a man during an attempted arrest. The man was in a car with a 5-year-old in the back seat. A 5-year-old in Florida died after a digital whiteboard fell on him in his classroom. The U.N. secretary general warned that neurotechnology was advancing so rapidly that government access to people’s brains could one day threaten human rights. IN ONE IMAGE If you didn’t know better, you’d think this image was a photo from a FedEx store. A.I. image generators once struggled to replicate human features, haphazardly attaching six- and seven-fingered hands to arms that bent at inhuman angles. But the hands here look pixel-perfect. So how do you spot the fake? Your turn: Try finding everything amiss in this image. Then click here to see what you missed. (Hint: There are at least eight problems to find. But it’s hard, and you can take that from us: After this article was published, readers wrote in to point out that we missed one!) FREE TO READ First families: Michelle Obama took aim at Trump’s White House renovations in an essay. Smuggler’s notch: The authorities have arrested men arriving in Miami from Cuba twice this week for illegally transporting birds to the United States. How the men tried to conceal them is … interesting. Your pick: The most clicked link in The Morning yesterday was a guide to the most lucrative college degrees. Link to history: Cecily Gemmell, Winston Churchill’s last surviving personal secretary, has died at 97. She accompanied her boss to 10 Downing Street, where he worked; to Monte Carlo, where he gambled; and to Marrakesh, Lake Como and the Dolomites, where he painted. Read about her incredible life. OPINIONS Pablo Delcan The increase in Trump’s profanity is not owing to cognitive decline, John McWhorter writes. It’s a way of trying to attract attention. Don’t blame screen time for mental health problems in teenagers, a psychiatrist argues. A lack of proper diagnosis and treatment appears far more influential. The Anniversary Sale ends soon: Morning readers, enjoy our best offer. Don’t miss this opportunity to expand your interests with expert coverage of news, culture, business and more. Save now: $1/week for your first year. TODAY’S NUMBER Fare gates at a New York City subway station. Marco Postigo Storel for The New York Times 35 percent — That is how much fare evasion in New York City’s subway system dropped across 20 stations where the authorities installed a batch of electronic, metal-and-glass fare gates. At two of those stations, fare beating fell 72 percent when turnstiles were replaced with the new gates. Guess which borough they’re in. SPORTS W.N.B.A.: The Las Vegas Aces center A’ja Wilson won her fifth Most Valuable Player Award. No other player in the league has won more than three. M.L.B.: The Cleveland Guardians defeated the Chicago White Sox 9-5, forcing a winner-take-all Game 5 in the American League division series. RECIPE OF THE DAY Christopher Testani for The New York Times Embrace the season: Make Ali Slagle’s recipe for skillet pork chops and apples with miso caramel. Sounds complicated. It’s not. Just sear the chops, cook sliced apples in the rendered fat, then add a mixture of miso, brown sugar, vinegar and water and simmer until it’s glossy and thick. (I love this comment on the recipe: “Execute as written for optimal dank-ness.”) Maybe with some roasted little potatoes on the side, showered in salt, and a mound of sautéed leafy greens? Autumnal. SOAPS FOR GEN Z The New York Times Let’s take a look inside the world of microdramas, those short-form tales of sexy werewolves and boy-toy Mafiosi that are the world’s fastest-growing source of streams. Are they the future of Hollywood, or the end? A reporter went to Los Angeles to find out. (No spoilers, but if people used to compare the experience of watching a show like “The Sopranos” to reading a great novel, this article says, “watching a microdrama is like being electrocuted onstage at the circus.”) More on culture The Canadian poet and essayist Anne Carson was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature yesterday. A 2013 profile said that her work “can seduce even people who don’t like poetry.” Here are five books to get you started. There’s a new Roy Lichtenstein show up at the Whitney in New York, and our critic Jason Farago calls it “the most momentous exhibition of the season.” Read the argument and then, if you can’t get to the museum, at least revel in the pictures of the paintings. THE MORNING RECOMMENDS Read something scary. The best-selling fantasy writer Kat Dunn gave us a list of novels that retell classic tales of terror, stories that “pick apart a familiar tale and give us something fresh, frightening and feverishly brilliant.” Prevent burnout at work, with tips from experts. Glow up your face (and maybe your neck) with the best retinol products tested by the serum-runners at Wirecutter. Take our news quiz. GAMES Here is today’s Spelling Bee. Yesterday’s pangrams were machine and mechanic. And here are today’s Mini Crossword, Wordle, Connections, Crossplay and Strands. Thanks for spending part of your morning with The Times and me. I’m off Monday and Tuesday for the holiday and a fishing thing. My friends will take care of you while I’m gone. See you on Wednesday. — Sam Sign up here to get this newsletter in your inbox. Reach our team at themorning@nytimes.com. Host: Sam Sifton Editor: Adam B. Kushner News Editor: Tom Wright-Piersanti News Staff: Evan Gorelick, Brent Lewis, Lara McCoy, Karl Russell Saturday Writer: Melissa Kirsch Editorial Director, Newsletters: Jodi Rudoren Deputy Editorial Director: Lauren Jackson

Carney says Canadians will decide their future after Elon Musk expresses support for separatism SHERBROOKE, Quebec (AP) — Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney said Thursday that Canada’s future will be decided by Canadians, pushing back on Elon Musk’s call for Quebec, Alberta and Saskatchewan to separate from Canada. https://apnews.com/article/musk-canada-carney-alberta-quebec-separatism-b2857390fec218d5c0ab1d73f40f6106? ps:Why does Musk put his nose into something that he really doesn't have any business getting into?

South Korea to recall its ambassador to Ukraine over North Korean POW dispute SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — South Korea said Thursday it will recall its ambassador to Ukraine, stepping up its protest against Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy’s recent revelation of a supposedly secret transfer of two North Korean prisoners of war to South Korea. https://apnews.com/article/south-korea-ukraine-north-pows-russia-3c4e595f5e603ecd0d7438c000d392cb?

Saudi authorities say 3 killed in Houthi-claimed attacks on Riyadh airport BEIRUT (AP) — An airline pilot was among three Saudi citizens killed in attacks targeting Riyadh’s King Khalid International Airport and a Saudia aircraft, the kingdom’s civil aviation authority said on Friday. Several people “of different nationalities” were wounded. https://apnews.com/article/saudi-airport-attack-houthis-5226e214e7c50ceff68915379ec3a714?