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Trump establishes committee to investigate Federal Reserve’s Lisa Cook in latest effort to fire her WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump opened another chapter in his effort to fire Federal Reserve Governor Lisa Cook Friday by establishing a “committee of inquiry” to investigate allegations that she made false statements in mortgage applications. https://apnews.com/article/cook-federal-reserve-trump-debef61d38fbb6a74e84a57fe8e26fc5?

A new Supreme Court term begins with cases on climate change, immigration and gun rights WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court’s new term begins Monday with cases on climate change, religious rights and President Donald Trump’s crackdown on immigration high on the agenda. https://apnews.com/article/supreme-court-immigration-climate-change-religious-rights-voting-389e2c111d351361c406e5ed7e0728c5?

Taliban firmly in control in Afghanistan 25 years after US-led invasion to oust them KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — Dr. Nigar Nangrahari was on a night shift in a Kabul hospital when the U.S.-led invasion of Afghanistan began 25 years ago — an event that would shape her and her country’s future for decades to come. https://apnews.com/article/afghanistan-taliban-us-invasion-anniversary-war-ee2cf4ec49abcb514d53b4ced748898b?

Mamdani’s Oct. 7 commemoration outrages supporters and critics of Israel NEW YORK (AP) — New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani tried to thread a needle on the third anniversary of the Oct. 7 attacks by condemning Hamas’ “horrific war crimes” and denouncing Israel’s “genocide” in Gaza. It did not go well. https://apnews.com/article/nyc-israel-mamdani-zohran-jewish-hamas-80287b04b0a4f4e73bed42884be2ee5f?

First suicide memorial by a US archdiocese signals Catholic Church's compassionate shift A memorial for lives lost to suicide and their surviving families who grieve them has been dedicated by the Archdiocese of Chicago. The archdiocese says it's the first memorial of its kind in the United States and illustrates the Catholic Church’s major shift to a more compassionate understanding of suicide and mental illness. Read more. Why this matters: Catholic teaching still considers suicide a grave sin. But it acknowledges that mental health problems can lead people to suicide and says salvation is possible for those who take their own lives. Chicago-born Pope Leo XIV has dedicated some of his monthly prayer intentions to people suffering from mental health problems and suicidal thoughts. He called on the church to become “a safe space where everyone has a place." Though the memorial is on Catholic grounds, it seeks to support mourners across faiths. It features sculptures of an angel and bronze doves that rise upwards in a symbol of “hope and transcendence.” RELATED COVERAGE ➤ Priest, at funeral, criticized teenager who killed himself Family loses appeal in lawsuit over priest’s funeral remarks Pope convenes cardinals and asks their priorities for 2 years, with Latin Mass off the agenda

THIS DAY IN HISTORY October 9 1967 Che Guevara is executed The socialist revolutionary and guerrilla leader is killed at age 39 by the Bolivian army, one day after the U.S.-military-backed Bolivian forces captured Guevara. read more Sponsored Content by REVCONTENT Arts & Entertainment 1946 “The Iceman Cometh,” by Eugene O’Neill, opens on Broadway Colonial America 1635 Rhode Island founder banished from Massachusetts Crime 1942 A Chicago bootlegger escapes from prison European History 1974 Oskar Schindler—credited with saving 1,200 Jews during the Holocaust—dies 1975 Andrei Sakharov wins Nobel Peace Prize Inventions & Science 1936 Hoover Dam begins transmitting electricity to Los Angeles 1988 Rotary engine inventor Felix Wankel dies 1992 Meteorite crashes into Chevy Malibu Natural Disasters & Environment 1963 Landslide kills thousands in Italy

South African-born jurist Navi Pillay wins Nobel Peace Prize for her work in international justice OSLO, Norway (AP) — Navi Pillay, a South African-born jurist and former U.N. human rights chief whose career has spanned from defending the rights of an imprisoned Nelson Mandela to leading a panel that found that Israel committed genocide in Gaza, won the Nobel Peace Prize on Friday for efforts that the award committee said promoted international law as it comes under attack. https://apnews.com/article/nobel-peace-prize-f60744c07df969e50e9e69786fdb7de1?

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Slow and Steady Aging Scientists identified unique genetic traits that may explain how Jonathan, a roughly 194-year-old giant tortoise and the world’s oldest land animal, has lived so long. The study results, published this week, could offer insights into human longevity. Jonathan is believed to have hatched in 1832, the same year author Lewis Carroll and architect Gustave Eiffel were born. The 400-pound tortoise lives on a remote island off Africa’s west coast, where researchers traveled to swab his saliva. The sample revealed 287 genetic variants unique to Jonathan, including some linked to cancer suppression and inflammation reduction. Researchers also found that his molecular "on-off" switches regulating DNA repair, energy production, and other processes were resistant to wear and tear, resembling those of much younger tortoises. Changes in these switches—called the epigenome—are one of the nine hallmarks of aging (w/video). Experts say Jonathan's longevity is likely due in part to his vegetable-heavy diet, favorable tropical climate, and attentive veterinary care. Watch him get a bath here.

Hurricane Isaias is expected to make landfall along the US Gulf Coast late tonight or early tomorrow as a Category 2 or higher storm. See updated forecast cone. The storm, packing sustained winds of 100 mph as of this writing, is expected to strike between Mississippi and the Florida Panhandle, bringing storm surges of up to 7 feet, heavy rainfall, and damaging winds (why the storm’s so-called “dirty side” faces the greatest surge risk). Officials have issued evacuation orders, closed schools, and declared states of emergency in Florida and Alabama. Heavy rainfall is expected to spread inland across the eastern US this weekend. Isaias is the first Atlantic hurricane of the 2026 season, forming more than four months after the season began. Its late arrival is attributed partly to El Niño, a weather pattern that increases wind shear and disrupts hurricane formation. The storm formed just one day shy of tying a 121-year-old record for the latest first Atlantic hurricane, set Oct. 8, 1905. Isaias makes landfall as hurricane, hammering US Gulf Coast with powerful winds, dangerous flooding GULF BREEZE, Fla. (AP) — Isaias crashed into the U.S. Gulf Coast on Friday as a dangerous Category 2 hurricane, hammering communities in Alabama and the Florida Panhandle with damaging winds, heavy rain, flooding and life-threatening storm surges. https://apnews.com/article/hurricane-isaias-landfall-gulf-alabama-mississippi-919a46d4bd705726b4e57f18ce677ac5?

A new college course proposal: "Living AI" Illustration: Aïda Amer/Axios. Stock: Getty Images Jim writes: I met with faculty and the AI task force at Furman University in Greenville, S.C., and got a smart, provocative question: What do I wish liberal arts colleges taught students about AI to prep them for working? In other words, what do CEOs want and need based on the known-knowns of AI capabilities today and our evolving expectations? 💭 My dream: Every college student, from Day 1, takes a course every semester called "Living AI." It's constantly updated — how to use the newest models and how to grapple with their ethical, philosophical and practical consequences. It fits into a three-track approach: 1. 🧠 Think without it. In most classrooms, greatly limit or ban AI. Courses built to deepen and widen thinking should force students to read, reason and write on their own. We need thinkers and problem-solvers. In an AI-saturated world, original thinking becomes your differentiator. You can't steer or judge AI's output if you don't know anything about the world yourself. 2. 🤖 Work with it. Every major should graduate students with real expertise in using AI for that specific field. A marketing grad should run AI like a pro for marketing. Same for biology, finance, history, nursing. This means faculty teaching field-specific application, not just the generic tutorial. 3. 💡 Live with it. That's the Living AI course concept for everyone. Hire realists. Find clear-thinking, practical teachers who use and track the models and capabilities, not doomers or cheerleaders. People who marvel at its new capabilities, then clinically assess the real-world impact. Keep it alive. This can't be a static course. The models change constantly, and capabilities grow exponentially. So the "Living" part is vital: Treat it like an ever-evolving topic. Try to match the pace of the class with the pace of tech, which is hard but doable. Teach beyond the tech. These students will face wild philosophical and ethical questions: What is consciousness? Can a machine be a friend? What counts as your own work? Who is responsible when an AI agent screws up? Use each week's AI news to tee up those debates. Treat it as living history. No one gets to sit this one out. This is our electricity moment. It's a generational challenge and opportunity. The course should push students to think about shaping AI to benefit society, not just themselves. 👀 Worth a read: The New York Times dug into research on students' brains on AI (gift link). This, buried midway through the story, should be stamped on every classroom wall: "These studies so far agree: Artificial intelligence is affecting how people, especially the young, learn and remember. Whether we will be dumber as a result might depend on how — not if — we use AI."

Corrupt Bargains View in browser Kimberly Guilfoyle was so close to getting it right. The Trump hanger-on—former fiancée to Don Jr. and the current ambassador to Greece—was exchanging messages with a man named Eric Deters, according to a bombshell Wall Street Journal story last night. Deters, a right-wing podcast host, failed political candidate, and suspended lawyer in Kentucky, wanted help in clearing up some tax issues, and also wanted the Trump administration to extradite a doctor whose alleged fraud victims he was advising in a legal case. Guilfoyle, the messages indicate, wanted money—in one instance, a $100,000 wire—and she wanted it untraceable. Guilfoyle was right to worry about secrecy. She was about to begin confirmation hearings for her ambassadorship, and understood the pay-to-play could hurt her. Yet neither she nor Deters could stop breaking the Stringer Bell rule by recording their skullduggery in writing. “It won’t show up anywhere if you wire money to American Express,” Guilfoyle wrote. “Please.” And in another: “Honey please I need you to get this done for me today.” Yet even as she laid these instructions out, she kept haranguing Deters for indiscretion. “I really wish you would stop papering all these things. It’s really dangerous and not helpful to you or me while you could simply just call me on signal,” she wrote, referring to the encrypted messaging app. In one message, she wrote, “If you write an email or a text about, l’m gonna kill you cause I love you but you’re so out of control.” Unfortunately for Guilfoyle, her Signal messages were not as safe a space as she might have wished. (The Journal does not reveal how it viewed the messages. Guilfoyle’s lawyer broadly disputed their authenticity to the paper but offered no details.) Somehow, this is not the only Trump scandal with Balkan ties in the news this week. The New York Times reported that James Blair and Chris LaCivita, who are ostensibly President Trump’s top political advisers, traveled—during an intense midterm campaign in which Republicans appear to be on the verge of serious setbacks—to advise a candidate in Bosnia and Herzegovina’s self-governing Serbian entity. Both of these stories show the way that many people in Trump’s orbit view their positions not as public service but as a profit center. There’s a long and often depressing pattern of former officials capitalizing on government and political work, but Trump’s aides aren’t even willing to wait until they take their leave to start taking. Forget a team of rivals. Trump world is a team of mercenaries, in some cases literally. Jared Kushner, who was a senior adviser in his first presidency and is married to his daughter Ivanka, continues to work as an envoy for Trump while pursuing business deals around the world. As Dexter Filkins wrote in The New Yorker in September, Kushner’s record as a diplomat is underwhelming, yet his financial gains have been enormous. “He represents a new kind of Washington figure, for whom public office serves as a means to extraordinary wealth,” Filkins wrote. Kushner and Ivanka Trump even have their own Balkan boondoggle, an attempt to develop an island in Albania that has run into legal and political difficulties. Earlier this year, the Times reported that Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick helped negotiate access to Kazakh tungsten reserves for an American mining company, and the federal government provided $1.6 billion in financing. Lutnick’s sons and Trump’s sons are both involved with companies that stand to profit from the deal (though representatives for them have said that they did not play a role in the deal). A Washington Post investigation this summer noted that Trump’s sons have invested heavily in defense-technology companies; the companies have scored “at least $3.2 billion in direct government business since the sons invested and an additional $3.1 billion in future contract options.” (Company representatives told the Post that they secured their business without assistance from Trump’s sons.) Where do any of these people get the idea that this is appropriate or that they can get away with it? From the president himself, naturally. Trump has moved on from small-scale grifts such as charging the Secret Service exorbitant fees to stay in his hotels during his first term to far more ambitious and lucrative schemes such as crypto ventures; even conservative estimates put his gains during this term alone in the billions. Though Trump doesn’t have ethical scruples, he does have a sense of right and wrong: It’s right for him to profiteer, but wrong for others to make too much money from his name. That’s where Blair, LaCivita, and Guilfoyle may run into trouble. Politico reports that Republicans’ “knives are now fully out” for the two consultants. Trump himself weighed in on Truth Social, saying he was unaware of their clients but adding that he “will, on reflection, ask them and, if there’s a conflict, I will terminate them, immediately!” Firing them just before the midterms seems risky, as it might just create more chaos for Republicans, but they could make for good scapegoats after the fact. Trump has not spoken publicly about the Guilfoyle story, although Vice President Vance said he didn’t “love that.” In a further embarrassment, the article emerged while Secretary of State Marco Rubio was visiting Athens. Perhaps inevitably, Guilfoyle’s relationship with Deters ended acrimoniously. “I have paid you $300,000 over the years,” he wrote her in 2025, adding, in an amusingly self-negating flourish, “As of this memo, I have not received one favor. I am not naive or a sucker.” She was not happy, either. “What a nightmare you’ll literally cost me my ambassadorship stop writing,” she told him at one point, per the Journal. Her warning may have been too late. Related: MAGA is making the world safe for corruption. The watchdogs are barking themselves hoarse. ps:It's astounding the amount of corruption from this administration!! And not one word from those that complained about the Biden, Obama, Bush2, Clinton, Bush1, Reagan, Nixon, etc.! Actually all combined they don't equal what we've seen from this administration!!!!! Absolutely Pathetic!!

Man with a gun and knife is fatally shot by security at Nashville federal courthouse, police say A man armed with a pistol and knife was fatally shot by a security officer Thursday just inside the busy entrance of a federal courthouse in Tennessee’s largest city, authorities said. Read More. Immigration agents shoot a man during arrest in New York City October 08, 2026 Federal immigration agents shot and wounded a Dominican man while arresting him in New York City on Thursday, in what the Department of Homeland Security called a “targeted enforcement operation.” The agency did not describe exactly what led to the shooting. Read more

Rogers and El-Sayed are set for their first debate in Michigan's Senate race after online sparring Republican Mike Rogers and Democrat Abdul El-Sayed, competing for an open U.S. Senate seat in Michigan, are set for their first campaign debate Thursday after weeks of sparring both online and in advertisements that are flooding the state in one of the nation’s most closely watched races. Read More.

Average long-term US mortgage rate at highest level in nearly 3 years after 7th weekly rise in a row Mortgage rates marched higher for the seventh week in a row, driving the average long-term U.S. home loan rate to its highest level in nearly three years.The benchmark 30-year fixed-rate mortgage climbed to 7.40% from 7.28% last week, mortgage buyer Freddie Mac said Thursday. One year ago, the average rate was 6.30%. Read More.

Lufthansa, Indian airlines suspend Riyadh service after explosions hit Saudi capital Airlines including Lufthansa and Air India have temporarily suspended operations to Saudi Arabia's capital after explosions, including a large blast heard at the international airport in Riyadh, were reported Thursday. Read More.

Pentagon says the firing squad execution of Fort Hood shooter Nidal Malik Hasan will be livestreamed WASHINGTON (AP) — The firing squad execution of Fort Hood shooter Nidal Malik Hasan will be livestreamed, the Pentagon said Thursday, a stunning revelation about plans for the first military execution in more than 65 years after Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth had described it as being “public.” https://apnews.com/article/fort-hood-shooter-execution-pentagon-818853afc1be5c70fe41c5b781a8d559?

📺 1 for the road: What to watch this weekend Illustration: Brendan Lynch/Axios. Stock: Getty Images Whether you crave horror, thriller, comedy or sci-fi, there's a new streaming pick for you this weekend, Axios' Carly Mallenbaum writes. 😱 Carrie (Prime Video) Mike Flanagan's adaptation of Stephen King's novel follows Carrie White (Summer H. Howell), a sheltered teen who faces a viral bullying scandal at her new school and discovers telekinetic powers. 👽 Disclosure Day (Peacock) A Kansas City meteorologist (Emily Blunt) and a cybersecurity whistleblower (Josh O'Connor) race to reveal evidence of extraterrestrial life and a decades-long cover-up. 🪄 Small Prophets (Apple TV) Seven years after his partner Clea disappears, Michael Sleep (Pearce Quigley) follows an alchemy recipe his father gave him to create magical spirits that can predict the future. More recs.

Americans' food faith plummets Data: Gallup. Chart: Avery Lotz/Axios Americans' confidence in food safety has plummeted to new lows amid several high-profile recalls, Axios' Avery Lotz reports from a new Gallup poll. By the numbers: Less than half of U.S. adults say they have a great deal (11%) or a fair amount (36%) of confidence in the federal government to ensure food safety, according to the poll, which was conducted last month. A majority has not much or no confidence in the government's ability to police their food — a first in Gallup's poll, which has been conducted intermittently for over two decades. 🛒 Americans' confidence in food sold at grocery stores has also dropped, falling to a record low of 65% saying they are somewhat or very confident. That's down from 81% in 2019. 🖼️ The big picture: This summer saw a flurry of overlapping recalls and FDA investigations, while health experts warned that Trump administration cuts had weakened public health and food safety infrastructure. Gallup's poll was conducted around the time the federal government declared the end to an outbreak of cyclospora, a parasite that caused stomach illnesses, two deaths and more than 500 hospitalizations across 21 states. Go deeper ... Explore the data.

He Confessed to an Afghanistan War Murder. The U.S. Military Promptly Closed the Case. In the spring of 2023, on a partly sunny day where the temperature flirted with 70 degrees, an Army veteran of the Afghanistan War walked into the unique Prairie-style police headquarters in Banning, California. In a private room in the detective bureau, the former specialist, who served with the storied 82nd Airborne Division, sat down with a special agent from the Army’s Criminal Investigation Division — better known as CID — to make a confession. https://theintercept.com/2026/10/07/afghanistan-war-crime-confession-accountability/? Feds Charged Activists Just Before Major Anti-ICE Protest in a Tiny Vermont Town Williston, a small Vermont town of 10,000 people, is best known as a bucolic suburb of Burlington laden with historic buildings and farmland. https://theintercept.com/2026/10/07/ice-protest-vermont-surveillance-charges/? Armed Border Agents Arrest Protesters, Bulldoze 200-Year-Old Tree to Build Border Wall For more than 70 days, dozens of activists and an ancient cottonwood tree on the Arizona–Mexico border have successfully disrupted the construction of President Donald Trump’s ruinous $50 billion border wall. https://theintercept.com/2026/10/08/border-wall-tree-sit-protest-bulldozed/? Antisemitism Law Helped Get a Professor Fired for Free Speech, Lawsuit Says An Iranian exile group colluded with university officials and a state lawmaker in Arkansas in a relentless, ultimately successful campaign to get an Iranian American professor fired, according to a new lawsuit. https://theintercept.com/2026/10/06/professor-fired-free-speech-iran-antisemitism-law/? The U.S. Military Struggles to Protect Its Bases Amid Failing Iran War The U.S. military is struggling to protect its overseas bases amid a conflict with Iran that has spun out of self-styled War Secretary Pete Hegseth’s control. https://theintercept.com/2026/10/06/iran-war-uk-fairford-overseas-bases/? The Key Witness Against Richard Glossip Just Returned to Court. It Didn’t Go Well. When the elevator doors opened, the reporters waiting in the hallway immediately crowded around the gaunt, orange-clad man who emerged, escorted by his public defender and a sheriff’s deputy. The three men made their way toward the seventh-floor courtroom of Oklahoma County District Court Judge Natalie Mai, as reporters shouted questions. https://theintercept.com/2026/10/06/justin-sneed-richard-glossip-trial/?

New US indictment charges Maduro with overseeing machine of repression, torture of Americans NEW YORK (AP) — U.S. prosecutors unveiled sweeping new criminal charges against former Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro on Thursday, accusing him and his wife of heading a state-sponsored system of repression responsible for beating, asphyxiating, and delivering electric shocks to scores of victims, including several Americans. https://apnews.com/article/maduro-venezuela-criminal-case-da82df35aab0f02e344d1c3de0ed31d7? The Trump administration is suspending Microsoft from a green card program, alleging fraud WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump’s administration announced Thursday it was suspending Microsoft and several other firms from a program allowing foreign workers to apply for green cards, as it also lashed out at universities that bring international students to the U.S. on exchange programs. https://apnews.com/article/h1b-visa-program-vance-microsoft-e7b3a407f822702b269ee277d21343ea? ps:Just Pathetic!!!!! 🇮🇷 President Trump said today that the U.S. will not attack Iran ahead of the Nov. 3 midterm elections. More from Barak Ravid. 🧑‍💻 The Trump administration is blocking Microsoft, Adobe and several other tech companies from hiring foreign-born workers for permanent U.S. jobs. Vice President JD Vance said today: "Our message to Microsoft is, you're a great American company, but you've got to hire great American workers." Go deeper. Trump honors Microsoft’s CEO after Vance drops an H-1B visa hammer on the company President Donald Trump celebrated tech billionaires for their contributions to America on Thursday only hours after a company run by one of them, Microsoft, was accused by his vice president of abusing the visa system to bring in more foreign workers. Read More.