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Typhoon Champi shuts Taiwan's schools and offices, grounds hundreds of flights
Taiwan closed schools and offices across most of the island and canceled hundreds of flights on Friday as Typhoon Champi passed its east coast, with one death reported.
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Asia
South Korea proposes military talks with North Korea on disputed border line
Seoul's Defense Ministry formally offered talks to jointly verify the land border, restore military hotlines and prevent accidental clashes, a month after a mine blast in the DMZ.
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Money
Consumer sentiment holds at 48.0 as 85% say it's a bad time to buy a house
The University of Michigan's final October reading of consumer sentiment came in at 48.0, barely below September's 48.1 and down from 53.6 a year earlier.
IRS creates a correction program for IRA errors, starting May 1, 2027
Treasury and the IRS created the IRA Compliance Resolution System, a program that lets IRA owners and custodians ask to fix certain mistakes caused by service providers.
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Business
SEC adds AI, tokenization to 2027 exam list
The SEC's exam division named advanced AI, including super intelligence, and tokenization as FY2027 focus areas for 34,000+ registrants.
Initia halts chain after mint exploit
Initia paused its Layer 1 and rollups Oct 23.
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AI & Tech
Texas sues OpenAI over ChatGPT safety
Texas AG Ken Paxton alleges OpenAI misled users about ChatGPT's risks and broke a state child online-safety law.
Google lets shared Gmail data shape ads
Google's privacy policy, effective Oct 16, says Drive, Gmail and Photos content can inform ads once users let services like Search access it.
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Politics
Justice Department sues to block Alaska Senate certification if Sen. Dan Sullivan loses
The Justice Department asked a federal court to bar Alaska from certifying the Nov. 3 Senate result if Republican Sen. Dan Sullivan loses and votes for a second candidate named Daniel J. Sullivan could have changed the outcome. President Trump said he ordered the suit.
Supreme Court lets New Hampshire bar student IDs as backup voter ID for midterms
The Supreme Court on Thursday granted New Hampshire's emergency request and paused a lower-court order, allowing the state to bar student IDs as a backup way for voters to prove their identity in the Nov. 3 election.
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US
Four Corners flooding forces rooftop rescues and evacuations in Colorado and New Mexico
Rising rivers in the Four Corners region led to water rescues, some from rooftops, and evacuation orders in Colorado and New Mexico on Friday, after Colorado's governor declared a disaster emergency in 11 counties.
Appeals court lifts block on Mississippi DEI law and removes judge over AI-generated errors
A federal appeals panel vacated an injunction against Mississippi's ban on DEI programs in public schools and universities and ordered the case reassigned, citing fabricated material in the trial judge's earlier order.
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Entertainment
Reservoir sues Suno and Anthropic, alleging AI training on its songs
Independent music publisher Reservoir filed separate federal lawsuits against AI music company Suno and Claude maker Anthropic, alleging both copied its songs without permission to train their models.
Peacock posts second straight quarterly profit in Comcast's third-quarter results
Comcast said its Peacock streaming service earned $261 million in adjusted EBITDA on $1.8 billion in revenue in the third quarter, its second consecutive profitable quarter.
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Health
First Ebola patients in Kenya and Nigeria may have crossed paths at Uganda airport
Africa CDC is investigating whether the first confirmed Ebola patients in Kenya and Nigeria met at Uganda's Entebbe airport on Oct. 3, as the outbreak that began in Congo spreads.
US measles cases reach 4,588 this year, up 178 in a week
CDC data show 4,588 confirmed US measles cases as of Oct. 22, with 479 hospitalizations and 43 new outbreaks reported in 2026.
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Travel
American Airlines forecasts deeper 2026 loss as fuel costs soar
American now expects an adjusted full-year loss of $1.00 to $1.60 a share and plans to slow growth in 2027, as US carriers lean on higher fares to offset jet fuel costs.
Drone attacks shut all four Moscow airports for second time in two days
Russia's aviation agency halted flights at Sheremetyevo, Domodedovo, Vnukovo and Zhukovsky on Friday afternoon as air defenses engaged drones approaching the capital.
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World
Russia fires 21 ballistic missiles at Kyiv hours after agreeing to resume talks
Ukraine said Russia launched 21 ballistic missiles at Kyiv in three waves overnight, a day after Vladimir Putin agreed in principle to new US-mediated talks expected in November.
Magnitude 7.0 earthquake in Tibet kills 16, collapses hundreds of homes
A magnitude 7.0 quake struck Baqen County in Tibet's Nagqu area late Thursday local time; officials say 16 people died and hundreds of homes collapsed.
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