Series I savings bonds bought from Nov. 1 through April 30, 2027, will earn a 5.51% annual rate, up from 4.26% for bonds bought from May through October, the Treasury Department said Friday.
Compensation costs for U.S. civilian workers rose a seasonally adjusted 0.8% in the three months through September, after a 0.9% gain in the second quarter, the Bureau of Labor Statistics said Friday.
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Co-CEO Richard Teng said withdrawals stay paused until a rebuilt system passes testing, with a full reserves report due Monday, Nov 2.
Q3 revenue rose 53% to $895M, but CEO Steve Huffman said Google's AI search features are cutting referrals.
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Attorneys general for 35 states and DC alleged GM sold Smart Driver data to brokers who passed it to insurers.
Google's Suncatcher prototype, launched Oct 1, ran its Gemma 4 model on TPU chips to answer a prompt.
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A Harris County grand jury on Friday indicted U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer Mario Alberto Morales, 33, on a charge of aggravated assault with a deadly weapon, accusing him of driving into a man during an Oct. 10 encounter in Houston, District Attorney Sean Teare said, according to NBC News and CBS News.
Three people were killed when two helicopters, a Robinson R22 and an Airbus AS350B3, collided in midair Thursday afternoon near McMinnville, Ore., the Yamhill County Sheriff's Office said, according to Oregon Public Broadcasting and the BBC.
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A 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals panel ruled 2-1 on Friday against the Justice Department's emergency request to have California set aside mail ballots from about 20,000 people the administration says may not be citizens, CBS News and Courthouse News reported.
U.S. District Judge Ana Reyes said Friday she will examine whether Justice Department and Interior Department officials and lawyers misled the court or broke ethics rules in the case over changes to Washington's East Potomac golf course, CBS News and The Hill reported.
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The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals on Friday reinstated a jury's finding that the NFL violated antitrust law in how it sold its out-of-market "Sunday Ticket" package, and affirmed that a new trial must be held to decide damages, Deadline and Yahoo Sports reported.
SAG-AFTRA members voted 94.95% to 5.05% to ratify new television animation and basic cable animation agreements with the studios' bargaining group, the AMPTP, the union said after voting closed Thursday, according to Deadline and Animation World Network.
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The FDA issued a proposed rule on Thursday that would update infant formula requirements for iodine, manganese, vitamin A and vitamin D, the first of three planned proposals in its first comprehensive review of formula nutrients since 1998, HHS said.
The World Health Organization said on Thursday that member states have nominated seven candidates for director-general, with the winner due to take office on August 16, 2027.
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Starting at 11:59 p.m. EST on November 3, everyone flying to the United States from abroad, including crew, must sign a paper or digital attestation that they have not been in the Democratic Republic of Congo in the past 21 days, under an amended CDC order published Friday.
ANA Holdings said on Thursday it plans to make RegionalPlus Wings, the holding company of Airdo and Solaseed Air, a wholly owned subsidiary through a share swap taking effect in April 2027.
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The Bank of Japan kept its policy rate at around 1.25% on Friday and said underlying inflation is now generally consistent with its 2% target, the first time it has made that assessment since adopting the goal in 2013, according to Kyodo News, NHK and CNBC.
South Korea's KOSPI fell 3.48% to 5,730.74 on Friday and Taiwan's Taiex dropped 2.49% to 45,211.83, as chip stocks slid after a tech sell-off on Wall Street, according to Yonhap, Edaily and Focus Taiwan.
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Israel's Central Elections Committee published final results early Friday showing Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's bloc with 53 of the Knesset's 120 seats, the opposition bloc led by Gadi Eisenkot with 48 and Arab-led parties with 19, leaving no side with the 61 needed to govern, according to The Times of Israel, AP and Ynet.
At least 14 people were killed and at least 14 wounded on Thursday when a Russian jet-powered drone hit a crowded platform at the main railway station in Dnipro, Ukrainian officials said, according to the BBC, DW and CBS News.
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