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• The Latest: Djokovic spurns presidential suggestions

  31-01-2016 14:47 via news.yahoo.com
  
  MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) — The Latest from the Australian Open on Sunday (all times local):
  
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• Sam Altman: ‘The world should accept some bad things happening’ for benefits of AI

  05-10-2026 12:56 via yahoo.com
  OpenAI CEO Sam Altman admits "something's clearly not working" with the artificial intelligence money that has flooded the midterm elections — and he doesn't expect President Donald Trump's rebrand of the technology to improve his industry's image with the American public, either."I get why AI has a really negative perception right now," Altman told Brendan Bordelon in an exclusive interview marking the launch of Decoded by POLITICO. "I don't think spending money on politics is what's goin
  
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• Former Prince Andrew takes legal action over warrants used in Epstein-related arrest

  05-10-2026 11:15 via bbc.com
  
  Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor photographed leaving a police station in February [Reuters]
  Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor is taking legal action against Thames Valley Police over his arrest in February.The former Prince Andrew was arrested on suspicion of misconduct in public office, in the wake of information that emerged from the Epstein files in the United States.Mountbatten-Windsor's lawyers are challenging the search warrants used in Sandringham and at Royal Lodge in Windsor relating to his arrest,
  
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• Flydubai co-pilot planned attack before airline hired him, Israeli officials say

  05-10-2026 10:55 via yahoo.com
  By Alexander Cornwell and Maayan LubellJERUSALEM, Oct 5 (Reuters) - The flydubai co-pilot who stabbed his captain in a suspected attempt to crash the plane has told UAE interrogators he planned the attack before he was hired by the Dubai state-owned airline, according to two Israeli ‌officials with knowledge of the probe.A third source briefed on the UAE probe said the co-pilot, an Omani national, had planned to crash ‌last Wednesday's flight into Ben-Gurion airport near Tel Aviv. He h
  
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• Tennessee prison chief had execution problems before Christa Pike, officials say

  05-10-2026 10:00 via cnn.com
  
  Christa Gail Pike, on death row for a slaying, appears in court on April 12, 2012, to fight a conviction in a 2001 attack on an inmate. - Dipti Vaidya/USA Today Network/Imagn Images/Reuters
  Before the botched execution of Christa Pike, Frank Strada reportedly had a history of overseeing execution missteps in two states.
  Tennessee Gov. Bill Lee on Saturday announced Correction Commissioner Strada would step down later this month following the backlash after the attempted execution left Pike on a
  
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• Saudi-led coalition says its jets are bombing Yemen's Iran-backed Houthi rebels

  05-10-2026 09:20 via yahoo.com
  ADEN, Yemen (AP) — Forces of Yemen’s internationally recognized government began a major offensive Monday against the Iranian-backed Houthis rebels on the country's Red Sea coast, under an intensified air campaign by the Saudi-led coalition.The offensive came just after the rebels said they had captured more territory in the southwestern part of Yemen, taking a key town in a blow to the Saudi-backed forces as they advanced toward a strategic provincial capital in the region. The Saud
  
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• Stanford scientist shares Nobel Prize in medicine for breakthrough in brain research

  05-10-2026 09:01 via yahoo.com
  STOCKHOLM (AP) — The Nobel Prize in medicine was awarded Monday to three scientists working on the mechanisms the brain uses to switch on, or off, the activity of individual nerve cells. Karl Deisseroth, 54, Peter Hegemann, 71, and Georg Nagel, 73, have carried out research into light-gated ion channels and optogenetics. The Nobel Assembly lauded their work, writing on X that the method “is now being used in laboratories around the world to reveal the brain’s mysteries.”T
  
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• 2 victims identified after Georgia homecoming shooting as police appeal for help

  05-10-2026 08:53 via newsweek.com
  
  Two people killed after gunfire erupted at a neighborhood homecoming party in Georgia on Sunday have been identified.The shooting, which left another 35 injured, began at about 1:25 a.m. Sunday at a neighborhood party that spanned four blocks in the city of Vienna.Dooly County Sheriff Craig Peavy in a press conference described it as a “senseless act of violence” and said the investigation is ongoing. No arrests have been reported.The two victims killed have been named as Ja’Qu
  
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• Coast Guard personnel exchange gunfire with shooters across US-Mexico border

  05-10-2026 08:45 via foxnews.com
  
  Coast Guard personnel exchanged gunfire with people on the Mexican side of the border, an encounter the U.S. military later cited as an example of increased illegal activity as hundreds of U.S. troops and their equipment were repositioned to Texas’ Rio Grande Valley and 500 Mexican Army and National Guard personnel were deployed to its side of the border.Coast Guard personnel were intercepting migrants crossing the Rio Grande River while working with other federal agencies when the initial
  
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• U.S. removes B-1 bombers from U.K. air base after new security threat

  05-10-2026 07:52 via cnn.com
  
  A Rockwell B1 Lancer heavy bomber takes off from RAF Fairford in Fairford, United Kingdom, on October 04. - David Bown/Getty Images
  The United States has moved long-range bombers back to their American home stations after an unspecified new threat, according to a US official, days after the British government arrested a number of individuals in connection with an alleged Iranian plot to target the UK airbase where the planes had been stationed.
  “We can acknowledge now that all U.S. bombers
  
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• Dramatic footage shows alleged narco boat erupt in fireball during US military strike

  05-10-2026 07:22 via foxnews.com
  
  The U.S. military on Sunday announced a lethal strike on another vessel in the Caribbean carrying alleged narco-traffickers, killing four people on board.The U.S. Southern Command said the vessel was traveling along "established narco-trafficking routes" in the Caribbean. The military shared a video that showed what appeared to be an explosion destroying a moving boat it described as a go-fast vessel."Under the direction of U.S. Southern Command, Joint Task Force Western Hemisphere executed a le
  
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• Student gave Cornell police leads in alleged rape and thought it was ‘in good hands’

  05-10-2026 06:04 via nbcnews.com
  Jane Doe’s lawsuit has sparked uproar and criticism of Cornell University and the DA’s handling of her allegations. (Heather Ainsworth for NBC News)A Cornell University student gave campus police leads in the alleged rape of Jane Doe in 2024 but expressed dismay over how the authorities handled the case.The student, who spoke to NBC News on Sunday on condition of anonymity over concerns about repercussions, said she first heard about allegations that Doe was raped as a rumor on campu
  
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• U.S. military says latest strike on alleged drug-smuggling boat in the Caribbean kills 4

  05-10-2026 04:44 via yahoo.com
  WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. military said it attacked a boat suspected of being used to smuggle drugs in the Caribbean Sea on Sunday, killing four people, as the Trump administration continues its yearlong campaign against alleged traffickers in Latin America.The latest attack brings the number of people who have been killed in boat strikes by the U.S. military to at least 235 in 70 strikes since the Trump administration began targeting those it calls “narcoterrorists” in Septem
  
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• Immigration, AR-15 bans and climate lawsuits land before the Supreme Court

  05-10-2026 03:18 via yahoo.com
  Immigration, gun rights and climate change are on the Supreme Court docket (Stefani Reynolds)The US Supreme Court opens its new term on Monday with the Trump administration's immigration crackdown, gun rights and the fate of climate change lawsuits on the docket.The session opens one month ahead of a crucial midterm vote that could see President Donald Trump's Republican Party lose its majority in the House of Representatives and possibly even the Senate.Losing control of Congress would force th
  
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• FBI Director Kash Patel and country singer Alexis Wilkins announce they're engaged

  05-10-2026 02:55 via yahoo.com
  FBI Director Kash Patel is engaged to his country singer girlfriend, Alexis Wilkins, the pair announced in a post to X on Sunday evening. Wilkins, 27, posted a black-and-white photo of herself standing with Patel, 46, flashing her hand in front of them to show off her ring with the caption, “Went and got the law involved.” The two have been dating since before Patel took over as head of the FBI in 2025, when she attended his swearing in.The country singer and political commentator re
  
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• Bolsonaro wins first round of Brazilian presidential election, as Trump-backed candidates continue red wave

  05-10-2026 02:17 via foxnews.com
  
  Senator Flavio Bolsonaro, son of former President Jair Bolsonaro, won the first round of the Brazilian presidential election tonight, turning in a surprisingly strong showing, and continuing a long run of wins for Latin American Trump-backed right-wing candidates.Although the race had tightened considerably in the weeks leading up to the election, the vast majority of the polls showed incumbent President Inacio Lula da Silva with a single digit lead.Bolsonaro will now face off against President
  
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• As he exits Senate, Tillis sounds alarm on 'outsized influence' of executive branch

  05-10-2026 02:06 via cbsnews.com
  
  As Sen. Thom Tillis exits the Senate, he's blasting many of the advisers President Trump has surrounded himself with as "sycophants, and calling on his colleagues to stand up to executive power like the co-equal branch of government they are."The 66-year-old senior senator from North Carolina unloads on what he calls the "WTF moments" of the second Trump Administration in a new book, "How to Lose Friends and Antagonize Presidents." Having served in the Senate during the Barack Obama, Joe Biden a
  
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• US monitoring suspected fatal pneumonic plague case in Russia, State Department official says

  05-10-2026 02:05 via foxnews.com
  
  The State Department is monitoring reports of a suspected fatal pneumonic plague case in Russia and is urging Moscow to share accurate information quickly as details remain unconfirmed.A State Department official told Fox News that the U.S. is aware of reports of a death in Irkutsk Oblast, a region in southeastern Siberia, and is watching the situation closely with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and other federal agencies. The official stressed that many details have not been con
  
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• U.S. monitoring suspected fatal pneumonic plague case in Russia, official says

  05-10-2026 02:05 via foxnews.com
  
  The State Department is monitoring reports of a suspected fatal pneumonic plague case in Russia and is urging Moscow to share accurate information quickly as details remain unconfirmed.A State Department official told Fox News that the U.S. is aware of reports of a death in Irkutsk Oblast, a region in southeastern Siberia, and is watching the situation closely with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and other federal agencies. The official stressed that many details have not been con
  
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• Russia may be using hidden 'lunchbox-size' drone devices to counter Ukraine defenses: expert

  05-10-2026 01:39 via foxnews.com
  
  Russia may be concealing signal repeaters inside Ukrainian cities to help its long-range drones evade air defenses and strike with greater precision, a weapons expert told Fox News Digital.The Kyiv Post first reported the possible use of the small ground devices, or repeaters, which Draganfly CEO and co-founder Cameron Chell said form part of an expanding "mesh" network that allows Russian drones to relay encrypted signals across multiple connections, making drones and drone swarms far harder fo
  
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• Coast Guard suspends search for 6 medical jet passengers off Nantucket

  05-10-2026 01:28 via cbsnews.com
  
  The U.S. Coast Guard on Sunday suspended the search for six people in a medical jet that went missing near Nantucket, Massachusetts, a day after debris from the plane was found.Search and rescue crews operated for approximately 66 hours to locate four Canadians and two Bermudian nationals on the plane that was traveling to Boston from Bermuda early Saturday morning, according to the U.S. Coast Guard.The Canadian-registered air ambulance jet had four crew members and two passengers aboard. Their
  
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• FBI arrests suspected Chinese agent accused of surveilling Taiwan president's son

  05-10-2026 00:21 via cbsnews.com
  
  The FBI arrested a suspected Chinese agent at Los Angeles International Airport after she allegedly surveilled the Taiwanese president's U.S.-based son, law enforcement sources told CBS News.Wanying "Heather" Zhang, an Irvine, California, realtor, was cuffed by federal law enforcement on Sunday before she boarded a flight to Shanghai, China, from LAX, on a charge of acting as an unregistered agent of a foreign government.Zhang's husband Edric Ding, a realtor at the same firm, told CBS News when
  
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• October heat wave bakes California and breaks several temperature records

  04-10-2026 23:18 via abcnews.com
  
  More than 35 million people are under heat alerts on Sunday afternoon as a dangerous multi-day October heat wave continues across nearly all of California.Temperatures are expected to soar up to 20 degrees above normal for this time of year, into the 90s and 100s, from Northern California, including the San Francisco Bay Area, to the Mexico border.Anadolu via Getty Images - PHOTO: People flock to Baker Beach near the Golden Gate Bridge as a heat advisory is issued in San Francisco, California, O
  
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• North Korea missile could put Guam in range as Kim rebuffs Trump outreach: expert

  04-10-2026 23:08 via foxnews.com
  
  North Korea fired what it described as an intermediate-range strategic missile Oct. 3, and an expert warned that such a missile could put Guam and parts of Alaska within range, raising the stakes for the U.S. and its allies as President Donald Trump seeks to revive diplomacy with Kim Jong Un.Kim personally oversaw the drill, North Korean state media claimed, while former U.S. Forces Korea analyst Sydney Seiler told Fox News Digital that its range means the latest test has implications extending
  
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• U.S. removes all bombers from British base targeted by a suspected terror plot

  04-10-2026 22:59 via yahoo.com
  WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. Air Force has brought home its bombers stationed at a U.S.-run military air base in England used to strike Iran following an investigation into a planned terror attack at the RAF Fairford base.The bombers were redeployed back to their home bases in the United States, according to a Pentagon official who was not authorized to discuss sensitive military movements and spoke Sunday on condition of anonymity.Aviation watchers such as the Military Air Tracking Alliance
  
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• Sam Altman says the world should accept 'some bad things' for AI's benefits

  04-10-2026 22:55 via politico.com
  OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said there remains a fundamental difference in worldview between his company and rival Anthropic on artificial intelligence regulation, arguing in an exclusive interview with Decoded by POLITICO that the technology’s benefits justify accepting some risks — and that AI should remain broadly accessible to the public.“I think there's a lot of daylight,” Altman told Decoded co-author and POLITICO senior tech reporter Brendan Bordelon. Asked specifically
  
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• Trump adviser says Americans' spending tells a different story than economic polls

  04-10-2026 22:36 via newsmax.com
  Kevin Hassett (Jacquelyn Martin/AP)National Economic Council Director Kevin Hassett insisted to CNN's "State of the Union" on Sunday that he doesn't believe in recent polls that show the public's negative feelings about the economy.
  "Ahead of an election cycle, the fact that there's, you know, possibly partisan pollsters telling us that the people are really, really depressed, it's a classic Democrat move, and I just don't buy it," Hassett said.
  "Because if it were true, if the polls were any va
  
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• Ravens quarterback Lamar Jackson exits game vs. Titans with ankle injury

  04-10-2026 21:20 via nbcnews.com
  
  Baltimore Ravens quarterback Lamar Jackson did not start the second half of Sunday’s game against the Tennessee Titans because of an ankle injury.
  
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• Early indications suggest Flydubai co-pilot acted alone in attack, officials say

  04-10-2026 21:03 via nbcnews.com
  
  Early indications suggest the Flydubai co-pilot accused of attacking his captain and trying to seize control of an Israel bound plane acted alone, rather than as part of a larger organization or on behalf of a foreign government, multiple U.S. officials briefed on the investigation and a former Israeli security official told NBC News.
  
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• Two dead, 35 wounded in shooting at Georgia block party

  04-10-2026 20:55 via nbcnews.com
  
  Two people were killed and 35 others were wounded in a shooting at a block party early Sunday in south-central Georgia.
  
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