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Some Americans Are Starting to Feel the Impact of the Government Shutdown

The Trump administration said over 4,000 workers would be laid off. Farmers trying to plan next year’s crops don’t have all the tools they need. Some medical services have been curtailed in Native communities.

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Bari Weiss Tells Staff to Explain Daily Tasks: Read the Full Memo - BI

Weiss said she would use the memos as discussion guides when she meets staff.

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JPMorgan requires staff to hand over biometric data to access new headquarters - FT

New York bank is imposing eye and fingerprint scans amid heightened security concerns at corporate offices

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Google labeled UK tech gatekeeper under new competition law - WSJ

The regulator labeled Google as a company it needs to keep a close eye on due to its ubiquitous search engine and lucrative search-advertising business

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Israel says cease-fire has begun, troops start withdrawing from parts of Gaza - WSJ

The cease-fire sets the stage for the release of the remaining hostages and an influx of humanitarian aid into the territory.

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What is the one trait that makes for a great manager? You might be surprised - WSJ

A 10-year study of a large multinational firm found that the best bosses steer their employees into just the right roles

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Trump got his fraud case against Letitia James. Winning it is a different matter - WSJ

Former prosecutors say the U.S. government doesn't normally bring mortgage-fraud allegations like those against New York's attorney general.

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Why Japan's mom-and-pop investors are stepping back into the market - WSJ

Japanese savers are breaking with a decades-long habit, thanks to a renewed government push to get households to put their money to work

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China goes all in on US trade battle, with Qualcomm in the crosshairs - WSJ

Beijing's move against the San Diego chip giant is the latest in a two-day barrage of actions targeting the U.S

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MIT president raises objections to Trump's higher education compact

MIT's president said she "cannot support" a White House proposal that asks MIT and eight other universities to adopt President Donald Trump's political agenda in exchange for favorable access to federal funding. In a letter to federal officials, MIT President Sally Kornbluth said the proposal includes provisions MIT disagrees with, including some that would limit free speech and the university's independence. MIT is among the first to express forceful views on the compact either in favor or against it. College leaders face immense pressure to reject the deal from faculty, students and free speech advocates.

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Managers are throwing entry-level workers under the bus in race to adopt AI

ai-pocalypse: Does it work? Inconclusive. Still, 55% of business leaders say that adopting AI is worth the impact on workers

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Engineered protein switches may lead to safer, smarter medicines

A new way to potentially control when drugs are active or inactive in the body is introduced in a study reported Sept. 24 in Nature. The research showed that, instead of controlling how tightly proteins bind to partner molecules, scientists can now directly control how long they stay bound. This advance has broad implications for developing safer medicines.

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Finding organics on Mars means absolutely nothing for life

The red planet, Mars, may once have been teeming with life, just as Earth is today. Finding "organics" on Mars, however, doesn't mean life.

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Millions of Japan's abandoned homes are 'cheap' option for foreigner owners

A push into the city and population decline are two reasons they sit empty, as well as the Japanese preference to newly built homes rather than pre-owned.

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Trump threatens economic retaliation on China amid dispute over critical rare earths | CNN Politics

President Donald Trump blasted Chinese leader Xi Jinping on social media over China's ramped-up efforts to impose export controls on critical rare earths, threatening economic retaliation and saying he no longer sees any reason to meet with Xi during a scheduled visit to the region later this month.

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NASA Voyagers facing 26% budget cut - The Register

: Probes face 26% funding cut as NASA grapples with shutdown chaos

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A digital dark age? The people rescuing forgotten knowledge trapped on old floppy disks

From lectures by Stephen Hawking to the letters of British politician Neil Kinnock - it's a race against time to save the historical treasures locked away on old floppy disks.

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Climate goals go up in smoke as US datacenters turn to coal

: High gas prices and surging AI demand send operators back to the dirtiest fuel in the stack

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As schools embrace AI, more students are using it as a friend : NPR

A national survey of students, teachers and parents shines a light on how the AI revolution is playing out in schools - including when it comes to bullying and a community's trust in schools.

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Sure, Ultra-Processed Foods Are Bad. But How Does That Help Anyone? | The Walrus

Nutrition panic distracts from the policies that make healthy eating a privilege

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Opinion | Trump's 'Compact' With Universities Is Badly Needed

The government should not use public funds to support a system that fails to serve the public good.

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US citizen detained by masked ICE agents in Portland, Oregon

A lawyer in Portland, Oregon, says he is representing a U.S. citizen who was detained and held at the city's U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement building for hours before being released. Attorney Michael Fuller says his client Frank Miranda was outside his place of work when he was detained by plainclothes officers wearing masks last Thursday. The officers said Miranda was "on an overstay." Miranda said he was born in California, but he was handcuffed and taken to the ICE building, where he was held for hours. Fuller sent a tort claim notice to the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, requesting the information used to justify the detention. ICE and DHS didn't immediately respond to requests for comment.

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Elon Musk's Boring Co. accused of nearly 800 environmental violations on Las Vegas project
Nevada state regulators have accused Elon Musk's Boring Co. of violating environmental regulations nearly 800 times in the last two years as it digs a sprawling tunnel network beneath Las Vegas.

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How hackers forced brewing giant Asahi back to pen and paper

The maker of Japan's most popular beer, Super Dry, was hit by a major cyber-attack last month.

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AI Data Centers Are an Even Bigger Disaster Than Previously Thought

An investment manager realized he made a crucial mistake -- and that his grim prediction about AI investments may not have been cynical enough.

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Peter Thiel's off-the-record antichrist lectures reveal more about him than Armageddon

Silicon Valley titan desperately tries to detach self from power in amateurish talks attempting to ape his favorite philosopher

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Why Are Some Shrimp Radioactive? - Consumer Reports

Here's the latest on how shrimp and spices got contaminated with cesium-137, how the FDA has responded, and why consumers should not panic.

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Family of ducks crossing Perth's Kwinana Freeway cause six-car peak-hour pile up

Six cars are caught in a pile-up as a family of ducks attempts to cross busy Kwinana Freeway during the morning peak hour in Perth.

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More than half of entrepreneurs are considering moving to a new country: HSBC
Tax savings were one of the least-cited reasons to move, with entrepreneurs more likely to cite personal safety or expanding their business as motivations.

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This Virus Doesn't Make You Sick. It Makes You Stronger

A common plant virus awakens the immune system to fight cancer--and it's grown using sunlight, soil, and science.

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Former OpenAI Product Manager Launches Startup Backed by Mira Murati - BI

Angela Jiang, an early product manager at OpenAI, left to found her own startup, Worktrace AI.

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The Trillion Dollar AI Software Development Stack

Generative AI is revolutionizing software development, with AI coding assistants and agentic tools transforming how 30 million developers plan, code, review, and deploy software worldwide. From productivity gains worth trillions in global GDP to a fast-evolving startup ecosystem, the AI coding revolution is reshaping the future of programming and software creation.

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UPS Customers Told Their US-Bound Packages Are Marked for Destruction - BI

New rules on imports led several international carriers to suspend higher-value shipments to the US.

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Reflection raises $2B to be America's open frontier AI lab, challenging DeepSeek

Reflection, once focused on autonomous coding agents, has raised $2B at an $8B valuation to expand into both an open-source alternative to closed frontier labs like OpenAI and Anthropic, and a Western equivalent to Chinese AI firms like DeepSeek.

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Salesforce CEO says National Guard should patrol San Francisco - stunning his own PR team

Though Benioff's shift mirrors Silicon Valley's broader accommodation of Trump, the exchange offered a rare glimpse of just how far that repositioning can go. The question now: will other Bay Area tech CEOs follow Benioff's lead and call for federal troops in their own backyard?

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Here are some other factory explosions in American history.

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How Churners Earn Money By Regularly Signing Up for Credit Cards

A growing number of Americans are making thousands by exploiting credit card reward offers.

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How China Powers Its Electric Cars and High-Speed Trains

China is building a network of ultrahigh-voltage power lines to carry solar and wind energy hundreds and even thousands of miles as few citizens dare to protest.

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Thousands Return to Northern Gaza, Hopeful, but Faced With Devastation

With the cease-fire holding overnight, many Palestinians continued to travel toward Gaza City on Saturday to learn what remains of their lives and homes there.

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Trump says 'for the most part, there is consensus' on next stages of Gaza ceasefire plan - live

Israel shared a list of the Palestinian detainees that it plans to release as part of the ceasefire agreement made with Hamas. Of the 250 Palestinian prisoners, 15 will be released in East Jerusalem, 100 to the West Bank, and 135 will be deported. Initially, when Hamas officials submitted a list of proposed prisoners to be released to mediators in Egypt, they called for the release of high-profile Palestinian political figures such as Marwan Barghouti. But Netanyahu's office confirmed it refuses to release Barghouti.

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International journalists urge Israel to allow reporters into Gaza after ceasefire deal

This week, the Arab and Middle Eastern Journalists Association (AMEJA) posted a statement calling for Israel to release detained American reporter Emily Wilder, who had been on a flotilla for media workers, healthcare workers and human rights defenders called Conscience traveling into Gaza.

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Man will plead guilty to threatening Pride event after Charlie Kirk's death

As a result of Kirk's death, the Trump administration has vociferously promised to crackdown on leftwing groups who generally opposed the Turning Point USA founder's views, arguing that those organizations were also to blame for his killing. It did not, however, announce or comment on Cole's arrest.

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What We Know About the Explosion in Central Tennessee

The blast happened at a plant owned by Accurate Energetic Systems. Officials did not specify a death toll but said 19 people were missing.

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Beheaded and Sent to Watery Graves, Columbus Statues Get New Life

More than 30 monuments to Christopher Columbus were toppled or taken down in 2020. Now some are being restored, and finding new, usually less-public homes.

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Trump's Shutdown Layoffs Deepen Impasse, Angering Democrats

The president’s move to fire federal workers and his threats to make others go without pay were aimed at pressuring Democrats to cut a deal to reopen the government. The tactics have fueled Democrats’ resolve.

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Federal Judges, Warning of 'Judicial Crisis,' Fault Supreme Court's Emergency Orders

Dozens of sitting judges shared with The Times their concerns about risks to the courts’ legitimacy as the Supreme Court releases opaque orders about Trump administration policies.

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At the Center of Letitia James's Indictment, a House in Norfolk, Virginia

Attorney General Letitia James of New York purchased the $137,000 home for a grandniece who needed tranquillity. Prosecutors say it is an impermissible investment property.

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Trump Administration Lays Off Dozens of C.D.C. Officials

“Disease detectives,” high-ranking scientists, the entire Washington office and the staff of a weekly public health journal were among those who learned late Friday that they would lose their jobs.

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Judge Signals She Is Likely to Order Abrego Garcia's Release Soon

The judge expressed frequent frustrations with the Trump administration, saying it had presented a “totally inconsistent” case to keep the Maryland man in immigration detention.

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