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TOP SIGNAL14
Karl Deisseroth, Peter Hegemann and Georg Nagel shared the prize for their research in optogenetics, developing techniques that allow researchers to investigate neurological and psychiatric disorders.
WSJ Social & Health18hbiology-medicine⊕39
Chaos in schools, on the streets and in the markets is rooted in France’s struggles to fund its social welfare state, with a presidential election approaching.
NYT Home Page7hpublic-policy8
With less money than G.O.P., Democrats are torn over where to spend in the final weeks. The party is making its biggest move in years against one of G.O.P.’s biggest blue-district survivors.
NYT Home Page2hpublic-policy8
Public anger is growing over an exercise that critics say undermines the world’s largest democracy, particularly disenfranchising Muslims under the Hindu nationalist government.
NYT Home Page4hpublic-policy8
China’s booming artificial intelligence sector has given local researchers good reason to remain in the country, but it has yet to lure overseas scientists despite a government push.
NYT Home Page2hfrontier-labs8
After winning a state election last month, the Alternative for Germany is the first far-right party to oversee a state legislature since the Nazi era.
NYT Home Page55mpublic-policy8
In the battle for an Alaska Senate seat and the governor’s mansion, the oil-dependent state’s declining fisheries loom large, but no one wants to look at the biggest culprit, climate change.
NYT US News10mpublic-policy8
The police are investigating how about 3,000 nonexistent residents were added to official data for Toyama.
NYT World News7hgov-data-modernization8
On Tuesday, a federal judge will begin hearing arguments in Disney’s effort to stop the agency from reviewing its broadcast licenses.
NYT Politics2hregulation-antitrust8
Strikes on tankers in the Strait of Hormuz and oil infrastructure in Saudi Arabia came as the region’s exporters were getting more oil to the world market.
NYT Business12hcommodities-energy8
After years of overspending, the country has emerged as one of Europe’s weakest links. Investors are bracing for things to get worse.
WSJ World News11hmacro-monetary8
More oil is flowing through the strait, but that doesn’t mean the U.S. has won.
The Atlantic1hpublic-policy8
Samuel Alito’s efforts to revamp the conservative legal philosophy reveal that a new movement is ascendant.
The Atlantic1hpublic-policy8
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Science Alert1hbiology-medicine8
GENERAL25
At a news conference, Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said the new rule provides a "clear view of what healthcare actually costs."
PBS NewsHour17h⊕35
The 82-year-old scientist, originally from Belgium, is affiliated with the University of Wisconsin–Madison. His research into capturing neutrinos at the South Pole dates back to the 1980s.
NPR News1h⊕29
Opposition leaders have alleged that CEC Gyanesh Kumar manipulated voter rolls to favour Prime Minister Narendra Modi's party during elections.
BBC World1h⊕27
Top executive Jason Kwon tells hearing company has added "more precautions" to its training environments.
BBC World5h⊕24
Laura Trott delivers conference speech to near-empty hall on supposed political correctness excesses in schools Asked if she will propose tax cuts in her speech tomorrow, Badenoch tells McCann that she will have to wait until her speech tomorrow at 11.15am. (This is getting confusing. On BBC Breakdfast, Badenoch told Jon Kay the speech was at 12pm.) It’s not going to be exactly like the Iron Dome. We haven’t called it an Iron Dome. Continue reading...
Guardian World0m5
The World Health Organization says public risks are low after a plague center worker's death, but Marco Rubio says Moscow should "share more information with the world."
CBS News0m4
While adherents to the racist theory condemn a shadowy global elite, Silicon Valley is working toward the replacement of humans with AI Across the world, “great replacement” theory has been employed again and again as the political foundation for fascism . Some of its fundamental tenets, such as the view that “whites are a dying minority”, have been amplified by tech billionaires and their platforms. According to the version of this theory most employed in Europe and the United States, white replacement theory, white populations are being “replaced” by non-white populations, a replacement engineered by a shadowy global elite. For example, the need for skilled labor is supposedly being used by global elites as an excuse to bring in non-white immigrants to replace white workers. An AfD-led state government will develop a strategy for Saxony-Anhalt focused on technological upgrading, digitalization, and AI. This strategy is intended to help alleviate bottlenecks in the local labor market. Furthermore, it aims to avoid the immigration of skilled workers from culturally dissimilar backgrounds. Some cultures have produced vital advances; others remain dysfunctional and regressive. All cultures are now equal. Criticism and value judgments are forbidden. Yet this new dogma glosses over the fact that certain cultures and indeed subcultures … have produced wonders. Others have proven middling, and worse, regressive and harmful. Continue reading...
Guardian US0m8
August Hanning served as president of federal intelligence service from 1998 to 2005 A former head of Germany’s foreign intelligence service has been arrested on suspicion of treason and spying on behalf of an overseas intelligence agency, prosecutors said. August Hanning, 80, was head of the federal intelligence service (BND) – which operates outside Germany to gather information across the fields of political, economic, and military intelligence – between 1998 and 2005. Continue reading...
Guardian World2m4
Western media under scrutiny for promoting Israeli narrative rather than standing up for vulnerable journalists in Gaza.
Al Jazeera13m5
The campaign is led in part by India's "Cockroach" youth movement, which previously forced the education minister to resign.
NPR News16m8
Pablo Quirno says move is part of government’s strategy to peacefully assert sovereignty over the islands Argentina’s foreign minister has told an audience that included the British ambassador that his government would stop the Falkland Islands from exploiting its offshore oilfields as part of a strategy to take sovereignty. During a speech at a thinktank event in the Argentinian capital, Pablo Quirno condemned the British government for failing to open negotiations over the islands and facilitating a significant offshore oil project in its waters. Continue reading...
Guardian World20m5
Prime minister tells delegates in Tuvalu and Fiji that ‘super El Niño’ brewing in the Pacific shows climate change is ‘here right now’ Anthony Albanese has warned Australia faces a hazardous summer, likely including floods, cyclones and extreme heat, due to the immediate threat of the climate change and a rising “super El Niño”. Speaker alongside national leaders at a climate summit in Fiji, the prime minister said the expected nasty summer and the demonstrated impact on Pacific island countries – including low-lying Tuvalu – showed the world could not afford to let the goal of limiting global heating to 1.5C “just slip from our grasp”. Continue reading...
Guardian World23m9
Benjamin Davis appealing against dismissal from FAO, after being accused by director general of playing ‘political games’ A former senior UN food agency official has alleged he was fired last week for his work highlighting hunger in Gaza, and has launched an appeal against his dismissal. Benjamin Davis said the leadership of the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) had refused to renew his contract as director of its rural transformation and gender equality division because his team had published a brief on hunger in Gaza and held a seminar on the subject last year, and because he taken part in weekly “moment of silence” vigils on FAO grounds for those killed. Continue reading...
Guardian World29m6
Unprecedented protests that began in low-income banlieue are turning ugly, with investigations under way into police brutality Before dawn on Tuesday outside the Lycée Sophie-Germain in central Paris, hundreds of teenagers dragged wheelie bins, metal barriers and shopping trolleys to build a barricade outside the front door of their secondary school. Climbing to the top of the piles of bins, pupils held banners calling for more funding and greater equality in French schools. But they were also protesting against French riot police, who have been accused by human rights groups of using disproportionate force against children in what is fast becoming the biggest youth protest movement in decades . Continue reading...
Guardian World31m6
Belgian physicist Prof Francis Halzen has won for his pioneering work on an observatory that detects particles from space.
BBC World35m9
The Conservatives say their plan would protect the UK at a time when Nato allies have warned of Russian drone incursions.
BBC Top Stories39m7
Polls are showing that Democrats have a clear advantage heading into the midterms, but that doesn't tell the whole story. And, today, a mega merger between Paramount and Warner Bros. is set to close.
NPR News40m4
The US president said rising gas prices were a "small price to pay for keeping the world safe" at an election rally in Nebraska.
BBC Top Stories46m4
Polls show GOP candidates trailing Democrats in Senate races, and Republicans also struggling in House contests Thirty days remain until the midterm elections, and Donald Trump and his Republican allies are pulling out all the stops to maintain control of Congress. Super Pacs aligned with the GOP have already spent hundreds of millions of dollars on advertising and voter outreach in races expected to decide the majorities in the Senate and House of Representatives, and plan to spend even more before the election is over. The president, vice-president JD Vance, and other top Republicans are fanning out across the country to stump for vulnerable lawmakers. Continue reading...
Guardian US59m4
The findings come after warnings from tech leaders that AI placed in the wrong hands could trigger larger threats such as nuclear war or bioweaponry destruction Misusing artificial intelligence (AI) is the top threat to companies’ reputations – more so than being accused of putting children in the way of mental, emotional or physical harm and issues exposed by the US-Israel war on Iran, among other brand risks, according to a new survey of more than 150 public affairs leaders. Those findings in the new edition of the quarterly Reputation Risk Index, released on Tuesday, came on the heels of other perhaps more dire warnings from leading tech figures that AI in the wrong hands could precipitate existential threats on a mass scale such as nuclear war or destruction by bioweaponry. Continue reading...
Guardian US59m5
Is the American Dream getting more expensive, or is Gen Z just more sensitive? Jill and Mark break down the data to settle the generational debate once and for all: Which generation is actually better off financially? Place your bets! Plus, a TikTok takedown featuring some financial advice from a reality TV star…You don't see that every day.
CBS News59m5
Morning Edition is heading to Maine, Texas, North Carolina, Georgia, Ohio and Michigan to hear what voters say is shaping their choices ahead of the midterm elections.
NPR News1h4
While Trump pushes to get his name on the Kennedy Center and other public sites, history shows that sitting presidents have almost always avoided putting their brands on government assets.
NPR News1h8
Minister announces referrals after think tank paper finds link between purchases and unannounced MRT stations.
Al Jazeera1h5
A campaign video from Arkansas Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders that portrays a welfare recipient as White has sparked a backlash from some conservatives.
CBS News1h4
POLICY ACADEMIA25
Academic research3
The faculty senate plans to vote on a rare resolution of no confidence over administrators’ handling of allegations of sexual assault by fraternity members in 2024.
NYT Home Page6h7
Michael Kotlikoff had spent his presidency navigating federal-funding disruptions and antisemitism controversies—until a campus sexual-assault furor erupted.
WSJ US News2h6
In the first large gathering on campus since revelations about sexual assault allegations, students and faculty members convened outside an administration building that had been the target of vandalism overnight.
NYT NY Region12h5
Public policy16
A new polling project called Project 270 will work to focus candidates on voters’ interests in presidential battleground states.
NYT US News11m7
Plus, why the GOP is pinning its Senate hopes on New Hampshire, and the threat of an Iranian drone attack prompted the U.S. to fly its B-1 bombers out of the U.K.
WSJ Social & Politics1h7
Plus, the ancient treasures revealed by melting glaciers.
NYT Home Page1h6
Some privacy advocates say the cameras, intended to pick up muffler noise, loud music and horns, could be used to listen to just about anything.
NYT NY Region2h6
The move is the latest round in the fight over presidential access after Mr. Trump declared a ban on CNN, Politico and MS NOW.
NYT US News10h5
Spain’s prime minister, Pedro Sánchez, dissolved Parliament on Monday, after months of spiraling crises.
NYT World News23h5
The state has had 108 cases this year, the most since 2019. The declaration comes amid a national resurgence of the highly contagious viral illness.
NYT NY Region9h5
The rallies are a test of the strength of the student-led protest movement that has escalated at French high schools since late September.
NYT Home Page31m4
Supreme Court decisions that were small comfort in 2026 will turn out to be no comfort at all in 2028.
NYT Home Page2h4
Tennessee’s unsuccessful attempt to end the life of Christa Pike is spurring more scrutiny over capital punishment techniques, and whether the death penalty should exist at all.
NYT US News9m4
The woman, Wanying Zhang, was arrested at the Los Angeles airport on Sunday. She was accused of watching the son of Taiwan’s president in Seattle.
NYT US News10h4
MQ-9 Reaper drones — known for high-profile deadly strikes — have been shifted from Africa to Colombia and Ecuador, U.S. officials said.
NYT World News2h4
The eviction of the woman in Madrid last month helped unravel Pedro Sánchez’s government. It also gave him an election platform.
NYT World News58m4
Flávio Bolsonaro’s first round lead leaves President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva three weeks to find the votes to stop Brazil’s, and Latin America’s, rightward shift.
NYT World News14h4
Democrats have momentum, but Republicans think they can turn the Granite State red and hold onto a Senate majority.
WSJ Social & Politics11h4
Don’t expect a low-key desk job. The post Apply to be a NASA flight director appeared first on Popular Science .
Popular Science20h4
Regulation antitrust5
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton has sent civil investigative demands to the company to collect evidence around potential violations of the Texas Deceptive Trade Practices Act, according to his office.
WSJ US News19h6
The proposed New York City legislation would also allow nonprofits, including tenants’ unions, to sue companies directly rather than relying on agency enforcement.
NYT NY Region5h5
In Nebraska, President Trump signed an executive order to waive an off-road requirement for the fuel, which is exempt from the federal highway tax.
NYT Business10h5
Policymakers are racing to shield industry from the high cost of fuel triggered by conflicts in the Middle East and Ukraine.
WSJ World News2h4
Horacio Gutiérrez battled regulators at Microsoft and took on Apple at Spotify. Now he’s leading Disney’s First Amendment clash with the Trump administration.
WSJ US Business2h4
Unsorted1
The conservative movement is becoming the dominant force in Brazilian politics after Sunday’s national election.
WSJ World News10h4
MARKETS FINANCE19
Macro monetary6
Huge tax breaks and a weak currency sustain exports, widen the government budget deficit and complicate the country’s efforts to rebalance its economy.
NYT Home Page14m7
The DXY fell 0.2% to 102.013 after hitting a near 18-month high of 102.535 Monday. Tapaas said the upcoming Fed mintues would provide the next major test for the the currency.
WSJ Markets26m5
Plus, AI in science, bias in prediction markets, and Alan Greenspan’s crisis handbook
WSJ Social & Economy2h5
Manufacturing orders in the eurozone’s largest economy fell 10.6% on month, as the conflict in the Middle East kept energy costs elevated.
WSJ World News4h4
Sales of food, drinks and non-fuel products rose slightly on the month in the 21-member currency area.
WSJ US Business2h4
The Institute for Supply Management’s purchasing managers index for services providers was 54.9 in September, compared with 55.4 in the prior month.
WSJ Social & Economy21h4
Commodities energy6
The scramble is on for diesel, while damaged refineries and tight fuel supplies keep prices elevated around the world.
WSJ US Business9h7
Oil prices were falling, with U.S. benchmark WTI slipping below $90 a barrel as immediate supply concerns eased.
WSJ Markets4h7
Prices fell Tuesday as traders assessed recovering crude exports against fresh shipping incidents around Hormuz and increased tensions around the Red Sea.
WSJ World News3h5
The contract began trading Monday alongside new futures for silver, platinum and palladium.
WSJ US Business2h5
European natural-gas prices rose as the market remained vulnerable despite a recent recovery in LNG flows from the Persian Gulf
WSJ Markets1h5
The trading firm formerly known as Gunvor is poised to become a major player in the Haynesville basin with $1.5 billion deal.
WSJ US Business19h4
Equities earnings5
Oura pitched itself as a tech platform, but investors saw through that.
WSJ Markets2h6
European stock indexes rose in opening trade, as the continent catched up with gains in U.S. stocks Monday.
WSJ Markets2h4
Investors brushed off stubbornly elevated Treasury yields to push equities higher.
WSJ Markets3h4
The Danish company and AbbVie said their Epkinly drug helped extend the time patients with a common type of lymphoma lived.
WSJ Social & Health3h4
Unsorted2
The buyer, a firm with experience in luxury hospitality, aims to capitalize on boomers who can splurge on retirement homes and lifestyle.
WSJ US Business2h5
Informa plans to buy the live events company and separate its academic unit Taylor & Francis, allowing it to focus on its core business-to-business arm.
WSJ US Business5h5
SCIENCE HISTORY4
Ancient history archaeology1
Archaeologists are scouring mountain passes as artifacts from a bygone world all but tumble out of Switzerland’s shrinking ice.
NYT World News2h7
Physics cosmology1
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Science Alert12h7
Biology medicine2
The country’s consumer watchdog has said only that “an employee of an anti-plague institute in the Irkutsk Region” contracted pneumonia.
NYT World News14h6
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Science Alert10h6
AI ML9
Ai governance7
A.I. doesn’t have to be a disruptive force, least of all when it comes to government services.
NYT Artificial Intelligence2h7
A top executive was questioned by lawmakers about the breach of a government health care data portal, as the company has faced public outrage and questions of liability.
NYT World News3h6
A New York City Council hearing on artificial intelligence yielded few answers or assurances about how the industry would provide safeguards against catastrophic scenarios.
NYT NY Region9h6
Plus: Supreme Court questions oil companies’ bid to shut down climate lawsuits; Germany and France propose a new weapon to counter flood of Chinese goods.
WSJ US Business36m6
Applied ml1
The president said there were signs that such models were used in recent attacks on several banks involving customer data. Police are investigating.
NYT World News3h⊕26
Agentic systems1
Muse, Meta’s A.I. agent, helped a Times reporter with dental insurance, dinner reservations and more. It also required his trust.
NYT Artificial Intelligence1h4
SOFTWARE INFRA1
In the race for A.I. computing power, hundreds of new projects are coming online across the country — and they’re getting bigger.
NYT Artificial Intelligence8hcloud-platforms7
CULTURE LIFE4
Health performance2
Despite mounting evidence that exercise programs can improve cancer outcomes, access to them remains limited.
NYT Wellness3h7
Here’s what experts say about how the noncancerous growths are treated.
NYT Wellness2h5
Cooking cuisine1
Making the same snack every day is among the routine comforts that have helped Canyon Coffee co-founder Ally Walsh settle down after a tumultuous year.
WSJ Arts & Culture17h4
Unsorted1
Plus, EU plans action against Chinese imports, Nike’s turnaround effort in China and a U.S. effort to loosen Beijing’s grip on critical minerals
WSJ World News1h7
STRATEGY BUSINESS5
EXCLUSIVE: Plaid is doubling down on its credit-scoring business with new AI models as the company aims to chart its next era of growth with a suite of products beyond its core business.
WSJ US Business1h6
The class action case filed by three consumers on behalf of a proposed class of Starbucks customers alleges that eight beverages whose names began with the words “sugar-free” in fact contained lactose, a naturally occurring sugar in milk.
WSJ US Business16h4
Plus, Paramount names its leadership team following $81 billion Warner deal.
WSJ US Business21m4
The cosmetics company’s U.S. subsidiary is working with Weil Gotshal and Ducera to address talc-related lawsuits.
WSJ Markets14h4
CREATIVE CRAFT2
The potential sale of the groundbreaking painter’s home in New York by his foundation, on the heels of the sale of his Florida studio, has alarmed many in the art community.
NYT Arts2h4
Hans Werner Henze, born 100 years ago and the son of a Nazi, captured the ambivalence of making art in the shadow of the 20th century.
NYT Arts3hmusic-production4
FILM MEDIA1
The Journal’s Ben Fritz explains what went wrong at Warner Bros., once the gold standard for Hollywood.
WSJ US Business12h4
MISC5
The powerful anesthetic has gained popularity as a party drug, including among a certain social set on the university’s campus.
NYT Home Page10h5
Global pet food makers chasing a growing market are pouring big money into studying the taste buds of dogs and cats.
NYT Business12m5
The ski-resort town has seen tensions come to a surprising head over a project that will move its runway by 80 feet.
WSJ Lifestyle1h5
In St. Andrews, Scotland, history and golf intertwine, on and off the famous courses.
NYT Business2h4
The swift reaction of a few passengers, crew and off-duty pilots helped make this miracle happen.
WSJ World News21h4