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Top News Stories for Wednesday, October 22nd 2025
Wednesday, Oct 22nd, 2025 -
We make headlines. Serious questions deserve better than middle school humor. Already contributed? WASHINGTON (AP) — Construction started this week on the $250 million ballroom that President Donald Trump is adding to the White House as construction crews began tearing down the facade of the East Wing , where the new space is being built. The Republican president and top White House officials had initially ...
Source: huffpost.com
Wednesday, Oct 22nd, 2025 -
Don't leave your AI systems idling. Neal Balar of explains how to get the most from your datasets and integrate AI into your business workflows. Artificial intelligence (AI) has moved from the sidelines to the driver's seat of business transformation. But here's the truth: AI is only as powerful as the data you feed it. In the early years of digital transformation, AI was treated as one of many promising tools ...
Source: thedrum.com
Wednesday, Oct 22nd, 2025 -
A delita Grijalva was elected weeks ago to represent her late father's Arizona district in Congress, but nearly a month later, the Democrat still hasn't been sworn in as Republican Speaker Mike Johnson cites the ongoing shutdown as reason for the delay. Now, Grijalva and the state of Arizona are suing the Republican-led House of Representatives for refusing to seat her, allegedly beyond any lawful authority. ...
Source: aol.com
Wednesday, Oct 22nd, 2025 -
TEL AVIV, Israel (AP) — Israel's prime minister toughened his stance Wednesday by declaring that his country is in charge of its own security and isn't an American protectorate as he prepared to discuss progress on Gaza's fragile ceasefire agreement with U.S. Vice President JD Vance. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's remarks ahead of his meeting with Vance appeared aimed easing public concerns that the ...
Source: apnews.com
Wednesday, Oct 22nd, 2025 -
As if ad execs didn't already have enough to untangle when it comes to AI, OpenAI just threw another curveball: a browser called ChatGPT Atlas. Before panic sets in, take a breath. Digiday has the essentials on what it means for the industry and why it matters. The rumors were true: OpenAI's long-anticipated browser now has a name — and it's here. ChatGPT Atlas was announced yesterday (Oct. 21) for macOS ...
Source: digiday.com
Wednesday, Oct 22nd, 2025 -
President Donald Trump said Tuesday that he didn't want to "have a wasted meeting" with Russia's President Putin. The Kremlin stressed on Wednesday that the dates for the face-to-face talks, due to take place in Budapest in Hungary, "weren't set" and that this would still happen. Russian officials blamed Western media for spreading "fake news" about the talks. Russian President Vladimir Putin on October 15, 2025. ...
Source: cnbc.com
Wednesday, Oct 22nd, 2025 -
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Thousands of U.S. federal employees stopped working on October 1, when the government shut down due to a budget impasse in Congress. Following are the longest shutdowns since 1980, when U.S. administrations started furloughing some federal workers as budgets expired. 2018-2019 - 35 days The longest shutdown on record started on December 22, 2018, during President Donald Trump's first term in ...
Source: aol.com
Wednesday, Oct 22nd, 2025 -
RALEIGH, N.C. – North Carolina Republican legislative leaders were poised Wednesday to complete a retooling of part of the state's U.S. House map in hopes of picking up an additional GOP seat and helping President Donald Trump retain majority control of the lower chamber of Congress in next year's midterm elections. The state House scheduled floor debate and votes on proposed boundaries that if enacted would ...
Source: news4jax.com
Wednesday, Oct 22nd, 2025 -
While NASA has been planning to use SpaceX's Starship rocket system to land on the lunar surface, proposals will now be accepted from rivals as the US tries to return astronauts to the moon before China gets there. Elon Musk has attacked NASA's administrator - and claimed he isn't smart enough to hold the top job. The billionaire's criticism of Sean Duffy came after the space agency said it was open to using moon ...
Source: news.sky.com
Tropical Storm Melissa Forecast To Be A Major Caribbean Flood Threat As Watches Cover Haiti, Jamaica
Wednesday, Oct 22nd, 2025 -
Tropical Storm Melissa is forecast to become a hurricane later this week, but its slow crawl over the Caribbean Sea makes it a rainfall flood danger for parts of Hispaniola and Jamaica. ( ) Where It Is Now Melissa's center is located in the central Caribbean Sea several hundred miles south of Hispaniola. It has slowed to a northwestward crawl. Some outer bands of showers and thundershowers are streaming northward ...
Source: aol.com
Wednesday, Oct 22nd, 2025 -
Oct. 22 (UPI) -- Federal prosecutors charged Billy Joe Cagle, the man accused of plotting a mass shooting at Atlanta airport, on Tuesday, as more information about the alleged crime became clear. Cagle, 49, was arrested by police Monday inside the South Terminal at Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport. An AR-15-style assault rifle with 27 rounds of ammunition was found inside his parked pickup truck. ...
Source: upi.com
Prince Harry, Steve Bannon, and will.i.am join tech pioneers calling for an AI superintelligence ban
Wednesday, Oct 22nd, 2025 -
What do Steve Bannon, will.i.am, and Prince Harry have in common? They're all concerned about They are among more than 900 public figures from business, tech, the arts, and media who have called for a ban on the development of the technology until there's a scientific consensus that it can be done safely. Bannon, a former strategist for Donald Trump, joins political figures from the left, such as former Democratic ...
Source: insider.com
Wednesday, Oct 22nd, 2025 -
We make headlines. Serious questions deserve better than middle school humor. Already contributed? NEW YORK (AP) — An immigration enforcement sweep targeting vendors on Manhattan's famed Canal Street turned chaotic on Tuesday after droves of angry New Yorkers surrounded federal agents and attempted to block them from driving off, prompting arrests and fierce standoffs along a bustling downtown corridor. The ...
Source: huffpost.com
Wednesday, Oct 22nd, 2025 -
A meeting will be held to elect new board members following a disagreement between the board and its majority shareholder. Novo Nordisk has announced that seven members of its board of directors will stand down from their roles. This includes board chair Helge Lund, vice-chair Henrik Poulsen and five independent board members, who will not stand for election at an upcoming general meeting. This strategic oversight ...
Source: pharmaceutical-technology.com
Wednesday, Oct 22nd, 2025 -
SEOUL, Oct. 22 (UPI) -- North Korea fired a flurry of short-range ballistic missiles on Wednesday, Seoul's military said, a week ahead of U.S. President Donald Trump 's scheduled visit to South Korea for the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation summit. "Our military detected several projectiles presumed to be short-range ballistic missiles fired from the Junghwa area of North Hwanghae Province in a northeasterly ...
Source: upi.com
Wednesday, Oct 22nd, 2025 -
Samsung's $1,799 XR headset offers stunning spatialization, but hints at the power and utility of a more portable wearable. Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. Samsung's Galaxy XR headset is finally real. After a year of teasing it with appearances at the Google campus, Mobile World Congress, and Google IO, the company's premium, AI-driven device, powered by Google's new Android XR ...
Source: zdnet.com
Wednesday, Oct 22nd, 2025 -
We make headlines. Serious questions deserve better than middle school humor. Already contributed? CONCORD, N.H. (AP) — New Hampshire Republican John E. Sununu announced a campaign for U.S. Senate on Wednesday, hoping to reclaim a seat he lost nearly two decades ago and boosting the GOP's chances of regaining a foothold in a region overwhelmingly represented by Democrats . Sununu, 61, is seeking the ...
Source: huffpost.com
Wednesday, Oct 22nd, 2025 -
USDA warns SNAP benefits for November could be delayed if Congress doesn't approve new spending bill Millions of Americans who rely on federal food assistance could face benefit delays if Congress does not break its budget stalemate. The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) sent a letter on Oct. 10 to all regional Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) directors and state agency directors warning that ...
Source: foxbusiness.com
Tuesday, Oct 21st, 2025 -
Report on Paul Ingrassia featured messages where he allegedly described himself as having a 'Nazi streak' Paul Ingrassia, Donald Trump 's nominee to oversee federal whistleblower protections, has dropped out after racist text messages he sent surfaced this week. Ingrassia, currently a White House liaison at the Department of Homeland Security, was the subject of a report on Monday published in Politico . The report ...
Source: theguardian.com
What to know about efforts to block National Guard deployments in Chicago, Portland, other US cities
Tuesday, Oct 21st, 2025 -
CHICAGO (AP) — President Donald Trump's attempts to deploy the military in Democratic-led cities — over the objections of mayors and governors — has brought a head-spinning array of court challenges and overlapping rulings. As the U.S. Supreme Court ponders whether to clear the way for the National Guard in Chicago , a federal appeals court is hearing arguments in California Gov. Gavin Newsom's ...
Source: apnews.com
Tuesday, Oct 21st, 2025 -
A man from New York, who was pardoned by US President Donald Trump for his role in the January 6 Capitol attack, has been arrested for allegedly threatening to kill House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, New York State Police said. 34-year-old Christopher Moynihan was taken into custody on Saturday and charged with making terrorist like threats. He is the first pardoned Capitol rioter to face arrest over alleged ...
Source: timesofindia.indiatimes.com
Tuesday, Oct 21st, 2025 -
Donald Trump is pressing for his Justice Department to pay roughly $230 million as a settlement for investigations he faced during the Biden administration and his first term in office, sources familiar with the matter confirmed to ABC News Tuesday. The extraordinary arrangement, as first reported by The New York Times , would likely first need sign-off from top officials in the department who previously served as ...
Source: aol.com
Tuesday, Oct 21st, 2025 -
Help Shape the Future of News. HuffPost turns reader contributions into real-world impact – uncovering injustice, challenging power, and inspiring change. Become a member and be part of the work that matters. Already contributed? The internet fell apart Monday at a single company: Amazon Web Services, the world's largest cloud provider that powers many of the most popular apps and services we use. People ...
Source: huffpost.com
Tuesday, Oct 21st, 2025 -
Oct. 21 (UPI) -- Former FBI Director James Comey has asked a federal judge to dismiss the Justice Department's indictment against him, arguing he is being politically and unconstitutionally prosecuted by President Donald Trump because of their feud. Comey has pleaded not guilty to charges of making a false statement and obstruction in connection with testimony he gave before the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee in ...
Source: upi.com
Tuesday, Oct 21st, 2025 -
Former President Joe Biden finished a weekslong course of radiation therapy Monday that has spread to his bones. Biden, 82, celebrated the milestone at Penn Medicine Radiation Oncology in Philadelphia by taking part in the traditional ringing of the bell , a ritual that marks the end of treatment for a cancer patient. "Rung the Bell!" Ashley Biden, the former president's daughter, wrote in an Instagram post with a ...
Source: aol.com
Tuesday, Oct 21st, 2025 -
Oct. 21 (UPI) -- President Donald Trump on Monday said his administration is considering buying beef from Argentina, angering American cattle ranchers at a time when U.S. agriculture has been strained by high costs and trade uncertainty. Trump made the comment to reporters aboard Air Force One as a possible way to lower the price of beef in the United States. "One of the things we're thinking about doing is ...
Source: upi.com
Tuesday, Oct 21st, 2025 -
A former child prodigy, Naroditsky rose to prominence as one of the top players in the United States Sign up for Forwarding the News , our essential morning briefing with trusted, nonpartisan news and analysis, curated by senior writer Benyamin Cohen. ( JTA ) — Daniel Naroditsky, a Jewish chess grandmaster and former child prodigy who became one of the game's most popular voices through his streaming, ...
Source: forward.com
Tuesday, Oct 21st, 2025 -
Windows 10 users are trying the open-source operating system, thanks to the end of support, but one distribution in particular is really enjoying a rise in downloads. Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. ZDNET's key takeaways Support for Windows 10 ended just a few days ago, which means those users without a PC supported by Windows 11 are at a crossroads. There are a few options, ...
Source: zdnet.com
Tuesday, Oct 21st, 2025 -
Graham Platner, a Democrat, insisted his black skull-and-crossbones tattoo doesn't reflect positive views toward Nazism Sign up for Forwarding the News , our essential morning briefing with trusted, nonpartisan news and analysis, curated by senior writer Benyamin Cohen. A Democrat running for the Senate in Maine is facing backlash after acknowledging that a black skull-and-crossbones tattoo on his chest resembles a ...
Source: forward.com
Tuesday, Oct 21st, 2025 -
CEO David Zaslav has 'initiated a comprehensive review' of company Warner Bros. Discovery, which counts CNN and HBO among its assets, announced Tuesday it is for sale amid interest from several suitors. The company previously announced plans to separate Warner Bros. and Discovery Global into two companies but announced that "unsolicited interest" from multiple parties for both the entire company and Warner Bros. ...
Source: foxbusiness.com
Tuesday, Oct 21st, 2025 -
Sarkozy was found guilty last month of criminal conspiracy over the alleged illegal financing of his 2007 presidential election campaign. Nicolas Sarkozy declared his innocence and held hands with his wife before entering prison to begin his five-year sentence. The 70-year-old was pictured with his wife Carla Bruni-Sarkozy on Tuesday morning ahead of travelling to Paris' La Sante prison. He was found guilty last ...
Source: news.sky.com
Tuesday, Oct 21st, 2025 -
Tokyo — Japan's parliament elected ultraconservative Sanae Takaichi as the country's first female prime minister Tuesday, a day after her struggling party struck a coalition deal with a new partner expected to pull her governing bloc further to the right. Takaichi replaces Shigeru Ishiba, ending a three-month political vacuum and wrangling since the Liberal Democratic Party's disastrous election loss in July. ...
Source: cbsnews.com
Tuesday, Oct 21st, 2025 -
Officials say they have no evidence man had committed a crime, after Trump called people on submarine 'terrorists' Ecuador has released a man who survived a US strike on a suspected drug-trafficking submarine, after finding no evidence that he had committed a crime, the attorney general's office has said. The United States has deployed warships to the Caribbean off the coast of Venezuela since August, attacking ...
Source: theguardian.com
Tuesday, Oct 21st, 2025 -
Netflix shares sank on Tuesday after the streaming television powerhouse reported quarterly profit that fell short of market expectations. Netflix recorded a profit of $2.5 billion on revenue of $11.5 billion in the recently ended quarter, saying it was hit with a $619 million expense due to an ongoing dispute with Brazilian tax authorities. Netflix executives told financial analysts on an earnings call that absent ...
Source: digitaljournal.com
Tuesday, Oct 21st, 2025 -
Oct. 21 (UPI) -- A plane made an emergency landing in Nebraska after the pilots in the cockpit lost contact with the flight attendants and heard knocking on the cockpit door. The flight was an American Airlines flight operated by SkyWest Airlines. It took off from Omaha headed to Los Angeles but almost immediately turned around and landed 18 minutes later. "After landing, it was determined there was a problem with ...
Source: upi.com
Tuesday, Oct 21st, 2025 -
SAN FRANCISCO – President Donald Trump keeps threatening to send National Guard troops to San Francisco next, blasting the California city as crime-ridden and saying its residents are clamoring for federal help. But local and state leaders say that couldn't be farther from the truth, noting overall crime is down and the city has started to turn around its downtrodden pandemic image. Residents and workers out ...
Source: news4jax.com
Tuesday, Oct 21st, 2025 -
Aston Villa have warned fans against breaking Uefa rules relating to "the displaying of political symbols, messages or flags" during next month's Europa League match against Maccabi Tel Aviv. In ticketing guidance announced on Tuesday, the Premier League club said doing so was "strictly prohibited and will result in immediate ejection and the issuing of a stadium ban". It comes after Maccabi said they would decline ...
Source: bbc.com
Tuesday, Oct 21st, 2025 -
Gov. Ron DeSantis held a news conference on Tuesday in Stuart to announce record progress in the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission's Python Action Team – Removing Invasive Constrictors (PATRIC) program. The program, which began in 2017, has removed a record-setting number of invasive Burmese Pythons from Florida's Everglades, in part because of a new partnership with Miami-based company ...
Source: news4jax.com
Tuesday, Oct 21st, 2025 -
The Supreme Court announced on Monday that it would review a Second Amendment case that challenged a federal law forbidding drug use by gun owners, revisiting the history-and-tradition test in one of the most widely invoked gun restrictions in the country. The case, United States v. Hemani , is the second major Second Amendment case that the justices have taken up this term. Earlier this month the court also agreed ...
Source: newrepublic.com
Tuesday, Oct 21st, 2025 -
The latest iPad Pro sees improvements across performance and connectivity, making it a worthy upgrade for older iPad users wanting more. Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. ZDNET's key takeaways The M5 iPad Pro is now available for purchase, starting at $999 for the 11-inch and $1,199 for the 13-inch variant. Apple just announced its fastest and strongest processor last week: the M5. ...
Source: zdnet.com
Tuesday, Oct 21st, 2025 -
You are not logged into your account. You have a registered email address and password on pressherald.com, but we are unable to locate a paid subscription attached to these credentials. Please Thank you for your support of local journalism! This photo provided by NOAA Fisheries shows a North Atlantic right whale documented with line wrapped around the head and the body on Dec, 9, 2024. (NOAA Fisheries via AP) The ...
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Tuesday, Oct 21st, 2025 -
TUESDAY, Oct. 21, 2025 (HealthDay News) — Scientists have restored partial vision to people with a common form of blindness using a prosthetic retinal implant, a first that could one day improve life for more than a million Americans with severe vision loss. The new technology — developed by Califonia-based — helped 27 of 32 patients regain enough sight to read black-and-white letters on an eye ...
Source: insidenova.com
Tuesday, Oct 21st, 2025 -
Food allergies in children have dropped sharply in recent years, and experts believe a simple shift in parenting advice may be behind it — introducing peanuts early in infancy. A decade after scientists first proved that feeding peanut products to babies could prevent life-threatening allergies, new research now confirms the approach is paying off. A study published in the journal Pediatrics this week found ...
Source: timesofindia.indiatimes.com
Tuesday, Oct 21st, 2025 -
TORONTO (AP) — Woah, Canada! After a huge swing by George Springer, the World Series is headed north of the border for the first time in 32 years. Springer hit a go-ahead, three-run homer in the seventh inning and the Toronto Blue Jays won their first pennant since 1993 by beating the Seattle Mariners 4-3 in Game 7 of the American League Championship Series on Monday night. Vladimir Guerrero Jr. and the Blue ...
Source: apnews.com
Tuesday, Oct 21st, 2025 -
Oct. 21 (UPI) -- Lindsey Halligan, the prosecutor overseeing fraud charges against New York Attorney General Letitia James , spent 33 hours criticizing a legal journalist's coverage -- and then insisted the exchange was off the record. Journalist Anna Bower described her unusual interaction with Halligan in a post Monday on national security news website Lawfare. The exchange, which was later confirmed by a ...
Source: upi.com
Monday, Oct 20th, 2025 -
Doug Martin, a former All-Pro running back for the Tampa Bay Buccaneers , has died in police custody, the Oakland, California, Police Department confirmed. He was 36. Police announced Saturday in a news release on Facebook that an in-custody death occurred just after 4:15 a.m. Police confirmed to NBC News on Monday that the person who died in custody was Doug Martin. "Prior to his death, Martin was involved in a ...
Source: nbcnews.com
Monday, Oct 20th, 2025 -
OpenAI said Monday it would do more to stop users of its AI video generation app Sora from creating clips with the likenesses of actors and other celebrities after actor Bryan Cranston and the union representing film and TV actors raised concerns that deepfake videos were being made without the performers' consent. Actor Bryan Cranston, the Screen Actors Guild-American Federation of Television and Radio Artists ...
Source: cnet.com
Monday, Oct 20th, 2025 -
A federal judge ordered immigration agents this month not to use tear gas on journalists and protesters who pose no threat — yet the incidents have continued. CHICAGO — A federal judge in Chicago questioned immigration authorities Monday about whether they violated a court order by continuing to use tear gas and violent tactics against protesters and journalists in the area. U.S. District Judge Sara ...
Source: nbcnews.com