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Brazilians vote in tight presidential runoff between Lula da Silva and Senator Flávio Bolsonaro
The incumbent has never trailed into a second round and won, making turnout the decisive variable in a race framed as a battle for democracy.
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Archdiocese of New York agrees to $800 million settlement with approximately 1,300 clergy abuse survivors
The deal ranks as the second-largest of its kind in the United States, behind only the Archdiocese of Los Angeles’s $880 million agreement reached in 2024.
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Trump dangles a Sunday deadline between striking Iran and cutting a deal as Tehran blames Washington for the collapse of interim talks and US embassies brace for advanced-stage attack plots
The US-Iran war is nearing its eighth month, with Trump threatening a new round of strikes under the ‘Epic Fury’ codename and floating a diplomatic off-ramp, while Iran warns any attack will draw a response several times greater.
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Israeli forces demolish Hebron homes and lock down the West Bank after soldiers are killed
More than 2,000 Palestinians have been displaced after two Palestinian gunmen killed two Israeli soldiers, with Netanyahu cancelling campaign events ahead of October 27 elections.
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Justice Department sues to block Alaska from certifying Senate result over two candidates named Sullivan
The federal lawsuit argues a retired schoolteacher named Daniel J. Sullivan entered the race to siphon votes from the incumbent Republican and hand the seat to Democrat Mary Peltola.
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Grid operators assure winter supply security as energy costs and consumer confidence collapse
NESO and National Gas say Britain will have enough gas and electricity this winter, but households face some of Europe’s highest energy costs and consumer confidence posts its sharpest monthly drop outside the Covid pandemic since 2016.
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OpenAI nears up to $30 billion round at $1.25 trillion pre-money valuation, led by Coatue and UAE investors
The financing is positioned as an opportunistic bridge ahead of a potential 2027 IPO, as rival Anthropic races toward public markets at an even higher target.
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Kagan and Soai win 2026 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for solving the mystery of life’s mirror-image molecules
The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences honoured the two scientists for discovering nonlinear effects and autocatalysis in asymmetric synthesis, work that explains how nature’s preference for one molecular handedness can arise on its own.
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Anne Carson wins 2026 Nobel Prize in Literature for genre-crossing work rooted in classical tradition
The Swedish Academy honored the 76-year-old Toronto-born poet, essayist, and translator for a body of work that dissolves the boundaries between poetry, fiction, scholarship, and translation.
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Central-bank independence cannot be a habit. It has to be a rule.
Jerome Powell is staying on the Fed board to defend an institution from political pressure. The defense is honorable. The architecture is brittle. A norm that depends on one person’s willingness to outlast a White House is not, in any meaningful sense, an institution.