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#1 US Monitoring Suspected Fatal Pneumonic Plague Case in Russia, State Department Official Says - Emma Bussey for Fox News, POLITICOEurope Crisis Action Team, NYNanc, Visegrád 24/CuriousCats, 7News DC, and Express Explained
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 confirmed and called on Russian authorities to reveal what they know. Former CIA officer Dan Hoffman told Fox News Digital that the U.S. intelligence community is likely to be collecting all-source intelligence on the incident...
#2 New Supreme Court Term Begins With a Climate Change Case Seeking to Hold Energy Companies Liable - Lawrence Hurley for NBC News, Susan Soltero, Chicago Tribune, Hartford Courant, Nicholas Hasenauer, and KIII 3 News on X
The Supreme Court kicks off a new term Monday, with the justices hearing an attempt by oil companies to throw out lawsuits brought by cities and counties alleging they should pay damages for the impacts of climate change. Although the case concerns a specific lawsuit, the city and county of Boulder, Colorado, brought against Exxon Mobil and Suncor Energy, the ultimate decision could have broad ramifications for more than two dozen similar lawsuits around the country. Boulder officials say they face increasing costs because of the impacts of climate change, including efforts to minimize risks from wildfires. Just this summer, Colorado has experienced extreme heat, drought, and multiple fires...
#3 President Donald Trump Announces Creation of ‘Super Intelligence Force’ AI Task Force - Emily Chang for ABC News, TechCrunch, Quartz, Rabindra, Collin/Autopilot on X
President Donald Trump formally announced the creation of what he called a “Super Intelligence Force,” an artificial intelligence task force that he says will work to promote AI dominance while also protecting American lives and interests. "The Super Intelligence Force is tasked with coordinating the effort of the Federal Government to ensure that America continues to lead the World in Super Intelligence, which many say is bigger than the Industrial Revolution, and the Internet, and will protect the interests, and improve the lives, of all Americans,” Trump wrote on his social media platform Sunday...
#4 RFK Jr.’s Movement Is in Disarray - Amanda Chu for POLITICO, Andrew Malm, Vani Hari/Informed NJ Nurses, Lucy's Booth/The Daily Beast, Dr Mark Trozzi MD, Progressive Power, Melissa/MAHA Action, and Robbin Milne (I) on X
Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s Make America Healthy Again movement is turning on its leader. Not RFK Jr. Rather, Tony Lyons, the Kennedy friend and book publisher, is the president of a web of MAHA nonprofits and political groups. Supporters of Kennedy’s message, that food and pharma companies have conspired with bureaucrats to poison Americans for profit, say Lyons is selling out to business interests who want Kennedy’s ear now that he’s President Donald Trump’s health secretary. Ignoring the grassroots could cost Republicans running in the midterm elections, who need it energized, they say...
#5 Kristi Noem Seethes After NY Times Exposé on a Plum Contract DHS Gave to a Political Donor on Her Last Day as Secretary - Jennifer Bowers Bahney for Mediaite, Scott Brady/The hand of DOGE, Ryan Mac, Fly Sistah, MyTooSense, and Special Envoy Kristi Noem/Issen on X
Former Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem is demanding a retraction from The New York Times over a report that a “windfall” contract for a political donor which was approved by DHS on her last day as its leader. According to the report, as Noem was preparing to leave DHS, the agency bought five airplanes from the donor’s firm, Daedalus Aviation Corporation, for an astronomical markup. The Times reported Daedalus chairman William Walters donated $10,000 to Noem’s political action committee, American Resolve, in 2024. They noted that according to the company, “Mr. Walters did not know the group was associated with Ms. Noem at the time,” but an archived look at its homepage shows it solely promoting Noem...
#6 Nobel Medicine Prize Goes to 3 Scientists for Research Into Brain Activity - Associated Press/npr, The Times of India, The Shaw Prize, LEGEND NEWS, Digitaldhakanews, and Allen Mendenhall on X
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. They are based at universities in Germany and the United States. The Nobel committee lauded their work, writing on X that the method "is now being used in laboratories around the world to reveal the brain's mysteries."
#7 U.S. Military Removes Bombers From U.K. Air Base Following Security Incident - Charlie D'Agata for CBS News, NBC News, David Moran, Military.com, and chris smith on X
The U.S. Air Force has removed all of its bombers from a U.K. air base following a security incident that led to the arrest of five British men and one U.K.-Iranian national last month, a Pentagon spokesperson confirmed to CBS News on Sunday. All U.S. bombers deployed to RAF Fairford have been returned to their home stations in the United States, the spokesperson said. The Wall Street Journal was first to report on the bombers' return. "U.S. Air Force bombers routinely operate around the world to support global force readiness and operational requirements," the Pentagon spokesperson's statement said. "The Airmen that operate America's bomber force, including B-1s, B-2s, and B-52s, remain ready to deliver precision global strike capabilities – including through operations that launch and recover from the continental United States – anywhere, anytime."
#8 What a Hiring Slowdown Signals About the State of the U.S. Economy - PBS News, MarketsPulse, Mark|Markets Daily, ECON Sentry, and The Washington Times on X
U.S. hiring slowed in September as employers added just 29,000 jobs. The disappointing jobs report has wide-reaching implications for consumer prices and interest rates, and it comes a month before Americans head to the polls for midterm elections. Amna Nawaz discussed more with Beth Hammack, president of the Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland. The disappointing report has wide-reaching implications for consumer prices and interest rates, and it comes a month before Americans head to the polls for midterm elections. For more on this, we're joined now by Beth Hammack, president of the Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland...#9 Iranian Diplomats “Kicked Out” of U.S. After Ignoring Order to Leave - Barak Ravid for Axios, 𝕏 Alberto J Solórzano, Fars News Agency, New Kunlun Observation, Silky Duck, and Coin/Current on X
Two members of Iran's delegation to the UN General Assembly in New York were "kicked out" of the country on Saturday, several days after they were asked to leave, a U.S. official said. "Secretary Rubio means business. Two more members of the Iranian delegation were found still in New York long after the UN General Assembly had passed. They have now been kicked out of the country," the official said. It's the latest sign of tension between the two countries as diplomatic efforts to end the war falter and the prospect of renewed combat rises...
#10 Pro-Trump Bolsonaro Leads in Brazil Election, Runoff With Lula Set - NEWSMAX, Alen Karabegovic, Sedleigh Seinfield, Ryan Rozbiani/TruthSoulJah, Virgin Media News, and sally sneddon on X
Brazil's deeply divided presidential election headed to a runoff Sunday, with conservative Sen. Flávio Bolsonaro leading left-wing President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva as more than 100 million votes were counted in one of Latin America's most closely watched elections. With the count nearing completion, Bolsonaro was leading with roughly 48% of valid votes, compared with about 44% for Lula. Neither cleared the more than 50% required for an outright first-round victory, setting up a runoff on Oct. 25. Bolsonaro, 45, is the son of former President Jair Bolsonaro and has sought to inherit his father's conservative political movement...
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