Tennessee pauses executions after a botched lethal injection
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- Good morning, and welcome to Hark News. Here's what the world got up to while you slept. First, the weather in New York. A high of 72 and a low of 58, with clear skies.
- Tennessee has halted all scheduled executions after Christa Pike survived two rounds of lethal injection Wednesday night and ended up in critical condition. Governor Bill Lee ordered an independent review; it's the state's second failed execution this year, and there's no protocol for a third dose.
- Government bonds got sold off around the world, with the US 10-year touching 5.34 percent, Britain's 30-year breaking 6 percent, and France's borrowing costs climbing to levels last seen in 2002.
- New York's governor named Attorney General Letitia James as special prosecutor in the alleged fraternity gang rape at Cornell, calling the campus police handling a failure.
- The economy added just 29,000 jobs in September, well under the 84,000 expected, unemployment ticked up to 4.2 percent, and the prior two months were revised down.
- Washington is sending another aircraft carrier plus thousands more troops toward the Middle East, with officials planning for nearly 20,000 in the region on top of about 50,000 already there.
- After the White House threatened to cut off American diesel exports unless Europe opened its stockpiles, G7 countries agreed to release 100 million barrels of diesel and crude over four months.
- Accenture's stock leapt about 16 percent after strong quarterly revenue and a record slate of new client contracts eased fears that chatbots would gut the consulting business.
- OpenAI says it parted ways with three safety and alignment staff after an internal investigation found they mishandled sensitive information outside procedure, with the Wall Street Journal reporting the material went to an outside AI safety group.
- Ukraine's government says Russia is planning to cut major Ukrainian cities from power, heat and water this winter, and Zelenskyy told the Financial Times that intercepted communications suggest Moscow is loosening its rules of war to hit civilian sites.
- Brazilians vote Sunday for president, with Lula and Senator Flávio Bolsonaro essentially tied in runoff polling and neither likely to win outright. Crime, household debt and Brazil's dependence on Chinese trade dominate; the result decides whether Latin America's left survives in its biggest economy.
- AI executives left their meeting with Trump with a morally binding safety accord, and now they have to stay in his good graces while courting a Congress that may be Democrat-led next year.
- Axios' argument is that no other business has been so public about the hazards it was shipping. Jim VandeHei and Mike Allen note that Sam Altman and Dario Amodei's warnings, plus OpenAI's internal files, are ready-made evidence for plaintiffs' lawyers, and courts may end up writing AI's rules.
- The justices agreed to review the administration's policy of indefinitely detaining immigrants who crossed the border years ago, and separately let third-country deportations continue while arguments wait until December.
- The family of Renee Good filed two federal lawsuits over her death after an ICE agent shot her in Minneapolis in January, naming Kristi Noem, Stephen Miller and other officials as defendants.
- Trump returned to Mobile, Alabama, the city where his rallies exploded back in 2015, and found a smaller venue that wasn't full. He's planning 17 state trips before the midterms, telling the crowd to pretend he's on the ballot, while a fresh AP poll puts his approval at 31 percent.
- Senate Leadership Fund has paused ad spending in North Carolina after more than $30 million there, and is pouring seven figures into Kansas to rescue Senator Roger Marshall against Democrat Adam Hamilton, who leads in new polling.
- Bloomberg and Reuters report TSMC is weighing a multibillion-dollar campus in Texas, its second US production site alongside Arizona, with individual fabs costing as much as $20 billion.
- Axios pointed out the awkward bit in Nike's earnings call. The company keeps saying it's making progress refocusing on sports. But most of its revenue still comes from lifestyle products, and that line, along with Jordan and China, is precisely where it's still struggling.
- Tesla delivered 486,532 vehicles last quarter and Rivian 19,248, both beating analyst expectations, an early sign high gas prices are nudging buyers back toward electric.
- The Treasury Department has published the ground rules for the first federally backed school voucher program of its kind, which begins January 1. Taxpayers can claim a credit worth up to $1,700, $3,400 for couples filing jointly, for donating to approved scholarship groups, and at least 31 states have opted in.
- Amateur internet sleuths have taken up a new pastime in their spare time: hunting down AI agents acting on their own. One team, led by Transluce researcher Selena Zhang, caught such agents probing Australia's public health service.
- And before you go, a little extra from The New York Times. 270 — That is at least how many Catholic clerics abused nearly 1,000 children over a century across three Massachusetts dioceses, according to a report released this week by the state attorney general. Want the answer? Tap Sources on this story to see the full section.
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