The attempted hijacking of a FlyDubai flight to Israel
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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 64 and a low of 43, with clear skies.
- A commercial flight from Dubai to Tel Aviv nearly became a catastrophe. Israeli officials are calling it an attempted terrorist attack: the copilot allegedly stabbed the captain, Smit Machchhar of India, multiple times and tried to crash the Boeing 737 MAX into Ben Gurion airport.
- The Supreme Court opened its new term with a case that could decide whether local governments can make oil companies pay for climate damage. Boulder, Colorado sued Exxon Mobil and Suncor over harms like heat waves and wildfires, framing it as consumer protection rather than emissions regulation, a deliberate echo of the tobacco and opioid suits.
- A new era in Hollywood officially arrived. David Ellison's Paramount Skydance completed its acquisition of Warner Bros. Discovery, uniting two century-old studios, plus CNN and HBO, under one roof, after clearing legal and regulatory fights in the U.S. and Europe.
- This year's Nobel Prize in Medicine went to three scientists, American Karl Deisseroth and Germans Peter Hegemann and Georg Nagel, for optogenetics, the technique that lets researchers switch individual nerve cells in the brain on and off with light.
- Europe's fourth-largest economy is in genuine trouble. The euro slid to a roughly 17-month low as France's borrowing costs spiked, its public debt hitting a record near 119% of GDP, its budget talks collapsing, and increasingly violent student protests roiling the country.
- Meanwhile, back on the markets desk: the 10-year Treasury touched 5.34% and the 30-year pushed past 5.7%, the highest since 2002, even as stocks shrugged and the Nasdaq closed at a fresh record. That disconnect is getting harder to ignore.
- It was a rough stretch for the president. After bipartisan criticism of government-funded TV ads promoting him, complete with a 'Paid for by the U.S. Government' disclaimer, Trump said his super PAC, MAGA Inc., would foot the bill going forward, though he later suggested reimbursement might not happen at all.
- With Election Day exactly four weeks away, the new polls point one way. NPR reports Cook Political Report projections giving Democrats a net gain of five to 15 House seats, enough for a majority, while six Senate races have shifted toward them since June, putting the chamber within reach.
- Thousands of Cornell students and faculty marched on the university's administration after a lawsuit alleged a former student was drugged and gang-raped by fraternity members in 2024, and that the school mishandled her report. 1440 adds a damning detail: Cornell reportedly omitted her account of rape from a report given to prosecutors, who declined to bring charges.
- The US has withdrawn its strategic bombers from a base in the UK, the airfield they'd been launching Iran strikes from, because officials worried the aircraft had become targets in their own right, specifically for drones. Semafor's framing is that this is the arithmetic running through every current conflict: inexpensive flying things versus enormously expensive hardware.
- OpenAI's CEO told Politico the world should accept some harms, like scams and hacking, in exchange for AI's benefits, and said he doesn't accept the really catastrophic risk scenarios.
- And before you go, a little extra from The New York Times. Why are humans the only species with a chin? Want the answer? Tap Sources on this story to see the full section.
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