Hurricane Isaias makes landfall on the Gulf Coast
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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. This morning's forecast didn't come through, so today's shape is a surprise. The rest of the briefing carries on regardless.
- Hurricane Isaias came ashore tonight near Destin, Florida, as a strong Category 2 storm that had been brushing Category 3 strength. It's the first hurricane to hit the US coast in exactly two years, since Milton in October 2024.
- The 2026 Nobel Peace Prize went to Navi Pillay, the 85-year-old South African jurist and former UN human rights chief, for promoting international law. The choice landed as a pointed rebuke: hours after the announcement, Secretary of State Marco Rubio unveiled sweeping new sanctions on the International Criminal Court, where Pillay once served as a judge.
- Federal immigration officers fired seven rounds into a car in the Bronx today, wounding 28-year-old Oscar Belgal, an immigrant from the Dominican Republic, in the neck. His young son was in the back seat, unhurt. Homeland Security called it a targeted operation; Mayor Zohran Mamdani called it an outrage and demanded ICE enforcement end in the city.
- Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth announced the Dec. 3 execution by firing squad of Nidal Hasan, convicted of killing 13 people at Fort Hood in 2009, will be public and streamed live, the first such US broadcast of an execution in about a century.
- Three battleground Senate races went ugly on stage last night. In Michigan, Abdul El-Sayed and Mike Rogers traded insults and kept arguing through a commercial break, clashing over Rogers's mother and an insinuation about terrorism. In Georgia, Jon Ossoff accused Mike Collins of hiring half the Third Reich.
- President Trump posted that the US won't attack Iran before the November 3 midterms, countering reports of imminent airstrikes, while claiming productive talks with Tehran. NPR's read: making that promise is an admission the war has been politically bad for his party.
- The administration barred eight companies, including Microsoft, Adobe, Infosys and Tata, from the PERM program that sponsors foreign workers for green cards. Vice President Vance singled out Microsoft, saying it laid off 6,000 Americans while hiring 6,300 H-1B workers. Microsoft pushed back, saying most filings were for existing employees and only 1% of its US workforce.
- OpenAI told investors its annualized revenue is around $50 billion, roughly $20 billion below a circulated figure that partly rested on how Anthropic counts cloud partner sales. Nvidia and Oracle shares fell on the news, and the Nasdaq dropped 1.25%.
- The Cook Political Report moved 18 House contests toward Democrats despite heavy Republican ad spending, now projecting a pickup of nine to 19 seats. Five races in Iowa, Pennsylvania and Washington became leaning Democratic, and four more flipped to toss-ups. Cook's math: Democrats need only win 20% of the 21 toss-ups for a majority.
- The Financial Times reports Starbucks has explored acquiring Chipotle, which at roughly $41 billion would create a nearly $50 billion food company and be the largest restaurant buyout in history. Not random: CEO Brian Niccol ran Chipotle before Starbucks.
- SpaceX is swinging at the big cellphone carriers. It has agreed to hand roughly $8 billion in cash to Grain Management, an investment firm, for a block of American cellular licenses on the 800-megahertz band, frequencies that behave far better through walls than satellite signals do.
- Axios reports top executives at Anthropic, OpenAI and other AI labs are war-gaming a public and political revolt following a catastrophic AI event, most likely a cyberattack knocking out financial services, internet, or power. Many insiders believe a major incident is inevitable, and some expect one within six to 12 months.
- Anthropic shipped two new beta tools. Claude Dashboards plugs into business data sources, Salesforce, Snowflake and the like, and drafts graphs that refresh on their own as the numbers underneath move.
- Iran-backed Houthi fighters struck Riyadh's airport, killing four people including Saudia pilot Hamoud Ali AlKalthami, reportedly leaving one plane in flames and canceling hundreds of flights. Several Western governments now advise against travel to Saudi Arabia, and the US requires special approval for officials to use the capital's airport.
- European leaders are getting blunter about Moscow. Germany's top intelligence official warned that Berlin could drift into a violent confrontation with Russia, and Politico reported that EU capitals are drawing up plans for a possibly lethal Russian attack, after an armed drone turned up at a German airport.
- Ukraine launched a new offensive using electronic warfare and aerial drones to blind Russian reconnaissance, then sent in unmanned ground robots to soften positions. Kyiv says it has reclaimed around 68 square miles in the Donbas, an area three times Manhattan, showing a complete Russian takeover there isn't inevitable.
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