Trump cuts a Russian diesel deal, and allies are furious
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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 65 and a low of 56, with cloudy skies.
- President Trump says he struck an agreement with Vladimir Putin to ship Russian diesel into the US and global markets, as American diesel prices hover near record highs.
- Trump has convened a committee of inquiry into Federal Reserve governor Lisa Cook over mortgage fraud allegations, setting up a November 5 hearing in his renewed bid to remove her.
- Conservative commentator Katie Zacharia is the next White House press secretary, replacing Karoline Leavitt. The wrinkle: prediction market Kalshi says it's investigating at least three suspicious last-minute bets on her selection, placed before the news went public.
- Hurricane Isaias made landfall near Destin, Florida, as a Category 2 storm, knocking out power to nearly a million people across three states. It was the season's first Atlantic hurricane, and here's the twist: traditional weather models and experimental A.I. models disagreed about where it was headed.
- Polls show Democrats favored to take the House, and Kansas has just flipped to toss-up in the Senate. But Republicans argue the numbers are a mirage, since pollsters underestimated Trump in every election since 2016.
- The Nobel Committee awarded its Peace Prize to human rights lawyer Navi Pillay, who chaired the UN commission that found Israel committed genocide in Gaza.
- Delta cut its full-year outlook sharply, blaming surging jet fuel costs tied to the Iran war. Premium seating revenue is up, but airlines everywhere are now betting the wealthy traveler can subsidize the squeeze.
- Mike Ditka, the Hall of Fame tight end who became the only person to win championships with the Chicago Bears as both player and coach, has died at 86.
- Multiple Houthi attacks have hit Riyadh's main airport this week, killing several people and forcing flight cancellations. Semafor reports Saudi authorities took hours to acknowledge Saturday's blast, part of a business-as-usual messaging strategy that appears to be fraying.
- The White House is now mandating that all AI companies report and fix security incidents, after Anthropic disclosed that one of its testing models submitted 20 visa applications through the State Department website.
- CNN's breaking-news alert says antitrust investigators at the Justice Department have opened an inquiry into the country's five big broadcast news outlets, examining how they reacted to the White House shutting CNN out, a fresh front in the administration's push against the press.
- A powerful 7.7 magnitude quake struck Panama yesterday, collapsing dozens of buildings and triggering evacuations nationwide, followed by a 6.6 aftershock. Injuries reported so far, no casualties.
- Thieves stole roughly $5.8 million worth of premium Antinori wine in what may be Italy's largest ever wine heist. They disabled the winery's surveillance, then used the company's own forklifts to load two trucks overnight.
- Food stamp rolls have shrunk by more than five million people nationwide this summer, with tougher work requirements phasing in right before voters head to the polls.
- There's a 12-meter-long something sitting half-submerged in a lagoon on the Pacific atoll of Nikumaroro, first picked out in satellite pictures back in 2020. CNN Science calls it the Taraia Object, and it's the most intriguing Earhart lead in years, if it isn't just a tree.
- The medicine prize went to three researchers, Karl Deisseroth, Peter Hegemann and Georg Nagel, for developing optogenetics, the field that lets scientists trace cause and effect between individual brain cells and behavior.
- A Wall Street Journal report finds Walmart's billions spent automating 200 supply-chain hubs are paying off unevenly. Robotic facilities can run $800,000 a month in electricity versus $250,000 for manual ones, and about 5% of the bots are under repair at any moment.
- Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth announced the Fort Hood shooter's December execution will be broadcast live, the first publicly televised lawful execution in the US in decades.
- In Shasta County, California, distrust of voting runs so deep that when the local election chief lost his own race, he sealed the ballot boxes and summoned federal agents.
- CDC data shows the share of teens who identify as gay or bisexual is in steep decline. Conservatives are trumpeting the numbers, but researchers say nobody actually knows why yet.
- Peak sports weekend: Georgia faces Alabama in an SEC blockbuster shadowed by the hurricane, the White Sox and Guardians meet in a do-or-die Game 5, Dodgers-Brewers opens the NLCS, and Manchester City visits Liverpool for the first time since City's fraud verdict.
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