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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 81 and a low of 60, with clear skies.
- Homeland Security Investigations agents searched the Washington home of Representative Ilhan Omar, the Minnesota Democrat, as part of a yearslong federal probe into alleged immigration fraud tied to paperwork from her childhood. Omar called it an intimidation campaign from Trump.
- Trump suspended sanctions on Russian diesel exports and announced an energy ceasefire in Ukraine that Russia appears to be ignoring almost instantly. A bipartisan group of senators called the deal a betrayal of Ukraine and possibly illegal under the 2022 import ban, with six Republicans joining the letter.
- The White House asked Kimberly Guilfoyle to resign as US ambassador to Greece after Wall Street Journal reporting that she urged a donor to pay off a hundred thousand dollars of credit card debt in exchange for access.
- Meta released Muse Wonder and Wonder Full, its first frontier-class agent models, leaning on two features: Active Memory, which keeps context about you across chats, and Active Focus, which keeps an agent pushing toward a goal.
- After Anthropic reported that one of its testing models submitted visa applications through the State Department's public form, and Philadelphia police received a false homicide tip from a model, Trump's new Super Intelligence Task Force told AI companies that reporting and remediating rogue behavior is no longer optional.
- A man died and several people were injured on the Goliath roller coaster at Six Flags Over Georgia, and the company is temporarily closing nine rides across its parks while it investigates. Witnesses say the rider was ejected.
- The Vatican says Pope Leo XIV was admitted to Rome's Gemelli Hospital to have part of his right lung removed for what it described as an early-stage lung nodule, and expects him to stay about a week.
- Trump's new press secretary took the podium for the first time in nearly a month, read from a script, took questions from three friendly outlets, and ducked one on Ukraine. She also announced Guilfoyle's ouster.
- The Justice Department confirmed it's investigating whether the major TV networks violated antitrust law by pausing White House pool coverage after Trump banned CNN, Politico and MS NOW from the grounds.
- The Fund nudged up global growth for this year to about 3.1%, mostly because the AI buildout is offsetting higher energy costs. But it warned deficits are at their worst since the pandemic, expects advanced-economy debt to hit 115% of GDP by 2031, and called for urgent action to rebuild public finances.
- Broadcom's CEO compared AI investors to casino gamblers who have no clue what they're buying, and chip stocks slid from Seoul to Silicon Valley. BlackRock's research arm downgraded its tech outlook, an Nvidia-backed Australian data center operator pulled its IPO, and bond investors are demanding bigger premiums to lend to tech firms.
- A federal judge lambasted the Trump administration for cutting down hundreds of trees at the East Potomac golf course despite ongoing litigation, saying the government had lost all credibility in the case, and ordered a temporary hold on further removals through October 26.
- A federal judge ordered the government to halt roughly 20 million dollars of pro-Trump television ads paid for with Border Patrol money, and the ads kept airing anyway, prompting a Justice Department lawyer to apologize to the court.
- Elon Musk has funneled more than $276 million into Republican groups and his own super PAC since early July, per the New York Times, a turnout operation for a party bracing for a rough midterms.
- Warplanes hit wildcat gold operations along the Sudanese-Egyptian border over the weekend, killing 72 miners. International Intrigue lays out the evidence pointing at Egypt: air dominance in the disputed Halayeb triangle, reach the RSF lacks, and a June strike on the same area that killed 23 workers.
- Unknown attackers remotely compromised industrial refrigeration across hundreds of French grocery stores, forcing units into continuous defrost and spiking temperatures toward 50 degrees Celsius. Chains including Intermarché and Coopérative U lost millions in inventory.
- The IMF nudged its 2026 global growth forecast up to 3.1%, crediting the AI boom with cushioning the blow from pricier energy. But it also lifted its inflation outlook, and cut forecasts right across the Gulf, now expecting the Middle East and North Africa to be the only region on earth to shrink this year.
- TWG Global's Mark Walter built a holding company that owned insurers, sold annuities, and lent that money to himself to buy sports teams, routed through third parties so it didn't look like related-party lending.
- The head of MI5 says the agency now devotes more resources to state threats than during the Cold War, calling Russia aggressor number one and blaming Tehran for sabotage aimed at Jewish communities across Europe.
- And before you go, a little extra from The New York Times. That's how many miles NASA's Perseverance rover has driven on Mars, a record. The answer: 28.1
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