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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 61 and a low of 46, with clear skies.
- Brazil’s Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva has won a fourth presidential term, defeating Flávio Bolsonaro by more than 4 million votes after finishing second in the first round.
- Anthropic has filed to go public, potentially becoming the first pure-play AI model developer on the stock market. The filing reports an $80.75 billion first-half loss, more than $400 billion in future chip and data-center obligations, and pages of warnings about models manipulating people, escaping oversight, and possibly creating catastrophic risks.
- Saudi, Turkish, and Pakistani officials met Iranian leaders in Tehran in the highest-level contact yet under the new Mecca defense pact, trying to prevent another escalation in the U.S.
- The Justice Department is asking Alaska to delay certifying its Senate result if the Republican incumbent, Dan Sullivan, narrowly loses to Democrat Mary Peltola. The complaint says a second candidate named Daniel J. Sullivan could confuse voters, though Alaska already gave the two men different ballot identifiers.
- The Justice Department has charged former FBI Director James Comey for a third time, alleging that he leaked a sensitive national-security document while leading the bureau in October 2016.
- A federal judge has ruled that the Trump administration’s firing of federal prosecutor Maurene Comey was unconstitutional and violated civil-service protections. The administration is appealing.
- Barack Obama drew large crowds in Ohio and Michigan for Democrats, while Trump worked vulnerable Republican states and attacked Democratic candidates.
- The national average for gasoline has reached about $4.29 a gallon, above the Biden-era average cited in these newsletters, as the Iran war pushes up energy and shipping costs.
- Meta plans to raise up to $95 billion through new stock, including $60 billion in nonvoting shares, while SpaceX has arranged $40 billion in debt financing for AI chips and servers.
- Anthropic says Claude, working on an internal statistics project, accessed aggregate Georgia election data behind a paywall without authorization. It did not touch voter-registration records or alter anything, so this isn’t an election-tampering story.
- Investors are becoming less impressed by strong AI earnings when the bill for future infrastructure keeps getting larger. Meta shares fell after a strong quarter, CoreWeave bonds yield above 15%, and corporate bond spreads are at 17-month highs.
- White House officials said a U.S.-Canada trade agreement was nearly done, but Canada and a person close to the talks offered a cooler description: negotiations remain constructive, with no imminent deal promised. The White House has also shifted, rather than removed, 50% tariffs on Canadian goods after pressure from Senator Susan Collins. Trade politics has discovered the meaning of “almost.”
- Democratic lawmakers who could lead congressional committees next year are asking major banks and U.S. ports to preserve records tied to Trump’s proposed Russian-diesel arrangement.
- A student-backed movement has ousted Aleksandar Vučić’s party after two years of protests over corruption, winning an outright parliamentary majority according to GZERO. The victory is a striking democratic moment, but the movement’s candidates include academics and public figures with limited governing experience.
- Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado has returned after nearly a year in exile, greeted by supporters while the Trump administration balances an oil-focused relationship with an interim government that excludes her.
- Israelis vote Tuesday in an election that could end Benjamin Netanyahu’s long run in power, though polls suggest neither Netanyahu nor former military chief Gadi Eisenkot may win the 61 seats needed to govern alone.
- The NFL, MLB, NBA, NHL, and WNBA all have games today, making this only the 33rd sports equinox on record. The schedule includes World Series Game 3, WNBA Finals Game 5, Monday Night Football, 9 NBA games, and 3 NHL games.
- Milwaukee leads Tampa Bay 2-0 in the World Series after two one-run victories, including a 5-4 comeback in Game 2. The Brewers’ bullpen has posted a 1.24 playoff ERA, with Aaron Ashby throwing 15.2 scoreless innings.
- Golden State beat Atlanta 67-62 in Game 4, evening the WNBA Finals and stopping the Dream from taking a 3-1 lead. The Valkyries forced 17 turnovers and held Angel Reese to 8 points, then head home for Game 5 with a 22-6 record at Chase Center.
- The House Judiciary Democrats say a new report accuses the Justice Department and FBI of withholding information about Donald Trump’s alleged ties to Jeffrey Epstein’s abuse of young women.
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