Flávio Bolsonaro flees to Miami
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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 68 and a low of 46, with clear skies.
- Flávio Bolsonaro lost Brazil's presidential runoff and then didn't concede. Authorities had cancelled his passport and barred him from leaving the country, but he and his family crossed into Argentina by van, flew to Ecuador, and landed in Miami.
- The Brewers won their first World Series title in franchise history, beating Tampa Bay four games to one. Jacob Misiorowski pitched them home in Game 5, a 4-1 win built on small ball, defense and pitching.
- The Fed left rates unchanged, more or less as expected. Two officials, Lisa Cook and Beth Hammack, wanted a quarter-point hike. Chair Kevin Warsh pushed back on the idea that AI investment is immune to higher rates, and traders now see a 79% chance of a December hike, according to Axios.
- Neither Netanyahu's bloc nor Gadi Eisenkot's reached the 61 seats needed to govern. Netanyahu's bloc is on track for 53 seats and the opposition for 48, with Arab parties at a record 19.
- Two high-speed trains collided in Spain, killing at least 68 people by the latest counts. Spain's transport minister blamed an erroneous order from a train controller after a signaling failure.
- The New York Times reported that Mary Peltola's campaign and the Democratic Senate campaign arm tried to recruit spoiler candidates to split the vote against Senator Dan Sullivan.
- Axios's Hill newsletter talked to nearly 20 House Democrats, and most described their mood as nauseously optimistic. Democrats are targeting seats Trump carried by 10 to 20 points.
- OpenAI is setting up an Election Operations Center to spot misinformation and interference ahead of the midterms. It will also monitor misuse of its own tools.
- Google's free cash flow went negative, at minus $9.1 billion, and Alphabet fell more than 7 percent after hours. Microsoft's cloud beat expectations and its shares rose.
- Semafor reads Anthropic's IPO filing through its 85 percent gross margin on running its models. The Information called it a reality check. Bloomberg's Matt Levine noted the company's $80.7 billion first-half loss mostly reflects accounting for stock-linked instruments.
- Axios reports bond markets are now pricing AI borrowers separately. CoreWeave bonds yield around 16 percent, and data-center debt tied to Oracle moves with Oracle's own bonds.
- Brazil's main index fell again after the election surprise. Its finance minister blamed positions unwinding, not fundamentals. A Bloomberg columnist said prediction markets briefly created around $130 billion of stock wealth that then vanished.
- Villa Vie's Odyssey, a round-the-world cruise with permanent residents, suspended operations in Cambodia. Fuel costs rose sharply in Asia after the Iran war. The company says it can't afford to refuel.
- Oliver Darcy reports Fox News viewership is down about 27 percent year over year, and down 32 percent in the 25-to-54 group. CNN and MS NOW are gaining.
- The New York Times counts about 350 out-of-state trips taken by Ken Paxton since he became attorney general, including during a deadly winter storm. Paxton is now the Republican Senate candidate in Texas.
- Secretary of State Marco Rubio was due to travel with Trump to Ohio but the plans were scrapped. The State Department cited a schedule change.
- María Corina Machado returned to Venezuela after ten months in exile. GZERO's Ian Bremmer says elections are more likely in 2028 than 2027, and the Trump administration has made oil deals a priority over democracy.
- The administration has sent states lists of alleged noncitizen voters, including 20,000 names in California. Trump says he'll accept midterm results only if they are honest elections.
- Dolores Huerta, co-founder of the United Farm Workers with Cesar Chavez, died at 96, her family said. Her work led to organized protections for California grape workers.
- AI-discovered flaws in PHP and Brotli sparked a panic, but few attacks have succeeded so far. Axios says the moment resembles Y2K, and experts say companies should focus on resilience.
- Microsoft is offering buyouts to 60,000 employees, about 25% of its workforce, as it pours money into AI.
- CNN Weather says a soggy storm could hit Iowa, Kansas, Michigan, Ohio and Texas on Election Day, with rain most likely in Texas east of Interstate 35.
- A Bloomberg columnist says prediction markets amplified a misleading political narrative after Brazil’s election upset, briefly creating about $130 billion in stock-market wealth before it vanished.
- Datavault AI said its financial statements shouldn't be relied on. It never actually received the 1,309 bitcoin it booked, because the coins sat on an exchange ledger, and it now can't withdraw them.
- Dalia Dassa Kaye writes in Foreign Affairs that Netanyahu's security vision will outlast any defeat at the polls. Ben Judah predicts he'll try to build a government around opposition to Iran.
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