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House Republican Urges Lame Duck Budgets to Shield Agencies From Defunding
One of the few House Republicans to win a US Senate seat is urging colleagues to use the lame duck session to pass multi year budgets to protect agencies.
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Baseball’s Big Weekend: Brewers Wait as Cleveland and Tampa Bay Decide the ALCS
The Milwaukee Brewers are going to the World Series for the first time since 1982, and now baseball’s biggest question is who they will…
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Vote Like Canada Depends on It: The Weekend Before Alberta’s Big Referendum
With three days left before Alberta votes on whether to begin the legal process toward a future separation referendum, Canada is heading into the…
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Climate Watchdogs: US and Canada Both Failing on Climate Action
The Climate Action Tracker rates US climate action 'critically insufficient' and downgrades Canada's policies rating as both capitals roll back green policies.
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WSJ: Paxton’s Dubai Party With Fugitives Shadows Texas Senate Race
A WSJ investigation says Ken Paxton welcomed 2025 in Dubai with two indicted fugitives — including a $190,000 donor — as his Texas Senate race tightens.
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Seven Flights in Europe Targeted by Alleged Bomb Threat Alerts
Seven flights in Europe, notably in Poland, Spain, Bulgaria and Italy, were targeted by alleged bomb threat alerts, according to reporting on Wednesday.
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Eleven Points or Four: Michigan Lead Shows Poll Uncertainty
Michigan shows the widest Democratic Senate lead in final polls, 53 percent to 42 percent in one survey and 51 percent to 47 percent in another, a gap that warns against reading polls as results.
Business
November Data Calendar: Job Openings, Jobs and Prices in Order
September job openings arrive on Tuesday, the October jobs report on Friday, and October consumer prices on 10 November, a sequence that will shape December.
Technology
The $10 Trillion AI Buildout Is Hitting the Limits of Physics and Finance
A Columbia paper puts US AI infrastructure at $10.3T through 2032 — 3.6% of GDP a year. Hyperscaler capex is outrunning cash flow, and the grid can't keep up.
Sports
The Bridge Held: How Milwaukee’s Bullpen Won Game 5, and the Parade
Milwaukee won Game 5 with a bullpen bridge, as JoJo Romero, Abner Uribe and Trevor Megill closed a 4-1 win after Jacob Misiorowski's five and two thirds scoreless innings.
Entertainment
Aaron Sorkin’s ‘The Social Reckoning’ Leads a Packed Weekend at the Movies
Aaron Sorkin's 'The Social Reckoning', with Jeremy Strong as Mark Zuckerberg, leads one of the busiest cinema weekends of the autumn.
Health
Gut Bacteria May Reveal How Fast the Brain Is Aging, UCLA Study Suggests
How old your brain looks may depend, in part, on what lives in your gut. In a study published in the journal eBioMedicine, UCLA…
Science
Hall and Woodford Win the 2026 Nobel Prize in Economics for the Models That Steady Economies
Robert E. Hall of Stanford and Michael Woodford of Columbia won the 2026 Nobel economics prize for the ground-up models that steady economies.
