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Oct 28 (Reuters) - President Vladimir Putin hailed Elon Musk as a genius on Wednesday, acknowledging Russia is only beginning to roll out its answer to his Starlink satellite internet system.
President Donald Trump has changed his mind. Again. After announcing that he would skip campaign rallies in Kansas and Iowa and replace them with telephone appearances, the White House has now put both events back on the president's schedule. Trump is expected to appear Sunday in Salina, Kansas, and Cedar Rapids, Iowa. Apparently, the campaign blitz was not quite finished after all.
The official explanation is that the rallies were rearranged to accommodate nearly 20 additional tele-rallies. That is an impressive amount of campaigning for a president who had just decided that traveling to two states was unnecessary. The administration insists that it is confident about both states and that Trump simply wants to give voters what they want. One might reasonably ask why voters had to wait for the rallies to be canceled before discovering that they wanted them.
Prime Minister Mark Carney has announced that the Canadian government intends to invest up to $1.6 billion in Cohere, the Toronto-founded artificial intelligence company, as Ottawa seeks to establish a stronger domestic presence in one of the world's most strategically important industries.
There is a particular kind of political power that does not depend on competence, persuasion, or even the ability to govern. It depends on making everyone else afraid to challenge it. Michigan Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed believes Donald Trump has created precisely that political environment in Washington.Speaking with comedian Hasan Minhaj on his podcast, El-Sayed offered an unusually blunt assessment of the president and the people surrounding him. “We are being actively bullied by the dumbest people in the room,” he said, before calling Trump an idiot whose one particular talent, in his view, is attracting attention.
Sir Patrick Stewart, the British actor whose career bridged Shakespearean theatre, science fiction and Hollywood, has died in Los Angeles at the age of 86. His death was announced Thursday through a statement shared on his social media accounts. He died Wednesday at home, surrounded by his family and wife, singer-songwriter Sunny Ozell.
Republican Vivek Ramaswamy, running for governor of Ohio, has stopped airing a controversial television advertisement featuring the estranged mother of his Democratic opponent, Amy Acton. The advertisement showed Donna Arthur calling her daughter a liar and urging voters not to support her. Acton and her mother have been estranged for nearly five decades.The family history behind the advertisement is particularly painful. In 1978, Arthur lost custody of her children after her husband was indicted for raping Acton, who was then 12 years old. Acton has said she has had no contact with her mother since that period.
October 29, 2026
From JFK's 1946 congressional campaign to Florida's 2020 elections and today's Alaska controversy, political operatives have repeatedly tried to manipulate the ballot with gangster-style tricks
American politics has a peculiar tradition. Politicians spend enormous amounts of money telling voters how important democracy is, how sacred the ballot must remain, and how dangerous it is to allow their opponents to undermine the electoral process. Yet, behind the campaign slogans, political operatives have repeatedly found ways to manipulate that very process for partisan advantage.
With five days to go before the United States midterms, Democrats are ahead in national polls, but several Senate races remain close.
President Donald Trump, former President Barack Obama and Vice President JD Vance were out campaigning on Wednesday in Ohio, Georgia and North Carolina, as both parties fight for control of Congress.
JPMorgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon has a message for anyone trying to understand where the American economy is heading: strong profits today do not eliminate the risks building for tomorrow.
JPMorgan Chase reported $15.3 billion in net income for the third quarter of 2026, equivalent to $5.57 per share. Although revenue increased 8% from a year earlier, the results fell short of Wall Street’s expectations, according to CNBC.
PART I — THE ASSIGNMENT: FOLLOW THE EVIDENCE
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Against the blackness of space, a small winged spacecraft hangs above Earth. Its shape recalls an American space shuttle, stripped of the machinery and proportions of its larger predecessor. Beneath it, a separate structure extends outward, its solar panels unfolded like dark wings. The spaceplane's payload-bay doors are open. There is no astronaut in the picture. No national insignia announces its mission. No visible instrument reveals what the spacecraft has been doing or what it intends to do next.
The DOJ said it had identified over 20,000 “likely non-citizens,” but California officials said that the claim wasn’t backed by evidence and that the government was trying to interfere in the electionOct. 28, 2026, 4:52 PM GMT-8By Gary Grumbach and Dareh Gregorian
A federal judge in California on Wednesday refused the Trump administration’s request to segregate 20,000 mail-in ballots from individuals it alleges are noncitizens.
October 27, 20262:57 AM GMT-8 Updated October 27, 2026
ATHENS, Oct 27 (Reuters) - Egypt, Bahrain and the United Arab Emirates aligned with Greece to denounce a Turkey-Libya maritime accord as a threat to regional security and international legal order in a long-standing dispute over sea borders in the eastern Mediterranean Sea.
The collision occurred shortly before 9 a.m. local time on the high-speed railway connecting Madrid with southern Spain. The trains involved were a Renfe AVE service travelling from Madrid towards Seville and a train operated by private rail company Iryo. The two services were carrying hundreds of passengers.
As economists in the rest of the world look at the billions being poured into the AI industry with their hands over their eyes, the fate of China’s AI industry may be a sign of things to come.A report from Reuters suggests that the AI bubble in China “has already burst.” Or it might be more apt to say that it shriveled like a rapidly deflating balloon: over the past four months, Reuters notes, the country’s STAR50 index of AI and semiconductor companies collapsed by 40 percent, wiping out $480 billion in market value. That is not a typo.
