Ken Paxton dodged the televised town hall in the Lone Star State, but he had an interrogator on assignment. Photo Illustration by Victoria Sunday/The Daily Beast/Getty Images/CNN Welcome to Midterms Meltdown, a special pop-up newsletter from The Swamp that lets you know up-to-the-minute secrets politicians don’t want you to know about the race until November … Read more
The CBS News foreign editor embarked on a pre-planned team-building cruise after the meeting was leaked on what one aide called “the strangest damn night.” Noam Galai/Noam Galai/Getty Images for The Free Press Bari Weiss’s hand-picked CBS News foreign editor threatened to fire staff for “insubordination” during a 15-minute tirade that was leaked to the … Read more
Shares of CoreWeave (CRWV) plunged 12% on October 16, putting the AI infrastructure company on track to end the week down 25% as concerns over AI funding continued to weigh on market sentiment. Earlier this week, Bloomberg reported a sharp rise in CoreWeave’s bond yields, raising questions about whether the company can generate enough cash … Read more
Apple’s App Store rules now more explicitly prohibit so-called “nudification” apps that generate intimate images of people without their consent using artificial intelligence tools. As part of the updates announced Friday, Apple says developers “must proactively prevent and remove” non-consensual sexual images as part of its content moderation requirements for App Store apps. Developers who … Read more
Jena Bishop got her revenge and is now the PFL Women’s Flyweight Champion. On Friday night at WinTrust Arena, PFL Chicago fell, with Bishop facing Liz Carmouche for the vacant PFL flyweight title. Carmouche had just knocked out Bishop last year and was a heavy favorite for this rematch, but Bishop didn’t let that stop … Read more
“Necklaces” of ultracold atoms have provided new evidence supporting a nearly 100-year-old quantum theory. In 1931, physicists were trying to use quantum mechanics to explain why some materials are magnetic. Then, a young physicist named Hans Bethe observed a single row of electrons. The spin of each electron can point up or down. Bethe calculated … Read more
Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. defended his agency’s handling of an ongoing measles outbreak in Pennsylvania this week, saying state officials had “politicized” the response to the growing number of infections. Kennedy also blamed the covid-19 epidemic lockdown for declining measles vaccination rates, which health experts identify as the main reason … Read more
At least 16 people have been rescued from the Pacific Ocean off the coast of Baja California in Mexico, according to the US Coast Guard, which said it had responded to a report on Friday that more than two dozen people were in the water. The Coast Guard sent air and surface crews about 140 … Read more
Ukraine faces growing uncertainty about its ability to sustain war against Russia as a series of moves by US President Donald Trump have raised new questions about Washington’s reliability as kyiv’s most important military partner. Trump’s deal with Putin to ease sanctions on Russia to supply diesel to global markets, as well as restrictions on … Read more
A Mexican judge convicted the three men of the 2024 murders a week after they were found guilty. Published October 17, 2026 October 17, 2026 Three Mexican men have been sentenced to more than 158 years in prison each for the murder of two Australian brothers and their American friend during a surfing trip off … Read more