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Isaias became a Category 2 hurricane with 100 mph winds in the National Hurricane Center's 5 p.m. Eastern advisory on Thursday. Landfall is expected late Friday or early Saturday near the Alabama-Florida border, with 5 to 7 feet of storm surge forecast for…
✔ Sources: WDBO (Cox Media), Fox Weather
President Trump said on Truth Social that the U.S. will not attack Iran before the November 3 midterm elections and that talks with Iran are productive, while the naval blockade stays in place. Iran's foreign minister said Tehran will formally reply to a…
✔ Sources: Middle East Eye, Time News
The Nasdaq Composite fell about 1.4% on Thursday after the Financial Times reported OpenAI told investors its annualized revenue is approaching $50 billion, about $20 billion less than previously reported. Nvidia fell 3%, and Intel and Oracle each fell…
✔ Sources: CNN (via ABC17), Yahoo Finance
WWF's Living Planet Report 2026 finds monitored vertebrate wildlife populations fell an average of 73% between 1970 and 2022, with freshwater species down 85%. The report also highlights recoveries: WWF says wild tiger numbers rose from about 3,200 in 2010…
✔ Sources: WWF-UK, Down To Earth
Anne Carson, the 76-year-old Canadian poet, translator and classics scholar, won the 2026 Nobel Prize in Literature. The Swedish Academy cited her "bold and inventive oeuvre" that has created new forms for contemporary literature in playful dialogue with…
✔ Sources: Al Jazeera, The Irish Times
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