America heads into Election Day with closing arguments, legal fights, and a tense Alaska Senate race With the 2026 midterm elections two days away, candidates and President Trump are making final appeals to voters while a bitter legal fight over an independent Senate candidate in Alaska draws in the Justice Department and the FBI. Full story → · 3 sources
Wall Street enters a pivotal week as investors pull back from tech stocks ahead of the midterms, Apple earnings, and the jobs report Investors sold off technology shares heading into the weekend as doubts grow about the pace of AI spending, setting up a critical week that includes Tuesday's midterm elections, Apple's earnings report, and the October jobs report. Full story → · 1 sources
Amazon's cloud unit posts its fastest growth in nearly five years as AI demand reshapes the cloud computing business Amazon Web Services reported roughly 39.3 percent revenue growth in the third quarter, its fastest pace in nearly five years, with Amazon projecting the growth rate will climb above 40 percent in 2027 and 2028 as AI workloads expand. Full story → · 1 sources
FBI says hackers linked to North Korea were behind a $6.3 billion theft from crypto exchange Binance The FBI has attributed a $6.3 billion cryptocurrency theft from exchange Binance to hackers connected to North Korea, one of the largest crypto heists on record. Full story → · 1 sources
Evacuees cross out of Russian-held Oleshky as a local truce holds, while Washington approves a new missile sale to Ukraine A localized truce between Kyiv and Moscow allowed evacuees to leave the Russian-occupied city of Oleshky for Ukrainian-controlled territory, even as both sides reported continued strikes elsewhere and the United States approved a new missile sale to Ukraine. Full story → · 2 sources
Poland's political leadership clashes over the courts, as the president cuts short a foreign trip Poland's prime minister, Donald Tusk, struck a defiant tone and pledged to defend the rule of law amid an escalating dispute with the country's courts, as the president cut short a trip to Senegal to deal with the crisis at home. Full story → · 1 sources
Iran reports three tankers on fire in the Strait of Hormuz as diplomatic talks continue Iran's Revolutionary Guard said three tankers caught fire in the Strait of Hormuz, one of the world's most important oil shipping routes, even as diplomatic talks related to the wider regional tensions continued. Full story → · 2 sources
Canada says it is aiming to become the European Union's first 'associate member' by mid-2027 Meeting with European Union leaders in Montreal, Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney said Canada is aiming to become the EU's first associate member by June 2027, a new category of closer partnership between Canada and the bloc. Full story → · 1 sources
Nvidia's Jensen Huang visits Kazakhstan, pointing to the country as a potential AI hub for Europe Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang made his first visit to Kazakhstan, saying the country could become a significant artificial intelligence computing hub for Europe as nations compete to attract data center investment. Full story → · 1 sources