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Victory belongs to the most tenacious. #RolandGarros

Autumn—the season of harvests, festivals, migrations, and spectacular colors—has arrived. See a collection of images from this year:

SPECIAL REPORT: Ukrainian forces have defeated the 2026 Russian campaign to seize Donetsk Oblast. 🧵(1/6) Read more: isw.pub/UkraineDisru...

Eye and skin experts have long used red light to treat age-related decline. But newer research suggests that it could be used to treat many more ailments and diseases, from Alzheimer’s to ADHD

The trip highlights the remarkable relationship between a son of the US president and a tycoon with a criminal record who has close ties to Vladimir Putin’s personal security service. Intelligence experts say such connections are ripe for manipulation. ft.trib.al/uTQNxLq

Kylian Mbappe dropped by two major brands in China after a video circulated online in which the French football star apparently joked about former leader Mao Zedong u.afp.com/Sy5R

A fighter loyal to Yemen's internationally-recognised government fires on the frontline against the Houthis in Taiz province. Yemen's long-running civil war had been dormant since a ceasefire in 2022, but erupted again in July as the wider Middle East war roiled the region 📸 Ahmed Al-Basha

AI poses an "unprecedented" threat as foreign governments turn it loose to hack computer networks and critical infrastructure, Australia's cyber security agency warns u.afp.com/Sy5M

A 28-year-old convicted murderer serving a life sentence escaped through a Tennessee prison's fence Sunday evening before stealing a truck and driving off — and has not yet been located, according to Tennessee authorities. https://cnn.it/4svki6y

Russell Brand had 'insane sexual appetite', former PA tells rape trial

More than 25% of Microsoft staff are eligible for the buyout.

Trump: "We didn't start the war with Iran. Iran started the war with us."

President Trump intensified his anti-Muslim rhetoric against Michigan Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed on Sunday, portraying him as a threat to national security and questioning his loyalty to the United States. n.pr/3UgeaCc

A federal judge struck down a Trump administration ban on issuing immigrant visas to people from 75 countries, but immigrants continue to be stuck in their countries. Attorneys say the federal government is slow-walking the processing of visas on purpose. n.pr/4i89mYP

Brazil's currency and stocks tumbled on Monday as investors bet that Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva's comeback election victory would compound fiscal worries for Latin America's biggest economy. ft.trib.al/YFBHtNS

Microsoft offers buyouts to 60,000 staff ft.trib.al/Sw4uc00

Trump offers $1mn reward for tips leading to election fraud conviction ft.trib.al/0Uj1Q6m

A thrilling exhibition at the Academy Museum of Motion Pictures in Los Angeles gathers artifacts spanning a century of scary movies, from a Freddy Krueger outfit to a bat from the 1931 ‘Dracula.’ on.wsj.com/4ihq7B7

A Texas man fell for a beautiful woman, then found himself laundering cash for an international crime ring. “It wasn’t love toward the end,” he says. 🔗 on.wsj.com/4Bq8XZg

DoorDash in talks to buy Instacart in roughly $17 billion deal, source says reut.rs/4e1UKbb

Head of Mexico's electoral authority resigns amid corruption allegations reut.rs/4dZM1pO

NEW: The iPhone Duo screen-cracking issue is real. Apple hasn’t given stores or customer service representatives guidance but the company is investigating it. Several have personally sent me their images and stories of their new $2000 device breaking within hours. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Internet piles on former Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer for using AI to generate compliments about her daughter

Some buyers of the company’s first foldable phone hear popping sound followed by a split along the hinge area in the £1,999 device

Meta said Monday it is planning to raise a total of $95 billion to support its investments in artificial intelligence infrastructure and superintelligence. More details: cnb.cx/4sn7z5E

Microsoft offers voluntary buyouts to 60,000 employees

"The Cuban regime has stifled any viable domestic opposition. But the withering of the state—a process that has been under way for decades—has accelerated, and is shocking to see up close" From Robert Worth, @theatlantic.com www.theatlantic.com/magazine/202...

Bidding wars in the city have become so sharp that homes are selling on average for nearly a third more than their list price.

Microsoft offers 'buyouts' to 60,000 staff including UK workers

Breaking: Meta plans to raise up to $95 billion in waves of stock offerings to fund its massive investments in AI infrastructure.

Dozens of data-center projects have already been delayed or disrupted by local opposition this year—here are four states to watch for on Election Day on.wsj.com/4e2obK1

Serbia's student movement wins parliamentary elections against populist leader Aleksandar Vucic

U.S. consumers aren't just frustrated with high prices. They're angry and confused about the increasingly high-tech ways that restaurant chains and major retailers are setting those prices. https://to.pbs.org/4i4Nhup

More than 5 million people have lost their Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, or SNAP, benefits since President Donald Trump’s One Big Beautiful Bill passed last year. That has meant many more people are turning to food banks for support. https://to.pbs.org/47Sb4rd

EXCLUSIVE – How Purchases of Sanctioned Iranian Jet Fuel Were Disguised by Myanmar kayhanlife.com/news/iran/ex...

Venezuelan opposition leader and Nobel laureate María Corina Machado has returned to Venezuela, posing a challenge to the country’s US-backed interim government. ft.trib.al/ubyftdB

Serbia’s former president Aleksandar Vučić conceded defeat in the country’s parliamentary election on Sunday, marking a dramatic fall from power for the strongman nationalist leader. ft.trib.al/4SmEHSe

France, working with European allies, is expanding its role as a nuclear-weapons power to bolster deterrence against Russian attacks.

I have read dozens of outraged posts because the US special envoy Witkoff called Putin a "humanist." But no one is writing about the fact that the American negotiators are simply not doing their job. Let me explain.

I don’t know if anyone will remember the names of Witkoff and Kushner. But history will certainly record how American negotiators, who had the opportunity to save a huge number of people, refused to raise uncomfortable questions before "humanist Putin."

And what are Witkoff and Kushner doing? That's right, almost nothing. Except for passing along greetings from Putin’s aide to the First Lady.

Background here: www.theatlantic.com/magazine/202...

Eric Bauza, an Emmy-winning voice actor who was the modern voice of Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck and other Looney Tunes characters, has died. He was 46.

This fall’s daylight saving time change will happen in the early morning hours of Nov. 1, the day after Halloween. The timing means party-goers will get an extra hour of festivities.

🔴🇧🇷 #FlávioBolsonaro afirmó que "es imposible reconocer" la victoria del presidente #LulaDaSilva en la segunda vuelta de las elecciones presidenciales de Brasil por la decisión de un juez de ampliar en dos horas el horario de votación a petición del líder progresista ➡️ https://f24.my/CF1m

Blockers by Michael Lewis: A page-turner about civil servants, and Trump’s war on them

A three-judge US Circuit Court of Appeals panel expressed significant skepticism over the Justice Department’s desire to inject itself into California’s midterm vote-counting process by forcing election officials to set aside the votes of suspected noncitizens who have been issued mail ballots.