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My heart is heavy. Walter Koenig, our Ensign Pavel Chekov, passed away early today. Walter and I met on the bridge of the Enterprise in the 1960s, and we stayed friends for nearly six decades. When Brad and I married in 2008, Walter stood beside us as our best man.

Breaking News: Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva defeated Flávio Bolsonaro to stay president of Brazil, halting the right’s march in Latin America. Follow live updates. nyti.ms/47GKOQJ

Durante su día libre, Jungkook y V (Tae-hyung) de BTS visitaron El Ateneo. Dos de los miembros de BTS pasearon por uno de los sitios emblema de la Ciudad de Buenos Aires, mientras se preparan para sus próximos shows en La Plata que tendrá lugar este viernes y sábado 23 y 24 de octubre.

‘Pure arrogance’: anger in Finland as Google illegally fells 250,000 trees for datacentre

The EPA’s latest proposal to repeal emissions limits is both nihilistic and wrong—and it ignores meaningful evidence about the global advantages of carbon-pollution standards, Richard L. Revesz argues.

Breaking news: The Trump administration has not approved the transfer of interceptor missiles to Ukraine that are needed to protect the country from Russian attacks, officials said, a delay that comes as President Trump has embraced Russia in recent weeks.

American voters across the political spectrum now assume most top tech CEOs are conservative, according to our new poll. And a plurality of voters say they believe tech is the biggest financial backer of the Republican Party. Read more in Decoded: politi.co/4jZ6r64

The United States should stand unequivocally with Ukraine against Russia, David J. Kramer, John Herbst, and William Taylor argue.

Alex Gibney, the director of the new “Musk” documentary, reached this conclusion about the ambitions of the world’s richest man: “There is no real purpose to it except to play the game.”

Europe has been conspicuously absent from high-level talks about how to use artificial intelligence safely, despite crafting the world's first comprehensive set of rules to govern the technology. https://cnn.it/47Ukcvu

An artificial intelligence system designed by Anthropic, maker of the Claude chatbot, submitted a false homicide tip to the Philadelphia police, the latest incident of AI agents acting in ways that weren’t intended.

Although Blanche Lincoln now lobbies for Kalshi to help the industry avoid regulation, her comments as a senator 16 years ago are still cited to support strict rules against sports betting and other kinds of bets on prediction markets: arstechnica.visitlink.me/QC9T8W

A new study found that levies put in place last year by the Trump administration drove up consumer goods inflation by an estimated 2.9 percentage points as of February.

At a busy thoroughfare inside the European Parliament, passing politicians are now confronted with an 8.5-foot-tall statue of President Donald Trump, naked but for a thin layer of 23-karat gold leaf. https://cnn.it/4y31HQb

ADIÓS, CAPITÁN 💔 Hasta siempre Lionel Messi se despidió de su larga y exitosa carrera con la camiseta de la selección argentina.

From @theathleticfc.bsky.social: For years, there were many people in Argentina who criticised Lionel Messi, scorned him, rejected him, and even booed him. But he now bows out a legend. nyti.ms/4yzdOWt

"President Donald Trump has a long history of trying to rewrite history about his own public remarks. He is now doing it again about the war with Iran – wrongly describing his own past predictions that the war would last mere weeks," writes CNN's Daniel Dale. | Fact check: https://cnn.it/4jBDwoo

Oscars 2027: La virgen de la tosquera es la representante argentina para los premios de la Academia de Hollywood |✍️por Natalia Trzenko www.lanacion.com.ar/espectaculos...

A district court ruled that the Trump administration must reinstate a $7 billion grant program that funded solar panel installation for low- and moderate-income families.

Exclusive: More American service members have died in the Middle East during the ongoing Iran war than the Pentagon has disclosed publicly, according to six U.S. officials familiar with the data.

An OpenAI executive similarly warned that publishers would face an “existential threat” from commercial products trained on news content in an internal message, according to newly unsealed documents.

A recent report out of MIT said A.I. is triggering “cognitive surrender” in students. Many university leaders are embracing the technology with enthusiasm anyway.

Since becoming president again, Trump has promised: -$5000 stimulus checks via "DOGE dividend" -$2000 stimulus checks via "tariff dividend" -$1000+ checks via "savings" from expiring ACA subsidies -$5000 "dividend" if Rs win midterms No checks have been issued www.thebulwark.com/p/trump-magi...

In @nytopinion.nytimes.com “From the top down, Trump is replacing the highly imperfect meritocracy of American public service with an idiocracy, and his corrupt idiocrats are creating profound short-, medium- and long-term harms to American national security,” our columnist David French writes.

Scoop: a new coalition of 600-plus organizations — preservationists, architects, Tribal nations and more — will urge Congress today to fight Trump's efforts to weaken protections for historic sites. The groups say Congress has done too little to stop Trump's regulatory rollback and new projects.

An arbitrator has ordered The Washington Post to rehire the opinion columnist Karen Attiah, who was fired in September over her social media posts about the assassination of Charlie Kirk. It also ordered the company to compensate her with back pay. nyti.ms/4xWQn8H

In Opinion “What Trump did is not really replace one G.O.P. ideology with another,” our columnist David French says on “The Opinions.” Instead, “he took the G.O.P. ideology that existed around 2015, nuked it from orbit, and then turned the glowing ruins into nothing but his impulses and desires.”

Amazon had pledged to be net zero by 2040. It just invested in what could be the largest source of climate pollution in the U.S.

A group of AI bots colluded for months and autonomously hacked another company—providing a new, serious reason to worry about the dangers of AI and the recklessness of the companies building it, @matteowong.bsky.social reports:

Hillary Clinton blasted President Donald Trump’s overhaul of the White House in an interview posted Friday, telling podcast host Kara Swisher that Trump’s “tackied up” decor is “reminiscent” of dictator Saddam Hussein’s palaces in Iraq. https://cnn.it/4g6fWgq

From @theathleticfc.bsky.social: The Argentine Football Association will mark its 2026 World Cup semifinal victory over England with a national day. The AFA said July 15 had been selected to commemorate a “great and historic victory.”

A lawyer for the Trump administration recently made an admission in a court filing—the latest instance of the judicial system puncturing the White House's public spin, @dgraham.bsky.social argues in The Atlantic Daily.

Muchos argentinos han condenado los cánticos racistas y el comportamiento agresivo de sus jugadores en el Mundial, pero rechazaron lo que se sintió como un sentimiento antiargentino y una estigmatización generalizada de toda su nación.

@adamcrafton.bsky.social What a surprise that a British guy prefers Spain over Argentina. Summer in Alicante anyone? The facts are that Argentina beat down the English. Messi will be greater than any English player ever and the people of Argentina love la Albiceleste for all their peccadillos.

Andy Burnham has been confirmed as the new leader of Britain’s governing Labour Party, and will become the country’s seventh prime minister in a decade of extraordinary political instability when he succeeds Keir Starmer on Monday. https://cnn.it/4hiLa5Y

In @nytopinion.nytimes.com The words of the Constitution “mean little if members of Congress do not stand up to dangerous presidential power grabs,” the editorial board writes about Todd Blanche’s impending confirmation hearing to lead the Justice Department.

Judge says Trump sought to "manipulate the judicial process" with his IRS lawsuit and will recommend sanctions against the president's attorneys. https://cnn.it/4f7Vknm

Trump administration panned for New York Times subpoenas

¡Vamos Argentina!

As the White House continues to tout its boat-strike campaign, officials and agencies closest to the action have all but given up the pretense that it has succeeded in reducing the flow of drugs into the U.S., @rosesheinerman.bsky.social reports.

I'm researching old NBA teams and I've fallen in love with the Providence Steamrollers. What a great name, what a great logo. Just perfect. (Also, they still have the record for fewest wins in a season with 6)

Ten years ago today, J. D. Vance called Trump “cultural heroin” in The Atlantic: “To every complex problem, he promises a simple solution … He never offers details for how these plans will work, because he can’t," Vance wrote of Trump. Read the piece: theatln.tc/foJ8lGw3

¡ARGENTINA A OCTAVOS! 🇦🇷 La Selección eliminó por 3 a 2 a la gran revelación de este Mundial, Cabo Verde, en un partido muy parejo, intenso y con mucho roce físico. Su próximo rival será Egipto, quien venció a Australia por penales este viernes. www.lanacion.com.ar/deportes/fut...

An active-duty officer was placed into Air Force custody after being arrested in uniform on Wednesday, following a news conference at the U.S. Capitol in which he called for the impeachment, conviction and removal of President Trump and Vice President JD Vance. nyti.ms/4vbW1lA