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au health 4 4m ago 4 min read

Labor and Coalition Block Senate Bill Banning Shackling in Childbirth, Days After Queensland Case

Labor and the Coalition have stopped Senator Lidia Thorpe's bill banning the shackling of women in labour from reaching a Senate vote, saying prisons are a state matter. Days earlier, Queensland corrective services confirmed a woman was shackled while in labour and said it will review the incident. The Senate inquiry did not back the bill but called for federal talks with the states and national data on pregnant women in custody.
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us tech 6 33m ago 4 min read

Replit CEO Says Company No Longer Works With Anthropic, Then Says Claude Is Still Available as OpenAI Becomes Default

Replit CEO Amjad Masad told TechCrunch Disrupt on Thursday, Oct. 15, that the company is no longer working with Anthropic, then clarified that Claude models remain selectable and OpenAI is simply the new default. A person familiar with the partnership says the Anthropic deal is still in place. Because most users never change defaults, the real money question is how much Replit's Anthropic spend drops, and Replit hasn't said.
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us economy 6 37m ago 3 min read

Norte Fire in San Clemente Burns Hundreds of Acres, Damages or Destroys at Least Six Homes

A wind-driven wildfire that broke out Friday, Oct. 16, in San Clemente has crossed into San Juan Capistrano, forced mandatory evacuations and damaged or destroyed at least six homes. It was at 0% containment Friday afternoon, and the final count of lost homes is still to be established.
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us energy 6 40m ago 4 min read

NOAA Adds 'Particularly Dangerous Situation' Wording to Winter Warnings as El Niño Outlook Draws Spring Planting Concerns

Since NOAA's Oct. 15 winter outlook, the details that matter locally have emerged: a new warning label for historic blizzards and ice storms, a wetter Gulf Coast, and farm worries about saturated fields in spring 2027. Seasonal outlooks give odds, not storm forecasts, and NOAA's next update is due Nov. 19.
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us economy 6 48m ago 4 min read

National Debt Reaches $40.33 Trillion as Rick Scott Launches Spending-Cut Push and CBO Cites Interest and Tariff Refunds

Since the national debt crossed $40 trillion in August, Treasury's latest reading has it at $40.33 trillion. Sen. Rick Scott is pushing both parties to cut spending, while the CBO pins the 12% jump in the deficit partly on interest costs and court-ordered tariff refunds. Long Treasury yields remain above 5.4%.
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ca defense 7 53m ago 3 min read

Fatalities and injuries reported after fire at CFB Wainwright in Alberta, defense minister says

Defense Minister David McGuinty confirmed Saturday, Oct. 17, that people were killed and injured in an incident at Canadian Forces Base Wainwright that set off a major wind-driven fire. No casualty count or cause has been released, and the RCMP is involved in the investigation.
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fr politics 8 56m ago 3 min read

Macron Vows Prosecutions After French Riots as Officials Give Conflicting Counts of Injured Officers

President Emmanuel Macron said those who burned and looted during Saturday's nationwide protests will be "prosecuted and punished," after more than 1,200 arrests. Officials have given different numbers for injured police, 150 from the prime minister and 60 from the interior minister, and the courts now have to turn the arrests into cases.
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us tech 6 1h ago 4 min read

Flock CEO Tells TechCrunch Disrupt Backlash Shouldn't 'Pause Progress,' Says Company Has Never Fired a Customer

Flock Safety CEO Garrett Langley answered months of contract cancellations, layoffs and a Senate inquiry on Wednesday, Oct. 14, by arguing the rollout should not slow down. He offered no new misuse safeguards and put responsibility on the police departments and cities that buy the cameras. The company's buyout window closes at the end of October, and Sen. Josh Hawley's investigation remains open.
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us finance 4 1h ago 4 min read

Angel Zach Frankel Reportedly Backs Both Cognition and Rival Factory as the Two Feud in Public

The Information's profile of Miami solo investor Zach Frankel says he is invested in both Cognition and Factory, AI coding rivals that clashed publicly after Cognition hired Factory adviser Chris Degnan. No one has tied Frankel to Degnan's move, and he declined to comment. The open question is how an investor with no fund and no outside backers handles access when his portfolio companies compete for the same talent and customers.
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us tech 7 1h ago 4 min read

White House AI Task Force Adopts Charter, Starts 120-Day Clock With No Stated Enforcement Mechanism

The White House's Super Intelligence task force held its first official meeting Thursday, Oct. 15, and adopted its charter, assigning a risk report, lab breach-reporting rules and a consumer-protection committee. The meeting did not take up new laws or rules, per a White House account, and the Sept. 29 accord it is built on is voluntary. The open question is what happens to a company that ignores the protocols.
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ve energy 8 1h ago 3 min read

Venezuela's Rodríguez Projects Nearly $76 Billion in Oil Investment Over Five Years After 61 Agreements Signed

Acting President Delcy Rodríguez said Saturday, Oct. 17, that Venezuela expects almost $76 billion in oil investment over five years under 61 recently signed agreements, including a U.S. bilateral accord covering 17 oilfields. The figure is a government projection, and the first hard test is her claim that Zulia state output will hit 400,000 barrels a day by year-end.
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ir energy 9 1h ago 4 min read

Iran's Guards Say Two Loaded Tankers Hit Mines in Hormuz, No Independent Confirmation

The IRGC Navy said Saturday, Oct. 17, that two tankers carrying about 2 million barrels of crude each caught fire after hitting naval mines in the Strait of Hormuz. The claim follows a week of sinkings and a collapse in oil flows through the waterway. Nothing independent has confirmed the two incidents, and no ship names or flags have been released.
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us finance 4 2h ago 5 min read

CIA Deputy Director Michael Ellis: Bitcoin Is Pseudonymous, and the Agency Uses It to Collect Intelligence

CIA Deputy Director Michael Ellis said in a May 1, 2025 podcast that Bitcoin is not anonymous and that U.S. intelligence uses it to gather information on adversaries. The White House crypto council has since lost its last staffer, and the Senate failed to pass a cloture motion on the market-structure bill in September. Separately, a former senior CIA official has pleaded guilty to a $194 million fraud, with sentencing set for Jan. 28, 2027.
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us defense 8 2h ago 3 min read

Hegseth Vows 'Hell or High Water' Push for $350 Billion Defense Bill After Midterms

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said Oct. 14 the Pentagon will lobby Congress's lame-duck session for at least $350 billion in reconciliation money toward Trump's $1.5 trillion defense request. About 98 percent of the $54.6 billion drone request depends on legislation that has not passed, and the window could narrow if Democrats win the House.
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sa defense 9 2h ago 4 min read

Egypt's Sisi Seeks Parliament Backing for Military Aid to Saudi Arabia as Coalition Puts Riyadh Airport Toll at 17

Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi has vowed to take "any measure" to defend Saudi Arabia, and parliament meets in emergency session Sunday, Oct. 18. The Saudi-led coalition now says Houthi attacks on Riyadh's airport killed 17 people between Oct. 7 and 11. Whether Riyadh asks for foreign troops, and whether Washington joins the strikes, is still open.
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us tech 6 3h ago 3 min read

Meta Says Suspending No Kings Instagram Account on Oct. 17 Day of Action Was an Error

Meta spokesman Andy Stone said an automated system wrongly suspended the No Kings Coalition's Instagram account during its Oct. 17 early-voting day of action, and apologized. The group says it lost its page and then access to the account for hours, and wants a fuller explanation from Meta before the Nov. 3 midterms.
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us economy 7 3h ago 4 min read

Arizona Asks to Join Nevada's Lawsuit Against Interior Over Federal Colorado River Cuts

Arizona filed a motion Friday, Oct. 16, to intervene in Nevada's August lawsuit against the Interior Department over the federal Colorado River plan. Both states object that the four Upper Basin states face no mandatory cuts. Reductions to Arizona's deliveries are scheduled to begin Jan. 1, 2027, and no court has ruled.
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au health 5 3h ago 3 min read

94% of 2,475 NSW Homes Lost in Black Summer Fires Were Within 100 Metres of Vegetation, Study Finds

A University of Wollongong study in the International Journal of Wildland Fire found 94% of the 2,475 NSW homes destroyed in the 2019-20 fires sat inside the 100-metre buffer used in official risk maps. The researchers say the rule held up, but that homes farther away burned on extreme and catastrophic fire-danger days, and the rule may lose value as conditions worsen.
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fr politics 8 3h ago 4 min read

France Protest Arrests Top 1,200 as Limoges Town Hall Is Largely Lost to Fire, Prime Minister Says 150 Police Hurt

The nationwide protest day on Saturday, Oct. 17 ended with more than 1,200 arrests, far above the 272 first reported, and 150 injured police officers, Prime Minister Sébastien Lecornu said. A town hall in Limoges burned and part of Lyon's tourist office was set on fire. Interior Minister Laurent Nuñez ruled out a state of emergency and promised to track down the looters.
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kr economy 6 3h ago 3 min read

South Korea's Finance Minister Says Chip Boom Will Last Through 2027 After Week of Sharp Sell-Offs

Finance Minister Lee Hyoung-Il said Saturday, Oct. 17, that the semiconductor boom can run at least through 2027 because demand still far outstrips supply. His government also collects more tax from the boom, and a South Korean columnist is already warning of a glut by 2029.
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