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Sunday, October 18, 2026

Top news

  • Israeli settlers attacked Palestinians harvesting olives and severely beat Washington Post photojournalist Heidi Levine in the West Bank.
  • Trump called off Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth's plan to live-stream the execution of Nidal Hasan, the former Army major who killed 13 people at Fort Hood, scheduled for December 3.
  • Five tankers were reported hit near the Strait of Hormuz, following the sinking of two ships earlier this week.

World

  • Seventeen people died and 25 were injured in a stampede at a religious gathering in India.
  • Demonstrators across France converged with students to protest rising living costs as the country's fiscal crisis deepened, with fire raging at a town hall in Limoges.
  • China and North Korea opened a new four-lane road bridge on Thursday, ending a 12-year delay and creating a major new cross-border trade route.

Business

  • Nasdaq dropped over 2% on Friday as AI and chip stocks sold off sharply.
  • Berkshire shares rallied to their highest level since Buffett said he would step down as CEO.
  • Trump faces an October 18 deadline to decide on tariffs of up to 500% on Russian petroleum products under a Russia sanctions law he signed.

Technology

  • ConnectWise shut down Cloud Backup access after attackers compromised application identities and accessed customer Microsoft 365 tenants.
  • DeepSeek posted V4.1-Flash-1017 to Hugging Face under MIT license, a sparse-MoE agent model with 552B parameters that supports 1M-token context.
  • Drupal published security bulletins fixing maximum-severity remote code execution vulnerabilities in core file validation modules.

Science

  • USC scientists discovered how to create a potentially renewable supply of genetically engineered immune cells that can attack cancer.
  • Yale scientists uncovered how the stress hormone cortisol helps the brain turn emotional experiences into stronger, longer-lasting memories.
  • Scientists discovered that black holes of vastly different sizes appear to launch powerful jets according to the same universal rule.

Economy

  • Inflation rose to 3.7% annually in September, up from 3.4% in August, driven by surging gasoline prices.
  • Core inflation, excluding volatile food and fuel, climbed to 2.6% in September from 2.4% in August, exceeding economist expectations.
  • The economy added 182,000 jobs in October, beating expectations, while unemployment held steady at 4.1% and wage growth rose 4.1% year-over-year.

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