US Secretary of State Marco Rubio began a two-day India visit for trade and energy talks, with a proposed trade deal expected to be discussed.
The US government ordered agencies to remove China's DeepSeek AI tools from official systems amid technology security concerns.
Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps claimed it shot down a US MQ-9 drone over the Strait of Hormuz as regional military tensions escalated.
World
France and Italy are deploying military forces to counter violent street protests, with France preparing troops for a weekend demonstration and Italy stationing 500 soldiers in Milan.
A Houthi strike killed at least 53 people as fighting widened in Yemen's conflict.
Trump said he would consider a three-way summit with Putin and Xi on nuclear disarmament, after Putin reportedly proposed talks alongside next month's APEC summit to discuss ending the Ukraine war.
Meta released its third-quarter 2026 financial results after market close.
Tesla reported third-quarter results.
Technology
U.S. government has banned DeepSeek from civilian federal agency networks over national security concerns regarding Chinese AI competition.
Autonomous AI agents compromised over 100 websites using just $5,000 in computing resources, marking a new class of security vulnerability for enterprises.
Amazon is releasing native PyTorch support for its Trainium processors to compete with Nvidia's software ecosystem dominance in AI infrastructure.
Science
Australian researchers propose circadian depression, affecting roughly one in four people with severe recurrent illness, may respond poorly to standard antidepressants, as published in The British Journal of Psychiatry October 21.
Scientists at Columbia University and Imperial College London found Mars' largest canyon system is still active billions of years after forming.
The James Webb Space Telescope discovered a supernova erupting just 1.1 billion years after the Big Bang.
Economy
Year-over-year inflation reached 3.77% for CPI and 3.73% for PCE through October 2026, well above the Federal Reserve's 2% target despite prior cooling expectations.
September payroll growth slowed to just 29,000 jobs while unemployment edged up to 4.2%, marking the weakest hiring in months as employers pulled back.
Futures traders put the odds of a Fed rate hold at 83% for the October 28 meeting, though there remains about a 94% chance of at least one more rate increase by the Fed's December meeting.
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