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Google cofounder Sergey Brin has spent $102 million to fight California’s proposed billionaire tax—he could owe $13 billion if he loses

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U.S. shale executives have no idea when the oil market will go off a cliff
U.S. shale executives have no idea when the oil market will go off a cliff

While more than half see substantial margin remaining, one-third of oil executives think the SPR is already below or nearly at tank bottoms.

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Just a few years into working, Gen Z is already the most anxious generation about AI derailing their retirement—51% fear it will cut their nest egg
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Greece closed 75 schools this year as falling birth rates and population decline empty classrooms across the country.

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Hungary hauls ex-foreign minister in to explain how he got a top job at BYD months after arranging government contracts

Péter Szijjártó faced lawmakers over BYD dealings after helping secure its first European plant and $63.7 million in state assistance

By The Associated Press and Justin SpikeOctober 5, 2026
Trump won Nebraska by 20 points. Now he’s trying to rescue a GOP Senate seat after angering ranchers with his plan to import more beef

Sen. Pete Ricketts is facing an unexpectedly competitive race as ranchers rebel against a White House plan meant to lower beef prices

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Can Europe’s industrial legacy give it an AI advantage?

Siemens is betting big on industrial AI—and Europe’s manufacturers have the data that could give it an edge.

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Tom Cruise suffers one of the worst movie debuts of his career. Reviews were so bad Warner Bros. ran ‘decide for yourself’ ads

Alejandro G. Iñárritu’s critically panned satire grossed a paltry $8 million domestically.

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Diesel prices are so high that commercial fishermen sometimes can’t even afford to leave the dock. ‘It’s huge. It’s crazy. Thank you, Donald Trump’

“Now what’s happened is that there has been this unbelievable wave of disruption from everything — targeting NOAA and fisheries, science and even weather reporting that people rely on.”

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Sen. Mitch McConnell closed a loophole in a hemp law he championed. Now a $28 billion THC industry that gets people high is fighting for survival

The industry hopes to save itself by restricting impairing products to people 21 and older, limiting how much THC can be in a package, and banning imported cannabis compounds.

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Meet the ‘mini Erin Brockoviches’ fighting off eminent domain—and the shadow of Amazon—as a data center hands out $10,000 to their neighbors

Rural Pennsylvanians are protesting a proposed 1,300-acre data center called Project Hazelnut — not Amazon, as documents suggest.

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Why ‘China plus one’ is paying off less than Southeast Asia hoped

“China plus one” sent billions of dollars of investment into Southeast Asian factories. Yet the region isn’t capturing enough value.

By Angelica AngOctober 5, 2026
Japan’s population is shrinking at an accelerating rate, but the nationalist prime minister is making it harder for foreigners to live there

The latest five-year census showed the number of Japanese nationals declined by 3.5% to 119.1 million in 2025, following a 1.4% drop in the 2020 count.

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Zhou Yuxiang hired food delivery riders to sell AI to factories. Now he’s chasing China’s industrial AI breakthrough

China has millions of small factories—and almost no data on them. Zhou Yuxiang thinks AI can fix both.

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Singapore is tapping a Nobel-winning formula to help its useless singles get dates

FirstDate offers one potential match at a time, testing whether fewer choices can help singles build a connection.

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Norway's Prime Minister Jonas Gahr Støre (L) and Norway's Minister of Digitalisation and Public Administration Torgeir Micaelsen sign a letter of intent on the responsible introduction and use of artificial intelligence in the workplace, in Oslo, Norway.
Norway floats temporary but total ban on AI glasses as it investigates ‘socially beneficial uses’

Officials want a temporary ban as smart glasses make it easier to photograph, film and record people without their knowledge.

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‘Did they achieve their goal? Partially’: Putin admits weakness as Ukraine claims 51% hit to Russia’s oil refining capacity

How big a deal is a hit to 1% of Russia’s GDP?

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Spain’s lefty government evicted an 87-year-old woman from her home of 70 years and thousands of protesters took the streets

Spain’s average rent has nearly doubled in a decade, while more than a quarter of renters spend 40% of their income on housing.

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For most of the last few decades, electricity demand in the United States has been relatively flat. That era is ending. 

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