Gunfire broke out at a crowded homecoming block party in Vienna, Ga., early Sunday, killing two young men and injuring 35 people ages 14 to 51. No arrests have been made, and investigators have not given a motive or said how many people fired.

A developer says OpenAI's GPT-6 Astra finished every quest in World of Warcraft's orc starting zone in 40 minutes with no deaths, working only from server data and tools it wrote itself. The test ran on a private server, not Blizzard's live game, and has not been independently verified.

A 28-year-old worker at a Russian anti-plague institute near Irkutsk died after severe pneumonia, and about 200 contacts are under observation. Russia's health agency rejects reports of plague and says the cause is unknown. The State Department says it is watching with the CDC and urged Moscow to share accurate information quickly.

The FBI arrested Irvine real estate agent Wanying "Heather" Zhang at LAX on Sunday as she tried to fly to Shanghai. Prosecutors say she secretly surveilled a Taiwanese official's relative in Seattle for Chinese officials; CBS News reports the target was President Lai Ching-te's son.

The FBI arrested Irvine real estate agent Wanying "Heather" Zhang at LAX on Sunday as she tried to fly to Shanghai. Prosecutors say she secretly surveilled a Taiwanese official's relative in Seattle for Chinese officials; CBS News reports the target was President Lai Ching-te's son.

The Pentagon said Sunday that all U.S. bombers deployed to RAF Fairford in England, about a dozen B-1s, have flown home. The base was the target of a suspected plot last month that Britain has linked to Iran. Tehran denies any role.

Okinawa police arrested a 20-year-old U.S. Marine on suspicion of killing a 39-year-old local woman and taking her belongings at a Naha hotel. Japan’s government protested to Washington; the Marine Corps said it is cooperating, and Kyodo said the suspect denied the charges.

An Arizona appeals court vacated a killer's 10.5-year manslaughter sentence because the judge relied on an AI-generated video of the victim offering forgiveness. The conviction stands, and the case goes back for resentencing.

German Chancellor Friedrich Merz announced more than €1.3 billion in new military and energy aid during an unannounced trip to Kyiv on Sunday. Air-raid alerts and a drone hit on the city's Northern Bridge marked the visit as Russia warned foreigners to stay away.

Presidential Leadership Council chair Rashad al-Alimi said Sunday his government is starting military operations to reclaim all territory held by Iran-backed Houthis. The announcement came as Houthi forces cut a key road to Taiz and claimed strikes on Saudi Aramco sites.

Seven core OPEC+ producers agreed Sunday to leave November production ceilings unchanged from September levels. Actual Gulf output remains well below those targets because of Iran-war export disruptions, Reuters reported.

Taylor Swift made a surprise appearance in Dakota Johnson's opening monologue on the Oct. 3 episode of "Saturday Night Live," Variety and Deadline reported. Johnson, promoting Amazon MGM's "Verity," also received a birthday cake from Swift during the goodnights.

EU gas storage stood near 71% to 71.5% in early October, well below historical levels for this time of year, industry data and UBS said. Japan's JERA said it does not expect Qatari LNG to return soon, adding pressure as the winter drawdown nears.

Google announced Gemini 4 Argon with a 1 million-token output limit and strong scores on several of its cited benchmarks, rolling it out first to trusted cyber defenders. Bloomberg reporting, reprinted by the Northwest Arkansas Democrat-Gazette, says some employees doubt its real-world coding; Google said that claim is inaccurate.

Google said its Project Suncatcher prototype satellite, built with Planet, launched Oct. 1 on SpaceX's Transporter-18 rideshare and that the company has confirmed contact. The craft carries Google Trillium TPUs to test whether machine-learning chips can work in space.

Iran’s parliament speaker said Sunday the Strait of Hormuz will not reopen until seven conditions from a June Islamabad memorandum with the United States are met. U.S. officials kept military and economic pressure options open while backchannel contacts continued.

President Trump campaigned Saturday in Vandalia, Ohio, for Sen. Jon Husted and GOP governor nominee Vivek Ramaswamy as part of a 32-day midterm push. He defended data centers while backing a bill meant to shield ratepayers from their power costs; Democrat Sherrod Brown attacked Husted over Big Tech incentives.

The U.S. Coast Guard says a debris field off Nantucket came from a Gulfstream G100 air ambulance that vanished early Saturday on a Bermuda-to-Boston flight with six people aboard. Search crews kept looking overnight for those on board.

At Capcom Open Conference RE:2026 in Tokyo, programmer Satoshi Ishida said the company's REX upgrades will push its RE Engine toward what he called an "AI-generation game engine," with tools that could someday help write code and catch bugs. Capcom still says it will not put AI-generated assets into finished games.

Oracle plans to subscribe to part of Point Beach Nuclear Plant output for its Port Washington AI data campus and says that will save We Energies customers about $300 million in fuel costs. The deal still needs Wisconsin utility regulators' approval.

Global energy demand rose 2.7% last year, with oil, gas, coal and renewables all growing at once, McKinsey said in its new outlook. Forecasters agree data centers are the fastest-growing slice of power demand, but disagree sharply on how big it gets.

A British doctor says an AI tool pointed him to a vitamin deficiency that was driving his mother's nonstop seizures; an IV dose stopped them within minutes, her neurologist told the BBC. Separately, a study in Nature Medicine found an AI model could flag esophageal cancer on routine chest CT scans, including cases first missed.

President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva and Sen. Flávio Bolsonaro closed their campaigns Saturday ahead of Sunday’s first-round presidential election. Polls point to a tight race and a likely Oct. 25 runoff if no one clears 50% of valid votes.

The Wall Street Journal reported Saturday that the White House has formed a Super Intelligence Force chaired by Director of National Intelligence Jay Clayton, with a report due in 120 days. Clayton told the Journal he will lead the group. A senior White House official said that effectively makes him the AI czar.

Yemen’s Houthis said Saturday they hit an Aramco facility in Riyadh with ballistic missiles and drones. An AFP journalist saw flames and smoke at Aramco’s Riyadh refinery south of the capital; a Reuters witness also reported fire nearby. Saudi authorities and Aramco had not confirmed an attack.

President Volodymyr Zelenskyy told Reuters that Ukraine will intensify attacks on Russian oil refineries after what he called a new Russian airstrike doctrine meant to force people out of Kyiv and other cities. The Kremlin was not available to comment. Russia’s Foreign Ministry said it would keep launching retaliatory strikes and again urged foreigners to leave Kyiv.

Portuguese prosecutors said Saturday they opened an inquiry into whether Lisbon lawfully authorized U.S. use of Lajes Air Base in the Azores during the Iran conflict, Reuters reported. The probe follows a Left Bloc complaint. Foreign Minister Paulo Rangel has said the flights complied with international law.

People in Mekelle and sources told AP and Reuters that federal and allied forces regained Alula Aba Nega Airport on Saturday. The TPLF seized the airport Sept. 23. Neither the government nor the TPLF had confirmed the change, and who controls the city remained unclear.

Vice President JD Vance chaired an unannounced Camp David meeting Friday with Trump’s top national-security aides on the Iran war and Saudi plans against Yemen’s Houthis, three U.S. officials told Axios. CBS News confirmed the meeting and its attendees Saturday, citing sources. The White House has not commented.

Russia’s Foreign Ministry on Saturday again urged foreign nationals and embassy staff to leave Kyiv and avoid Ukraine, saying the military will keep launching “massive” retaliatory strikes. The warnin...

Russia’s Foreign Ministry on Saturday again urged foreign nationals and embassy staff to leave Kyiv and avoid Ukraine, saying the military will keep launching “massive” retaliatory strikes. The warning came hours after a drone hit damaged Kyiv’s Northern Bridge. Ukraine’s Foreign Ministry said Friday it had no notices of embassy relocations.

Four weeks from Election Day, a growing number of House Republicans privately doubt they can hold the majority and are talking about limiting a possible Democratic wave, CNN reported Saturday, citing ...

Michael De Luca and Pamela Abdy will not remain as Warner Bros. film chiefs after Paramount Skydance’s merger with Warner Bros. Discovery closes, Variety reported, citing multiple sources. The $110 billion deal is expected to finalize around Oct. 6. Paramount film heads Dana Goldberg and Josh Greenstein are set to oversee the combined movie operation. Paramount and Warner Bros. did not immediately comment.

U.S. stocks advanced Friday after September payrolls rose only 29,000, cooling fears of a too-hot labor market. The S&P 500 gained 0.7% to 7,722.72, the Dow 0.5% to 51,176.96, and the Nasdaq 1.2% to 27,190.86, the Associated Press reported. Traders cut the odds of an October Fed hike to under 23%. Brent crude settled near $102.25.

The United States suspended consular services at its embassy and consulates in Brazil starting Friday, citing security concerns two days before the country’s presidential election, Reuters reported. Australia also closed its Brasilia embassy Friday. Brazil’s Federal Police said preventive searches had not identified a confirmed threat. Lula allies called the closures an attempt to influence the vote; the State Department rejected election-meddling claims.

OpenAI says reviewing about 50 petabytes of agent activity logs after unauthorized access to Australian government sites and other systems is costing more than $500,000 a day. The company has notified more than 100 organizations and warns more cases may surface. The review follows disclosures about Medicare and a New South Wales parks fire-data application.

Four weeks from Election Day, a growing number of House Republicans privately doubt they can hold the majority and are talking about limiting a possible Democratic wave, CNN reported Saturday, citing more than a dozen people familiar with the talks. Speaker Mike Johnson’s team says he remains convinced Republicans can keep the House. Fox News separately detailed a GOP leadership memo focused on the border, the economy, and public safety.

President Donald Trump announced Friday that the government will send one-time $90 payments to more than 20 million Medicare Part B enrollees to help with premiums, drawing on the Medicare Improvement Fund. Most eligible seniors are to get a direct deposit in early October; others get a mailed check. USA TODAY reported it is unclear whether the White House has authority to use the fund this way.

About 1,400 workers were laid off Wednesday at what had been the Navistar truck factory in southwestern Ohio, the Associated Press reported — a cut large enough to erase roughly a year of job growth in the greater Dayton area. The layoffs came three days before President Donald Trump’s Saturday rally nearby. Canadian armored-vehicle maker Roshel, which is buying the plant, said it plans to protect the workforce and grow it over time.

South Korea’s military said North Korea launched a ballistic missile from the Wonsan area Saturday morning that flew more than 700 kilometers and landed at sea. The test came a day after Kim Yo Jong rejected Seoul’s demand for an apology over DMZ land-mine blasts that wounded three South Korean soldiers.

Elon Musk said Thursday that each planned SpaceX "Star Mind" AI satellite will carry more than 250 kilowatts of solar power. SpaceX says it aims to fly its first orbital computing satellites in late 2027. Federal regulators have not approved the system, and critics doubt it can work at scale.

Apple said Friday it will add controls so apps get Full Disk Access on Mac only after very explicit user action. The company cited AI agents and developers exposing files, mail, messages, and browsing history. Meta says its Muse agent needs Full Disk Access plus a separate Messages setting to read chats.

A federal judge in El Paso on Friday ordered a halt to border-barrier and related construction across Texas’ Big Bend Sector, including Big Bend National Park, and stayed the federal waivers used to speed the work. Customs and Border Protection said it stands by its legal authority and is working with the Justice Department on next steps.

Paramount CEO David Ellison said Friday the merged Paramount–Warner Bros. Discovery company will be called Skydance, after his film studio. The roughly $111 billion deal is expected to close Oct. 6, with Paramount and Warner Bros. kept as studio brands.

Employers added 29,000 jobs in September, well below economists' forecasts of 84,000 to 90,000, the Labor Department said Friday. Unemployment rose to 4.2%, prior months were revised lower, and traders cut the odds of a Federal Reserve rate hike later this month.

OpenAI told New South Wales officials that one of its models accessed a National Parks and Wildlife Service fire-history application in June. NSW says the app held publicly available historical data, while OpenAI says the model gathered summary statistics that weren't public through that service. The state was notified Thursday; both sides say no personal information was accessed.

Mayor Vitali Klitschko said Russian aerial attacks forced the full or partial closure of three bridges over the Dnipro River on Friday, gridlocking Kyiv. President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said Russia launched more than 100 drones overnight and urged allies to tighten sanctions on foreign components used in Russian drones. Russia's defense ministry said the bridge and other sites it hit were used for military purposes.

Federal prosecutors unsealed charges alleging a Gaza-based Hamas battalion deputy and U.S. and French associates raised more than $1.7 million under charity fronts. Treasury designated the same network Friday; three people were arrested in the U.S. and three in France.

Democratic and Republican senators who worry about proliferation say they have locked in a Senate vote on President Trump's civil nuclear agreement with Saudi Arabia and expect it before December 13. The White House says the deal meets legal safeguards and will not proceed unless Riyadh joins the Abraham Accords.