Today’s Both Sides

Both Sides: Should Congress block Trump's Russia diesel deal?

President Trump says easing Russian diesel sales will cut prices for farmers and truckers before the midterms. A bipartisan Senate group and several House Republicans say the move violates a 2022 energy-import ban…

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Quick hits

• Technology Microsoft Maia 300 aims to cut Azure's reliance on Nvidia GPUs — Microsoft said Maia 300, its third-generation custom AI accelerator, will become the primary inference system for company products starting with multi-gigawatt deployments in 2027. CNBC framed the move as reducing…
• Entertainment Breaking Bad actor RJ Mitte dies at 34 — RJ Mitte, who played Walter White Jr. on Breaking Bad and advocated for disability representation, died Monday in Brownsville, Texas, at age 34. His publicist confirmed to Reuters that he died by suicide; castmates…
• Finance Stocks mixed near records ahead of bank earnings and CPI — U.S. stocks finished mixed Monday with the Dow up and the Nasdaq lower as investors braced for a heavy week: major-bank third-quarter results starting Tuesday and September CPI on Wednesday. Chip weakness and higher…
• US News Midwest heat smashes October records from Chicago to Minnesota — Chicago hit 87°F on Oct. 12, breaking a 2008 daily record, while the Twin Cities posted back-to-back 90°F October days for the first time in 154 years of records. Milwaukee, Omaha and St. Cloud also set or tied…
• World Drones hit two ships off Bulgaria; one sinks, 11 crew missing — Bulgarian Prime Minister Rumen Radev said drones struck two merchant ships in the Black Sea on Tuesday, sinking one vessel and prompting a search for 11 missing sailors. He summoned Russia's ambassador; Moscow's…

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