US News

Coast Guard finds debris from Bermuda-to-Boston medical plane off Nantucket

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…

Politics

Trump rallies in Ohio for Husted, backs data centers amid midterm blitz

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…

Technology

Google's Project Suncatcher TPU satellite is in orbit after SpaceX launch

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…

• Google unveils Gemini 4 Argon with 1M-token output; staff split on coding — 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…
• Capcom aims to evolve RE Engine into an 'AI-generation' game engine — 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…

World

Iran says Strait of Hormuz stays closed until its conditions are met

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…

• Brazilians vote in first-round presidential race as Lula faces Flávio Bolsonaro — Voters across Brazil went to the polls Sunday in the first round of the presidential election. Incumbent Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva faces Sen. Flávio Bolsonaro and 10 other candidates; a runoff is set for Oct. 25 if…

Finance

Europe enters winter with thin gas stores; UBS and JERA flag supply risk

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…

Entertainment

Taylor Swift joins Dakota Johnson's 'SNL' monologue in surprise cameo

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…

• Weekend estimates: 'Verity' near $34M; Cruise's 'Digger' about $8M — Amazon MGM's "Verity" is still pacing to about a $33.6 million domestic opening after a $15.1 million Friday, Saturday trade estimates said. Warner Bros.' Tom Cruise satire "Digger" is tracking roughly $7.5 million…