Prime Minister Mark Carney campaigned in Calgary on Thursday against Alberta's Monday vote on starting a legal process toward a separation referendum. A yes would not separate the province; the exposure for operators is procedural for now.
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Ukrainian officials say SpaceX cut Starshield service to any drone or vehicle moving faster than 160 km/h this week. Musk says the U.S. government controls Starshield, while Trump says it was not him and he does not think it was Musk.
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Musk proposed the Oct. 14 Starlink speed cap on Ukrainian forces to Trump, the Telegraph reports, citing four sources. Musk had said on X that the U.S. government decides any limits, and SpaceX applied the cap without warning Kyiv.
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Reuters reports, citing U.S. and Western officials, that the Oct. 14 Starlink slowdown on Ukraine's military was ordered from inside the White House. A senior U.S. official denied it came from Trump; no one has named who issued it.
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SpaceX imposed a speed limit on Starlink terminals mounted on Ukrainian drones overnight, Zelenskyy adviser Serhii Beskrestnov said Wednesday. SpaceX and the White House did not immediately comment, so the political motive he alleges rests on his word alone.
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Diesel has outrun gasoline as Brent crude tops $109 and WTI reaches $100
Brent crude rose above $109 a barrel on Friday and WTI reached $100, its first time there since September, NBC News reported. Diesel has risen faster than gasoline in recent months, and operators carry that exposure into this quarter.
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Trump rejected AI guardrails the week the House was due to break for the midterms
Trump rejected AI guardrails as the House was scheduled to break at the end of that week until after the midterms, ABC reported on September 15, 2026. ABC judged federal AI rules unlikely before the vote, so security teams will be working to their own policies until Congress returns.
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Congressional Democrats put Trump's pharma stock at up to $56.2 million, 33 times its 2024 ceiling
Joint Economic Committee Democrats say Trump's pharma stock reached up to $56.2 million by the end of 2025, from up to $1.7 million in 2024. Up to $39.1 million of it is in drugmakers that benefited from Medicare negotiation exemptions, and the White House denies any conflict.
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NASA's plan to rename AI as super intelligence includes at least one breaking change for software
NASA is replacing "AI" with "super intelligence" on a four-phase schedule running into December, Space reports from an internal document. Software that connects to NASA systems is exposed to at least one update the document itself calls a breaking change.
Reality
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Trump said Thursday that Nidal Hasan's Dec. 3 firing-squad execution will not be livestreamed, reversing Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth. The Pentagon says the two are aligned and the execution still goes ahead.
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Japan plans to leave the US-sought 3.5% defense target out of its security documents, Asahi reports
Japan's government has settled on leaving a 3.5%-of-GDP defense target out of its security documents, the Asahi Shimbun reported. Reaching it would add roughly 9 trillion yen or more a year to a budget of about 11 trillion.
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Trump calls Ukraine's refinery strikes a 'disgrace' as EU leaders host Zelenskiy on winter needs
Trump called Ukraine's refinery strikes a 'disgrace' as EU leaders hosted Zelenskiy in Brussels with a $32.6 billion budget gap for next year unfunded. Funding and air defence are on the agenda, and the strikes' effect on European energy prices is disputed.
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White House press secretary Katie Zacharia told Fox News she did not pass the bar, six days after Trump called her an attorney. Her law degree is documented, but her answers on licensure shifted across appearances until Hannity asked directly.
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Nvidia and Apple each committed $25 million to Trump's White House ballroom, the Washington Post reported, out of $333 million in private donations. Reuters has not verified it, and the White House will not release donor names.
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Moynihan weighs a 24-year-high Treasury yield against a 226-year average of about 5%
Bank of America CEO Brian Moynihan says a 226-year average of about 5% puts the 10-year Treasury yield of 5.36% in perspective. He pairs it with strong consumer spending, and his economists forecast three more Fed rate increases.
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CBS News, citing multiple sources, reports the US may have deliberately withheld missile-launch warnings from Ukraine in the week Russian strikes killed six. Allies that rely on US warning data now have two reported gaps to weigh, this week's and one earlier this year.
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Fed Chair Kevin Warsh is interviewed in Bangkok on Friday, the last Fed speech before a blackout through the Oct. 27-28 meeting. Bank of America says inflation strengthens the case for an October hike. That meeting ends six days before the midterms.
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buildConfirmed2 publishers OCC review of the nine largest national banks found policies that cut off some customers on subjective grounds instead of financial risk. The regulator announced no penalties and said only that it may consider policy changes, mezha.net reported from Reuters.
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Katie Zacharia is Trump's sixth press secretary, two more than Clinton or Bush had
Katie Zacharia held her first briefing as White House press secretary on Tuesday, the sixth person in the job under Trump. The count is high against recent presidents, but all three tenures under a year came before Leavitt.
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Medicare enrollees choose 2027 coverage with a higher drug cap and a 3.6% Social Security raise
Medicare open enrollment runs through Dec. 7 for coverage that starts Jan. 1, with the Part D out-of-pocket cap rising to $2,400 from $2,100. A 3.6% Social Security raise worth about $75 a month starts in the same year, so enrollees can weigh the new cap against it.
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Earlier coverage
- A note-card of outlets shows how Katie Zacharia planned her first press briefing
Leadership · October 15, 2026 · Confirmed6 publishers
- BBC asks a Florida judge to make Trump sit for a deposition in his $10bn suit
Leadership · October 15, 2026 · Confirmed2 publishers
- Musk points to Washington for Ukraine's Starlink speed cap
Science · October 14, 2026 · Confirmed3 publishers
- Trump counts $50 billion from Seoul for Alaska LNG while Seoul says it has not decided
Invest · October 15, 2026 · Confirmed2 publishers
- Trump holds to Russian diesel imports after four Republican senators say they run counter to the law
Invest · October 14, 2026 · Confirmed2 publishers
- Japan's up to $21 billion will fund two New York fabs that the US government will co-own
Invest · October 14, 2026 · Confirmed7 publishers
- Washington's 2.25 million barrel Russian diesel waiver is a bid to pull Putin back to talks
Invest · October 13, 2026 · Confirmed2 publishers
- Aramco says output is unaffected after reported Houthi strike on its Dhahran headquarters
Invest · October 14, 2026 · Confirmed3 publishers
- Taiwan's economy ministry says Alaska LNG plan calls for buying 6 million tons a year, after Trump's announcement
Invest · October 14, 2026 · Confirmed2 publishers
- Trump-nominated judge cites Trump's own words to block the White House ban on three outlets indefinitely
Invest · October 13, 2026 · Confirmed3 publishers
- Treasury licenses Russian diesel sales and imports until April 2027
Leadership · October 9, 2026 · Confirmed13 publishers
- White House counts $54 billion of Korea's energy package toward an Alaska LNG project Seoul has not decided on
Invest · October 13, 2026 · Confirmed2 publishers
- Rochon's 14-day order halts Trump's ads with about $1 million of the $20 million left to spend
Invest · October 12, 2026 · Confirmed4 publishers
- Musk, Nadella and Altman answer Trump's 'super intelligence' push in three different ways
Leadership · October 13, 2026 · Confirmed3 publishers
- Trump's Russian diesel deal runs against a 2022 import ban that passed the House 414-17
Invest · October 13, 2026 · Confirmed2 publishers
- Trump's Russian diesel waiver faces a Republican senator who doubts it is legal
Invest · October 12, 2026 · Confirmed2 publishers
- Microsoft president Brad Smith wants a legal duty to tell victims when a rogue AI agent breaches them
Product · October 11, 2026 · Confirmed11 publishers
- Trump's Russian diesel deal adds 800,000 tons by November to a market paying $6.28 a gallon
Invest · October 10, 2026 · Confirmed2 publishers
- Trump's Russia-Ukraine energy ceasefire rests so far on a single Truth Social post
Invest · October 11, 2026 · Confirmed6 publishers
- Trump picks Trump Media communications adviser Katie Zacharia as White House press secretary
Invest · October 10, 2026 · Confirmed4 publishers
- ICE gasoil futures fell 4.3% to $1,419.5 a ton after Trump said Russia would supply diesel
Invest · October 12, 2026 · Confirmed3 publishers
- Trump weighs joining Saudi strikes on the Houthis after a missile kills 12 at Riyadh's airport
Invest · October 10, 2026 · Confirmed6 publishers
- IMF warns the emergency oil stocks that held down Iran war prices are now depleted
Leadership · October 12, 2026 · Confirmed2 publishers
- Zelenskyy says Russia hit a Kharkiv power plant and a gas site after Trump declared an energy ceasefire
Invest · October 12, 2026 · Confirmed3 publishers
- Gasoil falls 3% on Russian diesel pledge while Brent barely moves
Invest · October 12, 2026 · Confirmed2 publishers