Thursday, October 29, 2026 · 4-minute read
hackers expose data on 41,000 DHS workers, the Brewers capture their first World Series, and the Statue of Liberty’s original color comes to light.
Politics & World
A hacker group calling itself the Department of Peace published personal data of more than 41,000 Department of Homeland Security employees, including ICE and Customs and Border Protection agents, according to TechCrunch…
Business
Alphabet shares dropped 10% in premarket trading Thursday after a quarter of $51 billion in AI…
Sources: CNBC Top News, MarketWatch, Financial Times
Sports & Culture
The Milwaukee Brewers beat the Tampa Bay Rays 4-1 in Game 5 on Wednesday night, winning the World…
Sources: ESPN, USA Today, Deadline
The estimated share of NFL players who died between 2008 and 2023 who had CTE, according to a landmark analysis of thousands of former players’ medical records. That’s three in four former pros with the degenerative brain disease tied to repeated head impacts.
Source: ESPN
How the AI data-center boom and chip manufacturing are draining Arizona’s dwindling water supply.
The Verge · Gaby Del Valle
How a little-known federal drug discount program became a multibillion-dollar revenue stream for big hospitals.
The Epoch Times · Sylvia Xu and Lawrence Wilson
Why the founder of the doomed ‘never-ending’ cruise says he’s been cast as the villain while scrambling to salvage the voyage.
Business Insider · Jacob Shamsian and Jack Newsham
Halloween lands on a Saturday, giving trick-or-treaters a full weekend night and retailers a read on candy and costume spending.
Election Day arrives across the U.S., with turnout, key races and ballot measures in focus.
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