US Treasury secretary Scott Bessent said Washington is arranging a $20bn facility backed by private banks and sovereign wealth funds to help Argentina meet debt payments, separate from last week’s $20bn swap line with its central bank. Aimed at supporting President Javier Milei, the effort followed US currency-market interventions last...
J.M. Smucker Co. has sued Trader Joe’s in federal court in Ohio, accusing the grocer’s frozen PB&J sandwiches of mimicking Uncrustables’ round, crustless design, crimped edges, blue box lettering, and even a bitten-sandwich image. Smucker seeks restitution and a court order to destroy products and packaging, citing more than $1...
Doctors at Gaza’s Nasser hospital say many of the 90 Palestinian bodies returned by Israel under a US-brokered truce bore signs of abuse and execution—blindfolds, bound hands, gunshots to the head—and arrived numbered, not named. With DNA testing unavailable, relatives are being asked to help identify the dead. ICRC handled...
The government shutdown reached day 15 with no deal, as the Senate again failed to advance a House stopgap. The Trump administration proceeded with layoffs, but a federal judge issued a temporary restraining order pausing RIF notices for AFGE and AFSCME members. President Trump said $8 billion in unused Pentagon...
The EU is preparing a counter-drone European Drone Defense Initiative as NATO ministers meet in Brussels to test new defenses and strengthen the eastern flank. Germany pledged a $500 million US weapons package for Ukraine and will step up air policing with Eurofighter patrols, while delivering additional IRIS‑T systems. Ukraine...
Philadelphia police arrested 21-year-old Keon King and charged him with kidnapping 23-year-old Kada Scott, who remains missing. After a Wednesday tip, officers searched the abandoned Ada H. H. Lewis Middle School in East Germantown and found at least two of Scott’s belongings—the most concrete evidence so far, authorities said. Another...
U.S. District Judge Karin Immergut extended for 14 days her temporary orders blocking deployment of National Guard troops to Portland, keeping President Donald Trump’s federalization plan on hold while appeals proceed and a trial looms on October 29. The Trump-appointed judge previously broadened the bar to any U.S. troops after...
After a three-week hiatus, South Park returns Wednesday with Twisted Christian, in which Eric Cartman becomes possessed and may be the key to stopping the Antichrist. A promo shows staff warned about a student cult around the numbers six and seven, as Cartman, Butters, Tweak and others chant “6, 7.”...
An epic new SpaceX video captures Starship's final moments before splashing down in the Indian Ocean, capping Flight Test 11 — a complete success that launched Oct. 13 from Starbase, South Texas. The last flight of the current 397-foot Super Heavy/Ship stack showed less heatshield discoloration than Flight 10 and...
In Antananarivo, frustration over relentless power and water cuts swelled into youth-led protests met with rubber bullets and tear gas, leaving at least 22 dead, the UN says. After an elite army unit, CAPSAT, sided with demonstrators, President Andry Rajoelina fled; parliament voted to impeach him, and by Monday his...
