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Greek PM Calls for Global Maritime Truce After Greek Ship Sunk in Drone Attack
Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis called on Wednesday for a global maritime truce after a drone attack sank a Greek container ship off Bulgaria, the latest of a series of strikes on ships in the western Black Sea this month. …
POSTED OCTOBER 29, 2026 4:07 PM |
Study: 75% of Ex-NFL Players Who Died Between 2008 and 2023 Had CTE
Nearly 75% of all National Football League (NFL) players who died between 2008 and 2023 had chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE) neuropathology, according to a new study led by Boston University. The new findings build on an August 2026 study from …
POSTED OCTOBER 29, 2026 3:57 PM |
WV AG Says He’s Investigating Environmental Groups Over ‘Deceptive’ Acts
West Virginia’s Republican attorney general has launched a broad investigation into many of the state’s leading environmental groups, demanding a decade of internal records involving their fundraising and climate change advocacy as part of a probe into “alleged unfair or …
POSTED OCTOBER 29, 2026 3:53 PM |
California Braces for Floods as Atmospheric River Threatens
California is bracing for flooding as a so-called atmospheric river delivers a glancing blow to the south of the state, before moving across northern Mexico into the U.S. Southwest this weekend. Coastal flood warnings and advisories are up through Friday …
POSTED OCTOBER 29, 2026 3:30 PM |
Florida Property-Tax Ballot Measure Threatens to Defund the Police
Before the sun rose on Oct. 5, a school bus carrying students to Winter Haven High School in Central Florida was clipped by an oncoming car. The impact sent the bus into oncoming traffic, where it collided head-on with another …
POSTED OCTOBER 29, 2026 3:30 PM |
Florida Men Charged With Creating Sham Insurance Now Face Federal Indictment
Four months after two Florida men were charged with operating a sham insurance company and a month after regulators ordered them to cease operations, the two have been indicted on federal fraud and money laundering charges. A federal grand jury …
POSTED OCTOBER 29, 2026 3:15 PM |
Markets & Coverages: Aon and SAGE to Use AI to More Precisely Price Crop Insurance
Insurance broker Aon and SAGE, an agricultural risk intelligence company, are launching a crop insurance program in the U.S. they say will assess agricultural risk more accurately and help price insurance more effectively. The program uses artificial intelligence to combine …
POSTED OCTOBER 29, 2026 2:20 PM |
Who Was to Blame for Hong Kong’s Deadly 2025 Fire?
An independent Hong Kong committee blamed a renovation contractor and consultant as well as four government departments for a deadly blaze that killed 168 people in the city last November, according to its report released to the public on Thursday. …
POSTED OCTOBER 29, 2026 2:12 PM |
Canada’s Biggest Banks Move to Limit AI Agents, Citing Risk
Some of Canada’s biggest banks are moving to restrict third-party artificial intelligence agents such as Meta Platform Inc.’s Muse from accessing their banking systems, citing security and liability risks. Royal Bank of Canada, the country’s largest lender, sent a message …
POSTED OCTOBER 29, 2026 1:55 PM |
Chinese AI Model Carries Out Complex Cyberattacks in Controlled Tests: Researchers
Chinese firm Z.AI’s flagship AI model carried out complex cyberattacks in controlled simulations and repeatedly ignored instructions in separate tests, according to a report by AI security research firm Irregular. The GLM-5.3 model successfully completed 3 of 13 multi-stage cyberattack …
POSTED OCTOBER 29, 2026 1:19 PM |
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