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Prediction markets Kalshi and Polymarket are claiming credit for forecasting the Democratic sweep, saying their odds called key races before traditional news outlets.
Read the story →Heidi Klum dressed as a giant severed hand modelled on her own left hand for the 25th year of her Halloween party, as celebrities in New York and London staged their own reveals.
A24's You Can See Everything and Warner Bros' Clayface are each heading for $10 million-plus over Halloween weekend, with the Elizabeth Holmes documentary set to return to number one on its third frame.
At a Georgia rally for Jon Ossoff and Keisha Lance Bottoms, Barack Obama mocked Donald Trump's Oval Office decorating, saying the president is doing arts and crafts while the country fights a war and faces high prices.
Celebrity Traitors ended episode eight without revealing the second-round banishment result, after Kenny's double dagger put Sharon and Joanne level at four votes each. Miranda Hart was murdered earlier in the episode.
Gabby Williams scored 30 points as the Golden State Valkyries beat the Atlanta Dream 68-63 in Game 7 to win their first WNBA championship in only their second season.
The 2026 Youth Olympic Games opened in Dakar, the first Olympic event staged in Africa, with about 2,700 athletes competing as Senegal faces a debt crisis and a budget fight.
Jordan Love threw three touchdowns and the Packers sacked Bryce Young six times in a 27-19 win over Carolina, despite a run game that managed 66 yards and three turnovers.
Real Madrid beat RB Leipzig 4-1 at the Bernabeu on Wednesday, with Bernardo Silva and Arda Guler scoring either side of halftime, Kylian Mbappe adding a late third and Yan Diomande, who left Leipzig in the summer, sealing the win at 87 minutes.
Vladimir Putin called Elon Musk "a real genius" at the Russia-Africa Summit in Moscow and said Russia is in close contact with "our American partners, including Mr. Musk" so that Rassvet and Starlink satellites do not interfere in orbit. SpaceX did not respond to a request for comment.
A developer has published Qwenputer, a stock Qwen 3.5 4B with a 32-bit RISC-V CPU compiled into its weights. The CPU uses the model's Gated DeltaNet layers as RAM, runs inside its forward passes, and passes riscv-tests, but the checkpoint is twice the size and needs a driver to boot.
Alpine Linux says an attacker tried to exploit the critical GitLab flaw CVE-2026-97229 on its instance on 20 and 21 October. The attempt crashed workers and came close to working, so the project rebuilt the service.
Critical flaws in PHP prompted a global patching push, with the UK government checking its own exposure, Amazon reporting attempted attacks, and the NCSC advising that systems unable to be fixed immediately be taken offline.
The Times Square screening and photo-op rewards end Oct. 22 at 09:00 UTC, while the separate 12-player Infinity War mode runs through Dec. 11.
Nintendo’s Oct. 14 overview trailer says the Switch 2 version launches Nov. 5. It also shows a microphone feature that lets players hum or play melodies Link has learned to prompt an in-game response.
Battlefield 6 Season 5 starts October 13 with Vegas Strip, Area 51, Rapid Royale and four weapons. Gauntlet leaves at launch; the Casino Heist and Frozen Aces phases are scheduled for November and December.
Valve’s September 22 update added queued Rush 3v3, where tower control wins each round and castle capture wins the match. Premier now creates a four-map pool from two votes per team, then draws one map at random.
President Donald Trump blamed Fox News for Republican midterm losses, pointing to a 27% drop in the network's ratings as he criticised its coverage.
House Speaker Mike Johnson said he will not run for minority leader when the new Congress convenes, setting up a contest for the Republican leadership after the party lost its majority.
Qualcomm’s quarterly results topped forecasts but its guidance came in light, handset chip sales dropped 26% and the shares slid as rising memory costs pushed phone prices up.
Ballot measures restricting data centers passed in nearly every contest where results were available, with one exception in North Dakota, and the issue also shaped races for governor and Senate.
Elon Musk spent almost $450m backing Republican candidates, more than anyone in an election cycle, but the party lost the House, the Senate and key statewide races.
ExxonMobil's profit doubled to $15.4 billion and Chevron's rose nearly 200% to $9.9 billion in the third quarter, as refineries ran at full capacity into record diesel prices caused by attacks on Russian and Middle Eastern plants.
The US economy grew at a 3.4% annualized rate in the third quarter while inflation accelerated to 3.7% in September, less than a week before the midterm elections. The Fed held rates at 3.75%-4% with two dissents in favour of a hike.
Oman rescued 25 crew from the burning RITI tanker in the Strait of Hormuz on Friday. Iran said four tankers using unauthorised routes were halted and that two more, each carrying more than two million barrels, exploded after hitting mines; the US military denies the mine claims.
