The hour in brief
What the front pages lead with
Tennessee execution attempt fails
Christa Pike, a Tennessee death row inmate, is conscious and speaking after surviving a botched execution.
- BN US death row inmate Christa Pike awake and speaking after failed execution, lawyers say
- TW Christa Pike is conscious and speaking after failed execution, attorneys say
- CN Christa Pike is conscious and speaking after she survived Tennessee's execution attempt, her attorneys say
- AN Christa Pike conscious and speaking after botched execution, attorneys say
- PR I’ve Covered Death Row Cases for Nearly a Decade. What Happened to Christa Pike Wasn’t an Anomaly.
- AN Christa Pike is conscious and speaking after Tennessee failed execution, her attorneys say
- TI Christa Pike awake and speaking days after botched Tennessee execution
- TH ‘Medically unprecedented’: Christa Pike alive, speaking days after failed execution
France student protests grow
France shuts down nearly 900 schools as hundreds of thousands of students protest education policies.
- BN Tear gas in Paris and Marseille as school protests grow across France
- PN French students lead massive protests against education policies
- NN France shuts down nearly 900 schools as violent student protests escalate
- TG Riot police fire teargas as 250,000 take part in schools protests across France
- AJ France suspends high school classes as protesters clash with police
- F2 'We're fed up': Paris students rise up in a movement that shows no sign of slowing
- F2 French interior ministry estimates 250,000 join student protests, organisers claim 450,000
- TI Why Are Students Protesting Across France?
- TS Hundreds arrested in French school protests, as Macron summons ministers
- LM French government's condescension toward high school students shows a refusal to take them seriously as citizens
- LM Hundreds of thousands demonstrate across France for better education
Russia plague investigation
The U.S. and WHO step up pressure on Russia after a lab worker died and a suspected plague outbreak.
- PN Suspected Iranian drone plot pushed U.S. to evacuate bombers from British air base
- CN Trump administration struggles to plan for potential plague fallout
- TI Russia Tells WHO No Plague Found After Lab Worker's Death
- TS Trump to speak to Putin on plague as US, WHO step up pressure on Moscow to be transparent
- EU EU countries to discuss suspected plague outbreak in Russia
- EU UK trial of three Iranians over plot to target dissent journalists
S&P 500 record high
The S&P 500 hits a record high as AI stocks lead tech higher.
Mixed front-page stories
A wide range of stories lead front pages, from Quebec separatist election results to the Paramount-Warner Bros. merger closing.
- NP Actress Eva Marie Saint, who won an Oscar for 'On the Waterfront,' dies at 102
- TW Emails show how ICE trimmed training for deputized officers
- LA Becerra’s ‘son of immigrants’ story emerges as latest flash point in governor’s race
- CN California couple at center of surrogacy scandal arrested
- CN Olympian accused of damaging Reflecting Pool seeks probe of potential misconduct
- AN Former CIA officer pleads guilty to stealing nearly $200M in gold bar case
- FN Tren de Aragua ransom plot turns Denver roommate's home into a torture chamber
- PO Crypto megadonors play it safe in the House
- PO As Trump voters sour, Vance is changing his tune
- AX "You suck": Emmer unloads on Senate Republicans
- AX DOJ moves to strip citizenship from 40 people
- PR More Than 500 U.S. Citizens Have Been Detained, Including Handcuffed or Held at Gunpoint, in Trump’s Immigration Crackdown
- CN Trump isn't 'completely wrong': Hormuz disruption is Asia's problem, says Singapore's foreign minister
- YF Trump spent over $10M in taxpayer cash on ads critics likened to North Korean 'propaganda'
- AT Drones sink ships near NATO countries in “unacceptable” attacks, EU says
- AT OpenAI will watermark ChatGPT outputs by default—but only in the EU
- WI The Internet Runs on Cats and Porn. It's About to Get Cattier and Pornier
- WI OpenAI Is Pissing Off a Bunch of Mathematicians—Again
- TE The next hurdle for AI agents: getting websites to let them in
- TE Silicon Valley's AI wunderkind launches Underdog, the most private Instinct/Muse competitor yet
- TE OpenAI releases a range of new mathematical results produced by an internal model
- TE OpenAI says its internal model produced 372 math results, nearly all from a single prompt handed to a single AI agent
- HN Sharing AI progress in mathematics⌕
- HN Mistral Large 4⌕
- BI Leaked audio: What David Ellison told employees at the first Skydance town hall
- BI Are you brave enough to check the customer profile Amazon has on you?
- FO David Ellison Just Landed A $150 Million Payday. Here's How Much He's Worth.
- FO Skydance Is Here: Paramount Closes $110 Billion Warner Bros. Merger After Months Of Controversy
- TI Trump pushed FBI to investigate anti-ICE demonstrators in LA, whistleblower claims
- SC Indonesia to take delivery of first Chinese J-10CE jets in 6 months, report says
- SC China tried 3 times to talk crime families out of scam business in Myanmar: CCTV
- TG U.S. police arrest suspect from Washington state in connection with Tumbler Ridge shooting⌕
- TG Fréchette resigns as Coalition Avenir Québec leader
- TT As US-India ties face turbulence, American lawmakers honor pilot's courage
- TT California Screamin': Trump says Iran taking out LA and San Diego would be 'small price to pay'
- CN Oracle Health Hack Exposes Data of Nearly 20 Million People
- CN Mistral’s New ‘Le Chonk’ AI Model Is Big, Open and Built for Agents
- EN Nintendo Switch Sports Resort hands-on: Bigger and better than ever
- EN Controversial $110 billion mega-merger of Paramount and Warner Bros. finally closes
- SA 2026 Nobel Prize in Physics awarded to Francis Halzen, pioneer of high-energy neutrinos
- SA 2026 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine awarded to scientists behind optogenetics
- TA Trump’s Unlikely Strategy to Control History: Footnotes
- TA Homme Fatale
- TH Newsom calls for 25th Amendment after Trump’s remarks on California
- TD Trump’s Suit Tag Reveals His Awkward Wardrobe Secret
- TD RFK Jr. Sparks MAHA Fury With His Artificial Health Fix
- ES Our early hot takes from the MLB playoffs: The year of the Brewers? A homerless October for Judge -- and Ohtani!?
- ES How the Rams, Cowboys, Patriots pulled Week 4 comebacks to save their seasons
- VA Paramount-Warner Bros. Merger Closes
- VA Emmys Move to Prime Video
- CT Altercation between former Chicago Bears LB Otis Wilson and Soldier Field security is under investigation
- CT ‘It could have been anybody’: Chatham neighbors flock to show support for family of slain girl
- TB ‘A very expensive winter.’ Home heating oil prices soar as household expenses already reach breaking point.⌕
- TB Trump administration continues to try to ban international students from attending Harvard
- TS Pesticides on your plate: The fruit and vegies violating standards
- TS Veteran ABC newsreader Richard Morecroft dies aged 70
- AN NSW coalmine climate ruling a massive shake-up to Australia's oil and gas
- AN Long-serving Catholic bishop who sexually abused young Indigenous men jailed
- TN 'Pleading guilty and leaving it at that': Emails sink woman's claim she had no idea of plea
- TN Harcourts agent must pay buyer $23,800 over third car park claim
- CN U.S. resident could have reported Tumbler Ridge shooter to police but promised not to 'snitch': indictment
- CN Tumbler Ridge draft community recovery plan presented, 6 months after tragedy
- TS Chris Alexander drops out of Toronto mayoral election
- TS How the next six days could decide Toronto's mayoral election
- NP MAID approved for Canadian woman who could no longer cook, say U of T doctors in NYT op-ed
- NP ‘Curious’ Air Canada IT worker tried to think like a crook to trace how airport gold heist was pulled off
- TI ‘Families simply cannot catch a break,’ Opposition says as it criticises measures
- TI Budget 2027 main points: income tax rate changes; €10 increase in pension and welfare rates
- C( Southeast Asia's energy security at a crossroads as power demand surges, IEA warns
- C( ‘Many complex engineering challenges’ behind Johor Bahru-Singapore RTS Link: Operator
- TJ Road budget scandal could knock Takaichi’s ambitious agenda off course
- TJ Takaichi asked Trump to broker Japan-North Korea summit
- TH Rahul calls SIR ‘treason’ as INDIA unites against ECI; MPs detained
- TH Tremors felt across Delhi-NCR as 4.9-magnitude quake hits Uttarakhand’s Chamoli
- TT Gadi Eisenkot's prime ministerial mission: Bereaved by war, determined to heal, protect and revive Israel
- TT National Security Council warns Iran could attack Israel, Jews on Oct. 7 anniversary
- HA 'A Stranger in My Own City': How October 7 Changed Israeli Life in America
- HA Netanyahu Amplifies Threats Against Israel's Security for His Political Gain⌕
- TN Saudi airports attacked as Yemen's west coast battle intensifies
- TN How Trump's immigration policies weaken America's Middle East bargain
- NE City of Joburg: A merger of criminal, political and business interests – report
- NE UPDATE | Feroz Khan’s Madlanga Commission testimony postponed after family death
- PE France’s Le Pen unveils economic platform brimming with eye-watering cuts — but few new ideas
- PE Ukraine says no to EU membership without access to selling grain