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A $5 million wine heist in Tuscany, a $100,000 price tag on the American dream, and a new reason to think twice before dropping your ballot in the mail. Meanwhile, AI is stirring up trouble, LeBron is making history, and scientists have finally figured out why big dogs get old so fast. It's been quite a 24 hours.

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The firing squad execution of Nidal Malik Hasan will be livestreamed, the Pentagon said Thursday, in what would be the first military execution in more than 65 years. The Army announced this week that Hasan, convicted of killing 13 people and injuring 32 at Fort Hood in 2009, will die there on December 3.

Executions in the United States have been private for about nine decades, and the last public one was a 1930s hanging that drew thousands in Owensboro, Kentucky. John Mills, a lawyer who works with death row inmates, called the plan "unprecedented in the modern era" and said it stands on uncertain legal ground.

Millions of Americans who buy cheaper prescription drugs from Canada could lose access when a customs rule takes effect later this month. The rule covers a wide range of imported goods, not only medicine, and is meant to collect tariffs and keep illegal drugs out of the country.

Democrats and some Republicans have objected, with the cost of living a leading issue four weeks before the midterm elections. Trump has made lowering drug prices one of his central answers to rising healthcare costs, and critics of the rule say it will land hardest on the patients who depend on those imports.

A federal immigration officer shot a 28-year-old Dominican man in the neck on Thursday afternoon as he drove through Marble Hill in New York with a five-year-old boy in the car. City police identified him as Oscar Belgal, and he survived and was treated at a hospital.

Homeland Security said officers were trying to arrest the man in a targeted enforcement operation but did not say what led to the shooting. Mayor Zohran Mamdani said agents surrounded the car before firing multiple rounds and called it an "unconscionable and incredibly serious situation".

Anti-immigration protests in South Africa turned violent as at least 24 vehicles burned and foreign-owned shops were looted in Soweto and Durban amid anger over a court asylum ruling.

Thieves took 30,000 bottles of wine from a Tuscan winery, and Marchesi Antinori said men disabled the alarms and cameras before loading two trucks with €5 million of reds.

Torrential rains triggered mudslides around Santiago, Chile, sweeping cars through city streets and injuring at least six people as President José Antonio Kast declared an emergency in Las Condes.

The Justice Department sued Denver over a city law banning masks for federal officers, arguing the ordinance violates the Supremacy Clause and endangers agents through doxxing and threats.

Homeland Security proposed a $100,000 charge for international students to work after graduation, projecting the rule could cut enrollment in the Optional Practical Training program by up to 44%.

The State Department sanctioned 10 entities, six individuals and five vessels tied to Iran's shadow fleet, while Treasury blacklisted 17 vessels moving Iranian petroleum and petrochemical products.

Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg greenlit Muse despite months of safety delays, deciding the AI agent app was ready after a 14-person start-up called Instinct took off, the Times reported.

PepsiCo is raising prices on Doritos, Ruffles and SunChips after a weak North American quarter, and the company said it must recoup costs for fuel, aluminum and crops.

Lyft will pay $272.5 million to California rideshare drivers to settle a six-year case that accused the company of misclassifying them and paying below minimum wage.

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Big dogs age faster than small ones, according to a study of nearly 900 dogs across about 120 breeds that linked rapid aging in large canines to faster epigenetic changes.

Scientists traced a mouse embryo's growth cell by cell using DNA Typewriter, a prime-editing tool that reconstructed relationships among 1.3 million cells in a two-week-old embryo.

OpenAI has banned Russian and Iranian accounts that used ChatGPT to run influence operations, and the campaigns that placed false stories in real outlets reached the widest audiences.

Cleveland forced a deciding Game 5 in Chicago, where José Ramírez homered and drove in three as the Guardians beat the White Sox 9-5 on ten hits.

Tampa Bay won its first game of the season, and Bucky Irving ran for 165 yards, including a 72-yard burst, in a 24-16 win at Dallas.

Vegas trailed Toronto 3-1 after the first period, and the Golden Knights scored twice in the second before winning 4-3 in a shootout to reach 4-1.

LeBron James played his first game for the 76ers on Thursday, and he put up a strong first half against Brooklyn in an exhibition that opened his 24th season.

Dolly Parton's Welsh-language cover of "Jolene" arrived Friday as a posthumous single, her second, recorded with niece Jada Star and Welsh singer-songwriter Bronwen Lewis before Parton's August death.

A new Linkin Park documentary, "Unshatter," takes fans inside the band's return after Chester Bennington's 2017 death, including early sessions that led Emily Armstrong to join as co-lead vocalist.

Remi Wolf strips things down on "Mud," her third studio album, exploring a breakup and her relationship with alcohol and sobriety through acoustic-forward songs like "I Won't Cry."

What it is: Election officials in most states use the postmark the Postal Service stamps on an envelope to decide whether a mail ballot was sent by Election Day. Because of changes the agency began rolling out in April 2025, an envelope may no longer be stamped the same day it is collected from a letter carrier, a post office counter, or a blue collection box. A ballot dropped in the mail on time can therefore end up carrying a postmark that arrives too late to count.

The detail: The changes come from what the Postal Service calls Regional Transportation Optimization, part of a ten-year plan begun in 2021 to stabilize its finances. It cuts daily pickups and shifts processing at certain post offices, especially rural ones. Those procedures were not fixed before this year's primaries, which saw ballot rejection rates rise in several states. A Brookings Institution analysis by Elena Patel estimates that an additional 43,000 to 55,000 ballots nationwide could be rejected as late this November.

Why it matters: Starting October 26, post offices affected by the changes have been told to separate returned ballots from other mail so managers can add postmarks by hand on the day they are collected, part of an "extraordinary measures" policy the agency uses for federal general elections. It still recommends mailing a ballot at least a week before a state's deadline. Patel said she was encouraged by the plan but noted that it is untested, particularly where staffing is thin.

What to watch: Whether hand-postmarking holds up in its first general election, and how many voters follow the advice some election officials are now giving, which is to skip the mailbox and use a drop box or the election office instead.

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The Waffle House Index tells Southerners how bad a storm will be, and FEMA watches it too, because a diner that closes its doors signals real trouble.

Croatian soccer fans photobombed a Philadelphia wedding shoot, and Ashton and Zachary Smith are now touring Croatia as guests of the country they accidentally celebrated with.

Loggerhead turtles laid a record 4,292 nests on Georgia beaches, up from 358 in 2004, with hundreds of volunteers walking the sand from May through August.

Yale is chartered in Connecticut as the Collegiate School (1701) · The Washington Monument opens to the public (1888) · Boulder Dam begins sending power to Los Angeles (1936) · John Lennon is born in Liverpool (1940) · Che Guevara is executed in Bolivia (1967) · North Korea announces its first nuclear test (2006)

"Will the people in the cheaper seats clap your hands? And the rest of you, if you'll just rattle your jewelry." — John Lennon, Royal Variety Performance, 1963

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