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Today's edition brings major developments in global politics, rising international tensions, and fresh questions about the technology we trust. From a closely watched vote in North America to surprising changes in entertainment, the stories ahead show how quickly familiar situations can take unexpected turns. We're also looking at economic shifts and a few lighter headlines worth your attention.

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Trump endorsed Benjamin Netanyahu on Sunday, late in a reelection campaign where the Israeli prime minister had billed his closeness to the American president as a reason to keep him in office. Trump called him a "Great Warrior Prime Minister" and credited him as an even greater partner for peace in confronting the Islamic Republic.

Israelis vote on October 27 in the first national election since the Hamas attack of October 2023, and the endorsement had been withheld for months as the two leaders' Middle East strategies diverged. Netanyahu thanked Trump in Hebrew on X, and his party attached a 35-second video of the two together.

Ukrainian strikes set an oil export terminal and a depot ablaze in St. Petersburg on Sunday as Kyiv launched more than 1,000 drones at Russia in one of its largest aerial attacks of the war. Russia then hit Kyiv overnight with ballistic missiles and 269 drones, killing one person and injuring eight.

Trump said he held off on the new sanctions because he does not want to drive Russia away from the bargaining table, writing that he is negotiating peace. Zelensky said that siding with Putin would be a historic mistake. Trump blocked the measures on Friday night, two days before they were due to take effect.

More than half a million people marched across France on Saturday against rising living costs and the state of its schools, and the mostly peaceful demonstrations were followed by rioting and looting described as some of the worst public disorder in modern French history. At least 2,400 people were arrested.

Prime Minister Sébastien Lecornu called a crisis cabinet meeting for Monday. Interior Minister Laurent Nuñez tried to resign, and Macron instead asked him to work out how to make the streets safer. Macron voiced the public's anger and shame and blamed much of the violence on far-left activists.

A bomb threat diverted a flight from Tel Aviv to Sofia on Sunday night, where passengers were evacuated after Bulgaria scrambled a fighter jet to escort the Vienna-bound plane.

Voters in oil-rich Alberta decide Monday whether to begin a legal path toward separation from Canada, after 43% of eligible voters, more than 1.35 million, cast advance or special ballots.

Lula and Flávio Bolsonaro traded insults in their first runoff debate on Sunday, a tense two-hour broadcast with little talk of plans before Brazil's Oct. 25 presidential vote.

Trump will close a public golf course in Washington for about fifteen months from November 15 despite a judge's order halting the work and a motion to disqualify her.

The driver in the Kansas soccer field crash that killed two has been released without charges while investigators wait on toxicology results and a mechanical check of her truck.

A service member died after a rappelling fall at a University of Texas at San Antonio football game honoring the military, with an investigation now underway.

Gilead Sciences' experimental ulcerative colitis pill produced a 23% placebo-adjusted remission rate in a mid-stage trial, results that topped Wall Street analyst expectations for the biotech's push into inflammatory diseases.

China's economy grew 4.5% last quarter, rebounding from a three-year low as surging exports offset weak spending at home, landing at the bottom of Beijing's annual growth target.

Ten-year Treasury yields, the benchmark for mortgages, slipped more than 2 basis points Monday to about 5.07%, as traders priced in an above-85% chance the Fed holds rates Oct. 28.

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A tiny jellyfish can turn itself young again, and researchers are now studying its genes for clues to rejuvenating human cells and treating the diseases of old age.

An ocean wave thousands of miles long is raising sea levels along the West Coast as the first sign of this year's El Niño reaches the United States.

Neil Armstrong's boyhood home in Ohio will open for tours after a $400,000 donation from a retired fighter pilot, with the historical society aiming for 2030, Armstrong's centennial.

The Green Bay Packers beat Dallas 23-13 in a penalty-filled Sunday night game, as Jordan Love threw one touchdown and ran in another for a third straight win.

Jim Harbaugh vowed to evaluate everything, including new coordinator Mike McDaniel, after a 22-6 loss to the unbeaten Chiefs sent the Chargers into their bye at 0-6.

Arizona kicker Chad Ryland scored every point in the biggest NFL upset this season at Los Angeles, leaving the preseason Super Bowl favorite Rams last in the NFC West.

The Cleveland Guardians face elimination again after a 3-1 Sunday loss to Tampa Bay, trailing the ALCS 3-2 with no travel day before Monday night's Game 6 at Tropicana Field.

Apu spoke on "The Simpsons" Sunday for the first time in nearly a decade, with voice veteran Sunil Malhotra secretly taking over the role under strict NDAs.

A new survival thriller swallows its hero whole as Austin Abrams dives looking for his dead father and ends up inside a whale in an adaptation of Daniel Kraus.

Grand Theft Auto VI arrives next month with two leads whose relationship players can build or ignore in a design that has people asking about cheating on a character.

What it is: Matt Robb, a Toronto reviewer of consumer tech, listed a keyboard on Facebook Marketplace last month and let Meta's new AI agent Muse do the haggling. Within a day, a buyer he had never spoken to turned up outside his house late at night. Muse had closed the deal on its own, handed over his home address, and even sent an automated "Yep, I'm here!" from his account when the buyer arrived, all without Robb knowing.

The detail: Agents differ from chatbots in that they run in a loop and take steps while nobody is watching, and they work better the more they know about a user and that user's friends, family, and colleagues. Muse downloads have climbed since its September launch, and OpenAI has rolled out its own "always on" helpers, called dots, that plug into ChatGPT and workplace tools.

Why it matters: "Using an AI agent is similar to handing someone your keys and a to-do list," said Veronica Rivera, an assistant professor at Georgia Tech's School of Cybersecurity and Privacy. "How helpful they are, and by extension how risky, depends on which keys you hand over." Ebrahim Bagheri of the University of Toronto said an agent handed a credit card ingests the entire transaction history in seconds.

What to watch: Access can be withdrawn, but Bagheri says there is no taking back data an agent has already seen, and how developers store it can be murky. Robb and the buyer made amends, and Meta reached out to talk through what went wrong.

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American Girl has given Samantha a new story that turns an orphan raised by a wealthy grandmother in 1904 from a socialite into a shopgirl in Mount Bedford.

A bookstore selling only horror opened in Virginia just over a month ago, and its owner says the surprise has been how many first-timers are dipping a toe in.

Wales' oldest man, 107-year-old Owen Filer, says he "lived on fish and chips," though the World War II veteran notes his favorite cod or hake has gotten too expensive.

British forces surrender to Washington at Yorktown (1781) · Napoleon begins his retreat from Moscow (1812) · The United States imposes a trade embargo on Cuba (1960) · The Dow Jones Industrial Average falls 22.6% in a single session (1987) · Saddam Hussein goes on trial in Baghdad (2005)

"I have the mortification to inform your Excellency that I have been forced to give up the posts of York and Gloucester." — Charles Cornwallis, 1781

That's your look at the world today. Thanks for reading, and here's to staying informed, curious, and ready for whatever tomorrow brings.

—The Five Minute Daily Team