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Your electric bill and your favorite restaurant both got pricier last month, and one Fed official is already floating a bigger response. A congressional panel finished a 15-month look at how one of America’s most notorious criminal cases slipped through the cracks. Prosecutors unsealed charges tied to a plot against a base once home to US bombers. And a familiar quarterback is heading back to his old locker room.

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Consumer prices rose 0.4% from September to October, a tenth of a point above forecasts, while core prices excluding food and energy rose 0.3%. Electricity jumped 0.9%, the most since April, and restaurant prices posted their biggest monthly gain since January 2024.

No yearly rate was reported because last year's shutdown wiped out October 2025 data, though one former Fed economist estimated 4% annual inflation. Fed governor Christopher Waller said Tuesday that a half-point rate hike next month was possible, double the usual quarter-point increase.

The Republican-led House Oversight Committee concluded in its final report released Tuesday that Epstein's crimes after 2005 could have been prevented were it not for federal failures. The report, built on 15 months of interviews, depositions and records, faulted a 2007 Florida agreement that let Epstein evade federal prosecution.

Investigators blamed his 2019 death in a New York jail on institutional failures, including staffing shortages, poor recordkeeping and lax security. The panel also found that deficient Justice Department redactions during document releases exposed survivors' sensitive personal information.

Federal prosecutors in Manhattan charged three men with plotting nearly 20 attacks on Jewish communities in Europe and the US and Britain's RAF Fairford. The defendants include a dual Iranian-Iraqi national, an Iranian national and an Iraqi national, according to a superseding indictment unsealed Tuesday.

Prosecutors said the men acted for Iran-affiliated terrorist groups at a base where US bombers had been stationed until September arrests prompted their withdrawal. Iran denied involvement in that September incident, which British authorities linked to Tehran after five men were detained.

Twelve people were killed in fog when dozens of cars and trucks collided in two pile-ups on Bulgaria's Trakia motorway, and about 50 others were taken to hospital with injuries.

Malaysia's former Prime Minister Najib Razak left prison for house arrest in Kuala Lumpur, where he will serve the rest of his sentence over the 1MDB sovereign wealth fund scandal.

Indonesia's 39-year-old Vice President Gibran Rakabuming Raka offered to resign during a meeting with President Prabowo Subianto, adding to turmoil at the highest levels of the country's leadership.

A 41-year-old US Army soldier was arrested near Gloucester for suspected espionage linked to Russia, and FBI Director Kash Patel called it an "important arrest" of "utmost concern."

The Justice Department sued Lyft, alleging discrimination against riders with disabilities, and is seeking $53 million for riders who filed complaints, including people with service animals or stowable wheelchairs.

A New York City sightseeing helicopter made an emergency landing at a New Jersey cargo port Tuesday after its pilot reported possible engine trouble, with no injuries reported.

Amazon's Ring unveiled a $250 drone that flies from room to room to check on triggered alarms, alongside a new autonomous robot built to patrol businesses.

The average new vehicle now costs a record $51,109, Kelley Blue Book found, about $500 above the previous high, though prices rose just 2.1% over the past year.

Rivian's stock has fallen more than 80% since its Nasdaq debut five years ago, including a nearly 30% drop this year, as CEO RJ Scaringe bets on the R2.

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Biologists found a rare yellow-orange burbot in New York's Oswego Harbor with xanthochromism, a condition suppressing pigmentation, which officials said is considerably less common in wild fish than albinism.

Chile has found an undersea Antarctic cable spanning up to 2,548 miles technically feasible, officials said Monday, a $621 million communications and research link that could start running in 2034.

Aspen, Colorado firefighters are training to pilot giant foam-dropping firefighting drones, first-of-their-kind machines about 10 by 12 feet, roughly the size of a small U-Haul trailer.

The Vikings reacquired quarterback Kirk Cousins, sending a 2027 third-round pick to Las Vegas and clearing the way for No. 1 pick Fernando Mendoza to start for the Raiders.

USMNT coach Mauricio Pochettino would be open to managing Manchester United, sources said, as Michael Carrick faces the sack after one win in 10 Premier League games.

Veteran winger Evander Kane is heading to Russia, signing with HC Sibir Novosibirsk for the rest of the KHL season after 31 points in 71 games with Vancouver last season.

Bob Boone, a seven-time Gold Glove catcher, died at 78, his son announced, after catching for the Phillies' first World Series champions and joining baseball's first three-generation family.

Grand Theft Auto VI pre-orders can now pre-load on PlayStation and Xbox ahead of the game's November 19 release, though it will take up a whopping 212 GB of storage.

Broadway veteran Jordan Fisher will play Prince's role of The Kid in a Purple Rain musical premiering next spring at the Majestic Theatre, with previews beginning in March.

Stevie Wonder left a £1,000 tip at a late-night stop at a Stalybridge cafe after his sold-out Manchester show performing his classic album Songs in the Key of Life.

What it is: Credit card balances climbed $22 billion last quarter to a record $1.29 trillion, according to the New York Fed's household debt report released Tuesday. Balances are up 4.2% from a year earlier, while total household debt, including mortgages, auto loans and student loans, reached a record $19.1 trillion in the July-to-September period.

The detail: The average balance per consumer is now $6,678, up 2.4% from a year ago, as the number of cardholders rose to 178 million, a separate TransUnion report found. New card offers carry an average interest rate of about 24%, according to LendingTree data, and a TransUnion executive called cards "one of the most expensive ways to borrow."

Why it matters: New York Fed researchers said the rising debt "does reflect financial hardship out there," noting that inflation has outpaced wage growth for low-income households. A growing share of new cards has gone to borrowers with lower incomes and credit scores, and those accounts "are now showing higher levels of distress," they said.

What to watch: Card issuers loosened lending standards during the pandemic, and delinquency rates rose in the years that followed, according to the New York Fed. Balance growth is now slowing, but Ted Rossman of the nonprofit Money Management International said that from a household finance standpoint, "a lot of damage has been done."

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Detroit-area rescuers chased a deer wearing a plastic Halloween pumpkin over its face for about 10 days, wading across a river four times before finally freeing it.

A Michigan man finally collected a $500,000 lottery prize from a ticket his family scratched last Christmas, nearly a year after his son handed out tickets at a holiday party.

Peru unveiled a 46-foot statue of Pope Leo XIV, arms outstretched and weighing 4.4 tons, in a Callao park ahead of the pontiff's scheduled arrival in the country on Wednesday.

Journalist Henry Stanley finds missionary David Livingstone in a small African village (1871) · A Nova Scotia cable office receives word that World War I fighting will end the next day (1918) · Nazi troops enter previously unoccupied Vichy France (1942) · Soviet leader Leonid Brezhnev dies at 75 after 18 years in power (1982)

"Dr. Livingstone, I presume?" — Henry Morton Stanley, journalist (1871)

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