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A federal judge ordered the White House early Thursday to "immediately return, reinstate, and restore" access for CNN, MS NOW and Politico, six days after Trump barred them over what he called fake news and later called a national security risk. US District Judge Timothy Kelly found they were likely to show their passes were pulled without due process.

The restraining order runs 14 days and covers a ban the court said likely violated the outlets' constitutional rights. The court rejected the administration's argument that the three had published false information and endangered national security. The White House had not commented.

Acting Navy Secretary Hung Cao disclosed that eight crew members assigned to the USS Abraham Lincoln carrier strike group attempted suicide during its long deployment, in a letter answering Senator Kirsten Gillibrand's questions about conditions aboard.

Families had raised alarms about deteriorating mental health during the prolonged Middle East mission tied to the US war in Iran. The carrier, deployed since last November, is now heading home. Cao said five chaplains and multiple mental health professionals were aboard.

County election offices across Texas are scrambling to process a backlog of voter registrations caused by a state-level error, weeks before midterm voting begins. Officials in the Republican-controlled state have not publicly defined the problem. Bexar County, home to San Antonio, received about 45,000 backlogged applications on its own.

The statewide total is unknown, but the Texas Association of County Election Officials says it runs into the tens of thousands in several of the largest counties. Local officials say the failure may also have disenfranchised people who tried to vote in March's primary but whose applications were never processed. "This is really out of left field," said the association's executive director, Chris McGinn.

Ethiopia and Tigray accused each other of launching offensives, with Tigrayan forces reportedly seizing federal airports four years after a war that killed some 600,000.

Two North Korean soldiers captured in Russia's Kursk region were sent to South Korea, Kyiv says; Seoul wouldn't confirm, saying only that it respected their "free will."

Delcy Rodríguez told the world in her first UN General Assembly speech that "elections will be held in Venezuela" — at a "right moment" she declined to name.

Hawaii's Big Island has one last dry day before Tropical Storm Nolo, forecast to become a hurricane, dumps 20 to 30 inches of rain on the southeast side.

Pennsylvania nurses are canvassing Amish country door to door after four measles deaths, two of them newborns, in the deadliest US outbreak since 1992.

A body found in a Boise church may be tied to the 1982 Tylenol poisonings that killed seven people and brought in child-resistant caps.

The US-China trade truce now runs to Jan. 10 after Bessent announced an extension — two months, well short of the six-plus many expected — a sign, per CSIS, that Washington wants to "keep the heat on."

SoftBank shares jumped over 7% after an $11.1 billion bond sale to fund the final $10 billion of its OpenAI commitment, lifting its stake to about 13%.

Novo Nordisk's CEO conceded that the 8% post–investor day slide shows "we still need to do more work on building trust," with Eli Lilly up 58% in a year.

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Meta's new VR Glasses weigh about 100 grams, roughly a fifth of a Quest 3, and will cost $1,300 when they ship next spring.

OpenAI's rogue agent breached an Australian government portal in June, a world-first incident; Canberra says legal consequences will follow.

Earth's core and mantle are locked in a gravitational tug-of-war that stretches our days by milliseconds, with the inner core slowing since about 2010.

Josh Naylor walked it off in extra innings as Seattle edged Houston 6-5, hanging the loss on Josh Hader.

Milwaukee reached 99 wins, baseball's best record, beating Philadelphia 4-1 behind Logan Henderson and Trevor Megill's 30th save.

Lionel Messi's Argentina farewell is set for an October 6 friendly against Benin in Buenos Aires, his last appearance after announcing his international retirement.

Antonio Brown will avoid prison, his lawyer says, pleading no contest to aggravated assault in a case that could have brought 30 years.

Sixteen-year-old Nene Royal became the first Thai AGT winner, taking the $1 million prize after a finale that included "Seven Nation Army".

Ryan Murphy finished a Glee reboot script "an hour ago," he told Entertainment Tonight, and has been in touch with about 10 original cast members.

Harry Potter and the Cursed Child returns to the West End as a single three-hour show, with producer Sonia Friedman citing living costs up "30-40% since the pandemic."

What it is: Computer science graduates, who a few years ago fielded offers without applying, are now sending hundreds of applications into the void. Unemployment for recent computer science and computer engineering graduates sits around 7.1%, and graduates in philosophy, art history and ethnic studies all have higher employment rates.

The detail: Software development postings on Indeed peaked in early 2022, and far fewer are being posted now, according to a Federal Reserve analysis. Microsoft, Meta and Google have handed a growing share of code writing to AI, while Amazon sheds workers as AI spending accelerates.

For workers in their early 20s in "AI-exposed" jobs, employment is 19% below where it would be had it tracked less-exposed fields, per the Stanford Digital Economy Lab. The Census Bureau likened the drop to graduating into a deep recession.

Why it matters: The pipeline was built for a boom that ended mid-degree. Enrollment surged during the pandemic hiring frenzy, so the biggest classes are arriving exactly as entry-level work — the rote tasks juniors once cut their teeth on — is the first thing automated away.

What to watch: Where the jobs land instead. Tulane graduate Jack Zemke got hired as an in-house AI "evangelist" at a civil engineering firm before moving to a startup, which is the emerging pattern: not tech giants, but ordinary companies hiring young people to figure out what AI is for. "There's so much churn," he said. "It really feels like a total frenzy right now."

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Manchester United is selling Old Trafford turf in 7x7cm glass cubes at £125 apiece the same day it reported debt still above £1 billion.

Scottsdale shelved its plan to pipe purified wastewater straight to taps after candidates branded it "poop water," though officials say under 1% of it comes from toilets.

Two developers in Udaipur built a site where you order food that never arrives, fake delivery call included; 2.7 million have visited.

Congress passes the Judiciary Act (1789) · Gold prices collapse on "Black Friday" after Grant orders Treasury sales (1869) · Theodore Roosevelt names Devils Tower the first national monument (1906) · Honda Motor Company is founded (1948) · USS Enterprise, the first nuclear-powered carrier, is launched (1960) · India reaches Mars orbit on its first attempt (2014)

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