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A new NASA model visualization traces brown-carbon smoke from July 14 through July 20 as unhealthy air spread through major U.S. and Canadian cities.
A market drop has spread beyond Wall Street: Asian shares mostly fell on Oct. 23 as investors weighed AI spending needs, while Brent touched a five-month high. Taiwan’s market was closed for Typhoon Champi.
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240 stories in this desk.The Comptroller’s Office says Texas FIRST is a new statewide unit focused on public corruption, government fraud, sales-tax fraud and unclaimed-property fraud. The announcement describes its mission, not any newly disclosed case or finding.
Federal prosecutors charged the elected assessor and two others in an alleged scheme involving county payroll. An indictment is an accusation, and all defendants are presumed innocent.
The PHP project released patches for two critical remote-code-execution flaws. The NSA and other cybersecurity bodies are urging operators to update affected systems promptly.
Updated Oct. 23: Authorities report 16 deaths and 54 injuries after the quake. Rescue work continues while rockfalls keep part of a key highway restricted to emergency traffic.
The Texas Court of Criminal Appeals affirmed Ronald Lee Haskell’s conviction and death sentence on direct appeal, finding no reversible error in the issues before it.
Iranian state media and the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps say seven vessels were struck or hit mines near the Strait of Hormuz. The reported incidents have not been independently confirmed.
UNEP’s 2026 assessment says current national pledges cannot prevent global warming from exceeding 1.5°C. The report says deep, sustained emissions cuts could still limit the overshoot and bring temperatures back down later this century.
Two Nigerian newsrooms report INEC had not posted the preliminary register online by the statutory public-scrutiny deadline ahead of the 2027 general election.
A breach at a cloud-service contractor may have exposed staff information across 20 prefectural police forces, Japan’s National Police Agency says.
The justices denied the administration’s emergency request to lift a lower-court block on its federal-prison policy while litigation continues.
The central bank lifted its benchmark to 5.50%, a larger move than economists had broadly expected, as inflation and peso pressures persist.
Saudi authorities reported deaths at a Dammam airport and an oil-field site as Washington ordered some non-emergency personnel and family members to depart.
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