Berkshire’s $9.7 billion buy of Occidental’s petrochemicals business will allow the company to reduce debt and focus on fossil fuels.https://www.wsj.com/business/energy-oil/berkshire-hathaway-occidental-petroleum-acquisition-db3f7c14?mod=pls_whats_news_us_business_f
The U.S. relationship with Qatar entered new territory this week with a security pledge from President Donald Trump.https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/10/03/qatar-trump-security-guarantee-israel/
With Capitol Hill mired in the government shutdown or on recess, a 25-year-old trade legislation was allowed to lapse despite 11th hour White House backing.https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/10/03/africa-us-trade-program-expired/
The police identified two people killed in an attack at a synagogue in Manchester, England, and said they were still trying to learn more about the assailant’s motives.https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/10/03/synagogue-yom-kippur-attack-england/
Sarah Mullally, previously the bishop of London, is the first woman to serve as spiritual leader of the Church of England in its nearly 500-year history.https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/10/03/archbishop-canterbury-first-woman-england/
The E.U. has proposed building a “drone wall” to counter threats after airspace breaches in Poland, Estonia and other countries.https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/10/03/munich-drones-airspace-nato-russia/
The singer known online as Davicito59 won his asylum case in July. Still, ICE kept him in custody for two more months — a holdup several experts called unlawful.https://www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/2025/10/03/asylum-venezuelan-singer-ice-detention/
Eisenhüttenstadt offered a chance for two prospective residents to live rent-free in furnished apartments on a trial basis — 2,000 people applied from around the world.https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/10/04/eisenhttenstadt-east-germany-population-decline/
The honoring of Kirk in South Korea is the latest example of the strengthening ties between the country’s Christian conservatives and U.S. evangelicals.https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/10/03/charlie-kirk-south-korea-conservatives-maga/
Four Indian students were rejected for U.S. visas after undergoing a new Trump-era social media screening. All were told they had failed to prove ties to India.https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/10/03/india-students-visas-trump-social-media/
With negotiations appearing stalled, the shutdown could go through the weekend.https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/senate-vote-government-funding-bills-shutdown-reaches-3rd/story?id=126183293
Sean "Diddy" Combs will be sentenced on Friday after being found guilty of transportation to engage in prostitution.https://abcnews.go.com/US/live-updates/sean-diddy-combs-sentencing-live-updates/?id=126081824
Two of the Manchester synagogue attack victims appeared to been shot by police officers who were trying to stop the assailant.https://abcnews.go.com/International/2-manchester-victims-including-1-died-hit-law/story?id=126175303
Sean "Diddy" Combs returned to a Manhattan courtroom on Friday to be sentenced on two counts of transportation for the purposes of prostitution.https://abcnews.go.com/US/video/sentencing-day-sean-diddy-combs-126186860
The late pioneering heavy metal singer Ozzy Osbourne was honored by a U.K. farm that used hundreds of pumpkins to make a Halloween mural for the Black Sabbath frontman.https://abcnews.go.com/Entertainment/video/ozzy-osbourne-honored-mural-made-hundreds-pumpkins-126187018
ICE agents will be present at Super Bowl LX, according to Corey Lewandowski, former Trump 2016 campaign manager and current special government employee at the Department of Homeland Security.https://abcnews.go.com/US/video/ice-conduct-immigration-enforcement-super-bowl-lewandowski-126175497
Tom Cillo, a 58-year-old college freshman at Lycoming College in Pennsylvania, is gunning to become the oldest college football player to see the field in more than a decade.https://abcnews.go.com/Sports/video/college-freshman-lives-dream-playing-football-age-58-126163287
Many people have specific questions about how the government shutdown will affect them and their families. ABC News’ Selina Wang answers the most searched questions on the second day of the shutdown.https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/video/abc-news-selina-wang-answers-searched-questions-shutdown-126162909
It’s no joke. Sycophantic AI models are pushing naive users toward acts of violence and self-harm.https://www.wsj.com/opinion/i-need-a-chatbot-that-wont-drive-me-crazy-d2e65f9b?mod=rss_Technology
Google said it will build a $4 billion data center in Arkansas, creating hundreds of operations jobs and thousands of construction jobs in the region.https://www.wsj.com/tech/google-to-build-data-center-in-arkansas-52ff3c01?mod=rss_Technology