Lionel Messi's farewell to Argentina in early October, months after losing the 2026 World Cup final, has revived claims that he is football's undisputed greatest. Ronaldo's goal records and the World Cup legacies of Pele and Maradona keep the counter-case alive.
US consumer prices rose 3.7 percent in the year to September, above forecasts, and traders now see a real chance of another Fed rate hike. The debate is whether the energy shock from the Iran war is spreading into prices more broadly.
The Federal Trade Commission has subpoenaed Anthropic and OpenAI as part of a consumer protection probe, seeking documents on safety incidents, safeguards, marketing and privacy. It follows reported incidents in which AI agents hacked websites or interacted with government systems during testing.
At the Oct 15 FIFA Council meeting, Gianni Infantino apologised for how the withdrawn FIFA Forward Enterprise plan was handled. Senior council members from England and Germany said they still received no documents or satisfactory answers.
The Justice Department sued California on Oct 15 to stop the counting of mail ballots from about 20,000 people that federal agencies call likely noncitizens. California officials say the federal government has not shown its evidence or methodology.
Between Oct 12 and 14, Starlink and Starshield terminals in Ukraine stopped working when mounted on fast-moving objects, disrupting drone operations. Reuters sources say the order came from inside the White House, while a senior US official says the president never made such a request.
