The Cost of Halloween Candy Has Soared 71% in 5 Years – Consider These Economic Trade-Offs
Deceive or cheat. As 74% of Americans prepare for a spooky season, new research warns Halloween candy shoppers to prepare for another scare: horribly high prices. A recent Finance Buzz study found that the cost of filling the candy bowl has soared 71%…
OpenAI bans Russian, Iranian accounts over influence efforts: NPR
OpenAI claims that Russian agents used its AI chatbot to brief their bosses, highlighting influence campaigns that were previously not attributed to Russia. Jeff Chiu/AP hide caption toggle caption I Jeff Chiu/AP OpenAI said in a blog post on Thursday…
Private school involved in Allegheny County’s second measles case
A child who attends a private Christian school in North Hills has been infected with measles, the second confirmed case in Allegheny County. Pennsylvania is facing the nation’s largest measles outbreak, with more than 1,000 cases and five deaths…
Live updates as Sixers visit Nets for second preseason game – NBC Sports Philadelphia
NEW YORK – LeBron James is truly hitting the ground running as a Philadelphia 76er. James made his preseason debut with the Sixers on Thursday night at Barclays Center and played a strong first half in the team’s 114-108 loss to the Nets. The…
Supreme Court again sides with Trump in campaign ad dispute
October 8, 2026, 3:28 p.m. ET WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court has for the second time sided with the Trump administration in a dispute over radio and television advertising rates that could help the Republican Party maintain control of Congress in the…
Vance, Rubio brush off questions about claim Guilfoyle asked donor to pay $100,000 Amex bill
Vice President JD Vance and Secretary of State Marco Rubio declined Thursday to condemn U.S. Ambassador to Greece Kimberly Guilfoyle over allegations that she asked a Trump donor to pay her $100,000 credit card bill as she prepared for her Senate…
President Trump awards Big Tech donors the nation’s highest science awards
On Thursday, at the Summit on the Golden Age of American Innovation, President Trump awarded AMD’s Elon Musk, Jensen Huang, Sergey Brin and Lisa Su the National Medal of Science, the nation’s highest science award. Michael Dell of Dell…
The National Hurricane Center’s big bet on AI
As soon as Hurricane Isaias formed, meteorologists at the National Hurricane Center took a big gamble. They shaped their forecasts to closely match an AI hurricane model developed by Google DeepMind, rather than relying on the classic physics-based…
Tony Romo was disqualified from a golf tournament the same day CBS announced his exit.
Last Friday was a very strange day for Tony Romo. It all started when CBS and Romo announced he had parted ways with the network where he had been the NFL’s top game analyst. It ended with Romo being disqualified from a golf tournament for…
Hands-on: Xbox’s All-New PC App Delivers BIG Performance Improvements
Surprise! Here’s a quick look at Xbox’s new PC app, potentially available to Xbox Insiders before the end of the year. Over the summer, Microsoft began testing a new Xbox Cloud Gaming interface called Bastion, which aimed to bring the user…