French Prime Minister Vows to Let Parliament Decide on Budget Bill

Prime Minister Sébastien Lecornu ruled out using a constitutional tool that would avoid a full parliamentary vote, hoping for compromise among divided lawmakers.

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Finland Court Dismisses Case About Cutting Cables in Baltic Sea

A judge ruled that Finland did not have jurisdiction to prosecute a case against a ship believed to be a part of Russia’s “shadow fleet.”

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Two Comets Are Moving Into Your Night Skies in October: How to Watch

The comets A6 (Lemmon) and R2 (SWAN) are visitors from the chilly fringes of our solar system, and could even be visible at the same time.

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Sora and the Infinite Slop Feeds + ChatGPT Goes to Therapy + Hot Mess Express

“I do not like the idea of pointing these giant A.I. supercomputers at people’s dopamine receptors and just feeding them an endless diet of hyper-personalized stimulating videos.”

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‘S.N.L.’ Season 51: What to Know Before the Premiere

“Saturday Night Live” is back this weekend with several new cast members. It’s facing a particularly fraught climate for political jokes on TV.

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OpenAI’s Sora Makes Disinformation Extremely Easy and Extremely Real

The new A.I. app generated videos of store robberies and home intrusions — even bomb explosions on city streets — that never happened.

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Baltimore’s Billion-Dollar Plans to Reinvent Itself

The city’s population is growing, and homicide rates are at a 50-year low. Local officials are trying to seize on the momentum with redevelopment projects — but not without pushback.

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Jobs Report Withheld by Shutdown Leaves Economists Guessing

Policymakers will enter uncharted territory without employment data that the government is expected to withhold because of its shutdown.

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Government Shutdown Leaves Wall Street Without Jobs Data

Investors are grappling with a blackout of official government economic data that’s forcing them to rely more heavily on reports that usually get far less attention.

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Inside the Battle Over a Mosque’s Expansion in New York

A reporter explored the ongoing tussle between a mosque and residents of a town on Long Island.

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