What changed the week of Oct 5

001 RULES U.S. FBI counterintelligence squads hit with deep cuts as espionage threats grow SOURCED 002 RULES U.S. Judge overturns DOE clean energy grant cancellations tied to states' votes SOURCED 003 RULES U.S. Justice Department civil rights division shifts mission, loses most lawyers SOURCED 004 RULES U.S. Justice Department opens antitrust probe into TV networks' White House coverage halt SOURCED 005 RULES U.S. Third-country deportations strand migrants in African nations SOURCED 006 RULES U.S. Trump lifts Russian diesel sanctions in deal with Putin SOURCED 007 RULES U.S. Trump orders diesel fuel tax deferral, allows dyed diesel on highways SOURCED 008 RULES U.S. Trump’s 2025 fuel economy reset reignites the U.S. auto emissions battle SOURCED 009 RULES WORLD Apple's macOS dropped from official Unix registry SOURCED 010 RULES WORLD Arizona court vacates sentence over AI video of dead victim SOURCED 011 RULES WORLD Brazil heads to runoff between Lula and Flávio Bolsonaro SOURCED 012 RULES WORLD FTC settles with Premier Martial Arts franchisor over deceptive franchise sales SOURCED 013 RULES WORLD India's tiger, lion and rhino populations grow as global wildlife falls SOURCED 014 RULES WORLD Mexico's quiet transformation: 13.4 million people exit poverty in six years SOURCED 015 RULES WORLD NYC congestion pricing cut fine particle pollution in Manhattan toll zone by 13% in first year SOURCED 016 RULES WORLD Nobel Peace Prize awarded to Navi Pillay for international law work SOURCED 017 RULES WORLD Sánchez calls snap election in Spain after parliament rejects housing measures SOURCED 018 RULES WORLD Trump names Katie Zacharia as White House press secretary SOURCED 019 RULES WORLD UK brings first charges over 1994 Rwanda genocide SOURCED 020 RULES WORLD World reaches 10% ocean protection milestone SOURCED 021 NEW U.S. Brazzein sweetener halves ice cream's blood sugar spike in fatty liver trial SOURCED 022 NEW U.S. Scientists watch a lithium battery's cathode turn brittle in real time SOURCED 023 NEW WORLD Bacteria use a virus's own enzyme as an immune alarm SOURCED 024 NEW WORLD Bogong moth swarms return to southeast Australia after 99.5% population collapse SOURCED 025 NEW WORLD Canadian telescope detects 9-billion-year-old hydrogen signal on its own SOURCED 026 NEW WORLD Chernobyl fuel particles remain stable 40 years after disaster SOURCED 027 NEW WORLD Claude AI discovers CRISPR-like enzyme system in phage DNA SOURCED 028 NEW WORLD First thorium nuclear clocks begin ticking in Vienna and Beijing SOURCED 029 NEW WORLD Francis Halzen wins 2026 Nobel Prize in Physics for IceCube neutrino discoveries SOURCED 030 NEW WORLD Giant tortoises now outnumber people in the Seychelles SOURCED 031 NEW WORLD Iranian operatives used ChatGPT to plant AI-written articles in U.S. outlets SOURCED 032 NEW WORLD Logarithms of rational numbers proven to have irrationality measure 2 SOURCED 033 NEW WORLD NASA selects GIMLI mission to explore Moon's Marius Hills Pit for lava tube SOURCED 034 NEW WORLD Nobel Prize in medicine honors optogenetics pioneers SOURCED 035 NEW WORLD Physicists find evidence of altermagnetism, a third type of magnetism SOURCED 036 NEW WORLD Pre-surgery immunotherapy kept bowel cancer patients cancer-free for nearly three years SOURCED 037 NEW WORLD Researchers find hidden in-between materials that could improve batteries and solar fuels SOURCED 038 NEW WORLD Scientists find hidden waste-drainage system at the back of the eye SOURCED 039 NEW WORLD Seed-sized injectable device wirelessly stimulates nerves for chronic pain SOURCED 040 NEW WORLD Telegram Desktop flaw let one crafted link take over an account SOURCED 041 NEW WORLD US five-year cancer survival reaches record 71 percent SOURCED 042 MONEY U.S. Federal budget deficit hits $2 trillion, largest since COVID SOURCED 043 MONEY U.S. Paramount Skydance’s $108 billion hostile bid ignites a fight for Warner Bros. Discovery SOURCED 044 MONEY WORLD Qualcomm to pay Huawei in first 5G patent cross-licensing deal SOURCED 045 MONEY WORLD SpaceX turns its Colossus data centers into an AI compute-rental business SOURCED 046 BUILT WORLD Blattner starts work on $1.5B solar project on Missouri strip mine land SOURCED 047 BUILT WORLD Finland orders Google to halt data center work after forest clearing SOURCED 048 BUILT WORLD Magnitude 7.7 earthquake strikes offshore southern Panama SOURCED 049 BUILT WORLD Teebar battery project moves to construction in Queensland SOURCED 050 BUILT WORLD US diesel prices hit record high as conflicts squeeze global supply SOURCED 051 FORCE U.S. Fort Hood shooter set for firing squad execution, a first since World War II SOURCED 052 FORCE U.S. Hurricane Isaias nears Gulf Coast landfall with surge and wind warnings in effect SOURCED 053 FORCE WORLD DR Congo's deadliest Ebola outbreak as conflict hampers containment SOURCED 054 FORCE WORLD Deadly Russian glide bomb attack hits Zaporizhzhia residential area SOURCED 055 FORCE WORLD Deadly air strike on Sudan-Egypt border gold mine SOURCED 056 FORCE WORLD Denmark data breach exposes personal data of millions of citizens SOURCED 057 FORCE WORLD Drone warfare transforms Sudan's civil war into a daily toll on civilians SOURCED 058 FORCE WORLD Eritrea severs diplomatic ties with Ethiopia amid Tigray fighting SOURCED 059 FORCE WORLD Federal forces push toward Mekelle as renewed Tigray fighting kills civilians SOURCED 060 FORCE WORLD Former German spy chief arrested on suspicion of treasonous espionage SOURCED 061 FORCE WORLD Houthis strike Saudi Aramco's Jazan refinery, reopening a front held quiet since 2022 SOURCED 062 FORCE WORLD Migrant boat capsizes off Djibouti in deadliest recorded shipwreck on the route SOURCED 063 FORCE WORLD Russian strike on buses in Kramatorsk kills dozens SOURCED 064 FORCE WORLD Yemen's Saudi-backed government launches offensive to retake Houthi-held territory SOURCED