Boston opens at Detroit on Tuesday at 3:00 p.m. ET on NBC and Peacock, with Jayson Tatum expected to play after missing most of last season with a torn Achilles.
Police took a man into custody after shots were fired outside the Kluczynski Federal Building in the Loop early Tuesday. No one was injured, Homeland Security said, and the nearby Dirksen Courthouse stayed open.
The Columbia University graduate, a green card holder detained last year over his pro-Palestinian activism, wants the justices to overturn an appeals court ruling that could lead to his re-arrest and deportation.
A little over 104,600 people voted in person in Harris County on Monday and 76,079 voted in Dallas County. Both totals set first day records as early voting for the Nov. 3 midterms began across Texas.
The League of Women Voters, EPIC and LULAC say Homeland Security collected sensitive voter records from at least 47 states, mixed them with commercial data and moved them toward an immigration enforcement system. They want a federal judge to stop the effort and order the data deleted.
Traffic police counted 576,578 people leaving in 79,676 vehicles since Ghatasthapana, with 348,823 men and 227,755 women among them, as of Tuesday, Oct. 20, 2026.
The State Department moved Kenya from Level 2 to Level 3 on Oct. 19, citing health risks as Kenya confirmed an eighth Ebola case and traced 130 contacts.
A truck collided with a tour bus on the Cairo-Asyut Western Desert Road in Giza on Tuesday, killing at least 13 people and injuring 37 others, health officials said. Rescue crews cleared the wreckage as the toll rose through the day.
Secretary of State Marco Rubio landed in Mumbai on Tuesday for talks with External Affairs Minister S. Jaishankar, days after President Trump delayed tariffs on Indian goods and with a trade deal described as almost complete.
FINMA cleared the first Swiss retail fund that invests directly in Bitcoin, with a waiver from diversification rules and strict warnings that investors can still lose a lot of money.
Contracts to buy previously owned homes dropped to an index of 66.0, the lowest since the series began in 2001, as the 30-year mortgage rate hit 7.40 percent.
Builders broke ground at a 1.221 million annual pace in September, well below the 1.3 million forecast, in a third straight monthly fall as high mortgage rates kept buyers on the sidelines.
Earnings of $2.50 a share topped forecasts and guidance rose to $9.10 to $9.15, while a wider Amazon partnership for data center optics gave the stock its real push.
A power problem in Google's London cloud region disrupted card payments, banking apps and court video hearings across the UK on Tuesday morning, and Google said full service had been restored by early afternoon.
A Homeland Security order published in the Federal Register on Tuesday bars civilian agencies from buying DeepSeek products and requires them to remove the Chinese AI tools, and any third party tools built on them, from their systems.
The uncrewed MMX spacecraft lifted off from Tanegashima before dawn on Tuesday, bound for Phobos. It aims to collect at least 10 grams of material and return it to Earth in 2031, a first for the Mars system.
Apple will hold a Pro and tell event in Los Angeles on October 28. Reporting points to the first touchscreen MacBook Pro, a revamped iPad mini and a new iMac.
Boston opens at Detroit on Tuesday at 3:00 p.m. ET on NBC and Peacock, with Jayson Tatum expected to play after missing most of last season with a torn Achilles.
The three services will leave television and radio schedules in spring 2027 and move online, as the BBC chases 500 million pounds in savings by 2028 and cuts just over 100 jobs at BBC News.
Vijayadashami falls on Tuesday, October 20 for most of India, with Bijoya Dashami on October 21 in the east. Delhi Vijay Muhurat runs 1:59 p.m. to 2:45 p.m. IST.
COTA and Tecovas built a to-scale Cattleman hat for the US Grand Prix. Guinness certified it on October 19.
Rockstar's 90 second GTA 6 launch trailer, released on October 15 and filmed in game on a PlayStation 5, passed 24.8 million views by Friday morning and still tops YouTube trending lists. The game launches November 19 at $79.99, with no PC version announced.
Brain scans find no idle 90 percent, damage to any small area costs real function, and an organ using 20 percent of your energy was never built to idle. The myth is false.
Menthol does not cool your mouth at all. It opens the TRPM8 cold sensor in your nerves, and your brain files a false weather report.
The axolotl rebuilds whole limbs with no scar. It can also regrow parts of its heart, spinal cord and brain, and scientists are reading its genome to learn how.
Methuselah, a bristlecone pine in California, sprouted around 2833 BCE. It was already centuries old when the Great Pyramid went up, and its exact spot is a secret.
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