The article recommends reviewing a financial plan at least once a year, while treating that schedule as a baseline rather than a reason to wait after major changes. Reviews should cover spending, savings, debt, investments, insurance, beneficiaries, estate documents and taxes.
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An annual review can help keep a plan aligned with current income, expenses, goals and financial circumstances.
People should check whether their emergency fund still covers several months of current expenses.
Paying off debt may free money for other goals, while rising or high-rate balances may call for a revised repayment strategy.
A review can assess whether retirement contributions and investment risk still match a person's goals.
Beneficiary designations, insurance coverage, estate-planning documents and tax strategies can become outdated.
Major changes in income or employment, including a raise, job loss, career change or move to self-employment, can warrant an earlier review.
A New York Life 2026 Wealth Watch Midyear Outlook survey found that 56% of Americans had updated their retirement strategy and 37% planned to change their investment portfolio or strategy that year.
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U.S. Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said Arabs do not produce science, win major prizes or produce literature at a campaign event in Michigan. The article describes the remarks as factually inaccurate and lists Arab scholars’ contributions to mathematics, medicine, optics, geography and literature across several centuries.
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Kennedy made the remarks at an event supporting Republican Senate nominee Mike Rogers in Grand Rapids, Michigan.
Rogers was running against Arab American Democrat Abdul El-Sayed for Michigan’s Senate seat, according to the article.
The article says Arabic was a major language of science and scholarship during the Islamic Golden Age, which it dates from about 750 to 1258.
It credits mathematician al-Khwarizmi with treating algebra as a separate discipline in a work called Al-Jabr.
It says Ibn al-Haytham explained the role of light in human vision and is known for work in optics.
The article credits surgeon al-Zahrawi with writing a medical encyclopedia and designing surgical instruments.
It says Ibn al-Nafis described pulmonary circulation, the movement of blood through the lungs.
The article also highlights poet al-Mutanabbi and geographer al-Idrisi, known for a detailed medieval world map.
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President Donald Trump said he will respect the results of the November 3 midterm elections if he considers them honest. The elections will determine which party controls Congress, and a Democratic victory could limit Trump’s power.
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Trump made his commitment conditional on the elections being “honest.”
The midterm elections are scheduled for November 3.
The elections will determine which party controls Congress.
A Democratic victory could limit Trump’s power.
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The article examines how military reliance on satellite communications, cloud services, battlefield software and artificial intelligence can give technology companies an ongoing role in military operations. It uses Ukraine’s dependence on Starlink as an example and reports that Elon Musk acknowledged restricting Ukraine’s use of the service, saying Kyiv had violated its terms.
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The article says modern militaries rely on satellite communications, cloud infrastructure, battlefield software and artificial intelligence.
Unlike equipment that is delivered to a military, some digital services require companies to remain involved in their operation.
The article reports that Ukraine relies on SpaceX’s Starlink service.
Elon Musk acknowledged restricting Ukraine’s use of Starlink and argued that Kyiv had violated the service’s terms.
The article says Ukraine had used Starlink for four and a half years without issue before the restriction it describes.
Poland pays tens of millions of dollars annually for Starlink service used by Ukraine, according to the article.
Sharon Weinberger, editor-in-chief of the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, said traditional defense contractors have behavioral guardrails that differ from the role of technology firms running ongoing services.
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President Donald Trump is campaigning in Republican-leaning states to help protect GOP majorities in Congress ahead of the midterm elections. His schedule includes two rallies in Texas on Tuesday, while polls and close races in Texas and Kansas point to challenges for some Republican candidates.
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Since Sept. 9, Trump has made 19 campaign stops in states he won handily and six in battleground states, according to ABC News tracking.
Trump is scheduled to hold two rallies in Texas on Tuesday, his fourth campaign-season trip to the state.
Trump and Vice President JD Vance will have visited Texas eight times since Labor Day weekend after their upcoming trips.
An early October ReconMR poll found Texas state Rep. James Talarico with 48% support and Attorney General Ken Paxton with 44% among likely Texas voters; the results were within the poll's margin of error.
Trump campaigned in Mississippi on Monday for Republican Sen. Cindy Hyde-Smith, who is facing Democrat Scott Colom.
Trump campaigned in Kansas for Republican Sen. Roger Marshall, whose race against Democrat Adam Hamilton is rated a toss-up by ABC News.
A September New York Times/Siena University poll found Hamilton and Marshall tied among likely Kansas voters.
An ABC News/Washington Post/Ipsos poll put Trump's approval rating at 33% and found about seven in 10 Americans said gas was unaffordable and the country was headed in the wrong direction.
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A court in Warwick heard that 13-month-old Isabella Stasiak suffered physical and sexual abuse before she died in January 2025. Her mother, Kinga Wydrzynska, and father, Michal Stasiak, deny the charges against them; the trial is continuing.
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Isabella died in hospital after suffering a fractured skull and ribs, a broken arm and burns to her face, the court heard.
Prosecutors say Isabella died from a forceful impact to her head against a hard surface.
Wydrzynska is charged with murder; both parents face charges including causing or allowing a child’s death, serious harm, sexual assault and cruelty.
The parents pleaded not guilty to 11 counts related to Isabella’s death.
The court heard Isabella was taken into social services’ care at birth and returned to her parents in April 2024.
Police arrested Stasiak for common assault in December 2024 after a report by Wydrzynska; he was bailed with conditions barring him from the home and from contacting her.
Police visited the family home in October 2024 after a neighbour’s complaint and reported no immediate safeguarding concerns.
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An inquiry found that 33 detainees who died in custody in Minna, Nigeria, on 17 September suffered acute respiratory failure linked to overcrowding, heat stress and dehydration. It said officers failed to respond to pleas for help and that the deaths were preventable; evidence did not support claims of a disease outbreak.
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The detainees were held on suspicion of illegal mining, but the inquiry found the mining sites were licensed.
Fifty people were held in a cell of about 20 square metres with no running water or working toilet and inadequate food, water and ventilation.
Adults and minors were held together, and some detainees were kept beyond lawful detention periods.
The raid took place without an approved operational order, proper planning or consultation with the Mining Marshals Unit.
The inquiry said officers heard detainees calling and pleading for water but did not respond.
Interior Minister Olubunmi Tunji-Ojo said implicated officers would face suspension and that the report would go to the attorney general for further legal action.
The committee recommended compensation of 30 million naira for each bereaved family and 10 million naira for each survivor.
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The Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee is promoting ads that criticize Republican candidates on artificial intelligence and data centers in dozens of key House races. The article says technology issues are taking on greater significance in the midterm elections.
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The Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, or DCCC, is pushing for the advertising campaign.
The ads target Republican candidates over their records on artificial intelligence and data centers.
The effort covers dozens of key House races.
The article says technology-related issues are gaining significance in the midterm elections.
The Hill first received a report from the Tech Oversight Project on the subject.
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In a France 24 interview about Israel’s election, Palestinian Israeli activist Ibrahim Abu Ahmad said public sentiment is shaped by fear and trauma. He said many people support an Arab-Jewish coalition, while political leaders are afraid to openly back one, and described such a partnership as important to democracy.
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Ibrahim Abu Ahmad appeared in an interview hosted by Erin Ogunkeye.
Abu Ahmad is described as a Palestinian Israeli political and peace activist.
He heads social media for Israel’s left-wing Democrats.
Abu Ahmad said fear and trauma shape the current mood in Israel.
He said many people want an Arab-Jewish coalition.
He said political leaders are afraid to express support for such a coalition.
Abu Ahmad framed Arab-Jewish partnership as a matter of democratic survival.
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Serbia’s Student List won a clear majority of parliamentary seats, and President Aleksandar Vucic conceded defeat. The list grew out of a student-led protest movement that used university assemblies to choose candidates and organize opposition to alleged corruption after a railway-station canopy collapse killed 16 people in Novi Sad.
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A canopy at a renovated railway station in Novi Sad collapsed nearly two years ago, killing 16 people.
The collapse fueled student-led anti-corruption protests across Serbia.
Student assemblies, known as plenums, formed at universities occupied by demonstrators.
The assemblies used collective debate and majority votes to choose candidates for the Student List.
The Student List won the popular vote and a clear majority of parliamentary seats, according to the article.
Aleksandar Vucic conceded defeat in Sunday’s parliamentary election.
The Student List is not a traditional opposition party.
The assemblies now face decisions about who will become prime minister and lead government ministries.
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Kalshi is adding protections for users aged 18 to 20. The measures include a $2,500 monthly deposit limit and automatic placement in special accounts with extra safeguards.
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Kalshi announced the changes in a press release Tuesday.
Users aged 18 to 20 will have a monthly deposit limit of $2,500.
Kalshi will automatically place users in this age group into special accounts.
The special accounts will include extra protections.
The article does not specify what other safeguards the accounts will include.
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Utah authorities say DNA evidence links Ted Bundy to the 1974 killing of 17-year-old Melissa Ann Smith. Investigators had treated Smith’s death as a cold case for more than 50 years; Bundy died in 1989.
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Authorities said they are satisfied Bundy killed Melissa Ann Smith.
Smith was 17 and disappeared in Utah in October 1974.
Deer hunters later found Smith’s bludgeoned body.
Bundy was executed in Florida in 1989 for the murders of two women at Florida State University’s Chi Omega sorority house.
A vial of Bundy’s blood, drawn in 1978, was found in Florida in 2011.
Investigators entered Bundy’s DNA profile into the FBI’s national database.
Utah authorities said in April that Bundy was responsible for the 1974 murder of 17-year-old Laura Ann Aime.
Authorities have linked at least 30 women’s and girls’ deaths to Bundy.
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The Supreme Court on Tuesday declined to unfreeze a Biden-era policy that let immigration judges temporarily pause deportation proceedings. The policy, known as administrative closure, gave judges discretion to pause cases while migrants sought humanitarian protections or other legal status in the United States.
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The Supreme Court declined to restore the policy on October 27, 2026.
The policy was adopted during the Biden administration.
The policy was known as administrative closure.
It allowed immigration judges to temporarily pause deportation proceedings.
Judges could use their discretion to decide whether to pause a case.
Migrants could seek humanitarian protections or other legal status while proceedings were paused.
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A new NPR/PBS News/Marist poll found that 40% of Americans said their personal family finances had worsened over the past 12 months. Another 16% said their finances had improved.
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The poll asked about changes in personal family finances over the previous 12 months.
Forty percent said their finances had declined.
Sixteen percent said their finances had improved.
The poll was released shortly before November’s midterm elections.
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Researchers based in China developed Pinal, a protein-design tool that turns natural-language descriptions of desired functions into protein designs. The tool uses a two-step process, and its success rate for producing working proteins may be low; Hugging Face also announced a tool for DNA design using similar prompts.
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Many protein-design tools require users to specify technical details about amino acids and their positions.
Pinal was developed by a large collaboration of researchers based in China.
Pinal uses protein databases that link sequences to descriptions of their functions.
Pinal’s T2struct module translates a natural-language prompt into a structural blueprint.
Pinal builds a protein backbone and then selects amino acids to fill it in.
The article says users may need laboratory testing to identify successful designs among many failures.
Hugging Face announced that it is hosting a tool for DNA design that works in a similar way.
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Nicki Minaj appeared with Donald Trump at a Michigan rally on October 25 and urged support for Republican candidates ahead of the November 3 midterm elections. She has said she was finalizing citizenship paperwork, but has not publicly confirmed becoming a U.S. citizen; her voting eligibility therefore remains unclear.
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Minaj was born in Saint James, Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago, and moved to the United States as a young child.
In a 2024 livestream, Minaj said, “I'm not a citizen of America.”
Minaj said in January 2026 that she was finalizing citizenship paperwork.
A White House spokesperson described the Trump Gold Card Minaj received as a memento, not a visa document.
Published accounts say Minaj has lawful permanent resident status.
Federal elections are limited to U.S. citizens, so permanent residency alone does not qualify someone to vote in them.
At the October 25 Michigan rally, Minaj praised Trump and said she would continue supporting him.
Speculation that Minaj might become White House press secretary followed a joking exchange aboard Air Force One; no appointment was announced.
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A viral grocery-store ad endorsing Michigan Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed was first made for Cenk Uygur’s 2024 presidential campaign, according to the article. El-Sayed’s campaign said it had no connection to the ad, which criticizes U.S. aid to Israel and attacks Republican candidate Mike Rogers.
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Uygur, host of The Young Turks, shared the ad over the weekend; it had about 6.5 million views as of Tuesday.
Uygur said Rebellion PAC, a political action committee he co-founded, created the ad.
The grocery-store scene also appeared in an ad for Uygur’s unsuccessful 2024 Democratic presidential campaign.
The ad’s dialogue refers to $4 billion in annual U.S. aid to Israel and an additional $26 billion.
The article says the $26 billion figure matches a supplemental spending package enacted in April 2024; that package also included $9.15 billion for humanitarian assistance, including aid for Gaza.
An El-Sayed campaign spokesperson said the ad was not affiliated with the campaign and said El-Sayed has repeatedly condemned anti-Semitism.
A spokesperson for Rogers accused El-Sayed allies of spreading anti-Israel hate and said Rogers represents every Michigander.
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Democratic lawmakers called on Venezuela’s government to hold elections after opposition leader María Corina Machado returned to the country. Sen. Jeanne Shaheen described Machado’s return as “welcome news.”
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María Corina Machado recently returned to Venezuela after nearly a year in exile.
Democratic lawmakers urged the Venezuelan government to hold elections.
Sen. Jeanne Shaheen of New Hampshire is the top Democrat on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee.
Shaheen called Machado’s return “welcome news” in a statement shared on X Monday.
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The article says the 2026 midterm election’s final votes will be cast in seven days. It notes that tens of millions of people have already voted and says Democrats need to flip four Republican-held Senate seats; the provided excerpt does not include polling-place closing times or result estimates.
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The article says the final votes in the 2026 midterms will be cast in seven days.
Tens of millions of voters have already cast ballots, according to the article.
Voters are casting ballots in Senate races.
Voters are casting ballots in House races.
The elections also include governor and state legislature races.
The article says Democrats need to flip four Republican-held Senate seats.
The provided excerpt does not state when polls close or when results are expected.
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