Associated Press

U.S. center / wire-service news (generally mainstream, center-left in critics' ratings)

Stories

• 2 China's September Exports Rise 36.3% From a Year Earlier; Monthly Trade Surplus Reaches $133.5 Billion
• 3 BLS Publishes September CPI Report Oct. 14; Economists Had Forecast 3.6% to 3.7% Annual Inflation, Up From 3.4% in August
• 4 Supreme Court Agrees to Hear Trump Administration's Appeal in CREW's Lawsuit Seeking DOGE Records
• 3 South Korea's Kospi Closes Down 5.46% After Falling as Much as 7.4%, Led by SK Hynix and Samsung; Micron Fell 3.9% in U.S. Trading the Day Before
• 4 Trump Campaigns for Husted and Ramaswamy in Youngstown, Calls Sherrod Brown the Candidate of 'Marxists' and Says 'Somalia Bandits' Do Not Belong in Ohio
• 3 North Korea Fires Multiple Ballistic Missiles, One Flying More Than 900 km, Four Days After South Korea's First Hypersonic Test
• 2 Stein Signs House Bill 3, Suspending North Carolina's 41-Cent Gas Tax From Oct. 10 Through Nov. 30
• 2 S&P 500 Rises 0.6% to 7,811.54 Friday and 1.15% for the Week; Brent Settles at $104.72 as Hurricane Isaias Shuts 71.5% of U.S. Gulf Oil Output
• 2 Israel Marks Three Years Since Oct. 7 Attack as Gaza Truce Stalls Over Hamas Disarmament and Israeli Withdrawal
• 4 Trump Says 70 Million Children Now Have Trump Accounts After Treasury Auto-Enrolled More Than 60 Million
• 2 Tillis Memoir 'How to Lose Friends and Antagonize Presidents' Goes On Sale; He Calls His Hegseth Vote His 'Biggest Regret'
• 2 Siberian Plague-Institute Technician Dies; Russia Cites 'Pneumonia of Unknown Cause' as About 200 Contacts Are Isolated
• 2 Thousands of Imran Khan Supporters March Toward Islamabad After Talks Collapse; Capital Under Section 144 as PTI Says About 2,000 Detained
• 3 GOP Super PAC Drops Its Remaining North Carolina Senate Ads After Spending More Than $30 Million for Whatley, Starts a Kansas Buy
• 3 Ukraine Says It Downed 131 of 157 Russian Drones Overnight as Strike Hits Kyiv's Northern Bridge