Christa Pike’s attorneys say she knows what happened after Tennessee’s execution attempt failed a week ago and is feeling both angry and confused.

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Christa Pike’s attorneys, Luke Ihnen and Randy Spivey, discuss a ruling requiring Tennessee to preserve evidence from the failed execution. They also describe Pike’s condition at the hospital and outline how they plan to proceed with her case.

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A judge has ordered that evidence related to Christa Pike’s failed execution be preserved.

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Christa Pike was sentenced to death after being convicted of murdering 19-year-old Colleen Slemmer in 1995.

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A Tennessee judge ruled Wednesday that the state must retain all relevant evidence connected to Christa Pike’s failed execution last week.

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Lawyers said Tuesday that a woman who survived a failed execution at a US prison last week is now conscious and speaking, though her prognosis is unclear. Christa Pike, 50, was given two supposedly lethal doses of pentobarbital at a Tennessee prison a week ago. She was sentenced to death for a murder committed as a teenager.

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OpenAI is rolling out a new user interface that brings interactive visuals to ChatGPT.

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OpenAI is updating ChatGPT for all users with a more visual “Intelligent UI” that generates interactive elements as part of the chatbot’s responses.

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Microsoft plans to sell a new device priced at $2,599 and equipped with an Nvidia AI chip. The product signals that the company remains committed to making its own PCs despite not being among the leading device makers.

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Microsoft subjected Surface devices to repeated button presses, radio-wave exposure, and drop tests in a lab on its Redmond campus. The Surface Laptop Ultra debuts Nvidia’s RTX Spark chip, which Microsoft says is designed for local AI and creative workloads; it starts at $2,599.99.

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Microsoft says its RTX Spark-equipped Surface Laptop Ultra will launch October 16th, starting at $2,599 for an 18-core CPU, 24GB of RAM, and 512GB of storage. The 15-inch HDR touchscreen reaches 2,000 nits of peak brightness; the top configuration costs $5,899.99.

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EU ambassadors have agreed to add more than 1,500 people and organizations to the bloc’s Russia sanctions list. The additions include 743 individuals and 826 organizations that the EU believes support Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, with defense industry entities and their executives and employees among the targets. EU foreign ministers are expected to approve the list on October 12 in Luxembourg.

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The EU is set to add more than 1,600 people and entities to its Russia sanctions, including 77 lawmakers who ran for office in occupied Ukrainian territories. The move comes as hybrid attacks are rising in an unsettling trend.

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EU ambassadors unanimously approved nearly 1,600 sanctions targeting Russia’s military-industrial complex, clearing the way for formal adoption by foreign ministers on Oct. 12. The measures cover shipyards, aviation, electronics, armored-vehicle repair and aerospace companies. The EU plans to shift toward smaller sanctions lists adopted on a rolling basis.

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Trump said the United States does not think the Russian plague death was linked to a biological weapon.

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Justice Minister Sean Fraser said Wednesday that the federal government will introduce legislation this fall to indefinitely extend the ban on medically assisted death for people whose only condition is a mental illness.

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Canada will indefinitely suspend plans to make people whose sole condition is mental illness eligible for medically assisted dying, shelving the expansion planned for March 2027. Justice Minister Sean Fraser cited a lack of consensus on eligibility; the government plans to introduce legislation in the coming weeks.

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Maricarmen, 87, had withstood four eviction attempts over the past decade. In a final message from her hospital bed, she urged protesters to “Fight!”

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Two witnesses told Reuters that Eritrean soldiers drove through Adigrat, a town in northern Ethiopia, on Wednesday. The move came days after the Horn of Africa neighbours severed diplomatic ties, raising fears of an outright conflict.

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Minutes released Wednesday from the Federal Reserve’s latest meeting indicate that most officials believe another interest rate increase will likely be needed this year to combat inflation.

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Russian missiles and drones hit Kyiv and more than a dozen other Ukrainian regions overnight into Wednesday, killing at least 21 civilians, including four children, and wounding about 60, Ukrainian officials said.

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Kyiv’s urban logistics are gradually breaking down because of damaged bridges in the region, a pro-Russian underground source told TASS. The source said full restoration was not yet in sight and conditions would only worsen. Russia’s Defense Ministry previously reported strikes on bridges across the Dnieper, while several major Kyiv bridges were closed and serious congestion followed.

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Residents of Kyiv took refuge in metro stations and prepared to spend the night underground during a Russian missile and drone attack that killed at least eight people.

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Russian missiles and drones struck Kyiv and more than a dozen Ukrainian regions overnight into Wednesday, Ukrainian officials said. At least 12 civilians, including three children, were killed and more than 40 people were wounded in what officials described as Moscow’s latest devastating barrage.

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Russian strikes on Ukraine have killed 11 people, while Kyiv and Moscow exchanged attacks overnight. Images showed the aftermath of a Russian strike on Kyiv.

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At least two people died in a Kyiv fire after what Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky described as “massive strikes” on the capital on Wednesday. Russian attacks have intensified in recent weeks, hitting energy infrastructure as well as rail and road transport.

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Kenya’s first Ebola patient was taken to hospital by relatives soon after landing at Nairobi airport. He was already showing classic symptoms, including fever, chills, muscle pain and bleeding beneath the skin.

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Kenyan officials say 10 people who had contact with a man who died of Ebola in the country have been quarantined, while authorities seek 57 more contacts. The patient travelled through several cities in DR Congo, drove to Uganda and flew to Nairobi without his illness being detected, raising concerns about Kenya’s screening measures.

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After Kenya confirmed its first imported Bundibugyo Ebola case, Africa CDC expressed solidarity and said it would send a high-level multidisciplinary team to support the response. Kenyan authorities identified 28 contacts and are tracing 23 passengers and four crew members who travelled with the patient.

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Meta’s latest Muse iOS update adds native iPad support, making use of the tablet’s larger screen and iPadOS multitasking. The update also adds connections to tools including Canva, Dropbox and Figma, plus features aimed at small-business owners.

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Three years after war began between Israel and Hamas, bombardment has dramatically transformed Gaza, the Palestinian territory. Residents are doing what they can to survive, caught between hope for a better future and resignation.

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Gaza City’s port was once a centre for fishing and tourism before the genocide. Al Jazeera’s Maram Humaid shows what remains there.

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Minutes from the Federal Reserve’s latest policy meeting are expected to reveal a much broader debate over raising interest rates than was apparent from the unanimous decision to hike.

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