Lula and Bolsonaro are stepping up their campaign strategies ahead of the October 25 runoff. On October 7, students supporting Lula held signs in Rio de Janeiro reading, “Brazil doesn’t fit in anyone’s backyard.”

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Donald Trump wants his West Palm Beach golf club to become a permanent presidential retreat. The club’s attorney said in a letter that the proposed deal would also designate it the “permanent United States Presidential Golf Course,” available to “all past, current and future” presidents.

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U.S. President Donald Trump on Wednesday endorsed a proposal to convert part of his golf course in West Palm Beach, Florida, into a presidential retreat modeled on Camp David.

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Microsoft disclosed the specifications and price of its Surface Laptop Ultra, an AI PC powered by Nvidia chips and designed to run AI models and agents.

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Nvidia RTX Spark laptops from Microsoft, Dell, Lenovo, MSI, HP, and Asus start at $2,599. A fully configured Asus ProArt P16 costs up to $6,999.99, and the laptops are set to launch this month, as early as October 16th.

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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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After more than 300 days at sea, service members aboard the USS Abraham Lincoln are due to return home this week.

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Christa Pike, the death-row inmate at the center of a failed execution in Tennessee, woke up and began speaking. Her attorneys explained why the moment shocked them.

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A Nashville judge ordered Tennessee officials to retain evidence from Christa Pike’s failed execution, including drugs, syringes, medical equipment and recordings. Pike’s lawyers argue that the two unsuccessful lethal-injection attempts amounted to unconstitutional cruel punishment.

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Lawyers say Christa Pike is angry and confused after waking in hospital following a failed lethal-injection execution attempt. A judge ordered Tennessee officials to preserve all related evidence. Her attorneys are seeking a sentence commutation and say she should not face another execution attempt.

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Christa Pike regained consciousness and began speaking a week after receiving two doses of execution drugs in Tennessee.

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As Tennessee officials weigh another attempt to execute Christa Pike, legal scholars say a 1947 Supreme Court ruling could play a pivotal role in any legal challenge.

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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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The FBI arrested an 18-year-old accused of planning an attack intended to cause mass casualties at Minnesota’s Mall of America, the U.S. attorney for Minnesota said.

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The Democratic National Committee sued Donald Trump’s administration on Wednesday, alleging that television ads funded by taxpayers promote the president’s political message and amount to illegal government propaganda. The suit seeks to stop federal funding for the ads, whose airtime has cost more than $12 million ahead of November’s midterms, according to AdImpact.

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The Democratic National Committee sued the administration over TV ads supporting Trump that were paid for with taxpayer money. Trump said this week that he and his PAC, MAGA Inc., would pay for the ads after bipartisan criticism.

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The WHO says it cannot fully assess public risks after a laboratory worker in Siberia died in a suspected plague case. Russian authorities say she died of pneumonia of unknown cause and deny any outbreak danger. The agency is seeking transparent information from Moscow and a response to reports of a second employee with pneumonia.

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A senior WHO official said Wednesday the agency does not know how a lab worker in Siberia died. With concerns about pneumonic plague lingering, WHO is urging Russia to provide more information.

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A senior World Health Organization official says the agency does not know how a laboratory employee in Siberia died amid concerns about plague.

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Lithuanian Defense Minister Robertas Kaunas said up to 100 troops would be sent to the border with Russia’s Kaliningrad Region to assist border guards and remain there for several weeks. The deployment follows an Interior Ministry request to strengthen border security and was described as preventive.

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Lithuania’s Interior Ministry plans to send army units to reinforce security along the border with Russia’s Kaliningrad Region. Interior Minister Martynas Katelynas said the border situation is calm and described the move as preventive; he asked Defense Minister Robertas Kaunas to provide forces to assist border guards.

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Ousted Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro and his wife, Cilia Flores, are expected to face new criminal charges in the United States over the alleged torture of Americans held in Venezuela, a US official said Wednesday.

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Several people familiar with the inquiry say new charges are anticipated for Nicolás Maduro, Venezuela's former president, and his wife, Cilia Flores. The allegations concern the torture of Americans detained by the Venezuelan government in recent years.

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