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1. Article · Oct 1, 2026

   Iran indicates it received a US response on its war-ending proposal, with details still unclear (opens the original)

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   Iranian officials indicated they received an official U.S. response to Tehran’s proposal to end the seven-month war but did not say if it was a rejection. U.S. President Donald Trump publicly dismissed the plan a few days ago. The response came as oil and fuel exports neared prewar levels with alternate routes. On an Israel-bound FlyDubai flight from Dubai on Wednesday, a copilot stabbed the pilot and then apparently tried to crash the jetliner carrying around 170 people, Israeli Prime Ministe

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2. Article · Sep 30, 2026 · SOPHIE AUSTIN - Associated Press

   California Gov. Gavin Newsom signs laws to protect workers from AI risks (opens the original)

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   SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — California Gov. Gavin Newsom signed laws Wednesday aimed at protecting workers from the threats of artificial intelligence, including potential job losses and workplace surveillance. The laws ban employers from using the technology to predict a worker's emotional state by using their biometric data, require employers to send written notices to workers if AI is responsible for mass layoffs and ban employers from relying on AI to decide to fire someone. The Democratic g

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3. Article · Sep 30, 2026 · WYATTE GRANTHAM-PHILIPS - AP Business Writer

   Judge approves Paramount's settlement with states over Warner buyout, allowing merger to soon close (opens the original)

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   CHICAGO (AP) — A federal judge has granted Paramount’s settlement agreement with 12 states that sued over the company’s takeover of Warner Bros. Discovery, allowing the companies to soon close their $81 billion mega merger. In a Wednesday order, U.S. District Judge Araceli Martínez-Olguín ruled that the proposed consent decree was a “fair, reasonable, and good faith approach to address the competitive harms” alleged by the states' lawsuit. Paramount, which was bought by Skydance just

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4. Article · Sep 30, 2026 · THOMAS ADAMSON - AP Fashion Writer

   Jennifer Lopez in the rain, dolphins on T-shirts: Stella McCartney declares war on seafood in Paris (opens the original)

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   PARIS (AP) — Stella McCartney declared war on the fishing industry at Paris Fashion Week on Wednesday, 25 years into a label that has never used leather, fur or feathers — on a rain-soaked runway in the British ambassador's gardens, with Jennifer Lopez under an umbrella in the front row. Her case began with vocabulary: the same animals are “sea life” when people marvel at them and “seafood” when they order. “Who makes that decision?” she said backstage. Of the industry that stock

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5. Article · Sep 30, 2026 · PAOLO SANTALUCIA - Associated Press

   Hulk star Lou Ferrigno fulfills childhood dream meeting with Pope Leo XIV (opens the original)

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   VATICAN CITY (AP) — The Incredible Hulk fulfilled a childhood dream by meeting with Pope Leo XIV on Wednesday. Lou Ferrigno, who starred as the Marvel character during its 1977–1982 U.S. television run, met with the American pope and chatted briefly with him at the end of Leo's general audience in St. Peter’s Square. “I’m here because it’s a lifelong dream for me to meet the pope,” Ferrigno told reporters. Noting that one side of his family hails from the southern Amalfi region, Fe

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