A newly earned special power left one contestant with a powerful decision to make in Friday's episode.

Moody’s held the country’s credit rating steady amid political uncertainty and a rise in borrowing costs that have worsened France’s debt situation.

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During a lengthy news conference NASA on Friday provided a detailed overview of how it plans to return astronauts to the lunar surface, as soon as 2028, as part of its Artemis Program.

Although much of the information behind these plans has been previously reported in Ars Technica and elsewhere, this marked the first time NASA has laid them out in detail and acknowledged some substantial changes in the architecture.

Most notably, for SpaceX's Starship vehicle, the revised plan calls for the Orion spacecraft to dock with the Starship lunar lander in high-Earth orbit before transiting to the Moon. And for Blue Origin, the mission architecture includes four launches of the New Glenn rocket, but no spacecraft-to-spacecraft refuelings. Additionally, the Blue Origin plans allows for the possibility of its Blue Moon lander rendezvousing with Orion in low-Lunar orbit.

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Kaylub Giamanco, has been hailed as a hero for killing a teenager who fatally shot three children and a teacher.

Pakistan and Iraq have shut some border crossings, tightening the economic squeeze of the U.S. Navy blockade and air sanctions.

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The Justice Department has opened an inquiry into Mr. Lewandowski. President Trump has not jumped to his defense.

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Two weeks before the midterms, Justice Kagan accuses the Supreme Court of undermining democracy. But how much will gerrymandering help the GOP, and can't voters solve it? Plus, Kansas Sen. Roger Marshall favors a giant Social Security tax increase.

Oscar Belgal, a Dominican immigrant, was shot in the neck on Oct. 8 and detained at a federal prison. His lawyers had said he needed outside medical care.

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Plus, a promising cancer vaccine. Here’s the latest at the end of Friday.

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Xbox's first chief operating officer (COO) is leaving after the new role was created just a few months ago. Helen Chiang is leaving Microsoft today, according to an internal Xbox memo seen by The Verge. Chiang has been at Microsoft for 21 years, serving as the head of Minecraft before being promoted to Xbox chief operating officer in July.

Xbox CEO Asha Sharma announced Chiang's departure in a surprisingly short memo today. "Helen Chiang is leaving Microsoft today. I'm grateful for her years of service and wish her well," said Sharma. As Chiang is departing today, her immediate responsibilities are being split up between other Xbox leaders …

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Kaylub Giamanco told Oregon Public Broadcasting that he happened to be driving by the Silver Rail Elementary School in Bend when he saw a gunman preparing to enter the school.

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The BBC goes on board Travolta’s old Boeing 707 which is being reassembled in a small coastal town.

OpenAI is now training its most advanced AI models without internet access following a string of rogue hacking incidents. In a blog post on Friday, OpenAI says it built an offline testing environment where AI models can interact with indexed and cached web content "without risk of affecting external systems."

OpenAI paused training its frontier AI models in September, after disclosing several incidents in which its AI agents broke out of their testing environments to hack third-party companies and government agencies, or swarm obscure websites. On October 1st, OpenAI resumed reinforcement learning training and internal inference with tighte …

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The ruling, from the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit, sharply curtails the ability of judges to free undocumented immigrants.

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