What changed the week of Oct 26

001 RULES U.S. HHS will let compounding pharmacies make six unapproved peptides SOURCED 002 RULES U.S. Immigrants remain stuck abroad months after court strikes down visa ban SOURCED 003 RULES U.S. Judge opens ethics inquiry into Justice Department's East Potomac golf course statements SOURCED 004 RULES U.S. Judge rejects Justice Department bid to block Alaska Senate certification SOURCED 005 RULES U.S. Justice Department sues California over alleged noncitizen mail-in ballots SOURCED 006 RULES U.S. Trump administration moves to terminate Biden-era methane emissions rules SOURCED 007 RULES WORLD Brazil heads to runoff between Lula and Flávio Bolsonaro SOURCED 008 RULES WORLD China now supports more elderly than children for the first time SOURCED 009 RULES WORLD China's Communist Party expels 33 officials at fifth plenum SOURCED 010 RULES WORLD Countries agree nature action plan as biodiversity finance dispute persists SOURCED 011 RULES WORLD Denmark abandons mink farming, reversing EU exemption plan SOURCED 012 RULES WORLD Federal fight for state voter rolls SOURCED 013 RULES WORLD France fines Fnac Darty for tracking app users who declined SOURCED 014 RULES WORLD French Assembly backs per-gigabyte tax on streaming and cloud traffic SOURCED 015 RULES WORLD Iraq scraps customs duties on imported solar systems SOURCED 016 RULES WORLD Moscow to host 2030 weightlifting worlds, first Olympic sport to return to Russia since 2022 SOURCED 017 RULES WORLD National bodies reject C++26 draft in first failed ballot SOURCED 018 RULES WORLD New York state police to investigate all Cornell sexual assault complaints SOURCED 019 RULES WORLD Pakistan anti-terrorism court jails human rights lawyer couple SOURCED 020 RULES WORLD Serbia's Vučić resigns as president to run for prime minister SOURCED 021 RULES WORLD UK approves North Sea Jackdaw gas field after emissions review SOURCED 022 RULES WORLD UK to charge universities for each international student from 2028 SOURCED 023 RULES WORLD Uganda orders 21-day Ebola quarantine for citizens returning from Congo SOURCED 024 NEW U.S. Fossil shows an amphibian that lived fully in the Triassic sea SOURCED 025 NEW U.S. Toad-venom nasal spray eases treatment-resistant depression for weeks in trial SOURCED 026 NEW U.S. U.S. employee engagement falls below 30% for first time since 2011 SOURCED 027 NEW U.S. Water alone didn't draw early humans into Arabia's Empty Quarter, survey finds SOURCED 028 NEW WORLD 4,000-year-old wall at Oued Beht is North Africa's oldest defensive structure outside Egypt SOURCED 029 NEW WORLD 700,000-year-old elephant tooth reveals lush habitat on the route out of Africa SOURCED 030 NEW WORLD Algorithm extends 2-approximation to nearby vertices in massive networks SOURCED 031 NEW WORLD America's return to the moon SOURCED 032 NEW WORLD Azure API Connections flaws allow full cross-tenant compromise SOURCED 033 NEW WORLD Bacteria use a virus's own enzyme as an immune alarm SOURCED 034 NEW WORLD FDA approves first-of-its-kind hepatitis B drug from GSK and Ionis SOURCED 035 NEW WORLD Juno finds Jupiter's bow shock runs on layered plasma waves SOURCED 036 NEW WORLD Lab-grown retinas reveal how the eye builds its sharpest vision SOURCED 037 NEW WORLD Linux kernel patches 11-year-old TCP bug after Claude writes a root exploit SOURCED 038 NEW WORLD Magma can store excess oxygen at high pressure, study finds SOURCED 039 NEW WORLD NYC food pantries now stock free pet food for struggling households SOURCED 040 NEW WORLD New Kerberos attack abuses constrained delegation on SPN-less accounts SOURCED 041 NEW WORLD Niobium-titanium alloys stay damage-tolerant at 20 kelvin SOURCED 042 NEW WORLD PHP vulnerabilities exploited as websites worldwide go offline SOURCED 043 NEW WORLD Researchers demonstrate ChatGPT account takeover through a shared link SOURCED 044 NEW WORLD Tibet's Guliya ice cap dated to 128,000 years SOURCED 045 NEW WORLD Two electrons push X-ray generation past a textbook cutoff SOURCED 046 MONEY U.S. Federal debt held by the public tops the size of the U.S. economy SOURCED 047 MONEY U.S. Inflation accelerates in final report before midterms as Iran war lifts gas prices SOURCED 048 MONEY U.S. US second-quarter GDP revised higher on consumer spending and AI investment SOURCED 049 MONEY WORLD Binance hit by largest crypto heist on record SOURCED 050 MONEY WORLD India lifts 496 million above lower-middle-income poverty line, World Bank says SOURCED 051 MONEY WORLD Marshall Islands pays every resident citizen a basic income SOURCED 052 MONEY WORLD Microsoft offers buyouts to about a quarter of its workforce SOURCED 053 MONEY WORLD U.S. labor share falls to lowest level since 1947 SOURCED 054 MONEY WORLD Zillow settles securities class action over failed home-flipping venture SOURCED 055 BUILT U.S. OPEC+ holds December targets steady as Iran war clouds 2027 quotas SOURCED 056 BUILT WORLD AEP splits its transmission buildout between Jacobs and WSP SOURCED 057 BUILT WORLD California's high-speed rail project SOURCED 058 BUILT WORLD Eni starts work on Cyprus's first gas field SOURCED 059 BUILT WORLD Ghana's first wholly Ghanaian-built solar plant connects to national grid SOURCED 060 BUILT WORLD Global warming has accelerated since 2015, study finds SOURCED 061 BUILT WORLD Openreach says UK landline switch-off will not be delayed SOURCED 062 FORCE U.S. US and Japan agree to build AMRAAM assembly plant in Japan SOURCED 063 FORCE WORLD Algeria's upper house approves troop deployment to Niger SOURCED 064 FORCE WORLD DR Congo's deadliest Ebola outbreak as conflict hampers containment SOURCED 065 FORCE WORLD Deadly Russian drone strike on Dnipro train platform SOURCED 066 FORCE WORLD Federal forces push toward Mekelle as renewed Tigray fighting kills civilians SOURCED 067 FORCE WORLD Massive leak exposes records of 41,000 DHS workers, including undercover agents SOURCED 068 FORCE WORLD Melania Trump brokers localized ceasefire in Ukrainian city of Oleshky SOURCED 069 FORCE WORLD Novaya Gazeta announces closure after years of state pressure SOURCED 070 FORCE WORLD Trojanized Claude Code extension slips through Cursor's marketplace SOURCED 071 FORCE WORLD US sanctions Rwanda's defence ministry over M23 support in eastern Congo SOURCED 072 FORCE WORLD Ukraine runs short of Patriot interceptors as Russia intensifies missile strikes on Kyiv SOURCED