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Common Dreams (Opinion)  on October 8, 2026


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Google signed 3,590 MW of 20- and 15-year power deals with Constellation, funding $4.3B in nuclear uprates at 11 reactors; CEG stock jumped 12%
Saudi-backed Yemeni forces recapture Bab el-Mandeb areas from Houthis as missiles strike Riyadh and 959 die since ceasefire collapsed
Brewers beat Padres 3-1 in Game 4 to win NLDS 3-1, advancing to an NLCS rematch against the Dodgers
Vienna and Beijing teams independently built the world's first working thorium-229 nuclear clocks, reported in Nature on October 7, 2026
Mamdani's Oct. 7 anniversary statement calling Gaza a genocide drew bipartisan backlash, vigil protests, and polls showing Jewish voter disapproval
France closes up to 500 high schools Monday as student protests over education underfunding leave 24 schools burned, 78 staff injured, and 5,000+ arrested
WSJ reports Ambassador Kimberly Guilfoyle sought a $100,000 wire from donor Eric Deters before her confirmation hearing; Rubio declines comment as Democrats demand investigation
Ethiopian drones strike Eritrean troops inside Tigray near Adigrat as both countries sever ties and Ethiopia appeals to the UN Security Council
Tennessee's Christa Pike, first person to survive lethal injection, is discharged from hospital back to prison as the state's execution review continues
USS Abraham Lincoln returns to San Diego Oct 8 after 321-day Iran-war deployment with record 265 days at sea and eight confirmed suicide attempts
Canadian poet Anne Carson wins the 2026 Nobel Prize in Literature, the Swedish Academy announced October 8, 2026
India's 'Cockroach' movement staged an October 10 Delhi protest demanding Election Commissioner Gyanesh Kumar resign over 130 million voter-roll deletions, met by mass detentions and transit shutdowns
Houthi missile/drone attacks killed three at Saudi Arabia's Abha and Riyadh airports October 6-7, prompting coalition retaliation, Turkish and Pakistani troop deployments under the Mecca Alliance, and Houthi designation of Saudi airspace as a target zone
All Blacks thrash Wallabies 50-19 at Eden Park on October 10, 2026, retaining the Bledisloe Cup and extending their Australia streak to 12 Tests
Cristiano Ronaldo walked out of Portugal's camp, accusing coach Jorge Jesus of twice breaking promises over his benching; Jesus denies it but leaves return open
Putin pledged to "do everything" to help end the US-Iran war during a Turkmenistan meeting with Pezeshkian, offering mediation
















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