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A wind driven brush fire near Malibu passed 100 acres on Thursday evening and forced evacuations. One zone is under an evacuation order and ten more are under warnings as Santa Ana winds peak overnight.
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Trump says the US is talking with Russia and China about denuclearization. He told Newsmax he would like to cut the largest nuclear arsenals, predicted China could catch up in five years, and gave no timetable and no agreement.
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Tencent says AI agents used to evaluate outside models browsed the web in ways it never intended.
Researchers tracked the agents making repeated visits to Alibaba's Amap map service, looking up entrances to parks, museums and zoos. Tencent says its Hunyuan models were not behind it and that controls are being tightened.
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NEW: Gold and Silver prices board on The Orbit Post.
Gold is at $4,204.90 and silver at $57.92 per troy ounce today. See the price per gram, per 10 grams, and per tola in dollars, Indian rupees, Nepali rupees, or any currency you pick.
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NEW on The Orbit Post: Exchange Rates, live today.
1 US dollar = 152.16 Nepali rupees and 95.10 Indian rupees right now. The board carries 166 currencies with a converter, updated daily, for every country.
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Wombats poop cubes, up to 100 a day.
The bare nosed wombat is the only known animal that makes cube shaped droppings. Research in the journal Soft Matter found the cubes are molded in the last stretch of the intestine, where stiff and soft tissue squeeze unevenly.
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A day on Venus is longer than a year on Venus.
Venus takes 243 Earth days to spin once, and only 225 to circle the Sun. It also spins backward, so the Sun rises in the west, and sunrise comes once every 117 Earth days.
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Sharks are older than trees. By tens of millions of years.
The earliest shark scales date to about 450 million years ago. The oldest known forest is about 385 million years old. Sharks were already ancient when the first tree grew.
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Honey found in 3,000 year old Egyptian tombs is still edible.
Bees build a three part defense into every jar: almost no water, natural acidity, and a slow supply of hydrogen peroxide. Nothing that spoils food can get a foothold.
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Bananas are berries. Strawberries are not.
Botanists define a berry strictly: one flower, one ovary, seeds held inside three fleshy layers. The banana passes. The strawberry fails, because its red flesh is a swollen stem tip and its real fruits are the tiny seeds on the outside.
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NEW TODAY: Orbit Knowledge, a new tab on The Orbit Post.
Every day, our Knowledge crew publishes five posts built to bend your picture of the world: strange science, weird Earth, food origins, animal discoveries, and myths checked against real evidence. Every fact is verified twice before it runs.
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South Africa's police chief is back in charge.
President Cyril Ramaphosa has reinstated General Fannie Masemola, six months after his suspension over finance charges linked to a police health contract. Prosecutors withdrew the charges in September. He resumes full duties on Monday.
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Preseason finals: the Knicks held off the Raptors 122-120 at the Garden, with Jalen Brunson scoring 20 and Karl-Anthony Towns one assist short of a triple double. In Houston, the Rockets routed the Thunder 116-89.
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Hedge funds lost money every day this week as the AI selloff spread. Goldman Sachs puts stock picking fund losses at 2.9 percent for the week, and Asia focused managers fell 6.8 percent in the first half of October.
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A 24 hour strike by easyJet crew in Italy runs all day Friday, alongside airport staff walkouts in Pisa, Florence and Venice. Flights across the Italian network face cancellations and delays outside the morning and evening protected windows.
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Flavio Bolsonaro has picked up four more parties ahead of Brazil's October 25 runoff: PP, Uniao Brasil, Republicanos and Podemos all backed him after staying neutral in round one. He faces President Lula, who finished the first round just behind him.
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Iraq's parliament has completed the cabinet five months after the government took office, and one of the new deputy prime ministers is Laith al-Khazali, a leader of Asaib Ahl al-Haq, an Iran backed group the US designates as a terrorist organization.
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UPDATE: Bend Police Chief Mike Krantz says a community member saw the 16 year old shooter enter Silver Rail Elementary, followed him inside and shot him. Officers found the shooter dead minutes later. Police say the victims' families have been notified.
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UPDATE: Police say a co-worker reported that the Aurora temple plot suspect said his rifle jammed when he tried to shoot at a man from his vehicle. Police have not confirmed the jam. Federal and local prosecutors are now reviewing federal charges in the case.
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UPDATE: The toll from the Houthi missile attack on the presidential palace in Aden has risen to five killed and 16 injured, Yemen's health minister says. Two of the dead were members of the prime minister's security detail. Prime Minister Shaya al-Zindani was unharmed.
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A magnitude 7.0 earthquake struck Russia's Kamchatka Peninsula on Friday. The quake hit deep underground, about 140 kilometres down near Ozernovskiy, and tsunami officials said it posed no threat. The USGS put the risk of casualties and damage at low.
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