Wednesday, October 2

🚨NATION

📌 Search crews with cadaver dogs wade through muck of communities ‘wiped off the map’ by Helene— more than 160 people found dead (AP)

📌 Which products could be affected by a lengthy port strike? Alcohol, bananas and seafood, to name a few (USA TODAY)

📌 Sean "Diddy" Combs slammed with 120 new sexual assault allegations (AXIOS)

📌 Hurricane Helene damages could hit $35 billion (AXIOS)

🌎 AROUND THE WORLD

📌 Six killed and 10 wounded in shooting/knife terror attack in Israeli city of Jaffa (GUARDIAN)

📌 Claudia Sheinbaum takes office as Mexico's first female president (CBS NEWS)

📌 WikiLeaks’ Julian Assange says he pleaded ‘guilty to journalism’ in order to be freed (AP)

📌 More than 20 students and teachers are feared dead in Thailand school trip bus fire (NPR)

📱BUSINESS, SCIENCE & TECH

📌 Microsoft’s AI boss wants Copilot to bring ‘emotional support’ to Windows and Office (WIRED)

📌 Online scammers duping 20% of the U.S. adults they encounter (AXIOS)

📌 Black-colored plastic used for kitchen utensils and toys linked to banned toxic flame retardants (CNN)

📌 Reuters, CNN add website paywalls as revenue declines (AXIOS)

🎬 SPORTS & ENTERTAINMENT

📌 Dana Carvey breaks down how he developed perfect Biden impression (VARIETY)

📌 Louisiana governor wants live tiger back at LSU football games (NBC NEWS)

📌 Daniel Day-Lewis ends retirement from acting after seven years (GUARDIAN)

📌 Olivia Nuzzi accuses ex-fiance of orchestrating blackmail campaign amid RFK relationship (CNN)