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Top stories from ZERQIVA on October 7, 2026

On a September evening in Morgantown, West Virginia, Adam Johnson sat down to go through his ballot for the November midterm election. The 40-year-old graphic designer and aspiring illustrator had a familiar problem: several races, several candidates and no easy way to decide whom he trusted to…

The death of a 28-year-old laboratory worker at Siberia’s Irkutsk Anti-Plague Research Institute has prompted quarantine measures and international monitoring, but Russian health authorities say there is no evidence that plague caused her illness or that an accident involving the bacterium…

WASHINGTON—U.S. President Donald Trump has created a federal “Super Intelligence Force” to coordinate the government’s approach to artificial intelligence, putting Director of National Intelligence Jay Clayton in charge of a task force that will assess the technology’s risks and…

MOSCOW — Russian authorities have quarantined dozens of people in Siberia after a laboratory worker at an anti-plague research institute died of pneumonia of unknown origin, while officials said on Monday there was no evidence linking her illness to pathogens handled at the facility.

The worker…

LONDON — The United States has withdrawn a dozen B-1 bombers from a British airbase after President Donald Trump said unspecified threats linked to Iran prompted the move, while U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio said there was no direct link to a suspected plot at the site.

The aircraft had…

WASHINGTON—U.S. President Donald Trump has approved the execution by firing squad of former U.S. Army Major Nidal Malik Hasan, who was sentenced to death for killing 13 people in a 2009 shooting at Fort Hood, Texas, the Pentagon said on Monday.

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth recommended the…

Top stories from ZERQIVA on October 2, 2026

DUBLIN, Calif. — The parents-in-law of a New York Times executive were charged with murder on Wednesday in connection with his fatal shooting at a public park in Northern California, according to the Alameda County District Attorney’s Office.

Shouyong Zhang and Shili Chen, both 77, are accused…

BAGHDAD — The United States has completed the withdrawal of its remaining military forces from Iraq, ending a U.S. military presence that began with the 2003 invasion and later expanded during the campaign against Islamic State, according to the U.S. military and officials in Baghdad.

The final…