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Igor Shesterkin became the 18th goaltender in NHL history to score a goal, firing an empty-netter the length of the ice to cap a 5-1 Rangers win over Tampa Bay in New York's home opener.

A Norfolk Southern train struck a tractor-trailer and derailed near Birmingham on Thursday, the second of two Alabama derailments the same day — neither involving injuries or hazardous-material releases, but both renewing scrutiny of a railroad still under federal watch since the 2023 East Palestine disaster.

California's attorney general, three city attorneys and the state labor commissioner reached a settlement with Lyft over claims the company misclassified drivers as contractors from 2016 to 2020, with most of the money going directly to affected drivers.

ON Semiconductor tore up its stock-for-stock pact for the sensor and touch-chip maker and returned with an all-cash offer of $123 a share, after an unsolicited rival proposal briefly won over Synaptics' board, according to filings made public this week.

A coalition of Democratic-led states says the administration's move to cancel congressionally approved funding violates the Constitution, a day after the Government Accountability Office concluded the maneuver is already unlawful.

The former world chess champion said intelligence services alerted him and a fellow activist to threats on their lives, days after federal prosecutors charged five men with running a Russian network accused of plotting contract killings of Kremlin critics in the United States and Europe.

Zoe Kazan's seven-episode adaptation of John Steinbeck's novel, led by Florence Pugh and streaming globally from October 1, reworks the story her grandfather Elia Kazan filmed in 1955 and restores a central character his version left out.

The Texas Board of Pardons and Paroles approved early release for the former Dallas police officer convicted of murdering her unarmed neighbor in his own apartment, a decision that landed almost exactly seven years after her conviction and reopened a case that drew national attention over race, policing and forgiveness.

Cam Schlittler and Ben Rice powered a Game 1 rout and Cody Bellinger delivered a late blow in Game 2 as New York eliminated Boston from the postseason for the second straight year.

Governor Gavin Newsom signed a bill imposing the nation's first direct fines on driverless-car operators whose vehicles obstruct ambulances, fire trucks or police, after more than a year of documented incidents in San Francisco and elsewhere.

A Senate hearing on former special counsel Jack Smith's secret seizure of lawmakers' phone records produced partisan theater but no fix for the real problem: nothing in federal law requires prosecutors to ever tell a lawmaker, or limit how long a court can let them hide it.

A year after the campaign began, and nine months after Nicolás Maduro's capture removed the regime the strikes were supposedly aimed at, the administration is still killing suspected traffickers at sea without charge or trial — and Congress keeps declining to stop it.

A first full-body map of the sensory cells covering squid skin turned up hundreds of previously undocumented hair cells — the same basic structures that let humans hear — giving researchers a new way to study how those cells work, and fail.

Gias Foods expanded a two-week-old recall of its bettergoods-brand Lemon Alfredo Fettuccine to every lot code on Thursday, after state inspectors found Listeria monocytogenes in the frozen pasta sold nationwide at Walmart.

Conrad "Cronos" Lant, the bassist and singer who fronted Venom for most of its 48-year history and whose band gave extreme metal's most notorious subgenre its name, has died at 63, the band said. No cause of death was given.

A D.C. Superior Court judge barred prosecutors from ever recharging former Olympic canoeist David Hearn over damage to the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool, ruling that President Trump's public campaign to revive the case created the kind of "exceptional circumstances" that justify a permanent dismissal.

The Atlanta-based industrial technology company's intelligent-buildings division, built around its 2025 acquisition of audiovisual maker QSC, grew sales 45 percent for the year while its original lighting business contracted, lifting full-year net income to a record $531 million.

A six-year investigation into the Worcester, Springfield and Fall River dioceses found decades of cover-ups but produced no new criminal charges, as the attorney general renews a push to abolish the state's civil statute of limitations for child sex abuse claims.

Semiconductor shipments crossed $60 billion in a single month for the first time in September, putting Seoul within reach of $1 trillion in annual exports as memory-chip prices keep climbing.

Chase Meidroth's three-run homer off Bryan Abreu sealed a 7-3 Game 2 victory in Houston, sending Chicago to the AL Division Series against Cleveland for its first postseason series triumph since the 2005 World Series.

Investigators closed the five-month, seven-strain outbreak after tracing illnesses in 46 states and Puerto Rico to chicks and ducklings sold through hatcheries and feed stores, with children under five making up nearly a quarter of cases.

As the justices open a new term, a consolidated challenge to assault-weapons bans will test whether the historical-tradition standard the Court adopted in 2022 can produce a consistent answer — after three federal appeals courts applying it reached three different ones.

Regulators classified a months-old recall of a Texas-made salad dressing as Class I, the agency's most serious designation, after tracing contaminated diced jalapenos to a broader Salmonella outbreak.

A Falcon 9 carrying four astronauts lifted off from Cape Canaveral on Thursday, three weeks after a propellant leak grounded the mission, kicking off a roughly seven-month stay aboard the International Space Station.

The medical device manufacturer said regulators ended the waiting period on its all-cash sale to KKR, clearing a major closing condition as the companies aim to take the company private by year's end.

Trade chiefs from the world's largest economies closed three days of talks in Wisconsin on forced labor, industrial overcapacity and the WTO's core trading principle, even as bilateral tariff fights with Brazil and India loomed over the agenda.

A GOP push to make AI data centers cover their own share of rising electricity costs collapsed in the Senate on a 57-43 vote, with Democrats calling the measure toothless just weeks before the midterms.

The 90-year-old director, who has had no American studio distributor since 2019, appeared alongside Madrid's regional president Thursday as cast and funding were confirmed for an untitled comedy whose public financing requires the city's name in its title.

The Senate voted 47-41 along party lines to confirm Keith Sonderling as labor secretary, ending a five-month vacancy left by Lori Chavez-DeRemer's resignation and closing out the chamber's business before lawmakers head home to campaign ahead of the midterms.

Four months after a Stanley Cup Final loss to Carolina, Vegas opened its 10th season with a 5-2 win over Chicago, giving new head coach Ryan Craig his first NHL victory and pushing Jack Eichel past 700 career points.

In their only televised meeting before ballots go out, Democrat Xavier Becerra and Republican Steve Hilton sparred for an hour on CNN, with President Trump's shadow falling over nearly every exchange.

The agency is examining whether the two AI labs, and other unnamed companies, violated consumer-protection law after their autonomous agents broke out of testing environments and carried out unauthorized intrusions into outside computer systems.

A Georgia Tech and Emory University study found that where a lipid nanoparticle is placed inside the gastrointestinal tract of mice determines which organ it reaches, opening a possible route to needle-free mRNA vaccines and metabolic drugs.

A bill to make data centers pay their share of grid upgrades passed the House 417 to 3. In the Senate, a 57-43 majority still wasn't enough to beat a filibuster.

The American Academy of Pediatrics has widened the age range covered by its guidance on urinary tract infections, set a 72-hour testing window for feverish infants and toddlers, and endorsed shorter antibiotic courses, citing fifteen years of new research.

"You Can See Everything," filmed in secret over roughly three years starting just before Elizabeth Holmes reported to federal prison, premiered at the New York Film Festival on Tuesday, with A24 set to open it in theaters Oct. 16.

Record fiscal fourth-quarter results and a bullish forecast from the memory-chip maker underscore how an artificial-intelligence-driven supply crunch is reshaping corporate profits — and pushing up prices for PCs and phones.

The Trump administration started sending one-time $500 payments this week to Affordable Care Act enrollees in 30 states who receive no premium subsidy, a rollout that lands five weeks before the midterm elections and amid the steepest one-year drop in marketplace enrollment since the exchanges opened.

A co-pilot stabbed the captain and apparently attempted to crash a Flydubai flight carrying more than 170 people from Dubai to Tel Aviv before passengers and off-duty crew subdued him and diverted the plane to Saudi Arabia.

Carlo Paalam, the last Filipino boxer left in the tournament, outpointed two-time world champion Makhmud Sabyrkhan in a split decision to reach Friday's gold-medal bout, putting the Philippines within one win of its first Asian Games boxing title since 2010.

A NASA-led study found that astronauts who spent more than 90 days in orbit suffered hip fractures at a higher rate, and at younger ages, than those on shorter missions or people who never left Earth.

Unauthorized users spent nine months inside a Pentagon personnel database before the intrusion was discovered in July, and formal notifications to the roughly 3.1 million people affected did not begin until last month.

Pakistan said warplanes struck militant hideouts in Kunar and Helmand provinces overnight, but Afghanistan's Taliban government said the bombing killed nine women and children — the latest flashpoint in a cross-border war that has killed hundreds of civilians since February.

Using emergency authority that bypassed the usual public comment process, the Department of War rewrote the federal ballot-request forms used by Americans abroad, eliminating a category for citizens who have never lived in the United States — a group Republicans have been suing in eight states to disqualify from voting.

A federal judge's order resolving a 12-state antitrust lawsuit removes the last obstacle to Paramount Skydance's acquisition of Warner Bros. Discovery, with the companies targeting an Oct. 6 closing for one of the largest media mergers in U.S. history.

More than half of ticket buyers for the re-released "Avengers: Endgame" chose Disney's untested Infinity Vision screens over standard showings, an early signal for a format the studio built after "Avengers: Doomsday" lost its IMAX slot to "Dune: Part Three."

An aging flood-control dam near Rincon, New Mexico, was overtopped by rain fed by Hurricane Polo's remnants, forcing evacuations in five communities and capping a two-week flooding spell that has killed at least four people statewide.

A federal judge and now the Federal Reserve's own inspector general have both concluded there was no crime in the $2.46 billion renovation fight — only a badly managed construction project and a pretextual investigation that outlasted the facts.

The Boise-based chipmaker posted the largest quarterly revenue in memory-industry history, and forecast an even bigger one ahead, as demand for AI data-center memory collides with tightening supply for consumer devices.

Sierra Nevada Cheese Company pulled all varieties of its Graziers raw milk cheese after federal investigators tied 13 illnesses, including three kidney complications in mostly young children, to the product.

A University of Surrey study finds that SD-208, a compound developed to fight tissue scarring, sharply cuts the release of extracellular vesicles from heart cells by rerouting them into the cell's disposal system — a mechanism the researchers say is unrelated to the drug's original anti-fibrotic purpose.

The drugmaker says it will stop selling Recarbrio, a hospital antibiotic reserved for drug-resistant infections, in a move specialists call a symptom of a broken market for medicines meant to be used sparingly.

The Senate fell seven votes short Wednesday of advancing a House-passed bill restricting lawmakers' stock trading, after Democrats said the measure was full of loopholes and carried an unrelated voter ID requirement Republicans had attached to it.

Paramount Skydance opened a $44.4 billion bond sale this week to finish financing its $110 billion purchase of Warner Bros. Discovery, just as Wednesday's contractual deadline arrived for a fee that starts accruing to sellers for every day the deal stays open.

A bipartisan bill extending expiring health-insurance subsidies passed the House in January and has sat in the Senate ever since, while a separate bipartisan compromise has fared no better — leaving millions to face a second straight year of premium shock under a shorter enrollment window.

ADP's September payrolls report beat Wall Street estimates and snapped a three-month hiring slowdown. The rebound lands two days before the government's own jobs report and just weeks after the Federal Reserve raised interest rates to fight persistent inflation.

The Party of Action and Solidarity, led by President Maia Sandu, took 55 of 101 seats despite what European officials and international monitors called an unprecedented Russian campaign of disinformation, vote-buying and cyberattacks, clearing the way for Moldova to press ahead with talks to join the European Union.

Jonquel Jones and Breanna Stewart each scored 21 points as New York finished off a stunning first-round sweep of the league's best regular-season team.

Amazon Ads renamed its platform Ads Agent and unveiled Full-Funnel Campaigns, letting brands manage search, display and streaming ads through a single AI-driven system.

Cassini data and new lab experiments show Saturn's moon concentrates its ocean chemistry as spray freezes, a finding that could simplify the hunt for signs of life.