Hackers steal $6.3 billion in biggest crypto heist

Plus, how heat storms threaten pregnant women.

Go beyond the headlines with Reuters on the stories shaping the day. Subscribe for $1/week. Daily Briefing Daily Briefing By Kate Turton Hello. Binance freezes its assets after a $6.3 billion heist, the crypto industry's biggest. The Pentagon tells Europeans to cool their rhetoric on Russia, and dockworkers worldwide strike against arms shipments. And read the second installment in our series that reveals how heat storms threaten pregnant women around the world. Today's Top News   REUTERS/Dado Ruvic Hackers stole $6.3 billion from Binance, in what analysts say is the biggest crypto hack ever. Here's how the biggest heist in crypto history unfolded. Texas has been the Democratic Party’s great, unrealized hope for three decades. Days before the midterms, they’re dreaming once more about breaking the Republican stranglehold on the Lone Star State. A farm lobby group is spending big on advertisements to defeat Republicans in the midterms, as President Trump’s approval rating among rural voters slides to its lowest ever in Reuters/Ipsos polling. Reporter Leah Douglas is on the Reuters World News podcast to discuss these ads. Patrick Stewart, who rose from poverty in England to become an accomplished Shakespearean stage actor and then achieved global stardom as the erudite Captain Jean-Luc Picard in TV's "Star Trek: The Next Generation," has died at the age of 86. Pentagon officials have in recent weeks asked several NATO countries to tone down their rhetoric regarding the threat posed by Russia, arguing that some statements by European leaders and officials have undermined continental security, four people familiar with the matter said. Russia and Ukraine said demining around the Russian-held town of Oleshky in southern Ukraine was finished and that an operation to bring aid and allow residents to leave was ready to begin. Infighting broke out among centrist candidates for France's presidential race, splitting the mainstream vote and making a runoff between far-right Marine Le Pen and hard-left Jean-Luc Mélenchon more likely. Business & Markets   REUTERS/Michele Lapini  Dockworkers in 22 countries will strike today, protesting against war and the use of ports for ‌arms exports in action organizers say could disrupt over 40% of Mediterranean cargo and snarl over $2 billion worth of freight. US airlines are turning to artificial intelligence to help maximize revenue from airfares. Now startups are putting AI to work on the other side of the transaction, ‌helping passengers automatically claw back savings when ticket prices fall. The chairman of Foxconn, the world's biggest contract electronics manufacturer, said a collaboration with OpenAI was in the works. Volkswagen is suspending development work on the upcoming ‌all-electric Golf in Wolfsburg, a top executive told workers in an internal memo seen by Reuters, telling them the carmaker's main plant was behind on ⁠cost targets. New data may challenge Fed Chairman Kevin Warsh's sense that the US economy can handle a robust expansion without stoking inflation. How heat storms threaten pregnant women around the world   REUTERS/Callaghan O'Hare Studies show that more heat leads to worse outcomes for pregnant women and their babies, including as preterm birth, post-birth bleeding and stillbirth. We analyzed data on more than 8 million births in Mexico and found that exposure to heat storms and heat waves raises the rate of preterm births. Read our special report The Week in Pictures Newhaven, Britain, October 23. REUTERS/Toby Melville I can't resist photos of stormy seas. Click through to see a selection of our top pictures from around the world this week. Which photo would you have chosen? View gallery   Sponsors are not involved in the creation of newsletters or other Reuters news content. Advertise in this newsletter or on the Reuters website   Reuters Daily Briefing is sent 5 days a week. Think your friend or colleague should know about us? Forward this newsletter to them. They can also sign up here. Want to stop receiving this email? Unsubscribe here. To manage which newsletters you're signed up for, click here. This email includes limited tracking for Reuters to understand whether you’ve engaged with its contents. For more information on how we process your personal information and your rights, please see our Privacy Statement. Terms & Conditions   © 2026 Thomson Reuters. All rights reserved. 3 Times Square, New York, NY 10036

Spain train crash kills at least 68

And what the election means for Israel’s Arabs

Go beyond the headlines with Reuters on the stories shaping the day. Subscribe for $1/week. Daily Briefing Daily Briefing By Robert MacMillan Thanks for joining me today. We’re learning more about the deadly high-speed train collision south of Madrid. Also: A leak website published data on more than 40,000 Homeland Security employees, Flávio Bolsonaro took the scenic route to the United States, and a temporary ceasefire between Russia and Ukraine brought rare relief to the battered city of Kherson. Today's Top News   REUTERS/Ana Beltran Rescuers searched wrecked train carriages for survivors of Wednesday’s crash near Toledo. Our graphics team shows how the accident occurred. Listen to our World News podcast for more. The Trump administration issued more than 100 subpoenas demanding records on tens of thousands of voters in 13 states to uncover evidence of unlawful voting by non-citizens. A California judge rejected a Justice Dept. request to block California from counting mail-in ballots from more than 20,000 registered voters that it says are likely not citizens. Flávio Bolsonaro declared himself Brazil’s elected president on X, then changed that to “leader.” He arrived in the US after Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva won the election by more than 4 million votes. Israel’s Palestinian citizens could emerge as kingmakers after a strong turnout in this week’s elections. But there’s a paradox: Benjamin Netanyahu’s main opponent shuns their parties while having no clear path to power without them. We found that Iran has harnessed a military-financial complex that is slipping explosives and other hardware for its drone and missile programs into the country despite the US blockade. Who is responsible for a spate of mysterious freezer malfunctions that spoiled food at military bases across the United States last August? Hackers did it, four officials say. Business & Markets   REUTERS/Heiko Becker European Central Bank President Christine Lagarde resigned, though it’s unlikely that the reason is to spend more time with her family. What’s in on Wall Street these days: Tech companies that can fund their enormous AI ambitions without endlessly tapping investors. Investors in long-term US government bonds are uncomfortable and the Federal Reserve can’t do anything about it. The maker of Hello Kitty canceled a collaboration with a Japanese TV spy show because of Chinese backlash. Weil, Gotshal & Manges, a nearly century-old law firm, will shut down after bleeding away partners. Return of the poppy   REUTERS/Saeed Ali Achakzai Four years ago, the Taliban began enforcing an opium ban so strict that poppy all but vanished from Afghanistan’s fields. But now their supreme leader’s edict is beginning to fray, worn down by a practical problem: legal crops no longer pay and many Afghan farmers say they are struggling to feed their children. Read more And Finally... REUTERS/Jeenah Moon Ah oui, to be Emily in Paris! Before you drop it all and live la vie expatriate, read my colleague Lauren Young’s interview with someone who’s done it and has practical tips and advice on how to avoid the pitfalls. Read more   Sponsors are not involved in the creation of newsletters or other Reuters news content. Advertise in this newsletter or on the Reuters website   Reuters Daily Briefing is sent 5 days a week. Think your friend or colleague should know about us? Forward this newsletter to them. They can also sign up here. Want to stop receiving this email? Unsubscribe here. To manage which newsletters you're signed up for, click here. This email includes limited tracking for Reuters to understand whether you’ve engaged with its contents. For more information on how we process your personal information and your rights, please see our Privacy Statement. Terms & Conditions   © 2026 Thomson Reuters. All rights reserved. 3 Times Square, New York, NY 10036