| By Derek Caney (@stax920)
Shimon Peres, a founding father of Israel and an architect of the 1993 peace accord between Israel and Palestinians, died at age 93 two weeks after suffering a stroke. He was appointed Israel's prime minister in 1995 after his predecessor Yitzhak Rabin was assassinated by a Jewish right-wing opponent of the peace agreement, which unraveled not long afterward. He never won an election for prime minister (he tried five times), but he did win a Nobel Peace Prize in 1994, along with Rabin and Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat. He remained active in Israeli politics long afterwards, throwing his support behind then-Prime Minister Ariel Sharon in 2004, which helped paved the way for Israel's withdrawal from Gaza Strip the following year. Quote of the day: Sometimes people ask me, ‘What is the greatest achievement you have reached in your lifetime or that you will reach in the future?’ So I reply that there was a great painter named Mordecai Ardon, who was asked which picture was the most beautiful he had ever painted. Ardon replied, ‘The picture I will paint tomorrow.’ That is also my answer. – Shimon Peres (h/t New York Times)
Hillary Clinton sought to keep the pressure on Donald Trump in her campaign stops yesterday after a spirited debate that had the Republican on the defensive that night and the following day. "He actually bragged about gaming the system to get out of paying his fair share of taxes. In fact, I think there's a strong probability he hasn't paid federal taxes a lot of years," she said at a campaign rally in Raleigh, North Carolina. Trump, for his part, took to Fox News to defend himself against charges of sexism. Clinton said Trump called a former Miss Universe pageant winner "Miss Piggy" and also "Miss Housekeeping" because she was a Latina. Trump, a partner in the company that owned the Miss Universe contest, said on Fox, "She was the winner and she gained a massive amount of weight. And it was a real problem."
Digits of the day: $200,000 Do you have $200,000 and no fear of death? Elon Musk thinks you're a candidate to colonize Mars. His SpaceX company is developing a massive rocket and capsule to transport 100 people plus cargo to the red planet. And the rocket that blew up four weeks ago? Yeah, they're still working on that.
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A motorcyclist falls along a road as Typhoon Megi hits Hualien, eastern Taiwan, Sept. 27, 2016. REUTERS/Tyrone Siu
Around the world - The missile that downed a Malaysian airliner over Eastern Ukraine in 2014 was fired from rebel-held territory in Ukraine and was supplied by Russia, according to international prosecutors. It’s not yet clear if the soldiers were ordered to fire the missile of acted independently.
- Vladimir Putin appears politically invincible after Russia's ruling party won its biggest ever parliamentary majority this month. But he faces an increasingly pressing dilemma: How best to ensure the survival of a system built around himself.
- Spanish, German and Belgian authorities arrested five people suspected of forming an "active and dangerous" Islamic State cell and promoting Islamist militancy in the three countries, Spain's interior ministry said. Operating almost exclusively in Spanish, they are accused of commissioning attacks, radicalization, promoting Islamist militancy and acting as go-betweens for the group in Europe.
Around Wall Street - Wells Fargo CEO John Stumpf will forfeit unvested equity awards worth about $41 million and will not get a salary while the company's board investigates the bank's sales practices, the company said. Stumpf will appear before the House Financial Services Committee tomorrow.
- You know them for their online taxi service. But now Uber is making a move into long-haul trucking with its acquisition of self-driving truck startup Otto.
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The German government and financial authorities are preparing a rescue plan for Deutsche Bank in case the lender were unable to raise capital itself to pay for costly litigation, German weekly Die Zeit reported. According to the draft plan, Deutsche Bank would be enabled to sell assets to other lenders at prices that would ease the strain on the lender and not put an additional burden on the bank, the paper said, which you can read here if you speak German. The U.S. Justice Department wants Deutsche to pay $14 billion to settle claims it missold mortgage-backed securities.
Around the country - Police in El Cajon, California, killed an unarmed black man who police said was walking in traffic. He refused their instructions to remove his hand from his pocket and then pulled out an object from his pants and pointed it at them, police said. Then they opened fire. No weapon was found at the scene. Police released a still photo (scroll to the bottom) from the video that depicted what appeared to be two officers pointing weapons at an individual who was pointed an object at them.
- A stop-gap funding bill to avoid a federal government shutdown later this week failed to garner enough votes to move forward in the Senate, with Democrats and Republicans both opposing the measure. The must-pass bill, which would keep federal agencies operating from Saturday through Dec. 9, received only 45 of the 60 votes needed to limit debate and be considered for passage by the 100-seat Republican-controlled Senate.
- The FBI is investigating suspected Russian attempts to hack mobile phones used by Democratic Party officials as recently as the past month. The revelation underscores the widening scope of the U.S. criminal inquiry into cyber attacks on Democratic Party organizations, including the presidential campaign of its candidate, former U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton.
Today's reason to live Billy Bragg – Another Man Done Gone |
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