Democrat Troy Jackson defeated Republican Senator Susan Collins in Maine on Tuesday, ending her bid for a sixth term and helping Democrats take control of the U.S. Senate. The race was called just after 1 a.m. Wednesday.
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Microsoft has offered a voluntary exit package to about 60,000 employees, roughly 27% of its workforce of about 223,000 full-time staff as of the end of June. Chief People Officer Amy Coleman announced the program in a memo to staff on Monday, according to most reports, though one outlet dates the announcement Tuesday.
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President Donald Trump's administration lifted tariffs on a set of Canadian imports on Friday, including plywood sheets, some paper products, certain machinery and refrigeration equipment, and at the same time placed new 50 percent tariffs on other Canadian goods. Both changes take effect October 30, less than a week before the November 3 midterm elections.
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Industry Minister Mélanie Joly has warned Cleveland-Cliffs Inc., the U.S. owner of Stelco, that the company could face financial penalties or be forced to divest its Canadian operations if it proceeds with planned layoffs affecting up to 500 workers at Stelco facilities in Hamilton and Nanticoke, Ontario. Stelco has cited the trade war with the U.S. and an inability to compete in the galvanized steel market as reasons for the cuts, and says the layoffs comply with the Investment Canada Act.
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Canada shed 68,000 jobs in September, Statistics Canada reported Friday, pushing the unemployment rate to 6.5%. The losses split between full-time and part-time work and were concentrated in the public sector, which has now lost jobs for four straight months and is down 119,000 positions from a year earlier.
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The 2026 Nobel Prizes in physics, physiology or medicine, and chemistry were announced Friday, recognizing work on cosmic neutrino detection, light-controlled brain cells, and the chemistry of mirror-image molecules.
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This year's Nobel Prizes in medicine, physics, and chemistry were announced Friday. The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine went to biophysicists Peter Hegemann of Humboldt University in Berlin and Georg Nagel of Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg, along with neuroscientist Karl Deisseroth of Stanford University, for foundational work on optogenetics, a technology that uses light to activate specific cells such as neurons.
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The 2026 Nobel Prize in Chemistry has been awarded to Henri Kagan and Kenso Soai for their work on chirality, the property that lets molecules exist as non-superimposable mirror images, like left and right hands.
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G7 nations agreed on Friday to release a total of 100 million barrels of oil and fuel products from their stockpiles over four months, a coordinated move meant to address soaring global fuel prices and curb price spikes linked to the Iran war. The release will be coordinated by the International Energy Agency, and the countries issued a joint statement.
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Meta's AI agent Muse has passed 5 million downloads, according to market intelligence firm Sensor Tower, which reported the milestone as of Wednesday. The app launched on September 8, so it got there in under a month.
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In August 1988, researchers studying water circulation patterns conducted an experiment at Twin West Lake, located approximately 75 kilometres east of Vancouver, Canada.
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U.S. forces destroyed five Iranian crude oil tankers in the Gulf of Oman and the Strait of Hormuz on Wednesday following two missile attacks directed at an American warship over the prior two days.
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Global markets reacted sharply as a six-month conflict between the United States and Iran escalated into direct naval engagements, pushing Brent crude futures near the $100 a barrel threshold.
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