⚡️🇫🇷 NOW - Police are CHARGING and BEATING protesters with batons on Place de la Bastille in Paris.

⚡️🇫🇷 NEW - "FUCK MACRON" was spray-painted on the column at Place de la Bastille in Paris.

⚡️🇫🇷 ALERT - Several thousand protesters are currently gathered at Place de la Bastille in Paris.

⚡️🇫🇷 NEW - French Presidential Candidate Jean-Luc Mélenchon: They keep talking about "native French people." Native to what? Christian roots? What exactly are these roots? Half of people no longer live in the department they come from. A process of creolization has already taken place among us French people, simply because we change places and adopt one another's jokes, tastes, cuisine and music. All those dreaming of a static world are dreaming of something that no longer exists and will never exist again.

⚡️🚨🇫🇷 WATCH - A wheelchair-bound protestor in France bent down, picked up tear gas, and threw it BACK at police! France has seen some of the most intense anti-government protests in years, with demonstrators FURIOUS over government neglect. This might be the most DEFIANT image to come out of these protests yet...

⚡️🇮🇷 NEW - Iran’s nuclear chief says Tehran will not give up its right to uranium enrichment or hand over its uranium stockpile.

⚡️🚘 NEW - Porsche is reshaping its business ‌for a future with lower sales volumes, the sports car maker said, betting that a greater focus on high-end models will help restore its profit margins despite subdued demand

⚡️🇨🇳 NEW - Chinese electric vehicles can now display messages using their headlights

⚡️🇫🇷 NEW - In Paris, BRAV-M police officers were equipped with shields featuring a strobe-light device during the demonstration organized as part of the high school student movement.

⚡️🚨 NEW - Samsung will integrate stablecoins directly into Samsung Wallet on 82 million Galaxy devices in the United States, using Solana as the underlying infrastructure. Starting in the last week of October, eligible users will be able to send USDC from Samsung Wallet to compatible wallets abroad, without having to install an additional crypto app or manage their private keys themselves. Transfers to bank accounts will also be available in more than 60 countries. Solana will be among the blockchain infrastructures used for these transfers, alongside other technical partners. USDC funds will be secured via Bastion and Coinbase Prime, while Samsung clarifies that it will not directly hold users’ assets.

⚡️🇮🇱 WATCH - Rabbi Dov Lando, the 96-year-old head of the Slabodka Yeshiva and a leading authority in Israel’s Lithuanian Haredi community, said in footage aired Monday by Israel’s Channel 12 that Jews “could live well with the Arabs without a state” and that “it would have been quite good if the Arabs ruled here.” The footage was recorded about a year and a half ago at his home in Bnei Brak. ➤ He also said Zionism “made the Arabs hate us” and brought “physical disasters, not only spiritual ones” on Jews. ➤ He is an important religious authority for Degel HaTorah, part of the United Torah Judaism alliance that has been central to Netanyahu’s governments. ➤ Former Prime Minister Naftali Bennett called Lando’s comments “shame and disgrace” and attempted to link them to his political rival, Netanyahu. Former military chief Gadi Eisenkot and Member of the Knesset Avigdor Liberman also condemned Lando’s comments.

⚡️🎮 NEW - A Fortnite player reportedly said over voice chat during a match: “Let’s see if the FBI comes to my house—I’ll shoot them too.” Three days later, the FBI arrested him. On September 20, Epic Games urgently reported the comments made by the account “WagesOfNinja” and provided audio recordings to investigators. The account was subsequently linked to Edward Lee Frith, 29, of Alabama. Frith also reportedly spoke of wanting to “kill someone,” claimed to think about it daily, and mentioned killing a police officer if he were arrested. He was arrested on September 23 and pleaded not guilty.

⚡️🇧🇪 NEW - Hundreds of students, inspired in part by student unrest in neighboring France, took to the streets of the eastern Belgian city of Liège. Local media reported ‌107 arrests in recent days.

⚡️🇺🇸 NEW - BEZOS: Success is not villainy. You can be a billionaire if you started a hamburger stand.

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⚡️🇺🇸 NEW - Trump on Switzerland: If we decided not to buy watches from Switzerland, they wouldn’t be elite anymore, and we would save about $40 billion.

⚡️🎮 NEW - Google is launching a vibe coding platform for video games. Playground is an experimental gaming platform that lets you create your own games with zero coding experience. If you can think it, you can play it.

⚡️🇫🇷 NEW - A National Police SUV SPED TOWARD high school students in Dunkirk.

⚡️📸 NEW - Changpeng Zhao just posted a photo with the following caption: "Also 49, no AI, no photoshop, pure human labor. I encourage people to compete on health, not wealth rankings or lambos. More health, more family = true wealth, and happiness." The former Binance CEO explains that he wants to encourage people to compare themselves based on their health rather than their wealth, social status, or luxury cars. The message is quite consistent with what he has been saying since his release from prison; he says he has realized that health, family, and relationships matter more than money. Don't forget to devote more time to these priorities rather than to the never-ending pursuit of wealth.

⚡️🤖 NEW - Claude now works inside Google Docs, Sheets, and Slides, and those files also open inside Claude. In Google Workspace, Claude sits in a sidebar next to your file, reads what you have open, and edits it in place. You can approve each edit before it lands.