Dodgers champs: The Los Angeles Dodgers came back from 5-0 to defeat the New York Yankees, 7-6, and capture their eighth World Series title Wednesday night. Costly Yankees’ errors and clutch hitting by LA helped the Dodgers rally to tie the game at 5-5 in the fifth inning. The Yankees grabbed the lead back to take a brief 6-5 lead, only to relinquish it for the first time in the 8th inning with a pair of sacrifice flies. First baseman Freddie Freeman, who had 4 HRs and 12 RBIs in the series, was named most valuable player.
Inflation cools: The U.S. Commerce Department reported that prices rose just 2.1% in September from a year earlier, down from a 2.3% rise in August. That is barely above the Fed’s 2% inflation target and is in line with readings in 2018, before prices began surging after the pandemic recession. Yet some signs of inflation pressures remained. Excluding volatile food and energy costs, so-called core prices rose 2.7% in September from a year earlier for the third straight month.
Ceasefire push: CNN reports that American officials remain doubtful a final diplomatic push in the Middle East this week will result in a pause in fighting in Gaza before Tuesday’s US presidential election, according to people familiar with the thinking, as Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu waits to see who the next American president will be. American officials remain doubtful a final diplomatic push in the Middle East this week will result in a pause in fighting in Gaza before Tuesday’s US presidential election, according to people familiar with the thinking, as Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu waits to see who the next American president will be.
Voter sweepstakes: AP reports that a judge in Philadelphia held a brief hearing Thursday in the city prosecutor’s bid to shut down Elon Musk’s $1 million-a-day sweepstakes in battleground states. The giveaways come from Musk’s political organization, which aims to boost Donald Trump’s presidential campaign. Lawyers for Musk filed a motion late Wednesday seeking to move the case to federal court, saying it involves a federal election issue, but that didn’t stop a state judge, Angelo Foglietta, from holding the hearing at City Hall. After taking comments from both sides, the judge put the state case on hold while Musk tries to have it argued in federal court.
Spanish floods: CTV News reposts that crews searched for bodies in stranded cars and sodden buildings Thursday as people tried to salvage what they could from their ruined homes following monstrous flash floods in Spain that claimed at least 140 lives. That country’s worst natural disaster this century left a trail of destruction and fears that more horrors will be uncovered from the ubiquitous layers of mud that walls of water left in their wake late Tuesday and early Wednesday.
