A US Marine was arrested on suspicion of killing an Okinawan woman at a hotel in Naha, the prefectural capital.

He has denied the allegations, and the case remains under investigation.

Japan and the United States have begun talks to review rules for troops off base and consider ways to prevent similar incidents.

The discussions will cover the military’s liberty policy, education and joint patrols by US forces and Japanese police.

Federal agents searched the Washington home of Ilhan Omar, a Democratic member of Congress from Minnesota.

The Justice Department said the search was carried out under a court-authorised warrant as part of an ongoing criminal investigation, but did not name Omar or explain the investigation.

News reports linked the search to a fraud inquiry about immigration paperwork filed by Omar’s late father when she was a child; officials have not confirmed that link.

Omar, who came to the United States from Somalia as a child, said the search was an attempt to target political opponents.

Duane “Keffe D” Davis was due to be sentenced in Las Vegas on Tuesday after being found guilty of first-degree murder in August.

The 63-year-old former gang leader faces a maximum sentence of life in prison without parole for his role in the 1996 killing of rapper Tupac Shakur.

Prosecutors said Davis orchestrated the shooting after a casino fight in which Shakur and his entourage beat Davis’s nephew.

Shakur was shot while riding in a car with record executive Marion “Suge” Knight and died in hospital six days later.

The IMF warns an AI market correction could spread globally, putting financial stability at risk.

AI companies have attracted large investments, but their high valuations and growing debts leave markets exposed if profits fall short of expectations.

The risk is greater because major AI firms and investors are closely connected, including through financing deals between stronger and weaker companies.

A sharp fall in AI share prices could force investors to sell, reduce investment and tighten access to finance.

Microsoft has announced Maia 300, its next-generation AI accelerator, designed for demanding AI tasks such as long conversations and multi-step agent work.

The company plans to start deploying it in production in 2027 and scale the Maia family to several gigawatts.

Microsoft says a rack with 96 accelerators could process up to seven times as many tokens as a Maia 200 rack.

It also says Maia 300 could deliver 40 percent more tokens per megawatt than leading GPU-based systems.

Two Week 6 rankings assess the NFL after five weeks of the 2026 season.

One list keeps the San Francisco 49ers at No.

1, with the Kansas City Chiefs second and the Jacksonville Jaguars third.

The other ranking also puts the 49ers at the top and highlights the strength of the NFC West.

Thélyson Orélien denies that AI wrote any sentence of his novel, “C’était ça ou mourir.”

The Canadian-Haitian writer says he used tools for research but wrote the book himself.

He apologized and accepted responsibility for plagiarizing texts by established authors after moving to Canada.

He says he began writing the novel in Quebec in 2017 and finished a first draft in 2019.

A 39-year-old woman in Franklin County, Pennsylvania, has been reported as the state’s sixth measles-related death in less than two months.

The woman was unvaccinated and had underlying medical conditions, the county coroner’s office said.

The coroner’s spokesperson said the probable cause was an acute cardiac event that may have resulted from measles complications.

Pennsylvania has confirmed 1,136 measles cases and 219 hospitalizations, with two-thirds of cases in adults.