Record 48.6 million Americans vote early; Tuesday reduced to ceremony, flowers, and one motivated retiree ◆ Canada and the EU launch the Alliance for the Future; open to every nation, storm vocabulary included, one nation excluded ◆ Microsoft asks to borrow $25 billion; investors attempt to hand it $100 billion more before lunch ◆ New AI sees pancreatic cancer 475 days early; Americans to spend the extra 15 months doing what they do best, worrying productively ◆ NFL nine weeks old, zero coaches fired; agents, hot-seat boards, and network weathercasters insist the firing is still coming ◆ Poll finds only Harry Truman less popular before a midterm; the White House calls the ranking an honor, historians call it accurate ◆ National Deep-Dish Day: Chicago defends a pizza eaten with silverware; the crust, the city notes, was always a bowl ◆ Alaska Senate ballot lists four names and two of them are Dan Sullivan; the Justice Department asks a court to referee a phone book ◆ World's oldest shipwreck found off Turkey, 4,700 years old; the cargo outlived the box ◆ India's public impeachment postponed again for weather; the meteorological department remains the only branch functioning on schedule ◆