Federal authorities arrested Thomas Markle Sr., Meghan Markle’s father, in Florida on Friday, November 6, 2026. The U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Central District of California said he faces charges related to child sexual abuse material; the article says the case is developing.
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Federal authorities arrested Thomas Markle Sr. in Florida on Friday.
The U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Central District of California announced the arrest and charges.
The charges concern child sexual abuse material.
A report last month said Philippine authorities were investigating allegations that Markle possessed such material.
The report said the allegations followed claims by Thomas Markle Jr., Markle’s son and Meghan Markle’s half-brother.
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A London jury found Russell Brand guilty of rape and sexually assaulting three women, and acquitted him of three other charges after a four-week trial. The article describes how some prominent American conservative and anti-establishment figures defended Brand after misconduct allegations emerged, while Brand also adopted a Christian identity in 2024.
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Brand was found guilty of raping one woman and sexually assaulting three others.
The jury acquitted Brand of three additional charges.
The trial lasted four weeks, and prosecutors said Brand used his celebrity status to exploit women.
British journalists published allegations of sexual misconduct against Brand in September 2023.
Tucker Carlson said in January 2024 that governments had colluded to destroy Brand.
Elon Musk publicly expressed support for Brand and opposed efforts to cancel him.
British promoters postponed Brand's performances, and his talent agency and publisher distanced themselves.
Brand was baptized in the River Thames in April 2024 and spoke about spiritual renewal.
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U.S. employers added 165,000 jobs in October, and unemployment fell to 4.1%, while revisions increased August and September job totals by 84,000. Hourly wages rose 3.1% from a year earlier, leaving many workers with less purchasing power as inflation remained high and investors raised their expectations of a Federal Reserve rate increase in December.
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October job growth of 165,000 exceeded economists’ forecast of 65,000.
The unemployment rate fell to 4.1% even as 421,000 people entered the labor force.
Average hourly wages rose 0.4% from September, their largest monthly increase since January, and 3.1% from October 2025.
Professional and business services added 70,000 jobs, health care added nearly 42,000, and factories added 19,000; hotels, restaurants and bars lost 10,600 jobs.
Employers added an average of 86,000 jobs per month so far in 2026, compared with 9,700 per month in 2025.
Investors put the odds of a Federal Reserve rate increase in December at 77%, according to CME's FedWatch tool.
An estimate from Yale University's Budget Lab put the current monthly job-growth level needed to keep unemployment from rising at just over 5,000.
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Mississippi political science professor Aaron Hitefield said voters appeared enthusiastic about Democratic Senate candidate Scott Colom but showed apathy toward Republican Sen. Cindy Hyde-Smith. Hitefield described Colom as a high-quality candidate.
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Aaron Hitefield is an assistant professor in Mississippi’s Department of Political Science and Public Administration.
Hitefield said voters seemed enthusiastic about Democratic Senate candidate Scott Colom.
Hitefield said voters showed apathy toward Sen. Cindy Hyde-Smith.
Hyde-Smith is a Republican senator.
Hitefield described Colom as a high-quality candidate.
The article concerns a Mississippi Senate race.
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City of Wolverhampton Council announced winter measures to help residents with food, household costs and heating. The plans accompany a new three-year financial wellbeing strategy and include expanding community food and budgeting services.
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New community shops are planned for Pendeford and Graiseley, and the Bilston shop is due to reopen.
About 17,000 people used Wolverhampton’s community shops in the past six months, the council said.
The council said more than 135,000 people have received help through its cost-of-living programmes, with more than £18.5 million distributed.
Community markets redistribute about three tonnes of food each month, and the council plans to expand the scheme this winter.
The council will extend its Community Chefs programme into schools; more than 1,000 people took part in the past six months and produced about 6,000 meals.
The Boost financial wellbeing service, launched in January to help people cut costs and manage household budgets, will expand over winter.
Winter warm packs have been distributed through family hubs, while adult social care teams are working with health services to ease seasonal pressure on the NHS.
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At least 32 bomb threats affected a dozen airlines over four days, forcing flight diversions, inspections and other emergency measures. All threats described in the report were hoaxes, but experts say airlines must treat each one as real until they can rule out danger; investigators have few clear leads on who sent them.
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Threats reportedly arrived by phone and email and disrupted flights across Europe.
Some aircraft were escorted by military jets, inspected in flight or diverted to other airports.
An Aer Lingus flight landed at an airbase about 1,000 kilometers from its planned destination after running low on fuel.
Aviation experts say airlines follow safety procedures for each threat, including searching aircraft after landing.
The report says the incidents directly affected a few thousand passengers and may cost airlines money.
An aviation security expert said the targets appeared random and that there was little credible information about who was behind the threats.
A group reportedly claimed responsibility for some incidents in emails, but its founder later denied the claim.
Under the U.K.’s Aviation Security Act 1982, intentionally sending false information that endangers an aircraft is a serious crime punishable by up to life imprisonment.
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Staffing agency CEO Katie Warnock argues that AI tools have made hiring less personal without reliably improving how employers identify candidates. She describes testing an AI interview platform for 90 days and says its setup took substantial staff time, its scores did not match her own assessments, and her recruiters disliked using it.
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Warnock says candidates may use AI to write résumés that employers then screen with AI tools.
A Resume Genius 2026 report cited in the article found that 87 percent of surveyed U.S. hiring managers use AI somewhere in recruiting, while 82 percent worry about candidates using AI in applications.
A Greenhouse 2025 report cited in the article found that 54 percent of 1,200 U.S. job seekers had faced an AI-led interview.
The Greenhouse report also found that 62 percent of U.S. Gen Z entry-level workers said their trust in hiring had fallen over the previous year.
Warnock says configuring the interview platform she tested took close to a month of work hours.
She says the platform's résumé and interview scores did not align with her assessments, and her recruiting team disliked it.
Warnock says she stopped using the platform before its trial ended.
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U.S. technology shares plunged after Democrats won the midterm elections, wiping more than $3.2 trillion from the U.S. stock market in one day. Investors fear a Democrat-controlled Congress may slow AI development and data-center construction, adding to existing worries that tech company valuations have grown too high.
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The Nasdaq fell 5.5% on Thursday, while the S&P 500 fell 4.4%.
The sell-off spread to Asian and European markets on Friday.
Investors expect a Democrat-controlled Congress could tighten oversight of AI and data-center construction.
Some states considered pauses on data-center construction amid public opposition to the facilities.
The article says the cyclically adjusted price-to-earnings ratio reached its highest level since 2000, indicating unusually high U.S. stock valuations compared with profits.
Alphabet shares fell after it reported lower-than-expected profits, reducing its market value by more than $500 billion.
Nvidia, Apple, Google, Microsoft, Meta, Amazon and Tesla together account for more than a third of the S&P 500.
The article says a prolonged technology sell-off could affect savers worldwide through funds that track the S&P 500.
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Debt forgiven in a settlement may count as taxable income and increase a borrower’s tax bill. Creditors generally report cancellations of $600 or more on Form 1099-C, but exclusions such as insolvency may reduce or eliminate the taxable amount.
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A borrower who settles a $15,000 credit-card debt for $6,000 has $9,000 in canceled debt.
Canceled debt is generally treated as income, though the borrower does not pay that full amount as tax.
Creditors generally report canceled debt of $600 or more to the IRS on Form 1099-C.
A borrower who settles a debt in 2026 would typically receive any related Form 1099-C in early 2027.
Not receiving Form 1099-C does not by itself remove a borrower’s responsibility to report taxable canceled debt.
The insolvency exclusion may apply when a borrower’s debts exceed the fair market value of their assets immediately before cancellation.
Under the insolvency exclusion, a borrower may exclude canceled debt up to the amount by which their debts exceed their assets.
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French- and British-led military drills in Poland will test how quickly European troops could deploy to Ukraine after a ceasefire. The exercise involves 2,800 troops from 10 European countries.
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France and Britain are leading the military drills.
The drills will take place in Poland.
The exercise involves 2,800 troops.
The troops come from 10 European countries.
The drills will test how quickly the troops could deploy to Ukraine.
The possible deployment depends on a ceasefire being reached.
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A study modeling salt substitution in 193 countries estimated that potassium-enriched salt could prevent nearly three million deaths and 10 million new cases of cardiovascular and kidney disease each year. The researchers said benefits would be greatest if the substitute replaced salt used both at home and in processed and restaurant foods, but warned that some people with kidney disease or medicines that raise blood potassium need medical advice.
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Potassium-enriched salt replaces some sodium chloride with potassium chloride.
Researchers examined salt-substitution scenarios across 193 countries.
The study estimated nearly three million deaths and 10 million new cardiovascular and kidney disease cases could be prevented annually.
The largest modeled benefits came from replacing salt used at home and in processed and restaurant foods.
The article says the World Health Organization endorsed potassium-enriched salt in 2025 as a way to lower blood pressure and cardiovascular risk.
People with advanced kidney disease, those on dialysis, and people taking certain medicines or supplements may face risks from higher potassium intake.
The article reports that more than 70 percent of salt intake in Europe and North America comes from processed and restaurant foods.
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Democrats won major races in Ohio, including the governor’s office, a Senate seat and eight House seats, after emphasizing economic concerns such as affordability and workers’ interests. Researchers caution that Ohio’s working class is diverse and that the election does not prove a single group of voters has returned to the Democratic Party.
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Ohio elected its first Democratic governor in 16 years, along with a Democratic senator and eight Democratic House members.
Democratic candidates Amy Acton, Sherrod Brown and union ironworker Brian Poindexter won races in the state.
Ohio’s Mahoning Valley was once a unionized steelmaking center, but mill closures starting in the late 1970s eliminated many manufacturing jobs.
Mahoning County voted for Donald Trump in 2020, its first Republican presidential choice in a generation, according to the article.
Labor historian Michael Pierce said accounts of Democrats losing a single, unified working-class voting bloc are misleading.
Political scientist Vladimir Kogan said categories such as blue-collar work, having no college degree, union membership and low income do not neatly overlap.
Researchers cited affordability concerns and economic messaging as factors that helped Democrats, while historian David Stebenne said Trump’s low approval rating hurt Republicans.
The article describes Ohio’s working class as including both formerly unionized industrial workers and people in low-wage service jobs.
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The article says Democrats made major gains in the House and Senate, describing the result as a severe defeat for Republicans. Its headline argues that President Donald Trump’s actions contributed to problems for himself and his party, but the excerpt gives no supporting details.
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The article says Democrats made gains in the House.
The article says Democrats made gains in the Senate.
The article characterizes the Republican result as a wipeout.
The article describes the Republican defeat as unusually severe.
The headline attributes problems for Trump and the Republican Party to Trump himself.
The excerpt does not give vote totals, specific races, or evidence for the headline’s claim.
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The article’s title asks whether the midterm outcome showed voters rejecting Washington or seeking cooperation across party lines. The only supplied article text says, “The clear message to Washington read loud and clear,” but does not explain the message or report election results.
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The title refers to a midterm election outcome.
The title presents two possible interpretations: a rebuke or a reach across the aisle.
The supplied text says there was a clear message to Washington.
The supplied text does not identify what that message was.
The supplied text gives no election results or other supporting details.
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Jason Reding Quiñones resigned as U.S. attorney for the Southern District of Florida while overseeing a Justice Department investigation into alleged efforts by Obama- and Biden-era intelligence officials to keep Donald Trump from office. His departure follows other exits and internal disagreements over the probe, which has not produced charges proving an overarching conspiracy.
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Attorney General Todd Blanche announced Quiñones' resignation on Friday but did not give a reason.
The Fort Pierce investigation examines alleged coordination by former intelligence officials and separately whether former CIA Director John Brennan lied to Congress about the agency's role in a 2016 Russia intelligence assessment.
Former prosecutor Joe diGenova and former White House attorney Kurt Olsen also left the investigation.
The Justice Department sent attorneys from Acting Deputy Attorney General Trent McCotter's office to Florida to help manage the case, a move that Quiñones and diGenova resisted, according to sources cited by CBS News.
A career prosecutor who had led the investigation in Quiñones' office was sidelined after raising concerns about the strength of the evidence, CBS News previously reported.
The investigation has involved extensive grand jury activity but has not resulted in charges establishing the alleged overarching conspiracy.
Quiñones also oversaw cases involving former Cuban leader Raúl Castro and a new criminal investigation targeting former Venezuelan leader Nicolás Maduro.
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Researchers developed a machine-learning model that uses resting-state brain scans to compare brain activity with patterns seen in SuperAgers and people with Alzheimer’s disease. In follow-up data, cognitively unimpaired adults with more Alzheimer’s-like patterns showed faster cognitive decline, more amyloid-beta buildup and a greater likelihood of developing clinical Alzheimer’s disease.
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The study introduced the Alzheimer’s Resilience-Vulnerability Connectome, or ARC, to place people along a spectrum of brain activity patterns.
Researchers trained and evaluated ARC using scans from 180 SuperAgers and 110 people diagnosed with Alzheimer’s disease; all were at least 75 years old.
The researchers tested the model in a separate group of 143 people.
They then applied ARC to 818 slightly younger adults who had no signs of cognitive impairment and were not classified as SuperAgers.
Follow-up data covered periods of five to 15 years.
Adults with more Alzheimer’s-like scan patterns had faster cognitive decline and greater amyloid-beta accumulation.
Those adults were also more likely to progress to clinical Alzheimer’s disease.
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More than 100 activists entered a Microsoft data centre construction site in Amsterdam, climbed cranes and hung anti-AI banners. The action began two days of coordinated protests against AI infrastructure expansion across 16 countries.
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More than 100 activists entered the construction site.
The site is for a Microsoft data centre in Amsterdam.
Activists climbed cranes at the site.
They hung banners opposing AI.
The action marked the start of two days of coordinated protests.
The protests were planned across 16 countries.
The protests targeted the rapid expansion of AI infrastructure.
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Federal agents arrested Thomas Markle in Florida on charges related to child sexual abuse material, according to unnamed law enforcement sources cited by the Associated Press and Reuters. The article says the arrest follows reports of alleged images at his former home and earlier concerns raised by his daughter, Meghan Markle.
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Markle, 82, was taken into custody near Tampa, according to the cited news reports.
The article does not specify the charges or provide details about the alleged material.
Meghan Markle said last month that she was deeply distressed by allegations that images were found at her father’s former home.
Meghan said a letter containing troubling allegations about her father was sent to London police in 2018.
The Sun reported claims by Meghan’s half-brother, Thomas Markle Jr., that he found images at their father’s former home in the Philippines.
The article says Thomas Markle Jr. was named as a person of interest in the case earlier this week.
Thomas Markle is a retired television lighting and photography director.
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A study of more than 3,000 U.S. adults found that people who typically walked more steps had modestly higher scores on several cognitive measures. The observational study cannot show that walking caused the differences, and researchers measured cognition only once, at the end of the study period.
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Researchers at Baylor College of Medicine analyzed participants from the National Institutes of Health’s All of Us Research Program.
Participants ranged in age from 18 to 93, and most were over 60.
Researchers tracked physical activity and blood pressure from 2009 to 2023 and assessed cognition at the end of that period.
The study identified groups averaging about 5,108, 8,875, and 14,161 steps per day.
Each additional 1,000 daily steps, on average, was associated with modestly higher scores for sustained attention, cognitive control, and delay discounting.
Participants with higher blood pressure scored lower on some measures, including self-control and impulsivity.
The researchers said long-term typical activity, rather than short-term changes in activity, was linked to cognition.
The study appeared in Scientific Reports on October 11.
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