Republican Senator Susan Collins and Democratic challenger Troy Jackson made final appeals in Maine’s competitive 2026 Senate race, one week before Election Day. A Marist University poll showed Jackson leading Collins by two points among likely voters, within the poll’s margin of error.
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The poll put Jackson at 49 percent and Collins at 47 percent among likely voters.
Marist surveyed 1,449 registered voters from October 22 to 25; the margin of error was plus or minus 6.6 percentage points.
Collins visited Moody’s Collision Center in Springvale and praised its employee-owned business model.
Jackson was scheduled to appear at a Freeport event with gubernatorial candidate Hannah Pingree, Representative Chellie Pingree and Senator Mark Kelly.
In a campaign ad, Jackson said voters would decide the country’s direction and emphasized Social Security, health care and keeping more of one’s earnings.
Collins released an ad featuring broadcaster Bill Green, who praised Collins and questioned Jackson’s readiness to serve in the Senate.
Democrats criticized Green’s reference to Jackson’s former work as a logger; Jackson called the ad out of touch.
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A U.S.-owned commercial satellite photographed a Chinese winged spaceplane in orbit in 2024. The Defense Intelligence Agency later released the full-resolution image in an unclassified report, which describes the vehicle’s capabilities but provides little new information about its activities.
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The satellite that photographed the spaceplane was owned by Vantor, which was known as Maxar in 2024.
The image became public when the Defense Intelligence Agency included it in a report released Monday.
The Chinese spaceplane has flown four missions since 2020, each lasting up to nine months.
The fourth mission launched in February and was still in orbit at the time of the article.
Open-source tracking data analyzed by astrophysicist Jonathan McDowell indicates the vehicle released a small satellite in June and recaptured it in July, then repeated the process in August and September.
The Chinese spaceplane has so far operated in low-Earth orbit, at an altitude of a few hundred miles.
The U.S. Space Force operates two X-37B spaceplanes in rotation, and one of their missions lasted about two and a half years.
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Sabato’s Crystal Ball shifted 16 U.S. House race ratings toward Democrats in the final week of the campaign. The forecast changes add to a series of recent shifts toward Democrats, which the article describes as a worsening environment for Republicans.
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Sabato’s Crystal Ball is a division of the University of Virginia’s Center for Politics.
The forecaster moved 16 House races toward Democrats.
The rating changes came in the final week of the campaign.
The article says the forecaster had shifted dozens of races toward Democrats in recent weeks.
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Utah authorities said DNA evidence linked Ted Bundy to the 1974 murder of Melissa Ann Smith, who was 17 when she disappeared. Investigators connected evidence from Smith’s body to a DNA profile recovered from Laura Ann Aime, another 17-year-old Utah girl whom authorities linked to Bundy earlier this year.
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Smith disappeared in 1974, and investigators found her body days later.
Authorities said a Y-STR DNA profile recovered from Smith’s body matched one found on Aime’s body.
In April, Utah county detectives said DNA evidence supported Bundy’s confession to killing Aime.
Aime was last seen at a Halloween party and was found dead in late November 1974.
Bundy was executed in 1989 for two murders.
Authorities said Bundy killed at least 30 women across the American West and Florida between 1974 and 1978.
Salt Lake County Sheriff Rosie Rivera said preserving evidence allowed investigators to revisit the case decades later.
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CBS News says it obtained images showing Ukraine’s Starlink satellite system disabled during a Russian strike that killed five people. Elon Musk has acknowledged limiting Ukraine’s access to the SpaceX service.
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CBS News obtained images related to the incident.
The images show Ukraine’s Starlink system disabled during a Russian strike.
The strike killed five people.
Elon Musk has acknowledged limiting Ukraine’s access to Starlink.
Starlink is a SpaceX satellite service.
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Daylight saving time ends at 2 a.m. local time on Sunday, when most Americans should set clocks back one hour. The shift brings an extra hour on the clock but less daylight in the evening; morning sunlight can help the body adjust to standard time.
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Standard time will continue until March 14, when clocks move forward again.
Hawaii and most of Arizona stay on standard time year-round.
Morning sunlight helps synchronize the body's circadian rhythm, its roughly 24-hour internal clock.
The circadian rhythm affects sleep and also influences heart rate, blood pressure, stress hormones and metabolism.
An AP-NORC poll cited in the article found 12% of American adults favored the twice-yearly time change, while almost half opposed it.
Health groups including the American Medical Association and American Academy of Sleep Medicine support standard time year-round.
The article says the spring clock change has been linked to more car crashes and heart attacks in the days afterward.
About one in three U.S. adults sleep less than seven hours a night, and more than half of U.S. teens get less than eight hours on weeknights.
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Delaware is considering a bill that would let artificial intelligence agents manage companies, while human or corporate members fund the businesses and receive profits. U.S. Rep. James Comer has asked the state for documents, saying the plan could let owners avoid responsibility for harmful AI actions; the proposal remains a draft and may be submitted to the legislature.
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Comer, a Republican from Kentucky and chair of the House Oversight Committee, wrote to Delaware Gov. Matt Meyer seeking records about the proposed Artificial Intelligence Company structure.
Comer said the plan could shield AI companies and investors from responsibility for reckless or harmful actions and said the committee’s inquiry could inform possible federal legislation.
The draft bill would allow an AI agent to manage and conduct a company’s business, but would exclude banking.
The proposal includes a 30-month regulatory sandbox to test the new corporate structure.
A Delaware secretary of state co-wrote a July 2026 opinion article arguing that AI-run businesses should have a legal identity and be subject to accountability.
Under the described structure, a member would fund the company and benefit from profits, while the AI agent would manage its day-to-day affairs.
The opinion article says the company could sue and be sued, own property, and incur obligations, and that its member would generally be shielded from the company’s debts, with exceptions including inadequate funding, fraud, or willful violations of law.
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A grand jury declined to indict former White House aide Cassidy Hutchinson over testimony about the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol, according to four sources briefed on the proceedings. The Justice Department had not responded to a request for comment at the time of publication.
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Federal prosecutors sought an indictment against Cassidy Hutchinson.
The grand jury declined to indict her.
The case concerned Hutchinson’s testimony related to the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol.
Four sources briefed on the grand jury proceedings said it declined to indict.
The Washington Post first reported the grand jury’s decision.
The Justice Department had not commented when the article was published.
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Voter turnout in Israel’s election was higher than it had been in decades. Exit polls showed no clear winner, leaving the outcome uncertain as Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu sought to extend his time in office.
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The election was Israel’s first since the October 7, 2023 attacks.
Voter turnout was higher than it had been in decades.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu hoped to extend his tenure.
Exit polls showed no clear winner.
The election outcome remained uncertain.
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A senior U.S. State Department official said the Trump administration would issue visas to Brazilian Senator Flavio Bolsonaro and his family after reports that he had left Brazil following his presidential election loss. The reports came a day after Brazil’s Supreme Court ordered him to surrender his passports in a money-laundering probe; Bolsonaro denied wrongdoing and had said he would stay in Brazil.
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Flavio Bolsonaro lost Brazil’s presidential election by more than 4.4 million votes.
A senior U.S. State Department official said the administration would issue visas to Bolsonaro and his family.
Brazil’s Supreme Court ordered Bolsonaro to surrender his passports as part of a probe into alleged money laundering.
Bolsonaro denied wrongdoing and said he would remain in Brazil and lead the opposition.
Bolsonaro initially refused to accept the election results and sought to have them annulled.
His party said on Monday that it accepted the election results.
Donald Trump questioned the result, saying it looked like another rigged election.
The article says no evidence had emerged that the vote was marred by malfeasance.
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President Donald Trump has offered a $1 million reward for reports of voter fraud that lead to convictions and has called fraud in mail voting and non-citizen voting widespread. Studies and conviction records cited by BBC Verify indicate that mail-ballot fraud is rare, while Trump’s proposed voting changes include tighter limits on mail voting and new identification and citizenship requirements.
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Trump has questioned election security ahead of the U.S. midterm elections scheduled for 3 November.
Trump offered $1 million to people who report voter fraud cases that result in convictions.
About 48 million people voted by mail in the 2024 presidential election.
A Brookings analysis of four elections found an average of about four cases of mail-voting fraud per 10 million postal votes.
A database of election-fraud convictions recorded 325 convictions involving fraudulent use of postal ballots over the past 20 years.
A 2020 study of eight states that mail ballots to all eligible voters found no evidence that voting by mail increased voter fraud overall.
The Supreme Court rejected Trump’s executive order on ballot delivery and mail-voting rules, describing the changes as arbitrary and capricious so close to the midterm elections.
Trump has urged Congress to require government-issued photo identification to vote and proof of citizenship when registering.
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Ilhan Omar’s 2020 memoir describes her childhood in Somalia, her family’s flight during the civil war, and their eventual resettlement in the United States. The article says the memoir’s timeline is broadly consistent with Omar’s publicly listed October 4, 1982, birth date, while noting that the war’s start date is disputed and that the memoir does not specify which event she meant.
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Omar writes that she was eight when civil war broke out in Somalia.
The memoir says Omar spent four years in a refugee camp in Kenya before her family emigrated to the United States.
Omar’s publicly listed birth date is October 4, 1982, which would make her eight for most of 1991.
The article notes that accounts place the start of Somalia’s civil war in late 1990 or January 1991, while the Mogadishu riots occurred in July 1989.
Omar says in her memoir that she stopped wearing the hijab at 16 and returned to wearing it at 23.
The memoir describes Omar as a 20-year-old mother; her daughter Isra Hirsi was born on February 22, 2003.
Omar has denied allegations that her former husband Ahmed Nur Said Elmi is her brother or that their marriage was fraudulent.
The article reports that federal agents searched Omar’s Washington home on October 12 and that investigators obtained a DNA sample, citing a source close to the matter.
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A LendingTree analysis of federal wage data found that private-sector workers in the U.S. information sector had the largest average pay increase in 2024 and 2025. Healthcare and social assistance led private-sector job growth over the same period.
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Average weekly wages in the information sector rose 9.4% from 2024 to 2025, compared with 4.2% across all private-sector industries.
Broadcasting and content providers had the largest wage increase among information subsectors, rising 16.8% from 2024 to 2025.
Average weekly pay for broadcasting and content providers increased by $788, from $4,688 to $5,476.
Motion picture and sound recording was the only sector in the analysis where weekly wages fell, declining 2% from 2024 to 2025.
Five of the 10 employment subsectors with the biggest pay gains were in the information sector.
Healthcare, including social assistance, recorded the largest private-sector employment increase, with hiring up 3.4% over 2024 and 2025.
Private-sector employment overall grew 0.4% during the period.
Employers in social assistance added more than 300,000 workers over the two-year period.
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A federal judge in Boston temporarily blocked a Trump administration rule that gave refugees 10 days to challenge the termination of their legal status. The order pauses enforcement through Nov. 6 while another judge considers whether to block the rule.
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U.S. District Judge Julia Kobick issued the temporary order on Tuesday.
The rule gave refugees 10 days to challenge the termination of their legal status.
The order blocks enforcement through Nov. 6.
The pause gives another judge time to consider whether to block the rule.
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A senior U.S. State Department official told CBS News that Brazil’s Flávio Bolsonaro and his family will receive U.S. visas. Bolsonaro lost Brazil’s presidential runoff to incumbent Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva and reportedly left Brazil for the United States as a deadline to surrender his passports expired.
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A senior State Department official said Flávio Bolsonaro and his family will be allowed to enter the United States.
Lula received more than 64 million votes, while Bolsonaro received fewer than 60 million, a margin of nearly 4%.
Brazilian media reported that Bolsonaro departed for the United States after the election.
Bolsonaro had been ordered to surrender his regular and diplomatic passports by noon Tuesday; the article said it was unclear whether he complied.
Bolsonaro has not conceded defeat and has made unsubstantiated claims of election fraud.
President Donald Trump suggested that Brazil’s election was rigged but provided no evidence.
Bolsonaro’s brother Eduardo lives in Texas and was convicted in absentia in June of illegally lobbying the Trump administration; he received a four-year prison sentence.
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Exit polls from Israel’s election on Tuesday gave the opposition bloc led by Gadi Eisenkot a narrow lead over Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s Likud bloc. The polls projected Likud to remain the largest single party in the Knesset, while Arab parties made gains.
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Exit polls showed a narrow edge for the opposition bloc over Netanyahu’s Likud bloc.
Gadi Eisenkot leads the opposition bloc.
Likud was projected to be the largest single party in the Knesset.
Arab parties made gains, according to the article headline.
The election took place on Tuesday, October 27, 2026.
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Four Democratic senators say the Trump administration should restore climate funding it canceled for blue states to build trust in a bipartisan permitting reform bill. They question whether the administration would treat renewable energy fairly under the proposed bill.
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Four Democratic senators called for the administration to restore canceled climate funding.
The senators say the funding cuts affect blue states.
They expressed distrust that the administration would treat renewable energy fairly under the permitting reform bill.
The bill was negotiated by Democratic and Republican lawmakers.
The senators sent a letter to the lawmakers who negotiated the bill.
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A Nanotyrannus skeleton named “Jodi” sold for $47.3 million at a Sotheby’s auction in New York, far above its $6 million to $9 million estimate. The buyer has not been publicly identified, and a paleontologist warned that private ownership could limit scientific access to the fossil.
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The sale took place on Tuesday after a 12-minute bidding contest involving six bidders.
Sotheby’s said the $47.3 million price made Jodi the second most valuable dinosaur ever sold at auction.
Jodi was discovered by Jodi Pierson in 2019 on her privately owned land in Montana’s Hell Creek Formation.
The skeleton is 19.6 feet long and about 9.6 feet tall on its armature, with approximately 191 fossil bone elements.
Sotheby’s said Jodi is one of only three substantial Nanotyrannus skeletons known to science.
Sotheby’s describes Nanotyrannus as a carnivorous tyrannosaurid that lived about 67 million years ago alongside Tyrannosaurus rex.
Paleontologist Thomas R. Holtz Jr. said fossils in private hands may become inaccessible to researchers and the public, and argued that museums could use the money to acquire several specimens.
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The U.S. military said it struck an alleged drug-smuggling boat in the eastern Pacific on Tuesday, killing five people. The attack brings the reported death toll from U.S. strikes on boats to at least 240 in more than 70 strikes; the military provided no evidence that the boat carried drugs.
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U.S. Southern Command said intelligence indicated the vessel was involved in drug trafficking.
A video posted on X showed a small boat before an explosion enveloped it.
The Trump administration began targeting people it calls “narcoterrorists” in September 2025.
President Donald Trump has described the United States as being in an “armed conflict” with cartels in Latin America.
Critics and military legal scholars have questioned the strikes’ legality and effectiveness.
The Pentagon’s watchdog plans to review whether the military followed its targeting framework, but not the legality of the strikes.
Secretary of State Marco Rubio said in September that the United States would seek regional allies’ approval for future attacks, while retaining the option to act unilaterally.
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Some beneficiaries may receive two federal payments during the week of October 26, 2026, because the November Supplemental Security Income (SSI) payment is scheduled early. The October 30 SSI payment is not extra money, and recipients should not expect another regular SSI payment in November.
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Social Security beneficiaries born from the 21st through the 31st who follow the regular birthday-based schedule are scheduled to receive their October payment on October 28.
The November SSI payment is scheduled for October 30 because November 1 falls on a Sunday.
A person who qualifies for SSI and receives a Social Security payment on October 28 could receive both payments that week.
SSI recipients received their regular October payment on October 1; the October 30 payment is their November benefit.
People receiving both Social Security and SSI generally follow a separate schedule, with Social Security paid on the third of the month and SSI on the first.
Social Security beneficiaries whose birthdays fall from the 1st through the 10th were scheduled to be paid October 14; those born from the 11th through the 20th were scheduled for October 21.
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