Dartmouth provost Santiago Schnell resigned after an advisory committee found that he had not disclosed significant AI use in an academic paper and a Washington Post op-ed. The committee reviewed logs from his Dartmouth Claude account, but said it could not establish the full scope of his AI use because Schnell did not provide related logs from personal accounts or meet with investigators.
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Schnell published a Washington Post op-ed about universities and AI cheating on August 9, 2026.
The committee found that Schnell failed to disclose AI use in an academic paper and the op-ed, although the publishers required disclosure.
Logs from Schnell’s Dartmouth Claude account showed him using AI to revise writing, review code, and edit or generate figures.
Schnell described his AI use publicly as help with refining arguments, grammar, clarity, and sentence editing.
Schnell did not provide the committee with logs from his personal AI accounts related to the writings under review.
The committee said Schnell’s cooperation was insufficient and that his public descriptions may have understated his AI use.
One Claude exchange showed Schnell asking whether a manuscript contained signs of AI writing.
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A federal appeals court rejected the Trump administration’s second attempt to prevent California from counting about 20,000 ballots it linked to alleged non-citizen voters. The court said the request could violate the Constitution and risk stripping eligible voters of their ballots and voter registration.
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The 9th Circuit Court of Appeals issued its ruling on Friday, less than four days before California’s November 3 midterm election.
The administration sued California on October 15 and sought to set aside ballots linked to a list it had sent the state on October 12.
California officials declined to set aside the ballots and said the administration had not provided evidence that the people on its list were non-citizens.
Judges Mark Bennett and Gabriel Sanchez formed the majority; Trump appointee Patrick Bumatay dissented and called the request reasonable.
Officials in Nevada and Washington have also questioned the accuracy of federal lists of alleged non-citizen voters; Nevada said the names on its list were incorrect.
The article says non-citizen voting in federal elections is illegal in all 50 states and that election fraud and non-citizen voting are rare.
The Trump administration charged 28 foreign nationals in California with election-related offenses; some told the Los Angeles Times they had never registered to vote.
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The United States canceled the traditional G20 foreign ministers’ group photo after European officials said they would not appear alongside Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov. The Atlanta meeting is focused on global crises, including the wars in Ukraine and Iran, but no joint statement is expected.
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German Foreign Minister Johann Wadephul said European partners would not take part in a group photo with Lavrov.
Lavrov attended the meeting while under Western sanctions imposed after Russia’s 2022 invasion of Ukraine.
Ukraine was not invited to the meeting.
EU foreign policy chief Kaja Kallas said she would urge G20 partners to support Ukraine and pursue accountability for Russian actions.
US Secretary of State Marco Rubio called for cooperation on economic and geopolitical crises affecting trade, energy, food supplies and freedom of navigation.
No joint statement is expected; Washington plans to publish a chair’s summary instead.
China sent Executive Vice Foreign Minister Ma Zhaoxu, while South Africa was excluded by Washington.
The Atlanta meeting is the final ministerial gathering under the US G20 presidency before leaders meet in Miami on December 14 and 15.
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A routine traffic stop led investigators to a Philadelphia home owned by the late Raymond C. Horsch. CBS News reports that investigators found conflicting evidence there as they examined possible links to the disappearance of Horsch’s ex-wife, Amy McHale, and six other missing women.
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The article describes a CBS News 48 Hours podcast episode about a Philadelphia property neighbors called a “House of Horrors.”
A routine traffic stop led investigators to the property.
The home belonged to Raymond C. Horsch, who has died.
Investigators found evidence at the home that the episode describes as conflicting and disturbing.
Families hope clues from the investigation may shed light on the disappearance of Horsch’s ex-wife, Amy McHale.
The episode also discusses six other missing women.
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The Justice Department warned election officials in multiple states that they could face jail time if they do not preserve election records as federal law requires. ABC News said it reviewed copies of the letters. The report did not name the states or provide further details.
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The Justice Department sent letters to election officials in multiple states.
The letters warn officials they could face jail time for failing to preserve election records.
The warning cites federal law governing the preservation of election records.
ABC News reported that it obtained copies of the letters.
The report was published on October 30, 2026.
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Liberty Mutual’s Liberty Biberty mascot prompted a protest outside the company’s Boston headquarters after videos by YouTuber Connor Harvey drew widespread attention. Branding experts said recurring characters help insurers stand out and be remembered, but warned that attention does not necessarily mean consumers like a brand.
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Liberty Biberty is a yellow puppet wearing a Statue of Liberty crown.
The phrase “Liberty Biberty” came from a 2019 commercial in which an actor mispronounced Liberty Mutual’s name.
Liberty Mutual introduced the puppet in July 2026 as its first new brand character in eight years.
The company said Biberty would complement, not replace, its LiMu Emu and Doug characters.
Liberty Mutual used Biberty in television, streaming, social media and creator collaborations.
YouTuber Connor Harvey’s protest announcement received more than 600,000 views, and a demonstration later took place outside Liberty Mutual’s Boston headquarters.
Protesters criticized the mascot’s appearance and the repetitive ads; at least one counter-protester dressed as Biberty.
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Maine and Alaska will use ranked choice voting in congressional and state races on Nov. 3, 2026. Voters rank candidates by preference; if no one wins a majority of first-choice votes, the candidate with the fewest votes is eliminated and ballots transfer to voters’ next choices until a candidate has a majority.
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Voters can rank candidates in order or choose to rank only one.
A candidate who receives more than 50% of first-choice votes wins without a runoff.
In later rounds, ballots for eliminated candidates transfer to the next-ranked candidate, if one is listed.
A ballot that ranks only an eliminated candidate remains valid, but its vote does not transfer.
Maine has used ranked choice voting since 2018, and Alaska has used it for four years.
Alaska voters will decide on Nov. 3 whether to repeal the system.
The article says 19 states have banned ranked choice voting.
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Sabato’s Crystal Ball shifted its ratings for two Senate races toward Democrats shortly before the Nov. 3 midterms. Louisiana moved from “safe Republican” to “likely Republican,” while Minnesota moved from “leans Democratic” to “likely Democratic.”
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Sabato’s Crystal Ball reported the changes on Friday.
The Louisiana Senate race had previously been rated “safe Republican.”
The forecaster now rates Louisiana “likely Republican.”
Minnesota moved from “leans Democratic” to “likely Democratic.”
Both rating changes occurred in the final days before the Nov. 3 midterms.
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Two studies based on an online survey found that more than one in four respondents had misrepresented symptoms to get antibiotics for themselves or a child. Most who reported lying said they received the prescription, even though many claimed symptoms associated with viral colds, which antibiotics do not treat.
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Researchers led by Alistair Thorpe of the University of Utah analyzed 959 valid, complete survey responses from 1,371 online respondents.
Among respondents, 268 people, or 28 percent, said they had misrepresented symptoms to get antibiotics for themselves.
Of 263 respondents who identified as caregivers, 63, or 27 percent, said they had misrepresented a child's symptoms to get antibiotics.
Among people who reported lying for themselves, 108 said they exaggerated symptoms, 19 said they made up symptoms, and 141 said they did both.
Seventy-seven percent of adult patients and 87 percent of caregivers who reported lying said it led to an antibiotic prescription.
The most common falsehoods involved cold-related symptoms; 65 percent of respondents who misrepresented symptoms reported doing this.
Colds are caused by viruses, while antibiotics treat bacterial infections.
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Ukrainian and Russian humanitarian delegations began evacuating residents from Russian-occupied Oleshky on Oct. 30 under a temporary local ceasefire. The planned route takes evacuees through Russia and Belarus before they return to Ukraine on Saturday; aid deliveries are also underway.
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Oleshky is in Ukraine’s Kherson region and has been occupied by Russia since the early days of the war.
A temporary ceasefire was arranged for Oct. 28 through Nov. 1 to allow aid deliveries and evacuations.
Ukraine’s Human Rights Ombudsman Dmytro Lubinets led the Ukrainian delegation in Oleshky.
The convoy included 25 buses, and ambulances brought food and medicine.
Local authorities said about 2,000 people remained in the city.
Ukrainian officials and residents voiced concern that Russia could use humanitarian missions to move troops or resources.
Fighting continued elsewhere: a Russian strike on a Dnipro train station killed at least 14 people, and a Russian attack on Kyiv’s energy grid left hundreds of thousands without power.
Ukraine struck a Russian oil refinery for the first time in two weeks, according to the article.
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Tom Hoyle, co-owner of Charlotte screen-printing company MadPark Designs, drew widespread attention after comparing a Trump rally in Rock Hill to the 1978 Jonestown massacre during an Oct. 29 Fox News interview. MadPark is selling $28 T-shirts featuring his quote and a skeleton graphic.
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Hoyle made the comparison while Fox correspondent Lucas Tomlinson interviewed him at a Trump rally in Rock Hill on Oct. 29.
Hoyle said he had planned to cause a commotion while Trump was speaking, but the Fox reporter interviewed him before Trump took the stage.
Hoyle said the Secret Service asked him to leave after the interview.
MadPark Designs is a Charlotte screen printer launched in 2018 and co-owned by Hoyle.
The clip had 5.3 million views on Mother Jones' Instagram and 206,000 views on TMZ's TikTok as of the article's reporting.
MadPark is selling $28 T-shirts featuring Hoyle's quote and a skeleton graphic.
Hoyle said he was considering ideas for another shirt.
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Federal debt exceeded the country’s gross domestic product for fiscal 2026, according to the article. Bureau of Economic Analysis figures put economic output at more than $32.2 trillion from the fourth quarter of 2025 through the third quarter of 2026.
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The article reports that federal debt topped GDP for fiscal 2026.
The Bureau of Economic Analysis supplied the GDP data.
The figures cover the fourth quarter of 2025 through the third quarter of 2026.
GDP over that period was more than $32.2 trillion.
The cited BEA statistics were not seasonally adjusted.
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U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio urged G20 officials meeting in Atlanta to work together against threats to the economic order. The United States scrapped the traditional group photo after several European officials objected to being pictured with Russia’s Sergei Lavrov.
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G20 officials met in Atlanta.
Marco Rubio urged officials to work together to confront threats to the economic order.
The United States scrapped the traditional G20 group photo.
Several European officials objected to being pictured with Sergei Lavrov.
Sergei Lavrov was identified as Russia’s representative.
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Families in Port Sudan face persistent water shortages and high prices, worsened by the collapse of the Arbaat Dam and the arrival of people displaced by Sudan’s war. Repairs have restored parts of the water network, but many households still rely on costly deliveries from vendors.
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Amina Khalafallah spends about 10,000 Sudanese pounds a day on water for herself and her four children, equal to her monthly salary over 30 days.
Her home in Port Sudan’s Deim Mayo neighbourhood is not connected to a piped water network, so she buys water from street vendors.
The African Development Bank reported that Port Sudan’s water supply met less than 40 percent of demand.
The Arbaat Dam, which once supplied half of Port Sudan’s daily water needs, collapsed after heavy rain and flooding in August 2024.
The dam’s collapse damaged pipelines and wells and left some neighbourhoods dependent on water delivered by truck.
Water distributor Ahmed Osman said the cost of a 50,000-litre tanker rose from about 450,000 to 1.5 million Sudanese pounds after the war began.
The UNDP said restoration work included drilling or rehabilitating 15 boreholes, laying 17 kilometres of pipelines, and installing solar-powered pumps.
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Saudi Arabia’s Jeddah Tower has reached its 121st floor, at about 1,587 feet, and its construction team expects it to reach the halfway point near Thanksgiving 2026. The project is still nominally on track for completion in 2028, though the team distinguishes structural completion from being fully finished and occupied.
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The planned Jeddah Tower height is approximately 3,281 feet.
When completed, the tower is expected to surpass the 2,717-foot Burj Khalifa as the world’s tallest building.
The tower had reached its 121st floor and a height of about 1,587 feet when the article reported it.
The team identifies the 125th floor, at about 1,640 feet, as the halfway point.
The contractor’s senior executive project director said construction had recently advanced at a rate of about four floors per month.
Architect Ben Johnson said the tower was nominally still on track for completion around August 2028.
Structural topping out is expected around the fourth quarter of 2028, according to project manager John Peronto.
Architect Gordon Gill has argued that sustainable architecture should focus on improving existing buildings as well as new construction.
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A Texas grand jury indicted ICE officer Mario Alberto Morales on a second-degree aggravated assault charge over an October 10 collision with Miguel Parra Hernandez in Harris County. Prosecutors allege Morales deliberately drove his SUV into Hernandez, while ICE disputes that the collision was intentional; Morales had not been taken into custody when the indictment was announced.
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Morales, 33, is an ICE Enforcement and Removal Operations officer.
The charge concerns an October 10 encounter during an enforcement operation in northwest Harris County.
Prosecutors say Morales drove a 2025 Jeep Grand Cherokee toward Hernandez, who was fleeing on foot, and ran over both of his legs.
Prosecutors released surveillance and body-camera footage, and cited Morales’ recorded statement after the collision.
ICE said Hernandez ran in front of the agency vehicle and rejected the claim that the collision was intentional.
Hernandez, a 48-year-old Mexican national, suffered serious injuries and remained in ICE custody while receiving rehabilitation care, according to the article.
Morales’ lawyer said he intended to surrender after the criminal case was assigned to a court.
If convicted, Morales could face two to 20 years in prison.
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The European Union and Canada agreed to deepen cooperation at a summit in Montreal, including through a digital trade deal and more than 20 proposed measures. The plans cover critical minerals, artificial intelligence, support for Ukraine and student exchanges, as Canada pursues closer ties with the bloc amid trade tensions with the United States.
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Prime Minister Mark Carney hosted the Canada-EU summit in Montreal with European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen and European Council President Antonio Costa.
Canada and the EU described their goal as an “Alliance for the Future”; the term “associate member” has no legal basis and is contested by some EU states.
The two sides signed a digital trade deal and said they had established more than 20 measures to strengthen cooperation.
The European Investment Bank plans to invest in critical Canadian resources, particularly raw minerals.
Canada announced it would join the EU’s 90 billion euro support loan for Ukraine, with an initial contribution of 500 million euros.
Canada and the EU said they would start negotiations to expand Canada’s participation in Erasmus+, the EU student exchange programme.
The two sides also agreed to advance cooperation on the security and safety of artificial intelligence.
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The FBI arrested James Thomas Ashbacher, a former North Carolina government contractor, on federal charges tied to allegedly sharing classified military material online, keeping defense records at home and stealing Army night-vision equipment. Prosecutors say agents found a classified award nomination and a night-vision system at his residence; the charges remain allegations.
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Ashbacher, 37, is from Spring Lake, North Carolina.
Federal charges include unauthorized transmission of national defense information, unlawful retention of defense records and theft of government property.
Prosecutors allege Ashbacher photographed and removed classified videos and photographs of military operations, then sent them to a social media site.
The Justice Department says other users later reposted the materials on a second social media site.
Prosecutors allege Ashbacher privately urged a user to remove some posted material, saying he was trying to do damage control.
Agents searching his home found a classified military award nomination and a night-vision goggle system reported missing from an Army special operations command unit.
Ashbacher worked for a contractor providing security and emergency management services to the Army at Fort Bragg and held a top-secret clearance with sensitive compartmented information access.
The FBI’s Charlotte field office is investigating with the Army’s criminal investigation division.
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A federal appeals court rejected the Justice Department’s emergency request to set aside mail ballots linked to more than 20,000 California voters the Trump administration suspects are noncitizens. The 2–1 ruling leaves California’s election procedures in place days before the midterms, citing doubts about the government’s voter list and the risk of barring eligible voters.
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The Justice Department sought to set aside mail ballots linked to more than 20,000 California voters.
The Trump administration suspects those voters are noncitizens.
A federal appeals court rejected the request in a 2–1 ruling.
The ruling leaves California’s election procedures intact.
The majority cited a lower court’s finding that the process for identifying suspected noncitizens was not credible.
The court cited a risk that eligible voters could be disenfranchised.
The ruling came days before the midterm elections.
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Independent Senate candidate Daniel J. Sullivan left Petersburg for Anchorage earlier in the week, according to people who spoke with CBS News. Residents and a CBS News crew reported little evidence of campaign activity in his hometown, while Sullivan has said he is genuinely interested in serving as senator. Allegations that he was recruited to confuse voters remain under investigation, and no one has been charged.
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Daniel J. Sullivan is an independent candidate for the U.S. Senate in Alaska, where Republican Sen. Dan Sullivan is seeking reelection.
A Petersburg resident said she saw Daniel J. Sullivan on a flight to Anchorage on Monday.
Dozens of residents told CBS News they had not seen campaign materials from Sullivan.
Petersburg’s school district said Sullivan taught music and fourth and fifth grade for nearly 20 years before retiring in 2021.
Alaska courts reversed an initial decision by state election officials that found Sullivan ineligible for the ballot.
The Peltola campaign and national Democrats denied any connection to Sullivan’s candidacy.
Alaska Gov. Mike Dunleavy ordered an investigation, and the Justice Department expanded a criminal probe; no one has been charged.
The Justice Department is suing to block certification of the election if Sen. Dan Sullivan loses because of alleged voter confusion.
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