U.S. District Judge Ana Reyes has opened an investigation into whether the Trump administration misled her in a legal dispute over President Donald Trump’s plans to redevelop East Potomac Golf Links. The investigation emerged during a Friday hearing that the article describes as another tense clash between Reyes and the Justice Department.
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Judge Ana Reyes is overseeing the legal dispute.
Reyes opened an investigation into potential misconduct by the Justice Department.
The inquiry concerns whether the Trump administration lied to the judge.
The case involves President Trump’s plans to redevelop East Potomac Golf Links.
The dispute is ongoing.
A Friday hearing included another clash between Reyes and the Justice Department.
The article says the Justice Department repeatedly took issue with matters discussed at the hearing, but the provided text does not specify them.
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The U.S. Education Department posted a doctored image on X showing its Washington, D.C., headquarters with a Spirit Halloween banner. The post appeared the day before Halloween, as President Donald Trump and Education Secretary Linda McMahon work on the department’s future.
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The department posted the image on Friday.
The image showed the Education Department’s headquarters in Washington, D.C., with a Spirit Halloween banner.
The post said, “These things are just popping up everywhere!”
The image was posted the day before Halloween.
The article links the post to President Donald Trump and Education Secretary Linda McMahon’s work involving the department.
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President Donald Trump is scheduled to meet Stephen Hubbard at the White House on Friday, according to sources familiar with the meeting. Hubbard returned to the United States last week after spending more than four years in a Russian prison on an accusation that he fought as a mercenary for Ukraine.
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Trump is scheduled to meet Hubbard at the White House on Friday.
Sources familiar with the meeting told CBS News about the planned meeting.
Hubbard spent more than four years in a Russian prison.
Russia accused Hubbard of fighting as a mercenary for Ukraine.
Hubbard was released and returned to the United States last week.
CBS News published the report on Oct. 30, 2026.
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Colombia’s government announced plans to cut about 181 billion pesos (roughly $57 million) from the Special Jurisdiction for Peace (JEP), the court created under the 2016 peace deal with the FARC to investigate and prosecute conflict-era crimes. The cuts and a Senate committee’s move to advance a bill abolishing the court have raised concerns among victims and former fighters that investigations and efforts to locate remains could be disrupted.
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The JEP was established in 2016 as part of a peace agreement between Colombia’s government and the FARC.
The court investigates and prosecutes crimes committed during Colombia’s internal armed conflict.
The government announced planned JEP budget cuts valued at about 181 billion Colombian pesos, or roughly $57 million.
A Senate committee advanced a bill that would eliminate the JEP by March 2028 and transfer its work to the general court system.
Angela Cordon said the JEP helped her learn about her father and uncle’s captivity and the site where they were executed.
The JEP has worked with former FARC members to try to locate the remains of Cordon’s father and uncle.
Cordon fears reduced funding will mean fewer field missions and less humanitarian staff, making it harder to find answers and recover remains.
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PBS News will begin live coverage of the 2026 midterm elections at 6 p.m. EST on Tuesday, Nov. 3. A final PBS News/NPR/Marist poll cited in the article gives Democrats an 8-point lead among likely voters in the contest for control of Congress.
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The 2026 midterm elections are scheduled for Nov. 3.
PBS News plans to start its live election coverage at 6 p.m. EST on Election Day.
President Donald Trump is not on the ballot.
The article says the midterms could shape the final years of Trump’s presidency.
The final PBS News/NPR/Marist poll cited gives Democrats an 8-point lead among likely voters in the fight for control of Congress.
The article says Democrats have gained ground on affordability and the Iran War.
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The headline reports that Binance suffered a cryptocurrency hack involving $6.3 billion. It describes the incident as the largest crypto hack in history, but the provided article text gives no further details.
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The headline identifies Binance as the target of the hack.
The headline puts the amount involved at $6.3 billion.
The article describes the incident as a cryptocurrency hack.
The headline calls it the largest crypto hack in history.
The provided text does not explain when the hack occurred.
The provided text does not identify who carried out the hack.
The page lists cryptocurrency, money, and Bitcoin as related topics.
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Christa Pike said she remains in constant physical and emotional pain a month after surviving a failed lethal injection in Tennessee. She said she is trying to heal and thanked medical workers and others who supported her.
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Pike made her first public statement since surviving the execution attempt on Sept. 30.
Tennessee tried to execute Pike with two doses of pentobarbital for the 1995 killing of 19-year-old Colleen Slemmer.
Pike said she has pain throughout her body and still struggles to speak.
Her lawyers said the failed injection left her arms burned and blistered; she was unconscious and on a ventilator for several days.
Experts have examined whether a problem with the IV line caused the drug to enter tissue instead of her bloodstream.
Gov. Bill Lee ordered an investigation and postponed Tennessee’s other lethal injection scheduled for this year.
Tennessee’s prison chief resigned after the failed execution.
Pike’s lawyers have asked Lee to reduce her sentence to life imprisonment; Lee said the sentence would likely remain unchanged unless the courts decide otherwise.
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Fujifilm plans to invest about 10 billion yen ($63 million) to raise magnetic tape production capacity fivefold, citing growing data archiving needs linked to generative AI. The expansion at its Odawara site is scheduled for fiscal years 2026 through 2028 and will focus mainly on its latest LTO tape.
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Fujifilm’s planned capacity increase is measured against its fiscal year 2025 production levels.
The investment will expand facilities and add personnel at the company’s Kanagawa Factory, Odawara site.
Fujifilm says major cloud service and data center operators are increasing their use of tape to store large volumes of data at relatively low cost.
Tape cartridges can be disconnected from networks and stored separately, helping protect backups from cyberattacks such as ransomware.
Fujifilm introduced its LTO Ultrium 10 tape in 2025.
Fujifilm says it first commercially produced tape using barium ferrite magnetic particles in 2011.
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North Korea has used cryptocurrency theft to earn foreign currency, with suspected hacks worth billions of dollars since 2017. A UN panel estimated the stolen funds generated about half of the country’s foreign-currency income, and one country estimated they financed 40% of its weapons of mass destruction programs. Experts have linked major crypto thefts to North Korean hacking group TraderTraitor, though the article says attribution of the reported $6.3 billion theft may not be proven.
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A UN panel said it was reviewing 58 suspected North Korean cyberattacks on cryptocurrency-related companies from 2017 to 2023, valued at $3 billion.
The UN panel estimated that proceeds from the suspected attacks generated half of North Korea’s foreign-currency income.
One unnamed country estimated that stolen cryptocurrency funds paid for 40% of North Korea’s weapons of mass destruction programs.
The article reports that suspected North Korean cryptocurrency thefts in 2023 numbered as many as 17 and totaled $750 million.
The FBI attributed the February 2025 theft of $1.5 billion from the Bybit exchange to TraderTraitor.
In 2016, North Korean hackers tried to transfer $951 million from Bangladesh Bank’s account at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York; $81 million was stolen.
In 2019, British officials disrupted a North Korean attempt to make cash machines linked to 56 financial institutions pay out unusually large sums.
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A Harris County grand jury indicted ICE officer Mario Alberto Morales on a charge of aggravated assault with a deadly weapon. Prosecutors allege Morales drove his vehicle into Miguel Parra in Houston, injuring him.
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Morales is a 33-year-old Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer.
A grand jury in Harris County, Texas, returned the indictment on Friday.
The charge is aggravated assault with a deadly weapon.
The alleged incident took place in Houston.
The man Morales allegedly struck is identified as Miguel Parra.
The article says Parra was injured.
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A report by two researchers describes a paid online influence campaign that promoted anti-Muslim, anti-migrant, racist and anti-Qatar views across 30 countries. The researchers estimate it generated at least 533 million ad exposures and say, with moderate to high confidence, that it was launched from within Israel and sought to serve Israeli interests.
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The investigation took three years and was published on Thursday.
The researchers estimate the campaign likely cost more than $11 million.
The report counted at least 533 million ad exposures between October 2023 and October 2026.
The ads appeared on platforms including YouTube, TikTok and Facebook.
The United Kingdom had the most reported exposures, at 154 million; the United States had 100 million.
France accounted for about one-third of the campaign's ad placements, according to the report.
The researchers said the campaign's timing appeared to align with elections in some countries and warned that it remained active ahead of elections in France and Italy in 2027.
The report said campaign metadata pointed to work in Israel's time zone and computers using Hebrew drive and folder names.
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Sir Patrick Stewart died on Oct. 28, 2026, at age 86. The article revisits a 2013 interview in which Stewart and fellow actor Ian McKellen discussed their friendship, stage work, and experiences that shaped their careers.
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Stewart was 86 when he died.
The archived interview aired on CBS News' Sunday Morning on Oct. 13, 2013.
Lesley Stahl interviewed Stewart and McKellen.
The actors discussed a friendship they formed through stage work and the X-Men films.
At the time of the interview, they were rehearsing for Broadway productions of Waiting for Godot and No Man's Land.
Stewart was known for his role in the Star Trek franchise.
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A 2013 “CBS Sunday Morning” interview featured actors Sir Patrick Stewart and Sir Ian McKellen discussing their friendship and careers with Lesley Stahl. The interview took place as they rehearsed for Broadway productions of “Waiting for Godot” and “No Man’s Land.”
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Patrick Stewart died on Oct. 28, 2026, at age 86.
Stewart was best known for roles in the “Star Trek” franchise.
The interview aired on Oct. 13, 2013.
Lesley Stahl interviewed Stewart and McKellen for CBS News.
The actors discussed their friendship, which developed through stage work and the “X-Men” films.
They were rehearsing for Broadway productions of Samuel Beckett’s “Waiting for Godot” and Harold Pinter’s “No Man’s Land.”
Stewart and McKellen discussed personal experiences that shaped their careers.
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Ohio prosecutors dropped charges against Eljay Crisp-Carr, who had been arrested in connection with a June shooting at Toledo’s Old West End festival that wounded 12 people. The dismissal was without prejudice, so prosecutors can refile charges, and the investigation remains ongoing.
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Crisp-Carr, 20, had faced more than 50 felony charges, including 25 counts of attempted murder.
He spent about five months in custody before his release after the charges were dismissed.
The Lucas County prosecutor’s office cited new and developing evidence and said it informed Crisp-Carr’s attorney in September that some evidence may support his defense.
Crisp-Carr’s lawyers said video and cellphone evidence supported his claim that he was not at the festival during the shooting.
The prosecutor’s office said Toledo police continue to investigate the shooting.
The shooting erupted after a fight between rival groups apparently escalated into gunfire; the two people who reportedly shot at each other were not among the wounded.
Organizers canceled the second day of the annual festival after the shooting.
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The LADWP Board of Commissioners voted to request a review of the utility’s rates and how it applies them to customers. A UCLA analysis found LADWP rates rose 45% in the past year, compared with 4% for Southern California Edison; a city ratepayer advocate said the increases outpaced inflation and that the review should examine rate design and transparency.
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The board passed a resolution requesting a review of LADWP’s rates, rate structures and customer charges.
The city’s Office of Public Accountability serves as Los Angeles’ independent ratepayer advocate.
CBS California Investigates found eight supervisors and one executive at LADWP earn more than $700,000 a year, and more than two dozen supervisors earn more than $600,000.
LADWP said overtime makes up 5% of its $10.8 billion budget and total labor costs account for 18%.
LADWP reported overtime compensation increased 17%, from about $426 million in 2024 to more than $499 million in 2025.
A UCLA School of Law Emmett Institute analysis found LADWP rates rose 45% in the past year, compared with a 4% increase at Southern California Edison.
The city ratepayer advocate said capital projects, operations and maintenance are bigger rate cost drivers than individual salaries.
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European diplomats declined to join a planned G20 group photo with Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov, so U.S. hosts cancelled it. The meeting is taking place in Atlanta and is hosted by Secretary of State Marco Rubio; Ukraine was not invited.
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Two officials confirmed that the photo scheduled for Friday morning was cancelled.
A U.S. official said some delegations were unwilling to take part in a joint photo.
The United Kingdom was among the countries that refused to participate, according to a diplomatic source.
A British official said the UK has a longstanding policy against direct bilateral engagement with Russian ministers since Russia invaded Ukraine.
Ukraine is not a G20 member and was not invited to this meeting.
The article reports that the U.S. recently waived some Russian sanctions and agreed to a deal to import Russian diesel.
Trump said suspending some sanctions was intended to keep Moscow involved in negotiations over the war.
Russia launched its full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022 and controls about a fifth of Ukrainian territory, according to the article.
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Meta settled a social media addiction lawsuit with an 18-year-old plaintiff on Friday, avoiding a trial that had begun jury selection. The plaintiff, identified as “K.D.B.,” alleged that using Instagram and Snapchat as a child worsened her mental health and contributed to an eating disorder and suicidal thoughts.
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Meta reached a settlement with the plaintiff during the trial process.
The settlement avoided the next bellwether trial, a case used to help assess similar lawsuits.
Jury selection for the case had begun earlier in the week.
The plaintiff is 18 years old and is from Mississippi.
The lawsuit alleged that the plaintiff used Instagram and Snapchat as a child.
She alleged that the platforms contributed to mental health problems and an eating disorder.
The article does not disclose the settlement terms.
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President Donald Trump said he would consider a proposal from Representative Anna Paulina Luna to cap federal student loan interest rates at 2.5 percent. The bill remains pending in the House, and Trump’s comments come as changes to repayment options and student loan costs draw attention ahead of the 2026 midterms.
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Luna’s proposal would cap federal student loan interest rates at 2.5 percent.
Trump said, “It’s something that I would certainly consider,” when asked about the proposal.
The bill is pending in the House Education and Workforce Committee.
Luna said on X that Trump would support the cap, although his reported remarks said he would consider it.
Federal Reserve data put outstanding student loan debt at about $1.86 trillion in the second quarter of 2026.
The article says changes under the One Big Beautiful Bill Act removed income-driven repayment and forgiveness options for some borrowers, including certain Parent PLUS borrowers.
A Student Debt Crisis Center survey found that 92 percent of respondents planned to vote in the midterms.
Nearly two-thirds of survey respondents said higher student loan payments had led them to cut spending on necessities such as food, housing, or health care.
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A strengthening El Niño and an unusually early polar vortex collapse could both affect U.S. weather in the coming weeks. Forecasts cited in the article call for a brief cold spell in parts of the northern Midwest and Northeast in early November, followed by generally warmer-than-average conditions in November.
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NOAA forecasters expect El Niño to reach peak strength this winter.
El Niño involves unusually warm equatorial Pacific waters and weakened trade winds.
Meteorologist Jeff Berardelli said the polar vortex collapse appears to be the earliest on record, about a month earlier than previous events.
AccuWeather meteorologist Alex DaSilva said the early timing may limit the amount of Arctic cold available to move south.
The northern Midwest and Northeast are expected to have below-average temperatures during the first week of November.
DaSilva expects El Niño’s influence to favor above-average temperatures across the U.S. during the rest of November.
El Niño often brings warmer, drier winter weather to the northern U.S. and wetter, stormier conditions to the South.
A weakened or split polar vortex can send Arctic air toward the mid-latitudes, but that does not guarantee a major U.S. cold outbreak.
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A joint humanitarian operation began evacuating civilians from Russian-held Oleshky in southern Ukraine under a localized ceasefire. The convoy brought food and medicine, while residents who left for Ukraine faced a long route through Russia and Belarus; the number evacuated was unclear.
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Oleshky lies on the Russian-occupied side of the Dnipro River, opposite Kherson.
About 2,000 people remained in the city, including around 50 children, according to authorities and volunteers.
Residents had faced months of serious food and medical shortages, and some said they survived on small amounts of grain and wild plants.
The convoy included 25 buses and ambulances carrying food and medicine and offering transport for people who wanted to leave.
A localized ceasefire allowed roads out of Oleshky to be cleared of mines.
Some evacuees traveled toward Anapa in southern Russia, then planned to fly to Belarus and travel by bus to Ukraine.
Several hundred residents, mainly older people, chose to stay in Oleshky.
The article said it was unclear how many people traveled in the convoy.
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