Michigan's U.S. Senate race between Democrat Abdul El-Sayed and Republican Mike Rogers remains a toss-up as both candidates make a final push. The report also notes that New Hampshire Senate candidates Chris Pappas and John Sununu debated Wednesday night.
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The Michigan Senate race is between Democrat Abdul El-Sayed and Republican Mike Rogers.
The race remains a toss-up, according to the report.
Both Michigan candidates are making a final push.
New Hampshire Senate candidates Chris Pappas and John Sununu held a debate Wednesday night.
CBS News correspondent Kaia Hubbard reported on the races.
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Mohamed Sabry Soliman pleaded guilty to federal hate crime charges over a June 2025 firebomb attack on a group supporting the release of Israeli hostages in Boulder, Colorado. The attack injured at least 12 people and later killed Karen Diamond, 82; prosecutors are seeking a sentence of life in prison plus 50 years, and Soliman is due to be sentenced in January.
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Prosecutors said Soliman threw Molotov cocktails at the protesters on June 1, 2025.
The protesters were members of Run for Their Lives in Colorado, which met weekly to call for the release of Israeli hostages taken by Hamas.
Diamond died three weeks after the attack from her injuries.
Soliman pleaded guilty to 101 state charges in May, including first-degree murder, and received a life sentence.
Soliman initially pleaded not guilty in the federal case before changing his plea.
Authorities said Soliman had planned the attack for a year and watched videos about explosives.
Court documents say Soliman told police he wanted to “kill all Zionist people.”
Soliman came to California from Egypt in 2022 on a non-immigrant visa that expired in February 2023.
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Finnish and Norwegian leaders discussed the war in Ukraine with Russian President Vladimir Putin in a rare phone call. Finnish Foreign Minister Elina Valtonen shared her thoughts about the conversation in a CBS News interview.
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The call involved the leaders of Finland and Norway and Russia's Vladimir Putin.
The leaders discussed the war in Ukraine.
The phone call was described as rare.
Finnish Foreign Minister Elina Valtonen discussed the call with CBS News.
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Alaska Governor Mike Dunleavy ordered a state investigation into allegations that people linked to Democratic Senate candidate Mary Peltola’s campaign and national Democratic aides tried to recruit candidates to draw votes from Republican Senator Dan Sullivan. Peltola’s campaign and the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee deny recruiting candidates, and the legal basis for any charges remains unclear.
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Dunleavy directed the Alaska Department of Public Safety to examine whether efforts to recruit candidates violated state law and whether criminal charges or civil action are warranted.
The New York Times reported that people connected to Peltola’s campaign and Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee aides took part in efforts to recruit candidates, including Daniel J. Sullivan Jr.
The Times said a Peltola staffer was instructed in 2025 to search voter records for Alaskans named Dan Sullivan.
Peltola’s campaign and the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee denied recruiting Sullivan Jr. or other candidates.
Daniel J. Sullivan Jr., a retired teacher, is on the ballot with Senator Dan S. Sullivan and Republican Gerald Heikes.
Alaska election officials previously found Sullivan Jr.’s candidacy was intended to confuse voters, but a judge reversed that decision; the Alaska Supreme Court allowed him to remain on the ballot.
Alaska’s Department of Law asked a federal judge on October 26 to dismiss a Justice Department lawsuit concerning the state’s administration of the Senate race.
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Canadian musician Bryan Adams released “Lake Ontario,” a song criticizing President Donald Trump’s reported order to rename the lake “Lake America.” Adams says the song is part of a larger project celebrating Canada, which is set to include the album *How’s It Goin’*.
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The article says Trump signed an executive order in August directing U.S. federal agencies to rename Lake Ontario “Lake America.”
Adams’s song argues that Lake Ontario’s name reflects its Indigenous roots and criticizes the renaming effort.
The lyrics link the move to what Adams portrays as distractions from other political issues, including Iran and the Jeffrey Epstein files.
Adams described his wider songwriting project as a “love letter” to Canada.
His upcoming album *How’s It Goin’* also includes “51st State,” a song released on Canada Day that rejects Trump’s efforts to annex Canada.
Adams said audiences in the United States gave “51st State” a standing ovation each night when he performed it there.
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President Donald Trump criticized Alaska’s Senate ballot, calling it “very unfair” because it features two candidates named Dan Sullivan. He made the remarks to reporters before leaving for a rally in South Carolina.
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The Alaska Senate race includes two candidates named Dan Sullivan.
Trump called the ballot “very unfair.”
Trump spoke to reporters before departing for a rally in South Carolina.
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The article presents a weekly quiz about events from the past seven days. It mentions Chancellor John Healey’s first Budget, Storm Boelo in the UK, and elections in Brazil, Israel, and Serbia.
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The article is a weekly news quiz.
It was published seven hours before the article was provided.
The quiz was collated by Grace Dean and Richard Frost.
The article mentions Chancellor John Healey’s first Budget.
Storm Boelo crossed the UK.
Brazil, Israel, and Serbia held elections.
The title asks what was wrong with the Spotify listing of Dolly Parton’s “Jolene.”
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The article says Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva’s runoff victory over Flávio Bolsonaro could create room for stronger protection of the Amazon and other ecosystems. It also warns that agribusiness and mining interests in Congress, regional pressure over natural resources, and global heating could limit progress, and presents the result as a source of lessons for environmental and political campaigns elsewhere.
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The article reports that Lula won Brazil’s presidential runoff against Flávio Bolsonaro.
It says Brazil has a target of reaching zero deforestation by 2030.
The article reports that Amazon and Cerrado destruction recently fell to a record low.
It says Amazon deforestation rose 59.5% during Jair Bolsonaro’s 2019–2022 term and fell 71.2% during Lula’s administration.
The article reports 3,335 square kilometers of forest loss over the past year, the lowest level since satellite measurements began in 1988.
It says Bolsonaro-aligned candidates won governorships in seven of the nine Amazon-region states.
The article says agribusiness and mining interests hold significant influence in Brazil’s Congress and may seek to expand extractive industries and weaken environmental protections.
It warns that pressure from Washington over Brazil’s critical minerals and accelerating global heating could pose challenges for Lula’s environmental goals.
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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his Likud party have claimed, without evidence, that Arab parties used fraud to influence the election after his coalition lost 11 seats. Israel’s Shin Bet said it was investigating suspected foreign funding linked to one Arab party, but said the inquiry did not cast doubt on Arab voters’ right to vote or the election results.
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Arab voters turned out in record numbers, and the two Arab parties won 19 seats combined.
Likud cited the arrest of three activists from the Arab Ra’am party on suspicion of paying a small number of voters; police said there was no evidence to support Likud’s claim that the election was stolen.
The judge who heads the Central Elections Committee asked Shin Bet to investigate suspected foreign interference and report its findings within a week.
Israeli media identified Qatar as the country suspected of sending money to an Arab party to increase turnout; the article reports this as an allegation.
Shin Bet’s director said on Election Day that the election was safe and secure, then later briefed election officials and political leaders on intelligence about possible foreign funding.
Shin Bet said the investigation was focused and did not cast doubt on the Arab minority’s vote; it said only people who acted unlawfully would be held accountable.
Netanyahu’s opponents fear his campaign could deter cooperation between opposition parties and Arab parties or prevent certification of the results.
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An American cruise ship suspended its three-year global voyage while in Cambodia because of high fuel costs. Passengers, many of them retirees who planned to live at sea, now face disrupted plans and financial uncertainty.
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The cruise ship was on a planned three-year global voyage.
The ship suspended its voyage in Cambodia.
The suspension was attributed to high fuel costs.
Many passengers are retirees.
Passengers had planned to live at sea during the trip.
The cancellation disrupted passengers’ plans and finances.
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The CBS News segment examines an alleged ballot-stacking scheme in Alaska involving two candidates named Dan Sullivan. Alaska’s Republican governor has called for an investigation, and election expert David Becker joins the discussion. The article title also references a Justice Department effort to make California set aside ballots, but the provided text gives no details about that effort.
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The segment concerns an alleged ballot-stacking scheme in Alaska.
The allegation involves putting two people named Dan Sullivan on the ticket.
Alaska’s Republican governor has called for an investigation.
CBS News correspondent Taurean Small reports on the Alaska matter.
Election expert and CBS News contributor David Becker joins the segment.
The article title mentions a Justice Department bid to force California to set aside ballots.
The provided article text does not explain the California matter or identify the ballots involved.
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London’s Metropolitan Police has referred its handling of a 2019 letter to the Independent Office for Police Conduct. The letter contained claims of alleged offending outside the UK; the force gave it to the office of the Duke and Duchess of Sussex but did not share its details with other law enforcement agencies at the time.
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The Met said it received the letter in January 2019, addressed to its protection command.
The letter’s author said they were raising concerns about the Duchess of Sussex’s security, but the Met said it contained no specific security information.
The Met said the letter included claims about alleged offending outside the United Kingdom.
The force passed the letter to the office of the Duke and Duchess of Sussex.
The Met’s review led it to refer its decisions to the Independent Office for Police Conduct, a police oversight body.
The Met said it plans to refer the allegations to relevant overseas law enforcement agencies.
Thomas Markle Jr told the Sun that he found suspected child sexual abuse images at his father’s former home in the Philippines and reported them to local police and the FBI.
Thomas Markle Sr denies possessing illicit material; the article says he has admitted paying for sex in the Philippines.
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A new Pentagon report includes a high-resolution image of China’s Shenlong space plane attached to an unidentified satellite, with its payload bay doors open. The spacecraft is on its fourth mission, but China has not disclosed its objectives; observers have reported it releasing objects into orbit, though there is no confirmation it has interfered with other spacecraft.
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The Defense Intelligence Agency published the image in a report on threats to U.S. security in space.
Vantor’s WorldView-3 satellite took the image in 2024 from about 56 miles away, at a resolution of 1.8 inches per pixel.
Shenlong has been on orbital missions since 2020 and launched its fourth mission in February 2026, according to the article.
LeoLabs said it detected an object near Shenlong in June and assessed with high confidence that the space plane released it.
Observers have reported object releases during earlier Shenlong missions, and its 2023 mission may have included close-approach operations with another spacecraft.
Close-approach operations can support satellite inspection or servicing, but may also have military uses.
China says its program is intended to develop reusable spaceflight technology.
The United States also operates a reusable robotic space plane, the Boeing-built X-37B, through the U.S. Space Force.
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U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Mike Waltz got into a shouting match with the Cuban delegation at the U.N. The report says the confrontation occurred while Waltz was speaking.
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Mike Waltz is identified as the U.S. ambassador to the United Nations.
Waltz argued with members of the Cuban delegation.
The confrontation took place at the United Nations.
The exchange became a shouting match.
The report describes the dispute as being over Cuba.
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Washington Secretary of State Steve Hobbs told federal prosecutors that their list of about 400 alleged noncitizens registered to vote was unreliable and included many U.S. citizens. He said election officials should not set aside ballots without individual proof that a voter is ineligible, while prosecutors asked the state to hold ballots until citizenship could be checked.
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Hobbs said a preliminary review found many people on the federal list were U.S. citizens.
The list also included people who were not currently registered in Washington or had inactive registrations.
Hobbs said the Justice Department did not explain how it compiled the list or identify its sources.
The list arrived as a PDF with a printed spreadsheet, lacked fields such as voter ID numbers and addresses, and contained duplicate entries, according to Hobbs.
Federal prosecutors Neil Floyd and Pete Serrano asked Washington to set aside ballots from the alleged noncitizens until their citizenship status could be verified.
More than 1.3 million mail ballots had been returned in Washington by Wednesday, according to the article.
In a separate case, a federal judge rejected the Justice Department's request to set aside ballots from about 20,000 people it alleged were noncitizens in California.
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The article urges Congress to pass the Biosimilar Red Tape Elimination Act. It says the bill would lower medication costs by removing the interchangeability standard for biologic medicines.
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The article supports passage of the Biosimilar Red Tape Elimination Act.
The bill concerns biologic medicines and biosimilars.
The proposal would remove the interchangeability standard for biosimilars.
The article says the standard adds costs.
The article argues that removing the standard could make medications more affordable.
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A Pakistani antiterrorism court sentenced human rights lawyers Imaan Mazari and Hadi Ali Chattha to 10 years in prison on terrorism-related charges. The case concerns their removal of road barriers on a route designated for the England cricket team in October 2024; the couple denied the charges and said they were being targeted for their human rights work.
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Judge Tahir Abbas Sipra announced the verdict on Thursday after the trial was held inside Adiala prison in Rawalpindi.
The court said the barrier removal put the England cricket team’s security at risk, while describing the incident as an ordinary removal of a barrier.
Mazari and Chattha were indicted on October 7 and pleaded not guilty.
The couple have been in custody since January 23 in a separate case involving their social media posts.
A lower court previously sentenced them to 17 years each under Pakistan’s Prevention of Electronic Crimes Act.
Pakistan’s Supreme Court suspended those sentences, but police re-arrested the couple in the security breach case.
Mazari’s mother, Shireen Mazari, said the couple were denied a fair chance to defend themselves and said the defence would appeal to the Supreme Court.
Amnesty International condemned the convictions and said the charges were being used to punish the lawyers for their human rights advocacy.
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Benjamin Netanyahu and Likud alleged that foreign-backed vote buying and other irregularities affected Tuesday’s Israeli election, in which his coalition lost its parliamentary majority. Election officials, police and President Isaac Herzog challenged the allegations, while opposition leaders accused Netanyahu of trying to undermine the results; Qatar denied involvement.
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With almost all votes counted, Netanyahu’s coalition had 53 seats in the 120-seat Knesset, the main opposition bloc had 48, and the Joint List and Ra’am together had 19.
Neither the incumbent coalition nor the main Jewish opposition bloc won a majority, leaving the two Arab Israeli parties with the balance of power.
Netanyahu and Likud called for the Shin Bet, Israel’s internal security service, to investigate alleged vote buying and other irregularities in Palestinian communities in Israel.
Acting elections committee director general Dean Livneh said there appeared to be no basis for the allegations, and police officials described them as groundless.
President Isaac Herzog urged political leaders not to tarnish an entire community for exercising its right to vote.
Opposition leader Gadi Eisenkot said Likud and Netanyahu were pursuing a campaign to delegitimise the election results.
Qatari adviser Majed al-Ansari said Qatar categorically denied involvement in the Israeli election.
The newly elected Knesset was due to be sworn in within 14 days of the election.
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The UAE’s Abu Dhabi Federal Court of Appeal sentenced eight people to life in prison for trafficking weapons and military equipment to Sudan’s army and laundering money through UAE companies and bank accounts, according to state media. The court ordered the seizure of items used in the crimes and the deportation of those convicted after they serve their sentences. The case comes amid Sudan’s ongoing war, which has displaced more than 14 million people and caused severe poverty and food shortages.
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WAM reported that the court found the eight people took part in an organized scheme involving weapons, ammunition and military equipment.
The court found that the accused used forged documents, companies and bank accounts in the UAE to move and conceal money linked to the arms deals.
The court ordered the confiscation of ammunition and communications devices used in the crimes.
The convicted people are to be deported from the UAE after serving their sentences.
Sudan’s military has accused the UAE of supplying arms to the Rapid Support Forces, its rival in the civil war; the UAE has denied the allegation.
Sudan’s war has displaced more than 14 million people and caused severe poverty and food shortages.
A recent drone attack on a market in Nyala killed more than 100 people, mostly women and children, according to the article.
MSF said a hospital it supports in Nyala received 36 bodies after a second attack and treated more than 150 wounded people.
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Elm Street School in Walpole, Massachusetts, canceled its annual Halloween parade and barred students from wearing costumes, replacing the celebration with a black-and-orange Spirit Day. A petition asking the school to restore the tradition had nearly 700 signatures by Thursday morning, according to the article.
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Students at Elm Street School are scheduled to wear black-and-orange outfits for Spirit Day on Friday.
The petition asks school officials to reconsider canceling the parade and to allow costumes at school.
Parent Liz Cambell told CBS News that the school newsletter said costumes were not allowed, while she heard about the parade cancellation from children.
Falmouth Elementary School reversed a similar costume restriction in September after more than 600 families signed a petition.
In 2017, Boyden School in Walpole replaced its Halloween parade with a black-and-orange Spirit Day, and parent committees organized separate celebrations.
In Ohio, Leetonia Exempted Village School District canceled a Trunk or Treat event and closed its elementary school parade to the public, citing a safety concern.
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