President Donald Trump said he would ban the term “artificial intelligence” in relevant documents and elsewhere. He called the term inaccurate in a post on Truth Social.
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Trump made the statement on Tuesday.
Trump said the ban would take effect “in short order.”
He said it would cover relevant documents and “everything else.”
Trump described the term “AI/Artificial Intelligence” as inaccurate.
The article says Trump also criticized The Wall Street Journal, but provides no details.
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Russell Brand’s statements to police were read at his trial at Southwark Crown Court in London. He said he had lived a very promiscuous life but had never engaged in non-consensual sexual activity, and denied all charges.
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Brand is accused of offences against six women, with allegations spanning 1999 to 2009.
He faces three rape charges, three sexual assault charges and one attempted indecent assault charge; he has pleaded not guilty.
The attempted indecent assault charge replaced an indecent assault charge on Tuesday.
Brand told police he had led a “very promiscuous” life and had sexual encounters in many locations and situations.
He said he did not recall meeting some of the women who accused him and suggested that any contact may have been consensual.
Brand described allegations in media reports as false and said consensual encounters had been reframed decades later.
Police interviewed Brand four times between November 2023 and July 2025, and he gave prepared statements during those interviews.
The trial is continuing at Southwark Crown Court in London.
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Dr. Jennifer Shuford, the CDC’s deputy director and chief medical officer, is leaving the agency after four months in the role. She is an infectious disease physician and former Texas health commissioner who was appointed in April to support CDC director Erica Schwartz.
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Shuford is leaving the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
She served as the agency’s deputy director and chief medical officer.
She held the role for four months.
Shuford is an infectious disease physician.
She previously served as Texas health commissioner.
She was appointed in April to a leadership team supporting CDC director Erica Schwartz.
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The article says Minnesota’s open U.S. Senate race between Democratic Lieutenant Governor Peggy Flanagan and Republican Michele Tafoya could be more competitive than expected. It points to the open seat and a Cook Political Report rating shift toward Republicans, while noting that Flanagan has stronger party organization behind her.
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Senator Tina Smith is retiring when her term ends on January 3, leaving the seat open.
Flanagan is Minnesota’s lieutenant governor and has Smith’s endorsement.
Tafoya is a Republican and a former sports broadcaster with name recognition in Minnesota.
The Cook Political Report shifted the race from “likely Democrat” to “lean Democrat.”
The report cited a welfare fraud scandal and Flanagan’s underwhelming poll results as reasons for the shift.
University of Minnesota professor Larry Jacobs said Democrats have stronger organization, funding, and infrastructure in the state.
Political science professor David Schultz said Democratic Party fatigue and corruption concerns could help Republicans.
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Anthropic’s filing with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission devotes 93 of its 335 pages to risks that could affect investors and the company. It warns that rapid AI development, harmful use by bad actors, and failures in safeguards could cause serious harm, invite regulation, and damage Anthropic’s business.
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Anthropic’s filing lists risks ranging from difficulty retaining staff and regulatory obstacles to cyberattacks and dangerous misinformation.
The company said its AI models could advance faster than it can develop and apply adequate safety measures.
Anthropic warned that increasingly autonomous AI systems could take harmful actions at scale without human intervention.
The filing said AI systems could become difficult to evaluate and safeguard, especially as they contribute to Anthropic’s research and development.
Anthropic described risks that bad actors could use AI to make chemical weapons or that authoritarian governments could use it to suppress citizens.
The company said a major safety incident involving any advanced AI system could bring industry-wide reputational damage, public backlash, or sweeping regulation.
Anthropic’s founders told prospective shareholders that the company aims to help realize AI’s benefits while avoiding its dangers.
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President Donald Trump is returning to Texas on Tuesday, one week before the midterm elections. He is expected to rally supporters in Corpus Christi to support Republican Attorney General Ken Paxton in his competitive Senate race against Democrat James Talarico.
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Trump is scheduled to visit Texas on Tuesday.
The visit comes one week before the midterm elections.
Trump is expected to hold a rally in Corpus Christi.
The rally is intended to boost support for Ken Paxton.
Paxton is the Republican Texas attorney general and a Senate candidate.
Paxton is facing Democrat James Talarico in a competitive Senate race.
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President Donald Trump and Democratic Senate nominee James Talarico are scheduled to hold rallies in Lubbock, Texas, a week before Election Day. Talarico is challenging Republican nominee Ken Paxton in a closely watched race; the article reports that recent polls generally show Talarico ahead by 2 to 5 points.
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Trump is scheduled to speak at the Lubbock Memorial Civic Center at 6 p.m. Central, alongside Paxton.
Talarico is scheduled to speak at the Fiesta Center about an hour after Trump, less than three miles away.
The article identifies Paxton as Texas attorney general and the Republican Senate nominee, and Talarico as a Democratic nominee and state representative from Austin.
A YouGov poll for Univision cited in the article showed Talarico leading Paxton 50% to 45% among 1,000 registered voters.
Talarico raised $96,086 from 306 Lubbock County donors in the third quarter, compared with Paxton’s $53,204 from 97 donors, according to the article’s analysis of federal filings.
Trump’s Lubbock rally is part of his fourth trip to Texas since Labor Day, the article says.
Through October 23, voters with a Democratic primary history outnumbered those with a Republican primary history by about 75,000, according to the article.
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France’s government has proposed a law making people pay up to €10,000 for damage caused during protests. Rights groups and lawyers warn that its wording could hold peaceful demonstrators responsible for damage done by others, while the government says the measure would help compensate victims.
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Parliament is debating the draft bill this week.
The bill would make people who knowingly joined a group jointly responsible for damage caused by any member.
The state could seize welfare benefits from people convicted under the law, or from their parents if they are minors.
The government says the bill responds to looting and vandalism during protests, including unrest on October 17.
Businesses and retailers say they lost millions of euros to vandalism, looting, or protest-related shop closures.
France’s Human Rights League and trade unionists have called for the bill to be scrapped.
Interior Minister Laurent Nuñez says the bill creates joint responsibility, not collective responsibility.
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Marine Le Pen’s National Rally and Alice Weidel’s Alternative for Germany have proposed reducing the European Union’s powers and shifting authority back to member states. The article says Weidel has identified 2029 as a target for building support to reshape the EU, and argues that weaker cooperation could affect European defence, climate policy and economic competitiveness.
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After the 2016 Brexit referendum, Marine Le Pen supported the idea of France leaving the European Union, but the article says that proposal was later put aside.
Le Pen’s National Rally proposes cutting France’s contributions to the EU budget by 60% over a five-year presidential term.
National Rally also proposes ending the EU’s role in proposing common policies for its 27 member states.
Alice Weidel’s proposed “new deal for Europe” would abolish elections to the European Parliament and seek German opt-outs in areas including migration, defence and common borrowing.
Weidel has identified 2029, the year of Germany’s next scheduled election, as a target for building a critical mass of anti-EU leaders.
The article says Eurosceptic nationalist parties could potentially enter government in France, Italy and Poland.
Former European Central Bank head Mario Draghi has warned that Europe needs an industrial policy to compete with China and the United States.
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President Donald Trump said he would accept the results of the November 3 midterm elections if they were “honest.” His administration has pressed several states for voter records and filed election-related lawsuits, while state officials have disputed some of its claims and requests.
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Trump made the remarks on October 27 when asked whether he would respect the results if Republicans lost control of Congress.
The Justice Department gave Washington until Wednesday at noon local time to respond to a request to remove about 400 people it says are noncitizens from voter rolls.
Washington Secretary of State Steve Hobbs said his office was reviewing the list and had found some entries based on outdated information.
Washington won a court ruling last month that it did not have to provide the Justice Department with its full voter list.
The Justice Department sued Alaska over the state’s ballot listing of another candidate named Dan Sullivan alongside Republican Senator Dan Sullivan.
Trump said on Friday that he had personally told the Justice Department to file the Alaska lawsuit.
California officials said many of the roughly 20,000 people on a Justice Department list appeared to have been born in the United States.
The Justice Department plans to send election observers to several states, including California and New Jersey.
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Chancellor John Healey has pledged £15m over three years for a fund to tackle misogyny in schools, workplaces and communities. The fund is expected to be confirmed in the Budget and will support projects such as youth mentoring, workplace training and public campaigns.
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The fund is intended to support a national taskforce chaired by Women and Equalities Minister Bridget Phillipson.
Healey said the government hopes businesses and philanthropists will contribute additional funding.
The taskforce aims to shape government policy with input from people affected by misogyny.
The taskforce plans to focus first on young people, then on workplaces, digital spaces and social cohesion.
The Office for National Statistics estimated that 12.8% of females aged 16 and over in England and Wales experienced domestic abuse, sexual victimisation or stalking in the year to March 2026.
The comparable estimate for males was 8.9%.
Conservative shadow minister Joy Morrissey criticized the proposed spending and said it would not make women and girls safer.
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President Donald Trump plans to campaign in Corpus Christi and Lubbock to support Republican Ken Paxton in his U.S. Senate race against Democrat James Talarico. Secretary of State Marco Rubio is also expected to join Trump in Texas and highlight a newly arrived tanker carrying Venezuelan crude for Texas refineries.
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Trump is expected to speak in Corpus Christi at 3 p.m. EDT on Tuesday.
Trump plans to appear in Corpus Christi and Lubbock.
The campaign appearances aim to support Ken Paxton’s U.S. Senate campaign against James Talarico.
Texas has not elected a Democrat to statewide office in 32 years, according to the article.
Marco Rubio plans to help showcase a tanker carrying Venezuelan crude to be processed at Texas refineries.
The schedule details came from a congressional aide and two U.S. officials who spoke anonymously, the article says.
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Voting has begun in Israel, where more than seven million people are eligible to vote. The report says Palestinians in the occupied West Bank and Gaza do not vote in the Israeli election, which will determine whether Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu remains in office.
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Voting has begun in Israel.
More than seven million people are eligible to vote.
The election will determine whether Benjamin Netanyahu remains prime minister.
The report says Palestinians in the occupied West Bank have no say in the election.
The report says Palestinians in Gaza have no say in the election.
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Arab party leaders accused Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of using anti-Arab rhetoric to mobilize right-wing voters during an election. Adalah reported complaints about slow or halted polling queues and missing Arabic ballot slips, while Netanyahu’s main rival, Gadi Eisenkot, ruled out partnering with Arab parties.
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Joint List leader Yousef Jabareen said Netanyahu believed Arab voters could end his political rule.
United Arab List leader Mansour Abbas called Netanyahu’s comments a tactic to scare voters and mobilize the right.
Netanyahu accused Arab voters of supporting the Muslim Brotherhood and alleged they were stealing the election.
Netanyahu urged right-wing Israelis to vote for Likud, calling the situation a matter of life and death.
Adalah said it received reports of efforts to discourage Arab voters from voting.
Adalah reported slow or stopped queues at polling stations in Arab-majority towns and a shortage of ballot slips printed in Arabic.
Adalah said it reported the complaints to Israel’s central and regional election committees.
Gadi Eisenkot ruled out working with Arab parties, citing a lack of shared values.
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Reports cited by the article say Brazilian Senator Flávio Bolsonaro left Brazil for the United States after he lost Sunday’s presidential election to incumbent Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva. The reports said Bolsonaro had not surrendered his passports by a court-ordered deadline; President Donald Trump called the election “rigged,” while Bolsonaro denies wrongdoing in a money-laundering investigation.
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Reuters, citing two sources, reported that Bolsonaro had left Brazil for the United States.
CNN Brasil reported that Bolsonaro’s whereabouts were unknown after he missed a deadline to surrender his passports.
A source close to Bolsonaro told CNN Brasil he was flying to the United States, but the reports did not establish where he was headed or how he left Brazil.
A Brazilian court gave Bolsonaro 24 hours to surrender his passports as part of a money-laundering investigation.
The article said two Reuters sources reported that authorities canceled Bolsonaro’s travel documents after the deadline passed.
Trump said the election looked like “another rigged election” and questioned the vote count and a two-hour extension of voting.
Bolsonaro denies wrongdoing in the money-laundering investigation.
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Warner Bros. released a final trailer for Denis Villeneuve’s Dune: Part Three, which adapts Frank Herbert’s Dune: Messiah. Set nearly 20 years after the events of Dune: Part Two, the film follows Emperor Paul Atreides as he faces a conspiracy and the consequences of his rule.
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The film is set roughly 17 years after Dune: Part Two, according to Villeneuve.
The official synopsis describes Paul as a ruthless emperor facing threats, betrayal, and visions of the Imperium’s collapse.
Chani is at the heart of the conspiracy described in the synopsis.
Timothée Chalamet, Zendaya, Florence Pugh, and Rebecca Ferguson return to the cast.
New cast members include Robert Pattinson as Scytale and Anya Taylor-Joy as Alia.
Nakoa-Wolf Momoa and Ida Brooke play Paul and Chani’s children, Leto II and Ghanima.
Dune: Part Three is scheduled to open in theaters on December 18, 2026, the same day as Avengers: Doomsday.
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President Donald Trump said he will welcome a tanker carrying 1 million barrels of Venezuelan crude oil to Texas, calling it a gift and saying it could help lower fuel prices. An energy expert said the shipment is too small to noticeably affect U.S. gasoline prices, which averaged $4.27 per gallon, as Trump campaigns for Republican Ken Paxton ahead of the midterms.
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Trump said the Venezuelan oil shipment would be processed at U.S. refineries.
Trump said the delivery would come at no cost to taxpayers and predicted gasoline and diesel prices would fall.
The national average for regular gasoline was $4.27 per gallon on Tuesday, according to AAA.
The gasoline average was down from $4.48 a month earlier but up from $3.05 at the same time last year.
Columbia University energy expert Luisa Palacios said U.S. refiners process about 17 million barrels of crude per day, making the shipment roughly 6 percent of one day’s input.
Palacios said the shipment was unlikely to have a noticeable effect on U.S. gasoline prices.
Trump planned to visit Corpus Christi and Lubbock to support Republican Senate candidate Ken Paxton in his race against Democrat James Talarico.
The Conference Board said consumer confidence rose 7.5 points to 91.7 in October, from 84.2 in September.
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U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio commented Monday on Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado’s return to Venezuela. He said that people cannot “street-protest your way into a democracy,” while also praising her return, according to the article.
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Machado returned to Venezuela after being in exile.
Rubio spoke to reporters on Monday.
Rubio warned that street protests alone cannot establish a democracy.
Rubio did not explicitly name Machado in the quoted warning.
Rubio also praised Machado’s return.
Axios was cited as the source of Rubio’s remarks.
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California Republican Congressman James Gallagher introduced a bill called “Dunkin’s Law” after influencer couple Madeline White and Andrew Fedyk said their dog died while in the care of a Los Angeles dog-training and boarding facility. The bill would amend the Animal Welfare Act to strengthen protections and accountability at certain facilities, rescues and shelters, according to Gallagher and the announcement post.
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Dunkin was a 2-year-old Bernese mountain dog who died in August after being left at Smart Dogs Dog Training, according to the article.
White and Fedyk said they had left Dunkin at the facility for four weeks while traveling in Europe with their newborn daughter.
Fedyk said the facility told him Dunkin died of heatstroke after about 36 hours in the trainer’s care, and that the dog was not taken to a veterinarian.
Gallagher said the bill would give pet owners a way to seek justice when animals are harmed or neglected at covered facilities.
The bill also seeks stronger accountability for unlawful euthanasia at rescues and shelters.
Gallagher cited an ongoing investigation into Miranda’s Rescue in Humboldt County, where authorities said they found 117 dogs in various states of decomposition in June.
No charges had been filed in the Miranda’s Rescue case, and its owner, Shannon Miranda, denied wrongdoing.
Fedyk had called for more regulation of dog training, including licensing requirements and damages for wrongful pet deaths.
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The U.S. military awarded Lockheed Martin a contract worth nearly $700 million to put the Air-Launched Rapid Response Weapon (ARRW) into production. The move comes as the United States develops several hypersonic weapons programs and seeks to catch up with Russia and China, which have moved further ahead in developing these weapons.
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ARRW is designed to launch from U.S. Air Force aircraft.
The Air Force had moved to cancel ARRW development in 2023 after several test failures.
The U.S. has no operational hypersonic weapons, according to the article.
Hypersonic weapons can travel at more than five times the speed of sound; some can maneuver in flight, making interception difficult.
The Army and Navy are jointly developing the Dark Eagle/Long-Range Hypersonic Weapon, also known as Conventional Prompt Strike.
The Navy canceled its planned HALO hypersonic missile in 2024 because of cost.
A Government Accountability Office estimate puts the cost of a hypersonic missile at nearly $70 million, compared with about $4 million for a Patriot interceptor or Tomahawk cruise missile.
The article says the Trump administration has proposed raising annual U.S. military spending to $1.5 trillion, with about $38 billion for hypersonic programs.
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