Utah authorities say DNA evidence and other investigative findings link Ted Bundy to the 1974 murder of 17-year-old Melissa Ann Smith, a case that remained unsolved for decades. The finding raises the number of murders attributed to Bundy to 32, and investigators say they are continuing to examine the disappearance of Nancy Wilcox.
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Hunters found Smith’s body on October 27, 1974, in a wooded area near the Summit County–Salt Lake County border.
Authorities said advances in DNA testing helped them analyze mixed DNA samples connected to the case.
Investigators said evidence from the investigation into Laura Ann Aime’s murder led them to Smith’s case.
Summit County Sheriff Casey Bates said DNA evidence, along with evidence about pattern, motive, means and opportunity, established Bundy’s responsibility for Smith’s murder.
Bundy had confessed to 30 murders before his execution in 1989; authorities now attribute 32 murders to him.
Utah officials said they are still working to link Bundy to the disappearance of 16-year-old Nancy Wilcox in October 1974.
The article says authorities had long considered Bundy a likely suspect in Smith’s murder, but had not officially identified a killer.
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An Israeli military lockdown in Hebron’s al-Jalada and Ein Deir Baha neighborhoods displaced thousands of Palestinians after two Palestinian gunmen killed two Israeli soldiers at a checkpoint on October 23. Among those affected is Haidar Yahya Tamimi, whose wedding plans and access to his home have been disrupted; local businesses and travelers have also been affected.
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Haidar Yahya Tamimi, 27, had planned to marry his fiancée, Ruba, on October 30.
The couple’s wedding furniture, suit, and other preparations remain inside their home, which Haidar cannot reach.
The lockdown began after two Palestinian gunmen killed two Israeli soldiers at a checkpoint on the western entrance to Hebron; Israeli forces killed both gunmen.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu ordered a lockdown, and Israeli forces ordered residents in al-Jalada and Ein Deir Baha to leave their homes.
Hebron’s municipality said more than 3,100 Palestinians had been displaced by Monday.
Locals estimated that more than 100 businesses were affected by the lockdown.
A travel agency in al-Jalada could not access passports for 15 people scheduled to travel to Saudi Arabia for an Umrah pilgrimage.
Seven passports for traders planning to travel to China were also reportedly trapped in the agency’s office.
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Republicans are concerned that Libertarian candidates could draw votes away from them in key U.S. Senate elections this year. They fear those votes could affect which party controls the Senate.
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Republicans are worried about Libertarian candidates in this year’s Senate elections.
The elections include some of the most consequential U.S. Senate races, according to the article.
Republicans fear Libertarian candidates could draw votes away from Republican candidates.
The concern is that those votes could affect control of the Senate.
The article was filed from Des Moines, Iowa.
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Israeli election exit polls show Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s Likud party as the largest, but neither his bloc nor the opposition appears to have enough seats to form a government. Both sides may struggle to build a coalition, while Arab parties made historic gains in parliament.
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Israel’s Knesset has 120 seats, and a government needs majority support.
Exit polls projected that voters had rejected Netanyahu’s coalition, even as Likud led among individual parties.
Israel’s two Arab parties won more seats than in any previous election.
Netanyahu and opposition leaders had pledged not to rely on Arab parties to form a government.
This was Israel’s first election since the Hamas attacks of October 7, 2023.
Israel was still engaged in fighting in Gaza, Lebanon and Syria, and had faced two direct rounds of conflict with Iran.
Former military chief Gadi Eisenkot, leader of the centrist Yashar party, was identified as a leading figure in the opposition’s change bloc.
President Donald Trump endorsed Netanyahu and said he might not continue U.S. involvement in the war with Iran if Netanyahu lost power.
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A Zimbabwean magistrate ordered Marry Mubaiwa released from remand after she spent seven years awaiting trial on an attempted-murder charge. The decision followed a request by the state to postpone the trial, and does not establish that Mubaiwa was acquitted.
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Mubaiwa was charged in 2019 after her then-husband, Vice-President Constantino Chiwenga, accused her of trying to impede his medical treatment.
The alleged incident took place while Chiwenga was receiving treatment in Pretoria, South Africa.
The magistrate said Mubaiwa had suffered mental, physical and financial harm during the trial, according to the state-owned Herald newspaper.
The state asked to delay the trial by a month so it could engage witnesses.
Mubaiwa had been held in custody and denied bail.
Her lawyer called the release a victory that came too late, citing delays that violated her client's rights.
Mubaiwa said outside court that justice had been achieved and praised her lawyer.
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Police arrested Dale Smith in connection with the 2011 disappearance of Michelle Parker, his former fiancée. Parker disappeared on the day she and Smith appeared on the reality show “The People’s Court.”
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Dale Smith was arrested in connection with Michelle Parker’s disappearance.
Parker was Smith’s former fiancée.
Parker disappeared in 2011.
Parker and Smith appeared on “The People’s Court” on the day she went missing.
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President Donald Trump criticized Muslim Democratic Senate nominee Abdulrahman Mohamed El-Sayed at a Michigan rally, making claims about security threats, sharia law and the Muslim Brotherhood. The article reports that a Michigan State University poll found voters split on whether a candidate’s Muslim faith would affect their support, while political observers said Trump’s remarks could mobilize some voters and alienate others.
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Trump spoke at a Monday Michigan rally for Republican Senate candidate Mike Rogers.
Trump called El-Sayed a “jihadist” and claimed he wanted to impose sharia law in Michigan.
El-Sayed has denied ties to extremist groups, and the article says no evidence has emerged linking him to the Muslim Brotherhood.
A Michigan State University poll found 38% of likely voters would be less likely to support a Muslim candidate, while 58% said the candidate’s faith would make no difference.
The same poll found 52% of likely voters would be less likely to support a politician endorsed by Trump.
Republican consultant Dennis Darnoi said the remarks could mobilize Trump’s supporters but might discourage some voters from supporting El-Sayed.
A White House spokesperson said Trump was criticizing what the administration called radical extremists.
The article says Trump has also targeted Somali Americans and Rep. Ilhan Omar, and that several Republican lawmakers have made anti-Muslim comments this year.
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Alon, Oren and Tal Alexander were each sentenced to 30 years in prison on Tuesday in a federal sex trafficking case in New York City. A jury had found the three brothers guilty on all counts.
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The sentences were imposed on October 27, 2026.
Alon and Oren Alexander are 39-year-old twins.
Their brother, Tal Alexander, is 40.
Prosecutors described the alleged conduct as a decade-long sex trafficking and sexual abuse scheme.
The article says the brothers were accused of drugging, sexually assaulting and raping dozens of women.
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Early election returns in Israel showed Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s bloc competing closely with the Change coalition led by Gadi Eisenkot. Eisenkot’s grouping held a slight edge, while voter turnout reached a record, according to the article.
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Early returns were reported Tuesday evening.
Netanyahu’s bloc and the Change coalition were neck and neck.
Gadi Eisenkot leads the Change coalition.
Eisenkot is a retired general and leader of the center-right Yashar party.
Eisenkot’s grouping was slightly ahead of Netanyahu’s bloc.
The article’s headline says turnout broke a record.
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The article is a CBS News page listing an episode of “The Takeout with Major Garrett” and related headlines. It says Israel had record turnout in its parliamentary elections and that Flávio Bolsonaro fled to the United States after an election defeat.
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The episode is dated October 27.
The episode is titled “The Takeout with Major Garrett.”
The page reports record turnout in Israel’s parliamentary elections.
The page says Flávio Bolsonaro fled Brazil for the United States after his election defeat.
The page lists a segment about the United States granting visas to Bolsonaro and his family.
Other listed topics include a Houston airport fire, Texas political rallies, and flooding in California.
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Exit polls in Israel’s election gave the opposition bloc led by Gadi Eisenkot a slight lead over Benjamin Netanyahu’s coalition, while Netanyahu’s Likud was projected to be the largest party. The polls suggested no bloc had a clear path to a majority in the 120-seat Knesset, setting up coalition negotiations and leaving the final outcome uncertain.
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Exit polls projected that Israeli Arab parties could win up to 18 Knesset seats, potentially giving them a decisive role in coalition talks.
Netanyahu’s Likud was projected to emerge as the largest party despite the opposition bloc’s slight overall lead.
The Central Elections Committee rejected a request to keep polling stations open past the 10 p.m. deadline.
The committee said it had seen no evidence of systematic tampering after Netanyahu and Likud raised claims about election irregularities.
Turnout reached 74.3% by 6 p.m., about 9 percentage points higher than in the previous election.
The article described turnout as the highest in 50 years and reported a record level of participation by Israeli Arab voters.
More than 7 million people were eligible to vote.
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The Federal Election Commission’s electronic filing system went offline after reported hacking attempts, disrupting campaign-finance filings shortly before the November 3 midterm elections. The FEC said its IT staff were working to restore service; it had not publicly confirmed a successful breach or access to data.
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The filing system had been unavailable since about 10 p.m. ET Monday, according to the FEC website.
The FEC said its IT staff were working to restore the system on Tuesday.
The FEC’s search tool for previously filed reports remained available.
Reuters reported that political groups could not electronically submit certain 24-hour and 48-hour spending reports during the outage.
The FEC had not publicly identified who was responsible or said whether anyone accessed its systems or information.
The outage affected campaign-finance disclosures, not voting operations, ballot counting, or voters’ ability to cast ballots.
The FEC administers and enforces federal campaign-finance law and collects disclosures from candidates, parties, and political committees.
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Exit polls showed no clear winner after Israel’s general election, with neither Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s Likud-led bloc nor opposition leader Gadi Eisenkot’s bloc securing a majority. Final results were expected Wednesday, followed by negotiations with smaller parties to form a governing coalition.
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Polls closed at 10 p.m. local time on Tuesday, October 27.
Exit polls indicated that neither Netanyahu nor Eisenkot had won enough seats to form a government alone.
Final election results were not expected until Wednesday afternoon.
Israeli President Isaac Herzog is expected to consult party leaders and ask the candidate he believes can form a government to do so.
Netanyahu is expected to remain caretaker prime minister during coalition negotiations, which could last several weeks.
This was the first Israeli election since the Hamas attack of October 7, 2023, and the subsequent war in Gaza.
Security and foreign policy issues dominated the campaign, amid conflicts involving Israel in Gaza, Lebanon, Syria, Iran and the occupied West Bank.
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Exit polls released by Israel’s major television networks as voting closed showed no clear winner in the country’s election. The article provides no further details about the parties or projected results.
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Israel held an election.
Voting had closed when the television networks released their exit polls.
The exit polls showed no clear winner.
CBS News senior reporter Dov Lieber reported on the election.
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The U.S. military said it killed five people in an October 27 strike on a boat it alleged was involved in drug trafficking in the eastern Pacific. A human rights research group’s tracker counted at least 238 people killed in 68 previous strikes since September 2025; the article says the latest strike brings the reported total to 243, while legal experts and rights groups have challenged the campaign’s legality.
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U.S. Southern Command said the strike targeted a go-fast vessel along established drug-trafficking routes in the eastern Pacific.
SOUTHCOM said intelligence showed the vessel was involved in drug trafficking and that five people it called “narco-terrorists” were killed.
The Washington Office on Latin America tracked at least 238 deaths in 68 reported strikes before the October 27 operation.
The article says the latest strike brings the reported death toll to 243.
The U.S. government has rarely released details to support its claims that those targeted were involved in drug trafficking.
Relatives of some people killed in earlier strikes have said they were fishermen or workers, not drug traffickers.
Legal experts and rights groups have condemned the strikes as unlawful extrajudicial killings.
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A confrontation broke out at a United Nations General Assembly meeting after U.S. Ambassador Mike Waltz accused the Cuban government of profiting from forced labor. Cuban officials, including Foreign Minister Bruno Rodríguez Parrilla, slammed tables and shouted for a point of order.
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U.S. and Cuban officials argued during a United Nations General Assembly meeting.
U.S. Ambassador to the UN Mike Waltz accused Cuba’s government of profiting from forced labor.
Cuban Foreign Minister Bruno Rodríguez Parrilla was among the Cuban delegation.
Cuban officials slammed tables and shouted for a point of order.
The article describes the incident as part of a long history of public disputes between the United States and Cuba.
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Alon, Oren and Tal Alexander were each sentenced to 30 years in prison after a jury convicted them of sex trafficking and related crimes. Women who spoke at the New York sentencing described lasting harm, while the brothers’ lawyers had asked the judge for 15-year sentences.
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A jury convicted the brothers in March on all 10 counts, including conspiracy to commit sex trafficking and sex trafficking by force, fraud or coercion.
The brothers had pleaded not guilty, and their defense lawyers argued that their sexual encounters were consensual.
Prosecutors said the brothers sexually assaulted at least 70 women over more than a decade.
The indictment alleged that the brothers drugged women and assaulted them while they were incapacitated.
The brothers were arrested in December 2024.
Alon and Oren Alexander worked in luxury real estate, while Tal held an executive role at the family’s private security firm.
The women and prosecutors sought maximum sentences; defense lawyers requested 15 years for each brother.
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President Donald Trump is campaigning in Texas one week before the midterm elections, as a race there is described as a tossup. CBS News reports that Trump is campaigning for Paxton, but the available article text does not explain his reasons for making the push.
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Trump is campaigning in Texas.
The midterm elections are one week away, according to the report.
CBS News describes a Texas race as a tossup.
The report says Trump is campaigning for Paxton.
CBS News reporter Jason Allen reports on Trump's Texas campaign.
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Three brothers from Florida—Oren and Alon Alexander, both 39, and Tal Alexander, 40—were each sentenced to 30 years in prison in New York after their March convictions on multiple sex-trafficking charges. Prosecutors said they drugged and sexually assaulted women over several years at locations including Miami, New York, the Hamptons, Aspen and a Caribbean cruise.
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A dozen victims spoke at the sentencing hearing in Manhattan.
The brothers’ lawyers maintained at trial that the sexual encounters were consensual.
Oren and Tal Alexander worked in luxury real estate before starting their own brokerage, Official.
Alon Alexander ran the family’s private security company.
Prosecutors said at least 70 women were raped or sexually assaulted by the brothers.
The allegations became public in a June 2024 article by real estate news outlet The Real Deal.
Judge Valerie Caproni said the brothers should not serve their sentences at the same prison because they were a bad influence on each other.
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A New York judge sentenced Tal, Oren and Alon Alexander to 30 years in prison each after a jury found them guilty of sex trafficking and sexual assaults. At sentencing, 12 victims described the harm they said the brothers caused; prosecutors had sought life sentences, while defense lawyers asked for 15 years.
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The brothers were found guilty in March after a five-week trial.
Eleven women testified at trial, including several who said they were minors when assaulted.
Prosecutors said the brothers lured women to parties and luxury homes, drugged them and sexually assaulted them.
The brothers’ lawyers argued that the sex was consensual and asked the court for 15-year sentences.
Twelve victims addressed the court before sentencing, and many asked for life sentences.
Tal and Oren Alexander worked in luxury real estate, while Alon worked at the family’s private security firm.
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