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Cornell police got tip that Chi Phi leaders sought silence after reported rape claim

One day after a campus-wide alert notified students about a reported rape at a Cornell University fraternity in 2024, the school's police department received a tip from an anonymous caller saying that...

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Trump allies push to sideline AI safety advocates as fight over oversight grows

BERKELEY, Calif. - After artificial intelligence safety advocates captured Washington's attention with dire warnings about the technology's power, the Trump administration and its allies embraced some...

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Protests erupt on Cornell campus as students rally in support of 'Jane Doe'

Thousands of people gathered at Cornell University in Ithaca, N.Y., on Monday in support of "Jane Doe," the former student who alleges she was drugged and raped by multiple members of a fraternity in ...

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Paramount-Warner Bros. finally merger closes, creating media giant Skydance

The $110 billion merger of Paramount Skydance and Warner Bros. Discovery closed on Tuesday after Supreme Court Justice Elena Kagan denied a last-minute effort to halt the deal.The new company — known ...

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Police and students clash in France as high school unrest intensifies

The interior ministry said 86,000 had joined the protests, unions gave a higher figure (ROMEO BOETZLE)Tens of thousands of demonstrators took to the streets across France on Tuesday, as unions and tea...

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Civilian cargo ship sinks and crew is missing after Black Sea drone attack

Two injured crew members from one of the ships have been sent for treatment [Petko Momchilov / Reuters] A civilian cargo ship has sunk and its crew is missing after being attacked by drones in the Bla...

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Russia says no plague cases detected among contacts of deceased lab worker

MOSCOW, Oct 6 (Reuters) - Russia's health watchdog said on Tuesday that no cases of plague had been detected among people who had come ‌into contact with a Siberian plague institute laboratory worker ...

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Multiple countries consider restrictions on smart glasses amid privacy concerns

Oct 6 (Reuters) - Governments, courts and companies are considering restrictions and examining existing rules on smart glasses amid worries that the technology, ‌brought to mainstream by Meta's Ray-Ba...

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Jim Bakker, televangelist who built a massive empire before scandal, dies at 86

Jim Bakker, who along with his first wife Tammy Faye built an evangelical empire around the hugely successful “The PTL Club” TV show, only to lose it all over a sex scandal and financial crimes, has d...

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‘Ban the frats’: Protests erupt at Cornell over handling of rape allegation

Thousands of students and faculty gathered for a demonstration at Cornell.Photograph: Olga Fedorova/EPA Mass protests erupted at Cornell University on Monday, with students criticizing officials’ hand...

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Trump approves firing squad execution for Fort Hood mass shooter Nidal Hasan

Nidal Malik Hasan, a former Army officer and psychiatrist who killed 13 people and injured 32 others during a mass shooting at Fort Hood, Texas, in 2009, will be executed by a U.S. Army firing squad, ...

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Trump says he'll start paying for ads after bipartisan pushback over taxpayer funding

President Trump said Monday he will start paying for the pro-Trump ads that have blanketed the airwaves in recent weeks with money raised by his super PAC, after his administration drew intense pushba...

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Trump plans another oil stockpile sell-off with global reserves already 'scarily thin'

The US Strategic Petroleum Reserve (SPR) dropped by almost 800,000 barrels last week, and the Trump administration moved forward with plans to sell another 40 million barrels in the coming months.New ...

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Ex-'American Idol' contestant Caleb Flynn sentenced to life without parole for wife's murder

An Ohio man who was found guilty of murdering his wife and staging the crime scene to make it seem as if an intruder had broken into their home and fatally shot the mother of two was sentenced to......

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12-year-old girl fatally shot during 'dispute over parking space' in Baltimore

A 12-year-old girl was killed in Baltimore over the weekend during an apparent disagreement over a parking space, police in the US city said. The victim, Khloe Ishway, was caught in the crossfire of b...

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2 killed, including student, in ‘horrific’ school bus crash in Florida

A school bus filled with children rolled over in a multi-vehicle crash Monday morning in central Florida, killing two and injuring multiple others, according to authorities.The bus was traveling to a ...

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Phone call and records suggest some Cornell students tried to contain rape allegations

The woman who alleges she was drugged and raped by multiple members of a Cornell University fraternity in October 2024 told one of the accused men in a recorded phone call weeks later that she was “10...

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Pentagon officials' heated debates foreshadowed problems in Iran

As Houthi militants in Yemen attacked ships with missiles and drones in the Red Sea early last year, top U.S. officials gathered at the Pentagon to prepare military options for President Donald Trump....

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U.S. and German scientists win Nobel medicine prize for work on light and brain

By Johan Ahlander, Marie Mannes and Bhanvi Satija STOCKHOLM, Oct 5 (Reuters) - American Karl Deisseroth and Germans Peter Hegemann and Georg Nagel won the 2026 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine on...

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Supreme Court weighs bid by oil companies to avoid climate lawsuit

By John Kruzel and Andrew Chung WASHINGTON, Oct 5 (Reuters) - The US Supreme Court opened its new nine-month term on Monday by hearing a bid by oil companies ExxonMobil and Suncor Energy to thwart a l...

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Leavitt's next career move after exit as Trump's press secretary: Fox News

Former White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt’s next career move has been announced.Leavitt, who left her post in the Trump administration at the end of August, has kept mum about her career pla...

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Tennessee prison chief had execution problems before Christa Pike, officials say

Christa Gail Pike, on death row for a slaying, appears in court on April 12, 2012, to fight a conviction in a 2001 attack on an inmate. - Dipti Vaidya/USA Today Network/Imagn Images/Reuters Before the...

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A tropical storm may be developing in the Gulf. Models don't rule out U.S. impacts.

The Atlantic Ocean hasn’t seen a hurricane yet this year in a season that remains among the quietest on record, driven by a strong El Niño pattern that’s getting even stronger. But the Gulf of Mexico ...

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Sam Altman: ‘The world should accept some bad things happening’ for benefits of AI

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman admits "something's clearly not working" with the artificial intelligence money that has flooded the midterm elections — and he doesn't expect President Donald Trump's rebrand of...

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Former Prince Andrew takes legal action over warrants used in Epstein-related arrest

Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor photographed leaving a police station in February [Reuters] Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor is taking legal action against Thames Valley Police over his arrest in February.The fo...

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Flydubai co-pilot planned attack before airline hired him, Israeli officials say

By Alexander Cornwell and Maayan Lubell JERUSALEM, Oct 5 (Reuters) - The flydubai co-pilot who stabbed his captain in a suspected attempt to crash the plane has told UAE interrogators he planned the a...

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U.S. removes B-1 bombers from U.K. air base after new security threat

A Rockwell B1 Lancer heavy bomber takes off from RAF Fairford in Fairford, United Kingdom, on October 04. - David Bown/Getty Images The United States has moved long-range bombers back to their America...

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Immigration, AR-15 bans and climate lawsuits land before the Supreme Court

Immigration, gun rights and climate change are on the Supreme Court docket (Stefani Reynolds)The US Supreme Court opens its new term on Monday with the Trump administration's immigration crackdown, gu...

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FBI Director Kash Patel and country singer Alexis Wilkins announce they're engaged

FBI Director Kash Patel is engaged to his country singer girlfriend, Alexis Wilkins, the pair announced in a post to X on Sunday evening. Wilkins, 27, posted a black-and-white photo of herself standin...

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FBI arrests suspected Chinese agent accused of surveilling Taiwan president's son

The FBI arrested a suspected Chinese agent at Los Angeles International Airport after she allegedly surveilled the Taiwanese president's U.S.-based son, law enforcement sources told CBS News.Wanying "...

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Coast Guard suspends search for 6 medical jet passengers off Nantucket

The U.S. Coast Guard on Sunday suspended the search for six people in a medical jet that went missing near Nantucket, Massachusetts, a day after debris from the plane was found.Search and rescue crews...

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U.S. removes all bombers from British base targeted by a suspected terror plot

WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. Air Force has brought home its bombers stationed at a U.S.-run military air base in England used to strike Iran following an investigation into a planned terror attack at th...

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Iran tells U.S. there is no military solution to Middle East war

Ships anchored off the coast of Musandam governorate in Oman near the Strait of Hormuz on Friday (-)Iran's top diplomat insisted on Sunday that there would be no military solution to the United States...

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2 dead and 35 injured in mass shooting at Georgia homecoming celebration

Multiple law enforcement agencies responded to a mass shooting from early Sunday morning, leading to two deaths and possibly dozens injured.Dooly County Coroner Brett Walls confirmed to WALB and WMAZ ...

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7 men were accused of sexual assault at Cornell. Here's how the school responded.

Two of the seven men accused of sexually assaulting a Cornell University student at a fraternity house in 2024 were expelled, while others were ordered to take sexual harassment training and write "re...

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Trump names Jay Clayton as AI czar: Where he stands on AI safety

President Trump on Sunday named Director of National Intelligence Jay Clayton as his new "AI czar," adding a different category of intelligence, the "artificial" kind, to the U.S. spy chief's portfoli...

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FlyDubai co-pilot was likely lone wolf in attempted hijacking, investigators say

The FlyDubai alleged attempted hijacking was likely a lone-wolf attack, an early investigation by Israel shows, according to people familiar with the matter.The investigation is still in full swing an...

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U.S. Marine detained in connection to woman's 'brutal' death in Japan

A U.S. service member was arrested on suspicion of murder and robbery after a Japanese woman's body was discovered in a hotel in Okinawa, local officials said, describing the alleged killing as a "hei...

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Cornell president says university will examine role of Greek life after rape allegation

Cornell University As outrage builds around the case involving a Cornell University student allegedly gang-raped in a fraternity house in October 2024, the university’s president has broken his silenc...

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Calif. gov candidate Steve Hilton's sexually-charged ad is condemned by GOP allies

Republican gubernatorial candidate Steve Hilton visits patrons at Victorio's Ristorante in North Hollywood, where they held a watch party for the CNN debate between candidates Democrat Xavier Becerra ...

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Cruz rips Vance as 'insecure' after VP accused him of focusing on 2028 election

Sen. Ted Cruz fired back at JD Vance for suggesting he's already focused on a 2028 presidential bid, calling the vice president "insecure" while insisting he's focused on the 2026 midterms.“In my expe...

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Botched execution puts lethal injection’s ‘more humane’ promise under scrutiny

The failed execution of Christa Pike in Tennessee on Wednesday has added new fuel to the longstanding debate over the death penalty in the United States. It has also drawn new scrutiny to the question...

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Alleged FlyDubai attacker was previously identified as security risk, officials say

The co-pilot of the FlyDubai plane who allegedly attacked the plane's captain and attempted to crash a flight bound for Israel on Wednesday is an Omani national who was previously suspended from flyin...

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Republicans are wary of the $200 million-plus price tag to save Ken Paxton

Republicans know they have to spend big to save Ken Paxton. They’re increasingly worried MAGA Inc. won’t throw down in time.In private conversations over recent weeks, senior Hill Republicans and GOP ...

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Coast Guard searches for missing jet carrying 6 people off Nantucket

The U.S. Coast Guard is searching off the coast of Nantucket for a missing jet carrying six people after it went missing the morning of Oct. 3. The jet, a Gulfstream G-100, lost contact with flight co...

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Trump announces one-time $90 payment for over 20 million Medicare seniors

By Kanishka Singh WASHINGTON, Oct 2 (Reuters) - President Donald Trump said the US government will send a one-time $90 payment to more than 20 million ‌Americans enrolled in Medicare, a health insuran...

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FlyDubai co-pilot was reportedly fired from Oman Air job for 'extremist views'

Days after a FlyDubai co-pilot made a violent attempt to crash the passenger aircraft and was subdued by passengers and other crew members, questions about his motive continued to swirl. The flight ...

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Cornell rape accuser is ‘under siege’ as people online try to identify her, lawyer says

[Getty Images] The lawyer for the woman who alleges she was raped at a Cornell University fraternity house says she is "not doing well" as she finds herself "under siege" from online sleuths seeking t...

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Road rage shooter's sentence quashed after AI video of victim was shown in court

An Arizona road rage killer will be resentenced after an appeals court ruled that an AI-generated video message from his dead victim was improperly aired in court.Gabriel Paul Horcasitas was found gui...

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Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito confirms he's considering retirement

Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito has confirmed that he is considering retirement, leaving open the possibility that he could leave after next year’s term and hand another nomination to President Don...

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