Federal prosecutors charged 28 lawful permanent residents in California with election-related offenses. State officials are challenging a separate Justice Department demand to review more than 20,000 people it says may be noncitizens on the voter rolls.
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Japan’s MMX spacecraft has launched on a mission to collect soil from Mars’s moon Phobos and return it to Earth in 2031. Scientists hope the sample will reveal how Mars’s two moons formed.
Mississippi’s attorney general says an officer’s use of force was justified in the shooting that killed 1-year-old Kohen Wiley outside a Senatobia Walmart. The boy’s family disputes the police account and has called for footage of the incident to be released.
Trump signed an order to create a women’s health division at NIH and a White House task force. The initiative sets a 90-day deadline for the division but specifies no funding targets.
One person was killed in a shooting near a Columbus, Ohio, mosque. Police said the mosque was not targeted and, according to Al Jazeera, linked the shooting to a dispute at an apartment building.
Christiane Amanpour plans to leave CNN in June 2027 after 43 years. Her CNN International program will end the month before, and NBC News reports she also plans to leave PBS.
Prosecutors say a former OpenAI engineer accused of concealing a recorder in a meeting room was preparing to move to Saudi Arabia. They are seeking his detention pending trial, citing his contacts and alleged flight risk.
A Kenyan court has found Paul Mackenzie and 29 other cult leaders guilty of murder in a case involving 191 deaths, 190 of them children. Mackenzie is due to be sentenced on 6 November.