Start your week smart: Gymnast stripped of medal, Brazil plane crash, Trump campaign hack, fighting inside Russia
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Shoppers looking for backyard barbecue or back-to-school supplies are in for a spooky surprise: Stores are rolling out their Halloween merchandise earlier than ever. Here’s what else you need to know to Start Your Week Smart. • US gymnast Jordan Chiles will be stripped of a bronze medal after the International Olympic Committee reallocated it to Romania’s Ana Bărbosu. Team USA won the gold in men’s basketball with a thrilling victory over host France, and the gold medal race between the US and China comes down to the final day. Follow live updates.• A passenger plane carrying 62 people crashed outside São Paulo, Brazil, killing everyone on board. Dramatic footage circulating on social media showed the plane’s fall and its destroyed fuselage in flames on the ground.• Donald Trump’s presidential campaign said it had been hacked and blamed Iran, though it’s not clear who was responsible for the hack. A news outlet reported that it had received emails from an anonymous account with documents from inside the campaign.• Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky confirmed Kyiv’s troops are fighting inside Russia, days into the surprise Ukrainian cross-border incursion into Russia’s Kursk region that has become a major embarrassment for the Kremlin.• Former YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki, a tech pioneer who was one of Google’s earliest employees, died after living with lung cancer for two years, according to her husband. She was 56. MondayTrump says he will be interviewed by Tesla and SpaceX founder Elon Musk, who publicly endorsed Trump’s presidential bid on his social media platform X. Relations haven’t always been so friendly between the two billionaires. Musk quit serving on two White House business councils in 2017 after Trump announced the US would withdraw from the Paris climate accord. But for the last several years Musk has repeatedly shown support for Trump — and opposition to President Joe Biden. TuesdayConnecticut, Minnesota, Vermont and Wisconsin will hold nonpresidential primary elections. ThursdayMediators from the US, Qatar and Egypt are expected to present what they have called a “final bridging proposal” that urges Israel and Hamas to agree on a ceasefire and hostage deal in Gaza. A source familiar with the discussions told CNN last week that a meeting is being planned in either Cairo or Doha, although Israel and Hamas had not yet confirmed their attendance. The three countries have been leading mediation efforts to strike a deal and US officials claimed they were getting close before the political leader of Hamas, a principal negotiator on the deal, was killed in Iran in a blast widely believed to have been orchestrated by the Israelis. Israel has neither confirmed nor denied responsibility.
Some Medicare enrollees may soon be able to access super-popular drugs for obesity under a voluntary model program, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services announced Tuesday. Eligible beneficiaries will only have to pay $50 a month.
The Justice Department’s leadership asked career prosecutors in Florida Tuesday to volunteer over the “next several days” to help to redact the Epstein files, in the latest internal Trump administrationpush toward releasing the hundreds of thousands of photos, internal memos and other evidence around the late convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.
The US State Department on Tuesday imposed visa sanctions on a former top European Union official and employees of organizations that combat disinformation for alleged censorship – sharply ratcheting up the Trump administration’s fight against European regulations that have impacted digital platforms, far-right politicians and Trump allies, including Elon Musk.
A Delaware state trooper was killed along with the suspected gunman Tuesday during a shooting at a motor vehicle agency near Wilmington, authorities said.
Wyoming’s lone U.S. representative is running for the U.S. Senate seat being vacated by Cynthia Lummis, who isn’t seeking re-election.
A new lawsuit filed in Washington, DC’s federal court Monday challenges the Kennedy Center board of trustees’ move to add President Donald Trump’s name to the cultural institution.
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Some staff at the Department of Veterans Affairs are finding little to be merry about after the agency said it would eliminate tens of thousands of open, unfilled positions across the country as it looks to streamline its staffing.
Former Republican Sen. Ben Sasse announced Tuesday that he’s been diagnosed with “metastasized, stage 4 pancreatic cancer, and am gonna die.”
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A 2-year-old child is among at least five people who were killed when a Mexican Navy plane carrying medical patients crashed into the waters of Galveston Bay in Texas on Monday afternoon, US Coast Guard officials say.
The Trump administration is suing the local government of Washington, DC, over its gun laws, alleging that restrictions on certain semiautomatic weapons run afoul of Second Amendment rights.