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.
Brian Walshe on Thursday came face-to-face for the first time with the man who had been having an affair with his wife before her death, as he took the stand to testify in Walshe’s murder trial.
The Supreme Court on Thursday allowed Texas to use a congressional map that will boost President Donald Trump’s effort to keep Republicans in control of Congress, blocking a lower court decision that found the new boundaries were likely unconstitutional because they were drawn based on race.
The US military carried out a strike Thursday on a suspected drug boat in the Eastern Pacific, killing four people on board, according to a social media post from US Southern Command.
A grand jury voted against indicting New York Attorney General Letitia James after being asked to look at the mortgage fraud case against her a second time, according to multiple people familiar with the development Thursday.
National Guard troops deployed to Washington, DC, can remain there for now, after a federal appeals court on Thursday temporarily froze a judge’s ruling that would have soon required them to leave the city’s streets.
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s bad week just got worse. That’s after the long-awaited release Thursday of an inspector general’s report on his sharing of highly sensitive military attack plans on the unclassified app Signal earlier this year.
President Donald Trump has hired a new architect for the White House ballroom amid disputes between the president and his architect originally contracted to complete the project, several sources have told CNN.
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth risked compromising sensitive military information that could have endangered US troops through his use of Signal to discuss attack plans, a Pentagon watchdog said in an unclassified report released Thursday. It also details how Hegseth declined to cooperate with the probe.
If nothing else, the controversy over the Trump administration’s second strike on an alleged drug boat in the Caribbean has surfaced a long-overdue debate about its already legally dubious first strikes.
Two top House lawmakers emerged divided along party lines after a private briefing with the military official who oversaw September’s attack on an alleged drug vessel that included a so-called double-tap strike that killed surviving crew members, with a top Democrat calling video of the incident that was shared as part of the briefing “one of the most troubling things” he has seen as a lawmaker.
Authorities in Colombia are dealing with increasingly sophisticated criminals, who use advanced tech to produce and conceal the drugs they hope to export around the world. But police and the military are fighting back, using AI to flag suspicious passengers, cargo and mail - alongside more conventional air and sea patrols. CNN’s Isa Soares gets an inside look at Bogotá’s war on drugs.
Young Americans are “a generation under profound strain” with little confidence in institutions and widespread economic concerns, according to a Harvard Institute of Politics survey of adults younger than 30 released Thursday.
As lawmakers demand answers over reports that the US military carried out a follow-up strike that killed survivors during an attacked on an alleged drug boat in the Caribbean, a career Navy SEAL who has spent most of his 30 years of military experience in special operations will be responsible for providing them.