Maduro and wife expected to face charges over alleged torture of Americans

🔮 As of around 3 p.m. Wednesday, roughly 80 students gathered inside a campus dining hall for the “Zero Day” protest, vowing not to spend any money at the institution, and bearing posters demanding “Justice for Jane Doe,” the anonymous woman who has accused seven Chi Phi fraternity members of raping her in October 2024. “The sit-in will be a space for students to share their support for survivors of sexual violence in myriad ways, including the share of resources and teach-ins,” student groups who helped organize the protest said on Instagram. Black Students United, Cornell NAACP, Mecha de Cornell, Planned Parenthood Generation Action at Cornell, Students for a Democratic Cornell, and a student-run chapter of the American Civil Liberties Union are among those who helped organize the sit-in.

🔮 Former Venezuelan dictator Nicolas Maduro and his wife are expected to face new charges related to their alleged role in the torture of U.S. citizens, officials said Wednesday.

🔮 Greene-Placentia said she vaginally bled for three days after the rape, may have suffered a concussion, and was covered with bruises from the sexual assault.

🔮 The South Carolina race, which features Republican Darline Graham Nordone against Democratic candidate Annie Andrews, moved from “Safe Republican” to “Leans Republican,” according to the University of Virginia Center for Politics election forecaster.

🔮 Trump signed an executive order at the Monday evening rally, telling attendees it would allow anyone to purchase tax-free red-dyed diesel, a measure the administration estimated could save truckers over $100 per refill.

🔮 In September, an Anthropic employee resigned, releasing a public statement condemning his employer and OpenAI, where he formerly worked, citing allegations that “the people building AI earnestly believe that it could kill us all by the end of the decade.”

🔮 Amazon on Friday announced it will pour billions into communities where it operates data centers nationwide, after President Donald Trump urged the technology industry to ensure local residents reap the benefits of development.

🔮 The Tompkins County district attorney, Matthew Van Houten, said this week he will reexamine the case after finding at the time of the incident that there was not enough evidence to press charges against the Chi Phi fraternity members.

🔮 Feng revealed that the two sides held “the first AI Dialogue” at the time, said that November will feature the next round of discussions on AI to “jointly prevent the misuse and abuse of AI,” and noted that the two countries agreed to establish a bilateral communication channel “for AI incidents.”

🔮 The race to determine who will lead one of the United States’s largest cities took a twist Tuesday, when the two women battling to win Los Angeles’s mayoral race sharply diverged over Israel.