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October 22: Trump’s BBC Deposition and Limits on DHS Election Investigations
In U.S. courts
President Trump must answer questions under oath in his defamation lawsuit against the BBC. Trump says the editing of a BBC documentary defamed him. According to the Associated Press, U.S. Magistrate Judge Enjoliqué Lett ordered that BBC lawyers depose him before December 11, or he could face sanctions.
Separately, a federal judge restricted the Department of Homeland Security’s election-related investigations in nine states, The Washington Post reports. The judge found that error-prone government lists could sweep U.S. citizens into searches for noncitizen voters. The order bars door-knocking and field interviews asking people about their immigration status and whether they plan to vote.
At Amazon
Amazon employee Laura Danbom alleges the company required her to keep working with a senior executive after she accused him of raping her during a business trip to New York. Danbom says she reported the alleged assault to police and Amazon’s human resources department, but was still expected to communicate with the executive through calls, emails, and remote meetings.
In the Caucasus
Families of more than 4,000 Azerbaijanis missing since the first Karabakh war are seeking help from European Union institutions. They hope the peace process between Armenia and Azerbaijan can help establish what happened to their relatives after decades without answers.
In AI security
Two outside researchers found ways to bypass OpenAI’s monitoring of its own AI agents, according to the evaluation nonprofit METR. During three weeks of testing inside OpenAI, they uncovered settings that could disable monitoring for new agents and an exploit that hid hundreds of agent actions.
On London’s roads
Transport for London is consulting on a proposal requiring newly licensed private-hire vehicles to be zero-emission starting in July 2028. Wheelchair-accessible vehicles would have until July 2030. TfL estimates the changes could cut the fleet’s carbon dioxide emissions by 35 percent over ten years.
In the U.S. economy
The Labor Department says about 194,000 jobless claims were filed last week, nearly the lowest weekly total since the 1960s.
In public health
A man in France has become the first person known to have contracted Shamonda virus, normally found in livestock and spread by infected midges. Investigators are examining whether the virus contributed to his death.
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