Culture

Sixth-graders work on their laptops during class in Stockport, Ohio, in February 2015.

Children and AI

Two in three American children aged 9 to 17 have used an AI chatbot, and 37% of users have talked to one about their feelings

Common Sense Media puts chatbot use at 58% among 9- to 12-year-olds, below the minimum age of 13 on most services, while a JED Foundation survey of 5,500 students in schools found 90% had used one.

Redação RecortNews10/31/2026

Medicaid
A federal judge strikes down the narrower "medically frail" test for the Medicaid work requirements that start on January 1
Health
Ebola epidemic in the Democratic Republic of the Congo reaches 9,704 cases and 4,687 deaths, with cases now in Kenya and Nigeria
Technology and childhood
West Virginia sues TikTok after a test account registered to a 13-year-old girl repeatedly drew sexually suggestive videos
Academic integrity
Dartmouth's provost resigns after a faculty review finds he used AI to "meaningfully alter" his writing without disclosing it

Leo XIV during an audience with the media at the Vatican on 12 May 2025.

Pope Leo XIV's first South American tour begins on 6 November: 12 days, 10 cities and three countries

Colombia's current Palacio de Justicia, on Bogotá's Plaza de Bolívar, in June 2024. The 1985 building was destroyed during the siege and the recapture.

Netflix premieres "Palacio" on 6 November, an eight-part series on the siege of Colombia's Palace of Justice

California Governor Gavin Newsom in his official portrait, released in March 2026.

Anthropic asks California to let courts suspend risky AI models, going further than OpenAI

The headquarters of the World Meteorological Organization in Geneva, Switzerland, in 2014.

WMO logs another greenhouse gas record as CO2 reaches 426.8 ppm in 2025, or 153% of pre-industrial levels

A cutaway rendering of SPARC, the compact tokamak Commonwealth Fusion Systems is building in Massachusetts, released in 2020.

Industrial policy

Washington is taking equity in fusion companies in exchange for CHIPS awards, starting with $175 million for Helion and $85 million for Commonwealth

Crews load a GOES-U weather satellite — the last of the current GOES-R series, which GeoXO is meant to replace — onto an Air Force C-5M at Buckley Space Force Base, Colorado, in January 2024.

Weather satellites

NOAA's next generation of weather satellites falls from six craft to four, and the GAO cannot say whether the new $13 billion price is right

The front of the Veterans Administration Building at 810 Vermont Avenue NW, headquarters of the Department of Veterans Affairs, in Washington in March 2025.

Veterans health

The VA picks ten sites for its first psychedelic therapy rollout, with 2.1 million veterans in the eligible pool

An Aedes aegypti mosquito, which transmits dengue, in a macro image taken in 2023. File photo.

Climate and health

Epidemic-level dengue now reaches 292 Brazilian microregions, and Fiocruz calls the spread irreversible

The Swift spacecraft inside Hangar AE at Cape Canaveral, Florida, in July 2004, four months before launch.

NASA ends its Swift observatory after nearly 22 years and more than 2,000 gamma-ray bursts

Exterior view of the CDC's Roybal campus in Atlanta, Georgia, the agency's headquarters.

CDC counts 4,588 measles cases in 2026, and 96% of the patients were unvaccinated or of unknown status

The uncrewed Orion capsule photographed by its own solar array camera halfway to the Moon during the Artemis I mission, in November 2022.

NASA turns Artemis III into an Earth-orbit docking test with both Moon landers and keeps the landing in 2028

A junction between the Ngezi and Lumumba neighbourhoods, in the Mbunya commune of Bunia, capital of Ituri province, in 2022.

DR Congo launches the Tumaini vaccine trial in the country's largest Ebola outbreak, with 9,704 cases and 4,687 deaths

A red-level heatwave alert in the Paris metro, at Châtelet station, on 13 July 2026.

Climate and health

Summer 2026 killed more than 50,000 people in European cities, and two-thirds of the deaths are blamed on global warming

PHP source code displayed on a screen, in a 2015 photograph.

AI tools uncover two 14-year-old PHP flaws that expose the servers behind 70% of the web

Colombian writer Gabriel García Márquez, winner of the 1982 Nobel Prize in Literature. The IAPA assembly marks 30 years since his speech to the organisation.

IAPA opens its 82nd General Assembly in Bogotá with more than 70 participants and a tribute to García Márquez's 1996 speech