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00:00:58.420Good morning, everyone. I'm Emily Drushinsky, host of After Party and the Megyn Kelly Wrap-Up Show on SiriusXM Channel 111.
00:01:04.500It's Thursday, October 15th, 2026, and this is your AM Update.
00:01:08.760Susan Collins? Well, guess what? She has a tendency to outperform her polls.
00:01:13.840Republican Senator Susan Collins holding her own in Maine, despite President Trump's unpopular standing in the state and Democrats gaining ground in other Senate races nationwide.
00:01:22.620An executive conference room. This conference room was only used by leadership and people related to the leadership at OpenAI.
00:01:29.540An OpenAI engineer arrested after allegedly planting a secret recording device inside a company conference room.
00:01:35.900Sean Diddy Combs reportedly injured in a prison fight with a notorious Jamaican drug lord.
00:01:40.560And Pope Leo recovering from successful surgery to remove a cancerous tumor from his lung.
00:01:45.800All that more coming up in just a moment on your AM Update.
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00:02:58.780remarkably competitive in Maine, even as Democrats gain ground in traditionally Republican states
00:03:03.480across the country. Senator Collins is the only Republican senator up for re-election this year
00:03:08.080in a state won by Kamala Harris in 2024, making her seat one of the Democrats' most important0.86
00:03:13.120targets in their effort to retake control of the Senate. Yet a New Suffolk University poll
00:03:17.520finding Senator Collins in a statistical tie with Democrat former Maine Senate President
00:03:22.320Troy Jackson. The survey showing Jackson leading Senator Collins 49-47%, well within the poll's
00:03:28.6404.4-point margin of error. The real clear polling average showing an even tighter contest,
00:03:34.340Jackson ahead by just 1.3 points. Perhaps most striking, President Trump's approval rating in
00:03:39.900Maine, standing at just 37 percent, compared to 57 percent who disapprove, while 64 percent of
00:03:45.900voters believe the country is headed in the wrong direction. Senator Collins holding a narrow
00:03:50.700advantage among independent voters, according to USA Today, and winning support from 14 percent of
00:03:55.640voters who disapprove of the president. Senator Collins also attracting support from 5 percent of
00:04:00.960voters who backed Vice President Kamala Harris in 2024, while Jackson is winning virtually no
00:04:06.080crossover support among voters who backed President Trump. CNN chief data analyst Harry
00:04:11.060Enten on Sunday highlighting the unusual dynamics of the Maine Senate race. Troy Jackson, the
00:04:16.460Democrats' chances, they're actually declining. As the Democrat lead nationwide is getting larger,
00:04:21.200Troy Jackson's chances are actually going down. They're going down. They're going down into the
00:04:25.780Atlantic Ocean. You know, you look back a few weeks ago, look at this. He had a 68 percent chance,
00:04:30.400according to the cash prediction mark. Look where it is now. It's just a 57 percent chance. Susan
00:04:34.880Collins' chances, they're going up. They're going up. She's now up to a 43% chance. That's basically
00:04:40.300very much within the margin of error. And more than that, Susan Collins, well, guess what? She
00:04:46.060has a tendency to outperform her polls. Look at through history. Polls underestimate, Collins
00:04:50.980am eight. In 2008, the final polls, they underestimated her by eight. How about 2014?
00:04:56.000By eight. Jackson attempting to make the race a referendum on Senator Collins' record in
00:05:00.700Washington, particularly her support for President Trump's Supreme Court nominee, Brett Kavanaugh,
00:05:04.880who subsequently voted to overturn Roe v. Wade.
00:05:07.960During a debate last week, Jackson confronted Collins over her refusal to express regret for that confirmation vote.0.76
00:05:14.280You know, eight years ago today, Maine women, I know many of them came to your office0.94
00:05:18.260and begged you not to confirm Brett Kavanaugh, but you did it anyways.
00:05:22.640And then he overturned Roe, and you still say that you don't regret that vote.
00:05:27.020So I guess what I'm curious about is what will it take for you to admit that you were wrong,
00:05:32.980you know especially whenever Kavanaugh went out and did what he did I mean and you don't regret
00:05:38.880that today so what what will it take for you to admit that you're ever wrong? Senator Collins
00:05:43.980defending her record by pointing to her votes to confirm three Supreme Court justices nominated
00:05:48.500by its Democrat presidents Elena Kagan, Sonia Sotomayor, and Ketanji Brown-Jackson. The
00:05:53.760Republican also emphasizing her independence from President Trump noting she has repeatedly broken
00:05:58.900from her party on major issues, including his tariff policies and the war in Iran.
00:06:03.420Senator Collins telling moderators during an earlier debate that the president would
00:06:06.940not be traveling to Maine to campaign on her behalf, describing herself as far from one
00:06:23.200Here, a moment from last week's debate.
00:06:24.960Troy, you've served in Augusta for more than 20 years. You said that Governor Mills vetoed 40 of your bills and that Governor LePage vetoed 60 of them.
00:06:38.440But your trouble in getting bills passed goes far beyond that.
00:06:45.000In your more than 20 years in the legislature, more than one-third of your bills were unanimously rejected in committee.
00:06:57.180You couldn't even find one Democrat on the committee to support a third of your bills.
00:07:05.540If you can't find one person in your own party to vote for your bills when you were the Senate
00:07:14.780president in Maine, how do you think you're going to get things done in a closely divided
00:07:21.660Senate as the most junior senator? A Saudi national working as an engineer for OpenAI
00:07:29.800now facing federal criminal charges. Accused of secretly planting a sophisticated recording
00:07:34.720device inside an executive conference room at the AI company's San Francisco headquarters.
00:07:40.020According to the DOJ, 35-year-old Abdur-Rahman Al-Fozan was arrested by the FBI Friday,
00:07:45.480appearing in federal court Tuesday on charges of illegally intercepting or attempting to
00:07:50.360intercept private conversations. Al-Fozan, joining OpenAI in July of last year, allegedly
00:07:56.320targeting a conference room reserved for company leadership, where employees regularly discussed
00:08:00.620highly confidential research, technology, and business plans. The company discovering the
00:08:05.320hidden recording device during a routine security sweep late last month, prompting an FBI investigation
00:08:10.280that ultimately led to Alfoson's arrest. CNN reporting on how investigators uncovered the
00:08:16.380alleged surveillance operation. This device was hidden in the back of a TV screen in the USB port
00:08:22.720of an executive conference room. This conference room was only used by leadership and people related
00:08:57.300OpenAI is saying that at this point they have no indications that he was able to inappropriately access or exfiltrate sensitive things like model weight, source code, or customer data.
00:09:09.240Federal prosecutors revealing additional evidence they say connects Alphozan to the alleged scheme,
00:09:14.340including his use of an AI productivity tool to research OpenAI's buildings, executive meeting locations, and conference room schedules.
00:09:21.460According to the criminal complaint, investigators also identifying a chatbot account associated with Alfozon's wife, which was used to ask detailed questions about building, concealing, and remotely accessing audio recording devices.
00:09:35.300The account also making inquiries about encrypting recordings and improving live audio monitoring, including questions specifically related to the device later discovered inside OpenAI's offices.
00:09:45.820Investigators uncovering another potentially significant piece of evidence on October 5th
00:09:50.060when Alphozan allegedly left a bag unattended inside another company conference room.
00:09:54.880OpenAI security personnel searching the bag, discovering his wallet,
00:09:58.360identification, and a second recording device similar to the one found behind the television.
00:10:02.700In a statement, OpenAI confirming Alphozan has been fired,
00:10:05.680while maintaining there is currently no indication that he improperly accessed
00:10:09.020or stole the company's sensitive AI technology, source code, or customer information.
00:10:14.440Alphozan's attorney, William Pernick, urging the public not to jump to conclusions, telling CBS News his client is presumed innocent and warning against politicizing the case based on his nationality.
00:10:25.280Alphozan remains in federal custody ahead of a detention hearing scheduled for Monday, facing up to five years in prison and a $250,000 fine if convicted.
00:10:35.460Coming up, a notorious Jamaican drug lord reportedly attacking Sean Diddy Combs behind bars, sending the music mogul to the hospital.
00:10:42.700And Pope Leo recovering from undergoing surgery for lung cancer, already up and celebrating mass.
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00:11:43.500Sean Diddy Combs suffering a head injury during a prison fight with a notorious Jamaican drug lord.
00:11:49.100Amid growing tensions over allegations, the disgraced music mogul has been receiving special treatment behind bars.
00:11:55.120According to TMZ, multiple sources inside the Fort Dix Federal Prison in New Jersey say Combs got into a physical altercation Friday with fellow inmate Christopher Dudas Koch, a former Jamaican gang leader serving a 23-year prison sentence.
00:12:08.300Koch once leading the violent international drug trafficking organization known as the
00:12:12.740Shower Posse, before being sentenced in 2012 on federal racketeering and conspiracy charges,
00:14:23.880The Pope explaining the abnormal growth had been detected very early and appeared confined to a specific area of the lung.
00:14:30.940The Chicago-born pontiff announcing his plans to have it surgically removed while asking Catholics around the world to pray for his recovery.
00:14:38.040CNN medical analyst Jonathan Reiner explaining more about this particular type of cancer.
00:14:43.140We've been told that the Pope was found to have adenocarcinoma of the lung, which is the most common form of lung cancer.
00:14:51.300most of the lung cancers that are diagnosed are adenocarcinomas. It's found sort of equally in
00:14:57.160smokers as well as non-smokers. Lung cancer caught very early can be completely cured.
00:15:04.960Even more extensive lung cancer now can be very effectively treated with a variety of modalities
00:15:11.500such as radiation therapy, chemotherapy, and now increasingly immunotherapy. So lung cancer today
00:15:18.540does not have nearly the kind of dire prognosis that it had, you know, even as recently as 10
00:15:24.220years ago. So if this indeed was an early cancer and the lobe was removed and lymph nodes turn out
00:15:31.620to be negative and advanced scanning, such as PET-CT imaging, don't suggest any evidence of
00:15:38.460distant spread, then, you know, the Pope may very well be cured by this.
00:15:42.580Following the procedure, Vatican officials reporting Pope Leo regained consciousness
00:15:46.040normally and returned to the hospital room to begin recovering. According to the Associated
00:15:50.500Press, the Pope already walking around his room, eating normally, undergoing respiratory therapy,
00:15:55.420and even celebrating Mass from the hospital. The Vatican expecting the 71-year-old to remain
00:16:00.480hospitalized for approximately one week, canceling all public appearances through October 20th.
00:16:05.860The Pope's diagnosis raising questions about his upcoming trip to South America,
00:16:09.700where he's scheduled to visit Uruguay, Argentina, and Peru beginning November 6th.
00:16:13.820Secretary of State Marco Rubio among those offering prayers for the Pope,
00:16:17.600posting on X that he and his wife Jeanette are praying for the Holy Father's health
00:16:20.960and asking God to give him strength and guide the medical professionals overseeing his recovery.
00:16:28.960That'll do it for your AM update. I'm Emily Jashinsky, host of After Party.
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