WASHINGTON — November 13, 2026 -- The National Press Club presented its Fourth Estate Award to ABC News correspondent Martha Raddatz on Nov. 12, 53 years after the first award went to Walter Cronkite in 1973. At the same annual gala in Washington, the Club also honored The New York Times, Guatemalan publisher José Rubén Zamora and Los Angeles Times reporter Rebecca Ellis.

Raddatz is ABC News' chief global affairs correspondent and co-anchor of This Week with George Stephanopoulos. The Club cited more than three decades of reporting from conflict zones. She follows a recipient list that includes Helen Thomas, Tom Brokaw, Christiane Amanpour, Bob Woodward, Andrea Mitchell, Gwen Ifill, Lester Holt and Robert Costa, who received the award in 2025.

CARY — November 13, 2026 -- Only 7% of anti-fraud professionals say their organizations are more than moderately prepared for AI-driven fraud, according to research by the Association of Certified Fraud Examiners (ACFE) and SAS. That is roughly one in 14 respondents, and the same study found that just 25% of organizations use AI or machine learning to fight fraud.

In the study, 77% of surveyed anti-fraud professionals reported rising deepfake social engineering. ACFE President and CEO John Warren says fraudsters have adopted AI faster than most of the teams trying to stop them. The findings are published ahead of International Fraud Awareness Week, Nov. 15-21.

YOUNGSTOWN -- November 13, 2026 -- Maynards, working with Loeb and Orbitbid, will auction the assets of Schwebel Baking Company over three days, November 17-19, 2026. The sale is by Order of Receivership in Case No. 4:26-cv-01628 at the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Ohio. By our calculation, it covers two Ohio bakeries with a combined 175,000 square feet and at least 363 listed fleet units.

Court-ordered Schwebel Baking Company auction runs in three timed online sessions

Bidding is timed and online. Day 1, Tuesday, November 17, sells the contents of the 125,000 SF bread and bun plant in Youngstown. Day 2, Wednesday, November 18, covers the 50,000 SF bun plant in Hebron. Day 3, Thursday, November 19, sells delivery trucks, trailers and other vehicles at multiple Ohio locations.

The release provides a separate registration for each day. Youngstown accounts for about 71% of the combined floor area (125,000 of 175,000 SF).

ARLINGTON -- November 13, 2026 -- The Society of Chemical Manufacturers & Affiliates (SOCMA) recognized 50 member facilities for workplace safety at the 2026 SOCMA Summit on November 12. Five companies account for 17 of the 50 sites, or 34%, by our count of the published list.

Monument Chemical has five recognized sites, the most of any company

Monument Chemical was recognized at Bayport, Baytown, Houston, Kentucky and Port Arthur, which works out to 10% of the list. Baker Hughes, CJB Industries, MFG Chemical and South Coast each have three recognized facilities. Ashland, Boulder Scientific, McGean and Third Coast each have two. Milliken has two plants listed (Allen and Laurel), and Encapsys, a Milliken company, is listed separately for Ironwood.

GUAYNABO – November 14, 2026 -- Some 37% of U.S. workers say a potential employer contacted a former manager or coworker they had not listed as a reference, according to the Professional References Report from resume builder Zety. Applied to the 1,007 respondents, that works out to roughly 373 people. By comparison, only 15% say their listed references were contacted every time they were hired.

Fewer than one in six workers say listed references are always called

Of the respondents, 47% say their references were contacted sometimes and 38% say rarely or never. By our calculation, 85% say listed references were not called every time. The 37% reporting backdoor contact is about 2.5 times the 15% reporting consistent calls to listed names.

STOCKTON — November 12, 2026 -- Health Net, a Centene Corporation (NYSE: CNC) company, has committed $3 million to the San Joaquin Regional Housing Fund to support at least 75 affordable homes in Stockton, California. Spread across 75 homes, the sum equals at most $40,000 per home, by our calculation.

Grants and low-interest loans target households at 30% to 50% of area median income

The money will go out as grants and low-interest loans to speed up affordable housing developments. Health Net says the focus is on families facing the greatest barriers to affordable housing, including households earning between 30% and 50% of the area median income.

The release does not say how the $3 million divides between grants and loans. That split determines how much of the capital can be recycled into later projects.

TAMPA — November 13, 2026 -- LA Fitness has opened a club of about 30,000 square feet under its ELEVATE concept at RITHM at Uptown, the redevelopment of the former University Mall at 2170 E. Fowler Avenue, RD Management announced. The approximately $12.5 million construction investment works out to roughly $417 per square foot, by our calculation.

ELEVATE club divides its floor space into specialized training zones

The club includes a Reformer Pilates studio, a HYROX functional training area, and LIFT, an expanded free-weight space with a Rogue Rig system, Olympic benches and lifting platforms. It also offers personal training, locker rooms and instructor-led group fitness classes.

Mike Carroll, Co-CEO of RD Management, said LA Fitness chose RITHM for the market debut of the ELEVATE concept. The release does not say who funds the $12.5 million or how many ELEVATE clubs LA Fitness plans to open.

MILWAUKEE — November 13, 2026 -- Pat Weiler, founder of Iowa-based equipment maker Weiler, was inducted into the AEM Hall of Fame as its 2026 inductee on Nov. 12, 2026, at the AEM Annual Conference in Tucson, Arizona. It is his third honor of 2026, after the Alan Curtis Industry Service Award and induction into the Pavement Hall of Fame, and it comes 26 years after he founded the company in 2000.

Weiler made three acquisitions in seven years after its 2000 founding

The company bought a top-hammer rock drill product line in 2017, added a purpose-built forestry division in 2019 and acquired a self-propelled broom in 2024. The span from 2017 to 2024 is seven years. Weiler describes itself as one of the largest employers in Marion County, Iowa, and says Pat Weiler now leads manufacturing operations in multiple markets and states.

HILLSBORO — November 13, 2026 -- JardogsHealth, a healthcare AI company based in Hillsboro, Illinois, has formed a four-member Strategic Advisory Council, which held its first meeting on November 10 at the company's headquarters. None of the four members' published biographies lists a healthcare role. Their backgrounds are in consumer finance, media, on-demand delivery and smartphone software.

Four executives from finance, media and technology make up the council

The company says the council will advise leadership on long-term strategy, growth, product direction and brand while it brings the JardogsHealth Care Platform to more healthcare organizations. The founding members are:

SAN FRANCISCO — November 13, 2026 -- Pine AI released Pine Drama Studio, a free open-source AI filmmaking studio under the Apache 2.0 license, and added phone calling to Pine Computer, 35 days after the platform's Oct. 9 launch. One Australian studio says its output per team member rose from 2-3 minutes of video a day to 30-50 minutes, which works out to a 10- to 25-fold increase by our calculation.

Australian studio reports output rising from 2-3 to 30-50 minutes of video a day

The studio, an Australia-based AI short-drama company, moved production onto Pine Drama Studio in October after a September beta. Its CTO, identified only as Alec, says the same team now produces 10 times more video and runs several episodes in parallel. The figures are the customer's own and were not independently verified. The range of 10 to 25 times comes from dividing the low and high ends of the two daily-output ranges (30 by 3, and 50 by 2).