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Gunman in Paris suburb kills 1, wounds several in possible terrorist act, wanted “to cause a bloodbath,” officials say– www.cbsnews.com

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Gunman in Paris suburb kills 1, wounds several in possible terrorist act, wanted “to cause a bloodbath,” officials say– www.cbsnews.com
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A gunman shooting from his car killed one person and at least 5 others, including a 12-year-old girl, in the Paris suburb of Trappes on Friday, in what authorities described as a racially motivated act of terrorism.

President Emmanuel Macron called it “a racist terror attack” and said the suspect’s statements suggested it was premeditated.

“These people were targeted because of their skin color or perceived religion, and for no other reason,” Macron said following a meeting with officials and residents in the suburb of Trappes, west of Paris. “There is no place for this in France.”

The alleged shooter was “firing at random, wanting to cause a bloodbath” as he drove through Trappes and neighboring La Verriere, Trappes mayor Ali Rabeh told broadcaster BFMTV.

“This is probably one of the first attempted mass killings motivated by Islamophobia and racism,” Rabeh told reporters, The Associated Press reported. “This was a terrorist attack with racist, likely Islamophobic, overtones.”

Abortion Rights Are on the Ballot in 4 States in the 2026 Midterms

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Abortion is once again on the ballot. While the fate of the U.S. Senate and the U.S. House both hang in the balance, the Trump administration can still wreak havoc on abortion rights with or without congressional approval, including a backdoor ban on medication abortion. That’s why state-level measures on abortion in the 2026 midterms elections will be so consequential in the fight for reproductive rights.

This November, voters will decide the fate of abortion rights in four states. Three of those states — Idaho, Nevada, and Virginia — have initiatives that would protect abortion rights in the state. Missouri has an amendment on the ballot that undoes the results of the referendum two years ago, in which voters approved a measure to enshrine reproductive freedom in the state constitution.

Chinese scientists discover “D-rex,” a giant fungus with roots stretching back 65 million years– www.sciencedaily.com

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Chinese scientists discover “D-rex,” a giant fungus with roots stretching back 65 million years– www.sciencedaily.com
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Scientists exploring the forests of Yunnan, China, have discovered an extraordinary giant fungus that is challenging previous assumptions about how large certain fungi can grow. The newly identified species, Dianjunus rex, produces upright reproductive structures that can reach 50 cm (20 inches) in height and weigh as much as 2.2 kg (4.9 pounds). These are the largest known fruiting bodies among fungi belonging to the phylum Ascomycota.

“This remarkable species represents a new fungal family, Dianjunaceae, and provides a rare window into the evolution of extreme fungal body forms,” said Dr Indunil C Senanayake, an associate professor at the Germplasm Bank of Wild Species of the Kunming Institute of Botany in China and corresponding author of the study, published in Frontiers in Fungal Biology.

“The discovery illustrates how much fungus biodiversity remains to be discovered in East Asian forests.”

A Giant Fungus Hidden in China’s Forests

Researchers from the Kunming Institute of Botany encountered the unusual fungus while surveying several forest environments in Yunnan. Their fieldwork included temperate coniferous forests near Damaidi and Yipinglang, along with tropical rainforest near Nanbang.

Missouri’s GOP Has a New Strategy to Ban Abortion—Attack Trans Kids – Mother Jones– www.motherjones.com

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Missouri’s GOP Has a New Strategy to Ban Abortion—Attack Trans Kids – Mother Jones– www.motherjones.com
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Get your news from a source that’s not owned and controlled by oligarchs. Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily.

Dr. Jennifer Smith remembers canvassing to overturn Missouri’s abortion ban back in 2024. Now she’s spending her weekends knocking doors in her white coat to make sure her home state doesn’t ban abortion again.

Smith, an OB-GYN, had seen what happened to her patients after Roe v. Wade was overturned and a “trigger” law immediately went into effect banning virtually all abortions in the state.

“You could see how scared people were to just consider being pregnant in the state of Missouri,” she said. “I had husbands feel the need to tell me that I should save their wives if something should happen in the pregnancy. And that’s a pretty terrifying place to be.”

Even before the fall of Roe, abortion access in Missouri was extremely limited. The state is home to some of the most vociferous abortion opponents in the country. Among them are Republican Sen. Josh Hawley, who has made himself a leading figure in the national push to ban abortion pills; his wife Erin, a top attorney at the Alliance Defending Freedom; and Ed Martin, a stop-the-stealer who helped craft the GOP’s fetal personhood platform in 2024.

Cook Political Report Moves 19 House Seats In Dems’ Direction– crooksandliars.com

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Cook Political Report Moves 19 House Seats In Dems’ Direction– crooksandliars.com
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Cook Political Report election forecaster Dave Wasserman delivered more bad news for Republicans on the midterms.

Wasserman discussed their report on this Friday’s Erin Burnett OutFront on CNN, and called some of the numbers “shocking.” After discussing how toxic the Ramaswamy ad has been, and its potential to infect other races in Ohio, Burnett asked him about their report.

BURNETT: I like the word you just used. That ad has the potential to infect other races. You know, you also shifted 19 House races toward Democrats, and that covers the map, right? We’re going beyond Ohio here, Dave. Texas, North Carolina, obviously states that Trump himself won easily two years ago, now leaning Dem.

I guess the bottom line is, when you look at all of this, does Trump have a chance at this point still to hold on to the House?

WASSERMAN: Not realistically. This is a question of how high this blue wave is going to go and how many Republican seats get swept up. And we’re looking at shocking polling numbers for Republicans, not only in districts that Trump carried by five or 10, but 15 or 20 points.

And I think to the extent there are going to be surprises on November 3rd, I’d look to places with high numbers of secular white voters and also independents. And that points to the Midwest, Iowa, Ohio. Kansas, Nebraska, more so than the Deep South, where things are more racially polarized and it’s more difficult for Democrats to win on turnout alone.

And on a really strong night for Democrats, it’s easy to see how they could exceed the total number of seats they won in 2006 and 2018, given that President Trump’s approval rating today is lower than where it was eight years ago and where George W. Bush’s approval rating was amid the Iraq war. This could get to 235 seats or more.

Musk says he was behind Starlink speed restriction in Ukraine– www.cbc.ca

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Musk says he was behind Starlink speed restriction in Ukraine– www.cbc.ca
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The audio version of this article is generated by AI-based technology. Mispronunciations can occur. We are working with our partners to continually review and improve the results.

Elon Musk said on Saturday that his company SpaceX had throttled the Starlink satellite internet service in Ukraine, disrupting operations that the country relies on to defend itself against Russia.

Musk’s admission on social media came after Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said that Ukraine’s access to Starlink and Starshield satellite links has been restored to the speeds it had before restrictions that disrupted front-line operations for more than a week.

Questions have persisted since last week about who ordered the interruptions to the Musk-made satellite internet system that Kyiv has relied on for years to counter Moscow’s attacks.

“The speeds are now where they need to be,” Zelenskyy wrote on X, adding that restoration began overnight and were sufficient by Saturday morning, improving front-line logistics and defence against Russian jet-powered Shahed drones.

MIT Builds a Paper-Thin Robot That Swims Using Living Muscle– www.techexplorist.com

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MIT Builds a Paper-Thin Robot That Swims Using Living Muscle– www.techexplorist.com
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At first glance, it looks more like a sliver of transparent gel than a robot. It’s about the length of a stick of gum, paper-thin, and propelled not by batteries or motors, but by living muscle cells.

Yet this miniature machine can swim.

Engineers at MIT have created a soft, muscle-powered robot that moves through water using a single layer of living muscle tissue. The study, published in Advanced Functional Materials, marks the first demonstration of a thin, two-dimensional biohybrid robot capable of locomotion.

The work represents a step toward a new generation of robots built not from metal and electronics alone, but from living tissues engineered to perform useful tasks.

The robot’s body consists of a flexible gel film roughly half a millimeter thick. The film is divided into two fin-like sections, each coated with a layer of living muscle cells far thinner than a human hair. Those muscle cells were genetically engineered to respond to light.

Traders Are Letting xAI’s Grok Bot Run Unsupervised, and It Already Lost Money

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Traders Are Letting xAI’s Grok Bot Run Unsupervised, and It Already Lost Money– startupfortune.com
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xAI’s Grok Bot now trades around the clock on its own cloud computer. What happened to one trader’s DRB tokens is the question every other trader leaving it unsupervised should be asking.

In May 2026, an X user convinced Grok’s trading bot companion, Bankrbot, to send roughly $200,000 worth of DRB tokens, 3 billion of them, to a wallet that wasn’t supposed to get a cent. The trick wasn’t sophisticated in the way people picture AI exploits. The attacker sent a Bankr Club membership NFT to Grok’s wallet, then asked Grok to translate a Morse code message buried inside it. Grok translated it, relayed the decoded instruction to Bankrbot as if it were a normal request, and Bankrbot executed the transfer on the Base network. Nobody hacked anything. They just asked nicely, in code.

That’s the backdrop against which xAI has spent 2026 pushing Grok from a chatbot you prompt into something closer to a coworker you hand a task and walk away from. On August 11, xAI launched Grok Bot: agents with their own persistent cloud computer, a real browser, a file system, a terminal, and memory that survives after you close your laptop. Then, on September 28, Elon Musk posted on X that “Grok Bot now works as a team,” rolling out the ability for multiple bots to coordinate, hand off tasks, and share context with each other instead of running as isolated instances.

American women stripped of rights to medical care are forced to have unwanted children

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WASHINGTON — Millions of American women have lost a fundamental measure of control over their reproductive lives as abortion bans across much of the United States transform a common medical procedure into a legal, financial and logistical ordeal.

The restrictions have created a divided nation in which a woman’s ability to obtain an abortion depends increasingly on where she lives, how much money she has and whether she can afford to travel to another state.

For women living in states with near-total bans, obtaining an abortion can mean taking unpaid leave, arranging child care, finding transportation, paying for lodging and locating a medical provider willing and legally able to treat them.

For patients experiencing pregnancy complications, the consequences can be even more serious. Physicians and hospitals must navigate laws that may impose severe penalties for performing abortions outside narrowly defined exceptions, raising concerns about delays in medically necessary care.

The restrictions followed the Supreme Court’s June 2022 decision in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, which overturned the constitutional abortion protections established by Roe v. Wade in 1973.

The ruling ended nearly half a century of federal constitutional protection for abortion before fetal viability and returned broad authority over abortion regulation to individual states.

Although abortion remains legal in many states, the decision has produced stark differences in access to reproductive health care, particularly for low-income women, rural residents and people facing medical emergencies.

Pentagon designates Chinese cultural centers national security threat — RT World News– rt-english.com

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Pentagon designates Chinese cultural centers national security threat — RT World News– rt-english.com
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Rebranded Confucius Institute chapters were trying to “infiltrate the minds of American students,” Secretary of War Pete Hegseth has claimed

The Pentagon has designated cultural programs linked to China’s Confucius Institute as a national security threat, according to US Secretary of War Pete Hegseth. He claims that the centers, which largely offer Chinese language courses on American college and university campuses, serve as a front for Beijing’s “propaganda” campaign – an allegation Chinese officials have previously denied.

In a video posted on Facebook on Friday, Hegseth said that while the US Congress had previously “banned” the Confucius Institutes from American educational institutions, they “came back disguised in new forms” and under new names.

Hegseth was apparently referring to several measures passed by Congress in recent years that stripped universities that hosted Confucius Institutes of federal funding. The pressure from the lawmakers has led to the closure of multiple centers on US soil.

Another Judge Stops Non-Citizen Voter Prevention Action –

pgnewser October 23, 2026 0

Another Biden-appointed District Judge has halted key parts of the DHS’ non-citizen voter investigation in what appears to be a partisan protection of the Democratic Party. The court called the investigation into non-citizen voting an “unlawful voter initiative.” The ruling cannot be reversed before the election unless SCOTUS intervenes.

Biden-Appointed Judge Blocks Key Trump Noncitizen-Voter Operations Before Midterms– wltreport.com
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A Biden-appointed federal judge has ordered the Trump administration to halt key parts of its noncitizen-voter investigation in nine states — just days before the November 3 midterms.

The preliminary injunction targets election-related field operations and interviews when federal agents know, suspect or reasonably should suspect that a person is a U.S. citizen. It does not declare every investigation of unlawful noncitizen voting illegal.

That distinction matters. So does the timing.

Homeland Security reiterated its position Thursday after a new voter-fraud charge was announced in New York:

U.S. District Judge Araceli Martínez-Olguín issued the order Wednesday in California Nurses Association v. Mullin. The covered states are California, Connecticut, Georgia, Missouri, Nevada, New York, Pennsylvania, Washington and Wisconsin.

The court’s order says DHS launched its “Unlawful Voter Initiative” in August and later directed a surge of field investigations across those nine states. The judge found that plaintiffs were likely to succeed on a Voting Rights Act claim involving intimidation of citizens engaged in voter assistance and mobilization.

Starlink Back on for Ukraine

pgnewser October 23, 2026 0

President Trump told the press that Ukraine’s access to Starlink has been restored. When asked about it, he said, “I don’t want to comment on it, whether I called or whether somebody else called, doesn’t make any difference, I guess. The bottom line — he put it back.”

Ukraine lost Starlink access in critical areas, leading its President, Zelensky, to claim Musk cost Ukrainian lives. At first, Musk suggested the decision was not his. As of now, the facts behind both the access removal and restoration remain conflicting.

Trump Says Musk Restored Ukraine’s Starlink Access, Declines to Say if They Spoke– www.themoscowtimes.com
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Donald Trump said on Thursday that SpaceX CEO Elon Musk had restored Ukraine’s Starlink access but the U.S. president declined to comment when asked whether he had spoken to the billionaire about the matter.

The Wall Street Journal reported earlier on Thursday that Trump had called Musk and asked him to lift restrictions on Ukraine’s use of Starlink.

California Tells the Feds a Few Illegal Votes are no big deal

pgnewser October 23, 2026 0

California’s progressive governor Gavin Newsom recently condoned a few non-citizen votes for the sake of not fully checking their voting rolls as the Department of Justice has requested. After the DOJ caught 28 illegal aliens registered to vote and planning to vote, Newsom’s government responded with indifference to the news.

Newsom claimed, “Yes, non-citizen voter registration and voting does happen in isolated instances — in California and the rest of the country alike — but it is so rare that the Trump admin is parading around town about .0001% of California voters. If the feds were serious about this, they would have done this long ago — not in the middle of people voting, which inherently and needlessly sows distrust and doubt in our democracy.”

CA Concedes That It Does Not Verify US Citizenship for Voting, and Really Doesn’t Care To – RedState– redstate.com
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The United States Department of Justice and the State of California continue to clash over operations in Operation Protect the Vote, a coordinated effort among all four of the California-based Offices of the U.S. Attorney which focuses on protection of election integrity and combatting and rooting out fraud in U.S. elections. The operation has thus far swept up more than 28 foreign nationals in the net of election fraud.

OPERATION PROTECT THE VOTE

28 foreign nationals were charged in criminal complaints with federal crimes, including that they fraudulently registered to vote in U.S. elections, electoral contests in which most of them cast illegal and fraudulently obtained ballots.

This was a coordinated effort among all four California-based U.S. Attorney’s Offices to combat and root out fraud in U.S. elections and protect electoral integrity.

Are the Polls Rigged?

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Another polling company has confessed to creating fake polls. Wedgwood Polls confessed it created fake polls to show Democrats ahead as part of a social experiment. They claimed, “Our fabricated numbers were given instant credibility across platforms and cited on air and reporting.”

Fake Polls, Real Damage: Wedgewood Confesses It Invented Poll Results in Michigan, Maine and Texas, and the Big Media Ran Them– gellerreport.com
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Second poll confession. Fooled The New York Times and Nate Silver’s site. Senate polls showed every Democrat winning….

We are up against an immense, hugely funded machine. The establishment right still thinks it’s the 1990s and fear Trump not the destroyers coming after us, our children, our country. Sickening.

According to Josh Holmes, those Senate polls showed every Democrat winning except one in Mississippi. Calling this a “wake-up call” evades the damage: bogus polling can steer donations, demoralize volunteers and distort perceptions of an election. As Holmes put it, “This is not a victimless crime.” A polling firm manufactured the numbers, and news outlets helped turn fiction into political influence.

Michigan Democrat Senator Threatens to Prosecute Republicans to Frighten Children

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Michigan Democrat Senator Elissa Slotkin openly threatened to prosecute young staff members of the Trump administration to frighten young people from serving in a non-Democratic administration.

She said, “I want young people coming out of school to say, ‘Should I go work for the Trump administration? That sounds fun. I might get an opportunity.’ I want them to be like, ‘Lord, that might be buying myself a ton of problems I don’t want, and so let me avoid participating in that.’ I want that deterrence message sent.”

Slotkin Calls for Prosecution of Trump Officials to Deter Young Conservatives From Joining Administration › American Greatness– amgreatness.com
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Sen. Elissa Slotkin, D-Mich., is facing criticism from conservatives after calling for prosecutions of Trump administration officials as a way to discourage young people from accepting positions in President Donald Trump’s government.

Speaking at a University of Chicago event last week, Slotkin argued that Democrats should pursue high-profile corruption cases against administration officials, creating what she described as a deterrent for prospective government employees.

Meta Gets $25 Billion Bill over 2016 Election

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A New Mexico court is ordering Meta to pay $25 billion in a civil lawsuit for allowing Cambridge Analytica access to user data during the 2016 election. The company was working for the Trump campaign. It used that information to help the Trump campaign more effectively target potential voters.

Meta hit with $25 billion penalty over Cambridge Analytica data lawsuit– www.washingtonexaminer.com
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A New Mexico court ordered Meta, the parent company of Facebook, to pay a $25 billion penalty over data privacy violations connected to the Cambridge Analytica scandal.

The whopping penalty comes more than eight years after the stories of the data-harvesting scandal first broke and sparked political uproar in the United States. Politicians and social media users have raised concerns since the 2018 reports first broke about the United Kingdom-based firm improperly scraping up Facebook profiles without user consent, leading to multiple lawsuits and legal battles.

GOP Hands AI Governance Over to California

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Because the Republican-controlled national legislature failed to pass a measure to block them, California is set to be the definer of AI standards. Now, Anthropic is using California’s AI standards to push a national bill forward that could allow their AI agents to work without government intervention unless the high threshold of 50 lives in danger is met.

Do-Nothing Republicans Did Nothing So Now Gavin Newsom Controls Keys To Most Critical Rules– dailycaller.com
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Republicans might have accidentally given Democratic California Gov. Gavin Newsom and the California legislature the keys that will end up shaping some of the most important rules involving artificial intelligence.

Politico reported Wednesday that Anthropic’s draft federal AI safety bill, which the company is pitching to lawmakers on Capitol Hill, was directly influenced by California law. The bill lays out the potential risk thresholds at which the government would be allowed to intervene and block an AI model. But unfortunately for Republicans, Newsom and the California legislature had the free opportunity to lay the groundwork and define the arbitrary risk thresholds that could end up triggering federal intervention.

Leftist News Aggregators Dominate U.S. News

pgnewser October 23, 2026 0

58% of Americans are getting their “news” from far-left news aggregators that block non-progressive media from being seen. These four far-left news aggregators are run by progressive-controlled corporations aligned with the Democratic Party. The four aggregators are Apple News, Google News, Yahoo News, and Microsoft’s MSM.

Study: 58 percent of Americans Get Their News From Four Left-Leaning Aggregators › American Greatness– amgreatness.com
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A new study from a conservative media watchdog group has found that nearly 60 percent of Americans get their news from at least one of the Big Four news aggregators: Apple News, Google News, Yahoo News and Microsoft’s MSN.

Just the News reports that, according to MRC’s tracking and research data, these four applications sit on nearly every smartphone in America and serve as a dominant news window for an estimated 58 percent of Americans.

According to the MRC’s special report, released earlier this month, all four aggregators exhibit a heavy left-wing bias by overwhelmingly surfacing mainstream and left-leaning publications while filtering out conservative outlets.

Trump says Musk has restored Ukraine’s internet access– www.bbc.co.uk

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Trump says Musk has restored Ukraine’s internet access– www.bbc.co.uk
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Elon Musk has restored Ukraine’s internet access, Donald Trump has said.

The US president was speaking hours after Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said connectivity, which is provided by Musk’s satellite-based Starlink system, had yet to be fully restored.

Musk has previously denied he was behind the slowdown, which affects Ukraine’s ability to use drones to attack Russia.

Trump refused to be drawn on a report he had put pressure on Musk to restore access to the service, but when asked about it said: “Bottom line, he put it back.”

The Trump administration has previously insisted it did not instruct Musk’s company to restrict access.

The connectivity restrictions came as Trump put pressure on Zelensky to stop attacking Russian oil refineries, which he has argued have caused prices to rise.

Faced with midterm elections next month, Trump has waived some sanctions on Russia and agreed a deal to import Russian diesel for the US market – a move which has been criticised by Ukraine and its European allies.

Ukraine relies on Starlink – owned by Musk’s SpaceX company – for a range of battle communications and early warning systems during Russian missile attacks.

Earlier on Thursday, Zelensky said the speed of the system used by Ukraine’s military had still not been restored fully.

Speaking at a press conference , he said the speed “has not been restored to 400 [km/h; 250mph] yet”, adding: “We are working on it.”

He continued: “I am waiting to hear from US Secretary of State [Marco] Rubio. He promised to get back to me with information within 48 hours or so.”

MP Helen Haines has second leg amputated after left-wing activist ‘rammed her with car’ as husband reveals health update– www.thesun.co.uk

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MP Helen Haines has second leg amputated after left-wing activist ‘rammed her with car’ as husband reveals health update– www.thesun.co.uk
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AUSTRALIAN MP Helen Haines has had both her legs amputated after a left-wing climate activist allegedly rammed her with a car.

A suspect has been charged after the terrifying “targeted” ordeal saw the MP, 65, repeatedly hit by a Toyota Land Cruiser before being pinned underneath it.

Helen’s husband Phil confirmed the double amputation today saying: “We had been hoping that her right leg would be saved, but as of this afternoon or this morning, the surgeons had to also remove her right leg.”

“But the good news in all this is Helen is alive and she’s stable. That is the most important thing for our family.”

Antifa cells mobilize across France for National Rally protests in Orléans– www.foxnews.com

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Antifa cells mobilize across France for National Rally protests in Orléans– www.foxnews.com
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NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles!

FIRST ON FOX: Some 50 radical Antifa cells in a wider network of nearly 300 groups are mobilizing to ensure this weekend’s demonstrations in France devolve into chaos and mayhem, Fox News Digital has learned.

Self-described Antifa groups are working with a sprawling network of communist, socialist, far-left and anti-Israel groups to mobilize on two fronts this weekend: an “anti-fascist village” against conservative leader Marine Le Pen’s National Rally in the city of Orléans and nationwide protests called Acte II to replicate last week’s violent riots.

A Fox News Digital investigation has mapped 287 groups in France’s expanding protest ecosystem, including 50 explicitly Antifa organizations, 27 explicitly communist, socialist, Trotskyist or revolutionary-left organizations, 24 labor unions and an expanding coalition of far-left anti-Israel, migrant-rights, environmental, feminist, transgender and other activist organizations. The demonstrations, which claim to be about youth education, include just 27 student and youth organizations.

The coordination comes amid a wider transnational campaign of mayhem organized by communist, socialist and leftist groups in Greece, Italy, Spain, India and elsewhere.

Fox News Digital has compiled a running who’s who of organizations in what has been dubbed “Chaos Inc.” and will keep updating the directory.

The size of the mobilization represents a huge expansion from the original 54 organizations identified in last weekend’s riots. The number of Acte II actions has also increased to 649 planned protests, as of early Friday morning in Paris, including at 21 train stations, three ports, two oil depots and one refinery.

Virginia Dem Powerhouse Louise Lucas Arrested, Hit With Federal RICO, Drug, and Corruption Charges – RedState– redstate.com

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Virginia Dem Powerhouse Louise Lucas Arrested, Hit With Federal RICO, Drug, and Corruption Charges – RedState– redstate.com
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Virginia Democrat state Sen. Louise Lucas has reportedly been arrested after being indicted by a federal grand jury on charges that include racketeering conspiracy, drug conspiracy, money laundering, and honest-services fraud.

The blockbuster news broke Thursday morning and is lighting up social media because Lucas, 82, is one of the most powerful Democrats in Virginia, serving as president pro tempore of the state Senate and chair of the powerful Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee.

As RedState readers know, she was also the mastermind behind the push earlier this year by Virginia Democrats to gerrymander the commonwealth’s congressional map from the current 6D-5R split to a potential 10D-1R advantage for Democrats. That effort met its demise in the courts, but Lucas gleefully promoted the effort and raised money off her “Ten F—in’ One” merchandise.

Teen Plotted To Assassinate Texas GOP Rep On Behalf Of ISIS– thefederalist.com

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Teen Plotted To Assassinate Texas GOP Rep On Behalf Of ISIS– thefederalist.com
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A teenager plotted to assassinate a Republican congressman from Texas on behalf of ISIS, according to federal agents.

A local ABC affiliate reported on Wednesday that the FBI had arrested a 17-year-old resident of McKinney for planning to kill Rep. Keith Self, R-Texas, at an event earlier this month. The Texas congressman is a member of the House Freedom Caucus and co-founder of the Sharia-Free America Caucus, which seeks to bring “attention to concerns surrounding Sharia [law] and its incompatibility with the principles enshrined in the United States Constitution.”

Federal law enforcement sources who purportedly spoke with the outlet said the suspect was detained on Oct. 5 “after acquiring a firearm.” They further disclosed that the individual “had been radicalized recently and was being monitored by federal agents.”

“I am grateful to the FBI and law enforcement for stopping this threat. My family and I are safe, and I remain focused on serving the people of Texas’ 3rd District,” Self wrote in a Wednesday X post responding to the news. “Preserving our constitutional republic from radical Islam means accepting the costs that come with it — name-calling, threats, and worse.”

Self told CBS News Texas that law enforcement notified him of the attempt on his life after they had the suspect in custody. The Texas Republican “said law enforcement informed him that the McKinney teenager had planned to make waves, ‘perhaps try to shoot at me,’ and carry out a terrorist attack,” according to the outlet.

DC Police and Secret Service investigate suspicious package near Georgetown– www.washingtonexaminer.com

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DC Police and Secret Service investigate suspicious package near Georgetown– www.washingtonexaminer.com
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The Metropolitan Police Department and the Secret Service have closed the Francis Scott Key Bridge between Washington and Arlington, Virginia, after a suspicious package was found in Georgetown.

The shutdown happened Friday at approximately 8:42 a.m., according to authorities.

CONFIRMED: Ilhan Omar’s Real Name Is Ilhan Nur Said Elmi, Fueling Brother-Marriage Allegations– gellerreport.com

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CONFIRMED: Ilhan Omar’s Real Name Is Ilhan Nur Said Elmi, Fueling Brother-Marriage Allegations– gellerreport.com
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The legal documents surrounding her immigration lay bare what the legacy press spent years scrubbing and refusing to cover.

New York Post: Prosecutors referred to the Minnesota Democrat as “Ilhan Nur Said Elmi, a/k/a Ilhan Abdullahi Omar,” in a Wednesday filing in DC federal court, which officials and legal experts said was indicative of the evidence compiled so far in an immigration fraud investigation into the “Squad” rep (New York Post).

Long-rumored as well is the allegation that Ilhan married her brother. The man she married in 2009 was Ahmed Nur Said Elmi. Yes: the same last name as Ilhan.

 The “real” name of Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.) has been revealed in a federal court filing with an identical surname to that of her ex-husband — and rumored brother, The Post has learned.

Prosecutors referred to the Minnesota Democrat as “Ilhan Nur Said Elmi, a/k/a Ilhan Abdullahi Omar,” in a Wednesday filing in DC federal court, which officials and legal experts said was indicative of the evidence compiled so far in an immigration fraud investigation into the “Squad” rep.

A source familiar with the investigation confirmed that Omar is not the congresswoman’s “real” last name, meaning she was born with the last name of Elmi, just like her alleged brother-husband. It’s unclear what charges could result from her purported use of an alias, which was first reported by Fox News.