Bulgarian PM summons Russian ambassador after ship sinks in Black Sea drone attack– www.bbc.co.uk News Source
EXCERPT:
Bulgarian Prime Minister Rumen Radev has summoned the Russian ambassador after two merchant ships were struck by drones off Bulgaria’s Black Sea coast and one of them sank.
Six crew members on the Guinea-Bissau-flagged HS Dignity were rescued and 10 others are missing, according to Defence Minister Dimitar Stoyanov, after it went down 17 nautical miles (31km) east of the village of Krapets having sent a distress signal.
The other ship, the Ukrainian owned Chelsea-3, was hit by drones 18 nautical miles from the town of Byala and all 15 crew were rescued.
The attacks come a week after two other commercial ships were hit by sea and aerial drones in Bulgaria’s exclusive economic zone.
One of the ships, the Alfa Watan, sank and all 10 crew, including nine Syrians, are presumed dead.
New York Rejects More Than 16,000 ICE Detainers Involving Migrants Linked to 52,000 Criminal Charges › American Greatness– amgreatness.com News Source
EXCERPT:
New York authorities have refused more than 16,000 federal immigration detainer requests involving illegal immigrants accused or convicted of crimes, including homicide, kidnapping and sexual offenses, according to newly released Department of Homeland Security data.
The figures, reported Monday by the New York Post, show that municipalities across the Democrat-led state have declined to honor 16,070 Immigration and Customs Enforcement detainers since President Donald Trump returned to office in January 2025.
According to DHS, the individuals associated with those requests have accumulated 52,503 criminal charges or convictions, including 131 homicides, 132 kidnappings and 1,017 sexual offenses.
The figures have renewed scrutiny of New York’s sanctuary policies, which restrict cooperation between local law enforcement and federal immigration authorities.
ICE detainers request that local authorities temporarily hold individuals suspected of immigration violations so federal agents can take them into custody. Sanctuary jurisdictions frequently decline those requests unless specific legal conditions are met.
Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin criticized Democratic Gov. Kathy Hochul and New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani for policies he said undermine federal immigration enforcement and threaten public safety.
“We enforce these laws with no help from Mayor Mamdani and Governor Hochul,” Mullin told the New York Post.
Truck Driver Sues After Being Falsely Identified by Facial Recognition Tech– townhall.com News Source
EXCERPT:
Truck driver Jason Killinger was arrested on September 17, 2023, at Reno’s Peppermill Casino after its facial recognition cameras flagged him as a “100% match” for a man who had previously been trespassed from the facility.
Despite producing his driver’s license, a commercial license, a UPS pay stub, and vehicle registration, Reno officer Richard Jager arrested him anyway, theorizing that Killinger must have had a “DMV hook-up” that helped him fake his identification.
Killinger spent about 11 hours in custody even after his fingerprints cleared him. The city continued to prosecute him until a judge finally dismissed the case in November 2023. Now, he is suing.
The new legal filing claims law enforcement agencies have known for years that computer facial recognition matches should not be the only basis for arresting someone, yet the Reno Police Department maintained such a policy under Chief Kathryn Nance anyway.
In 2017, the U.S. Department of Justice put out a policy template for law enforcement agencies saying facial recognition matches are “advisory in nature” and “do not establish probable cause.” Numerous jurisdictions have since taken up this guidance.
Even the general public understands that “having a face that resembles the face of a criminal, without more, does not make anyone guilty of anything,” says Killinger’s new complaint by attorney Terri Keyser-Cooper.
“Jager’s conduct was not a sporadic incident involving the wrongful actions of a rogue employee, but the result of a widespread custom and practice involving hundreds of municipal employees making thousands of arrests in the same manner over a period of years,” it says.
Not providing training on facial recognition software puts Reno residents and visitors at risk of false arrest, the lawsuit adds.
The city attorney’s office, which represents Jager, says the officer behaved properly.
⚖️ WRONGFUL ARREST? A Florida crabber, Robert Dillon, was reportedly arrested in June 2026 after facial recognition allegedly linked him to a child-luring case in Jacksonville Beach—despite reportedly living 300 miles away. https://t.co/0WPg1wutW0
Democrat Judge Melts Down in Court, ‘Screams at Full Voice’ at Trump Lawyers– slaynews.com News Source
EXCERPT:
A Democrat-aligned activist federal judge suffered a disturbing in-court meltdown and lashed out at Justice Department attorneys Monday during an emergency hearing over tree removal at a Washington, D.C., golf course President Donald Trump wants to transform into a championship-caliber facility.
Biden-appointed U.S. District Judge Ana C. Reyes said government lawyers had “lost credibility” with the court during the nearly four-hour virtual proceeding.
According to reports, the activist judge screamed aggressively at Trump administration lawyers.
One courtroom journalist said he’d never heard a judge “scream at full voice at a lawyer before.”
The hearing concerned approximately 430 trees removed by the National Park Service over the weekend.
Reyes ordered a temporary halt to further tree removal, including routine maintenance, and demanded sworn testimony from National Park Service officials about who authorized the work and when.
A Biden-appointed federal judge erupted at Trump administration lawyers Monday over the removal of roughly 430 trees from a historic D.C. golf course — with one courtroom journalist saying he’d never heard a judge “scream at full voice at a lawyer before.”
You Can’t Make This Up: Supreme Court to Decide If Nigerian Terrorist Group’s Personal Chef Deserves U.S. Asylum and Taxpayer Benefits– www.thegatewaypundit.com News Source
EXCERPT:
Creator: Joe Ravi
Just when you think the radical open-border lobby and activist judges have pushed the legal system to its absolute limit, the United States Supreme Court is now being forced to step in to answer a question that should take precisely two seconds to answer:
Should a man who cooked thousands of meals to sustain members of an armed terrorist organization be granted legal asylum inside the United States?
The case, Blanche v. Ozurumba, involves Izuchukwu Ozurumba, who entered the United States illegally in July 2023 after spending roughly six months in 2022 as a cook for a group known as the “Unknown Gunmen.”
Court records show he prepared three meals a day for 15 to 17 of the group’s leaders at a remote camp outside Lagos, potentially thousands of meals over the period. U.S. officials determined the Unknown Gunmen qualify as a Tier III terrorist organization, The Center Square reported.
An immigration judge and the Board of Immigration Appeals found that this constituted “material support” for terrorism under the Immigration and Nationality Act, rendering him ineligible for asylum. He was later removed to Nigeria.
Irony Alert: NPR CEO Who Said First Amendment is a “Challenge” to Receive ‘First Amendment Award’ * The Gateway Pundit * by Margaret Flavin– www.thegatewaypundit.com News Source
EXCERPT:
President and CEO of NPR, Katherine Maher/Image: This file is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 International license./Author: Blossom Ozurumba
In 2025, The Gateway Pundit reported that during a House Oversight DOGE subcommittee hearing, Republicans on the committee grilled NPR CEO Katherine Maher and Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) CEO Paula Kerger over their anti-Trump bias and the extreme, woke programming on the stations.
This includes documentaries about transvestites and transitioning, “Racist Trees,” and exposing young children, including toddlers, to so-called educational programming that featured a cross-dressing freak.
Even more embarrassingly, in 2021, when she was the CEO of Wikimedia, she claimed the First Amendment was a “challenge” when it came to efforts to combat “disinformation,” and ‘reverence for the truth’ a ‘distraction.’
Maher stated, “The number one challenge here that we see is, of course, the First Amendment in the United States. [It] is a fairly robust protection of rights and that is a protection of rights both for platforms, which I actually think is very important that platforms have those rights to be able to regulate what kind of content they want on their sites.”
NPR’s CEO Katherine Maher: “Truth is a distraction from getting things done”
Our tax dollars fund this, @DOGE https://t.co/N60gECG3zO
Socialism, Islam Are Both Religions Based On Pillaging The West– thefederalist.com News Source
EXCERPT:
France is on fire — again. Hundreds of French schoolshave closed for periods or remain shut down, and the rioting continues, even spreading to neighboring Belgium. Beginning with a faculty protest at Saint-Exupéry High School over budget cuts, students soon joined in and similar protests broke out across the country. To no one’s surprise, activists almost immediately co-opted these demonstrations, taking advantage of the situation and organizing “fiery but not so peaceful” protests in the streets.
As writer John Daniel Davidson recently argued, the current riots in France illustrate yet again the alliance of Islamists and communists, or the Red-Green Alliance: “This is the Red-Green alliance of the socialist/Antifa left and Muslim immigrants, operationalized to bring the country to its knees through widespread rioting ahead of national elections next year.” Despite their many differences, the two groups have united “to tear down western institutions and the Christian faith on which they were built.”
If history and theology are any guide, there is even more uniting these two factions. Davidson correctly points that “on issues like women’s rights, transgenderism, gay marriage and the sexual revolution in general, [Islamists and radical leftists] are not aligned.” But these differences are mere window dressing to their core similarities: spreading their ideology through aggression and confiscating the wealth of others.
These two principles are fairly well known as features of communism, but most Westerners have been conditioned not to associate them with Islam. Nearly all Western schools, underfunded or otherwise, have done their utmost to obscure the fact that Islam was spread by the sword as well as by theft. As historian Raymond Ibrahim details in his classic history Sword and Scimitar: Fourteen Centuries of War Between Islam and the West, starting with the Prophet Muhammad and continuing with his many successors, Muslim armies would invade, pillage, terrorize, and enslave neighboring kingdoms, forcing their populations to submit to Allah, face martyrdom, or live as second-class citizens (dhimmis).
WATCH: Catholics praying Rosary at LGBT parade mocked, harassed by attendees– www.lifesitenews.com News Source
EXCERPT:
Fewer than ten lay Catholics courageously showed up to pray the Holy Rosary in reparation for an annual LGBT “pride” festival and parade in downtown Altoona for the second year in a row last week, persevering despite being mocked, screamed at, and even provocatively danced at by a “drag queen.”
On Friday, October 9, the small group of just seven brave faithful from across the great state of Pennsylvania, and one from the lesser state of Maryland, recited the Sorrowful Mysteries of the Rosary in reparation for sins committed during the blasphemous pro-LGBT event and indeed by the entire alphabet movement.
As they implored the intercession of the Blessed Mother (and even before they began), several angry (and likely demonically afflicted) LGBTers came up to harass, scream, wave rainbow flags at, and mockingly join them in prayer. A “drag queen” also stopped by to “twerk” at them while they were praying.
Attacks from parade/festival attendees
The third annual Altoona Pride Parade & Festival was organized by the Blair County Inclusion Alliance in partnership with Penn State Altoona (And this alumnus is embarrassed for them), to coincide with the leftist “National Coming Out Day.”
The demonic event drew a noticeably smaller but more vicious crowd than last year, with there appearing to be only about 200 in attendance – and that’s rounding up – including dozens of young children, a few more “drag queens,” but only one “furry” that I spotted compared to about a handful last year.
A drag queen mocked Catholics during a Rosary rally held in protest of a pride parade in Pennsylvania. https://t.co/uQYnuaj5Md
Democratic Socialists of America seize professor’s $6.6 million retirement account– www.thecollegefix.com News Source
EXCERPT:
Socialist group prevails in legal battle, seizes lucrative retirement account from professor’s nephews
A national socialist group successfully seized a $6.6 million retirement account from the four nephews of a deceased professor.
Professor David Greenberg died in 2024, setting off a legal battle over his estate, valued at nearly $10 million. The New York University professor had no will, but previously listed the “New American Movement” as the beneficiary of his school retirement plan.
That group later merged with the Democratic Socialists of America, of which Greenberg was also a dues paying member.
The DSA recently won a court battle against Greenberg’s four nephews for the lion’s share of his estate, a $6.6 million retirement account.
National co-chair Ashik Siddique addressed criticism last month over the group’s lawsuit against Greenberg’s family.
“We don’t see any contradiction between being socialists and organizing to have money in a capitalist society,” Siddique said,” according to the New York Times. “The more the better,” he said, “as long as it is meaningfully supporting the decisions that our members make together.”
Character.AI files for bankruptcy, will sell some assets to Disney for $20M – National– globalnews.ca News Source
EXCERPT:
Chatbot platform Character.AI said on Monday it has filed for bankruptcy in the U.S. and has agreed to sell some assets for US$20 million to Walt Disney.The generative AI platform has faced mounting legal challenges over its chatbots. Earlier this year, Character.AI and Alphabet’s Google settled a lawsuit by the mother of a 14-year-old Florida boy who killed himself after the startup’s chatbot allegedly encouraged him to do so.
Kentucky has sued the company, saying its chatbots encouraged users to cut, starve or kill themselves, while Pennsylvania filed a lawsuit alleging its chatbots posed as doctors.
According to Character.AI’s proposal, Disney will be a “stalking-horse” bidder — an initial prospective buyer — for a non-exclusive perpetual license to some intellectual property. Other bidders can top Disney’s offer.
Democratic Party Is Undergoing Socialist Rebranding, RSC Members Say– www.dailysignal.com News Source
EXCERPT:
Outspoken members of the congressional Republican Study Committee called out the Democratic Party for nominating self-proclaimed capitalist candidates in key districts while allegedly undergoing a socialist rebranding.
The members’ comments come after nearly the entire House Democratic caucus voted against a resolution condemning socialism this fall. Additionally, the Democratic Socialists of America organization has reached a record-high membership, and longtime Democratic House members earlier this spring said the party’s congressional leadership has been hijacked by progressives.
A new poll first reported by the Daily Signal also found that 84% of American Democrats under 29 have a favorable view of socialism.
“When Democrats claim they’re fighting for affordability, they’re lying,” House Majority Leader Steve Scalise, R-La., told the Daily Signal. “Their socialist policies will increase inflation up to 160%, cut paychecks by almost 30%, eliminate millions of jobs, and cost American families more than $350,000 over the next decade.”
“The contrast couldn’t be clearer: Republicans are lowering costs and putting more money into the pockets of hardworking families while socialists call a financial crisis their agenda,” Scalise continued.
Chairwoman of the RSC’s Article One Task Force, Rep. Harriet Hageman, R-Wyo., added that the “calls to expand socialism in America have ignited a debate between commonsense versus crazy,” and that America “must never” elect the “false promise of ‘Democratic Socialism.’”
The Democratic Party did not respond to the Daily Signal’s request for comment.
“Besides weighing 50% more than an M4, this POS is heavily overloaded with janky tacticool features, takes special ammo produced by one monopoly supplier, and falls to pieces under stress,” one post says. “All it lacks to be a true exemplar of American tech is a QR code and frozen touch screen.”
The Army launched the NGSW program after the 2017 Small Arms Ammunition Configuration (SAAC) study, which validated a need for greater energy on target and reduced shooter error through advanced fire control. It addressed limitations of existing 5.56 mm and 7.62 mm systems against protected and unprotected threats at extended ranges and is the first major rifle and automatic rifle fielding of this nature in roughly 65 years.
The M7 weighed 9.8 pounds equipped with a suppressor, had a 20-round magazine, a 13.5-inch barrel and could be equipped with an optical sight, according to ArmyRecognition.com. The XM8 weighs 8.8 pounds with the suppressor, has a 25-round clip and an 11-inch barrel, according to the United States Army.
Live Updates: Houthis threaten U.S. with “swift and painful” response if it joins Saudi Arabia’s strikes on Iran-backed group– www.cbsnews.com News Source
EXCERPT:
The foreign ministers of the U.S., the U.K., Australia, Canada and 23 other countries, many in Europe, have released a joint statement condemning hostile activities by Iran on foreign soil.
The statement came on the heels of British Prime Minister Andy Burnham saying a recent security incident at England’s RAF Fairford air base, which was until recently home to U.S. long-range bombers, was “almost certainly directed” by Iran’s Revolutionary Guard.
The countries said Monday that they “condemn in the strongest terms Iran’s use of violent attacks, including the acts of lethal plotting, arson, sabotage, cyber-attacks, and other hybrid activities against us and our partners.”
Linking the RAF Fairford incident to other recent attacks in Europe “targeting Jewish communities, Iranian journalists, and U.S. interests,” the countries said: “Any attempt by Iran to threaten, silence, intimidate, harass, harm, or coerce people on our territories through proxies or any other means is unacceptable.”
“Anyone who conducts hostile activities on behalf of Iran, or any other state, should know that we will take action to identify, investigate, disrupt, and prosecute these acts.”
Federal Judge Refuses to Block Maryland’s Glock Ban, Ruling the State Can Regulate ‘Excessively Dangerous Weapons’ – USA Carry News Source
EXCERPT:
A federal judge upheld Maryland’s ban on Glocks and striker-fired handguns, allowing it to take effect on January 1, 2027.
Judge Richard D. Bennett denied the plaintiffs’ request for a preliminary injunction, stating that the law aligns with Second Amendment regulations.
Senate Bill 334 prohibits the sale and transfer of machine gun convertible pistols, including Glocks, due to potential modifications into fully automatic weapons.
The ruling underscores that the state justifies this ban as a necessary response to advances in weapon technology and rising gun violence.
The case is ongoing, and the judge suggested that the challengers were unlikely to win, which led to the denial of the emergency order.
The Unknown Donor Axis Behind the Radical Left’s Rise to Power– gellerreport.com News Source
EXCERPT:
In past elections, big donors to progressives were generally older, wealthy hippies or successful Hollywood players. Now, our analysis of campaign filings shows a crew of virtually unknown donors stepping in to fund the far left. The emerging group skews younger, is often South Asian or Middle Eastern, and works in fields such as technology and medicine. Many had never given to politics before last year, but they are now donating as much as $1 million each to fund progressive candidates and a new “anti-Aipac” super PAC, reports the Wall Street Journal. One of the major financial players in this election jihad is the contemptuously named American Priorities – more accurate would be “American Subversion.”
Key points (based on The Wall Street Journal investigation, October 10, 2026):
– A new class of wealthy political donors is financing progressive candidates. Some had little or no recorded political giving before 2025 but are now contributing hundreds of thousands — even millions — of dollars.
– An anti-AIPAC super PAC is emerging as a major financial force. American Priorities is directing substantial funding toward progressive candidates critical of Israel and seeking to counter the influence of pro-Israel political spending.
– Abdul El-Sayed is a major beneficiary. American Priorities spent more than $500,000 supporting his Michigan Senate campaign.
The People’s Security University of China have developed an AI agent they claim can both identify hate speech (including dog whistling and coding) and the source for the hate. If “successful,” the model is sure to “inspire” similar efforts with like-minded ideologues (mainly progressives).
From bioengineer.og, “Few-shot detection of coded hate speech sits at the intersection of machine learning, computational linguistics, and social science, and this study offers a concrete template for how modern agentic AI techniques can be marshaled against one of its hardest instances.”
AI Agents Learn to Decode the Hidden Language of Online Hate– bioengineer.org News Source
EXCERPT:
Dog whistles are among the most slippery weapons in the online hate arsenal. A coded phrase that sounds innocuous to the average reader can carry a hostile, exclusionary, or extremist meaning for a specific in-group, giving the speaker plausible deniability while slipping past automated moderation systems. Because these expressions are implicit, tied to particular communities, and constantly evolving, they have long frustrated content moderation researchers. Now a team at the People’s Public Security University of China has unveiled a machine learning framework designed to catch them, combining agentic retrieval-augmented generation with a multi-agent data augmentation strategy in a few-shot learning setting. The work, published in the International Journal of Machine Learning and Cybernetics, reports consistent gains over widely used detectors such as BERTweet and RoBERTa as well as over augmentation-based baselines.
The challenge the researchers set out to address is fundamentally one of knowledge and context. Unlike overt slurs, dog whistles derive their meaning from historical and sociocultural cues that are rarely spelled out in the text itself. A model trained on standard hate speech corpora sees a benign-looking sentence and classifies it as harmless, while a human reader embedded in the relevant community immediately recognizes the coded hostility. Prior studies have made progress in discovering and understanding dog whistles, but downstream detection of dog-whistle hate speech has remained underexplored. Compounding the problem, large-scale human annotation is expensive and becomes obsolete quickly as new coded expressions emerge, which makes few-shot learning, where models must learn from only a handful of labeled examples, the realistic operational setting.
🇪🇸 Spain’s National Day TURNED TENSE in Madrid as flag-waving demonstrators CONFRONTED housing protesters camped at Puerta del Sol. The encampment is protesting soaring housing costs and evictions. Video shows teenage girls taunting campers – X News Source
Mass stabbing at South Korean supermarket as cops swarm and multiple shoppers injured– www.mirror.co.uk News Source
EXCERPT:
A mass stabbing at a discount supermarket in South Korea has prompted a huge emergency services response with police arresting the suspected attacker.
At approximately 1:49pm today (5.49am BST), an emergency report was filed stating that a stabbing had taken place at the Homeplus Guwol branch in Namdong-gu, Incheon.
Police rushed to the scene and arrested a man, they are referring to as A, who allegedly carried out the stabbing.
Police estimate that 6 to 8 Homeplus customers were injured in the attack. However, the exact number of casualties has not yet been confirmed.
Second wave of early prison releases under way in England and Wales | Prisons and probation– www.theguardian.com News Source
EXCERPT:
The second wave of early prison releases takes place throughout Tuesday, with hundreds of offenders walking out across England and Wales under the government’s controversial plan to ease overcrowding.
About 2,000 criminals, including domestic abusers and violent offenders, are being freed this month, with another 3,000 to follow in stages over the next year. The total was reduced from 6,000 after an intervention by Andy Burnham.
Prisoners who were convicted of manslaughter are excluded, meaning the killers of PC Andrew Harper, who died in the line of duty in 2019, will not be eligible.
The second tranche of early releases comes as members of the probation union, Napo, hold a pre-ballot meeting on taking strike action over pay and workloads.
Pay negotiations with probation officers ended with a “best and final” conditional pay offer worth 5%, which the union’s negotiating committee rejected. Members will be asked to vote for industrial action on pay, along with a question on workloads, in a formal ballot on industrial action to launch on 19 October.
The union says probation has been asked to take on huge amounts of additional work due to tens of thousands of prisoners released early from prisons since 2022.
The number of people behind bars has jumped by more than 1,700 in the past three months. The prison population in England and Wales was at 87,499 on Monday, according to Ministry of Justice (MoJ) data, up from 85,761 on 29 June, a rise of 2%.
The MoJ said released offenders would be monitored under the “toughest supervision in British history”. New restriction zones designed to control the movements of the highest-risk sexual and violent offenders should confine released prisoners to areas a few miles wide, in an effort to reassure victims of their crimes.
The MoJ also announced an expansion of electronic monitoring, with a new presumption that offenders will be electronically tagged and monitored when they leave prison. Technology rolling out this year is said to give probation near-live access to tagging data, helping staff spot breaches when offenders step out of line.
However, this month the victims’ commissioner, Claire Waxman, said the government’s confidence in the plan “is not yet matched by the reality on the ground”.
France braces for fresh nationwide student demonstrations– www.channelnewsasia.com News Source
EXCERPT:
“AREN’T BEING HEARD”
While most of the protests have been peaceful, students say they are determined to press the government to address the problems of too many absent teachers, dilapidated buildings, overcrowded class schedules and other grievances.
“Students aren’t being heard enough… not their proposals to authorities and elected officials,” a 19-year-old graphic design student in Paris, Leo, said.
He added that the protesters – many of whom were minors – were “disturbed by the level of repression never before seen for a student movement”.
One young protester lost a hand from a police stun grenade earlier in the protests, another lost many of his teeth from a tear-gas canister fired in his face at close range, and another lost an eye.
Rights groups and students have accused the police of a disproportionate use of force.
Several police officers and teachers have also been hurt, and on Monday authorities said fireworks fired through a tube injured two school workers in Reims, one school worker in a Paris suburb and a police officer outside a school in Marseille.
Tuesday’s demonstrations supporting the students were to be followed on Saturday by wider public rallies against the rising cost of living.
Naila, a 17-year-old student in the city of Rennes who said she would participate in Tuesday’s demonstration, hoped it would “converge” with the wider one on Saturday.
President Emmanuel Macron, speaking to reporters on Monday, said the pupils’ grievances would take time to address and urged restraint from protesters.
“These are issues that deserve time, consultations, discussion and respect,” Macron said.
German police ‘arrest’ child-groping robot (VIDEOS) — RT World News– rt-english.com News Source
EXCERPT:
German police have seized a humanoid robot that allegedly groped a 16-year-old girl on the streets of Cologne, and are investigating its owner for sexual harassment.
Officers seized the robot in the early hours of Sunday morning after it “allegedly touched a 16-year-old girl’s buttocks and made thrusting motions against her,” according to a statement from Cologne Police.
The teenage girl was standing outside a fast food restaurant with her friends when the robot approached her from behind and made obscene motions, the statement continued. Shortly afterwards, officers found the robot in the trunk of a nearby car and confiscated it, along with the mobile phones of its 16-year-old owner and his 19-year-old accomplice.
The red and gold robot, modeled on Marvel’s ‘Iron Man’, was seen in an evidence photo clad in a white vest, a gold chain, and a stick-on mustache.
Police are now “examining how the robot was functioning at the time of the incident and whether someone was deliberately controlling its movements.” The two teenagers operating the droid – who live-streamed the incident online – are being investigated on suspicion of sexual harassment.
Video footage shared on TikTok showed the sex-pest robot, named ‘Ahmed’ by his owner and accomplice, harassing multiple women. The droid made masturbatory hand gestures and thrusting motions at several women as his alleged operators laughed, and approached one woman from behind, causing her to scream. It is unclear if this is the incident that triggered the investigation.
According to Germany’s criminal code, sexual assault requires contact between perpetrator and victim. Acts “carried out by machines or by third parties” do not rise to the level of assault, The German Federal Court of Justice ruled in 2021. If found guilty of sexual harassment, however, the suspects could face a fine or up to two years in prison.
As AI mass-produces historical dramas in China, where are the boundaries? · TechNode– technode.com News Source
EXCERPT:
In 2026, AI is changing how historical dramas are produced in China. In the past, dramas featuring ancient battles, palace architecture and elaborate costumes often required large budgets and professional production teams.
Today, AI generation and virtual compositing tools are making it possible for smaller teams and even individual creators to produce historical scenes that were once difficult to realize. As production barriers fall, the volume of content is growing rapidly.
But as AI makes it possible to generate historical figures, battle scenes and depictions of ancient societies at scale, an important question emerges: when seemingly realistic historical narratives can be produced at low cost and in large quantities, how do we distinguish artistic interpretation from historical distortion?
The AIshort drama boom raises questions about content quality
According to the 2026 H1 AI Drama and Animation Data Report released by industry research firm DataEye, China’s AI drama and animation market exceeded RMB 22 billion ($3.29 billion) in the first five months of 2026.
The market is projected to reach RMB 40 billion ($5.98 billion) for the full year, representing year-on-year growth of 138%. The audience base has also expanded rapidly, with the number of AI short-drama users in China surpassing 600 million in the first half of the year.
From January to June, 221,900 new AI short dramas were released, of which 1,055 surpassed 100 million views. These titles generated a combined 515.738 billion views. Monthly incremental views rose to 155.78 billion in June, the highest monthly figure in the first half of the year.
AI-generated historical content is also beginning to reach longer formats. The AI series Wielding Weapons in the Song Dynasty has reportedly maintained popularity scores above 46 million across multiple seasons.
Meanwhile, The Later Journey to the West, an AI-generated series, aired during Hunan Satellite TV’s prime-time slot, ranking first among provincial satellite channels in the same time slot during its broadcast.
For historical dramas, AI is lowering not only production costs but also the technical barriers to creating complex scenes. Ancient cities, palaces and large-scale battlefields can now be designed and composited with generative tools, giving smaller production teams more opportunities to explore historical storytelling.
However, an increase in output does not necessarily translate into better content. AI can generate convincing characters, costumes and architecture, but that does not mean these details are historically accurate. As images become increasingly realistic, audiences may find it easier to mistake visual authenticity for historical accuracy.
Historicaldramas can take creative liberties, but fact and fiction should not be confused
Historical dramas are not the same as documentaries. Time travel, alternate histories and fictionalized retellings have long been part of screen storytelling. Artistic interpretation should not automatically be treated as a problem. The real question is how productions handle the boundary between historical fact and fiction.
AI introduces a new challenge because it can generate large amounts of detail in a short time. When information is incomplete, models may produce claims that sound plausible but lack historical evidence. Errors can involve people’s lives, clothing styles, the uses of artifacts and even the timelines of historical events.
A meticulously rendered ancient palace is not necessarily an accurate representation of architecture from that period. Likewise, a convincing dialogue attributed to a historical figure does not mean that the exchange is supported by historical records. If unverified details are presented as fact and repeated across large volumes of content, they may distort audiences’ understanding of history.
AI can therefore assist with historical research, scene design and image generation, but it cannot replace historical verification. For productions based on real historical events and figures, checking primary sources and consulting qualified experts remain essential.
Rules governing short-form dramas are also evolving. The National Radio and Television Administration’s Measures for the Administration of Micro-Dramas, which took effect on September 1, 2026, introduced a classification-based management framework and set out requirements covering filing, review, distribution and disclosure labels for AI-generated content.
However, stronger content oversight does not mean that all AI historical dramas should face the same restrictions. Clearly identified alternate-history stories differ in their potential risks from productions based on real historical events that audiences may mistake for fact. The focus should not simply be on whether a work matches historical records in every detail, but also on whether it misleads audiences, violates applicable content rules or fails to meet reasonable standards of verification.
Platforms also need to look beyond views and engagement. As AI-generated content expands, stronger review processes, timely action against violations and appropriate disclosures about how content was produced will become increasingly important.
AI labels can tell audiences how a work was made, but they cannot replace fact-checking or exempt a production from other content requirements.
AI historical dramas are giving more creators the opportunity to tell historical stories and bringing previously difficult creative ideas within reach. That is a meaningful change.
Yet as generating images becomes easier, the scarce skill may no longer be the ability to create an ancient palace, but knowing what that palace should have looked like in its historical context. It may no longer be the ability to generate a historical figure, but understanding that person’s era, background and documented experiences.
The challenge for AI historical dramas is therefore not simply how to increase production efficiency. It is how to balance artistic expression, historical accuracy and responsible distribution.
AI can certainly offer new ways to tell stories about the past, but the ability to generate a historical narrative does not justify disregarding historical facts. Technology can lower the barriers to creation, but creators’ understanding of history, their judgment about the boundaries of fiction, and platforms’ responsibility for the content they distribute will ultimately shape the results of this transformation.
Video. Ceuta awaits King Felipe after summer migration crisis– www.euronews.com News Source
EXCERPT:
Spain’s royal couple are expected in Ceuta on Tuesday, 13 October, as the North African enclave continues to recover from an unprecedented migration crisis. On 30 and 31 July, more than 70,000 people crossed the border from Morocco, a figure approaching the city’s entire population of 80,000.
Most returned within hours, but thousands remained in makeshift camps and emergency shelters for weeks. On Sunday, more than 350 police officers and soldiers took part in an operation to clear the last major informal settlement at El Guano, transferring its residents to reception centres.
The crisis has exposed deep divisions in Ceuta, where Muslims make up around 40% of the population. While some residents have called for tighter border controls, others have criticised hostility towards migrants. In the predominantly Muslim neighbourhood of El Príncipe, locals sheltered women and children, while community representative Ahmed Enfed-Dal condemned attacks on shelters and attempts to obstruct Red Cross food deliveries.
The royal couple are expected to meet local officials and civil society representatives before travelling to Melilla on Wednesday. Their first visit to the two enclaves since 2007 comes ahead of Spain’s 29 November general election, with migration a major political issue. Morocco’s territorial claims add a further diplomatic dimension to the trip.
Paramount’s New Avatar Series Forces LGBT Ideology On Kids– thefederalist.com News Source
EXCERPT:
Forcing LGBT ideology onto children is not a new phenomenon for Hollywood. So, it wasn’t exactly surprising when Paramount’s latest show for kids attempted to do just that.
On Friday, the company’s Paramount Plus streaming service debuted its new Avatar: Seven Havens series. Set within the Avatar universe, the animated show takes place in a post-apocalyptic world where the avatar — who can bend the elements of water, earth, fire, and air — is branded the enemy. The program follows the journey of Pavi and Nisha, twin sisters who discover that they’re twin avatars and must hide their abilities.
Seven Havens is a sequel to The Legend of Korra (2012-2014), which followed the original (and beloved) Avatar: The Last Airbender series (2005-2008). Seven Havens and Korra are rated PG, while The Last Airbender is rated TV-Y7, according to IMDb.
Seven Havens introduces viewers to a variety of new characters in its three-episode premiere. Among these is Jae, a male airbender who serves as a guardsman on the bending force tasked with protecting the city of Ellora, where the series takes place.
The show’s LGBT indoctrination rears its head in the third episode, when viewers learn that Jae is dating his fellow guardsman Datu. In one scene, Jae is escorting Pavi and Nisha back to the city’s compound before he gets abruptly stopped and embraced by Datu. Seeking to protect the girls from potential harm, Jae quickly lies about their true identities before kissing Datu on the cheek as he leaves.
The scene is hardly the first instance in which the Avatar creators have sought to force-feed LGBT ideology to kids.
At the end of Legend ofKorra, the avatar of the same name is heavily implied to be in a romantic relationship with her female friend Asami. This relationship was subsequently confirmed in a series of spinoff comics that followed the show’s characters after it ended. Both female characters had previously dated the same male character at different points throughout the series.
The Avatar universe’s continued embrace of “woke” has also crossed into racial territory.
As Douglas Blair reported in these pages, the studio’s most recent Avatar Aang: The Last Airbender movie, a sequel film to the original 2005 series, sidelined the original voice cast in favor of new actors who fit the industry’s “deliberate shift toward race-based casting standards.”
“Studios adopting these standards are responding to narrow ideological pressure elevating identity over performance to the detriment of their products,” Blair wrote. “Established talent is sidelined, creative flexibility is reduced, and audiences are left with weaker performances in the name of a principle they never wanted.”
Shawn Fleetwood is a staff writer for The Federalist and a graduate of the University of Mary Washington. He is a co-recipient of the 2025 Dao Prize for Excellence in Investigative Journalism. His work has been featured in numerous outlets, including RealClearPolitics and RealClearHealth. Follow him on Twitter @ShawnFleetwood
“enable local governments and private entities to sponsor immigrants directly”
That is what the Niskanen Center, a Washington think tank whose immigration program receives Soros-foundation backing, wants policymakers to do. The instruction appears in its November 2025 immigration blueprint.
Two weeks later, Niskanen published a county-by-county migration index, identifying hundreds of American communities as potential destinations for newcomers. Its proposed applications include planning where refugees and asylum seekers could settle.
The complete published community list appears at the end of this article, organized by state. Check whether your county is on it.
The agenda reaches straight into the question of who gets to shape your town: which places should receive newcomers, which private actors should help sponsor them, and how arrivals could be encouraged to stay.
Watch: Leftists’ Despicable Disruption of MN Lincoln-Reagan Event. It May Have Helped GOP. – RedState– redstate.com News Source
EXCERPT:
Minnesota Republicans held their annual Lincoln-Reagan Dinner in Eagan on Friday.
Among the people in attendance were Senate candidate Michelle Tafoya, Minnesota House Speaker and gubernatorial candidate Lisa Demuth, and former Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker, who was a featured speaker.
Demuth was speaking at the dinner when leftist activists disrupted the event.
New: How did protesters get into Friday’s MN GOP Lincoln-Reagan Dinner in Eagan? Despite off-duty police and private security, a source tells me they bought tickets costing $200–$250 each. One even reached the podium as GOP governor candidate Lisa Demuth spoke. https://t.co/c8R2FQ3joY
One of them was holding a banner that said “RepubliKKKan Party,” and she started screaming as the security tried to remove her and a male activist from the room.
So if you wondered how they got in, according to Lindsey Brown of KSTP, one of her sources said they bought tickets that cost $200-250 each.
How gross, and frankly, despicable. What gall to wave such a sign around, not only at a “Lincoln-Reagan” dinner, but to wave it at Demuth, who is black and who is the first black person to be a party nominee for governor in the state.
Minnesota GOP Chair Alex Plechash blasted the protesters Saturday in a statement for using “a symbol of racial terror at a Black woman leader, at a dinner named for the president who ended slavery.”
Plechash said the symbols “still have no place anywhere, least of all aimed at a Black woman seeking the highest office in our state.”
Eagan police said officers told eight people to leave. It’s not clear whether any criminal charges will be pursued.
Minnesota House GOP Leader Harry Niska commented on the disruption: “This kind of action is despicable, and it’s turning into a pattern of hateful rhetoric and disruption from extreme far-left Democrats.”
Fortunately, no one was hurt in the chaos, and the Republicans carried on despite the temporary disruption.
The good news? If each of the eight people who were asked to leave paid at least $200, that’s a $1,600 contribution to the Republicans. Thanks, you leftists! Hopefully, it’s put to good use to defeat Democrats in November.
Editor’s Note: The 2026 Midterms will determine the fate of President Trump’s America First agenda. Republicans must maintain control of both chambers of Congress.
Help RedState continue to report on the Democrats’ radicalism and inform voters as our nation faces a crossroads. Join RedState VIP and use promo code FIGHT to receive 60% off your membership.
A Wall Street Journal investigation revealed the donors who have been dumping money into campaigns for socialists and progressives through American Priorities, the anti-Israel super PAC.
These socialists hate America, hate Jews, and hate capitalism. (We all know they don’t actually hate capitalism because they indulge in it all the time.)
New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s victory likely boosted confidence and pushed these donors to support more socialist candidates. Five of the top 12 donors contributed to Mamdani.
The new group of donors is younger, mostly of South Asian or Middle Eastern heritage. They work in technology and medicine:
Sathvik Kaliyur, CEO of a fundraising firm called NWF Strategies whose clients have included Mamdani and [Michigan Democratic Senate candidate Abdul] El-Sayed, said his goal is to make it easier for candidates who don’t come from money to run for office.
Many of the biggest checks are going to a super PAC that aims to be an “anti-Aipac” force, called American Priorities.
American Priorities has used its funds to support progressives who criticize Israel, including more than $1 million to help elect Claire Valdez and Darializa Avila Chevalier, two DSA-backed candidates who won New York congressional primaries. The ads themselves didn’t mention Israel or the Palestinian territories as an issue: Instead, they stressed affordability and that the two women were “Mamdani-endorsed.”
One of the group’s funders, Texas entrepreneur Sam Mahrouq, said he supports efforts that “encourage a balanced American foreign policy and oppose corruption, discrimination, endless wars and excessive special-interest influence.”
The super PAC’s top donors, at $1 million apiece, have been Omer Hassan and Mohammad Waqas Javed. Little is publicly known about them, and the information they have provided the FEC is minimal: Waqas identifies as a resident of New York City and the CEO of Showcase Commerce Inc. – a company with little public footprint – while Hassan identifies as a retiree from Redwood City, California.
Both were also top donors to a super PAC that supported Mamdani’s 2025 mayoral campaign, giving about $250,000 each.
Neither donor responded to requests for comment. But a person close to American Priorities, speaking on the condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to publicly discuss its donors, said many of its contributors weren’t very politically active until Mamdani’s campaign, which was the “moment that inspired them and brought them into the fold.” Emboldened by Mamdani’s win, they began strategizing about how to influence the party nationally on the issue of Palestinian human rights.
“Part of it’s Palestine, part of it’s countering AIPAC, but it’s also about giving a long-overlooked community, which is critical to any Democratic majority, a real voice in our politics,” the person added.
So it’s 50% about “Palestine” and 50% anti-AIPAC, but also another community.
Dude. You cannot go over 100%. Thanks for saying the quiet part out loud.
The other top donors to American Priorities, the anti-AIPAC super PAC:
The WSJ is out with a list of the big donors funding the far left and the anti-Israel movement:
➡️Mohammad Waqas
➡️Omer Hasan
➡️Sam Mahrouq
➡️Afaq Ahmed
➡️Idris Mokhtarzada
➡️Nasser Barghouti
➡️Nazar Khan
➡️Moiz Ali
➡️Mehak Jamil
➡️Haroon Mokhtarzada
“Dues will be billed recurring monthly,” the website says. “When you select this option you will see a suggested monthly dues amount based on your personal income.”
You can choose 1%, 2%, or 3% of your monthly income.
Australian politics live: Climate protester restrained after interrupting NSW parliament; Albanese says he’ll do whatever he can to stop ‘abhorrent’ US execution live stream | Australia news– www.theguardian.com News Source
EXCERPT:
A climate protester has been restrained by NSW MPs after he climbed over a barrier to interrupt question time to protest against the approval of the Hunter Valley Operations (HVO) coalmine extension by the state’s Independent Planning Commission last month.
Earlier this afternoon, question time was interrupted for several minutes by the protest, during which eight activists from environmental advocacy group Rising Tide threw pages of government and academic climate reports into the chamber, including the Net Zero Commission’s report on coalmining emissions, which said mine expansions are against the state’s legislated emissions reduction targets.
In the parliamentary livestream, MPs appeared shocked before the speaker, Greg Piper, cut the feed. Footage shared by the group Rising Tide, which organised the protest, showed two MPs, independent MP Michael Regan and Labor MP David Saliba, helping parliamentary staff restrain one protester who climbed over the barrier.
In a statement, the protester, Andrew Sneddon, said he had been driven to do so by “the Minns government’s failure to address the climate crisis”.
