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Cornell faculty members indifferent to actual evidence in Jane Doe ‘rape’ case– www.thecollegefix.com

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Cornell faculty members indifferent to actual evidence in Jane Doe ‘rape’ case– www.thecollegefix.com
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‘I don’t know how any of that is relevant, but I believe Jane Doe. I believe survivors, I believe my students.’

On October 7, the Cornell Faculty Senate put forth a resolution expressing “no confidence in the ability of the central administration to effectively address the ongoing crisis of sexual assault” on campus.

The resolution comes as the “Cornell 7” fraternity (alleged) rape case from 2024 continues to make headlines.

Faculty debated the resolution on Wednesday, with additional debate and a final vote scheduled for October 28.

Part of the resolution’s “rationale” states many faculty “were approached by students at Cornell who are upset, fearful for their personal safety, and wanting our university to address the perennial problem of sexual assault on the campus.”

As previously noted by The College Fix, alleged victim “Jane Doe’s” 2024 sworn statement to the district attorney does not match the claims in her new civil lawsuit.

Ukraine Field Report: Russian Bombs Kill Six in Sloviansk as Strikes Hit Energy Sites Across Ukraine * The Gateway Pundit * by Antonio Graceffo– www.thegatewaypundit.com

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Ukraine Field Report: Russian Bombs Kill Six in Sloviansk as Strikes Hit Energy Sites Across Ukraine * The Gateway Pundit * by Antonio Graceffo– www.thegatewaypundit.com
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A residential complex in Kherson Oblast after Russian airstrikes killed one person and injured 22, including children, on October 17, 2026. Photo courtesy of DSNS of Kherson region.

Russian forces targeted Ukraine’s power grid overnight into October 17 and struck residential districts in Sloviansk and Kherson with aerial bombs, killing civilians and injuring dozens.

President Volodymyr Zelensky said Russia struck more than 15 key power generation and transmission facilities. The assault involved more than 320 Shahed-type drones launched between 7 p.m. and 7 a.m., along with cruise and ballistic missiles. Ukraine’s Air Force reported downing 289 of 332 drones.

The hardest-hit areas included Lutsk, Rivne, Zhytomyr and Vinnytsia. Kharkiv, Kyiv and Dnipropetrovsk regions were also targeted.

At about 3:40 a.m. on October 17, Russian aircraft dropped FAB-250 bombs on a residential district of Sloviansk, damaging nine apartment buildings, according to police. Donetsk Oblast Military Administration head Vadym Filashkin later reported that six people were killed and 13 injured in Sloviansk that day. One person was also killed and another injured in Kramatorsk, bringing the oblast’s toll to seven dead and 14 injured.

Report: Left-Wing Donors Bankroll ‘Decoy Dan’ Sullivan in Alaska Senate Race– legalinsurrection.com

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Report: Left-Wing Donors Bankroll ‘Decoy Dan’ Sullivan in Alaska Senate Race– legalinsurrection.com
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The New York Post found that progressive donors have primarily funded the super PAC supporting Republican “Decoy Dan” Sullivan in Alaska’s Senate race.

Sullivan is known as “Decoy Dan” because he filed to run using the same name and party affiliation as incumbent Republican Alaska Sen. Dan Sullivan.

The news fuels theories that Democrat operatives put Sullivan on the Alaska ballot to confuse voters, especially as the race between Sen. Sullivan and former Democrat Rep. Mary Peltola has grown close.

The super PAC is called Right for Alaska:

New financial disclosures support that theory. Right for Alaska, a super PAC that has spent close to $1.15 million to support “Decoy Dan,” took in approximately $990,000 from the left-wing Sixteen Thirty Fund, according to Federal Election Commission data.

Right For Alaska, whose mailing address is located in the Twin Cities suburb of Hudson, Wis., also got $1.8 million from the Liberty Force Action Fund, a dark money 501(c)(4) that doesn’t have to disclose its donors.

Both Right for Alaska and the Liberty Force Action Fund list as their treasurer a man named Thomas Datwyler — previously linked to lying former Long Island Rep. George Santos (R-NY).

Datwyler did not immediately respond to requests for comment.

Judge Approved Ilhan Omar Raid After Reviewing Texts from Sister’s Seized Phone– slaynews.com

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Judge Approved Ilhan Omar Raid After Reviewing Texts from Sister’s Seized Phone– slaynews.com
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Text messages recovered from Rep. Ilhan Omar’s (D-MN) sister’s phone helped federal investigators obtain the warrant to search the congresswoman’s Washington, D.C., home, according to a new report.

The evidence was revealed in a New York Times report.

Authorities seized author and healthcare executive Sahra Noor’s phone earlier this year.

The device was taken while authorities were examining a possible conspiracy to commit immigration fraud.

Messages exchanged among family members reportedly helped investigators persuade a federal judge to authorize last Monday’s search.

The report identifies evidence behind the raid that Omar has dismissed as political targeting by President Donald Trump.

If Thune Doesn’t Censure Slotkin, He Supports Nuking GOP Staff– thefederalist.com

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If Thune Doesn’t Censure Slotkin, He Supports Nuking GOP Staff– thefederalist.com
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Democrats have been unusually mask-off heading into midterm election season, trying to get voters to believe it’s “moderate” to accept Islamist communism because of high gas prices. The latest foreboding reveal came from Michigan Sen. Elissa Slotkin over the weekend.

She bird-handed the formerly subtextual part on camera: “I wanna look at these signature cases and not just focus on the president but on the people who enabled him. I want young people coming out of school to say, ‘Should I go work for the Trump administration? Like, that sounds fun, I might get an opportunity.’ I want them to be like, ‘[Anti-Christian blasphemy], that might be buying myself a ton of problems that I don’t want, so let me avoid participating in that.’ I want that deterrence message.”

Trump sold out Ukraine for a bad diesel deal. Every ally is watching– www.washingtonexaminer.com

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Trump sold out Ukraine for a bad diesel deal. Every ally is watching– www.washingtonexaminer.com
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President Donald Trump’s apparent decision to cut Ukraine’s military off from the use of a key technology that allows it to strike targets deep inside Russia is shortsighted and deeply unwise. It is yet another example of how the president’s penchant for rapid, 180-degree shifts in policy undermines America’s ability to work with allies, thereby undermining national security.

The technology at issue is Starshield, a military application of Elon Musk’s Starlink. Starshield apparently allows Ukraine’s drone operators to pilot and guide the drones over Russian airspace at high speeds. This allows the operators to avoid Russian air defenses and ensure the weapons hit their targets.

WARZONE: Muslim and Leftwing Rioters In France Armed with AK47s and Submachine Guns– gellerreport.com

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WARZONE: Muslim and Leftwing Rioters In France Armed with AK47s and Submachine Guns– gellerreport.com
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And the media is covering for the savages.

Nothing to see here BBC calls France’s radical-left riots ‘mostly peaceful’ while showing cities in flames

Sudan drone attacks kill 3 children in Khartoum, dozens of civilians in Kordofan– abcnews.com

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Sudan drone attacks kill 3 children in Khartoum, dozens of civilians in Kordofan– abcnews.com
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CAIRO — A rare drone attack on Sudan’s capital killed three children Monday, a rights group said, as both sides in the country’s war step up airstrikes that have killed dozens of civilians in the Kordofan region in recent days.

The strike, which the group blamed on Sudan’s paramilitary Rapid Support Forces, killed children ages two, four and six in Imtidad Nasser, a neighborhood east of Khartoum’s airport. The RSF has been at war with the Sudanese military for more than three years.

Sayed Mustafa, a resident of the area, told The Associated Press he saw a drone flying toward the airport and heard anti-aircraft fire engage it.

“Shortly after, the drone went down, and we heard an explosion near the airport,” Mustafa said.

Emergency Lawyers, a group that tracks violence against civilians in Sudan’s war, condemned the attack, calling it a humanitarian tragedy and a “serious violation” that requires investigation and accountability.

There was no immediate comment from the RSF.

Propaganda Media Downplay France’s Islamo-Marxist Riots– thefederalist.com

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Propaganda Media Downplay France’s Islamo-Marxist Riots– thefederalist.com
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Propaganda media exist for one reason and one reason only — to advance their left-wing political allies’ destructive agenda. Anyone who tuned into their coverage of this weekend’s French riots experienced this unspoken mission statement firsthand.

As far-left radicals and Islamists dressed in dark clothes and masks and wielding Palestinian flags desecrated historic buildings and landmarks throughout the once-respectable republic, the “democracy dies in darkness” crowd worked overtime to convince audiences at home that these violent riots were nothing more than “student protests” against school policies.

While characterizing the riots as “some of the worst violence the country has ​witnessed for decades,” Reuters described the leftist and Third Worlder violence as “demonstrations against rising living costs and declining public services [that] spiralled out of control.” The Associated Press similarly dubbed the riots “nationwide protests against rising living costs and poor conditions in schools.”

On X, the Seattle-based KOMO News summarized this weekend’s violence as “student demonstrations over teacher shortages and poor school conditions [that] broadened into a nationwide protest over rising living costs and fuel prices.” The English division of the Qatari-backed Al Jazeera also described the riots “spreading” in France and other European nations as “student protests.”

DSA Member Angie Nixon Says She Wants To Use The Police To Go After Republican Opponent– www.louderwithcrowder.com

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DSA Member Angie Nixon Says She Wants To Use The Police To Go After Republican Opponent– www.louderwithcrowder.com
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Oftentimes, the left likes to pretend they don’t engage in political lawfare. Sometimes, however, they get a candidate dumb enough to admit the quiet part out loud. Angie Nixon is one of those people.

According to Nixon, it is a lie to claim she wants to defund the police, as she wants to see her political opponent jailed. She can’t do that if they are defunded. Duh.

I mean, Chris Murphy says it all, doesn’t he?

You don’t have to know anything about politics to realize she is an objectively dumb person.

According to Fox News:

“The fact remains that Ashley Moody is a lying, cheating, thieving, scamming person who basically took $10 million from sick kids for the Medicaid program. And she rerouted that into two political slush funds for Ron DeSantis to defeat two citizen-led ballot initiatives,” Nixon told CNN host Kasie Hunt. “She also voted to end healthcare for over 440,000 people here in the state of Florida. And they are spreading, like, a lot of disinformation and lies on commercials about me, of saying things like, “I want to abolish prisons and I want to defund the police.”

Left Wing Student Group at NYU Demands 20 Percent Black Enrollment– legalinsurrection.com

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Left Wing Student Group at NYU Demands 20 Percent Black Enrollment– legalinsurrection.com
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Left wing students always think they’re in a position to make demands. It’s so funny.

Campus Reform reports:

NYU student group demands 20 percent black enrollment despite Supreme Court ruling

New York University’s (NYU) chapter of Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) is demanding that the school raise Black student enrollment to 20 percent within five years and hire more Black faculty.

Students rallied in Washington Square Park, urging NYU to boost Black enrollment, after a 2023 Supreme Court ruling in Students for Fair Admissions v. Harvard addressed race-conscious admissions policies.

Organizers point to a post stating that Black students make up 3.4 percent of the class of 2029, down 20 percent relative to the 4.2 percent from the class of 2028. New York City’s Black population, by comparison, was 20.2 percent in the 2020 census.

The campaign began with an Oct. 2 Instagram post from SDS stating that “Education is a Right[,] Not Just For The Rich and White.” The post lists four demands, including that NYU “Release detailed admissions and enrollment demographic data,” “Create a designated space for Black students within a year,” and “Increase Black enrollment to 20 percent within 5 years.”

SDS said in a separate post that “NYU continues to fail its Black student body” and that it plans to host a “Black Townhall” on Oct. 22.

One speaker at the rally said: “I started by asking, ‘Do I really belong here?’ Today, I think NYU has to answer a different question. What is this university willing to do to make sure Black students know that we belong?”

Republicans Shift Spending, Narrowing in on the Midterms– www.dailysignal.com

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Republicans Shift Spending, Narrowing in on the Midterms– www.dailysignal.com
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With the midterm elections less than 20 days away, Republicans are shifting their spending strategy and narrowing in on key races they think they can win. Republican leaders are continuing to be bullish on growing their majority on Nov. 3, but their spending suggests they are shifting from their goal of growing their congressional majority to holding the line.

According to new Federal Election Commission filings, Republican super PACs aligned with President Donald Trump are redirecting spending away from their broad map. They are pulling back from a handful of battleground House races and the North Carolina and Georgia Senate races, instead targeting key Senate races in Texas, Ohio, Michigan, Iowa, and Alaska.

Steve Cortes, head of the League of American Workers and former Trump and Vance senior adviser, told the Daily Signal that this has already been the strategy for some of the biggest outside groups because they “don’t believe the House is salvageable.”

“It seems like the Trump PACs are now coming around with that same point of view, and that these resources into the final days are much better spent on trying to save the Senate,” Cortes continued. “I don’t think it’s going to be some massive, massive wave because I just think these are the districts are drawn so scientifically now that there’s just not that many truly competitive seats, but I think there’s clearly enough to give the Democrats the House,” he said.

WNBA teams SKIP national anthem during playoffs despite league rules | The Post Millennial– thepostmillennial.com

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WNBA teams SKIP national anthem during playoffs despite league rules | The Post Millennial– thepostmillennial.com
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“Appalling. 162 regular season games plus multiple playoff rounds, wouldn’t catch a MLB team pulling that garbage.”

The WNBA‘s rulebook requires that players and coaches stand and line up along the sidelines when the national anthem is played. However, at Saturday’s game between the Atlanta Dream and Golden State Valkyries, both finalist teams ignored the rule and left the court. The league has remained silent over the matter.

Reporters at Outkick reached out to the league, and the WNBA has yet to answer for the teams’ absences. The teams had been warming up before they left the court ahead of the national anthem, leading to heavy backlash from online users who said that it was disrespectful.

The 2026 rulebook for the WNBA includes a provision that players, coaches, and trainers must be at the sideline or foul line when the anthem plays, but nothing of the sort took place at Game 1 of the WNBA finals. After the teams left, they were back second after the anthem played.

Game 2 is set to take place on Monday evening at the Chase Center, but when pressed by reporters at Outkick, neither team said what their plans for the anthem are going to be. Users online were outraged that the teams did not take the time to recognize the anthem.

Feds Just Busted a Major Noncitizen Voting Ring in This Blue State– townhall.com

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Feds Just Busted a Major Noncitizen Voting Ring in This Blue State– townhall.com
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Federal authorities announced the arrests of more than two dozen foreign nationals in California on Monday.

The suspects are facing charges for illegally registering and voting in U.S. elections, according to Spectrum News.

The statewide sweep is part of a Trump administration effort to root out noncitizen voting ahead of next month’s midterm elections, even though data shows that the problem is incredibly rare, difficult to prove and has not been shown to change the outcome of races.

The arrests also reflect a further escalation in a simmering voter roll fight between the federal government and California that came into focus last week when the Justice Department sued the state and later warned that local election workers who knowingly process or tabulate ballots submitted by noncitizen voters are at risk of investigation and potential prosecution.

The Justice Department said all of those arrested as part of a sweep dubbed Operation Protect the Vote are lawful permanent residents — but not U.S. citizens who are permitted to legally vote. They are charged with crimes including making false statements on a naturalization application and submitting fraudulent voter registrations.

The New York Post noted that most of the arrestees “allegedly cast illegal ballots.”

Alexander Muñoz, a 72-year-old Belizean national, allegedly registered to vote in September 2019, claiming he was a citizen. He voted in 2020 and twice in 2022 and 2024 and allegedly lied on his naturalization application. He faces felony charges, including false statements on the application.

Everett School District Settles After Religious Nonprofit Sues Over Violation of First Amendment Rights – www.dailysignal.com

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Everett School District Settles After Religious Nonprofit Sues Over Violation of First Amendment Rights – www.dailysignal.com
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A religious education nonprofit has settled its lawsuit against the Everett School District in Washington state after suing the district for violating its First Amendment rights.

The Everett School District, whose board director admitted “animus” toward LifeWise Academy will be required “to undergo religious liberty training, make changes to district policies governing religious activities, issue a public written apology on the district’s website visible for six months, and pay $275,000 in attorney’s fees.”

The district settled despite saying LifeWise’s claims were untrue and that their own actions were reasonable and neutral.

LifeWise is a Chrisitan education program that provides Biblical teaching off campus to public school students during school hours. In January 2025, LifeWise began offering their courses to students at Emerson Elementary School in the Everett Public School District.

According to the suit, the Everett School District began imposing exclusive restrictions on LifeWise Academy. The district excluded LifeWise from events and flyer displays, required weekly parental authorization, and obligated students to keep LifeWise materials sealed in their backpacks.

In November 2025, LifeWise sent a letter to the school board protesting the unfair treatment. In reply, Everett School Board member Charles Adkins stated, “I want to make it very, extremely, abundantly clear, that yes, I do in fact hold animus toward LifeWise Academy. … It is an organization of homophobic bullies who are active and willing participants in the efforts to bring about an authoritarian theocracy.”

Other members and commenters have criticized LifeWise at school board meetings, some even comparing LifeWise to the Nazi Party. One commenter stated that LifeWise is “a very dangerous program.” Many others protested against LifeWise as they viewed it as a religious indoctrination program.

Trump admin blinks on ‘very unpopular’ push to deport 100K Ukrainians before midterms– www.rawstory.com

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Trump admin blinks on ‘very unpopular’ push to deport 100K Ukrainians before midterms– www.rawstory.com
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Just ahead of the midterms, the Trump administration appears to be softening one of its signature policy pledges, immigrant advocates told The Washington Post.

According to a Trump administration official who spoke with the Post on the condition of anonymity, and to the Ukrainian Embassy in Washington, the Department of Homeland Security is expected to extend Temporary Protected Status, or TPS, which shields noncitizens from certain countries from deportation, for around 100,000 Ukrainians whose protections were scheduled to expire Monday. An embassy spokeswoman said the extension is expected to last six months.

DHS did not confirm the extension. “An announcement on Ukraine’s TPS will be made at the appropriate time. Until such an announcement is made, Ukrainian individuals present in the U.S. under TPS remain under protection,” the department said in a statement.

The move follows DHS’s decision last month to let TPS remain in place for around 232,000 migrants from El Salvador. The administration never formally announced a decision, instead issuing what the Post described as a “last-minute notice.” The lack of a clear timeline has forced Salvadorans “to grapple with an uncertain future,” the Post reported. Sudanese TPS holders, also set to lose protections Monday, will keep them until further notice, DHS said.

“This is different,” said Jessica Bansal, an attorney focused on TPS litigation, speaking with the Post.

Democrats Don’t Want Anyone Watching the Vote Count. Ask Yourself Why.– townhall.com

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Democrats Don’t Want Anyone Watching the Vote Count. Ask Yourself Why.– townhall.com
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The NAACP and three of its members sued Attorney General Todd Blanche, Assistant Attorney General for Civil Rights Harmeet Dhillon, and the Department of Justice, challenging President Donald Trump’s plan to deploy about 1,000 federal “election monitors” to polling places for the midterm elections.

The lawsuit invokes the Voting Rights Act’s protections against voter intimidation and demands a complete list of the jurisdictions the administration plans to target.

The NAACP poll monitors lawsuit has turned the 2026 midterms into a courtroom battle over who gets to watch Americans vote — and why. On Friday, October 16, 2026, the nation’s oldest civil rights organization sued the Department of Justice in federal court, asking a judge to block the Trump administration from deploying 1,000 federal poll monitors to voting sites across the country ahead of the November 3 midterms.

The complaint, filed in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia, does not challenge poll monitoring as a concept. It argues that this particular plan — 1,000 monitors dispatched with what the NAACP calls an explicit mission to root out voter fraud — is a pretext for intimidation. “There is no federal statute that gives Defendants the authority to turn polling places into interrogation rooms,” the NAACP wrote, as Democracy Docket reported.

The lawsuit asks the court to block the deployment under the Voting Rights Act’s anti-intimidation protections and demands that the Justice Department hand over a complete list of the jurisdictions it plans to target. With early voting already underway and just 16 days until Election Day, the case sets up a fast-moving legal fight over the physical atmosphere of American polling places — and over whether federal power will be used to protect voters or to pressure them.

Rioters in France desecrate statues of St. Joan of Arc during violent weekend– www.lifesitenews.com

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Rioters in France desecrate statues of St. Joan of Arc during violent weekend– www.lifesitenews.com
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(LifeSiteNews) — An unidentified rioter veiled the head of a statue of St. Joan of Arc near the city center of Toulouse, appearing to mimic a hijab, along with a Palestinian flag, while video from Paris shows vandals climbing and putting political stickers on a statue of the patroness of France as violence raged across the country over the weekend.

Images posted across social media from Toulouse show an unidentified masked man, who appears to be African, standing on the bronze statue located on Place Jeanne d’Arc after placing a yellow vest on the saint’s head in the shape of a hijab and the Palestinian flag on the statue’s side. Separate video from Paris shows another unidentified reportedly foreign rioter being cheered on by a mob after climbing on and placing political stickers on the statue of the country’s patron saint in the Place des Pyramides.

Video from Saturday evening in Toulouse shows a courageous yet to be identified young man removing the yellow vest and flag from the statue.

Ukrainians dying because US restricting intelligence sharing, Zelensky adviser tells BBC– www.bbc.co.uk

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Ukrainians dying because US restricting intelligence sharing, Zelensky adviser tells BBC– www.bbc.co.uk
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Ukrainians have died because Kyiv is still not receiving reliable US warnings of incoming Russian attacks, according to a key adviser to President Volodymyr Zelensky.

Serhii “Flash” Beskrestnov told the BBC that lives had been lost because there had not been time to warn citizens about ballistic missile strikes, saying: “It’s dangerous… I think it’s really very bad… People [have] already died.”

The adviser also said restrictions to Ukraine’s use of the Starlink internet network were ongoing.

The White House said there had been no changes to intelligence sharing with Ukraine.

Texas Says It’s Fixed a Glitch That Delayed Nearly 600,000 Voter Registrations– www.cnet.com

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Texas Says It’s Fixed a Glitch That Delayed Nearly 600,000 Voter Registrations– www.cnet.com
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Like in many states, Texans can register to vote or update their registration when renewing their driver’s license or getting a new one.

But the state of Texas has blamed a software glitch related to this system for more than half a million voter registration delays. The extensive backlog of voting registration applications, which reportedly began to accumulate a year ago, is now the subject of a lawsuit filed by a pair of voter advocacy groups: the League of Women Voters Texas and MOVE Texas Civic Fund. The state says it has already fixed the issue and filed the applications.

The suit characterizes the delay as part of a pattern of voter suppression that has disenfranchised voters in Texas. Filed in Bexar County, Texas, the lawsuit names Texas Secretary of State Robert S. Howden and his office, as well as the Department of Public Safety and its director Freeman F. Martin.

Meanwhile, the office of the Texas Secretary of State told media this week that the delayed applications were filed to voters’ home districts and that the problem has been fixed. As a safeguard, a spokesperson for the secretary of state said anyone still affected by the problem will be able to file a provisional ballot. But according to a report from The Texas Tribune, county officials have found another system error has caused issues with another 15,000 registrations over the last month.

Now, counties are scrambling to fix those issues ahead of the start of early voting in the state on Oct. 19 for a high-profile midterm election season that has put the state in the national spotlight. Chris McGinn, executive director of the Texas Association of County Election Officials, told the Tribune, “Just when most counties were seeing the light at the end of the tunnel, another unexpected backlog is being dropped on county voter registrars.”

Retiring GOP congressmember will 'absolutely not' vote for successor in at-risk seat– www.politico.com

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Retiring GOP congressmember will ‘absolutely not’ vote for successor in at-risk seat– www.politico.com
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Retiring Nevada Republican Rep. Mark Amodei said he won’t vote for the Trump-endorsed GOP candidate vying to replace him amid a string of stolen valor and other accusations — and warned that the once-safe Republican seat President Donald Trump won by 14 points is at risk of flipping blue on Election Day.

Amodei said in an interview Saturday he would “absolutely not” vote for businessperson David Flippo in Nevada’s 2nd District. “I think the seat’s at risk,” he added, citing a string of stolen valor and financial allegations against Flippo.

“You say, well, the president endorsed him,” Amodei added. “It’s like, well whoever was advising the president on, ‘Hey, this would be a good place for you to go ahead and weigh in,’ gave him awful advice. The vetting process — quote unquote — must have been nearly non-existent.”

Amodei specifically cited a series of allegations against Flippo as disqualifying, for reportedly lying about his military service and also failing to file financial disclosures on time.

Horror fire rips through Bangladesh beach resort killing 10 people ‘including children’ | World | News– www.express.co.uk

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Horror fire rips through Bangladesh beach resort killing 10 people ‘including children’ | World | News– www.express.co.uk
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A fire gutted a beach resort in southeastern Bangladesh on Saturday, killing 10 people, an official said. The fire broke out at Tuptup Resto and Resort at Inani in Cox’s Bazar district, a popular destination for domestic tourists, Syed Mohammad Morshed Hossain, deputy assistant director of Fire Service and Civil Defence in the district, said. The resort is located along Marina Drive, near the Bay of Bengal.

The blaze erupted this morning and quickly spread through the three-story wooden resort, the official said. Children were among the fatalities, he said, without giving further details. It wasn’t immediately clear what caused the fire.

Six of the 10 victims have already been identified, with their ages ranging from 33 to five. Fire crews were called to the scene after the blaze started at around 6.30am local time, according to Mohammad Atikur Rahman Majumder, the chief of Ukhiya Police Station.

Police officers also attended, supporting the rescue operation. Nine more people were injured, according to the local fire service, and were all taken to hospital.

Sabuktagin Mahmud Sohel, resident medical officer at Cox’s Bazar Sadar Hospital, told the Hindu that give of the casualties had burns covering around 5% of their bodies.

Republican Massachusetts Lt. Gov. Candidate Suspends Campaign After Arrest– wltreport.com

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Republican Massachusetts Lt. Gov. Candidate Suspends Campaign After Arrest– wltreport.com
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Just weeks before midterms, the Republican candidate for Lieutenant Governor of Massachusetts is suspending his campaign.

Shawn Oliver was arrested on Saturday night after allegedly driving under the influence and smashing his SUV into five other vehicles.

Thankfully, nobody was injured.

But, footage from the crash site is dramatic.

Take a look:

Trump accuses Zelenskyy of not wanting to end the war, defends Russian sanctions waiver– www.cbsnews.com

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Trump accuses Zelenskyy of not wanting to end the war, defends Russian sanctions waiver– www.cbsnews.com
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President Trump said Sunday he is “in the process of negotiating Peace in the war between Russia and Ukraine,” and accused Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelenskyy of not wanting to end the war.

In a Truth Social post on Sunday, Mr. Trump criticized Zelensky for “using Diesel Refineries in Russia as a target” and alleged “he doesn’t want to end this war, and probably never did.”

“He could have made a better deal two years ago than he can now. His country is in shambles, a large portion of his land is lost, his oceans and seas are gone, and his male population is low, wounded, and/or dead,” Mr. Trump wrote.

The comments come amid a deepening rift between the Mr. Trump and Zelensky, with the U.S. president criticizing his Ukrainian counterpart for attacking Russian oil infrastructure.

 

Priest killed by falling cross during livestreamed church service in Ecuador– www.independent.co.uk

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Priest killed by falling cross during livestreamed church service in Ecuador– www.independent.co.uk
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A Roman Catholic priest in southwestern Ecuador has died after a wooden crucifix fell on him during a livestreamed service.

The priest was identified as Patricio Sánchez of Perpetuo Socorro Church by the Archdiocese of Guayaquil, a coastal city 265 kilometers (164 miles) southwest of the capital, Quito.

Footage of the evening Mass on Saturday shows a heavy crucifix detaching from the wall above the altar and striking Sánchez on the head.

He did not appear to see it falling.

Worshippers cried for help as the live broadcast continued.

Zelensky Says Critical U.S. Intelligence Is Flowing Again — But One Major Dispute Remains– wltreport.com

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Zelensky Says Critical U.S. Intelligence Is Flowing Again — But One Major Dispute Remains– wltreport.com
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The most important American intelligence channel in the Ukraine war is reportedly flowing again.

President Volodymyr Zelensky says the United States has restored the specialized warning information Ukraine uses to detect Russian ballistic-missile launches after a three-day interruption.

The restoration also exposes the bigger fight still hanging over Washington and Kyiv: whether U.S. intelligence and satellite support are being used as leverage to restrain Ukrainian attacks on Russia’s oil infrastructure.