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Appeals court resists DOJ’s bid to immediately segregate 20k California ballots – thehill.com
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A federal appeals court appeared unlikely to immediately agree to the Trump administration’s bid to segregate 20,000 California ballots it says are likely noncitizen voters, expressing skepticism at a rare Sunday hearing that a trial judge needs to move quicker. “I don’t see how we have jurisdiction,” said U.S. Circuit Judge Mark Bennett. The Justice Department (DOJ) sued…
Xbox Turns Down Netflix $500 Million Offer– www.darkhorizons.com
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Netflix reportedly offered Microsoft $500 million for a seven year deal that would allow the streaming giant to adapt shows and films about Xbox characters.
Puck broke the news, indicating that Microsoft responded with an offer for $800 million – as a result, the deal has reportedly fallen through.
In a statement to Puck, Xbox said, “We have received record-breaking interest in our I.P.; Netflix is a valued partner and we are excited for the forthcoming release of our Minecraft and Diablo animated series together, among other adaptations.”
Microsoft is now said to be in pursit of “smaller deals with more partners,” doing things on a case-by-case basis rather than an overarching exclusivity deal.
Microsoft previously partnered with Paramount to produce the live-action “Halo” series, which ran for two seasons. They currently have a “Call of Duty” film in the works at Paramount, a third season of “Fallout” at Amazon and a sequel to “A Minecraft Movie” opening next year.
Appeals court rules Donald Trump’s CA National Guard deployment to Los Angeles was unlawful
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Nearly 1 million chickens killed at egg farm as nation’s largest bird flu outbreak grows– www.independent.co.uk
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Nearly 1 million chickens were killed at an Illinois farm after a bird flu outbreak became the nation’s largest active outbreak this week.
The outbreak affected 934,600 birds at a commercial table egg layer facility in Clinton County, Illinois, the United States Department of Agriculture confirmed. It reportedly occurred at Rose Acre Farms, located outside Germantown, village officials told KSDK.
Rose Acre Farms is the second-largest egg producer in the U.S., according to the company’s website. With no treatment available for highly pathogenic avian influenza, better known as bird flu, authorities must kill infected and exposed birds to contain the virus.
Losing nearly a million hens could disrupt egg production and put further pressure on prices as supplies tighten.
The scale of the Illinois outbreak far exceeds other active cases nationwide. Minnesota had the next-highest number of birds affected, with 168,880 statewide, according to the USDA.
Justice Department Opens Criminal Inquiry Into DA Larry Krasner’s Office, Sources Say – Northeast Times
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Professors dispute notion America’s founding was based on slavery in new book– www.thecollegefix.com
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Historians and professors refute arguments from popular ‘1619 Project’
In keeping with the nation’s 250th anniversary, a new book “A Nation Born in a Day: Visions of the American Founding” brings together a collection of scholarly essays examining America’s founding and critiquing the claims made by “The 1619 Project.”
“In 1776, America’s Founders set forth principles of equality, liberty, and consent of the governed,” the book’s editor, Michael Poliakoff, told The College Fix in a recent interview. “Although it would be a long journey to shed the stain of slavery, the Founders set us and the world on that path.”
Poliakoff is a professor of classics and president of the American Council of Trustees and Alumni, a conservative organization that works to support liberal arts education and uphold academic standards.
The book, published by Stone Tower Press, features essays by 10 historians and scholars who refute the claims of the popular 2019 New York Times series “The 1619 Project.”
The project’s main, much-disputed thesis put slavery and the contribution of black Americans at the center of American history, claiming that it was central to the nation’s historical development. The title emphasizes the year when the first enslaved Africans arrived in the English colony of Virginia, as a symbolic starting point for understanding the country. This slavery-focused historical outlook argues that slavery is paramount in impact and importance over the principles set by the Founding Fathers.
Two ex-FBI officials arrested for lying to Congress about Hunter Biden laptop– www.lifesitenews.com
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The Department of Justice (DOJ) has taken two former senior FBI officials into custody, alleging that they lied to Congress about their involvement in the FBI’s investigations into Hunter Biden.
The charges against former FBI officials, Nikki Cole Floris, 46, and Bradley Benavides, 56, stem from an ongoing investigation into the since-dissolved FBI Foreign Influence Task Force (FITF).
The two used their positions of power within the FBI to control the public narrative concerning Hunter Biden’s laptop in order to elect the deep state’s preferred candidate, Joe Biden, to the White House.
Floris’ hubris was so great that she claimed — on the record — to be “running a shadow government.”
In the leadup to the 2020 election, the FBI conducted several investigations into Hunter Biden in which the FITF participated. Floris led the FITF as a Deputy Assistant Director from mid-2019 through mid-2022. Benavides was the FIFT Section Chief from mid-2019 through the 2020 election.
CrowdStrike’s CEO Says a Wave of Cyber Attacks Are Coming– finance.yahoo.com
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CrowdStrike (CRWD) jumped 8% and Palo Alto (PANW) gained 7% after Kurtz warned PHP flaws affecting 70% of websites will trigger a surge of breaches.
Okta (OKTA) rose 6% and Datadog (DDOG) gained 5% as traders bought shares across the cybersecurity sector.
Without federal confirmation of PHP exploitation or breach disclosures before December, CrowdStrike is likely to give back much of its $20 gain.
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On Friday, October 23, 2026, CrowdStrike (NASDAQ:CRWD) chief executive George Kurtz gave a television interview. He said newly disclosed flaws in PHP, the programming language behind nearly 70% of websites, will lead to a surge of break-ins. “You’re going to see a lot of breaches happening in the coming months from this,” he said, adding, “This is part of the long tail of these vulnerabilities that we see.”
Israel holds massive military drills as Iran escalation risk grows– www.foxnews.com
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The Israeli military launched large-scale domestic military exercises on Sunday to counter surprise border infiltrations and ground raids across northern and central Israel, mobilizing multiple divisions and air assets amid rising regional tensions.
The drills, set to continue over 48 hours, came as an Israeli security expert invoked the 1973 Yom Kippur War, when Egypt and Syria used exercises to disguise preparations for a surprise attack, warning that escalating tensions in the region could in fact trigger what he described as a “dangerous miscalculation.”
The large-scale maneuvers, the IDF said, involve the Northern Command’s 210th Division, the West Bank Division, and the Central Command’s 98th and 96th divisions, alongside the Israeli Air Force.
Chinese Carmakers Overtake Japan in Europe for First Time – Bloomberg.com
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Anthropic’s IPO filing lays bare the cost of the AI race– techcentral.co.za
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Anthropic unveiled its US IPO filing on Monday, setting out its ambitions to build AI systems capable of transforming the global economy while confronting the costs and challenges of developing the technology.
The prospectus highlights Anthropic’s rapid growth over the past year, fuelled by Big Tech’s breakneck spending, which has driven a rally in AI stocks while raising concerns about lofty valuations and rising debt.
The listing is expected to establish Anthropic, the AI lab behind the viral Claude models, as a benchmark for how Wall Street values leading AI companies, including rival OpenAI.
Anthropic is pressing ahead with its IPO plans even as a once-busy listing calendar has thinned out, with market volatility prompting companies to delay offerings. The IPO would give Anthropic access to a deep pool of capital to fund its costly AI ambitions, which require heavy investment in computing infrastructure to develop and operate sophisticated models.
Global equities have sold off sharply as investors grow uneasy with the debt-fuelled AI investment boom and start to doubt whether the trillions being poured into data centres, chips and computing capacity will generate returns fast enough to support lofty valuations. Higher borrowing costs and rising bond yields have added to their caution.
Microsoft CEO Urges Businesses to Install Emergency Kill Switches for AI Agents
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Russian forces pound Ukrainian logistics hubs, energy, port sites in overnight strike – Russian Politics & Diplomacy– tass.com
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MOSCOW, October 26. /TASS/. Russian forces delivered an overnight strike on Ukraine’s logistics hubs, energy facilities and port infrastructure used to support the Ukrainian army’s operations, Russia’s Defense Ministry reported.
TASS has put together key facts about the targets of the strikes.
– During the past night, the Russian Armed Forces continued delivering strikes by unmanned aerial vehicles against logistics centers, energy facilities powering their operation and also ports in Ukraine and sea vessels used to support the Ukrainian army’s operations, Russia’s Defense Ministry reported.
AI Boom Sparks Growing Backlash Over Data Centers Across America– cbn.com
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From rural Texas to communities nationwide, America’s artificial intelligence boom is colliding with growing backlash over the data centers needed to power it.
Supporters point to jobs, investment, and the race to win AI dominance. Opponents worry about the effects on water, power, and the character of communities where these projects are planned.
In Hood County, Texas, southwest of Fort Worth, one massive proposal is at the center of a fierce fight.
Brian and Laura Crawford raise oryx on their land in the Paluxy River Valley. A massive data center campus would sit just across their fence line.
“We will be able to see data center buildings on a hill that’s just not far. In fact, it’s only about 300 feet from our fence line, but we would be able to see that every day as we walk out our door,” Brian Crawford said.
Myanmar’s detained leader Suu Kyi traded health concerns with her son in their first call in 5 years
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Kim Jong Un makes surprise China trip after death rumours | World | News– www.express.co.uk
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North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un has made a surprise trip to China, appearing in public after speculation about his health and whereabouts, as he moves to strengthen ties with Beijing. Mr Kim was pictured smiling and meeting Chinese officials during the visit, which saw him praise President Xi Jinping’s leadership and vow to deepen cooperation between the two communist states.
The North Korean leader travelled across a newly opened bridge linking the two countries before visiting the Chinese border city of Dandong, a vital gateway for trade with his isolated regime. His trip comes as Pyongyang seeks to expand economic ties with its biggest international backer while presenting a united front against the US.
Mr Kim arrived in Dandong on Saturday, October 24, and visited a war memorial commemorating China’s support for North Korea during the 1950-53 Korean War.
He also met senior Chinese officials, including foreign minister Wang Yi, and toured a bus factory before receiving a formal send-off at the new four-lane bridge across the Yalu River.
However, Mr Kim did not meet Mr Xi in person during the visit, although the two leaders exchanged greetings through officials.
The North Korean leader thanked the Chinese president for paying special attention to his trip, according to state media reports.
Mr Kim described the relationship between the two countries as an “invincible” friendship “forged at the cost of blood”.
He added that North Koreans would “forever remember the glorious years of fighting alongside the Chinese people” and pass down “generational gratitude” to those who had helped the country’s revolution.
Presidential race in Bulgaria heads to runoff due to record low turnout– abcnews.com
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SOFIA, Bulgaria — The presidential election in Bulgaria on Sunday ended inconclusively, with the next head of state to be picked in a runoff, according to election officials.
A record low turnout, attributed by observers to a general mistrust in politicians resulting in voter apathy, will pit two contrasting political visions against each other in a highly polarized contest on Nov. 1.
In a surprisingly strong performance, the candidate of the pro-Western reformist opposition, Andrey Gyurov, will face the incumbent leftist president, Iliana Yotova, setting clear lines of division regarding the country’s future relationships with other nations.
Bulgarians voted against a backdrop of growing economic hardship and drone attacks on Black Sea shipping. The vote is the first major test for the Moscow-friendly Progressive Bulgaria party of Prime Minister Rumen Radev after its triumph in parliamentary elections in April.
Despite a record number of candidates, the race had been expected to be decided in a runoff between incumbent Yotova, backed by Radev’s party, and former caretaker Prime Minister Gyurov, who is backed by pro-Western opposition parties.
Nigerian president launches reelection bid during a cost-of-living crisis and a fractured opposition– abcnews.com
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ABUJA, Nigeria — Nigerian President Bola Tinubu launched his reelection bid Saturday, campaigning at a rally for a second presidential term during a cost-of-living crisis and a fractured opposition.
The presidential election will be held in January against the backdrop of a worsening economy that has caused anger among voters against Tinubu’s government, but which Tinubu blamed on opposition parties.
“I hear my opponents talking about hunger and poverty. Who created it? They did,” he said at a rally in the northwestern state of Kaduna. “They created the hunger, they created the poverty. We are trying to eradicate it.”
Tinubu is being challenged by over a dozen opposition candidates, but analysts predict a three-man race between Tinubu and the two contenders he defeated in 2023. They are former Vice President Atiku Abubakar of the African Democratic Congress, or ADC, a serial presidential candidate, and Peter Obi of the Nigeria Democratic Congress, or NDC, a former state governor who blew the last race wide open with his mass appeal to Nigeria’s youth.
Rubio’s CIA Pitch to Cuba Raises the Stakes in Washington’s Pressure Campaign
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CAMPAIGNING FOR MUSLIM BROTHERHOOD: Angry Obama Tells Violent, Angry Democrats to Stay Angry At Sayed Event in Michigan– gellerreport.com
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Obama has turned bowing to the caliphate into a political platform. When the caliphate says jump, Obama says, how high?
Obama in Michigan: I’m tired of all this anger and division.
Also Obama: I want you to stay angry. pic.twitter.com/BYtiWbA5g4
— Western Lensman (@WesternLensman) October 25, 2026
Obama is back to pulling the race card and crying victim to bail out Abdul El-Sayed in Michigan.
They can’t defend their radical policies, so they cry about birth certificates and identity politics.
Nobody is buying the washed-up grievance tour anymore. Michigan is done with it!…— Ryan Fournier (@RyanAFournier) October 25, 2026
Brazil: Leftist Incumbent Lula Narrowly Defeats Bolsonaro in Presidential Runoff– legalinsurrection.com
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In Brazil, incumbent leftist President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva barely defeated Sen. Flávio Bolsonaro, the son of former President Jair Bolsonaro, in the presidential runoff.
This is Lula’s fourth nonconsecutive term.
This is all weird to me. From Fox News:
Bolsonaro narrowly won the first round on Oct. 4, with 47% of the vote, to Lula’s 45%, but fell short of the 50% majority required to win the election outright.
The victory marks an unprecedented fourth presidential term for Lula, and a remarkable comeback victory. The result is even more surprising given that Bolsonaro had led, albeit by tight margins, in recent polling, and Brazil had recently elected a conservative congress aligned with the Bolsonaro agenda.
Earlier I saw The New York Times gush over Brazil’s secure election system.
Then we learned that Brazilian Supreme Court Justice Cristiano Zanin, who spent a decade as Lula’s defense lawyer, ordered polls to stay open two hours after closing due to “transportation delays and bad weather.”
Islamic Scholar in Chicago: “America Is The Cancer!” “Islam Is The Answer.”– gellerreport.com
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Islam in America.
“Palestinian” Islamic scholar in Chicago, Mohammad Nusairat:
“America is the cancer!”
“America, secularism, democracy, and capitalism are cancers.”
“Islam is the answer.”
Palestinian Islamic scholar in Chicago, Mohammad Nusairat:
“America is the cancer!”
“America, secularism, democracy, and capitalism are cancers.”
“Islam is the answer.”
Why hasn’t he been deported from America yet?! 🇺🇸 pic.twitter.com/FpjRQic1Z0
— Dr. Maalouf (@realMaalouf) July 1, 2026
Michigan Students Are All In for Abdul El-Sayed– www.thenation.com
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The progressive Senate candidate has won over students with his politics—and, in at least one case, his protein intake.
Parker Ward remembers every detail about his first time meeting Abdul El-Sayed. It was October 3, 2025, and El-Sayed was holding a town hall for Central Michigan University students, cohosted by the school’s College Democrats chapter, of which Ward is president. In the basement of a local Unitarian church, about 30 people showed up—half students, half Mount Pleasant community members.
Beyond the AI Race: China’s Bid to Shape Global Rules– www.orfonline.org
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In September 2026, Chinese President Xi Jinping met United States (US) President Donald Trump in Washington, where discussions on global AI governance were central to their agenda, although the two leaders held opposing positions. Ahead of the summit, the two sides formalised a “USA-China AI Dialogues” track built around an incident hotline. Trump, however, made it clear that Washington rejects any attempt to construct a “globalist” scheme to govern the technology. Xi called on both countries to jointly guard against AI misuse and keep it under human control.
On 16 July 2026, 35 states signed the founding agreement for the World Artificial Intelligence Cooperation Organisation (WAICO), a China-headquartered body established outside the Western-led AI governance architecture, with no leading Western democracy among its signatories.
Beijing, therefore, while speaking of multilateral governance in Washington, is also building a separate institutional architecture through WAICO on its own terms and with its own membership criteria. Together, these developments suggest a strategy aimed less at restraining AI and more at deciding who writes the rules for its governance.
Brazil’s Lula completes stunning turnaround to secure election victory, as Trump ally Bolsonaro rejects result | World News
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Russia says Ukraine has repeatedly struck Oleshky with artillery and drones ahead of local ceasefire By Reuters – Investing.com
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U.S. officials accuse Canada of midterm meddling — but Trump has endorsed foreign candidates– www.cbc.ca
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Despite U.S. officials repeatedly warning Canada not to get involved in the upcoming U.S. midterms, President Donald Trump has his own track record of weighing in on foreign elections.
Trump has endorsed about half a dozen candidates across the globe since he returned to the White House in early 2025 and even boasted earlier this year that he has “a very good record of endorsing candidates in the U.S.,” before touting a number of foreign candidates he backed.
“I’m not supposed to be endorsing people,” Trump said during the February inaugural meeting of his Board of Peace. “As long as it works, it’s OK with me.”
Since early 2025, Trump has backed presidential or prime ministerial candidates in Poland, Honduras, Colombia and Japan.
Most recently, he voiced support for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who is facing an election on Tuesday.
The U.S. president also put his support behind former Hungarian prime minister Viktor Orbán’s failed re-election bid, which included Vice-President JD Vance appearing at a rally in Budapest.
SpaceX’s Elon Musk reveals $40 billion in debt for AI chips, warns of neoclouds
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Husband decapitated wife, paraded her head and then forgiven by her parents | World | News– www.express.co.uk
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The shocking murder happened in Iran (Image: Getty)
A man who decapitated his wife and paraded through the streets clutching her severed head received a sentence of just eight years in an Iranian prison.
He avoided a more severe punishment after her parents reportedly chose not to invoke Iran’s Islamic law of retribution.
Mona Heydari, a mother of one, was only 17 when she was dragged from a car outside her family home and murdered in February 2022, according to court documents.
Her husband Sajjad Heydari, together with his brother Heydar, carried out the savage killing in Ahvaz, the capital of the south-western Khuzestan Province.
A judiciary spokesman disclosed that the lenient sentence was imposed because Mona’s parents had “pardoned” him for the killing rather than seeking retribution.
Mona, who had been married off at just 12, had initially fled her abusive husband and escaped to Turkey with another man, the court was told.
Heydari had reportedly refused Mona’s requests for a divorce.
EXCLUSIVE: Noah’s Ark research team says ‘they will have to re-write textbooks’– www.lifesitenews.com
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(LifeSiteNews) — Researchers investigating a boat-shaped rock formation in eastern Turkey that is believed to be the remains of Noah’s Ark have drilled deep into the structure and collected more than 400 samples, which are now undergoing laboratory analysis.
The project is being carried out by the Noah’s Ark Scans group, that says this is the first drilling campaign conducted with official authorization and under the supervision of Turkish universities. The purpose of the drilling is to determine whether the anomalies identified by previous ground-penetrating radar and geophysical scans can be explained by natural causes or whether they represent traces of an artificial structure.
In an interview with LifeSiteNews, team member Lauren Witzke discusses the drilling campaign, the evidence the researchers say they have found, and the objections raised by critics of the project.
LifeSiteNews: Dear Miss Witzke, thank you for your availability. First of all, what is your role within the research team?
Lauren Witzke: My role is fundraising and marketing. Last year in November of 2025, God laid on my heart Noah’s Ark. I don’t know why, and I couldn’t explain it. I usually worked in politics and media. But it was something I just had to do.
I went searching and reading, and God led me to Noah’s Ark Scans. I sent Andrew Jones, the founder, an email and told him that I felt like God wanted me to help him. A few months later, we [got] approval from Turkish officials to study Noah’s Ark. A small team of American Christians received approval, and [yet] not a single Turkish official voted against it. It was totally God. All of this has been God.