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Russian Offensive Campaign Assessment, November 14, 2025

Iran Seizes Oil Tanker Off UAE Coast Amid Escalating Gulf Tensions

Germany’s rearmament upends Europe’s power balance
Norway’s Wealth Tax Unchains a Capital Exodus

Here’s Why Modern Headlights Are So Unbelievably Annoying

Say it with me “Friends don’t let Friends buy Dodge” And yes, I know all the major car manufactures have major calls but this plus the software bricking issue are above the norm in terms of how bad they are.

A rat grabbed a bat and bit it. “We thought, oh well, that’s an unlucky coincidence,” says Mirjam Knörnschild, co-author of the paper and head of evolutionary diversity dynamics at the Museum of Natural History in Berlin. But then it happened again. And again. The rats could even snatch a bat flying in mid-air.

Trial Starts for Former Top Aide to Hochul, Cuomo Accused of Being Secret Agent for China

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Russian Offensive Campaign Assessment, November 13, 2025

Battlefield Commander In Ukraine Details Russia’s Increasing Frontline Pressure

The WaPo’s admission about Zohran Mamdani’s dark side comes a bit too late

Trump Signs Bill to End the Schumer Shutdown

Hochul postpones gas stove ban for new homes as gov gets heat from both sides

2025’s strongest solar flare triggers global radio blackout

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Everything you need to know about Ukraine’s ongoing corruption scandal involving a nuclear power company and top officials

Crazy footage shows China’s Hongqi bridge collapsing months after opening.

Hyundai Data Breach May Have Leaked Drivers’ Personal Information

UCSD Faculty Sound Alarm on Declining Student Skills. The math department created a remedial course, only to be so stunned by how little the students knew that the class had to be redesigned to cover material normally taught in grades 1 through 8.

The last penny was minted today in Philadelphia.

Why Iran is Rapidly Dying

The water issue that Iran is facing is not too different from what could face a number of cities out west. But they do seem to have done their best to make it as bas a possible. The videos of Iranian farmers using the flooded field method of rice cultivation in one of the driest parts of Iran due to subsidized water are crazy. Yet that is only part of the problem.

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Israel’s Military Response ‘Inevitable’ as Iran Restores Nuke Facilities, Ramps up Missile Production

“We May Have To Evacuate Tehran”: Iranian President’s Remarks Stun Amid Water Crisis

The bottom line is something like this: provided the word of the government of Prime Minister Modi is worth more than 15 paisa, and considering that all the currently available information is indicative that the blast in New Delhi that killed eight (and wounded many others), yesterday in the evening, was yet another Pakistan-instigated act of terror in India – the situation is near-certain to result in yet another war between the two countries.

How has Japan managed its debt ratio?

Supercarrier USS Gerald R. Ford Enters U.S. Southern Command’s Area Of Responsibility: America’s newest carrier has now joined Fourth Fleet for the counter-drug effort that is also aimed to put pressure on Venezuela’s dictator.

Speaker Johnson Tells House Members to Return to D.C. to End Shutdown

ClickFix may be the biggest security threat your family has never heard of

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Russian Offensive Campaign Assessment, November 10, 2025

Ukraine Suffers Power Cuts After Russia’s Heaviest Air Barrage in Months

Iran Ramping Up Missile Production As Another Potential War With Israel Looms

Thailand suspends Cambodia peace deal after landmine blast

Canada fought measles and measles won; virus now endemic after 1998 elimination

Philippines: Super typhoon Fung-wong– While the brunt of the storm has passed, authorities warn of a high risk of residual rains and flooding. Several people were killed, with more than 1 million displaced.

The litigants in this case … have been repeatedly warned that factitious citations will not be tolerated by the Court. Judge Stafford ordered Plaintiff and Defendant to “include a written representation that [they have] personally checked each legal citation and each citation is accurate and stands for its asserted proposition” and warned that a failure to do so may result in sanctions. Despite Judge Stafford’s order, both Plaintiff and Defendant have violated the Court’s express requirements and lied to the Court numerous times….

America has one of the world’s largest prison populations, with an estimated 1.7 million people in confinement. Going further, America’s incarceration rate is the fourth-highest in the world. Despite being a developed economy, its prison population is more than double that of Russia, India, and Brazil combined.

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Russian Offensive Campaign Assessment, November 9, 2025

Ukraine Hits Back: Two Russian Cities Without Power & Heating After Missile, Drone Attacks

BBC head Tim Davie resigns over doctored footage of Trump’s Jan. 6 speech in documentary

Philippines: Over a million evacuate ahead of super typhoon

Chinese Astronauts Left Stranded in Orbit as Space Debris Hits Return Module

Republicans, Democrats Reach Deal to End the Shutdown, Reopen Government