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‘Catastrophic populism:’ Critics push back against Zelensky’s winter support package for Ukrainians

Security Concerns Mount After Drones Fly Above U.S. Nuclear Weapons Storage Site in Belgium

California Passes Prop 50 to Flip Republican Districts to Democrat

F-35 Sale To Saudi Arabia Being Mulled By Trump Admin. The deal could see the kingdom acquire up to 48 of the stealthy strike fighters, which only Israel is currently allowed to purchase in the region.

UPS Plane Crash Near Louisville Airport Kills 9

Links For Today

Russian Offensive Campaign Assessment, November 3, 2025

Russia’s New Nuclear Torpedo-Carrying Submarine Has Been Launched

IDF Eliminates Hezbollah-Radwan Force’s Commander in Southern Lebanon

The Israeli army has started taking away Chinese-made service cars from officers — espionage risks officially confirmed

Drinking water in Tehran could run dry in two weeks, Iranian official says

No one cares, just as like before 9/11 nobody cares what was happening in Afghanistan. Jihadists have blockaded Mali’s capital. What’s at stake

Cambridgeshire train stabbings: ‘heroic’ rail staff member fighting for life after tackling attacker

Amphibious Warship Returning To Caribbean, Report Claims U.S. Planning Strikes On Mexican Cartels

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Russian Offensive Campaign Assessment October 31, 2025

South Korea’s Nuclear Submarine Ambitions Take Major Step Forward

Navy Cruiser Joins Caribbean Flotilla As Reports Claim U.S. Is Readying Venezuela Strikes

Shopify merchants left angry and confused as company goes big on AI support

Harvard Students Upset by School’s Grade Inflation Report. “I skipped classes on Monday, and I was just sobbing in bed because I felt like I try so hard in my classes, and my grades aren’t even the best.”

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Russian Offensive Campaign Assessment, October 30, 2025

Labour, Immigration And The Urine Extraction Process

Trump to Cut Tariffs on China After ‘Amazing Meeting’ With Xi

Hochul bailed out by nearly $3B in extra NY tax revenue — but massive deficits loom

This Place Is a Circus’: Eight Months Since a Guard Strike, State Prisons Remain in Crisis. Many incarcerated New Yorkers say the new normal is endless lock-in.

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Russian Offensive Campaign Assessment, October 29, 2025

Russian Forces Finally Break Through Into Key Eastern Ukrainian Stronghold. After more than a year of bloody assaults, hundreds of Russian troops are now fighting inside the city of Pokrovsk.

Vladimir Putin says that Russia successfully tested one of its Poseidon nuclear-powered, nuclear-tipped, ultra-long-endurance torpedoes

WHO ‘appalled’ by RSF maternity ward massacre

Jamaica unaware how many Hurricane Melissa victims are dead, missing after ‘storm of the century’

‘Aggressive’ Lab Monkeys Break Free after Truck Crash in Mississippi. “The monkeys are approximately 40lbs, they are aggressive to humans, and they require PPE [personal protective equipment] to handle.”

There’s About to Be a Huge Shake-Up at ICE

Scientists Reverse Alzheimer’s Disease in Mice With Impressive New Treatment. The new treatment approach targets restoring normal blood vessel function instead of focusing on neurons or other brain cells, which has been the common strategy until now.

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Russian Offensive Campaign Assessment, October 28, 2025

Ukrainian Attack On Russian Dam Impeding Moscow’s Logistics In The North

Japan governor calls for army to tackle deadly bear attacks

Belgium is basically a narco-state, top Antwerp judge warns

RSF fighters film themselves massacring Sudanese fleeing el-Fasher

Hurricane Melissa branded ‘storm of the century’ as it ravages Jamaica with one of the most powerful cyclones ever

Thousands of U.S. flights delayed as government shutdown halts paychecks

Democrats Vote Against Ending Shutdown as Air Traffic Controllers Miss Pay Day. Today is the first day air traffic controllers missed their paycheck.

Can a Start-Up Make Computer Chips Cheaper Than the Industry’s Giants? Mr. Proud said his company, which has received more than $100 million from investors, had developed a solution that would cut the manufacturing cost in half by channeling light from a giant instrument known as a particle accelerator through a tool the size of a car. The technique had allowed Substrate to print a high-resolution microchip layer comparable to images produced by the world’s leading semiconductor plants.