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Russian Offensive Campaign Assessment, October 17, 2025

The company is looking to have at least 100 stores nationwide designated as “disaster relief convenience stores” by fiscal 2030. The move by Lawson comes amid longstanding concerns about the potential for a Nankai Trough megaquake. According to the most recent projection by the government, the probability of a huge quake occurring within the next 30 years along the Nankai Trough is thought to be between 60% and 94.5% or higher.

Pakistan and Afghanistan agreed on Friday to extend their 48-hour ceasefire until the conclusion of talks in Doha, according to three Pakistani security officials and one Afghan Taliban source.

Thousands of networks—many of them operated by the US government and Fortune 500 companies—face an “imminent threat” of being breached by a nation-state hacking group following the breach of a major maker of software, the federal government warned Wednesday.

Poland Has No Income Tax to Parents to 2 or More Children

Before 2020, the FBI and Bureau of Justice Statistics trends generally moved in tandem. Since then, they’ve diverged sharply: The federal government tracks crime in two main ways. The FBI’s Uniform Crime Reports count the number of offenses reported to police each year. The Bureau of Justice Statistics’ National Crime Victimization Survey, by contrast, annually asks about 240,000 people living in the United States whether they were crime victims. The latter method captures both reported and unreported incidents.

Ibuprofen is a household name – the go-to remedy for everything from headaches to period pain. But recent research suggests this everyday drug might be doing more than easing discomfort. It could also have anti- cancer properties.

More on US Pedestrian Deaths

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Russian Offensive Campaign Assessment, October 16, 2025

Like the government office, the hospital was left only with patchy microwave access to the internet, Wang said, and its bandwidth was limited. Doctors could run a Google search and sometimes even search for patient records, but if they wanted to upload X-ray files to data servers in Taiwan, that wasn’t possible.

Doctors Without Borders permanently closes its emergency center in Haiti’s capital

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Russian Offensive Campaign Assessment, October 15, 2025

“They’re Dragging People Away”: Hamas Begins Mass Executions as Israeli Military Withdraws From Gaza

Six Killed After US Strikes Boat Off Venezuela In 5th Such Operation

B-52 Bombers Just Flew For Hours Off Venezuela’s Coast

US Army prepares for grid collapse.

Newsom Signs Law Authorizing “Reparations” for Black People

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Russian Offensive Campaign Assessment, October 14, 2025

Russia is now building Shaheds at such a rate that they can use them for missions beyond their core deep strike against fixed targets repertoire. This includes expanded experimentation with new tactics and hardware configurations. Oleksandr Pertsovskyi, head of Ukraine’s rail system recently told Reuters the huge uptick in rail system attacks is the result of Russia’s “dramatic increase” in the amount of long-range drones its military-industrial complex is producing. As we have previously reported, Russia is moving to produce about 5,000 Shaheds per month.

The failure of Macron

Software update bricks some Jeep 4xe hybrids over the weekend

1 in 5 high schoolers has had a romantic AI relationship, or knows someone who has

Windows 10 support “ends” today, but it’s just the first of many deaths

A window into modern loan origination

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Russian Offensive Campaign Assessment, October 13, 2025

Russia says it wants more babies. So why is it closing maternity wards?

Israeli Hostages Released

This question–why can’t we just solve our rare earths problem already!–comes up a lot. This is to explain, not defend, why we are where we are, and to offer recommendations.

Layoffs, a “coding error,” chaos: Trump admin ravages the health dept.

WHO warns of surging levels of antibiotic resistance

Alzheimer’s May Not Actually Be a Brain Disease

Amusing commentary on what it takes to be a writer.

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Russian Offensive Campaign Assessment, October 12, 2025. The FT reported that the United States began providing Ukraine with the intelligence following US President Donald Trump’s phone call with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky in July 2025, as Trump grew increasingly frustrated with Russian President Vladimir Putin’s unwillingness to move toward peace.

The week that shook France

Trump’s 100% tariff threat sparks defiance from Beijing

U.S. Coast Guard to Acquire 11 Icebreakers in Landmark U.S.-Finland Pact

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Russian Offensive Campaign Assessment, October 11, 2025

Tomahawks For Ukraine Talk Elicits New Response From Putin

Massive 7.8 Magnitude Earthquake Strikes Drake Passage Today

Two earthquakes hit the water off the southern coast of the Philippines back to back. At least seven fatalities have thus far been reported.

Beijing shattered a fragile trade truce with Washington this week, announcing sweeping restrictions on exports that contain even trace amounts of Chinese rare earth. An irate President Donald Trump is threatening to retaliate with 100 percent tariffs and new restrictions on exports of critical software — and said there’s “no reason” to meet with Chinese leader Xi Jinping later this month.

France: Macron reappoints Sebastien Lecornu as PM. Just days after his resignation, Sebastien Lecornu is back in the position he had vacated. Lecornu said it was now time to “put an end to this political crisis” as he accepted Macron’s nomination.

Explosion at Tennessee Military Munitions Plant Kills and Injures Several, Others Missing

How close are we to solid state batteries for electric vehicles?