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New: Supreme Court has denied Trump's emergency application seeking special master access to classified docs seized at Mar-a-Lago. No noted dissents

Ukraine's allies on October 12 announced the delivery of new air defenses and committed more military aid to Kyiv to protect against Russia's "indiscriminate" missile attacks across the country. Russia has launched waves of missile strikes on several regions of Ukraine for two days in a row, bombing multiple cities, including Kyiv, as reprisals for a blast at the weekend that damaged the only bridge between Moscow-annexed Crimea and mainland Russia. Pledges from allies included an announcement by France that it would deliver radar and air-defense systems to Ukraine in the coming weeks. Canada said it would provide artillery rounds...

The owner of a restaurant shut down by Washington, D.C., officials for violating the city’s strict COVID-19 vaccine mandate sued the city on Oct. 13. Eric Flannery owns The Big Board. Washington authorities in February ordered the restaurant to close, citing violations of food code regulations and Mayor Muriel Bowser’s requirements that venues only let in customers who presented proof of COVID-19 vaccination. The D.C. Department of Health’s actions, including making the restaurant pay a re-opening fee, were unlawful because the District of Columbia’s Home Rule Act generally requires legislation enacted by the city be reviewed by Congress, according to...

North Korea's military has indicated that it launched ballistic missiles in response to what it calls a military provocation by South Korea in a frontline area. State-run Korean Central News Agency issues a spokesperson's statement shortly after 2 a.m. on Friday. It says the South Korean military continued to engage in a firing exercise for 10 hours on Thursday, and that North Korea carried out a "strong" military action in response...

any Australians were on Thursday morning confronted with strange behaviour on their bank accounts, with an industry-wide outage rendering many banks unable to transfer funds. The outage was brought to our attention in a tweet from ANZ bank, but reports on the outage first emerged around 7 pm on Wednesday.

Ukraine needs between $3 billion and $4 billion every month to keep its government from collapsing amid the ongoing conflict with Russia, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) said. “Indeed, the Ukrainian authorities have done an impressive job in managing their economy through extremely difficult circumstances following Russia’s invasion,” IMF Managing Director Kristalina Georgieva said.

The January 6 Committee on Thursday plans to vote on whether to subpoena Trump. Americans DO NOT care about the January 6 panel. NBC reported: The House committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol plans to vote to subpoena former President Donald Trump, sources familiar with the committee’s plans told NBC News Thursday. Members of the panel, which held what was expected to be its final hearing before the midterm elections Thursday, had previously said that they were still considering seeking an interview with Trump or former Vice President Mike Pence. Members of the committee focused the hearing...

A worker claimed she joined credit bureau company Equifax, only to quit after 10 minutes when her co-workers said she “wasn’t going to like it.” In the video, which amassed 86,000 views, @tinkfineass films herself venting as she’s walking back to her car. Say recalls, “I came to work today at 10 o’clock, walked up in there, saw a couple of familiar faces, and they were like ‘Are you our new worker?’ and I was like, ‘Umm, yeah?’ and they was like, ‘You ain’t gonna like here.’” She claims she spoke to the trainer who gave her a badge and...

OSLO, Oct 13 (Reuters) - Norwegian police on Thursday responded to a threat made by telephone against the Nyhamna gas processing plant, one of Europe's largest energy export facilities, and later said the incident had been resolved. The threat came amid heightened concerns about the security of oil and gas infrastructure following suspected sabotage of Russia's Nord Stream gas pipelines to Europe, though plant operator Gassco and offshore producers Shell (SHEL.L) and Equinor (EQNR.OL) said output had not been interrupted. "The situation has been resolved," police operations leader Per Aage Ferstad said in a statement, adding police did not believe...

Its a monitor. Is it normal in a court of law that every word from a prosecutor that goes into the official record be read from a script displayed on a computer screen? Feels like a scene from a Twilight zone episode.

A West Virginia federal judge has ruled unconstitutional the government law against possession of firearms with obliterated, altered, obscured or removed serial numbers. U.S. District Judge Joseph R. Goodwin's ruling, if it isn't overturned upon appeal, would strip away an important tool for law enforcement in investigating gun crimes.

Gov. Ron DeSantis reacts to life sentence recommendation for Nikolas Cruz His short 1 minute comment dismayed with the verdict

The document first begins with a land acknowledgment requiring students to recognize that the school is located on Dakota land. "Today, many Indigenous people from throughout the state, including Dakota, and Ojibwe (ooh-jib-way), called the Twin Cities home; we also recognize this acknowledgment is not enough.” “We commit to uprooting the legacy and perpetuation of structural violence deeply embedded in the healthcare system,” the pledge continues.

Fetterman attempted to address the fallout from the NBC debacle Wednesday in another interview — this one with the PennLive editorial board. The interview was not in person and still featured moments of stumbling from the Democrat. “The elephant in the room is that I had a stroke,” Fetterman said during the nearly hourlong clip. “There’s no secret that, sometimes, I’m going to miss words.” With just weeks to go before Election Day, Fetterman has few chances remaining to demonstrate to skeptics that he’s bounced back enough to represent Pennsylvania. “I think the Fetterman campaign has stretched this period of...

Moscow has announced it will evacuate Kherson after an appeal from the Russian-installed head of the region, raising fears the occupied city at the heart of the south Ukrainian oblast will become a new frontline. Marat Khusnullin, a Russian deputy prime minister, told state television on Thursday that residents would be helped to move away from the region in south Ukraine, which remains only partly occupied by invading troops due to a successful Ukrainian counterattack in recent months. “The government took the decision to organise assistance for the departure of residents of the [Kherson] region to other regions of the...

The following is an excerpt from The Vaccine Reaction. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has refused a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request to release the autopsy results of people whose deaths were reported to the Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System (VAERS) after receiving a Covid-19 shot. The FOIA request was submitted by The Epoch Times newspaper. “VAERS is a centralized vaccine reaction reporting system that was among the safety provisions secured by parents of DPT (diphtheria-pertussis-tetanus) vaccine injured children in the National Childhood Vaccine Injury Act (NCVIA) of 1986,” explains Barbara Loe Fisher, co-founder and president of...

The dude was happy to let her just talk. I even love how the moderator or whoever that is in the background tried to correct her mid-sentence, because moderators and reporters absolutely hate it when their favored political party shoots itself in the foot.

Life among the coma ghosts in a Korean hospital after a famous heart surgeon is injured and joins them. One of my very favorite Asian dramas! Joey Scarbury wrote the theme for "Greatest American Hero".

Elon Musk got in hot water again on Twitter—for proposing peace. On Monday, Musk proposed a peace deal to end the war in Ukraine, for which he was denounced as a pro-Putin puppet by the Twitter mob that has formed to police the discourse on all things related to Ukraine.The president of Ukraine himself, Volodymyr Zelensky, accused Musk of supporting Russia—even though Musk's company SpaceX donated Starlink to Ukraine's war effort at an out-of-pocket cost of $80 million. (Full disclosure: Musk is a friend and I am an investor in SpaceX.) Ukrainian Ambassador to Germany Andrj Melnyk was less subtle,...

JUST IN - Jan 6th Committee plans to vote to subpoena former President Donald Trump during today’s hearing - NBC News sources