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Rep. Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., reportedly will not seek reelection in 2026 as Democrats are preparing for Pelosi's retirement from Congress. The retirement plans are expected to be announced after Tuesday's elections, multiple party sources told NBC News. Pelosi, 85, spent two stints as speaker, which would end nearly 40 years representing her San Francisco district.

At least eight moderate Senate Democrats are meeting in hopes of finding a deal to end the monthlong government shutdown, but sources familiar with the closely held conversations say they will need strong assurances from the GOP before voting to reopen the government. The eight Democrats, who include Sens. Jeanne Shaheen (N.H.) and Jon Ossoff (Ga.), the latter a top Republican target in 2026, will need to feel comfortable with whatever is offered by Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-S.D.), and they may need to hear from President Trump himself, sources told The Hill. The group huddled in the Capitol...

Hundreds of thousands of New Yorkers are prepared to bolt from the Big Apple if socialist candidate Zohran Mamdani wins Tuesday’s mayoral race — potentially setting the stage for the largest population flight in US history, an alarming new poll warned early Monday. Around 765,000 people of the 8.4 million residents who call New York City home are preparing to leave, with about 9% of New Yorkers sharing that they would “definitely” leave the city if Mamdani is elected the 111th mayor, the Daily Mail reported, citing a survey conducted by J.L. Partners. If those residents were to leave, it...

When I joined the National Women’s Soccer League 11 years ago, our games were livestreamed to fans on YouTube. Today, our league is halfway through a four-year, $240 million television contract. Our teams are among the most valuable franchises in women’s sports. Yet with this remarkable growth comes an urgent challenge: How do we preserve women’s rights and competitive fairness while fostering meaningful inclusion? I’m proud to have played a small role in our league’s transformation from struggling startup to supercharged celebrity-maker. I’ve been a part of winning seven titles: three NWSL Championships, three regular-season titles and one International Champions...

LAS VEGAS -- Cam Little looked at his potential NFL record field goal logically. He was playing indoors and on natural grass at Allegiant Stadium, meaning there were no extraneous factors that could affect his 68-yard attempt. All he needed to do, he thought, was hit it straight. Which the Jaguars' second-year kicker did as the first half expired in their eventual 30-29 overtime victory over the Las Vegas Raiders. His kick easily cleared the crossbar and bounced off the wall beyond the end zone, giving him the longest field goal in NFL history by 2 yards. "You kick it...

Canada’s Prime Minister Mark Carney has apologized to President Donald Trump for an ad criticizing his tariff policies. When speaking to reporters Saturday after the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation Summit in Gyeongju, South Korea, Carney admitted he had told Trump he was sorry, NBC News reported. “I did apologize,” Carney stated. The news comes after Trump said October 25 the United States would impose an additional 10 percent tariff on Canadian imports after it aired an advertisement featuring altered audio and video of former President Ronald Reagan to undermine Trump’s tariff policy, Breitbart News reported. …

On October 21, 2025, I received a phone call. It lasted for 51 seconds. “Hello, this is Letitia James. Your number showed up on my Caller ID. Who is this?” The voice was unmistakable. I knew it was her. I had just finished calling about twenty phone numbers associated with New York Attorney General Letitia James’s seven siblings, hoping to learn more about her niece, Shamice Thompson-Hairston, with whom James had jointly purchased a home in Norfolk, Virginia. I was calling from my California-based cell phone with an 805 area code. However, no one picked up and I had left...

Canary Mission @canarymission 🚨 MAMDANI’S HOSTILE TAKEOVER Leaked video reveals Mamdani and the DSA's real agenda: 🗣️“We hate the Democratic Party” 🗣️“We need to orient ourselves toward insurrection” They’ve captured the party, they’re seizing NYC, and now have their sights on destroying America.

This year's pivotal UN climate summit in Brazil faces a tidal wave of fake news and disinformation that aims to deflate any unified front on a rapid energy transition away from fossil fuels. COP30 comes at a time when US president Donald Trump, the leader of the world's largest historical carbon polluter, has launched an unprecedented assault on climate and renewable energy programs. Meanwhile, the Climate Action Against Disinformation coalition (CAAD), a global climate watchdog, is asking media and Big Tech to screen "harmful false content" about climate for their audiences, and to be transparent about the source of any...

Just as bad as the Atlantic piece is a writeup by The New York Times, which frames the story not as one of Democrat violence driving families from their homes but of “Trump administration officials taking over military residences.” “It is unclear why so many Trump administration officials have sought to live on military bases,” John Ismay and Hamed Aleaziz write in the Times. Why might people who saw their friend assassinated in broad daylight, saw the president survive at least two assassination attempts, and saw a Republican-appointed Supreme Court justice survive an assassination attempt after left-wing protesters swarmed justices’...

SAVANNAH, Ga. (WTOC/Gray News) - A man in Georgia has been charged with murder after he allegedly stabbed an 18-year-old at Walmart because the victim kicked his shopping cart. On October 23, police say around 5:50 p.m., they responded to the Walmart, where they found an 18-year-old male suffering from multiple stab wounds and lacerations. The investigation revealed that 48-year-old Delano Middleton was leaving the Walmart with his shopping cart when J.T. Schroeder allegedly kicked the shopping cart as he passed by. Authorities said this led to an altercation that left the 18-year-old severely injured with multiple stab wounds. The...

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CHICAGO (WLS) -- Police hope surveillance video will help them find three armed robbery suspects. They held up a 42-year-old man at gunpoint while he was out with a young trick-or-treater on Halloween. Police said it happened around 3:16 p.m. Friday in the 2600-block of South Emerald Avenue in Chicago's Bridgeport neighborhood. Video shows a man help a little girl out of the back seat of an SUV as she holds her orange trick-or-treat bucket. They pair start to walk across the sidewalk when an armed man runs up to them and points his gun at the victim's face. He...

China’s reluctant deal to curb fentanyl and ease trade tensions signals not surrender, but a strategic pause as America reasserts its strength at home and abroad. China has tentatively agreed to curtail sales of fentanyl to Mexico and other Latin American nations. For three decades, Beijing sent the raw product to Latin American and Mexican cartels. The gangs then processed and disguised the toxic brew as less lethal narcotics and prescription drugs for export. The cartels laundered the profits with additional Chinese help, along with the feigned ignorance of the Mexican government. Since 1999, imported fentanyl-laced drugs have killed approximately...

I did this weird little experiment where I thought, "Well I started going down this road which is I thought, you know my conversation with Gavin Newsome's insane to me, but I realize people hear my voice and they hear his voice and they don't respond..."

The Atlantic Says It’s Trump Officials’ Own Fault They Have To Flee Homes For SafetyTrump officials are fleeing their homes in the face of left-wing threats, but The Atlantic says the problem is actually Trump’s rhetoric.The threat of left-wing violence against senior members of the Trump administration is so severe that families with young children are being forced to vacate their homes and live on military bases. According to The Atlantic, they had it coming.Officials such as top adviser Stephen Miller, Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem, Secretary of War Pete Hegseth, Secretary of State Marco Rubio, Army Secretary Dan Driscoll,...

Rep. Thomas Massie, R-Ky., whose wife passed away last year, announced that he legally remarried last month and then had a celebration with friends and relatives this past weekend.

Japan has had ten people killed by bears in 2025. It is a record number, with than 172 people injured by October 22. In 2023, more than 200 were injured, but only six died. Japan has more people killed by bears than the United States. Since Japan started keeping records in 2007, the number of people killed by wild (not captured) bears has been 50 in Japan, with one uncertain, as of October 2025. For the same time period, wild bears killed 35 people in the United States. From japantimes.co.jp:Separate bear attacks in Japan killed one and injured four on...

A Mississippi mom shot dead one of the aggressive monkeys that escaped from an overturned truck last week to protect her young children. Jessica Bond Ferguson said she and other Heidelberg residents had been on high alert after word spread that monkeys — believed to be carrying dangerous diseases but later confirmed by officials not to be — had been roaming loose since Tuesday. Early Sunday morning, her 16-year-old son ran into the house, claiming he had seen one of the animals in the yard. “I shot at it and it just stood there, and I shot again, and he...

Voters on Tuesday will choose either Democrat Corey O’Connor, the Allegheny County controller, or Republican Tony Moreno, a former Pittsburgh police officer, as Pittsburgh’s next mayor. O’Connor, 41, of Point Breeze, is a former city councilman and son of the late Mayor Bob O’Connor. He defeated incumbent Mayor Ed Gainey for the Democratic nomination in the May primary. Moreno, 57, of Brighton Heights, spent 24 years on the Pittsburgh police force. He came in third in the 2021 Democratic mayoral primary — behind Gainey and then-Mayor Bill Peduto — before running as a Republican in the general election, again losing...