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BRASILIA — After a late-night ballot dump and several emergency court rulings, Joe Biden was declared the surprise winner of Brazil's presidential election, securing 81 million votes. Brazilians were left in disbelief by the result as Joe Biden did not run for President of Brazil, wasn't on the ballot, and is probably dead. "I don't want to come off as an election denier, but I can't help but feel like there's something fishy here," said local man Miguel Santos. "There were only two choices on the ballot, and neither one was Joe Biden. In the latest polls, Bolsonaro was leading...

As the northern winter approaches, Scandinavia’s Catholic Church is witnessing unprecedented growth, with more people turning to the faith in reaction to the region’s highly secularized culture. “The Church is gaining strength thanks to an upsurge in Catholic conversions,” “And where there was once anti-Catholic feeling, public prejudices are now much diminished. Young people are finding each other in parishes across the country, while others show a positive interest in ways we haven’t seen before,” The lay Catholic spoke as Bishop Fredrik Hansen of Oslo marked World Mission Sunday Oct. 18 by unveiling plans for his diocese’s first-ever synod on...

[snip] Scarborough: “Mike Rogers had one of the worst days I've seen a Senate candidate have yesterday. Just a horrific performance live. Kristen Welker asked him some very basic questions. He couldn't say if he supported Donald Trump. He couldn't say if he supported MAGA politics. He couldn't say anything. And he just stood there stumbling for three minutes. “He would have had about 15 seconds on this show. But I guess Kristen is more patient.” Tough stuff, Macho Joe! So tell us, Joe: how many seconds would you have granted Abdul El-Sayed before giving him the boot for failing...

Walter Koenig, the boyish actor who remains an integral part of Star Trek lore thanks to his portrayal of the Russian crewman Pavel Chekov, has died. He was 90. Koenig, also known for playing the scoundrel Alfred Bester on another sci-fi space series, Warner Bros. Television’s Babylon 5, died Sunday of natural causes in his home in North Hollywood, his rep announced. Raised in Manhattan as a son of Lithuanian immigrants, Koenig joined Gene Roddenberry’s Star Trek for the start of its second season and appeared on 36 of the 50 episodes that aired in 1967-68 and 1968-69. He also...

🚨 JUST IN: In a bombshell statement, Brazil's President of the Superior Electoral Court Justice Kassio Nunes Marques just SOUNDED THE ALARM that there was absolutely NO RULE that allowed the voting to continue an extra +2 hours — an unprecedented order from Lula's Supreme Court flunky that helped his regions "The preliminary decision given after the voting closing time generated DIFFICULTIES in the electoral process...there [were] no regulations authorizing any extension." 🤯 "Never, in the history of the TSE, has there been ANY extension." "It would not be possible, in a few hours, to form a judgment with certainty...

Florida’s early-vote numbers just made a dramatic move — and Republicans were the ones driving it. A live tracker snapshot at noon Monday showed registered Republicans accounting for 48.8% of the day’s early vote, compared with 31.2% for registered Democrats. That is a stunning 17.6-point Republican advantage for the day. The surge was strong enough to erase the Democrats’ statewide ballot lead and briefly put Republicans ahead by roughly 6,300 ballots when vote-by-mail and in-person early voting were combined. Eric Daugherty posted the fast-moving numbers: 🚨 JUST IN: Florida Republicans are winning today's early vote by R+17.6 POINTS as of...

The judge wrote that the Trump administration’s defense of her firing “flies in the face of nearly two centuries of Supreme Court precedent.” A federal judge in New York ruled Monday that the Justice Department unlawfully fired Maurene Comey, daughter of former FBI director James B. Comey, from her job as a federal prosecutor. Comey had argued in her federal lawsuit that she was fired because of her father, whom President Donald Trump fired as head of the FBI during his first term, and because of her perceived political beliefs. The Trump administration has brought federal charges against her father,...

NEW YORK, NY — LGBTQ+ has just gotten a little more inclusive with the addition of an "S" for "Sibling." Officials with the Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation (GLAAD) announced guidelines to add the letter "S" to the popular LGBTQ acronym, noting a rise in sibling love they say is worth celebrating. "With one of our nation's congresswomen being outed for marrying her brother, it's high time we recognize the beautiful subset of our community that embraces sibling love," said GLAAD spokesperson Amby Feelmoore (she/they). "There's nothing wrong with it and the extra 'S' in "LGBTQ' proves it."...

Anthony Rivers III, 15, was detained after 11 people, including six children, were wounded during Florida A&M University homecoming festivities. Police said none of the victims appeared to have been the intended targets. WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW Police detained 15 year old Anthony Rivers III after a Florida A&M University homecoming shooting wounded 11 people, including six children. Authorities said Rivers had been involved in a physical altercation with someone he knew before the shooting. Police said none of the wounded victims appeared to have been the intended targets. Rivers faces 11 attempted second degree murder counts and a...

Los Angeles’ top federal prosecutor just laid it out plain. Noncitizens are already voting in California’s midterms, the state has confirmed it will count those ballots, and that will corrupt the election. Bill Essayli, First Assistant U.S. Attorney for the Central District, said it after an emergency Sunday hearing that ended without a ruling. The Department of Justice is fighting to sequester roughly 20,000 ballots from people federal investigators have identified as noncitizens. California’s answer, in essence, is that citizenship is irrelevant once the envelopes are open. Mail ballots started processing on Saturday ahead of the November 3 election. Los...

The 2026 midterms aren’t even over yet, and Vice President JD Vance has already dropped a bomb into the 2028 presidential election cycle: he might not run. Vance told the audience at a Michigan town hall that he had not yet made a decision about whether or not he would seek the Republican presidential nomination in 2028 — and said it was certainly a possibility that he would sit the election out. Host Tony Dokoupil started the ball rolling by jumping on a comment Vance had made earlier in the evening — namely that he might be “out of a...

Investors had hoped for friendly overhauls such as spending cuts and deregulation Brazilian financial assets were swept by a historic rout Monday after the surprise election victory of President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva wrong-footed investors who had bet on his defeat.The Brazilian real slid more than 10% against the U.S. dollar while the country’s benchmark stock index fell nearly 17%, which would mark a record daily loss. The index’s plunge triggered a circuit breaker, leading Brazil’s stock-exchange operator to temporarily halt trading.Global investors had piled into Brazilian markets in recent weeks after Flávio Bolsonaro—the eldest son of former President...

A report by Crime Prevention Research Center (CPRC) president John Lott shows armed citizens stopped a third of all “active shooter incidents” from 2014 through 2025.Lott then presented the CPRC data as a correction to FBI reports which claim armed citizens only topped 3.9 percent of the incidents.He noted that during his time in the Department of Justice during President Trump’s first term, his duties “included evaluating the FBI’s active-shooter reports.” In so doing, he “discovered that the reports omitted or misclassified numerous cases in which armed civilians stopped attacks.”Lott noted the FBI identified 418 “active shooter incidents” from 2014...

Italy’s Catholic bishops promote Koran as ‘revealed Word of God’ in schools Cdl. Matteo Zuppi presented the Islamic education program for state-school religion teachers, saying Catholic religion classes should serve as a ‘laboratory of culture and dialogue.’Italy’s Catholic bishops are promoting a new Islamic education program that describes the Koran as the “revealed Word of God,” while Cardinal Matteo Zuppi has said Catholic religion classes should be treated as a “laboratory of culture and dialogue.”On October 21, Zuppi, archbishop of Bologna and president of the Italian Bishops’ Conference (CEI), presented the new educational initiative, “Factsheets for Understanding Islam,” at an...

Sheila McDonald, 46, of Pittsburgh, worked at the Lehigh County Assistance Office in Allentown, where she was responsible for safeguarding EBT cards. Prosecutors accuse her of taking 48 of the cards and carrying out more than 270 unauthorized transactions that drained $20,558.61 in benefits ... An unidentified man told investigators he repeatedly received EBT cards and their PINs from McDonald as payment for crack cocaine, authorities said. He suspected McDonald had gotten the cards through her work at the welfare office, authorities said. In two years, McDonald allegedly used her job as supervisor to steal $20k by posing as food...

Another day, another Omar scandal, another piece of evidence indicating foreign loyalties and domestic betrayal. Rep. Ilhan Omar’s (D-Minn.) father participated in genocide in Somaliland, and Omar herself has connections to top Somali thugs, so unsurprisingly there is a natural antipathy between Omar and Somaliland. The latest (resurrected) accusation from the breakaway African republic against Omar is that she leaked classified information to Somali leaders. Ali Hassan Mohamed, former Somaliland minister of information, originally posted his accusation against Omar in 2024, but the Republic of Somaliland is highlighting the accusation again to emphasize why Omar is a threat to American...

FBI statistics reveal which states lead in violent and property crime, while Washington, D.C., outpaces them all. In August of this year, the FBI released its final state and local crime statistics for 2025. I was unable to find any online articles ranking states by violent crime and property crime based on the new numbers, so I did it myself in hopes that some AT readers might find it interesting or useful. All the information can be accessed at the FBI’s Crime Data Explorer site, then “Documents and Downloads,” then “Crime in the U.S. Annual Reports,” then “2025 CIUS Estimations,”...

Watch this full podcast episode where Anthony Delany and Maddy Pelling talk with Irving Finkel about the first ghost, going all the way back to ancient Mesopotamia. The earliest evidence of human belief in ghosts comes from 5,000 years ago in Mesopotamia. Who were these first ghosts? What was the underworld they lived in like? What do these most ancient ghosts tell us about today? Maddy and Anthony's guest today, Irving Finkel, Assistant Keeper [ASSISTANT?] of Ancient Mesopotamian script, languages and cultures in the Department of the Middle East in the British Museum and author of 'The First Ghosts: Most...

A fighter jet used a "headbutt maneuver" to intercept a civilian plane that had entered restricted airspace near President Trump's Mar-a-Lago resort in Palm Beach, Florida, on Saturday, U.S. military officials said. Mr. Trump was in West Palm Beach that day to vote in Florida's midterm election. The interception took place at around 12:20 p.m. ET, when an F-16 deployed by the North American Aerospace Defense Command, or NORAD, flew closely in front of the plane in order to gain the pilot's attention, NORAD said. That tactic, called the "headbutt maneuver," is considered standard, according to the command. In this...

David Beamer, the father of Todd Beamer, the Flight 93 passenger who helped take down the aircraft and thwart the terrorists' plan back on September 11, 2001, spoke to a rally in Michigan about the upcoming midterms, including the candidacy of Abdul El-Sayed and the rise of the Democratic Socialists of America. "What about now? What has changed? One thing is, 9/11 was a surprise attack," Beamer said. "What's going on right now in our country and here in Michigan, it's not a surprise. We can see the attack coming; it culminates in this battleground state on Tuesday, November 3rd....