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A West Point cadet fed his pregnant girlfriend a sedative-laced smoothie and “shoved abortion pills” into her vagina, killing the fetus — then enrolled in Columbia University’s public-health masters program, a new lawsuit says. Disgraced former army cadet Caleb T. Suh — the son of US Department of Veterans Chief of Staff Dr. Ryung Suh — already admitted in federal court that he deliberately tricked his then-girlfriend into chugging what he assured her was a “special pregnancy protein powder” shake in 2022, according to the lawsuit and his guilty plea. The sick smoothie was actually chockful of the sedatives Xanax...

President Trump delivered a closing message from the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool in Washington, D.C., on the eve of the midterm election, highlighting the administration's renovation of the Reflecting Pool and outlining additional projects he plans to pursue with Interior Secretary Doug Burgum. He also addressed public safety and urged voters to support Republican candidates in Tuesday's election.

Independent international monitoring of detention facilities in Russia has come to an end with the country’s formal withdrawal from the European Convention for the Prevention of Torture, the Council of Europe said on Sunday. In a statement, the Council of Europe said inspectors from the convention had carried out 30 visits to more than 450 detention facilities in Russia during the 23 years it was a member. Russia, however, permitted the publication of only four visit reports over that period. “Russia may authorize the publication of [the remaining] reports at any time,” the statement read, noting that the unpublished reports...

President Trump announced Tuesday that he had reached an agreement with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to stop US aid to Israel after the end of the year. “They don’t need it,” Trump said on Fox & Friends Tuesday morning. “We give them more than anybody else, and they no longer need it. We’ve been doing it for years. I’ve been doing it, but Israel is a very thriving country. They don’t need it. If they did need it, I would say keep it going.” The president said the idea came from Netanyahu himself, suggesting that the agreement was also...

The US has carried out strikes on Iran's Qeshm Island in the Strait of Hormuz, US officials have told CBS, the BBC's US partner. The officials described the strikes as limited and defensive, and said they were in response to Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) firing on a US aircraft. Iranian state news agency Irna reported explosions on Qeshm on Monday. The IRGC did not comment but said its forces had shot down two US MQM-170 drones south of the island and a US MQ-9 drone east of the Strait of Hormuz. The US military has not commented on...

Anthropic sent $900,000 to Democratic committees across California in a last-minute burst of political giving, according to a late disclosure form filed with the state on October 30. The bulk of the money, $525,000, went straight to the California Democratic Party, while county parties and a get-out-the-vote group split the rest in the campaign's final stretch before Election Day. The filing, detailed by The San Francisco Standard, shows Anthropic gave $150,000 to a get-out-the-vote group and $45,000 each to the Democratic parties in San Francisco, San Mateo, Orange, Fresno and Siskiyou counties. The $45,000 check to the San Francisco Democratic...

A terrified teenage girl was seen making a desperate dash for freedom after allegedly being kidnapped and brutally stabbed inside a Baltimore basement. The newly released surveillance footage captures the 15-year-old fleeing a property on Garrison Boulevard at 8.52pm on October 22, just 43 minutes after arriving with her alleged attacker, who is an illegal immigrant released into the US under Biden. The girl had been taken to the property by Abubakarr Barrie, 23, who is accused of stabbing her repeatedly during a horrific ordeal that left her with a collapsed lung.

Only 25% of Americans said political surveys correctly estimate votes, according to a new POLITICO Poll, conducted by PF Global. The result reveals that a significant portion of the public lacks faith in the industry as it contends with accusations of consistently failing to reach Republican voters. "Failing" to reach? Or just, you know, intentionally not trying to reach? This mistrust, of course, isn't new. Roughly one in four respondents say that polls showing a blue wave coming in November are wrong, and they expect Republicans to win key races. And 41% of Americans — including voters of both parties...

It's Election Day in America, and already we have a familiar problem: Voting machines aren't working. This time, the trouble is in Westchester County, New York, where ballot scanners began rejecting voters' ballots shortly after polls opened at 6 AM Tuesday. The problems were widespread enough that county officials acknowledged a system-wide malfunction, leaving voters filling out paper ballots while election workers scrambled to find a solution. And this isn't some tiny rural county with a handful of precincts. Westchester, just north of New York City, is home to roughly a million people and includes communities where consequential congressional races...

The Department of Justice has launched an investigation after The Maine Wire obtained video from inside Lewiston City Hall showing NGO workers operating as interpreters coaching Somali migrants on how to vote, or filling out ballots for them. US Attorney for Maine Andrew Benson told the outlet, “We review all evidence concerning complaints of voter intimidation and election interference, including the video from Lewiston’s early voting at City Hall. We will not tolerate threats to the integrity of our elections, and we look forward to working with the Attorney General’s Office and the Secretary of State’s office to defend our...

A federal judge on Monday ordered Iowa state officials to allow a local Satanic Temple organization to hold a holiday event in the rotunda of the state Capitol after years of rejecting their application. The court order is the latest in a back-and-forth between the religious organization and Republican state officials, who intend to appeal the judge’s decision, according to Attorney General Brenna Bird’s office. Iowa’s Republican leaders have barred the Satanic Temple Iowa’s holiday observances in recent years, citing the state Capitol building’s policies that prohibit gratuitous violence and obscene displays. The Satanic Temple and the leader of its...

...The Westchester County Board of Elections says an issue with the thickness of paper ballots is preventing voting machines from accepting them at polling locations throughout the county. Officials urge voters to stay in line and complete their ballots as instructed, saying ballots will be secured in monitored orange emergency ballot bags and counted according to election procedures. The board is instructing poll workers to check voters in and provide them with ballots. The ballots are being placed in orange bags while technicians work to resolve the problems. The bags will be sent to the Board of Elections at the...

As you sit down to wait for the returns tonight, here are a few things to watch for and early clues about where the night might be headed for both parties. The long wait is over, and Election Day is here. As you sit down to wait for the returns tonight, here are a few things to watch for and early clues about where the night might be headed for both parties. An Early House Indicator: Three Swing Seats in VirginiaAs polls close on the East Coast, pay careful attention to results coming out of three key swing districts in...

🇺🇸Pray For The Peace of Jerusalem🇮🇱 (11/3/26)[Prayer]Personalities Psalm 72Of Solomon.1 Endow the king with your justice, O God, the royal son with your righteousness. 2 May he judge your people in righteousness, your afflicted ones with justice.3 May the mountains bring prosperity to the people, the hills the fruit of righteousness.4 May he defend the afflicted among the people and save the children of the needy; may he crush the oppressor. 5 May he endure[a] as long as the sun, as long as the moon, through all generations. 6 May he be like rain falling on a mown field, like...

European supermarkets have become the center of another cyberattack, with hackers remotely heating fridges and spoiling food. The attack caused temperatures in fridges and freezers to rise sharply, with at least one store reporting temperatures of up to 50°C (122°F) and other retailers discarding food. It’s sparked concerns across the retail industry. Which countries and retailers were affected?Dutch supermarket group Ahold Delhaize reportedly had dozens of Delhaize stores affected in Belgium and Luxembourg. The Dutch supermarket giant told CNBC that there was an incident with refrigeration systems in dozens of its stores on Monday, which has resulted in food having...

During a portion of an interview with CBS News released on Monday, Raul Ortiz, who served as Chief of the Border Patrol during the Biden administration and as Deputy Chief during the first Trump administration, said that he’s never seen the border this quiet and “Even after 9/11, when we pushed resources to the border, airports, to make sure that we didn’t have another terroristic threat, we did not see the level of security that we’re experiencing right now.” CBS News Immigration Correspondent Camilo Montoya-Galvez asked, “Have you ever seen the border this quiet?” Ortiz answered, “No. Never. Even after...

A 97-year-old La Jolla man and his 85-year-old wife say former Disney star Erik von Detten talked them into putting $2.15 million of their retirement savings into overpriced gold coins worth only about $1.36 million at the time – a nearly 60% markup that left them with roughly 400 fewer ounces of gold than they would have gotten at spot prices. The TV-advertised precious metals dealer he worked for, Rosland Capital, has since collapsed into bankruptcy, owing customers $49 million for gold and silver they paid for and never received. Norman and Sheila Greenberg sued von Detten and Rosland Capital...

Last year, Barcelona Mayor Jaume Collboni, of the Catalan Socialist Party, announced that Gaza and other Muslim occupied terrorist areas would be considered the 11th district of the city. This year, Collboni cut ties with the Israeli city of Tel Aviv, tried to visit his new Muslim neighborhoods in Israel, but was barred from entry. The Catalan Socialist Party, a formerly Soviet-linked organization which was formed through a merger with the Communist Party, called this a “hostile act” and demanded a “forceful response” from the EU. The Socialist politician, unable to reach Gaza or any place in Israel, had to...

To ChatGPT:Internet dissidents, for convenience designated as centering around Andrew Napolitano, seem entirely oblivious to the potential for the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps “capitalists” (IRGC) to form their own military-industrial-complex as demonstrated by Iran’s ability to produce new generations of non-nuclear missiles, the Iranian prowess in the field showing that their missiles exceed the velocity of the much-vaunted Oreshnik rated at Mach 12, with Iranian missiles rated at Mach 15. Dissident war news portrays the Iranian war-technology advance as a heroic response to unprovoked U.S. and Israeli aggression, failing to note the connection between IRGC enterprise ownership and the cutting...