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US delaying Patriot missiles already paid for under NATO initiative, Zelensky says

Zelensky has appealed to Washington repeatedly, making the case for additional Patriot missiles as Russia intensifies strikes against Ukrainian cities and critical infrastructure.

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He Tried to Set Limits on His State’s School Vouchers. Billionaires Helped Bankroll a Campaign to Unseat Him.

A high-ranking Republican had wanted only to curb the unchecked growth of West Virginia’s voucher program, not destroy it. In the ensuing backlash, three PACs — affiliated with the Koch family and Jef...

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This Cybersecurity Agency Is Supposed to Protect U.S. Elections. Officials Fear It’s Been Compromised by Trump.

DHS appointees made an unusual request of its agency that protects election systems: Secretly acquire a voting machine and hack it. Though not acted on, the request shows how the Trump administration...

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Zelensky: Ukraine has retaken more territory than Russia captured this fall

"The trend this year continues," Zelensky said, "Since the start of fall, our warriors have liberated more territory than the Russians have managed to capture. The same was true at other points this y...

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'It's significant': Ukraine fears US is withholding allied-funded air defense supplies to pressure Kyiv

U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has yet to approve the transfer of a significant batch of Patriot interceptor missiles for Ukraine, Ukrainian officials and military officers told the Kyiv Independ...

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What a Ken Paxton Senate Win Could Mean for Federal Anti-Abortion Efforts

As Texas attorney general, Paxton has advanced anti-abortion policy in his home state and prevailed where others have failed. Allies who’ve witnessed his victories see an opening to keep moving their...

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Border czar Tom Homan says Rep. Ilhan Omar could be denaturalized depending on investigation

The federal probe into Omar’s immigration status involves family text messages and seized personal items.

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Big Tech will not broadcast your dissent

Silicon Valley can't help influencing protests and elections—with AI regulation on the line.

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Ukraine and the U.S. are at odds over Starshield. Here's what to know

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has said he believes the U.S. government is behind his military's loss of normal access to the key satellite communications service used by the Ukrainian military.

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Man who heckled Abdul El-Sayed is former Josh Hawley aide, records show

Thomas Teepell, who worked for Republican senator, demanded El-Sayed disavow Muslim Brotherhood A man who heckled Democratic candidate for Senate Abdul El-Sayed and demanded he disavow the Muslim Brotherhood at a Michigan townhall is a former aide to the Republican senator Josh Hawley, according to congressional staff records. At the event on Saturday, an attendee who gave his name only as “Tommy” shouted from the crowd, asking whether El-Sayed would disavow the movement. El-Sayed answered: “Sure, yeah, absolutely,” then turned the question around, asking whether the man assumed he wouldn’t. Continue reading...

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America Is Now an Ally of Russia

Donald Trump has abandoned the Western order.

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Exclusive: Secret pay-for-play text rocks Trump White House

The text is a key piece of evidence in the White House's probe of a missing Kennedy Center donation.

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Siding With Putin Is a Huge Mistake

The United States should stand unequivocally with Ukraine against Russia.

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Jackson doesn't regret telling Collins to 'shut up' after protester interrupted Maine Senate debate

"She said that it was a Troy supporter. She accused me of setting that up. I had no idea who it was,” Jackson said.

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Zelenskyy Says Trump Is Pushing Ukraine to Capitulate to Russia

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy accused Donald Trump of trying to pressure Kyiv into surrendering to Russia, escalating a week-long row with the US president.

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Zelensky speaks to US envoys as Trump accuses him of not wanting to end the war

Zelensky spoke to Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner on Sunday as Russia and Ukraine carried out drone strikes on each other's energy sites.

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Trump and Putin claim French protests are evidence of 'migrant chaos' and 'Europe's decline'

The MAGA movement and the Kremlin, along with European far-right groups, described the demonstrations in France as a consequence of immigration and the decline of 'Western civilization,' while other observers saw them as a sign of the Macron era's twilight.

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Macron says nothing justifies 'unbridled' violence in France protests

'Tonight, we all feel anger and shame,' said the French president in an address to the nation, adding that there must be a distinction between protesters with 'legitimate demands' and 'those who destroyed, smashed and looted.'

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Democrats: Embrace Incivility!

Georgia Senator Jon Ossoff is leading the rise of the rude Democrat. More should follow his lead.

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A Kelvin wave raised sea levels on the West Coast. More are coming

A large underwater wave moved up the West Coast, raising sea levels. Scientists say it's driven by El Niño and it's going to happen again.

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95% of MAGA Republicans approve of Trump. For non-MAGA Republicans, it's 47%.

That split is complicating the GOP's midterm strategy.

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US gave us no warning of Russian strikes on Kyiv power plants, Zelenskyy says

Ukrainian president accuses Washington of ‘denial of reality’ in ongoing row with Trump over apparent support for Moscow Ukraine did not receive a warning from the US about an impending Russian missile attack on Sunday evening, Volodymyr Zelenskyy has said, reviving concerns that Washington is withholding intelligence in order to bully Kyiv into capitulating to Moscow. Yuri Ihnat, a spokesperson for the Ukrainian Air Force, said on television on Monday morning that Ukraine had not received a warning before a Russian missile barrage hit power plants in Kyiv at around 11pm. Earlier, a Ukrainian government official had told the Guardian the US had not warned the capital about the impending missile strike. Continue reading...

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Trump tried to defund them, but green banks keep financing clean energy projects

“We’ve continued to move capital in very challenging times.”

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Elon Musk Says He’ll Give Every Child In America One SpaceX Share Next Year

Musk’s announcement came hours after he reacted to Anthropic’s plan to dedicate 5% of its shares to a public benefit fund by urging it to give shares to the public instead.

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As America abandons Ukraine, Europe stands alone

But Europeans cannot fully replace American support, and they face trouble at home

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Triplet of ‘Ghostly’ Galaxies Hints at What Dark Matter Is — and Isn’t

About 65 million light-years from Earth, three galaxies don’t look quite right. They aren’t whirlpools bursting with light, but pallid objects dimly illuminated by a smattering of stars. They have this ghostly appearance, said Michael Keim, an astrophysicist at Yale University. And this isn’t even the weirdest thing about them. Dark matter is the invisible glue that keeps the largest… Source

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AI Proved the Quasi-Riemann Hypothesis. What Happens Now?

Among the 377 results that OpenAI announced on October 6, 2026, one stood out. It claimed to settle the quasi-Riemann hypothesis a weaker version of the Riemann hypothesis, which is arguably the biggest open question in math. The new proof is, as Jared Duker Lichtman of Stanford University put it, the most significant AI-for-math achievement so far, by quite a margin. Source

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Israeli police detain 10 people in rare raid against West Bank settlers

Move comes after US photojournalist and group of European diplomats and Palestinians were assaulted in separate attacks Israeli police have detained 10 people in a rare raid against settlers, after a weekend of extreme violence in the occupied West Bank including an attack on US photojournalist Heidi Levine, which she described as an “attempted lynching”. She was knocked down, kicked and beaten by a group of masked Israeli men as she covered the olive harvest in a Palestinian village on Friday. The militants broke four vertebrae and a rip, ripped open her finger so it required surgery and left her with lacerations across her body. Continue reading...

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Russia’s escalating information war in Africa

The Kremlin is betting it can sway public opinion on the continent

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Europe EV sales rose 70% in September, around 30% of market share

Battery-electric vehicle (BEV) registrations in Europe rose 70.3% in ‌September, as high oil prices, subsidies and the availability of more affordable models continued to lead the growth.

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How Canadian TV show Mayday helped avert a plane hijacking horror

Executive producer Alex Bystram on the long-running docuseries’s recent brushes with reality – from the FlyDubai near-disaster to Nathan Fielder’s attempts to reform pilot training

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UTS 'poorly managed' Jewish student complaints after pro-Palestine protest

The National Student Ombudsman hands down its finding after complaints were made against UTS following a National Day of Action for Palestine in 2025.

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My Wife Makes Six Times What I Make. I Plan to Change That By Training for a New Career—But There’s a Catch.

How do I choose?

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Russian drone strike on Ukrainian park kills six, including two children — Meduza

Russian forces used a drone to strike the central park in Nova Vodolaha, a town in Ukraine’s Kharkiv region, said Ivan Vyhivskyi, head of Ukraine’s Interior Ministry.

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How Judd Apatow's insatiable curiosity led to documentaries on Norm Macdonald and Maria Bamford

The director and producer spoke about his pair of documentaries arriving in successive weeks that take a closer look at two singular comedians.

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Drop Deadlift Gorgeous, Cindy Lawson, Pumpkins and Powerdrills: This Week's Best Events - Racket

Plus where to celebrate Halloween this weekend with your dog and/or kids.

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I spent the week in court with Russell Brand – this is what I saw

The comedian’s rigid composure, which was captured by a court sketch artist, did not falter during the first three days of his high-profile trial, as crime correspondent Amy-Clare Martin reports

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Ronaldo banned for 30 days, fined $285 over spat with coach Jesus

Cristiano Ronaldo handed month-long ban by the disciplinary council of Portugal's Football Association.

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Mauritius lifts curfew imposed amid wave of violent protests

Unrest on the archipelago came after police shot a woman during a rally over rising costs and water shortages.

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Experimental Facilities

8 min read Preparations for Next Moonwalk Simulations Underway (and Underwater) Research teams at the NASA Glenn Research Center perform experiments in world-class facilities such as the 9- by 15-Foot Low-Speed Wind Tunnel (9 x15 LSWT), the Aero-Acoustic Propulsion Laboratory (AAPL), the Small Hot Jet Acoustic Rig (SHJAR), the Nozzle Acoustic Test Rig (NATR), the DGEN AeroPropulsion Research Turbofan (DART), and the Acoustical Testing Laboratory (ATL). 9×15 Low-Speed Wind Tunnel (9×15 LSWT) The 9- by 15-Foot Low Speed Wind Tunnel is specially designed to give researchers a controlled environment to study aircraft engine aerodynamics and acoustics at takeoff and landing conditions. This helps us to reduce noise in communities near airports. Major modifications were completed in 2019 to improve the flow and lower the background noise of the tunnel. A new 5-sensor traversing microphone rake helps measure sound produced by scale experimental propulsors. Read more about the capabilities of the 9 x 15 LSWT on our facilities page. Advanced Ducted Propulsor (ADP) Fan Commissioning Test (side view) in the 9×15 Low-Speed Wind Tunnel. NASA Aero-Acoustic Propulsion Laboratory (AAPL) The Aero-A

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5 min read Preparations for Next Moonwalk Simulations Underway (and Underwater) Research teams at NASA’s Glenn Research Center are involved in developing theory and software to predict the noise from aircraft engines. This software helps engineers to design and analyze new and improved aircraft propulsion systems. Copies of our software can be requested from NASA’s Software Catalog. Aerodynamic predictions of a the hot exhaust flow through a dual stream nozzle with chevrons. NASA JeNo Development of jet noise prediction codes is multifaceted. Since JeNo predicts jet noise using Lilley’s Acoustic Analogy and the mean flow solutions from a Reynolds-Averaged Navier-Stokes (RANS) code, accurate acoustic predictions hinge on accurate aerodynamic predictions. This is why acoustic source modeling and turbulence modeling, together with the development of advanced measurement systems, are the leading areas of research in jet noise prediction at NASA Glenn. RANS-based jet noise prediction schemes based on Lilley’s Acoustic Analogy offer relatively quick answers compared to those from alternative methods like Large-Eddy Simulations (LES) or Direct Numerical Simulation (DNS). The JeNo jet nois

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Feds intercept ‘suspicious’ package intended for Oregon election office

The incident coincides with other mail being sent to election offices around the country, including letters containing white powder prompting evacuations in Arizona and Louisiana.

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The Perfect Liberal

Now that the triumphalism of the post–Cold War era is dying, what can replace it?

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O.J. Simpson may have had help allegedly covering up 1994 murders, unsealed files suggest

A new investigation offers a different account of what might have happened the night O.J. Simpson's ex-wife Nicole Brown Simpson and her friend Ronald Goldman were stabbed to death.

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Former OpenAI Worker Accused of Bugging Discussed Jobs With Saudi Royal

In a detention filing, prosecutors argue Abdulrahman Alfozan is a flight risk, saying his wife and child moved permanently to Saudi Arabia.

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Why protests are spreading across Europe, as France imposes first curfews

Protests are sweeping across Europe, with hundreds of thousands of people taking to the streets in dozens of cities across the content. This is what you need to know.

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Women’s Health Is Important, Sure — But First Trump Would Like To Discuss Shoes And Patio Furniture

The president thanked the first lady before marveling at his own renovations in a bizarre tangent outside the White House.

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Contractor overcharged city more than $40M during police HQ construction, inquiry commissioner concludes in final report

The final public inquiry report into construction of Winnipeg Police Service headquarters concludes there was misconduct and inflated costs and calls on the city to make changes to prevent the project’s shortcomings from being repeated.

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Why Americans stopped buying new homes

Mortgage lock-in is preventing nearly 1m property sales a year

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Need help decoding Nathan Fielder’s You Can See Everything? Start with this cultural syllabus

As audiences are already plotting their second viewing, here are the movies, shows, music and books that either directly or subconsciously inspired the film

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