US Vice President JD Vance said in an exclusive interview with Reuters that Iran must make a "meaningful" reduction in its nuclear enrichment capacity to satisfy US demands and end the countries' seven-month war, even as Washington was unsure how Tehran makes decisions in negotiations.
Deepening ties between Iran and Russia are paying off for both powers, especially on the battlefield.
PROTESTS have taken place across Britain in support of the Garvaghy Road residents who are blocking a planned march through their area in Co. Armagh by the Orange Order. A demonstration has been underway along the road in Portadown for more than a week, after legal challenges failed to overturn a ruling from the Parades Commission allowing the march to go ahead for the first time in 28 years. More than 15,000 people made their way to Garvaghy Road to protest against the march over the weekend. Read more
The Federal Communications Commission is considering a request by a conservative group to loosen rules on political robocalls, including those with artificial intelligence-generated voices, before November's midterm elections. Read more
It overtakes a notorious washing machine, which only sent 3.6GB.
China got hold of F-35 components after a UPS worker didn't act on a routing alert that barred moving the shipment through Hong Kong under US export rules.
A 16-year-old boy had to be rescued from the base of a massive and steep rock formation, ironically named the "Widowmaker," on British Columbia's Crown Mountain. As CTV News reports, the teenager took a gondola up to an altitude of over 4,000 feet to the top of Grouse Mountain " only for Anthropic's Claude AI chatbot to lead him off the trail route on his way back down. Read more
Trump Blocks International Board From Conducting Oversight of Midterm Elections
This is the first time in over two decades that the US has rejected OSCE participation in a federal election.
For the first time in more than two decades, the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) will not conduct oversight of the upcoming midterm elections after the Trump administration effectively blocked them from doing so, raising yet more alarm over the administration's rapid erosion of free and fair elections in the U.S.
President Donald Trump has declined to invite the OSCE to witness the elections, which the group has done for every federal election since 2002.
The U.S. joins only Russia and Belarus in rejecting the OSCE's election monitoring.
A statue of US President Donald Trump was put on exhibit in the European Parliament building in Strasbourg, France. The 2.5-meter satirical statue, by Danish artist Jens Galschiot, is called "Orange Plague," and it shows the US leader naked, holding a long gold club and sitting on the shoulders of a smaller man. The artist said it is coated with 23-karat gold. The statue is also known by the name "King of Injustice." Next to the statue are cards explaining that the "King of Injustice" is "sitting on the back of a man" who is sinking under the burden.
President Donald Trump is eyeing a new presidential retreat la Camp David.
The location? His golf course in West Palm Beach, Florida.
The golf-obsessed president pitched designating a portion of his Trump International Golf Club for use by "all past, current, and future United States Presidents and visiting foreign heads of state," his attorney Harvey Oyer wrote in a letter to Palm Beach County commissioners last month.
The proposed retreat, which does not have a name yet but would sit close to an airport and a boulevard bearing the president's name, was first reported by The Palm Beach Post and highlighted in The Washington Post on Wednesday.
Oyer " who compared the proposed retreat to the likes of Camp David, Windsor Castle and the lyse Palace in his letter " requested that the county give a portion of land to the federal government and claimed Trump would foot the bill to construct any lodging/facilities, The Washington Post noted.
Four weeks before the November 3 US midterm elections, Republicans trail Democrats by 9.6 points on the generic ballot in analyst Nate Silver's midterm forecast model.
Democrats led by 9.1 points in my September 25 article. They remain clear favourites to gain control of the Senate and overwhelming favourites in the House of Representatives.
If disruption caused by the Iran war continues until the midterm elections, with increased petrol prices and inflation, Republicans are likely to lose control of both the House and the Senate, perhaps with huge losses.
More than 80 U.S. military aircraft have been destroyed or damaged in the war with Iran, which is now in its eighth month, according to a new report from the Congressional Research Service. That indicates that military losses under Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth are reaching new heights which have been kept hidden from the public. "At least 81 US military aircraft have been lost or damaged during operations against Iran since late February," the nonpartisan CRS, which provides information to Congress, wrote in a report updated Oct. 5. That's up from 42 in its May tally.
Democrats will block Trump's Supreme Court nominees if the Senate flips.
The Democratic Party will refuse to approve any of President Trump's Supreme Court nominations in the event it takes back control of the Senate, drawing perhaps the strongest line in the sand against the White House to date.
"The bottom line is: One of the reasons we want to do everything we can to take back the Senate is to not let Trump put such horrible justices " MAGA justices " on the Supreme Court and the lower courts," Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer told NBC News in a Monday report.
The rest of the ranks echoed the sentiment.
Titled "The Orange Plague," a gold-coated statue presents Donald Trump sitting on a smaller man's back.
A statue of US President Donald Trump was put on exhibit in the European Parliament building in Strasbourg, France.
The 2.5-meter satirical statue, by Danish artist Jens Galschiot, is called "Orange Plague," and it shows the US leader naked, holding a long gold club and sitting on the shoulders of a smaller man.
The artist said it is coated with 23-karat gold. The statue is also known by the name "King of Injustice."
Next to the statue are cards explaining that the "King of Injustice" is "sitting on the back of a man" who is sinking under the burden.
"I would do anything to help him. Except stepping down from his back," the card continues, with the artist blaming Trump for hindering attempts to confront climate change.
A phone company launched by President Donald Trump's sons was hacked, and the hackers say they released customer data because the company told them it had "no team to handle this." A new criminal group called BYOD posted the records of 3,615 Trump Mobile customers on its dark web leak site last week, Straight Arrow News reported Monday. The files include names, email addresses, phone numbers, home addresses, and order details, the outlet reported. The list included a Trump adviser, Trump executives, and even a Republican lawmaker. Conspicuously missing was any member of the president's family.
Andrew Tate allegedly had some seriously disturbing material on his devices ... including extreme porn depicting sex acts with a horse and an eel ... according to newly filed court docs obtained by TMZ. The allegations are laid out in a massive filing connected to the UK's effort to extradite Tate from the U.S. ... and things get pretty dark. British authorities allege Tate possessed explicit images depicting people having sex with live animals -- specifically a horse and an eel -- along with other extreme porn showing acts likely to cause serious genital injuries. And that's nowhere near the end of it ... the docs also accuse Tate of making and possessing scores of indecent images and videos of a minor.
