The editor of one of Russia's last independent newspapers on Friday said the publication would cease operations under pressure from the Kremlin. Novaya Gazeta is shutting down after 30 years during which it was known as a source of investigative news that challenged the government.
Gas prices have barely budged for months. On Friday, America's two biggest oil companies showed just how much that's been worth to them: Chevron reported third-quarter earnings of $9.9 billion, nearly triple from the $3.5 billion in the third quarter of 2025. ExxonMobil posted a third-quarter profit of $15.4 billion, more than double the $7.5 billion it made a year earlier and just shy of its record quarterly profit from 2022.
News coverage of Trump misses the point. Sure, he is racist, cruel, ignorant, corrupt and a pawn of Russia. But the reason he's unfit to be president is that he is a loathsome human being.
Speaking at a rally in Daytona Beach, Florida on Friday night, Trump turned his attention north to Michigan, where El-Sayed, a former public health official, is squaring off against Republican former Rep. Mike Rogers, who has claimed that El-Sayed, who would be the first Muslim to serve in the Senate, is a "risk to our national security." Trump has even called the Democrat a "jihadist." During the rally, Trump shouted out people in the audience wearing shirts reading "Blacks for Trump." "Blacks for Trump, you ought to vote for Mike Rogers," the president said before baselessly claiming El-Sayed "does not like" Jewish or Black people. "Not that other guy, because he doesn't like Jewish people and he doesn't like Black people. I'm talking about Abdul. Abdul is not a big fan of Jewish people, and he's not a big fan of Black people. And I hope you're going to vote against him and send him back to where he came from."
A collection of three unrelated mpox cases recently detected in California is raising concerns, as they were caused by a more infectious, more dangerous strain of the virus called clade I mpox.
A North Branch, Michigan man pardoned for his role in the January 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol is charged with third-degree criminal sexual conduct for allegedly assaulting a client during a massage session, The Oakland Press reported on Friday. Nathan Thornsberry, 44, is accused of one felony count, punishable by up to 15 years in prison. The Oakland County Prosecutor's Office says it happened Aug. 12 at a spa in Rochester Hills. According to prosecutors, Thornsberry touched the woman's intimate areas and penetrated her with a finger. She told him to stop, per the report, but he kept touching her as he pulled his hand away. The Oakland County Jail roster shows he was booked Oct. 29.
Halloween is the season for haunted houses, campfire ghost stories, and manufactured frights. In politics, however, one of the scariest stories is told year-round. The perennial bogeyman? The all-powerful corporate behemoth allegedly buying elections and haunting our democracy. We are told that, unless the government takes radical measures, shadowy corporate titans will devour our civic life whole.
Amazon has put a camera in its Echo Studio speaker so that Alexa can see what is in front of it. The Echo Studio with Home Camera is one of five new Alexa devices the company unveiled on Wednesday, alongside a new Echo Dot, an Echo Time alarm clock, an Alexa Photo Frame and the Echo Show 16.
An Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officer who hit and injured a man with a vehicle in Houston, Texas, was indicted by a grand jury in Harris County on Friday. The 33-year-old officer, Mario Alberto Morales, was indicted on a charge of aggravated assault with a deadly weapon after allegedly driving his vehicle into Miguel Parra Hernandez earlier this month, NBC News reported.
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Creedence Clearwater Revival - I Put A Spell On You
Pentagon tells NATO allies, including Baltic states, to keep hawkish Russia talk to a minimum, sources say. Pentagon policy chief Elbridge Colby a key messenger, sources say. Some European officials surprised by Pentagon advice, say their tone is already measured.
In a priceless troll, a man attending a Trump rally in South Carolina stunned Fox News viewers on live TV. Read more
Europe looks past rioters to their parents and the apps in their pockets
Dockworkers in 22 countries will strike on Friday, protesting against war and the use of ports for arms exports in action organisers say could disrupt over 40% of Mediterranean cargo and snarl over $2 billion worth of freight. 'WE WILL NOT WORK FOR WAR' Read more
At a Dummkopf Trumpf political rally in Rock Hill, South Carolina, an attendee floored a Faux News reporter during an interview, as follows:
Senile Satan
Novelist Patricia Highsmith (1921 " 1995), who gave us The Talented Mr. Ripley, neatly summarizes America in this paragraph from Strangers on a Train (1950). This suspense novel was published decades before NYS Judge Juan Merchan sentenced Dummkopf Trumpf to "unconditional discharge" (10 Jan 2025). Here, protagonist Guy Haines reveals to his fiance Anne his disgust with his soon-to-be ex-wife Miriam (p. 44): She's everything that should be loathed ... .Sometimes I think I hate everything in the world. No decency, no conscience. She's what people mean when they say America never grows up. America rewards the corrupt ... .. This excerpt explains how abolitionist John Brown could be caught, tried, sentenced, and executed, all within an astonishing 45 days (18 Oct - 2 Dec 1859), yet treasonous Jefferson Davis could outlive A. Lincoln unscathed by 24 years or how Jeffrey Epstein or Senile Satan could get away with their evil for so long: Corruption in America.
