In October 2024, Pennsylvania became the first state to officially recognise Diwali as a state holiday, followed by Connecticut and now California this year.
US special envoy Steve Witkoff and US President Donald Trump's son-in-law Jared Kushner will join Gaza peace plan talks between Israeli and Hamas negotiators in Egypt on Wednesday. Their arrival comes as a second day of indirect talks on Tuesday ended without tangible results, a senior Palestinian official familiar with the negotiations told the BBC. Read more
Details remain scant about an unspecified U.S. Air Force aircraft, widely believed to be a drone of some kind, which came down in southern Nevada not far from Area 51 nearly two weeks ago. Whether the aircraft was ever actually inside Area 51's highly restricted airspace, also known as "The Box," is unknown. The mishap prompted authorities to temporarily close the airspace above the crash site, with some exemptions, while the wreckage was cleared. In a bizarre twist of events, the Air Force has publicly disclosed that it and the FBI are now investigating apparent strange tampering at the crash site afterward.
Details remain scant about an unspecified U.S. Air Force aircraft, widely believed to be a drone of some kind, which came down in southern Nevada not far from Area 51 nearly two weeks ago. Whether the aircraft was ever actually inside Area 51's highly restricted airspace, also known as "The Box," is unknown.
A school in Spartanburg County is at the epicenter of the ongoing measles outbreak in South Carolina, with two new cases confirmed, the Department of Public Health announced Oct. 7. The school, which the department has not publicly identified, is a common link to seven of the state's 10 confirmed cases... While it did not address the status of the two most recent cases, all of the previously reported cases were unvaccinated.
Donald Trump has sparked a fresh frenzy about his health after giving a very unorthodox CNN interview. The 79-year-old president gave an exclusive interview to State of the Union host Jake Tapper Sunday, but bizarrely texted his answers in at an unspecified time before the show rather than speaking in person or calling.
Hamas is looking to secure a "fair hostage exchange" as part of a deal with Israel to end the two-year war that's devastated Gaza and destabilized much of the Middle East. The Palestinian militant group's negotiating team in Egypt will aim to "eliminate all obstacles" to a settlement, Fawzi Barhoum, a Hamas spokesperson, said during a televised address broadcast on Qatar-based Al-Jazeera on Tuesday.
Members of the Texas National Guard have arrived in Illinois, according to sources familiar with their whereabouts and video taken of them at an Army Reserve training facility in a Chicago suburb. Read more
If there has been one common denominator over the last ten years with everything surrounding Trump, it might be the sheer absurdity of it all. So much of what he does and says is simply ridiculous on so many levels, and we can rightfully say that if any other politician had done even half of the foolish things Trump has, that their political careers would be over in a flash.
Well, we may have just reached Peak Absurdity...
The system we have been monitoring (Invest 95L) over the tropical central Atlantic has developed sufficiently organized thunderstorm activity and a low-level center to be considered a tropical cyclone. This system is far from land, roughly 1000 miles east of the Windward Islands. An ASCAT pass from around 12Z showed peak winds between 35 and 40 kt, and based on that data, the initial intensity is set at 40 kt, making the system Tropical Storm Jerry.
Mark Zandi of Moody's concluded that, when averaging estimates from Revelio Labs and ADP, the job market saw "essentially no job growth" in September. Revelio Labs, which tracks data from professional networking sites, estimated an increase of 60,000 jobs, but Zandi considers this an overestimation. The Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) had already indicated weakness in August, with non-farm employment adding only 22,000 positions. Job growth was "almost exclusively" seen in California, New York, and Massachusetts, states that rank among the top five in terms of GDP per capita. In 2024, New York had a GDP per capita of $116,320.77, Massachusetts $110,022.74, and California $104,795.45. This geographical concentration highlights the disparity in economic opportunities across the country.
The Supreme Court's conservative majority on Tuesday seemed poised to rule for a Christian therapist who says her free speech rights are violated by a Colorado law barring mental health professionals from seeking to change a teenager's sexual orientation or gender identity. Lawyers for the therapist and the Trump administration said there were no studies indicating such therapy causes harm. The state's lawyer countered that there is a "mountain of evidence" that conversion therapy is ineffective and harmful.
Here is the behavior of a US "ally" that the hardworking American taxpayer, who lives without universal healthcare unlike Israelis who do, has been subsidizing since 1948. Gaza food aid volunteer Carlos de Barron recounts the humiliation, psychological abuse, aggression, and intimidation that he and the rest of the Samaritans suffered during their three-night detention in a squalid Israeli prison.
A Peruvian bishop accused of having 17 secret mistresses has been exposed after some of the women found out about each other and nearly came to blows. Ciro Quispe Lpez, 51, the bishop of Juli in Peru has handed in his resignation to Pope Leo after a Vatican investigation interviewed three of the bishop's alleged lovers as well as his cleaning lady, who supplied details about what she saw in his bedroom. Quispe made the mistake of sending some videos and photos he intended for mistresses to his cleaning lady, who promptly complained to the Catholic Church. Mancado said the cleaning lady had seen women's hair in the bishop's shower. He reported her saying: "His sheets had stains. I had to clean all of that up." Read more
Broadview village officials sent a strong message to the feds this week. They do not want U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement operating its detention center in their town. On Thursday, Broadview Police Chief Thomas Mills said ICE agents are draining the resources of his department and the community by making false 911 calls. Body camera video footage obtained by the CBS News Chicago Investigators shows several Broadview officers responding to a 911 call claiming someone was tampering with a gate at the ICE detention facility. The gate in question is where ICE takes detained immigrants for processing, but when police arrived, all they found was two people and a camera. A CBS News Chicago photographer was filming the exterior of the building, with a CBS security guard by his side. The 911 call from an ICE agent claimed someone was tampering with the gate.
Empty Suit Andrew Cuomo, who betrayed the Democratic Party by running as an independent AIPAC shill against front-runner Democratic Party candidate Zohran Mamdani (33), continues pandering to NYC Jews in an attempt to disrupt the commanding lead he holds over him in the race for NYC Mayor. The disgraced ex-governor of NYS was ousted from office for sexually harassing women and fabricating casualty numbers during the COVID epidemic. Cuomo was also forced to return his cherished Emmy Award. When this mercenary was asked whether Israel was committing genocide in Gaza, something academic experts and the UN all agree is taking place, Cuomo demurred without answering. But hypocritically this Judas Iscariot demanded that Zohran Mamdani condemn "globalizing the Intifada" (whatever that means). All polls show the likeable Zohran Mamdani holding a commanding lead over the decrepit Kennedy clan outcast who betrayed the Democratic Party for a mere 30 pieces of silver. Read more
