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"When we had first seen it, Joe Biden was president," Mike Kimmel, a famed Florida reptile hunter, told NBC News.


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Today on the Ask NT Wright Anything Podcast, Mike Bird and Tom Wright tackle three challenging listener questions that get to the heart of Christian theology and biblical imagination. Read more


Friday, October 31, 2025

Disney content has gone dark on YouTube TV, leaving subscribers of the Google-owned live streaming platform without access to major networks like ESPN and ABC. That's because the companies have failed to reach a new licensing deal to keep Disney channels on YouTube TV. Depending on how long it lasts, the dispute could particularly impact coverage of U.S. college football matchups over the weekend " as well as NBA and NFL games " on top of other news and entertainment disruptions that have already arrived. In the meantime, YouTube TV subscribers who want to watch Disney channels could have little choice other than turning to traditional broadcasting or the company's own platforms " which come with their own price tags.


A Navy police officer accused of a deadly DUI was allowed $1 million bail. Meanwhile, in Tennessee, a man accused of nothing more than posting a provocative meme quoting Donald Trump was jailed on $2 million bail for five weeks before having all charges dismissed. Is there equal justice in America"or is controversial speech punished more harshly than fatal acts? Read more


A classified US report has found that Israeli military units committed "many hundreds" of potential human rights violations in Gaza that will take "multiple years" to review. The findings mark the first time a USG report has acknowledged the scale of IDF actions in Gaza that fall under the purview of Leahy Laws, which bar funding to units credibly accused of such abuses. US officials said the watchdog findings raised doubts about the prospects for accountability for Israel's actions given the large backlog of incidents and the nature of the review process, which is immensely deferential to the IDF. The Trumpf junta has been working to fire non-partisan Inspectors-General (IGs) from the USG and Empty Suit SECSTATE Marco Rubio recently shuttered the DOS portal to report war crimes: Vapid Marco Rubio Concealing IDF War Crimes. Read more


Both people accused of tying up and starving 11-year-old Jacqueline "Mimi" Torres-Garcia before hiding her body for a year denied their actions and repeatedly lied to police, each blaming the other, according to the warrants for their arrests on murder charges.


Thursday, October 30, 2025

  • Denied becoming US Ambassador to the UN by Dummkopf Trumpf, highly unpopular House Republican Elise Stefanik is preparing to launch a 2026 campaign for NYS governor. Stefanik has more than $13 million in cash on hand, more than any other NY House Republican in recent history, and is hiring a slate of veteran political operatives as she seeks to be NY first GOP governor since George Pataki. Ms. Stefanik was humiliated by her own constituents at a public ceremony in her CD: Stefanik Booed.
  • In the contest for NYC Mayor, Zohran Mamdani holds a 16-point lead among likely voters against Andrew Cuomo. Republican Curtis Sliwa trails in third place. If animal advocate Curtis Sliwa were to exit the race, Mamdani's lead would shrink to seven points. Without Cuomo in the contest, Mamdani's lead would widen to 26 points. Read more


    Trump's shameless corruption is not a deviation from American history but its fulfilment. Every era of American government has had its scandal. Trump's innovation is to make scandal itself a governing philosophy. Read more


    BUSAN, South Korea, Oct 30 (Reuters) - President Donald Trump ordered the U.S. military on Thursday to immediately resume testing nuclear weapons after a gap of 33 years, minutes before beginning a meeting with Chinese President Xi Jinping. Read more


    It is easy to forget that Argentina was once one of the wealthiest countries in the world. In 1913, the average Argentinian had about 80 percent of the income of the average American. It took several generations of socialist politicians to destroy Argentina's wealth. Today. the average Argentinian has about 30 percent of the income of the average American. This is a lesson followers of Zohran Mamdani, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Elizabeth Warren, and Bernie Sanders should consider. If the American big government socialists do for the United States what Juan Peron and the Argentinian socialists did for their country, every American will rapidly become poorer.


    For the first time since 1990, the Top 40 on the Hot 100 doesn't contain a single rap song. The space is occupied, instead, by the entirety of Taylor Swift's The Life of a Showgirl " now in its third week " as well as hits from Morgan Wallen, Olivia Dean, Kehlani, and Alex Warren, whose single "Ordinary" has spent 37 weeks on the chart.


    Six House Republicans " who have all previously voiced opposition to diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) initiatives " are now revolting after a prominent DEI program was gutted by the Trump administration. In September, the Trump White House officially ended funding to "racially discriminatory discretionary grant programs at minority-serving institutions," among which was a grant program for colleges and universities where at least 25% of the student body is Hispanic. For some House Republicans, however, the elimination of the prominent grant program serving education institutions with a sizable Hispanic student body was a bridge too far. Read more


    A federal agent fired shots at an unarmed Black man during a recent traffic stop while patrolling the nation's capital for President Donald Trump's law-enforcement surge. But a police report on the encounter doesn't mention the shooting, an omission that the man's attorneys point to as evidence of a cover-up attempt. The Metropolitan Police Department is investigating the shooting by a Homeland Security Investigations agent, who was with police officers and other federal agents when they stopped a car driven by Phillip M. Brown on Oct. 17. Brown, 33, of Hyattsville, Maryland, wasn't injured in the shooting. He was jailed for three days on a charge that he fled from law enforcement, but a judge has already dismissed the case.


    The National Guard is building a "quick reaction force" (QRF) of some 23,500 troops trained in crowd control and civil disturbance that can be ready to deploy to U.S. cities by early next year, according to a leaked memo reported by multiple outlets Wednesday.


    By withholding soybean purchases and rare-earth exports, China extracted relief from U.S. tariffs and delayed export controls, without conceding much in return.


    Defense Intelligence Ukraine (DIU) informs: "On 25 Oct 2025, a car driven by war criminal Mazzherin Veniamin Vladimirovich exploded on the territory of the Kemerovo region of the aggressor state of the Russian Federation. Police Lieutenant Colonel Mazzherin, born in 1980, served in the special unit of the OMON "Obereg" of the Rosgvard Directorate in the Kemerovo region. Based on the collected evidence and eyewitness testimonies of the events, the Prosecutor General's Office opened criminal proceedings against the servicemen of the unit, in particular on the facts of violation of the laws and customs of war. The Defense Intelligence of Ukraine reminds that for every war crime committed against the Ukrainian people, there will be fair retribution." Read more


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