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Man planned to use drone with explosive to attack substation, U.S. says

Man planned to use drone with explosive to attack substation, U.S. says

The New York Times reports: A 24-year-old Tennessee man was arrested on Saturday moments before he planned to use a drone carrying an explosive to destroy a Nashville power substation to further his “violent white supremacist ideology,” federal prosecutors said Monday. The man, Skyler Philippi of Columbia, Tenn., had plotted the attack to push an extremist ideology called “accelerationism,” which calls for the complete collapse of American society, according to a criminal complaint prepared by the F.B.I. Christopher Wray, the…

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North Korean troops heading to Ukraine are inexperienced, poorly trained and underfed

North Korean troops heading to Ukraine are inexperienced, poorly trained and underfed

Justin McCurry writes: Depending on whom you ask, they are the boost that Russian forces need to make a significant breakthrough in Ukraine, or they are simple cannon fodder, destined for repatriation in body bags. After weeks of speculation, Nato and the Pentagon have confirmed that around 10,000 North Korean troops are in Russia, with most massing near Ukraine’s border in Kursk, where the Kremlin’s forces have struggled to repel a Ukrainian incursion. US officials believe the North Koreans could…

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A new field theory reveals the hidden forces that guide us

A new field theory reveals the hidden forces that guide us

Daniel W McShea and Gunnar O Babcock write: Why do rocks fall? Before Isaac Newton introduced his revolutionary law of gravity in 1687, many natural scientists and philosophers thought that rocks fell because falling was an essential part of their nature. For Aristotle, seeking the ground was an intrinsic property of rocks. The same principle, he argued, also explained why things like acorns grew into oak trees. According to this explanation, every physical object in the Universe, from rocks to…

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Meet the conservative women who are keeping their votes for Kamala Harris a secret

Meet the conservative women who are keeping their votes for Kamala Harris a secret

NPR reports: In political ads and campaign speeches, supporters of Vice President Harris have a message for Republican women: Your vote is private, and no one will know if you secretly vote for Harris. “No one gets to know how you’re going to vote,” Democratic Rep. Elissa Slotkin said last week during a campaign stop in Michigan. “No one gets to check it. It’s not available online. Right? Your vote is your choice. You don’t have to tell anyone.” Slotkin,…

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How Trump could ban abortion without Congress

How Trump could ban abortion without Congress

Mary Ziegler and Reva Siegel write: The Supreme Court rejected a challenge to abortion drugs just a few months ago, but anti-abortion forces are already back with a new lawsuit. The suit would have a devastating impact on abortion rights across the country. But even if it doesn’t succeed, it’s part of a strategy that former President Donald Trump could use to ban abortion nationwide if he wins the White House — even without action from Congress. Trump has said…

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Russia suspected of plotting to send incendiary devices on U.S.-bound planes

Russia suspected of plotting to send incendiary devices on U.S.-bound planes

The Guardian reports: An incendiary device hidden in a DHL package that caught fire in Germany in July was due to be sent by air to the UK as part of a suspected Russian sabotage plot that may also have been a dry run for a similar attack on the US and Canada. The device, reported to have been secreted in shipments of massage pillows and erotic gadgets, started a fire on the ground in Leipzig that was feared to…

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Trump claims ‘illegal alien’ voting is rampant. His own party disagrees

Trump claims ‘illegal alien’ voting is rampant. His own party disagrees

By Andy Kroll This story was originally published by ProPublica In public remarks, former President Donald Trump has repeatedly made unfounded claims about the threat of widespread voting by “illegal aliens” and noncitizens in the 2024 election. Away from the spotlight, though, at least one Republican National Committee official is telling volunteer poll watchers a completely different story: that such voting is close to impossible. In a private Oct. 29 training session for poll watchers in Pennsylvania, an RNC election-integrity…

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Elon Musk lawyer says $1 million voter giveaway winners are not random

Elon Musk lawyer says $1 million voter giveaway winners are not random

Reuters reports: Elon Musk’s pro-Trump group does not choose the winners of its $1 million-a-day giveaway to registered voters at random, but instead picks people who would be good spokespeople for its agenda, a lawyer for the billionaire said on Monday. Musk lawyer Chris Gober was trying to persuade a Pennsylvania judge that the giveaway was not an “illegal lottery,” as Philadelphia district attorney Lawrence Krasner alleged in a lawsuit seeking to block the contest ahead of Tuesday’s U.S. presidential…

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‘There is no hate like Christian love’

‘There is no hate like Christian love’

CNN reports: Greg Jr. says he didn’t tell his parents about his sexuality earlier because he’d heard stories of evangelical parents who refused to pay for their gay kid’s college or kicked them out of the house. Once on the streets, these forsaken youths are more likely to experience sexual assault, HIV infection, hate crimes, depression and suicide, according to True Colors United, a nonprofit group formed to address youth homelessness in the US. The current share of homeless youth…

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Black holes could be the mysterious force expanding the Universe

Black holes could be the mysterious force expanding the Universe

Science Alert reports: From the winding down of clocks to the death of stars, everything seems destined to eventually grind to a halt. But there’s one really, really big thing to which this doesn’t seem to apply, at all. That’s the Universe itself, getting bigger and bigger all the time. According to our physical descriptions of how the cosmos should behave, that growth should be slowing down. Instead, measurements show it is speeding up, driven by a mysterious force known…

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What does the shocking Iowa Poll reveal?

What does the shocking Iowa Poll reveal?

  Few states are as red as Iowa, and yet the legendary Iowa pollster Ann Selzer found that Kamala has leapfrogged over Trump to take the lead there. The turnaround is due to women—particularly women 65 and older, who previously tilted toward Trump, but now favor Kamala 63% to 28%. Iowa’s new strict abortion law could be a factor. J. Ann Selzer joins Tim Miller for a special Sunday pod.

Trump’s freakshow continues unabated

Trump’s freakshow continues unabated

Sidney Blumenthal writes: Donald Trump’s threat to execute Liz Cheney, “with a rifle standing there with nine barrels shooting at her”, is the apogee so far of his Hitlerian rhetoric. By his own words, Trump has proved her point that he is a “danger” to the constitution and defied his apologists who insist he can be contained or that he doesn’t really mean what he says. “And let’s see how she feels about it, you know, when the guns are…

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Trump Media outsourced jobs to Mexico even as Trump pushes ‘America First’

Trump Media outsourced jobs to Mexico even as Trump pushes ‘America First’

By Robert Faturechi, Justin Elliott and Alex Mierjeski This story was originally published by ProPublica Former President Donald Trump’s social media company outsourced jobs to workers in Mexico even as Trump publicly railed against outsourcing on the campaign trail and threatened heavy tariffs on companies that send jobs south of the border. The firm’s use of workers in Mexico was confirmed by a spokesperson for Trump Media, which operates the Truth Social platform. The workers were hired through another entity…

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Epstein: Trump loved to ‘f— the wives of his best friends’

Epstein: Trump loved to ‘f— the wives of his best friends’

The Daily Beast reports: Jeffrey Epstein described himself as Donald Trump’s “closest friend” and claimed intimate knowledge of his proclivity for sex, including cuckolding his best friends, according to recordings obtained exclusively by the Daily Beast. The convicted pedophile even boasted of his closeness to Trump and his now-wife Melania by claiming, “the first time he slept with her was on my plane,” which was dubbed the Lolita Express. Epstein spoke at length about Trump with the author Michael Wolff…

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