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Florida officer Brian Sguros accused of living in dead man’s home for years
Court records say he claimed to spend more than $352,000 on upgrades to the property.
Should AI Decide Your Court Case? This Judge Says Yes
One of England’s top judges, Geoffrey Vos, believes that AI could adjudicate plenty of civil cases. The question, he says, is where the line should be drawn.
Should AI Decide Your Court Case? This Judge Says Yes
One of England’s top judges, Geoffrey Vos, believes that AI could adjudicate plenty of civil cases. The question, he says, is where the line should be drawn.
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Spain, Brazil 'Allies In Global Progressivism' Says Lula After Sánchez Congratulates Him On Election Victory
Spain, Brazil 'Allies In Global Progressivism' Says Lula After Sánchez Congratulates Him On Election Victory Authored by Remix News Staff via Remix,Following his victory in the second round of Brazil's presidential election, President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva thanked Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez for his congratulations.Sánchez had posted to X: "A great victory for Lula. What has happened in Brazil will happen in Spain."¡Gran victoria de @LulaOficial! Lo que ha pasado en Bra...
Industry insiders say PCBs and chip substrates are key supply constraints for consumer electronics makers as AI demand increasingly eats up production capacity (Nikkei Asia)
Nikkei Asia: Industry insiders say PCBs and chip substrates are key supply constraints for consumer electronics makers as AI demand increasingly eats up production capacity TAIPEI As executives at
Federal judge rules Bill Essayli unlawfully serving as de facto US attorney in California
A federal judge has disqualified Bill Essayli, the top federal prosecutor in Southern California, from overseeing two criminal cases after finding that he is unlawfully serving as a "de facto" U.S. attorney.U.S. District Judge J. Michael Seabright ruled Tuesday that Essayli cannot participate in or supervise the prosecutions in the two criminal cases.However, the disqualification will not take effect immediately, giving the Justice Department time to seek a stay pending appeal."We respectfully d...
Jio Platforms, India's largest telecom and digital services company, rose 21.4% in its trading debut after raising ~$3.2B in the country's largest IPO
Priyanka Salve / CNBC: Jio Platforms, India's largest telecom and digital services company, rose 21.4% in its trading debut after raising ~$3.2B in the country's largest IPO Jio Platforms' shares ro
Rays stay alive in World Series, walk off Brewers in thrilling extra-inning Game 4
The Tampa Bay Rays live to play another day, coming through with a two-run 13th inning to walk off the Milwaukee Brewers in Game 4 of the World Series 4-3.The Brewers, smelling its first World Series title in franchise history after 22-year-old Cooper Pratt broke an innings-long 2-2 tie with a solo home run in the top of the 13th inning, were just three outs away from celebrating. But after an error allowed Junior Caminero to reach base to start the frame, the Rays finally smelled some life. Lia...
Tampa Bay Rays stun Milwaukee Brewers with late Game 4 win, keeping World Series hopes alive
The Tampa Bay Rays have kept their World Series dreams alive by eking out a late-game, 4-3 win in extra innings over the Milwaukee Brewers in Game 4.
Sources: Fujifilm plans to increase magnetic tape production capacity fivefold to meet AI-driven storage demand, its biggest production expansion in ~20 years (Nikkei Asia)
Nikkei Asia: Sources: Fujifilm plans to increase magnetic tape production capacity fivefold to meet AI-driven storage demand, its biggest production expansion in ~20 years TOKYO Fujifilm will rais
Anthropic's S-1 implies a $40T+ annual TAM based on the economic value of knowledge work in 2025, topping SpaceX's $28.5T estimate, without explicitly naming it (Wall Street Journal)
Wall Street Journal: Anthropic's S-1 implies a $40T+ annual TAM based on the economic value of knowledge work in 2025, topping SpaceX's $28.5T estimate, without explicitly naming it The company's es
Sources: HP, Asus, and Acer are shifting some PC production from Thailand and Vietnam back to China amid rising component costs; Dell is mulling a similar move (Nikkei Asia)
Nikkei Asia: Sources: HP, Asus, and Acer are shifting some PC production from Thailand and Vietnam back to China amid rising component costs; Dell is mulling a similar move TAIPEI Leading PC maker
US military kills five in eastern Pacific strike on suspected drug-trafficking vessel
The U.S. military on Tuesday carried out a lethal strike on a vessel in the eastern Pacific that it said was involved in drug trafficking, killing five people it identified as "narco-terrorists," according to U.S. Southern Command (SOUTHCOM)."On October 27, under the direction of SOUTHCOM, Joint Task Force Western Hemisphere executed a lethal, kinetic strike on a go-fast vessel operating along established narco-trafficking routes in the Eastern Pacific," SOUTHCOM said in a statement."Confirmed i...
Anthropic Manager Drops the Coding Interview for His Team
An Anthropic engineering manager says Claude made the coding interview useless for his team and now screens for prototypes. Anthropic's own data shows junior technical hires fell from 27% to 9%.
UT-HMR: Uncertainty-Guided Temporal Modeling for Robust 3D Human Mesh Recovery
arXiv:2610.36203v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Monocular 3D human mesh recovery (HMR) remains unreliable under weak observations caused by long camera-to-person distances, occlusion, and motion blur.
Learning to Read Braille: Benchmarking and Improving Braille Recognition Capabilities of VLMs
arXiv:2610.36195v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Despite rapid progress in visual understanding and document transcription, modern vision-language models (VLMs) struggle with a fundamental accessibilit
Beyond the Estimate: Wiener-Informed Decoding for Easier Training of Pixel-Space Flow Models
arXiv:2610.36192v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Learning velocity fields directly in pixel space is difficult and slow. We show that coarse second-order image statistics can ease this task: frozen Wie
Physiognomy Revisited: How Vision-Language Models Encode Sensitive Attributes Through Image Transformation
arXiv:2610.35910v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Emergent generative AI technologies, while remarkably beneficial across several tasks and domains, can suffer from unforeseen vulnerabilities and diffic
Detect Before You Disambiguate: Perturbation-Based Input Ambiguity Detection in LLMs
arXiv:2610.36353v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Large language models (LLMs) often answer ambiguous inputs as if they had a single intended meaning. This is problematic because input ambiguity is an u
LLM Hallucination Detection via Low-rank Multilinear Decomposition
arXiv:2610.36191v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Large language models (LLMs) frequently generate fluent yet factually incorrect responses, raising concerns about their reliability. Recent hallucinatio
Lipi-Ghor: A Large-Scale, Diarized, Multi-Domain Bengali Speech Corpus and a Scalable Pipeline for Building It
arXiv:2610.36184v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Bengali, spoken by over 230 million people, remains severely under-resourced in spoken language research. Existing open Bengali ASR corpora are confined
3, 7, 14, 17, 42: Instruction Tuning Installs and Sharpens Number-Choice Heuristics in Language Models
arXiv:2610.36178v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: We measure, without sampling error, the probability a language model assigns to each integer from 1 to N when asked for a random number. For a fixed pro
FinLLM-KG: Knowledge Graph-Enhanced LLMs for Financial Sentiment Analysis in Algorithmic Trading
arXiv:2610.36083v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Recent advances in Generative AI have substantially improved financial sentiment analysis through post-trained financial large language models (LLMs). H
OmniBrain-0: A Unified Agentic Model for Embodied Intelligence
arXiv:2610.36013v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: General-purpose embodied intelligence requires robots to coordinate diverse skills over long horizons, track task progress, and recover from failures. S
Condition-Enhanced Generative Adversarial Network for Aerodynamic Configuration Design of Commercial Aircraft
arXiv:2610.35963v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Generative machine learning provides an end-to-end framework for aerodynamic design optimization by generating diverse aerodynamic configurations condit
Distributed LLM Inference via Communication-Efficient Speculative Decoding
arXiv:2610.35957v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Distributed speculative decoding has emerged as a promising approach for device--server collaborative large language model (LLM) inference, but its deco
ResCom: Activation Residual Compensation for Large Language Model Quantization
arXiv:2610.35955v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Low-bit weight--activation quantization reduces the memory and computation needed to deploy large language models, but activation rounding can still deg
Calibrated for Which Policy? Conformal Uncertainty for Fixed World Models Under Intervention
arXiv:2610.35877v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Changing a deployment policy can invalidate a world model's uncertainty while leaving the physical transition mechanism and predictor unchanged. For one
KORA: Deterministic-First Execution Control for AI Workloads
arXiv:2610.35869v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: AI applications often invoke a model before they determine whether inference is necessary. That default is useful for ambiguous generative tasks, but it
MARQ: A Modular, LLM-Agnostic Requirement Quality Assessor Infused with Systems Engineering Knowledge
arXiv:2610.36234v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Requirements engineering (RE) is foundational to systems engineering (SE), as requirement defects can propagate downstream and adversely affect developm
From Structural Feedback to Prompt Policies: Learning Faithful Text-to-Image Prompt Editors
arXiv:2610.36146v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Prompt optimization should improve the image a user receives without changing the scene the user requested. Yet stylistic rewriting can weaken object at
Counting the Bandages: On measuring the time that AI saves
arXiv:2610.35942v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: I consider what it means for AI assistance to save time. I contrast a stopwatch view, on which time saved is whatever the clock records, with a ledger v
Florida girlfriend allegedly tracks cheating boyfriend, shoots woman in his car: reports
An enraged Florida woman was arrested and charged with murder over the weekend after allegedly tracking down her boyfriend during a late-night meetup with another woman and opening fire on a vehicle.Katherine Dale Kelly, 24, of Cocoa, told investigators she was trying to "make a point" after believing her boyfriend, Elijah Baker, was cheating on her again, according to a police report obtained by the Space Coast Daily.She was charged with attempted first-degree murder, aggravated battery with a ...
iOS 27.2 brings two new features to Apple's CarPlay
iOS 27.2 comes with some changes for Apple CarPlay, too.
Greenhouse Gas Levels Set Records In 2025, UN Says
An anonymous reader quotes a report from CBS News: Greenhouse gas concentrations in the atmosphere rose to record highs in 2025, locking in climate impacts that will persist for centuries, the United Nations said on Tuesday. Levels of the three main greenhouse gases -- the climate-warming carbon dioxide, methane and nitrous oxide -- all rose to unprecedented figures in 2025, the U.N.'s weather and climate agency said. The World Meteorological Organization said the rise would lead to more long-te...
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Alastair Crooke: The Iran War and The 'Terrible Power Of The Purse'
Alastair Crooke: The Iran War and The 'Terrible Power Of The Purse' Authored by Alastair CrookeThe “Grand Design” to “maintain [western civilization’s] place at the head of the world” (as U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio put it) requires the tools for ensuring compliance are two-fold: The creating of destructive revolutionary fervor from below (now termed “regime change”); and secondly, the use of what Theodore Herzl in a now famous phrase termed “the terrible power of the purse ...
Halima Salman convicted of receiving ISIS military training in Syria, faces 10 years in prison
A federal jury on Tuesday convicted Halima Salman of knowingly receiving military-style training from ISIS while living in Syria, bringing an emotional end to a closely watched terrorism trial.The case was believed to mark the first time a woman accused of joining ISIS stood trial in a U.S. federal court.Salman, also known as "Umm Khattab al-Muhajir," is a 27-year-old U.S. citizen and former Brooklyn resident who faces up to 10 years in prison. She is scheduled to be sentenced Feb. 2.According t...
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Israel’s election: When will we know the next Prime Minister?
Exit polls suggest neither major bloc can easily form a government alone.
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NASA Systems Engineering Team Details HWO Mission Architecture
Finding an Earth-like world beyond the solar system is the Holy Grail of exoplanet research, and the field has experienced incredible technological advancements in searching for and identifying exoplanets since the first exoplanet was discovered in 1995. This includes both ground- and space-based telescopes, specifically the powerful James Webb Space Telescope. However, directly imaging exoplanets remains elusive, primarily due to the enormous technological challenge of imaging a point of light ...
Sources: chipmaker Onsemi is in talks to acquire 16-year-old chip startup Ferric for ~$1B; PitchBook: Ferric last raised a $32.1M Series C in December 2024
Valida Pau / The Information: Sources: chipmaker Onsemi is in talks to acquire 16-year-old chip startup Ferric for ~$1B; PitchBook: Ferric last raised a $32.1M Series C in December 2024 Semiconducto
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Startup Unveils "Big Iron" Rocket Whose Upper Stage Is An Orbital Data Center
Startup Unveils "Big Iron" Rocket Whose Upper Stage Is An Orbital Data Center Cowboy Space Corporation, the former Aetherflux founded by Robinhood co-founder Baiju Bhatt, on Monday unveiled "Big Iron," a rocket whose upper stage is designed to stay in orbit as a megawatt-class data center, rather than be discarded or release a separate satellite, according to the company. Render of Big Iron in orbit. Image: Cowboy Space via Payload The rocket stands 86 meters (about 282 feet) tall...
Deion Sanders says alleged $50,000 offer to silence critics was 'a joke' amid Colorado's struggles
Colorado head coach Deion Sanders is addressing comments made by one of his longtime associates.Christopher Neely, a YouTube content creator who goes by "Uncle Neely," recently suggested that Coach Prime was willing to pay up to $50,000 to silence his vocal critics. "That was a joke," Sanders told reporters Tuesday."For the most part, the people that attack him wouldn't be making the money they were making if he wasn't here to attack," Neely said in a video from an online roundtable program. "Wh...
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Why Can't Farmers Butcher Their Own Animals? A New Bill Could Change That
Why Can't Farmers Butcher Their Own Animals? A New Bill Could Change That Authored by Mollie Engelhart via The Epoch Times,This past weekend, I was sitting at the Weston A. Price Foundation's Wise Traditions Conference when Rep. Thomas Massie (R-Ky.) took the stage. Before he could say a word, the audience rose to its feet in a standing ovation.During his speech, he mentioned legislation he had introduced that would allow small American farmers to slaughter and process their own liv...
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Top Women's Podcast Promotes Divorce Because "There's Always Something Better"
Top Women's Podcast Promotes Divorce Because "There's Always Something Better" If you want to know why 60% of men in the US (35-years-old or younger) have never been married and say they don't plan on getting married, study the behavior of modern women and you will find your answers in abundance. In other words, women are the problem. Around 43% of first-time marriages in the US end in divorce. But that's just the beginning - 67% of second marriages end in divorce and 75% of thir...
Halifax's 'Pied Piper' inducted into Ukulele Hall of Fame| The Moment
Canadian music educator and musician J. Chalmers Doane and his daughter Melanie Doane tell the National about the moment friends and fellow musicians gathered in Halifax to celebrate his induction into Hawaii's Ukulele Hall of Fame.
Kylian Mbappé's embarrassing, groveling apology to China comes down to money: Dan Dakich
It hasn't been the best few months for Kylian Mbappé.The French superstar striker entered the 2026 World Cup with his team as clear favorites to win the tournament, only to come up well short, losing 2-0 to Spain in the semifinals. Then, on Monday night, he lost the Ballon d'Or, the award given out to the best player in international soccer, to Harry Kane.Though Mbappé was brilliant in the "El Classico" against Barcelona, scoring a brace in the rivalry match, through the first 10 matches of the ...
Valkyries stars tells fans to ‘call in sick’ for Game 6 as early WNBA Finals tipoff sparks fan reaction
Game 6 of the WNBA Finals between the Atlanta Dream and Golden State Valkyries has been moved up to 12:30 p.m. ET on Thursday to give State Farm Arena enough time to get the building ready for an NBA game that evening.The early tipoff could create a challenge for fans in California, where the game will begin at 9:30 a.m. PT. The Valkyries defeated the Dream in Monday’s Game 5 in San Francisco to take a 3-2 lead in the best-of-seven series, meaning Game 6 could determine the WNBA champion.While c...
AMD says it will invest $1B in Meta's equity offering, its first Helios rackscale systems are installed at Meta, and its EPYC CPUs power Meta's Muse AI agent
Kai Nicol-Schwarz / CNBC: AMD says it will invest $1B in Meta's equity offering, its first Helios rackscale systems are installed at Meta, and its EPYC CPUs power Meta's Muse AI agent Nvidia and Adv
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First US Submarine Revealed For Deployment To Australia Under AUKUS
First US Submarine Revealed For Deployment To Australia Under AUKUS Authored by Jerry Zhu via The Epoch Times,The United States has named the first nuclear-powered submarine to be deployed to Western Australia under the AUKUS defense agreement, marking a significant milestone in Australia's plan to operate its own nuclear-powered submarine fleet. The Virginia-class fast attack submarine USS Colorado (SSN 788) is seen before at the commissioning ceremony at Naval Submarine Base New ...
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Judge Who Used Racist Slur Forced Off Bench by New York’s Highest Court
Walter Jones, a longtime Canandaigua town justice, repeatedly used a slur aimed at Black people while telling a story set on his grandfather’s cotton farm.
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Amid rash of unusually high DWP bills, board suspends shutoffs for nonpayment
L.A. officials moved to temporarily suspend water and electricity shutoffs due to nonpayment. But the charges are not forgiven and still must be paid.
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Unveiling Starbirth Mysteries
In 1985, the physicist Heinz R. Pagels wrote, "Stars are like animals in the wild. We may see the youung, but never the actual birth, which is a veiled and secret event." In the decades since then, astronomers have drawn closer and closer to figuring out what actually goes in the veiled stellar nurseries throughout the Universe. The tale of starbirth we know today invokes collapse of clouds of gas and dust into prestellar cores, but it still has many unknowns, such as the role of magnetic fields...
Taylor Swift’s hitmaker scolds Ed Sheeran, ‘stand the f--- up’ after Macklemore fallout
Grammy-winning producer Jack Antonoff said Ed Sheeran missed a "massive" opportunity to "stand the f--- up" to billionaire interests, criticizing the English singer for removing Macklemore from his tour over the rapper’s remarks on Israel-Palestinian conflict.Antonoff, lead singer for the band Bleachers and producer behind some of Taylor Swift’s biggest hits, made the scathing rebuke in a recent interview with The Guardian, more than a month after Sheeran faced backlash over Macklemore’s removal...
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"US Gov't Must Fall": Analyst Says She Infiltrated Teachers Union Members' Call Urging Violent Revolution
"US Gov't Must Fall": Analyst Says She Infiltrated Teachers Union Members' Call Urging Violent Revolution Karlyn Borysenko, a self-described anti-communist analyst who monitors the far left, published an alarming video highlighting what she characterizes as calls for a violent communist revolution to topple America from within. Among those featured is a man identified as a Chicago Public Schools employee advocating revolutionary politics.The footage raises serious questions about th...
VCs will make billions on Anthropic's IPO, but Amazon is set to make much (much) more
Massive note conversions reveal the true extent of Amazon's ownership in Anthropic.
VCs will make billions on Anthropic’s IPO, but Amazon is set to make much (much) more
Massive note conversions reveal the true extent of Amazon's ownership in Anthropic.
Macklemore called 'out of touch' over speech at Free Palestine Tour kickoff
Macklemore took his political message to a new stage.The rapper doubled down on his pro-Palestinian activism during the launch of his Free Palestine Tour, weeks after his controversial remarks prompted his removal from Ed Sheeran's lineup."I am proud to stand here on stage in solidarity with the Palestinian people. We will continue to fight for collective liberation until our last breath," Macklemore told the crowd during his concert in Dublin, according to Reuters."Six weeks ago, two words is...
Micah Parsons moves closer to highly-anticipated return as coach Matt LaFleur gives encouraging update
The Green Bay Packers may be getting a massive boost soon.Micah Parsons tore his ACL last December, delivering a crushing blow to the Packers' playoff hopes last season and dampening their pass rush this season, as he has begun the year on the reserve/physically unable to perform (PUP) list. Head coach Matt LaFleur indicated the star pass rusher could return to practice as early as next week."I'm saying there's a chance," LaFleur said when asked whether Parsons could begin practicing next week.C...
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Dog rescue favored by celebrities is an 'illegal commercial enterprise,' L.A. claims
The Los Angeles city attorney's office is suing an animal rescue organization that was once a favorite among Hollywood celebrities, alleging that its owner purchased dogs from puppy mills and portrayed them to adopters as animals that were rescued.
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Netanyahu, Eisenkot Deadlocked As Both Fall Short Of Majority; Bibi Bloc Taking Edge
Netanyahu, Eisenkot Deadlocked As Both Fall Short Of Majority; Bibi Bloc Taking Edge SummaryNo Clear Victor: Likud leads with neither side near the 61-seat majority needed to govern.Record Voter Turnout: Participation hit 66.7% by 6 p.m., fueled partly by strong Arab-Israeli turnout that could hurt Netanyahu.Likud sought extended voting hours, was rejected: Netanyahu signaled election fraud before final results were available.Arab Parties Hold Some Key Leverage: Projected to win 17–...
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Judge finds L.A.'s top federal prosecutor is unlawfully serving, bars him from two cases
The judge barred Bill Essayli from overseeing two prosecutions but delayed the order's effect, leaving his leadership of the L.A. office under a legal cloud.
Timberwolves lose Anthony Edwards for 2 months after arthroscopic procedure on right knee: report
The Minnesota Timberwolves took a big injury hit on Tuesday, as All-Star guard Anthony Edwards will undergo an arthroscopic procedure to repair his right knee.As a result, he will need to be sidelined two months, according to ESPN.Edwards was deemed questionable for the Timberwolves’ Monday night contest against the Cleveland Cavaliers, which was the second half of a back-to-back.CLICK HERE FOR MORE OUTKICK SPORTS COVERAGEHowever, he played a full 41 minutes, dropping 47 points, though Minnesota...
Toronto-based fintech Wealthsimple raised up to CA$425M led by GIC at a post-money valuation of CA$13.8B, up from CA$10B in 2025 (Reuters)
Reuters: Toronto-based fintech Wealthsimple raised up to CA$425M led by GIC at a post-money valuation of CA$13.8B, up from CA$10B in 2025 Oct 27 (Reuters) - Canadian financial services company Wealt
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LAPD officer arrested after dragging romantic partner into street at gunpoint, sources say
The officer, Anthony Gutierrez, was off duty when he was taken into custody by officers from the LAPD's Mission Division late Monday and booked on suspicion of kidnapping and assault with a firearm.
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LAPD officer arrested after dragging romantic partner into street at gunpoint
The officer, Anthony Gutierrez, was off-duty when he was taken into custody by officers from the LAPD's Mission Division late Monday and booked on suspicion of kidnapping and assault with a firearm.
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When Money Becomes Everything
When Money Becomes Everything Authored by George Ford Smith via Mises Institute,In the 1964 film The Pawnbroker, Rod Steiger plays Sol Nazerman, a Holocaust survivor who operates a pawnshop in Harlem. In one memorable scene, his young assistant asks him what he believes in. "Money," he answers. Money has extraordinary powers. It can buy comfort, luxury, relief from pain, sometimes even life itself. Then he adds, his anger driving him:Now you listen to me and listen very carefully. N...
Federal officials identify 400 noncitizens registered to vote in Washington state: 'Tip of the iceberg'
The Department of Justice (DOJ) announced Monday that investigators have identified more than 400 noncitizens illegally registered to vote in Washington state, some of whom have cast ballots in multiple elections dating back decades.Many on the list are green card holders with legal immigration status and permanent residency, according to the U.S. attorney’s offices for the Eastern and Western districts of Washington."We have identified over 400 noncitizens who are registered to vote and have vo...
Cassidy Hutchinson avoids indictment after DOJ effort to charge her over Jan 6 testimony fails: sources
A federal grand jury in Washington, D.C., declined to indict former Trump White House aide Cassidy Hutchinson after the Justice Department sought criminal charges over statements she made to Congress in 2022, two sources confirmed to Fox News Digital.The Justice Department had sought to indict Hutchinson over allegations she lied to the House committee investigating the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol riot, but the effort failed Tuesday, according to the sources.It remains unclear whether federal prosecut...
Man accused of threatening to hijack United flight says it was a drunken joke
A New Jersey man accused of sending a text threatening to hijack a United Airlines flight over the weekend told investigators he had been drinking and described the message as poorly worded banter with a coworker, according to an arrest report.Dante Milne, 25, allegedly sent the threatening message Saturday while aboard United Airlines Flight 1681, a Boeing 737 carrying 150 passengers and six crew members from Las Vegas to Newark, New Jersey."I’m gonna hijack this b---- and crash ur row only," M...
Touchscreen MacBook Pro to Reportedly Start at $2,899 for 14-Inch, $3,399 for 16-Inch
Anonymous sources tell Bloomberg Apple has “discussed” some wild prices.
Dream vs Valkyries Game 6 bumped from prime time to Thursday afternoon but WNBA stays silent on why
The WNBA moved a potential championship-clinching game from Primetime to Thursday afternoon. It has yet to answer OutKick’s questions about why it chose a weekday afternoon over other options.Game 6 between the Atlanta Dream and Golden State Valkyries will tip off at 12:30 p.m. ET Thursday at State Farm Arena, rather than its originally scheduled 8 p.m. start. For Golden State fans watching back home, that’s 9:30 a.m. PT.WNBA'S BIZARRE NATIONAL ANTHEM CONTROVERSY SHOWS JUST HOW MUCH THE LEAGUE N...
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Brewers fans flock to the Trop, eager to celebrate the franchise's first World Series title
A large group of Brewers fans gathered in a parking lot outside Tropicana Field more than four hours before the first pitch of Game 4 of the World Series, sipping on Wisconsin beers and preparing for a potentially historic night ...
Stephen A Smith makes 'uncomfortable' NFL Comeback Player case for Browns QB Deshaun Watson
The Cleveland Browns enter Week 8 with a 5-2 record, and Sunday’s matchup against division opponent Pittsburgh Steelers could determine which team sits atop the AFC North standings next week.At least part of the Browns’ unexpected turnaround this season has been attributed to Deshaun Watson’s return to form. But Cleveland’s decision to name Watson its starting quarterback before the regular season drew some criticism.The quarterback’s path to Cleveland included his turbulent departure from Houst...
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Dozens Of Immigrants Charged With Illegal Voting, Fraudulent Voter Registration
Dozens Of Immigrants Charged With Illegal Voting, Fraudulent Voter Registration Authored by Zachary Stieber via The Epoch Times,Forty-eight immigrants have been charged with voting in a federal election or other election-related crimes, the Department of Justice announced on Oct. 26. A stack of voter registration forms is shown on July 31, 2020. Bryan R. Smith/AFP via Getty Images All but a few of the immigrants are accused of voting in federal elections, violating 18 U.S. Code, S...
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Disinformation videos, likely from Russia, are exploiting real people to malign Senate candidates
Social media videos believed to be produced with artificial intelligence and linked to Russia are misusing real people’s names and photographs to spread disinformation about two Democratic Senate candidates in the final stretch of midterm voting.
Sydney Sweeney recreates iconic 'Home Alone' scene for new lingerie campaign
Sydney Sweeney is getting into the Christmas spirit with a little help from Kevin McCallister.The "Euphoria" star recreated several memorable moments from the 1990 holiday classic "Home Alone" in a playful new advertisement for her lingerie and loungewear brand, SYRN.In the beginning of the video, Sweeney stood in front of a bathroom mirror wearing a plunging navy blue top beneath a cropped cardigan, with her blonde hair styled in loose waves.SYDNEY SWEENEY WOWS IN LINGERIE LOOK AS SHE KEEPS SCO...
Alabama dismisses defensive back Dre Kirkpatrick Jr from team after being arrested for second time
Alabama defensive back Dre Kirkpatrick Jr. has been dismissed from the team after being arrested for the second time in a year, coach Kalen DeBoer said Tuesday.Kirkpatrick was arrested Friday on charges related to allegedly harassing and doxxing the University of Alabama police officer who arrested him in 2025. According to police documents obtained by The Athletic, Kirkpatrick allegedly sent the officer a harassing message and posted a photo of the officer, his wife and their two children on Fa...
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Judge in L.A. weighs feds' request to block 20,000 California votes with skepticism
Judge David O. Carter seemed skeptical of a Trump administration request to immediately block California officials from counting about 20,000 ballots from voters whose citizenship the administration questions, but said he would not rule until Wednesday.
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As filming lags, L.A. City Council offers $1 a day parking fees and free permits for micro-shoots
As local productions continue to decline, L.A. City Council is taking modest action. The council passed two measures Tuesday to encourage more filming activity.
EA shuts down legendary game studio BioWare after recent high-profile disappointments, controversies
Electronic Arts shut down BioWare, the longtime video game studio behind the "Mass Effect" and "Dragon Age" franchises, after years of disappointing releases and controversy over its games' identity-politics themes.BioWare, founded in 1995, has closed after 31 years. Bloomberg reported that the studio "has struggled in recent years with critically panned titles such as ‘Mass Effect: Andromeda’ and ‘Anthem,’" and that the "studio’s most recent game, ‘Dragon Age: The Veilguard,’ missed sales expec...
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How Trump’s ‘little detour’ to Iran became a roadblock in the midterm elections
Noor Dubow says he regularly votes for Republican candidates he believes align with his economic views even though he's never been a fan of Donald Trump, finding himself repelled by some of the president's dehumanizing rhetoric toward immigrants.
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You can probably still read on it, and, with some finessing, you can turn it into a useful display.
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"Never-Ending" Cruise Hits Dead End: Passengers Stranded In Cambodia As Fuel Bill Sinks Voyage
"Never-Ending" Cruise Hits Dead End: Passengers Stranded In Cambodia As Fuel Bill Sinks Voyage Villa Vie Residences suspended operations of its 650-passenger residential cruise ship on Tuesday, citing "extraordinary" fuel costs that have placed its business model under unsustainable financial pressure.The Florida-based operator is evaluating restructuring and recapitalization options as it coordinates the disembarkation of passengers from its Odyssey ship, moored off Cambodia.Fuel c...
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Online vigilantes say they trapped LAPD officer in predator sting
L.A. Police Officer Leonardo Arturo Ruiz, 31, was arrested by Monrovia police last week following an amateur sting by a group recording the encounter to post online.
Mamdani under fire over NYC schools as critics say mayor is devoid of education agenda despite $38B budget
Ten months into New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s term, education advocates tell Fox News Digital that the democratic socialist mayor is falling short of delivering on the education promises he made during his campaign."It's not good enough to be the TikTok mayor for 900,000 New York City public school students and their families," said David Bloomfield, former general counsel for the New York City Board of Education."We need movement, not just words."Mamdani, who campaigned on a progressive ...
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Mamdani Seeks to Replace Head of Commission on Racial Equity
Linda Tigani, chairwoman of the commission, has been critical of the Mamdani administration’s handling of a racial equity report. She responded to the mayor’s plan to remove her with fiery comments.
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FBI advised ESPN star Pat McAfee to wear a bulletproof vest after Charlie Kirk’s assassination
The FBI advised ESPN commentator Pat McAfee to begin wearing a bulletproof vest the week after the assassination of Charlie Kirk last year, a source familiar with the situation told OutKick.McAfee alluded to Kirk earlier this week while explaining why he did not feel safe filming "College GameDay" on the Utah Valley University campus."And then I thought to myself, has anything like really scary happened at like a college gathering in the state of Utah recently?" McAfee said Monday during his sho...
Rep Tom Tiffany claims Kamala Harris' visit signals weakness in David Crowley’s Wisconsin campaign
Former Vice President Kamala Harris’ recent trip to Wisconsin to stump for Democratic gubernatorial candidate David Crowley shows his campaign is struggling to rally voters, according to his Republican opponent, Rep. Tom Tiffany.Harris arrived in the key battleground state Monday to campaign alongside Crowley in Milwaukee just eight days before Election Day."For the last year and a half, I know many of us have been going through a whole lot of emotion: anger, sadness, disappointment, destruction...
Trump Triples Down on ‘Super Intelligence’
Just when you, a tech CEO, thought it was safe to say “AI” again…
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WHO Kills MAHA-Backed Hepatitis B Baby Vaccine Trial
WHO Kills MAHA-Backed Hepatitis B Baby Vaccine Trial Authored by Benjamin Bartee via Armageddon Prose,Since September of last year, a team of Danish researchers, backed by $1.6 million in funding from RFK Jr.'s CDC, had planned a large-scale hepatitis B vaccine trial in the sub-Saharan African nation of Guinea-Bissau.Per the study design, the control group of 7,000 infants would skip the at-birth hepatitis B vaccine dose and receive it later on at six weeks, whereas the experimental...
Tiger Woods and Vanessa Trump's relationship 'stronger than ever' with marriage talks on the table: report
Marriage might be on the table for Tiger Woods and Vanessa Trump.A source told Page Six that their relationship is "stronger than ever" after dealing with serious personal situations this year on both ends.Woods was arrested on charges of DUI back in March after flipping his Land Rover on Jupiter Island, Florida, where he was found with two hydrocodone pills on his person during a search at the scene. He ended up going to Switzerland to enter a rehab facility and has since been hoping to get bac...
Anthropic expands its US GSA partnership to give federal, state, local, tribal, and territorial governments a 40% discount on Claude, estimated to save $1B (Anthropic)
Anthropic: Anthropic expands its US GSA partnership to give federal, state, local, tribal, and territorial governments a 40% discount on Claude, estimated to save $1B We are expanding our partnershi
Parents sue OpenAI, alleging GPT-4o coached their daughter off seizure medication
A family is suing OpenAI, saying ChatGPT coached their daughter to quietly taper off her seizure medication and keep it from her doctors before she died in February.
Oracle brings Google’s TPUs to its cloud, adds ChatGPT integrations
Oracle Corp. today announced plans to make Google LLC’s TPU artificial intelligence accelerators available through its public cloud. The initiative marks the first time the search giant is supplying t
This one missing feature from the Slate truck might be a dealbreaker for truck enthusiasts
The Slate Truck is known for offering hundreds of customization options, but one common truck option isn't available (yet.)
Travelers may face major disruptions as strikes threaten airports and popular attractions
Travelers heading to Italy and Spain could face major transportation disruptions this week as workers prepare to strike.Rail passengers in Spain could see delays and cancellations beginning Thursday, Oct. 29, while a nationwide strike in Italy on Friday could affect trains, flights and other forms of transportation, according to reports.In Spain, train drivers represented by the SEMAF union are planning a 24-hour strike Thursday that will affect Renfe, Spain's national passenger rail company, ac...
Jennifer Thoss named Lytton's mayor after random draw breaks election tie
The mayoral election in Lytton, B.C., was decided by a random draw on Tuesday.
Infisical, which helps companies use AI agents without handing over their private credentials, raised a $40M Series B led by Elad Gil at a $600M valuation
Rashi Shrivastava / Forbes: Infisical, which helps companies use AI agents without handing over their private credentials, raised a $40M Series B led by Elad Gil at a $600M valuation Infisical is he
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Japan Indicts U.S. Marine For Robbery And Murder Of Okinawa Woman, As U.S. Imposes Month-Long Curfew
Japan Indicts U.S. Marine For Robbery And Murder Of Okinawa Woman, As U.S. Imposes Month-Long Curfew Japanese prosecutors have indicted a U.S. Marine on robbery and murder charges over the death of a woman in a hotel in Okinawa, according to NBC News, citing Japanese media. Lance Cpl. Devin Jacob Ballard, 20, is accused of killing Anna Yagi, 39, at a hotel in Naha, the prefectural capital, and stealing her backpack. Ballard, stationed at Marine Corps Air Station Futenma, denies the ...
