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Government will take over your TV for a nationwide emergency broadcast on November 17 The federal government will run a nationwide emergency alert test on Tuesday, November 17, cutting into television and radio programming across the country at the same moment. The Federal Emergency Management Agency, better known as FEMA, is running the test with … Read more

A 9th Circuit panel ruled 2-1 on Friday that California does not have to pull ballots from about 20,000 people the Justice Department says may not be citizens. The majority said the list is unreliable and setting the ballots aside risks stopping eligible voters from counting. District Judge David Carter had already turned down the … Read more

OpenAI closed its latest private funding round today after bringing in less than half of its target $30 billion raise. The cash shortfall comes right as Wall Street launched a massive tech selloff on October 30, pulling the Nasdaq down 2.86% in its worst single-day drop since June. Investors are fleeing high-flying artificial intelligence bets … Read more

Social media and a Telegram group called GenZ in Opstand put out calls for young people to gather on the Malieveld at 2pm today and walk to the Binnenhof and the city center. No one registered a demonstration with the city. Mayor Jan van Zanen’s office says The Hague is “alert and prepared.” Police will … Read more

With Election Day days away, the president is openly promising to veto any legislation a Democratic Congress sends him — a threat that collides with must-pass funding bills and the debt limit. President Donald Trump says his veto pen could render a Democratic-controlled Congress ineffective before it even gets started. Speaking to reporters as he … Read more

Elon Musk posted today that Neuralink’s first product is called Telepathy. It enables high speed communication with computers or humans simply by thinking. Output bandwidth will vastly exceed the fastest human speech or typing in a few years. The post quoted Neuralink’s update from October 29 on a 72 hour hackathon with one of its … Read more

Skies over Kirandul and Dantewada in Chhattisgarh turned deep blood red in videos that went viral. Strong winds and unsettled weather hit the area as remnants of Cyclone Arnab moved inland. The storm made landfall on the Andhra Pradesh coast on October 28 with sustained winds around 130 kmph and gusts to 150 kmph before … Read more

She did the meme "If only we could pack the Supreme Court, eliminate the filibuster, abolish the Electoral College, and reshape the Senate we could win" pic.twitter.com/pHUa1bCg8c — Defiant L’s (@DefiantLs) October 30, 2026 Kamala Harris said it out loud on Keke Palmer’s podcast mid-October. She told the host Democrats should expand the Supreme Court … Read more

Jason Clinton, Anthropic’s deputy chief information security officer, recently posted an ominous warning on X after several serious cybersecurity vulnerabilities were made public. He wrote, “as bad as things have gotten in the past 4 days, they are going to get a lot worse before they get better. security leaders, never let a crisis go … Read more

Donating to President Donald Trump’s pet projects may have seemed like a savvy corporate investment 18 months ago. But today, companies are hiring lobbyists and crisis communications experts out of fear that their efforts to stay in the administration’s good graces may expose them to a hail of partisan crossfire if Democrats take over Congress. … Read more

Early voting is still ongoing in Washington, D.C.’s elections, but everyone already knows who the winner of the mayoral race is going to be. In June, Councilmember Janeese Lewis George won a commanding 54 percent of the vote in the Democratic primary. In one of the bluest cities in America, that all but assures she’ll … Read more

Silver dropping back down to 25-30? 🙂 pic.twitter.com/2DYdQl0VZ3 — M-Algo Systems (@M_AlgoSystems) October 30, 2026 Silver has lost its shine, with spot prices slipping below $50 an ounce for the first time since November 2025, as concerns over industrial demand and the prospect of tighter U.S. monetary policy add to pressure on the precious metal. … Read more