Truce between Ukraine and Russia aimed at allowing humanitarian aid into the Russian-occupied city of Oleshky begins.
AFP was not able to immediately verify whether there had been a decrease in fighting. Neither Russia, Ukraine nor the US have said who would monitor the truce
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WATCH: A defense contractor CEO and his close associates donated nearly $900,000 to dozens of politicians and got over $40 million a year in government funding.
He told the FBI that Sen. Susan Collins was his most important patron.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jqyiFFB7Kjg
Americans have paid more for their gasoline and diesel at the pump on average during President Donald Trump's second term than they did under his Democratic predecessor, Joe Biden, according to the AAA reut.rs/4ipsW1P
In August, President Trump announced he had signed the “biggest oil deal in world history.”
ProPublica reviewed the deal and found it gives a small group of people largely handpicked by the Trump administration long-term control of the enterprise.
Czech President Petr Pavel says a ceasefire between Russia and Ukraine was “quite close” – until Donald Trump lifted sanctions on Russian diesel.
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A carefully planned Russian propaganda operation is underway. Having starved people in Oleshky for months, Russia, with the 'intervention' of Melania, will allow people to leave and pretend Ukraine was at fault. Read @zarinazabrisky.bsky.socialwww.kyivpost.com/analysis/88041
JUST POSTED: Today at The NYT we are publishing a major investigation into how President Trump used his executive powers to expose millions of Americans to greater cancer risks.
A six month-long investigation built on more than 10,000 pages of FOIA records. Read it
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JUST POSTED: A Russian energy giant has secretly moved to acquire a position in a massive Alaska gas project. Its part of talks between Witkoff/Kushner & Putin. But CEO of US company resigns after learning of Russian money in the project. A wowzer of a story.
www.nytimes.com/2026/10/23/u...
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WOMAN REPORTER: Do sexual abuse allegations mean nothing to you, sir?
TRUMP: Wait. Wait! Wait wait wait. Slow down. Who are you with?
REPORTER: NBC, sir. But they are very serious sex abuse allegations
TRUMP: Quiet! Isn't she a fresh person? You're a horrible little reporter, aren't you?
We found that as of right now 73% of your campaign donation goes back to the consultants and vendors (!!!), four times more than just 20 years ago. Only 13% to ads. Even I was shocked.
Susan Collins denied wrongdoing and claimed our reporting about an ex-CEO’s allegations against her took him at his word. That’s not true.
Listen to how we reviewed a trove of FBI evidence and legal records to independently corroborate key parts of his account:
I said that this was a Russian trope at the time in testimony to Congress and am glad to see this excellent documentation of Russia’s use of Vance’s vocal chords.
Leaks from Putin's office have revealed an extensive influence operation targeting JD Vance, which achieved everything it set out to achieve. Read all about how JD Vance and others fell for a lie about Volodymyr Zelensky concocted by agents of Russia's Presidential Administration. And how the Vice
Tonight: National Dems sued Trump and DOJ over what they say is an unlawful, coordinated effort to erode confidence in the upcoming midterms, including by demanding that states set aside ballots of suspected non-citizens
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Tech billionaires like Musk, Zuckerberg and disgraced Elizabeth Holmes aren't just super-villains at the multiplex
Silicon Valley is spending $500 million to buy the election, and, as that isn't working, resorting to crude censorship
Why it's totally backfiring www.inquirer.com/columnists/a...
Found more fraud.
The Herrera family hired Alina Habba. They offered her $10 million a year for four years, along with a range of bonuses. Including bonuses, she was guaranteed more than $50 million over four years.
Gift link. 👇
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Just incredible to me that we put arguably the dumbest, most corrupt person in the country in charge of the nuclear codes because he’s an open racist who hates women and that is somehow a winning electoral strategy in America. Absolutely incredible.
These courageous testimonies are very much worth knowing about, and also worth keeping in mind (as the author pointed out to me) as we consider what it means to take Russia’s side.
"Rape as a weapon of war: The voices of Ukrainians"
by Sara Cincurova
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We reviewed FBI documents that showed a sweeping pay-to-play investigation involving Sen. Susan Collins was in motion. Then Trump shut down the unit in charge.
Had we found a road map to corruption in Congress? We decided to dig deeper.
🤔 James Carville: “I’d rather Republicans keep the house by 5 than Dems win by 5… Because then they’re hostage to DSA, and Hakeem can’t move.”
😬Bill Kristol: “Good point.”
So afraid of DSA folks who want M4ALL, etc. they’d rather Republicans hold power. Unreal. True colors.
Jan is a chief CBS reporter. She tweeted this about Tommy, the Republican operative accusing Abdul El-Sayed of terrorism, then deleted it.
Zero questions about Tommy declaring he wants the Bible to supersede the Constitution.
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IRS refuses to publish report.
Ahead of the midterm elections, the Trump regime is withholding detailed information that illustrates how King Trump’s One Big Beautiful Bill Act hurt millions of Americans.
The data from the IRS was originally scheduled to be released in July & updated in September.
The US military fired roughly 19 years’ worth of Patriot interceptor purchases in just seven months of Trump’s Iran War, the Center for Strategic and International Studies estimates.
Jan is CBS’s legal correspondent. She gave the puff piece interview to Alito on his book. She’s criticized people who criticize the Court too much / in certain ways.
She’s a perfect case study in why some mainstream/legacy media press coverage of SCOTUS is broken, bad, and misleading.
SCOOP: 'Tommy' from the now-viral exchange with Abdul El-Sayed is Thomas Teepell, a former staffer for Republican Senator Josh Hawley with close ties to Christian Nationalist Sean Feucht. He's the son of a former Bobby Jindal staffer whose consultant work was instrumental in getting Hawley elected.
Ossoff: "It's the most corrupt administration of all time & everybody knows it. While the crook president & his crook family rake in billions from all over the world, you pay more for everything... they lied us into war & spent most of the last year covering up for the world's most famous pedophile"
Trump on El-Sayed: "His name is actually Abduladadalalalala. It's Adulbabababababa Mohammed Al-Sayed. So his middle name is Mohammed. So I was right. He's a jihadist."
Breaking News: President Trump signed an executive order to exempt Russia from new sanctions legislation that Congress passed last month. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/16/u...
Ken Paxton, the Texas attorney general, celebrated New Year’s Eve in 2024 with two fugitives wanted on federal fraud charges, according to a lawsuit and video from the party. One of the fugitives has donated tens of thousands of dollars to Paxton’s political campaigns.
Exclusive: A list reveals all the major donors to President Trump’s White House ballroom, including previously undisclosed contributors who have benefited from regulatory decisions, government contracts and, in one case, a pardon for a family member.
We've lost track of how very un-ordinary ICE's current reign of terror is. We’ve already gotten used to a level of fascism, authoritarianism, and corruption that would be unthinkable and shocking to us just a short time ago. www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/trump-s-ty...