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Federal Reserve holds interest rates as Trump piles on pressure Fed voted to pause cuts to interest rate, which currently sits between 3.5% and 3.75%, after slashing it three times in fall

www.theguardian.com/business/202...

Nobel prize for a wife from OXford A HOUSEWIFE and mother of three yesterday won the 18,750 GBP Nobel chemistry prize -- for a lifetime devotion to science. --Daily Mirror, 30 Oct 1964

Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1964.

The headline and lede from The Daily Mirror:

REAKING: A federal judge in Minnesota has barred the Trump administration from arresting / detaining the state's 5,600 refugees while they await lawful permanent resident status. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Russian Scientists Build Plasma Engine That Could Reach Mars in 30 Days, Leaving Spacex's Starship Looking Obsolete Russia is quietly testing a new space engine that could change everything about how we reach Mars. Early results suggest a leap in speed and tech no one saw coming, and it’s not coming from NASA or Sp...

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Video shows ICE agents trying to force entry into Ecuador's consulate in Minneapolis Ecuador lodged a complaint after claiming that at least one U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agent tried to force his way into the country's diplomatically protected consulate in Minneapolis.According to Reuters, Ecuador's Foreign Ministry sent a "note of protest" to the U.S. Embassy, ...

Ecuador lodged a complaint after claiming that at least one U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agent tried to force his way into the country's diplomatically protected consulate in Minneapolis.

YouTube video by Bruce Springsteen Bruce Springsteen - Streets Of Minneapolis (Official Audio)

I wrote this song on Saturday, recorded it yesterday and released it to you today in response to the state terror being visited on the city of Minneapolis. It’s dedicated to the people of Minneapolis, our innocent immigrant neighbors and in memory of Alex Pretti and Renee Good.

Stay free

New discovery: A wooden structure, identified as river bank protection of the #Roman harbour, has been unearthed in Cologne.

www.stadt-koeln.de/politik-und-...

#RomanArchaeology #archaeology 🏺

People got fired for linking to Charlie Kirk's own speeches, what should happen to this infected anal cyst?

The First Minister has just made an urgent statement on this violation of our sovereignty.

I have rarely been so disappointed by every other party, the government included. It's like they all think Trump is watching and they are terrified of upsetting him. A total failure to stand up for Scotland.

Vote Reform, get ICE

It’s been 39 days since the Epstein files were supposed to be released.

Israeli settlers are now carrying out brutal attacks on the villages of Masafer Yatta in the West Bank, stealing hundreds of sheep, setting villages on fire, and assaulting residents.

People are pleading for help.🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬😢

Alex Pretti was notifying neighbors that Trump and Vance's agents were chasing a family. A mob of them then tackled him and broke his rib.
He thought he was going to die.

Then the very next week, he came back out to support his neighbors. And a mob of agents killed him.

Far-right Israeli agitator attends Herzog event hours after assaulting West Bank activists Before Visiting the President's Residence, Roi Star and Four Other Far-right Agitators Attacked Human Rights Activists in the West Bank With Pepper Spray, an Activist Who Was Present Told Haaretz. In ...

Israeli President Herzog’s hosting of violent far right agitator Roi Star should be grounds to rescind Herzog’s invitation to Australia under new hate laws
www.haaretz.com/israel-news/...

Tracing the wave of Neanderthal-modern interactions A rapid expansion of modern people ran into Neanderthals and mixed with them nearly to the ends of their range.

This is a deep dive into the details of how Neanderthal ancestry is patterned across ancient genomes of modern people. A wave of mixture starting in the Near East kept mixing as long as the expanding group kept meeting Neanderthals, from France to Central Asia.

www.johnhawks.net/p/tracing-th...

When the Ice Let Go: How Tiny Crystals Are Rewriting Stonehenge’s Origin Story A new geological study weakens the case for glacial transport and strengthens a quieter, more demanding explanation: Neolithic people moved Stonehenge’s stones themselves.

Stonehenge’s stones did not arrive on ice. New mineral evidence shows glaciers never reached Salisbury Plain, leaving human transport as the best explanation. Tiny crystals, big implications. #Stonehenge #Archaeology #Geoarchaeology www.anthropology.net/p/when-the-i...

Palantir Defends Work With ICE to Staff Following Killing of Alex Pretti “In my opinion ICE are the bad guys. I am not proud that the company I enjoy so much working for is part of this,” one worker wrote on Slack.

Palantir employees are pressing company leadership over its work for ICE in internal company Slacks obtained by @wired.com

"In my opinion ICE are the bad guys. I am not proud that the company I enjoy so much working for is part of this."

Scoop from @makenakelly.bsky.social

If you work for Palantir and have concerns about its role in US federal immigration enforcement, please reach out. You can remain anonymous.

Signal: makenakelly.32

Screenshot of an X post by MM (@adgirlMM, posted 1 day ago). The text says: “In case you missed it, this sycophant bootlicker is trying to extort Minnesota of their voter rolls, in exchange for calling off their armed ICE goons. It’s almost like stoking violence in Minnesota was part of their master plan to rig the 2026 election.” Below the text is a photo of a blonde woman in a dark blazer seated at a hearing table with a microphone, looking forward; the background is blurred.

Minnesota’s Secretary of State told Bondi to take a hike.

Ie Trump is trying to spike Starmer's visit to China.

#GVerse #NewYork #AlexPretti
NYC right now.

Alex Pretti’s face on a billboard in Times Square.

From “healthcare hero” to target of state violence.

They want this story buried.

The city just put it on a screen the whole world can’t ignore.

Conservative CCHQ condemned Suella Braverman for having "mental health problems". They now say it's ok as that was a draft issued in error.

They weren't that relaxed about it when Diane Abbott did something similar.

Donald Trump increases tariffs on South Korea to 25% US president accuses Seoul of ‘not living up to’ agreement struck with Washington last year

The lesson of the past two weeks, whether you’re the EU, South Korea or any other trading nation: you may THINK you have a “deal” with Donald Trump.

You don’t. 🤡

@financialtimes.com
www.ft.com/content/9982...

Absolutely agree.

Morale plummeting among ICE agents over long hours, quotas and public hatred: reports Morale plummeting among ICE agents over long hours, quotas and public hatred: reports

Morale plummeting among ICE agents over long hours, quotas and public hatred: reports

Sly Dunbar, reggae drummer and producer with Sly and Robbie, dies aged 73 Drummer helped to define the sound of roots reggae and dancehall, and worked with stars including the Rolling Stones, Bob Dylan and Grace Jones

Another legend has left the building

Bugger. Legend indeed.

You mean this big trade deal he and Lutnick announced with much hype and fanfare never even happened? I’m shocked.

Now, *this* is the cut of Melania's new vanity movie I'd watch.

(I'm kidding. I wouldn't watch anything about her.)

US long-term unemployment hits four-year high Many jobseekers spend months finding work, as cooling jobs market sparks worries that consumer spending will slow

US long-term #unemployment has hit a 4yr high, with Americans now taking longer than at any point since 2021 to land new jobs amid sluggish hiring. Latest BLS data shows average duration at 24.4 weeks in Dec 2025, up from 23.1 in Nov.