Colin Moynihan

In Afghanistan, new Taliban tactic to humiliate journalists: forced “confessions” broadcast online After being arrested for producing “anti-Taliban propaganda”, Afghan News Agency journalist Mahdi Ansary was forced to make a confession that was broadcast on Facebook. Reporters Without Borders (RSF)...

#Afghanistan: Arrested for producing “anti-Taliban propaganda,” journalist Mahdi Ansary was forced to make a confession, which the Taliban broadcast online.
RSF condemns this humiliation tactic and demands the immediate release of Ansary & the 6 other journalists imprisoned by the regime.

On a election day in New Jersey, where a close gubernatorial race will be decided, bomb threats disrupt the process and lead to the closure of some polling places. www.nj.com/politics/202...

YouTube video by Grateful Dead Grateful Dead - St. Stephen (Winterland 12/31/78) (Official Live Video)

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The Times is not phrasing this as "activists clashing with ice." Neither is The New Yorker. The Times headline to the story about these events is "Immigration Agents Clash With Chicago-Area Residents on Halloween."

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/31/u...

The day the Assemblée Nationale passed a far-right bill On Thursday, October 30, MPs in the Assemblée Nationale passed, by just a single vote, a resolution put forward by the far-right Rassemblement National party, aimed at condemning a 1968 French-Algeria...

The "cordon sanitaire” that had long kept the far-right party marginalized was hanging by a thread. On Thursday, it finally broke. For the first time since 1958 & the first time in the Fifth Republic, the Assemblée Nationale passed a bill put forward by the far right.

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11/ “I’m sure you’re aware of our connections with the Trump Administration and I’m sure they would be interested in this matter,” the NC GOP comms director wrote. “I would strongly suggest dropping this story.”

He bolded and underlined "strongly," just in case we didn’t get the point.

SCOOP: Trump Swaps Decorated Admiral With 33-Year-Old DOGEr The highly unorthodox personnel change affects a critical government research role.

SCOOP: The decorated rear admiral who was heading the critically important Office of Naval Research, and who brought lengthy experience in Navy tech-leadership to the job, "is being replaced by a 33-year-old former DOGE employee with no apparent naval experience."

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DOJ places on leave 2 prosecutors who said 'mob of rioters' carried out Jan. 6 attack Two federal prosecutors have been told they will be put on leave after filing a brief that described the Jan. 6, 2021, attackers a "mob of rioters," sources say.

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Speaking in federal court, Masih Alinejad said of the men who conspired to kill her: "They couldn't break me but they brought fear into my life."

White House fires arts commission expected to review Trump construction projects The moves comes as President Donald Trump pursues efforts to build a White House ballroom and a triumphal arch in Washington.

Exclusive: The White House has fired all six members of the Commission of Fine Arts, an independent federal agency that was expected to review some of President Trump’s construction projects, including his planned triumphal arch in Washington.

Trump Re-Opens Alaska’s Arctic Coastal Plain to Oil Drilling The Trump administration is opening the entire coastal plain of Alaska’s Arctic National Wildlife Refuge to oil and gas leasing, reversing a Biden administration decision that put the pristine wilderness area off limits.

The Trump administration is opening Alaska’s entire Arctic National Wildlife Refuge to oil and gas leasing, reversing a Biden administration decision that put the pristine wilderness area off limits.

London police arrest three men on suspicion of spying for Russia Metropolitan Police reports ‘increasing number’ of people recruited by foreign intelligence services

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The National Trust for Historic Preservation warned that President Trump’s planned 90,000-square-foot ballroom would “overwhelm the White House itself,” which spans just 55,000 square feet. https://wapo.st/4hmL8rC

The franchise that has known only choppy seas for nearly 50 years capsized again.

After Jeffrey Epstein's death, Virginia Giuffre got in touch with his former employees, looking for someone to corroborate her story of abuse. Most refused. Then one of those former employees opened his door.

My Parents’ Marriage by Susan Cheever October 7, 2025 – “When my father was alive, I thought I understood the unhappiness my parents caused each other.”

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This week prosecutors said they'd need 90 days to decide whether to retry a man accused of killing Etan Patz in 1979 then a year to get to trial. A judge said they'd have to start a trial by June 1 or free the suspect, who's in custody.
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Salesforce chief executive Marc Benioff, wearing a black suit, speaks to an audience. A headline reads: "Salesforce Pitched ICE on Services to Recruit More Staff, Documents Show." Photo by Jessica Christian/San Francisco Chronicle, via Associated Press

Salesforce told ICE that its A.I. software could help the agency nearly triple its staff, according to internal documents, as President Trump expands immigration raids and deportations around the U.S. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/16/u...

Russia Accuses Antiwar Exiles of Terrorism An intelligence agency’s sweeping investigation shows that Moscow is closely following the anti-Kremlin activities of Russians abroad.

Russia’s main intelligence agency on Tuesday announced a sweeping terrorism investigation into nearly two dozen antiwar Russians, escalating the Kremlin’s onslaught against exiled critics of the invasion of Ukraine.

The group, Alliance Defending Freedom, has taken its playbook to Britain and has rapidly established itself as a power broker between the country’s rising populist movement and President Trump’s Washington.

U.S. Argues That Detained Protesters Can’t Seek Release in Federal Court

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‘Biometric Exit’ Quietly Expands Across U.S. Airports, Unnerving Some The program, in which federal officers take departing international passengers’ photos, is set to grow, raising privacy concerns.

A federal program called biometric exit, in which federal officers take departing international passengers’ photos, is set to grow, raising privacy concerns.

Where Mideast Envoy Pitched Peace, His Son Pitched Investors

NEW @nytimes.com investigation: Trump’s Mideast envoy Steve Witkoff was the target of a Qatari influence campaign in which Qatar would invest in Witkoff real estate projects in order to gain entree to Trump’s inner circle. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/26/b...

“I want some form of action to the employee that represents this business that wrote ‘Loser’ on my mother’s cup,” a man is said to have told a Starbucks employee, adding: "I want immediate accountability; and if not, I will have this whole intersection lined with patriots today."

Russian Fighter Jets Enter Airspace of Estonia, a NATO Member Estonia’s foreign minister described the flights, which lasted for an unusually long 12 minutes, as an “unprecedentedly brazen” intrusion.

Three Russian fighter jets violated Estonia’s airspace on Friday for an unusually long period, some 12 minutes, in what Estonia’s foreign minister called an “unprecedentedly brazen” intrusion over the NATO country.

AP Exclusive: Russia, Vietnam using energy profits to avoid possible US sanctions for arms deals Russia and Vietnam have developed a mechanism to conceal arms deal payments to avoid American and other Western sanctions, using profits from joint energy-sector ventures to pay for defense contracts,...

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Russia and Vietnam have developed a method of concealing payments for arms deals to avoid US sanctions. The countries have been using profits from joint oil and gas ventures as payment, avoiding transfers through the global banking system.

Opinion | What 9/11, Cancer and the Palisades Fire Taught Me (Gift Article) We’ll never know with certainty that carcinogens in the smoke, dust and ash from the World Trade Center caused my wife’s cancer and my own.

I’m grateful to editors @sternbergh.bsky.social, Vanessa Mobley, @dansaltzstein.bsky.social, and the design team at the Times, for publishing so beautifully my essay about catastrophe, luck, resilience, and hope. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

‘Radicalized’ Evergreen High School shooter appeared to hold antisemitic, violent views in online accounts Social media accounts that appear to be connected to shooter Desmond Holly are littered with references to mass shootings and antisemitic views, The Denver Post found.

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