USA Update

Former NFL star Antonio Brown hit the campaign trail for former President Trump Saturday in PIttsburgh. Brown spent the majority of his career in Pittsburgh as a star for the Steelers, before a controversial exit from the team. He returned to the city to a cheering crowd as he “looks to make a positive difference.” […]

Israeli forces pounded targets in the northern Gaza town of Jabaliya on Saturday, killing at least 33 people and injuring dozens of others in the bombardment, a Palestinian emergency services group said. Israel has surrounded Jabaliya for a week as it seeks to root out Hamas fighters who it says have reorganized in the area. […]

Officials in  said Saturday that work was continuing to restore power across the island after two nationwide blackouts in 24 hours. About half of Cuba was on Thursday evening, followed by a power cut affecting the entire island the following morning. The electricity supply failed again across the country at 6:15 a.m. local time (1015 GMT/UTC) on Saturday, according to state […]

Democrats and Republicans have turned to overseas voters as the potential deciding factor in what remains a tightly contested election. Latest polling averages have shown the gap between former President Donald Trump and Vice President Kamala Harris remains around 2½ to 3 points—within the margin of error and therefore too close for either side to […]

New York Comic Con’s panel for CBS‘ Ghosts revealed several surprises. Series star Rose McIver is set to make her TV directorial debut in an episode that will soon be shot and aired in 2025. Additionally, Sakina Jaffrey (Billions, The Mindy Project) and Bernard White (The Matrix, Silicon Valley) will guest star as Jay’s (Utkarsh Ambudkar) […]

The parents of a Massachusetts high school senior who used artificial intelligence (AI) for a social studies project have filed a lawsuit against his teachers and the school after their son received detention and a “D” grade. “He’s been accused of cheating, and it wasn’t cheating, there was no rule in the handbook against AI,” […]

Horror-comedy Late Night with the Devil (now streaming on Shudder, AMC+, and Hulu) had a strong opening for an IFC Films release, grossing $2.8 million in its opening weekend. Notably, it made $666,666 on that Sunday, prompting Variety to report “you can’t make this up,” although I’d assert that you very much CAN make that […]

The families of several Israeli hostages held in Gaza issued a sharply worded televised statement on Saturday in which they called on Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel to seize the moment after this week’s killing of the Hamas leader, Yahya Sinwar, to reach a hostage and cease-fire deal to bring home their loved ones. […]

A Telegram channel posted what it says are “highly classified” US intelligence documents analyzing Israel‘s plans to attack Iran. The channel for the “Middle East Spectator,” which describes itself as an “open-source news aggregator” independent of any government, said in a statement that it had “received, through an anonymous source on Telegram who refused to […]

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