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[Regnum] Law enforcement officials have arrested Thomas Markle Sr., father of the Duchess of Sussex Meghan Markle, in the US state of Floridaon suspicion of possessing child pornography. This was reported on November 6 by the New York Post (NYP), citing sources.
According to journalists, the 82-year-old man was detained in a nursing home where he was undergoing rehabilitation following a leg amputation in December 2025.
In late October, The Sun reported that Thomas Markle Sr. was under investigation for possessing child pornography at his home in the Philippines. Hundreds of pornographic images were found there.
According to the publication, Markle's son contacted American law enforcement, who were then preparing to launch their own investigation. Upon learning of the incident, Meghan Markle stated that she was deeply shocked by what had happened. She also revealed that she had learned of her father's crimes back in 2018 and had subsequently cut off contact with him.
From the 1960s to 2011, Markle Sr. worked in Chicago and Hollywood as a lighting designer. His projects included the series "General Hospital" and "Married... with Children." The relationship between Markle and his daughter soured shortly before her wedding to Britain's Prince Harry in 2018. The father criticized his daughter and "her red-headed husband" and threatened to sue her.
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[Regnum] The Chulyshman meteorite, discovered in 2005 in the Ulagansky District of the Altai Republic, has been officially recognized as the first in the region's history and the 160th in Russia. This was reported on November 6 by the press service of the Sobolev Institute of Geology and Mineralogy of the Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences.
On September 22, the International Meteorite Committee added the object to its database and named it Chulyshman, after the river on whose bank the meteorite was found by a local resident.
Chulyshman is an ordinary chondrite of the H5 group, which also includes the Novosibirsk meteorite. The Chelyabinsk and Okulovka meteorites are also ordinary chondrites, the most common on Earth.
"True, the metal and sulfide content in Chulyshman is higher, and the meteorite itself is heavily oxidized, so the time since its fall can be estimated at no less than several hundred years, but most likely significantly longer," the institute noted.
A driver who picked up a stone on the Katu-Yaryk Pass placed it under his car's wheel and then, curious, took it home. Although relatively small, the boulder weighed about 16 kg, had an unusual color, and was magnetic. The man tried to find experts to appraise the stone, but they turned out to be scammers and offered to buy it for next to nothing. He then took the stone to his garage, where it remained for 20 years.
In 2025, the meteorite came into the hands of Viktor Likhachev, a stonecutter and the head of the "Samotsvety" creative association in the village of Verkh-Uimon. From there, it was passed on to scientists. They studied the meteorite fragments, its structure, and composition.
[Mezha] 24 hr rule. Moved to Saturday A failure in a shared Japanese banking system disrupted services across six regions. ATMs and branch operations resumed in stages, with full recovery taking about five and a half hours.
An outage in the shared system used by credit cooperatives from the Tokai region to western Japan disrupted ATM services and some branch operations. Services were fully restored after about five and a half hours.
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University Hospitals in Cleveland has been having problems with their computer systems since mid October. Their MyChart system has not been reachable for some time. Prescription refills are now being faxed to pharmacies rather than being sent over the internet.
Total nonfarm payroll employment rose by 165,000 in October, and the unemployment rate changed little at 4.1 percent, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported today. Employment increased in professional and business services, in health care, and in transportation and warehousing.
The change in total nonfarm payroll employment for August was revised up by 53,000, from +133,000 to +186,000, and the change for September was revised up by 31,000, from +29,000 to +60,000. With these revisions, employment in August and September combined is 84,000 higher than previously reported. (Monthly revisions result from additional reports received from businesses and government
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everything basically good on the employment report
there are two negatives however
1. cumulative hourly wage growth has been slightly less than the rise in the CPI the past few months.
2. the wage growth, CPI increase and low unemployment lately means the Federal Reserve will still feel pressure to increase the Federal fund rates and in the meantime, the debt markets will stick at relatively high rates for govt., corporate and individual lending.
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Four things to note from Friday's US jobs report
1. Foreign-born workers account for all net labor force participation and employment gains since July
2. Manufacturing adds 101,000 jobs since December 2025, leaving net gain of 8,000 under Trump
3. Median and average unemployment spells are longest in about a decade excluding the pandemic
4. Information and finance remain weakest in AI-exposed industries
Follow up to this story from yesterday. Note the additions in yesterday’s comments as the story evolved during the day. Hopefully it will soon be revealed who dunnit and why — Russians annoyed about Ukraine, Iranians softening up the unbelievers for the next stage, Al Qaeda or ISIS jihadis ditto or testing various systems to see how they respond before doing it for real, some kid somewhere getting paid on the dark web to scare people… [KhaamaPress] Bomb threats targeting television broadcasters in Ireland.
Britannia and Bulgaria prompted evacuations, security operations and temporary disruptions to broadcasting on Friday, as a wider wave of suspected hoax threats continued to affect air travel across Europe.
According to Rooters, the Irish public broadcaster RTÉ, Britannia’s Sky News and Bulgaria’s NOVA TV were among the media organizations targeted. Emails sent to RTÉ and NOVA TV, under the subject line "Message to the West", claimed that explosives had been planted inside their buildings and warned that they would detonate within 45 minutes. No bombs were found.
The sender identified himself as "Mikhail Andropov" and claimed to represent a group responsible for recent bomb threats against aircraft across Europe. The messages warned that the incidents were only the beginning of further attacks targeting transport infrastructure, including aircraft, trains and subway stations. Authorities have not established the sender’s identity or verified the claims of responsibility.
Police searched the affected buildings, allowing staff to return after security checks. RTÉ resumed normal operations following more than three hours of inspections, while employees at NOVA TV in Sofia also returned to work after police completed their searches. RTÉ’s broadcasts were temporarily interrupted, with some programmes replaced by music and recorded announcements. Sky confirmed receiving a security threat and said it had reported the matter to the relevant authorities.
The threats come amid a series of similar incidents targeting passenger flights across Europe, forcing diversions, emergency landings and military fighter-jet escorts in recent days. Irish Prime Minister Micheál Martin said European security agencies had yet to determine whether the threats against airlines and broadcasters were the work of separate individuals or part of a coordinated operation. Investigations are continuing, and authorities have not confirmed any connection between the incidents.
[RedState] Democrats have been losing their minds about how they would like to go after Elon Musk.
This is incredibly self-defeating, since Musk provides so much that benefits America, from helping expand free speech on X to SpaceX, which rescues astronauts.
But they want to go after him because he has the intelligence to support Republican candidates. Plus, he did all he could with the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) to help cut waste in our government.
So we've seen things like Sen. Alex Padilla (D-CA) calling to investigate Musk, and Democrat Rep. Yassamin Ansari (AZ-03) saying, "See you soon." You had former Labor Secretary Robert Reich calling for Democrats to try to "defund" Musk and "nationalize" Musk's companies. You even had podcaster and professor Scott Galloway calling him a traitor, comparing him to the Rosenbergs, who were executed. That's how far off the rails Democrats have gotten are.
However, Musk had the perfect response, which again showed how clueless Democrats are. He responded to a proposal that he should simply cancel his contracts with the government. He laughed at the Democrats.
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"...defund" Musk and "nationalize" Musk's companies"
Sure sounds like the Nationalist Socialists that have come to make up a growing part of the Democrat Party, are starting to openly expose themselves and their future agenda.
[ConservativeTreehouse] President Trump Removes Susie Wiles, Moves Wartime Consigliere Stephen Miller to Chief of Staff
The former Qatar lobbyist for Ballard Partners, former political consultant and former 2024 campaign manager for candidate Donald Trump who became the Chief of Staff and gatekeeper of the White House, has been removed as Chief of Staff following the 2026 midterm election.
President Trump has appointed Stephen Miller, a wartime consigliere as the Chief of Staff effective Monday.
Mrs Wiles famously took the position of Chief of Staff on the condition that she could “keep the crazies” away from President Trump. Wiles became the gatekeeper to the White House controlling every point of access to the president.
One of the issues of concern when Wiles initially took office was her career as a lobbyist, consultant, campaign manager and donor organizer, gave her a career perspective predisposed to view finance as a key for influence and access. Those concerns never really diminished. Mrs. Wiles returns to her comfortable place in the political operation.
Given the specific congressional strategy that will be deployed against the White House in the 2027 legislative and investigative congressional term, it was wise to put Stephen Miller into place as a wartime consigliere.
Congress will likely not seek to impeach President Trump directly, but they will investigate every aspect of finance, and every financial relationship, that has surfaced in the past two-years amid President Trump’s family, allies and supporters.
The corruption narrative coming from those J6-style investigations will then be leveraged against Republican politicians in both the House and Senate as legislation is created. The DSA objective will be to isolate then marginalize the office of the presidency.
[Trump] clarified that Wiles would be moving to the Trump Political Operations unit and thanked her for her excellent work as White House Chief of Staff.
Wiles managed Trump's Florida campaign during the 2016 presidential election. She and political consultant Chris LaCivita also managed Trump's 2024 campaign.
In March 2026, the US President announced that Wiles had been diagnosed with breast cancer.
[IllinoisPolicy] Candidates backed by the Chicago Teachers Union did not win a majority on Chicago’s first fully elected school board.
CTU-endorsed Hilario Dominguez lost the race for board president to Jessica Biggs. Other candidates endorsed by the union appear to have won nine of the other 20 seats.
CTU and aligned groups spent at least $2.4 million on candidates, according to data from the Illinois State Board of Elections, but voters appear to have rejected CTU’s agenda at the ballot box.
[KhaamaPress] Pakistain’s external debt has nearly doubled over the past decade, reaching $135.1 billion in 2025, compared with $68.7 billion in 2015, according to the World Bank’s International Debt Report 2026. The debt increased by about 4 percent from the previous year, when it stood at $129.9 billion.
Of the total, $107.08 billion comprised public and publicly guaranteed obligations, while private-sector borrowing without government guarantees accounted for $17.58 billion. Short-term external debt stood at a further $10.45 billion. Multilateral institutions accounted for $56.83 billion of public and publicly guaranteed debt, followed by bilateral creditors with $42.43 billion.
China remained Pakistain’s largest individual country creditor, with approximately $22.4 billion in outstanding loans. The country also owed about $19.2 billion to the World Bank and $16.83 billion to the Asian Development Bank, highlighting its continued reliance on international financial institutions and bilateral lending.
The report also highlighted a significant difference in the cost of new borrowing. Financing commitments from official creditors in 2025 carried an average interest rate of 3.6 percent, with a 16-year repayment period and a four-year grace period. In contrast, new private-sector loans carried an average interest rate of 8.6 percent, with an average maturity of three years and a one-year grace period.
Pakistain’s external debt-to-gross national income ratio reached 34 percent in 2025, while debt-service payments accounted for 33 percent of its export earnings. China extended the maturity of approximately $2 billion in Pak loans during the year, while the International Monetary Fund provided $2.3 billion in new disbursements under its Extended Fund Facility and Resilience and Sustainability Facility programmes.
Across the broader Middle East, North Africa, Afghanistan and Pakistain region, the external debt-to-GNI ratio also increased from 26.7 percent to 29.4 percent, marking the largest annual rise among the World Bank’s regional groupings.
[FOX] Got an old Android phone collecting dust in a drawer? You might want to hang on to it. Researchers at UCLA have figured out how to turn an aging smartphone into the brain of a small walking robot. It's called PhoneBot, and it can walk on two legs, follow people and even get back up after falling face down.
The most surprising part? The researchers estimate the robot's hardware costs about $400, excluding the phone. So, that forgotten smartphone could have a pretty interesting second life. Here's how the researchers pulled it off and what it would take to build one yourself.
PhoneBot comes from UCLA's Robotics and Mechanisms Laboratory, also known as RoMeLa. The team built a miniature humanoid robot that stands about 19 inches tall and weighs roughly four pounds, including the smartphone attached to its body.
Instead of developing an expensive custom computer, researchers used technology already inside an Android phone. The robot has 13 motorized joints, with six in each leg and another that lets its upper body rotate. That extra movement allows the smartphone's camera to turn toward someone while the robot's feet stay planted.
Think about everything your smartphone already does. It can recognize objects through its camera and detect movement using built-in sensors. It also has enough processing power to run sophisticated software. PhoneBot puts those capabilities to work. An Android app uses the phone's motion sensors to help the robot maintain its balance. Meanwhile, the camera helps it recognize and track people. The phone also runs an artificial intelligence-powered walking controller that tells the robot how to move. Those instructions travel over Wi-Fi to a small computer inside the robot, which communicates with the motors. The smartphone has no physical electrical connection to the robot's hardware. That design makes it easier to swap phones without rewiring the machine. Researchers trained PhoneBot's walking system in computer simulations before testing it on the actual robot. They also developed a way to improve how evenly it uses both legs. As a result, PhoneBot can walk on flat surfaces and stand up from a face-down position. For something powered largely by an old smartphone, that's quite an accomplishment.
We have known for years now, that small drones costing less than $400 and sold commercially, can be modified to deliver a small exploding device or discharge a 12ga slug at a singled out individual.
Heck YOUTUBE right now has several such demo Videos, Showing such drones tracking and shooting or exploding small devices next to specific figures. Which surely are feeding some POS's mind with ideas.
Now we are seeing Robots in the streets, delivering 1lbs to 5lbs packages to locations.
The more we automate things around us the less humans have control. Less control mean less security. That lack of control some will be used someone or group to accomplish their agenda and evil deed.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
