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[Regnum] Ugandan citizen Moses Muyurizi has been arrested on charges of murdering 38 people. This was reported on October 29 by the local publication The Monitor.
Republic security forces accused Muyurizi of killing and eating 38 people in the southern districts of Masaka, Ibanda and Kazo between 2010 and 2025.
"I am pleased to inform our citizens that security forces have arrested the villain Moses Muyurizi. He is the worst serial killer and cannibal in Uganda's history," the publication quotes the republic's Chief of Defence Forces, General Muhoozi Kainerugaba, as saying.
The security official emphasized that Muurizi would be tried and certainly executed. He posted a photo of the handcuffed cannibal on the social media site X.
According to investigators, Muurizi worked as a hitman with accomplices.
At least his personal and professional interests are consistent…
The murder weapon was a machete.
Among the most recent confirmed incidents involving a cannibal is the murder of nine members of the Kyebe Church in the Rakai district. A week later, a family was attacked in the village of Kikamleera in the same district. 52-year-old Urita Nabasagi was killed at night in front of her two grandchildren.
Muurizi had been detained several times before, the first time in 2009. Each time, he managed to bribe the police and escape.
In 2026, DNA testing linked executed serial killer Ted Bundy to another crime—the murder of 17-year-old Melissa Ann Smith, which had remained unsolved for over 50 years. The link was established by comparing genetic material with evidence from another of Bundy's victims, Laura Aime. Her murder was solved in April 2026, providing a key to solving the old case. Bundy was executed in the electric chair in Florida in 1989.
[Fox News] Ghost students enrolled using stolen identities siphoned federal financial aid into offshore accounts and cryptocurrency
Federal law enforcement authorities have launched a nationwide crackdown dubbed, "Operation Ghostbusters," to dismantle an international student aid scheme that investigators estimate has been operating since 2021, "potentially reaching several hundred million dollars" in taxpayer losses.
Announcing the first wave of enforcement actions, Assistant Attorney General Colin McDonald revealed that organized syndicates have systematically stolen the identities of working Americans who never applied to college, using their information to enroll fictional "ghost students" at institutions nationwide and siphon federal financial aid directly into offshore accounts.
"These are not isolated errors," McDonald said at a news conference Thursday. "This is organized fraud at scale."
The sprawling operation currently spans more than 40 open cases across 26 FBI field offices and has already produced indictments against five defendants, as well as the international seizure of more than $750,000 in laundered cryptocurrency tied to networks in Kenya.
"If successful at duping the Department of Education, Ed then sends the aid money to the college where the ghost student is enrolled," McDonald said in his opening remarks. "After tuition and fees are deducted, the leftover federal funds are deposited directly into bank accounts controlled by fraudsters, and in a flash, the money vanishes, often overseas to places like Kenya.
"The methods used in these schemes are increasingly sophisticated.
"Some use super intelligence to fill out college applications and complete coursework, so it looks like the ghost student is actually completing the class.
"Some even create the appearance of a fake student in an online classroom to trick schools into believing a real person is present. The goal is to keep the ghost student in school for as long as possible, semester after semester after semester, stealing money from the taxpayer."
Prosecutors allege that after tuition and fees were settled, leftover grant and loan disbursements were siphoned through domestic "money mules" and funneled abroad – including through fronts like a Nairobi safari company.
"We have already sent a team to Kenya to be on the ground for purposes of rooting out this fraud scheme and figuring out how it works on the ground in Kenya," McDonald said in the question and answer portion of the news conference.
And, unsuspecting victims facing ruined credit and bills for an education they never received, they warned.
"The complete story includes the plight of an American citizen who graduated high school and went straight to work to provide for his family," McDonald said. "He never applied to college, he never enrolled in classes, and he never asked for federal student aid. But one day, he finds his name attached to a loan from a school hundreds or thousands of miles away.
"His credit is now at risk and his name is on the bill."
McDonald's timeline for the investigation began in earnest in April and includes alleged fraud that began in 2021 under the Biden administration, according to McDonald.
"If you steal American identities, if you steal taxpayer dollars, if you exploit programs meant to help students build their future, we are resolved to find you and prosecute you," he said. "Whether you're in Nebraska, New Jersey, Virginia, or Nairobi, we will pursue you and bring you to justice."
Under Secretary of Education Nicholas Kent pinned the Biden administration on this for having taken off fraud safeguards.
[Variety] Patrick Stewart, the bald-headed English actor with impressive stage and film credits who will be remembered most for his roles as Captain Jean-Luc Picard on “Star Trek: The Next Generation” and as Professor Charles Xavier in the “X-Men” films, died Wednesday at his Los Angeles home. He was 86.
According to a statement on his Instagram account, Stewart had a “brief” battle with Alzheimer’s and Lewy Body Dementia before his death.
#RIP Patrick Stewart of Star Trek and X Men ...
On 12-4-1997, after getting a @PressClubDC coffee mug, he was asked, "Just from a purely logical point of view, why is it that a Captain whose name is Jean-Luc Picard have a perfect English accent?"
Patrick Stewart answer here: https://t.co/0lYtwn4Hx8
[FreeBeacon] Newly released data on the Harvard College class of 2030 say the class is 43.2 percent Asian-American, a record high and more than double the level when Students for Fair Admissions first sued Harvard alleging racial discrimination in admissions.
The U.S. Supreme Court ruled in 2023 that Harvard was unlawfully using race as a factor in admissions. Since then, the numbers of Hispanic and black students in the incoming Harvard classes have dipped, while the numbers of Asian-Americans have soared.
Even the 43.2 percent figure undercounts the number of Asians on campus. It only reflects "U.S. Citizens and Permanent Residents who chose to report their race/ethnicity." Some additional Asians may not box-check, and others may be foreigners, among the 15 percent of the incoming class that Harvard categorizes as "international students."
The president of Students for Fair Admissions, Edward Blum, told the Washington Free Beacon, "In 2014, the year Students for Fair Admissions sued Harvard, Asian-American students accounted for approximately 19% of its entering freshman class. Today, following the Supreme Court's 2023 decision prohibiting race-based admissions, that figure has more than doubled to 43%. This is powerful evidence that Harvard used race as a primary factor in its admission decisions for decades."
"The Supreme Court’s decision in 2023 didn't require Harvard to admit more Asian-American students or fewer whites, blacks and Hispanics. It required Harvard to stop discriminating by race. The results speak for themselves," he said. "It is important that Congress must now require colleges to fully disclose admissions data by race and academic qualifications. Only this kind of empirical transparency will reveal whether universities are truly complying with the law."
The College Admissions Accountability Act, backed by Senators Banks, Budd, and McCormick and championed in the House by Rep. David Taylor of Ohio, would create a Special Inspector General for Unlawful Discrimination in Higher Education with investigative powers. The Justice Department is suing Harvard to try to get access to data to see if Harvard is complying, but Harvard has been resisting turning over the data, using President Biden’s White House counsel, Stuart Delery, to argue the case in federal court.
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[Regnum] A magnetic storm could hit Earth on the night of October 31. This was reported on October 29 by the Solar Astronomy Laboratory at IKI and the Institute of Solar-Terrestrial Physics (ISTP).
Between October 28 and 30, space weather will be calm: the magnetosphere will remain stable, without any sudden surges or fluctuations. However, on October 31, tension within it will increase, and a magnetic storm will begin.
However, on November 1st, it will not subside, but will continue to rage. The magnetosphere will be in a state of heightened activity. Magnetic field fluctuations will also remain noticeable, according to the laboratory's website.
On October 10, Mikhail Leus, a leading specialist at the Phobos weather center, reported that a cloud of solar material ejected during one of the recent solar flares had reached Earth.
Previously, experts predicted that weak and moderate magnetic storms would hit Earth on October 9. Several M-level solar flares (the second-lowest possible intensity) occurred on the Sun, two of which were recorded on October 6.
The first magnetic storm of the fall occurred on September 8th. The event was weak, classified as Category I on a five-point scale. The disturbances were associated with a plasma cloud ejected by the Sun.
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[Regnum] The Sun has ejected a solar prominence approximately half a million kilometers across. This was reported on Thursday, October 29, by the Space Research Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences.
According to scientists, Earth is not in any danger. The only thing in the path of the exploding plasma would be Mars.
"An ejection from a very large prominence, approximately half a million kilometers in size, was captured today by the cameras of several space telescopes," the laboratory's Telegram channel reported.
On October 10, Mikhail Leus, a leading specialist at the Phobos weather center, reported that a cloud of solar material ejected during one of the recent solar flares had reached Earth.
Earlier, on October 8th, the first magnetic storm of the autumn occurred. The event was weak, classified as Category 1 on a five-point scale. The disturbances were associated with a plasma cloud ejected by the Sun.
link goes to the NWS narrative discussion at Grand Junction.
[ForecastWeatherGov] The SW has had a lot of precip from late monsoon moisture augmented by remnants of tropical storms. Some important reservoirs have recently made good recoveries, e.g., Lake Navajo in Colo/NM is up 35' since the seasonal low in late Sept. Lake Powell in UT/AZ is up 14' similarly.
The Atmospheric River (from Pacific) will likely take them up again. There is, of course, the possibility of some flooding (some places along the San Juan River received significant damage in the previous monsoon-like event), but this is mostly very good news.
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Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited A magnitude 5.5 earthquake struck Chiba Prefecture, located in the [Regnum] Tokyo area, the Japan Meteorological Agency press service reported
The tremors were recorded at 12:07 AM local time (6:07 PM Moscow time on October 28). According to updated data from the agency, the earthquake's epicenter was located at a depth of 52 km. Initially, the magnitude was estimated at 5.4, and the depth was approximately 50 km.
The maximum intensity of the tremor, a 5- on the Japanese scale, was recorded in the village of Yokoshibahikari. Intensities ranging from 1 to 4 were also observed from the Tohoku region to the Izu Islands.
According to preliminary data from experts, the earthquake occurred along the boundary of the Pacific and Philippine tectonic plates. There is no tsunami threat.
[AlJazeera] Hacking group Kimsuky using AI-generated documents in spear-phishing attacks, South Korean cybersecurity firm says.
North Korean state-backed hackers are using artificial intelligence to bolster cyberattacks against targets in the military, diplomacy and academia, a report has found.
Kimsuky, a hacking group linked to North Korea’s intelligence services, has used AI-generated documents in a “pattern” of spear-phishing attacks since 2026, the South Korean cybersecurity firm Genians said in the report released on Monday.
The attacks have used AI to automate the creation of malicious files disguised as legitimate documents, such as research reports and invitations, Seoul-based Genians said.
To avoid detection, Kimsuky has used open-source tools such as Ollama, GPT-4All, and Msty to run large language models without an internet connection, according to the report.
“AI can generate highly polished documents on a wide range of topics within a short period of time, making it a highly efficient tool for threat actors,” Genians said.
“This change is noteworthy because it goes beyond a shift in how decoy documents are created and demonstrates that AI can enable the automation and large-scale production of social engineering attacks.”
Kimsuky and other North Korean state-linked groups have been blamed for numerous cyberattacks in recent years, many of them aimed at extracting financial gains.
North Korean hackers stole cryptocurrency worth more than $2bn in the first nine months of 2025, according to a report by British blockchain analytics firm Elliptic.
In 2014, North Korea was identified by US authorities as the culprit in the hacking of Sony Pictures, which drew Pyongyang’s ire by lampooning North Korean leader Kim Jong Un in the comedy film “The Interview”.
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.
