[NYP] One person was killed and multiple others were wounded during a shooting in Alabama Saturday night at the end of the Magic City Classic. A long Tradition™
Gunfire erupted around 7:50 p.m. outside Legion Field in Birmingham, Alabama, after the Magic City Classic, AL.com reported.
Cops have not revealed the extent of the carnage but at least one person has died, the Jefferson County Coroner’s Office confirmed to the local publication.
At least two people were critically injured and another sustained minor injuries, according to public safety radio communications.
The Magic City Classic, the largest historically Black college and university football game in the US between Alabama A&M University and Alabama State University, wrapped up at the stadium before bullets flew.
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Post-game celebratory horn honking is so yesterday. No sporting event or public gathering is complete without the obligatory burst of gunfire and mayhem.
[FOX] OCALA, Fla. - A Florida man is accused of shooting and killing both of his roommates after an alleged argument over ice cream, according to the Ocala Police Department.
Police arrested 69-year-old Mark Robinson on Wednesday night under suspicion of second-degree murder after two men were shot at his home on SE 8th Street. Police said one person was found dead inside the home. A second person was found shot outside the home, and transported to the hospital, where they later died.
On Thursday, Ocala police shared new details about its investigation into the shooting deaths.
Police said officers initially responded to the home Wednesday morning after the three roommates were arguing over someone allegedly eating another person's ice cream. The two roommates then left the home and went on a walk, police said.
Robinson told police that he then armed himself with a shotgun at the home because he feared that something bad was going to happen. When both roommates returned, Robinson said he and the others got into another argument, which is when one roommate allegedly "charged" at Robinson while holding a knife, investigators said.
[NYP] McCall DaPron is facing backlash after her family’s controversial Halloween 2026 costume sparked online criticism.
The social media personality, who is set to star in the Orange County spinoff of "The Secret Lives of Mormon Wives," shared a glimpse of her family’s spooky season looks in an Instagram post on Thursday.
In the photos, McCall, 36, dressed as Jackie Kennedy, rocking a pink mini skirt and matching blazer while carrying a bouquet of red roses, while her husband, Kirk DaPron, portrayed former President John F. Kennedy.
The couple appeared to recreate the outfits worn by the former first lady and the president on the day of his assassination.
Their 8-year-old daughter, McCartney, dressed as Caroline Kennedy, while their 2-year-old son, Banks, portrayed John F. Kennedy Jr.
Their other children, 11-year-old Monroe and 4-year-old Truman, completed the family’s look as Secret Service agents.
[NOAAgov] link goes to experimental web site of the National Water Prediction Service
I was surprised by the extent of damage caused by last week's flooding on the San Juan river in NM (I thought they were better prepared and protected). This week, beginning 1 Nov, flooding will likely be more extensive and include, in addition to the San Juan river, the Little Colorado, the Animas, the Verde and some other rivers in CO, UT, NM and AZ.
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Maybe they should consult Guv Newsome on water management. That should solve their overabundance issues.
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news] A Vietnam veteran's daughter who features in one of the most famous photographs of the last century has told of her astonishment at receiving a poignant gift from a stranger 53 years later.
Lorrie Kitching was 15 years old in 1973 when her father, Lt Col Robert Stirm, returned home from Vietnam after spending more than five years as a prisoner of war (POW).
The moment of their reunion was captured in a Pulitzer-prize winning photograph known as 'Burst of Joy.'
The now-legendary image was taken by the Associated Press snapper Slava 'Sal' Veder at Travis Air Force Base in Solano County, California.
This week Kitching, now 69, revealed the emotional moment she received a package containing a POW bracelet engraved with her father's details.
POW bracelets were introduced in 1970 in a bid to keep military members' suffering in the front and center of the public's mind.
They featured the names of US servicemen and the date when they had been captured. Wearers vowed to keep them until the military members made it safely home.
Stirm had been shot down over Hanoi, North Vietnam, on October 27, 1967, and a bracelet was issued featuring his details.
All these years later Kitching, who lives in Mountain View, California, received one of the bracelets in a package from Mary Kay Potyraj of Michigan.
Potyraj found the bracelet while clearing out the belongings of her husband Rob after he died, KION reported.
'I was like, "Oh, this is unbelievable,"' Potyraj said. She explained how upon reading about Stirm's story she was inspired to track down his relatives.
‘I just did my best to figure out where this person is. Is there a family that would like to have it,’ Potyraj said.
Describing how moved she was to receive the unexpected package, Kitching told CBS13: ‘This isn’t just a piece of metal. It represents so much more.’
‘It’s the day I lost my Dad, and I didn’t know if he was going to be coming home,' Kitching added.
In a letter to Kitching, Potyraj wrote: ‘Dear Lorrie, so happy to reunite you with your father’s POW bracelet.'
Stirm died last year at the age of 92 and was laid to rest in Arlington National Cemetery.
The POW Dark Side - The U.S. Government of that time, officially and knowingly abandoned US POW's, despite strong evidence.
* There was proof that Hanoi is holding back information on captives. Hanoi even stated so and used it in its negotiations with the Clinton Admin.
* Some 15+ years after the war ended, the US Gov (Clinton Admin) knew 300 +/- were still alive and being held.
* Despite this clear proof, U.S. officials continued resist mounting serious rescue efforts.
In fact there was a planned Special Ops HRT mission (SFOD-D) planned, loaded up, and about to head out to recover
known alive POW's held near the town of Tchepone, in the Seponh District of the Savannakhet Province, in Laos.
But it was stopped by the Clinton Admin as the US and Hanoi had started commercial production talks.
[Breitbart] A research administrator at the University of Kentucky has secured a legal exemption from his employer’s AI mandate on the grounds that using tools like ChatGPT would violate his humanist beliefs.
Tom’s Hardware reports that David Durman works as a research administrator at the University of Kentucky (UK) and identifies as a humanist. He told Religion News Service that letting artificial intelligence do his thinking for him would compromise his moral development. The university had been asking employees to use AI tools, including ChatGPT and Microsoft Copilot, but Durman sought and received a Title VII religious accommodation exempting him from that requirement.
“The process and work involved in thinking through situations, through my work, through my ethics, through the way I handle other people, is a key component in being able to develop myself as a moral person,” Durman told RNS. Handing that labor over to a machine, he said, undermines his capacity to act ethically, no matter how convenient it might be. “And offloading that labor, regardless of whether it’s taxing or not, is undercutting my ability to be a moral actor,” he said.
Title VII, part of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, bars employment discrimination based on race, color, religion, sex and national origin. Humanism is often described as a secular philosophy rather than a religion, but federal courts have previously ruled that it qualifies as one for legal purposes. To win a Title VII exemption, a worker has to show that the belief behind the request amounts to a deep moral conviction, one that functions as an article of faith, and the accommodation can’t create “undue hardship” for the employer.
The American Humanist Association helped Durman pursue his request. Staff attorney Alexandria Huiskens said the case breaks new ground for the organization. “This is the first of its kind at the AHA and for humanism generally to exempt those who see AI use as flying in the face of their freedom of conscience,” she said. She framed the accommodation as consistent with how other religious traditions are treated at work. “For us, humanism is a comprehensive way of life,” she said. “It’s built on inherent worth and dignity, and everyone should have room to exercise this comprehensive way of life at work the same way Christians do, or Muslims do.”
The accommodation doesn’t remove Durman from all contact with AI at the university. He still has to attend meetings and work alongside colleagues who use the tools, and he may have to submit materials to AI systems when a job requires it. What’s changed is that he’s no longer personally required to run the software himself.
Ironically, Durman’s humanism “faith” is much more in line with the beliefs of AI evangelists and the Effective Altruism (EA) movement popular in the Silicon Valley hallways of power. Author Wynton Hall discusses the clash of AI technologists’ secular humanism and traditional faith in his New York Times bestseller Code Red: The Left, the Right, China, and the Race to Control AI.
As Hall explains, the Silicon Valley elite have long been at odds with traditional Christian values:
What’s really at stake, Hall argues, is the oldest argument in Western civilization: secular humanism’s belief that mankind is innately good and perfectible through engineering, versus the Judeo-Christian belief in fallen human nature that requires divine redemption, not technological upgrades. “Artificial intelligence is defective in the same way that a natural man is defective,” Hall quotes the pastor and theologian John Piper as saying. “It can rise no higher than the natural, fallen, unregenerate heart of man.” The Reverend Billy Graham agreed: “The real problem, you see, isn’t with computers or the code someone devises to control them. Our real problem is within us—within our own hearts and minds. . . . This is why our greatest need is to have our hearts changed—and that is something only God can do.”
The transhumanist movement, which Hall explores at length in CODE RED , takes the logic further still. In a famed 2004 issue of Foreign Policy on the theme of “the world’s most dangerous ideas,” political scientist Francis Fukuyama singled out transhumanism as the chief menace, warning that its incremental advance makes it appear “downright reasonable” until we start nibbling at “biotechnology’s tempting offerings without realizing that they come at a frightful moral cost.” Former Trump campaign strategist Stephen K. Bannon called it an “immoral Godless technological tsunami that openly declares its intent to transform human beings into a ‘posthuman’ state.”
Hall’s closing note, though, is not doom. He points to Y Combinator CEO Garry Tan, who now holds large gatherings in his home where Christians discuss faith with seekers in Silicon Valley. Just a few years ago, Tan said, such gatherings would have been “reviled in San Francisco.” He added: “People are so ready to make AGI their god. What we’re trying to do with events like this is give them an alternative.”
ELN is a communist guerrilla group that’s fought the Columbian government since 1964. Their things are a Catholic communist mixture of Marxism–Leninism, Camilism and Latin American liberation theology. tl;dr: Columbian Catholic commies going back to the Soviet days.
[Reuters] The biggest US technology companies generated record amounts of cash in the first nine months of 2026, yet returned the smallest share of it to shareholders in at least 15 years as surging artificial intelligence spending squeezed share buybacks.
The retreat threatens a long-standing source of support for technology share prices. With companies buying back fewer shares, investors are increasingly dependent on heavy AI investments delivering enough profit growth to justify their valuations.
Microsoft (MSFT.O), Alphabet (GOOGL.O), Amazon (AMZN.O), Meta (META.O) and Oracle (ORCL.N) returned 9.3% of the cash their businesses generated as dividends and buybacks in the first three quarters of the year, down from 27.4% a year earlier, a Reuters analysis of LSEG data and companies' financial reports showed.
Operating cash flow actually rose 29% from a year earlier to a record $542.9 billion.
But capital spending, driven by the AI boom, doubled to $556.9 billion, exceeding the cash the five firms generated for the first time in data going back to 2011.
That left them with a combined free cash flow deficit of $14 billion, against a surplus of $143.5 billion a year earlier.
The squeeze has hit buybacks hardest. The five companies cut repurchases 83% to $13.6 billion, from $81.8 billion a year earlier.
Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited. All from Regnum. Tusk to address nation amid Constitutional Court situation
Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk will address the nation amid the situation surrounding the Constitutional Court. This was announced on October 31 by the Prime Minister's Office.
According to information published on the office's page on the social network X, the performance will take place at 8:00 pm local time (10:00 pm Moscow time).
A political crisis erupted in Poland after Tusk's decision to appoint Maciej Berek, a former member of his cabinet, as a judge of the Constitutional Court. President Karol Nawrocki refused to swear him in. Berek later took the oath of office in parliament, but Constitutional Court President Bohdan Święczkowski barred him from serving.
On October 17, tens of thousands of people gathered for a protest in front of the Constitutional Tribunal building in Warsaw. Most of them were representatives of the PiS party, led by Jarosław Kaczyński. On October 31, the situation in Warsaw escalated, and additional police forces were deployed to protect the area.
On October 31, Nawrocki announced the violent seizure of the Constitutional Court building in Warsaw the previous night. He also called an emergency meeting with all parties.
Deputy Chairman of the Russian Security Council Dmitry Medvedev called the situation surrounding the Constitutional Court in Poland a constitutional coup. He claimed that Tusk's liberals are "oppressing" the conservatives from the Law and Justice Party, including for their hatred of Banderites. Medvedev drew a parallel with Ukraine, claiming that the court there "was long ago purged."
Three of them entered the premises of the Constitutional Court. Another insulted a police officer.
"A total of four people were detained," Warsaw police wrote in X.
A political crisis erupted in Poland following Prime Minister Donald Tusk's decision to appoint Maciej Berek, a former member of his cabinet, as a judge on the Constitutional Court. This led to a rally in mid-October, with tens of thousands of people protesting. Most of the protesters were members and supporters of Law and Justice, Poland's largest opposition party. Its leader, Jarosław Kaczyński, was also present.
Since September, France has also seen mass protests by schoolchildren dissatisfied with the shortage of teachers, overcrowded schedules, and the poor condition of educational institutions. Some of the protests have been accompanied by riots. By October 4, protesters had vandalized or set fire to 24 educational institutions, and another 400 to 500 had temporarily closed due to security threats.
"That night, the constitutional order of the Republic of Poland was violated, and a constitutional state body was seized by force," Nawrocki noted in a statement on the president's official website.
He called for order to be restored and stated that urgent consultations with parliamentary representatives would be convened to stabilize the situation. Nawrocki added that he had already consulted with the first President of the Supreme Court, Zbigniew Kapiński, who also did not recognize the actions of what he called the "usurpers of power" as legal.
At the heart of the Polish conflict is the confrontation between pro-European liberals, led by Prime Minister Donald Tusk, and right-wing conservatives, represented by Nawrocki.
The situation escalated after Tusk's decision to appoint Marcin Berek, a former minister in his government, as a judge of the Constitutional Court. Nawrocki refused to swear him in. Berek later took the oath of office in parliament, but Constitutional Court President Bohdan Święczkowski barred him from serving.
On October 17, tens of thousands of people gathered for a protest in front of the Constitutional Tribunal building in Warsaw. Most of them were representatives of the PiS party, led by Jarosław Kaczyński. On October 31, the situation in Warsaw escalated, and additional police forces were deployed to protect the area.
The day before, Polish police detained a Russian citizen in the Lower Silesian Voivodeship. He was accused of espionage for photographing railway infrastructure.
"In railway circles, it was immediately clear who he was. He's simply a railway enthusiast. He's also interested in other modes of transport, but especially railways," a source told RIA Novosti.
The source clarified that the detainee had lived in Germany for a long time and regularly visited Western European countries. His activities were exclusively related to amateur photography and the study of railway transport, as evidenced by his extensive portfolio.
Poland's Constitutional Tribunal crisis is deepening, with police still guarding the Warsaw building where seven judges have been stuck since overnight, and judge Anna Korwin-Piotrowska moving to revoke prior authorities and push judges to work remotely.
Two ambassadors have quit over it, Romania's citing an illegal takeover and France's saying he can't do his job with this going on back home, while the tribunal insists on X that its site got hijacked and chairman Święczkowski is still in charge.
So when will we see indictments for James Comey, Peter Strzok, Lisa Page and several Main Stream Media's on felony charges for Subversion, Treason and/or illegal release and publication of US T.S. classified materials?
Or is this just gonna be another DC Swamp TV episode to keep us looking in a different direction from other issues?
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Knock knock DooDahMan
If we keep demanding equal application of the law to include the DC Swamp.... We likely will be the ones arrested. (see the UK for example).
[RedState] The George W. Bush Project makes it clear that while they are dedicated to promoting the conservative legacy of President George W. Bush (a bit of a stretch), they have no official affiliation with the former U.S. leader.
From the project's X bio:
Independent project dedicated to advancing the conservative legacy of the 43rd President of the United States (not officially affiliated with George W. Bush)
But how many people are going to pay attention that? Which is why this sleight-of-hand, last-minute non-endorsement-endorsement of Texas Republican Attorney General and U.S. Senate nominee Ken Paxton is interesting.
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.
[FOX] OCALA, Fla. - A Florida man is accused of shooting and killing both of his roommates after an alleged argument over ice cream, according to the Ocala Police Department. 
A political crisis erupted in 
