[NYP] A bloody "altercation" escalated into gunfire at a homecoming party at Tallahassee’s Florida A&M University, leaving 11 people, including six children, shot Saturday night, law enforcement said.
Bullets flew when a fight involving "two or three individuals" led to shots being fired just before 8 p.m. on Perry Street near Bragg Memorial Stadium, according to the Tallahassee Police Department and online reports.
"An altercation occurred between individuals," Tallahassee Police Chief Lawrence Revell said. "We do not know exactly what happened ... what we do believe is that this was an isolated incident between two or three individuals." Skipping down.
Revell said there had been no arrests, but cops were conducting a manhunt for suspects.
Witnesses reported a scene of chaos, which started as people were filing out of the football stadium at the Historically Black college. No photographs available.
"We heard a couple gun shots and a crowd of people running. I had gotten trampled a little but but as I got up, I turned to my right and saw a person laid out on the ground," student Jayden Dubois, told WCTV.
[Mashable] Despite its critical praise, Alex Gibney's Musk documentary about the world's richest man is ending its theatrical run after just two weeks, according to entertainment news site Showbiz411.
Upon its release on Oct. 9th, Musk was shown in just four theatres in two cities nationwide, but that number rose to over 450 by the second (and ultimately final) week of its theatrical run, though the total take, according to Gizmodo, was a paltry $571,902, making it "an unmitigated flop."
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[Regnum] Nigeria has confirmed its first case of Ebola fever in 10 years. The disease was diagnosed in the wife of a Swiss diplomat, a native of Uganda. This was reported on October 24 by SRF.
According to the West African country's Ministry of Health, the woman had recently arrived from Uganda. She began feeling unwell on October 6, three days after arriving in Abuja. Initially suspected of having malaria, she visited several medical facilities. An Ebola test was only administered on October 19, 13 days after the onset of symptoms. Laboratory tests showed she was infected with the Bundibugyo strain of Ebola.
Swiss authorities suspect the woman may have been infected during a trip to Uganda. Her husband, who accompanied her on the trip, is self-isolating and has shown no symptoms.
The Swiss diplomatic mission in Nigeria continues to operate as usual. No cases of infection have been reported among the mission's staff.
In May, an outbreak of a rare and dangerous strain of the Ebola virus, Bundibugyo, occurred in the Republic of Congo and Uganda. The fatality rate reaches 50%. The World Health Organization declared the Ebola outbreak in the DR Congo a global health emergency.
The fight against the virus is hampered by the insecurity in the Congolese provinces of Ituri and North Kivu, as well as the lack of approved vaccines against this strain. As of mid-September, the number of confirmed cases of Ebola in the DR Congo has increased to 6,942, with 3,349 deaths. The outbreak has also spread to a seventh province.
Ebola is transmitted through direct contact with the blood or other bodily fluids of a sick or deceased person, or through contaminated surfaces and objects. Ebola is not transmitted by airborne droplets.
[London Daily] Minister Initiates Review for Posthumous Victoria Cross Award for SAS Founder
Defence Minister Al Carns announces a review of Lieutenant Colonel Blair ’Paddy’ Mayne's military service concerning Victoria Cross eligibility.
The British Ministry of Defence has announced a review regarding the potential posthumous award of the Victoria Cross (VC) to Lieutenant Colonel Blair ’Paddy’ Mayne, a distinguished member of the Special Air Service (SAS) and a decorated war hero from Co Down.
Defence Minister Al Carns stated that the Honours Committee will conduct a comprehensive review of Lt Col Mayne's military service, aiming to address long-standing questions about the process surrounding his VC recommendation.
During proceedings in the House of Commons, Minister Carns confirmed that MP Jim Shannon had presented an early day motion advocating for the review.
The minister indicated that existing documentation regarding Lt Col Mayne's VC recommendation raises concerns about whether all proper processes were adhered to, suggesting the possibility of administrative errors in the decision-making.
Carns noted that, according to the available evidence, Lt Col Mayne’s citation was duly processed through the appropriate channels of command and reviewed by senior officers with combat experience who were responsible for assessing gallantry awards.
He emphasized that procedural errors could be corrected regardless of the time elapsed, provided the original decision's intent is maintained.
The defence minister expressed his commitment to taking into consideration newly highlighted evidence and assured that the independent honours and awards committee would reach a definitive conclusion regarding Lt Col Mayne’s service and the recognition thereof.
Blair Mayne, who volunteered for service at the onset of the Second World War and contributed significantly to the formation and operational effectiveness of the SAS, has been the subject of public advocacy for recognition.
During the debate, Jim Shannon referred to Mayne's actions as legendary, highlighting the admiration held for him in his community growing up.
Other MPs participating in the discussion echoed similar sentiments regarding Mayne's bravery and leadership, noting that his contributions significantly influenced the development of elite military forces.
In particular, Ulster Unionist Party MP Robin Swann observed that while Mayne's legacy is secure in military history, the absence of a VC is a notable oversight worthy of correction.
Additionally, Labour MP Alison Hume commented on the recent portrayal of Mayne in the television series SAS Rogue Heroes, celebrating the impactful representation of his character and the dedication involved in the project’s production.
The minister's announcement marks an important step toward addressing the legacy of Lt Col Mayne and his contributions during a pivotal era in military history.
[Audi.com] Audi is taking a major step in its global growth strategy with plans to establish its first U.S. production site in Georgia. The company intends to invest around $4 billion and create approximately 4,500 jobs. Construction of the plant, designed for an annual production capacity of up to 200,000 vehicles, is scheduled to begin in 2027, with production planned to start in the early 2030s. With premium SUVs tailored to North American customers and manufactured locally, Audi aims to unlock significant growth potential in one of the world’s most important premium markets. The planned investment intends to mark a long-term commitment to the United States and to establish North America as a third major pillar of Audi's global production network alongside Europe and China.
GROWING IN AMERICA, FOR AMERICA
As the world’s second-largest premium market, the U.S. offers significant growth potential for Audi. Establishing local production is a key element of a broader growth strategy focused on customer needs, a compelling product portfolio and a more competitive business model. The planned investment is part of a long-term strategy for profitable growth.
[Townhall] The Eagle’s Nest, Adolf Hitler’s retreat home in the Bavarian Alps, has reportedly been nearly destroyed by fire in a suspected arson.
German authorities were notified of a fire at the infamous residence on Friday night. Firefighters arrived to find it " completely engulfed" in the blaze, but claimed that they found no one inside the building at the time.
One person has been detained by authorities as they investigate whether or not the fire was caused deliberately, with the individual in custody reportedly a motorcyclist who was stopped by police as they traveled up the mountain.
[JTN] Every election season, two very different tools are competing to tell Americans who will win: opinion polls and prediction markets. Each has a long track record, and each has stumbled. "We don't set the odds; the people do," David Piegaro of Kalshi, one of the largest U.S. prediction markets, told Just the News.
"Our markets are super dynamic as new information comes out, whether that be a poll, whether that be an event in the real world." Each has a long track record, and each has stumbled.
Polls ask a sample of voters about their preferences at a given moment. By contrast, prediction markets let traders buy contracts that pay if an event happens, so a $1 dollar contract trading at 60 cents implies a 60% chance.
Polls survey a representative sample of voters and ask about their personal preferences or intentions at a specific point in time. On the other hand, prediction markets work like financial exchanges where participants buy and sell contracts based on the likely outcome of an event. Contract prices fluctuate based on demand, reflecting the collective probability estimated by traders.
In short, polls measure opinion, while markets put money on outcome probability.
The best-known long-term test comes from the University of Iowa. Researchers compared Iowa Electronic Markets Forecasts with 964 national polls from the 1988 through 2004 presidential elections and found the market was closer to the final result 74% of the time. Its edge was largest more than 100 days before Election Day.
The 2024 presidential race gave markets a high-profile win. On election morning, Kalshi priced a Donald Trump victory at 57 cents and Polymarket at 62 cents, while forecasts built on polling averages showed a near tie.
The record is not one-sided, however. A Vanderbilt University study of political markets during the final five weeks of the 2024 race found that similar contracts on different platforms were often priced differently and moved independently, suggesting traders sometimes reacted to one another rather than to news.
[NYP] Jane Fonda’s Climate PAC has funneled millions to socialist and far-left candidates ahead of November’s midterms, backing Democrats whose climate and political agendas are as radical as her own.
The actress’ PAC has hauled in $8 million — and injected more than $5 million into congressional, state and local races this year with almost no notice, the group’s latest federal campaign filing for the 2025-2026 election period reveals.
The PAC has spent $1.8 million on operations, handed out $3.4 million, and passed $228,000 to other committees, with another $5 million in the bank.
Once dubbed “Hanoi Jane” for posing atop an anti-aircraft gun during a trip to enemy North Vietnam during the height of the Vietnam War in 1972, Fonda, 88, has been an outspoken social activist for decades who has backed a string of lefty lawmakers.
She got arrested repeatedly in front of the US Capitol in 2019 while helping organize “Fire drill Fridays” to protest in support of the Green New Deal.
Her financial largesse has come in a series of $5,000 PAC contributions to candidates in competitive House races in Pennsylvania, North Carolina and other states — contests that could help determine control of Congress.
Fonda’s PAC also gave $5,000 to Dr. Annie Andrews, the Democratic Senate candidate seeking to unseat appointed Sen. Darline Graham (R-SC) in a closely watched and suddenly competitive race. She cut an ad with her Republican dad who vouched that she is “not some crazy socialist.”
The group has also backed Minnesota Lt. Gov. Peggy Flanagan, whose progressive positions have drawn scrutiny as she faces Republican NFL broadcaster Michele Tafoya.
Fonda’s PAC gave the maximum permitted $5,000 contribution to socialist Wisconsin gubernatorial candidate Francesca Hong, whose once-rising campaign floundered as she struggled to explain her earlier call to “cancel Thanksgiving.”
“The Barbarella” star’s group even gave $5,000 to lower-level officeholders like a county commission candidate in Oregon, illustrating how its support reaches beyond high-profile federal races.
Her contributions totaling $40,000 in 2025 in Luzerne County, Pa., home to abandoned coal mines and Superfund sites, helped Democrats seize control of the county council there.
She also gave $5,000 to congressional candidate State Rep. Justin Pearson (D-Tenn.), who was expelled from the Tennessee state House after taking part in a gun control protest on the House floor, only to be later reinstated.
The latest Federal Election Commission filing by Michigan House congressional candidate and Sunrise Movement cofounder William Lawrence shows he also got a $5,000 Fonda PAC contribution. Lawrence’s climate activist group has pushed for sweeping action on climate change. Lawrence was charged with felony trespassing after he locked himself to an Embridge Energy pipeline in 2013 when he was 22.
Lawrence, who says he let his Democratic Socialists of America membership lapse this summer days before he won his primary, is battling GOP Rep. Tom Barrett (D-Mich.) after spending just $700,000 to win his primary. He has been on a fundraising frenzy since, hauling in $3.7 million this election cycle, with donations from other environmental groups as well.
In Oct. 14 Emerson College poll found Lawrence leading Barrett 53% to 45% among likely voters.
Fonda also gave the maximum permitted contribution to the campaign of Sen. Ed Markey (D-Mass.), 80, a co-author of the Green New Deal alongside “squad” Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY). The proposal calls for a transition to 100% clean energy.
Fonda’s PAC says its goal is to “end the stranglehold the fossil fuel industry has on our lives and our planet by electing climate champions at the state and local level.”
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"We got both kinds of socialist, hon.
We got country and globalist!"
"RUN! Get the band in the car!"
*twang of Stalin guitar*
*smashing beer bottles*
"Give 'er the gun!"
[Reuters] PERRY, Georgia, Oct 25 (Reuters) - US President Donald Trump announced on Saturday that Audi plans to build a $4 billion assembly plant in Georgia that will produce 200,000 SUVs annually, as he seeks to convince Americans to back Republicans in the November midterm elections.
Trump, who has pressured automakers to move production to the United States and has raised tariffs on autos, steel, aluminum and parts, made the announcement at a rally in Perry, near Macon in central Georgia, where Volkswagen's premium subsidiary intends to build its first US assembly plant.
Last year, Trump's tariffs dealt Audi a €1.2 billion ($1.4 billion) blow as it imports all its vehicles for the US market from Europe or Mexico.
Georgia has competitive election races for US Senate and governor and Trump is eager to make the case that his auto tariffs are helping the US economy. Critics say they have boosted vehicle prices and that the trade uncertainty has delayed some automaker investments.
"We are planning to bring our biggest and most premium SUVs, and produce them here in Macon, Georgia," Audi CEO Gernot Doellner said at the event. "This is a long-term investment because we believe in the American market."
In Germany, meanwhile, there has been increasing tension between Volkswagen management and workers over massive job cuts in the carmaker's home market, including possible plant closures in light of rising costs and stiff Asian competition.
[Gateway] Senior figures in the Democrat Party are reportedly already trying to temper the expectations of supporters over the midterms. What does that tell you? Have they looked at some bad internal polling?
Leftists are expecting a blue wave election. What happens if the Republicans keep the Senate and the Democrats win the House by only a small margin? What if the Republicans keep both the House and Senate?
You will see a lot of angry Democrats out there if either of those scenarios play out and they will be looking for people to blame.
And mind you, this is not coming from a conservative outlet.
[Just The News] While the world was still raging that President Donald Trump would turn to Russia’s Vladimir Putin to try to score relief for Americans suffering from inflated diesel prices, the president’s diplomatic team led by special envoy Steve Witkoff was wheeling and dealing behind the scenes in stealth mode.
Volodymyr Zelensky, who exploded at the Trump-Putin diesel deal, was bluntly told by U.S. officials there was no value in poking the eye of the one ally whose financial and intelligence assistance was at the heart of Ukraine’s ability to stand toe-to-toe with the much larger, nuclear-armed enemy.
He also was told, despite repeated and widely reported overtures from NATO’s Mark Rutte, there were no more Patriot missiles that America could send to Ukraine at present, since they were being stockpiled for other needs, according to interviews with several Western officials.
The message was unmistakable: a war pause was the best option.
Remarkably, Zelensky changed tune and went on Trump’s favored Fox News outlet to announce he was willing to freeze the battle lines in a deal to pause the war. Such a proclamation was not only positive for prospects for a short-term ceasefire; it also sets up a longer range chance to create a lasting land-for-peace armistice.
[NYP] The Archdiocese of New York has agreed to pay more than $800 million to settle sexual abuse claims made by 1,300 people who said they were victimized by clergy members and lay people in positions of leadership in the Roman Catholic Church.
Lawyers for the plaintiffs sent an email late Friday to the priests of the archdiocese announcing the planned settlement, The New York Times reported.
But all the alleged victims must sign off on the agreement before the archdiocese goes forward with the payout.
Archbishop Ronald A. Hicks confirmed to the Times Saturday that the deal will not be finalized until all parties involved – the plaintiffs, the lawyers and the archdiocese – sign it.
“We are on the verge of being able to, please God, bring some measure of healing and reconciliation to all victim-survivors,” he told the outlet.
The settlement would give each plaintiff the option of receiving a lump-sum payment of at least $250,000— with some larger payouts possible after a review of the extent of the abuse plaintiffs have claimed to experience, the Times reported.
Lawyers representing the purported victims warned their clients that if they don’t accept the settlement, the archdiocese will claim bankruptcy.
This would likely lead to a much smaller settlement and additional years tacked onto the already drawn-out litigation process, according to the Times.
For plaintiffs who aren’t keen on the offer, lawyers said that the archdiocese– which includes Manhattan, the Bronx, Staten Island and parts of the Hudson Valley — negotiated with an insurer to increase the sum of money allocated to holdouts to $20 million, which would be split evenly among them.
“The survivors showed an amazing amount of perseverance and patience here,” Paul Mones, a lawyer whose Los Angeles-based firm represents 33 of the plaintiffs, told the Times.
“After a lifetime of pain and struggle, they mustered the energy to push that final mile. And hopefully this deal will give them a degree of solace and healing.”
Jordan Merson, whose firm represented 60 of the plaintiffs, told The Post: “This settlement will help survivors get some justice without waiting for years in a prolonged bankruptcy process.”
[NYP] The dogs of war could soon be getting a DNA upgrade.
Silicon Valley heavyweights are pouring $200 million into a straight-out-of-sci-fi plan to genetically engineer military dogs — potentially giving them wolf-like sniffing powers and outfitting them with high-tech combat armor.
A Texas-based startup called Warhound has already reached a reported $1.2 billion valuation despite not yet producing a single genetically modified puppy.
The ambitious venture was conceived by Palmer Luckey, founder of defense technology giant Anduril, and Ben Lamm, whose Colossal Biosciences made headlines for its controversial effort to resurrect the extinct dire wolf.
Warhound aims to clone America’s most elite military and police dogs, then use genetic engineering to eliminate health problems and potentially enhance their physical abilities.
The company has already obtained blood samples from elite dogs used by armed forces, law enforcement and first responders, with the aim of cloning the animals, Lamm told Wired.
The animals will be “mostly Belgian Malinois, some labs, and some shepherds,” he said.
The company isn’t stopping at cloning.
Its initial genetic modifications will target ailments including hip dysplasia, a condition that can hamper working dogs.
Eventually, Lamm envisions moving into “really interesting things,” including potentially inserting olfactory receptor genes from wolves to “enhance” the animals’ sense of smell, according to Wired.
The project represents a new frontier for Colossal. It sparked controversy last year after unveiling genetically engineered wolves that it said were extinct dire wolves brought back to life.
Scientists disputed whether the animals amounted to a genuine resurrection of the prehistoric predator.
The startup plans to equip its canine creations with technology from Luckey’s Anduril, including protective armor, sensors, software and systems designed to improve battlefield awareness.
A company press release touted “Anduril’s advanced cybernetic Augments, software, and battlefield situational awareness,” according to Wired.
Despite the futuristic language, Lamm insisted the technology would involve equipment worn by the animals rather than surgically implanted electronics.
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Sirius is Thomas Trelone's great experiment - a huge, handsome dog with the brain and intelligence of a human being. Raised and educated in Trelone's own family alongside Plaxy, his youngest daughter, Sirius is a truly remarkable and gifted creature. His relationship with the Trelones, particularly with Plaxy, is deep and close, and his inquiring mind ranges across the spectrum of human knowledge and experience. But Sirius isn't human and the conflicts and inner turmoil that torture him cannot be resolved.
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.
