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The following article was originally published on Z Network. I pace my small apartment for almost an hour after interviewing a fellow journalist in Mexico who was kidnapped by organized crime groups. Another day, a source has been arrested, another dies in a suspicious car accident. Others tell compelling storiesContinue Reading

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Sens. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., and Elissa Slotkin, D-Mich., announced Tuesday that they would not back Sen. Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., in his effort to become majority leader next year. The duo — leading voices on the center and left of the Democratic Party — took pains to avoid discussing specific policyContinue Reading

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The following story is co-published with Nolan Higdon’s Substack. “Nvidia opens investigation after CEO Jensen Huang’s affair with alleged Chinese spy,” screamed a Nov. 8, 2026, NBC News headline. The story noted that, after U.S. intelligence agencies determined that Alice Huang, a businesswoman whose company was buying Nvidia’s advanced chips, wasContinue Reading

What time will SpaceX launch Starship Flight 15, its 1st double landing test, on Nov. 13? (Full mission timeline)

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SpaceX is just days away from what might be its most ambitious test flight yet of the company’s massive Starship megarocket, the largest launch vehicle ever built. On Friday (Nov. 13), SpaceX will launch its next Starship test flight on a mission that, if successful, will return both its Super Heavy first-stage booster and ShipContinue Reading

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Ukraine’s soldiers shop for their own drones online, and they have ordered more than 1.5 million of them. Since the DOT-Chain Defence marketplace opened in July 2025, combat units have procured over 1.5 million drones through it, worth more than $2 billion, the Defense Ministry said. DOT-Chain Defence operates likeContinue Reading

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Russia is burning down Ukraine’s power grid by hitting the parts no one managed to shield. Only a third of the main transformers at substations of the state-owned electricity transmission operator Ukrenergo are housed in reinforced-concrete sarcophagi. Now, drones go after the unprotected rest, Serhii Nahorniak, a lawmaker on parliament’sContinue Reading

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Three weeks ago, I wrote that if you can reverse engineer it, it’s open source. Looks like the frontier labs didn’t love that idea. Claude Code users are hitting “safety checks” in the middle of decompiling things. Some Codex users got warnings and account restrictions for poking at their ownContinue Reading

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Thousands of migrants are traveling north through Mexico, hoping the Democrats’ midterm victory will ease Traitor 47’s immigration crackdown. But the US border has not reopened, and Mexico is trying to stop the caravan. Are migrants being offered real hope, or dangerously misleading expectations? #usa #mexico #migrantes #border #dignity #dwcurrentaffairsContinue Reading