NATO’s weapons-buying agency opens dedicated door for Ukraine, non-member, letting it buy arms through its contracts and its firms bid for tenders
Ukraine has just become the first country with which NATO’s weapons-buying agency has ever established a dedicated partnership. Under a new agreement, Kyiv has gained the right to purchase weapons through the NATO Support and Procurement Agency (NSPA), and Ukrainian firms can bid on its tenders, the Defense Ministry reports.Continue Reading
Zelenskyy names three postwar security guarantees for Ukraine. Even Russia needs one of them, he says
The hardest part of ending Russia’s war is making sure it cannot start it again. As the peace talks have escalated ahead of the US elections, Ukraine is weighing three options for its postwar security. Among them are NATO membership, direct US guarantees modeled on NATO’s Article 5, and aContinue Reading
Protect Cancer Patients from Program Cuts
Community oncology helps absorb the pressures that might otherwise pull a patient off treatment.Continue Reading
A Lie By Any Other Name
Let’s not mince words when it comes to discussing the nation’s white supremacists.Continue Reading
Amazon withdraws data center proposal for former GW campus in Loudoun County
The application withdrawal follows significant community backlash to the proposed data center on the 122-acre campus., The application withdrawal follows significant community backlash to the proposed data center on the 122-acre campus., from Newsnation Read MoreContinue Reading
Some US banks detect unauthorized AI agents in customer accounts: Report
Major U.S. banks are detecting unauthorized third-party AI agents operating inside customer accounts., Major U.S. banks are detecting unauthorized third-party AI agents operating inside customer accounts., from Newsnation Read MoreContinue Reading
CAIR Demands U.S. Firm Halt Shipment of Electroshock Weapons to Israel for Use in Torture Against Palestinian Detainees
The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), the nation’s largest Muslim civil rights and advocacy organization, today demanded that a U.S. manufacturer of electroshock weapons stop sending its devices to Israel following an investigative report revealing their systematic use in the torture and abuse of Palestinian detainees.According to an investigation publishedContinue Reading
Headlines for October 22, 2026
U.S. and Israeli Militaries Draft Plans to Resume Strikes on Iran After Midterm Elections, Saudi Arabia Says Four People Are Killed as Houthis Attack Oil Field, King Fahd Airport, Russia Kills More Civilians in Ukraine as U.S. Envoy Witkoff Praises Putin as a “Humanitarian”, Nigeria Reports First Case of EbolaContinue Reading
Red Hat Funded a Report That Found a Quarter of Incoming Pull Requests May Be AI Slop
LF Research is the Linux Foundation’s research arm. It was set up in 2021 and publishes studies on how open source is built and used, drawing on surveys and project data. Its latest report, Navigating Open Source Software Development in the Generative AI Era, surveyed 234 contributors and maintainers onContinue Reading
This Newly Proposed Linux Filesystem Can Fix Corrupted Data
The kernel’s filesystem mailing list has received an 18-patch proposal this week from Aurelien Desbrieres, the creator of BeamFS. It takes the place of FTRFS, an earlier filesystem he had proposed back in April. Aurelien says he used Anthropic’s Claude to write the code, the tool that checks the patches,Continue Reading
mRNA cancer vaccine helps reduce chances of melanoma patients’ tumors returning
A first-of-its-kind cancer vaccine is helping significantly reduce the chances that melanoma patients’ tumors return, Read MoreContinue Reading
The Traitor says Amy Acton is ‘fair game’ as he backs Vivek Ramaswamy on ad
President Traitor 47 doubled down on his defense of Vivek Ramaswamy’s controversial ad attacking Ohio gubernatorial rival Amy Acton, saying, “She’s fair game.” The ad features Acton’s estranged mother, who lost custody of her after her stepfather was indicted for raping her. Subscribe: http://smarturl.it/AssociatedPress Read more: https://apnews.com This video mayContinue Reading
A Brief History of Significant Independent and Third Party Gubernatorial Candidates
Voters in all but four states have given at least 10 percent support to one or more third party or independent candidates for governor since 1900 Smart Politics recently wrote about the significant step back Libertarians have taken this cycle in fielding gubernatorial candidates. But what can we expect fromContinue Reading