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KPFA news of October 31, 1968, read by Hanna Pitkin and Robert Holmes. Edition of news including President Johnson‘s announcement of a halt in the bombing of North Vietnam…
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- UN votes to describe slave trade as ‘gravest crime against humanity’
- Lebo M sues comedian Learnmore Jonasi claiming Circle of Life misrepresentation
- ‘Extraordinary event’ for mountain gorillas as new twins born in DRC
- Strike on Sudan hospital kills at least 64 and wounds 89 more, WHO reports
- Madagascar’s military ruler decrees that ministers must pass lie detector tests
- Mark Carney rebukes Air Canada chief over English-only crash message
- Canadian woman held with daughter by ICE warns all immigrants to ‘lie low’
- Jailed Bolsonaro granted ‘humanitarian house arrest’ amid failing health
- LaGuardia pilots raised safety alarms months before deadly runway crash
- ‘A miracle’: Canadian flight attendant ejected from plane survives New York crash
- Talking Points Memo
- Five Questions About Senate Majority Leader John Thune’s DHS-and-Reconciliation Nightmare
- Not So Fast
- Minnesota Sues Feds for Evidence in Operation Metro Surge Shootings
- Trump Votes by Mail But He Doesn’t Want You to Be Able To
- Iran Has Trump Over a (Oil) Barrel. Sad.
- Pam Bondi Finally Relents in US Attorney Fiasco
- Are Republicans Trying to Hoodwink Trump on the SAVE Act?
- Senators Are Talking About a New Deal to Partially End the DHS Shutdown
- Trump Takes the TSA Hostage in Gambit to Pass the SAVE Act
- PHOTOS: Airline Travelers Encounter Armed ICE Agents at Airports Across the Country
- The Intercept
- How to Keep ICE Agents Out of Your Phone at the Airport
- U.S. Oil Blockade Could Condemn Cubans to Die Without a Deal
- Leaders of Elite Paratrooper Unit Ordered to Middle East as Trump Weighs Iran Ground War
- Palantir Will No Longer Profit Off of New Yorkers’ Health Data
- Pentagon Reveals Attacks in Latin America Are Just the Beginning
- Democrats Might Save Mike Johnson’s Push to Give Trump Domestic Spying Power
- More Than 1 Million People in Lebanon Have Been Displaced. These Are Their Stories.
- Hegseth Makes Troops Prove “Sincerely Held” Faith in Latest Beard Crackdown
- Pentagon Implores Civilian Workers to Join ICE “Volunteer Force”
- Joe Kent’s Resignation Could Bolster a Wave of Conscientious Objectors to Trump’s Iran War
- France24
- 'Difficult of overemphasise how risky it would be for the US' to put boots on the ground: expert
- US jury finds Meta, YouTube liable in social media addiction trial
- Israel 'concerned Trump could decide to end war unilaterally as soon as Saturday'
- Iran rejects US peace plan, issues its own demands
- Iran media casts doubt on US peace plan as strikes land across the Mideast
- Trump's war, NATO's problem: Will allies help secure Strait of Hormuz?
- California jury finds Meta, YouTube liable in landmark social media trial
- Lukashenko 'not an independent actor’: opposition leader Tsikhanouskaya on why Belarus needs Russia
- UN designates slave trade as ‘gravest crime against humanity’ despite US opposition
- Iran targets US public opinion with online information war
- Media Matters For America
- Podcaster Matt Walsh says a lot of tech sector jobs are just "adult day care for women"
- Megyn Kelly: "The nerve of Ben Shapiro and Mark Levin, both of whom are two original ‘Never Trumpers,' to now cloak themselves in MAGA gear"
- Legacy outlets that bent the knee to Trump haven’t just lost credibility — they’re bleeding readers and viewers
- Megyn Kelly: Pat Buchanan "has been my own sort of sage over the past year"
- Tim Pool: Women "vote for drama. They vote for stupid interpersonal trash that does not matter to the function of a society. They vote for soap operas."
- Dave Rubin says "former friend" Megyn Kelly has "gone off the deep end"
- Newsmax host: "I don't actually think [Trump's] going to send ground troops into Iran, but you do have to make it look like you're going to in order for them to think you're going to so you can negotiate against it"
- Jesse Watters: Asking when the Iran war will end is "a question that a five-year-old would ask"
- On Deadline: White House, Angelo Carusone explains how MAGA’s “phalanx of investigative creators” could lead to ICE at polling locations
- Ben Shapiro: "Making sure illegal immigrants do not show up at polling sites is not a horrible use of ICE"
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