Ukrainian rescuers say they've recovered 3 more bodies -- 2 of them children -- from the rubble of the Ternopil apartment building that was hit by a Russian cruise missile earlier this week. The death toll now stands at 31.

Q: What did the president mean when he called a reporter "piggy"? LEAVITT: Look, the president is very frank & honest with everyone in this room. You'll all seen it yourself. You've all experienced it yourselves. And I think it's one of the many reasons the American people reelected this president

Wow "[Ed] Martin is also believed to have shared sensitive grand jury information about the James case with at least one unauthorized individual as well as worked with another person from outside the federal government to examine potential evidence in the Schiff and James probes."

Zelenskiy's office issues a statement confirming it has received the U.S.-drafted peace plan: Zelenskiy "expects to discuss with President Trump in the coming days the available diplomatic opportunities and the main points that are needed for peace."

Before the midterms of 1866, President Andrew Johnson called his congressional opponents traitors and said they should be hanged. Voters were so profoundly moved by his words... that they gave his opponents a supermajority in Congress, and the nation got the Fourteenth Amendment.

Intense video of the moment when a Russian drone hit a Ukrainian van heading to evacuate civilians near Lyman. By @radiosvoboda.org.web.brid.gy. The driver was injured.

At least 22 people are still missing in the Ternopil apartment building that was hit by a Russian cruise missile, per @ZelenskyyUa. Death toll now stands at 26, and seems likely will climb (much) higher.

US Army Secretary Dan Driscoll (who arrived in Kyiv yesterday along w/ a handful of top US officers) will meet today with Zelenskiy -- and Zelenskiy's team will find out how set in concrete the 28-point Witkoff/Dmitriev peace plan really is. (source: t.me/Denys_Smyhal)

Another Russian robot on display today, with more success (and with Kremlin endorsement, it would seem).

Death toll from Russian strikes on Ternopil now stands at 25, per Ukrainian emergency services; more 70 people wounded, including 15 children. t.me/dsns_telegra...

Ukrainian rescuers searching for bodies in the rubble of a Ternopil apartment building hit by Russian air attacks. Death toll in the city is up to 19, per emergency authorities, dozens wounded.

Death toll from Russian overnight strikes on Ternopil is now up to 16, per Ukrainian police, dozens wounded. t.me/UA_National_...

NEW: A majority of voters, 55%, said they would rather elect a Democratic candidate if the midterms were held today, according to the latest PBS News/NPR/Marist poll. https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/poll-voters-favor-democrats-by-double-digits-if-midterms-were-today

At least 9 killed in early Russian air strikes on western Ukrainian city of Ternopil, emergency officials say. Zelenskiy says Russia launched more than 470 drones, 48 cruise/ballistic ​​missiles, in the attack; Kharkiv, Ivano-Frankivsk also targeted. t.me/dsns_telegra...

A reminder that seven years ago almost to the day, the CIA determined that Mohammed Bin Salman ordered the killing of @washingtonpost.com journalist Jamal Khashoggi. I hired and worked with Jamal for a year. www.washingtonpost.com/world/nation...

JUST IN: A federal appeals court panel (with 2/3 Trump appointees) calls his lawsuit against CNN — over use of the term Big Lie — "meritless" and affirms the decision by a lower court to throw it out. s3.documentcloud.org/documents/26...

Cloudflare ia having some issues, taking down lots of websites and services, including X (yay) and Bellingcat (boo).

NEW: The White House intervened in a DHS investigation. The target? Sex offender Andrew Tate. The WH person? Paul “Nazi Streak” Ingrassia. Who was previously also Tate’s lawyer. A banger from @robert-faturechi.bsky.social & Avi Asher-Shapiro www.propublica.org/article/andr...

Print dictionaries: the original large language models 11/18/25

Like it or not this technology is here to stay and if you don’t use it you’ll fall behind in your industry

Death toll from Russian strikes on Kyiv now 6, as emergency workers pull more bodies from rubble. t.co/uP2UCTF6ER t.co/g1nrg0cMjh

Kyiv death toll from Russian strikes up to 4, per local authorities; more than 30 wounded. Video by @radiosvoboda.org.web.brid.gy

Major Russian strikes overnight on Kyiv and other Ukrainian cities. At least 3 killed in Kyiv, per Mayor Klitshcko; more than 2 dozen wounded. More than 430 drones and 18 missiles fired by Russia, per Zelenskiy. t.me/vitaliy_klit... t.me/V_Zelenskiy_...

"Graft was the glue with which the Kremlin had held [Ukraine] in check since the 1991 Soviet collapse, infiltrated its security services, manipulated its leaders and gutted its military." www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...

A Russian company presented the country's first (per TASS) humanoid robot equipped with AI today; it didn't go very well. (The soundtrack is spot-on though)

This may become the funniest trial of all time

Brilliant investigation into Saudi Arabia's discovery that the optimal shape for a city is not a 170-kilometre straight line ig.ft.com/saudi-neom-l...

Putin's Security Council escalates nuclear-test wordings. #NovayaZemlya #Putin #NuclearTests #Russia

🧵Today is the 10th anniversary of one of Washington’s most persistent unsolved mysteries: the death of Mikhail Lesin. A former Putin media minister who built the Russia Today, Lesin’s body was found in the Dupont Circle Hotel on Nov. 5, 2015.

Russian Defense Minister Andrei Belousov calls for immediate preparations for nuclear testing up at Novaya Zemlya (was speaking today at a meeting of the Russian Security Council, chaired by Putin) t.me/RIAKremlinpo...

There are many charming aspects of Slovakia's capital city. For example, the "Cheese-O-Matic" vending machine.

BREAKING: Dick Cheney, one of the most powerful and polarizing vice presidents of US history, dies at 84.

It's not in this article but the government asserts that the sandwich was thrown at "point blank range", which implies subway sandwiches have defined effective weapon ranges of varying lethality, and I would like to see the government's chart of these ranges.

The Khabarovsk was rolled out from the ship hall in Severodvinsk on Saturday. This submarine is the first in a class of vessels to be armed with Russia's new doomsday-weapon, the underwater nuclear-powered, nuclear-armed torpedo-looking robotic weapon.

In Sumy, a russian attack drone hit an apartment building; five apartments were engulfed in flames. There were also hits on railway infrastructure. This can be seen in the video. Explosions were heard overnight in Sumy, Odesa, Mykolaiv, Kharkiv, Kherson, and other regions of Ukraine.

BIRN journalists obtained access to private Telegram groups where recruiters lure Serb mercenaries from Bosnia and Serbia to join Russian forces in Ukraine with promises of lucrative contracts and veterans’ benefits detektor.ba/2025/10/30/m...

Aleksandr Zhukov, a Russian who called himself the “king of fraud," is about to get out of prison and deported, per new filing. He wants the US Justice Department to return his XBox, other items seized by the FBI. Zhukov was sentenced in 2021 to 10 years for running the "MethBot" ad fraud scheme.

Ukraine's top military officer, Gen. Oleksandr Syrskiy, says he's traveled to Pokrovsk; likely a sign of how dire things are in the city, where Russia troops are increasing their hold. (also grumbling among Ukrainian officers too about lack of support...) t.me/osirskiy/1300 Map by @deepstate_ua

Kremlin spokesman responds to Trump's threat on resuming nuke testing: "if it's somehow a reference to the Burevestnik test, that wasn't a nuclear test, not in any way....The US has the right to make sovereign decisions. [But] if someone breaks the [test] moratorium, Russia will act accordingly."

Putin now announcing that Russia yesterday conducted a test of another new weapons system -- the remote, nuclear-capable, long-range torpedo Poseidon. Comes 3 days after announcement of test of long-range nuke-powered cruise missile Burevestnik.

Here's what Norway's military intelligence says about Russia's test of the Burevestnik cruise missile: _ was launched at Novaya Zemlya _ had nuclear propulsion _ flew significantly longer than previous _ remains under development, not ready for deployment _ Russia has been testing it since 2016

ChatGPT, Gemini, DeepSeek, and Grok are serving users propaganda from Russian-backed media when asked about the invasion of Ukraine, new research finds. www.wired.com/story/chatbo...

Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov has this to say about the Burevestnik nuke-powered missile test (partly in response to Trump's remarks): "There is nothing here that could or should strain relations between Moscow and Washington-- especially since these relations are already at a minimum level."

Trump, responding to reports of the Burevestnik missile test, reminds (reveals) the presence of a US nuke sub somewhere off the Russian coast. "We test missiles all the time, but we do have a nuclear submarine...I don't think it's an appropriate thing for Putin to be saying."

Russia regional budgets for this year and 2026 show how the war is making it very hard fore regions to keep the income at the levels of 2022-2023, let alone pre-war levels @minczifra.bsky.social ridl.io/state-of-unr...

State Department Intelligence Agency Dissented Over Putin’s Appetite for Peace www.wsj.com/politics/nat...

Pumpkinscapers. 😶 www.wsj.com/style/pumpki...

No radiation measured in Norway after Putin's nuclear-powered Burevestnik missile allegedly flew 14,000 km over the Arctic last Tuesday ☢️ 🚀 ⚛️

Russia has successfully tested a long-range nuclear powered cruise missile called the Burevestnik, Gen, Valery Gerasimov tells Putin. He says missile was tested Oct. 21, travelled 14,000 kilometers and was aloft for 15 hours.