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October 2025
|    | 2 |  The old friend of Jeffrey Epstein, formerly known as Prince Andrew, has been stripped of all royal and noble titles and is now just Mr. Andrew Mountbatten Windsor. | 
|    | 8 |   Aryan Brotherhood leader stabbed to death in prison. | 
|    | 28 |  Some good news since we've been needing it: COVID-19 mRNA vaccines could make immune checkpoint inhibitors more effective against cancer according to recent research. | 
|    | 22 |   The Dutch intelligence service the AIVD has said it would downgrade intelligence sharing with the CIA, over worries that the intelligence would be mishandled. | 
|    | 29 |   Trump continues his construction of Mar-a-Lago on the Potomac (formerly known as 'the White House') by demolishing parts of the East Wing for his ballroom. Something he has no permission to do and what his spokesperson explicitly stated would not need to be done, particularly as it is more than 'just the facade' of the wing gone. Which explains why Federal employees have been told not to take photographs. Trump said he and private donors would pay for this work, but now is hitting up Uncle Sam for full compensation for his 'largesse'. | 
|    | 34 |    It takes only one phone call; Trump flips to pro-Putin position over Ukraine; tells Zelenskyy to give whatever the Russians want 'for peace' as 'the Russians are winning'. Europe once again rushes to attempt to flip him back. Killer kompromat on the wannabee king or just a killer thirst for a Nobel? | 
|    | 13 |   George Santos released from prison after Trump commutes his sentence. | 
|    | 20 |   Israel strikes southern Gaza, accusing Hamas of 'bold violation of ceasefire' | 
|    | 24 |  Millions of people in all 50 states take to the streets to protest against the Trump regime on the second No Kings Day. | 
|    | 22 |   Russia is torturing its Ukrainian captives, The Economist reports. | 
|    | 18 |  John Bolton becomes the latest Trump critic to be indicted, with the DoJ accusing him of transmitting top secret information about US national defence using his personal email and other messaging apps. | 
|    | 10 |  Raila Odinga, revered Kenyan opposition leader and former PM,  has died at the age of 80 in India. | 
|    | 18 |   Trump authorized a covert CIA operation in Venezuela. | 
|    | 21 |  Swastika flag discovered in Republican congressman's office. He called the police and said it was vandalism. | 
|    | 15 |   Oklahoma mandate to teach the Bible in public schools revoked by the new schools superintendent. | 
|    | 15 |   Trump caught on a hot mic moment making a business deal with Indonesian president Prabowo Subianto. | 
|    | 32 |  ‘I love Hitler’: Leaked messages expose Young Republicans’ racist chat. Thousands of private messages reveal young GOP leaders joking about gas chambers, slavery and rape. | 
|    | 23 |  Putin is crushing the last voices of dissent. The arrest of opposition leader Maxim Kruglov is a blow against the last vestiges of democracy in Russia. "some 60 politically motivated criminal cases are opened against Russian citizens every month" | 
|    | 22 |  US supreme court rejects Alex Jones appeal over $1.4bn defamation penalty | 
|    | 18 |  Donald Trump has declared that October 12 is no longer Indigenous Peoples Day. It's just a day to honor Christopher Columbus and, "to reclaim his extraordinary legacy of faith, courage, perseverance, and virtue from the left-wing arsonists who have sought to destroy his name and dishonor his memory." Nevertheless, inclusive Indigenous Peoples Day events took place across the US. | 
|    | 17 |  Madagascar’s President Andry Rajoelina has left the country, French radio reports. This is amid mass demonstrations, which factions of the army have joined, having declared their refusal to shoot protesters. | 
|    | 25 |  At a time when Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is working to limit Americans' access to vaccines, Donald Trump got a COVID booster shot during his second "routine annual checkup" of the year. | 
|    | 22 |  The Sunday Times reports that there is such a shortage of priests in Ireland, that only thirteen local Irish men have entered a seminary this year for the Roman Catholic Church. | 
|    | 27 |   All branches of the Texas Donald Trump-themed fast-food restaurant Trump Burger mysteriously close down 5 months after the arrest of its Lebanese-born owner by ICE. | 
|    | 19 |   The Hawaiian library system has prohibited the usage of the words "censorship"'and "banned", and any displays that refer to "Banned Books Week". The library has instead rebranded the event as "Freedom to Read". | 
|    | 16 |   America bails out Argentina's president Javier Milei | 
|    | 22 |  Peru's president removed from office amid soaring crime | 
|    | 35 |  A conservation win; green turtle 'back from the brink' of extinction. | 
|    | 35 |  Renewables now leading source of global electricity, surpassing coal. | 
|    | 24 |    Even though he constantly insisted that he deserved it, the 2025 Nobel Peace Prize was not awarded to Donald Trump. It went instead to Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado. | 
|    | 23 |    Austria says it won't host the 2026 Eurovision Song Contest if Israel isn't allowed to participate. Germany also says it won't take part if Israel is excluded. | 
|    | 34 |  Supreme Court justices will vote on whether a state banning anti-gay conversion therapy performed on minors violates "free speech rights". The court also rejected Ghislaine Maxwell's recent appeal. | 
|    | 35 |  Senior US military veterans dismiss the recent speeches by Donald Trump and Pete Hegseth to over 800 generals and admirals as "insulting" and "dangerous". | 
|    | 30 |  Wired reports that ICE is planning to create a giant computer surveillance system for intelligence purposes of the agency. | 
|    | 31 |   Sean "Diddy" Combs has been sentenced to over four years in federal prison and to pay a fine of US$500,000 for two counts of transportation for prostitution. | 
|    | 29 |   For the first time in its almost 500-year history, the Church of England has named a woman as Archbishop of Canterbury. The new Archbishop, Dame Sarah Mullay, says, "hatred and racism of any kind cannot be allowed to tear us apart." | 
|    | 51 |   Pope Leo XIV speaks against the renaming of the US Department of Defense as the Department of War and the blustery talk of Pete Hegseth and Donald Trump. He also says, "Someone who says, 'I am against abortion,' but says, 'I am in favor of the death penalty,' is not really pro-life," and, "Someone who says that, 'I am against abortion but I am in agreement with the inhuman treatment of immigrants who are in the United States,' I don’t know if that’s pro-life." | 
|    | 32 |  Jane Goodall has died at the age of 91. | 
|    | 3 |   Israel is running a hasbara operation in the US paying influencers seven thousand dollars per post. | 
|    | 24 |  Google is blocking AI search results for Trump and dementia. It will however show results for Biden and dementia. | 
|    | 1 |  AI is not killing jobs, US study finds | 
|    | 33 |     Four CARICOM nations; Belize, Barbados, St. Vincent and the Grenadines and Dominica, have introduced European-style freedom of movement between all four countries. | 
|    | 29 |  The US government has officially shut down because Congress and the White House failed to pass a budget together before the deadline. Many US agencies were ordered to send a mass email blaming the Democrats for the shutdown. The shutdown will have too many effects to list, but one will be that economic data such as an upcoming jobs report may be delayed. Many federal employees will continue to work if they are considered "essential", but they largely won't be paid (for now). Many others may either be furloughed or laid off. | 
|    | 40 |   Gas may need to be rationed in Russia because Ukraine has blown up so many of their refineries. | 
|    | 23 |  The ADL deleted its entire "Glossary of Extremism" under pressure from Elon Musk. | 
|    | 12 |   To tackle obesity, "buy one, get one free" deals on unhealthy foods and drinks and free refills of certain drinks at restaurants and cafés will be banned in England. | 
September 2025
|    | 11 |  The U.S. Federal Communications Commission (FCC) will "consider whether to lift the long-standing prohibition on a merger between any of the largest four broadcast networks and to consider relaxing other media ownership rules." | 
|    | 7 |    Hamas official says they're likely to reject Trump's peace proposal for Gaza. The unnamed official reportedly spoke to BBC News, saying the plan "serves Israel's interests" and "ignores those of the Palestinian people". | 
|    | 5 |  Trump says "We can cut large numbers of people" from social benefit programs if the US government shuts down due to a lack of budgetary agreement. | 
|    | 12 |   Trump and Pete Hegseth gave an "unusual" speech to all the US military's generals. Hegseth insulted "fat generals", and Trump said US cities should be used by the military as "training grounds". Trump also bragged about his tariffs, and suggested again Canada should be the 51st state. | 
|    | 11 |    The US bailed out the nation of Argentina. US Secretary of the Treasury Scott Bessent's text messages then leaked, suggesting the bailout immediately backfired on the US since after "the announcement of the aid, Argentina turned around and sold soybeans to China". This is at the same time the US and China are having a trade war over soybeans, so Argentina undercut the US's leverage in that trade war. | 
|    | 6 |  President of Ecuador's convoy attacked with Molotov cocktails; the convoy also included UN and EU diplomats. | 
|    | 8 |  Trump imposing 100% tariffs on movies not made in the US. | 
|    | 10 |  Six separate mass shootings over the weekend. | 
|    | 27 |  Shock of all shocks as a new study has found Twitter to be the "go-to platform" for antisemitism. | 
|    | 35 |  The EBU is planning an EGM on whether Israel will be allowed to participate in the 2026 Eurovision Song Contest, after a number of countries including Ireland, Spain and the Netherlands threaten to quit if Israel isn't expelled due to the situation in Gaza and the country's misbehaviour during the last two contests. | 
|    | 16 |  Malawi re-elects former president Peter Mutharika to take back the position he held from 2014-2020. He defeated Lazarus Chakwera, who had won the 2020 election after the 2019 ellection was annulled by the country's supreme court due to irregularities. | 
|    | 21 |  RFK Jr has announced that the FDA is set to conduct a review of abortion pills. | 
|    | 33 |  Former President Nicolas Sarkozy has been sentenced to 5 years in prison after being found guilty of criminal conspiracy. | 
|    | 38 |   Donald Trump delivered a scathing, rambling speech at the UN General Assembly in New York, amongst which he paraded his climate change denial beliefs, ranted about how London was going to impose Sharia law, peddled the line about how migration was threatening Europe, demanded Europe stop buying Russian fuels, stated that increased recognition of the State of Palestine was a "reward for Hamas" and that the UN basically sucked for not helping him do what he'd like. | 
|    | 44 |  Global investment in renewable energy up 10% on 2024 despite Trump rollback. | 
|    | 23 |   Trump wants to retake a US military base in Afghanistan and the Taliban disagrees. Now, Trump says if they don't give it back then "BAD THINGS ARE GOING TO HAPPEN." | 
|    | 40 |  App dedicated to collecting the personal information of Charlie Kirk's critics ("their names, locations and employers") collapses after the app's users themselves had their personal data leaked due to a security flaw. | 
|    | 29 |  Jimmy Kimmel returns to ABC after Disney faces a consumer boycott and protests for caving in to Trump's bullying and threats. However, Sinclair and Nexstar are refusing to carry Kimmel's show, which locks him out of about a third of the ABC network. Update: Both Sinclair and Nexstar brought back Kimmel. | 
|    | 28 |   74 people arrested in Moldova for attempting to disrupt the country's elections on behalf of the Russian government. | 
|    | 27 |  Trump baselessly links autism with vaccines and the painkiller Tylenol, also says Amish people have no autism. The Amish Heritage Foundation disagrees and says this is an "anti-Amish trope" that "contributes further harm toward Amish children who need medical care and attention". A 2024 sibling control analysis found no evidence for the Tylenol link. It's clear Trump has been listening to RFK Jr. | 
|    | 33 |   In a humiliating loss for Russia, Ukraine strikes a massive Russian ammunition depot with over 19,000 drones and ZUBK14 tank missiles in illegally occupied Luhansk. | 
|    | 17 |   Saudi Arabia and Pakistan sign a defence pact, marking the first time a Gulf state has signed such with a nuclear power. | 
|    | 38 |      The UK, Canada, Australia, and Portugal recognize Palestine as a state | 
|    | 27 |   Russia has violated Estonia’s airspace | 
|    | 22 |  ICE has obtained access to Israeli-made spyware that can hack phones and encrypted apps. | 
|    | 18 |  Tom Homan was being investigated for taking bribes from undercover FBI agents. After Trump took power, his DOJ shut the investigation down. | 
|    | 14 |   The members of the Irish hip-hop trio Kneecap are denied entry to Canada because of their "open endorsement of terrorist organizations." | 
|    | -3 |  In spite of images surfacing of him wearing blackface to dress as Barack Obama for a 2009 Halloween party, Irish MP Eoin Hayes will not be expelled from the Social Democrats party. | 
|    | 20 |   The 2025 Ig Nobel Prizes honor research showing alcohol consumption can improve foreign language ability and disguising cows as zebras can protect them from insect bites. The literature prize was awarded posthumously to an Iowa academic for his 35-year record of his toenail growth. | 
|    | 23 |  After RFK Jr. replaced the CDC vaccine advisers, they've now voted against recommending a combined measles, mumps, rubella and varicella (MMRV) vaccine for children under 4 years old. The entire committee was recently purged and replaced with a new committee, which is now at least partly made up of known anti-vaccine activists. | 
|    | 29 |   Donald Trump arrives in the UK amid protests, including a huge image of Trump with Jeffrey Epstein being projected onto Windsor Castle. | 
|    | 21 |  Jair Bolsonaro has been diagnosed with skin cancer. | 
|    | 33 |  Donald Trump pretends to designate "Antifa" as a "terrorist organization", after previously promising to do this in 2020. Antifa is not an actual organization and the Trump White House admitted in 2018 they had no legal mechanism for designating domestic groups as terrorist organizations. | 
|    | 30 |  Busybody FCC chair Brendan Carr demands talk show host Jimmy Kimmel's cable hosts "change conduct, on Kimmel" because he disagreed about the motives of Charlie Kirk's killer. The pathetic media companies immediately obeyed and took Kimmel off the air. Carr, by the way, wrote Project 2025's chapter on the FCC, which Donald Trump knew nothing about, but he knew to appoint Carr as the FCC chair this year anyway. | 
|    | 20 |   Scottish Borders Council moves to evict the self-styled Kingdom of Kubala that is camping on its land. The three members of the Kingdom, a Ghanaian, a Zimbabwean and an American, claim to be descendants of Black people that lived in Scotland 400 years ago and whose land there was stolen from them. They follow the laws of their god Yahowah and do not recognize local governments or eviction notices. | 
|    | 16 |   A Democrat-linked PR firm has been hired to run a pro-Zionist bot army. Update: They dropped Israel as a client. | 
|    | 26 |   A few days after drone incursion, Russian hackers now target Polish hospitals and city water supply | 
|    | 27 |   Israel launches ground invasion of Gaza City | 
|    | 27 |   Eight people shot in mass shooting in Minneapolis, the same day five people were shot in a separate mass shooting in Minneapolis. | 
|    | 30 |    UN commission says Israel is committing genocide in Gaza. | 
|    | 29 |   South Korea is outraged at the United States after hundreds of South Korean foreign workers were treated repulsively in immigration detention. TIME: "South Korean daily newspaper Hankyoreh reported that the detainees’ waists and hands were tied, which forced them to bend down and lick in order to drink water." South Korean companies are now questioning whether they should continue to invest in the United States. | 
|    | 24 |   Silvero Villegas-Gonzalez, an immigrant and father who was killed by ICE, had no criminal record other than minor traffic violations, according to his lawyer. | 
|    | 21 |   The National Center for Civil and Human Rights expands its exhibits in Georgia. The museum is privately-funded, unlike the public museums and national parks where exhibits discussing slavery are being censored by the Trump government. | 
|    | 24 |   Russian support for continuing the Ukraine war is at its lowest-ever point. People in Russia want peace talks, and many say they lost a relative, friend, or acquaintance in the war, or otherwise have one in the trenches. This is according to the Levada Center. Notably, the sentiment is similar on the Ukrainian side. Both want the war to end soon. Ukraine has centered its request for Russia to return kidnapped Ukrainian children in any peace talks, and a new Yale report discusses the scale of those kidnappings. | 
|    | 15 |  Trump sues The New York Times newspaper for $15,000,000,000. As a reason, he cited the endorsement the paper's board of opinion/editorial writers gave to Kamala Harris in 2024. According to Sky News, he also previously threatened to sue the paper for their coverage of his past friendship with Jeffrey Epstein. | 
|    | 16 |   ... Meanwhile, the Trump administration is concerned Britain doesn't have enough free speech, and intends to confront the British government about it in high-level talks. | 
|    | 19 |  Trump administration crackdown on free speech worries 1st Amendment groups. US War Secretary Pete Hegseth threatened to pursue members of the military who post things he disagrees with on social media. Attorney General Pam Bondi: "There's free speech and then there's hate speech, and there is no place, especially now, especially after what happened to Charlie, in our society...We will absolutely target you, go after you, if you are targeting anyone with hate speech." A website was created to call people "murderers" for saying things like, "I genuinely do not know how any person could be saying Charlie Kirk was a good man. Of course, it's awful he was shot." The website has now been rebranded. | 
|    | 24 |   Russia violates Romania's airspace. | 
|    | 27 |   Tommy Robinson led a massive Unite the Kingdom rally in London. 26 police officers were injured and 25 people were arrested. Elon Musk appeared via video link, called for the UK's parliament to be dissolved and its government changed and told protesters they had to "either fight back or die." | 
|    | 42 |  The European Parliament declined to hold a "moment of prayer and reflection" for Charlie Kirk; the request for such a moment was made by a right-wing Swedish member of that parliament. | 
|    | 30 |   The murderer of Charlie Kirk has been identified as 22-year-old Tyler Robinson, whose parents are registered Republicans. Although he is registered to vote in Utah, the Washington County Clerk said that he never voted in any election. | 
|    | 28 |    The United Nations overwhelmingly voted in favor of a resolution that outlines "tangible, timebound, and irreversible steps" toward a two-state solution between Palestine and Israel, the latter of which, along with the U.S., boycotted the event. Israel's Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, has vowed that "there will be no Palestinian state" for as long as he lives. | 
|    | 19 |         The Arizona, Illinois, Maine, and North Carolina governors have all signed orders that are intended to make COVID-19 vaccines available in pharmacies for people without individual prescriptions. | 
|    | 19 |  New leader of Nepal nominated by student protesters in a Discord chatroom, supervised by the Nepali military. | 
|    | 20 |   U.S. House of Representatives lawmakers vote to repeal Iraq war authorizations. | 
|    | 24 |  President Trump asked by Fox News host how to achieve national unity after the murder of Charlie Kirk, and in light of extremist violence. His response: "I couldn't care less." The Guardian contrasted this with past US presidents, like Abraham Lincoln saying "malice toward none, with charity for all". | 
|    | 41 |       The next Eurovision Song Contest will be boycotted by Ireland, Iceland, Slovenia, Spain and the Netherlands if Israel is allowed to participate. | 
|    | 25 |   The Shah of Iran's alleged chief torturer, living in the US under an assumed name for 25 years, was accidentally (or "accidentally") outed by one of his daughters, and subsequently sued by three of his victims. | 
|    | 52 |  Jair Bolsonaro, former president of Brazil, found guilty by the Supreme Court of Brazil for plotting a military coup. Update he’s been sentenced to 27 years in prison. | 
|    | 30 |   Former Republican Congressman, Russian propagandist and criminal Madison Cawthorn has been arrested for failing to appear in court. | 
|    | 27 |   Due to mounting scrutiny over his relationship with Jeffrey Epstein, Keir Starmer has removed Peter Mandelson from his post as British ambassador to the US. | 
|    | 93 |   Charlie Kirk has been shot and killed at a campus event in Utah. | 
|    | 34 |     The Soy Right strikes again as a Texas A&M University professor has been fired for teaching that trans people exist. The DOJ has also expressed an "interest" in the incident. | 
|    | 30 |    Poland and other NATO forces down Russian drones. | 
|    | 20 |   Rupert Murdoch cuts off three of his heirs from inheriting his news empire in order to ensure that it will stay far right. | 
|    | 18 |   Second Sons Canada, definitely not a Neo-Nazi group, hold a rally in Niagara-on-the-Lake, Ontario. | 
|    | 29 |   Israel carries an airstrike on Doha | 
|    | 31 |  Nepal's parliament set on fire after PM Sharma Oli resigns over anti-corruption protests. Ex-PM Jhala Nath Khanal's wife was killed during the incident after the protesters set her house on fire and was unable to escape the flames. | 
|    | 22 |   SCOTUS has given ICE the go-ahead to racially profile Hispanic people in LA. | 
|    | 27 |  The Wall Street Journal published another article on a Trump letter to Jeffrey Epstein for Epstein's birthday. The article shows the letter itself, which was previously only described in text, though some people online created mock-ups. The same letter was reportedly obtained by the House of Representatives' Oversight Committee, via Epstein's estate (who are tasked with managing his remaining assets), and released by the Democrats on that committee. Update: The House Committee released the full "birthday book". It was put on Google Docs here. | 
|    | 26 |    Spain imposes weapons embargo on Israel. Ships carrying fuel to Israel's military are also banned from docking in Spain. Planes carrying military material to Israel are banned from entering Spain's airspace. The government of Spain says these measures are aimed at "stopping the genocide" in Gaza. | 
|    | 17 |  French government collapses after failed confidence vote. | 
|    | 21 |  Boris Johnson revealed to be thoroughly corrupt from leaked documents | 
|    | 26 |  Trump orders US Department of Defense be renamed to Department of War. Pentagon officials said the rebrand will "cost millions of dollars". | 
|    | 16 |   Supporters of former Brazilian president Jair Bolsonaro protested the Supreme Court of Brazil, where the final stages of a trial against Bolsonaro are taking place for his alleged involvement in a 2022 auto-coup against the election results, not too unlike J6 in the US. Trump applied 50% tariffs to Brazilian goods to pressure the court not to convict Bolsonaro, with the two being political allies. | 
|    | 18 |   Left-wing Military junta in Burkina Faso is now formally criminalizing homosexuality.[1][2] | 
|    | 20 |  Americans face biggest increase in health insurance costs in 15 years, the Financial Times reports. Just like many other problems, you can blame tariffs for that. | 
|    | 32 |  James O'Keefe, not a Democrat as you can tell by the RW page about him, took it on himself to publish a video where a Department of Justice official said the Trump administration would "redact every Republican or conservative person" from the Epstein files before releasing them. (DOJ's response here.) | 
|    | 22 |  Tech CEOs invited to the White House for a big dinner with Trump. They take turns praising him. Elon Musk is notably absent, presumably busy being offered a trillion dollars by Tesla's board. | 
|    | 20 |  Congress of Argentina overrides Javier Milei's veto for the first time. This result will protect funding for services to disabled people. | 
|    | 23 |     The government of Florida paved over a rainbow crosswalk that was part of a memorial for gay and bisexual men who were mass shooting victims at the Pulse nightclub in 2016. The issue has since become a "political lightning rod" and half a dozen people were arrested trying to restore the crosswalk and other memorials or murals in Florida, including a black history mural. | 
|    | 24 |   A military leak claims that in 2019, Trump approved a botched operation to send the U.S. Navy SEALs into North Korea "to plant a listening device". This resulted in the SEALs murdering a number of North Korean civilian fishermen so the SEALs could abort the mission without being noticed. | 
|    | 16 |  Deputy Prime Minister Angela Rayner resigns after it emerges that she didn’t pay enough tax on her flat. | 
|    | 24 |  Weird development in biology. Scientists discover that the Iberian Harvester Ant births another species as part of its lifecycle. They coined a new word to describe this; "Xenoparous". | 
|    | 22 |   The Trump regime is reportedly looking for ways to ban transgender firearm ownership. Update: Gun lobby groups (NRA, GOA, etc.) break with the Trump administration, oppose any gun bans. | 
|    | 25 |   Drivers queue as Ukraine’s drones take out 20% of Russia's refining capacity | 
|    | 15 |    Graham Linehan has gone on trial in London on charges of harassment and criminal damage against a trans woman. The trial is not connected to his much-publicized arrest at Heathrow Airport on Monday 1 September. | 
|    | 23 |  Newsmax sues Fox for "anticompetitive behaviors". | 
|    | 23 |  Epstein victims hold press conference calling for Trump administration to release the rest of the Epstein files. (Full livestream here.) House Republican leaders are urging members not to vote for a measure by Thomas Massie (R) and Ro Khanna (D) to release the files. However, MTG, Boebert, and Nancy Mace have now signed on along with all Democratic members of the House of Representatives. Trump responded to a question about Epstein at his event the same day as the victims' conference, calling it a "Democrat hoax that never ends". | 
|    | 16 |   Burkina Faso becomes the latest country to outlaw homosexuality, with president Ibrahim Traoré announcing the law on state TV. The law goes into effect immediately, and punishments will include fines and two to five years in prison. | 
|    | 35 |    Graham Linehan has been arrested at Heathrow Airport for inciting violence with transphobic tweets. | 
|    | 32 |    “The top leader of the world’s foremost superpower is objectively a Russian asset,” says Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa, the president of Portugal | 
|    | 37 |    The International Association of Genocide Scholars issued a statement that Israel's actions in Gaza meet the legal definition of a genocide. The association has 500 members, and 86% of those who voted agreed with the statement. Note: The association didn't state how many of their members voted. | 
|    | 21 |   Trump administration further restricts Palestinian people from access to US passports. Trump seems to be doing this due to pressure from Laura Loomer, who never sleeps. | 
|    | 21 |   Pope Leo XIV met with a Jesuit priest who is an LGBT advocate, who says Leo told him he'd continue Pope Francis's stance of welcoming LGBT people in the Church more compared to his predecessors. | 
