Robyn Beck | Afp | Getty Images Will Smith's upcoming film "Emancipation" will be released in theaters on Dec. 2 and on Apple TV+ a week later on Dec. 9. It's Smith's first project since the Oscars, where he made headlines for slapping host Chris Rock on stage and winning Best Actor for his titular role in "King Richard." Read More

Far-right president forces second round after closely trailing Lula, disappointing those who had hoped to turn a page on his influence. Tears filled Beatriz Simões’s eyes as she digested Jair Bolsonaro’s startlingly strong performance in Sunday’s Brazilian election. Hours earlier the 34-year-old publicist had been convinced a hope-filled dawn was coming with the election of Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva as Brazil’s next leader. Read More

In 2020, Thelma Rose Annan moved into her Manhattan apartment paying $1,882 per month in rent. By 2021, it was $2,400 per month. This year, it rose by another $1,100, bringing her monthly rent to a whopping $3,500. “This jump increase is too much and I simply cannot afford it,” Annan says. Read More

Ayatollah Ali Khamenei condemned Iran's biggest protests in years, ignited by a young Kurdish woman who died in police custody after not wearing her hijab "properly." Read More

The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) chair said Sunday that aid for victims of Hurricane Ian will be going to “all communities,” dismissing earlier suggestions from Vice President Kamala Harris. Harris claimed on Friday that the aid distribution in the aftermath of Hurricane Ian should be “based on equity.” While being interviewed on CBS “Face The Nation,” FEMA chair Deanne Criswell explained, “we’re going to support all communities. I committed that to the governor, I commit to you right here that all Floridians are going to be able to get the help that is available to them through our programs.” Read More

Jeanine Abrams McLean. A case before the Supreme Court directly challenges a key provision of the Voting Rights Act that protects people of color from discrimination. The post This Supreme Court Will Decide the Fate of the Voting Rights Act appeared first on The Nation. Read More

Apple's App Store net revenue fell about 5% in September, according to Morgan Stanley, the steepest drop for the business since the bank started modeling the data in 2015. The App Store saw declines in markets including the U.S., Canada and Japan, Morgan Stanley analyst Erik Woodring wrote in a report on Monday. His analysis was based on data from Sensor Tower, a firm that tracks app downloads and sales. Read More

President Joe Biden personally thanked a Coast Guard rescue swimmer for saving lives during Hurricane Ian just days before his expected discharge for refusing the COVID-19 vaccine. Zack Loesch, who rescued stranded Florida residents in the aftermath of Hurricane Ian, received a call from Biden thanking him for his service and efforts to save lives, according to the White House. Though the Biden administration praised Loesch, he told Breitbart that he will be kicked out of the Coast Guard in the next 30-60 days for refusing the vaccine mandate. (RELATED: Navy Quietly Rescinded Rules Barring Unvaccinated SEALs From Duty: REPORT) Read More

Since the Russian invasion of Ukraine, Western governments have supplied Ukrainian forces with huge amounts of military hardware. The US has supplied over $15.1bn in assistance since 24 February, while the UK has committed £2.3bn, according to the UK's House of Commons research service. Read More

D has always understood how the world works—or, at least, how it can be made to work—better than his opponents. Maybe because he has such qualities himself in abundance, his appreciation for human greed, cowardice, selfishness and other weaknesses has given him a granite confidence in human corruptibility. Across the decades, and throughout his term as president, that faith has been vindicated more often than it has been confounded. “History isn’t kind to the man who holds Mussolini’s jacket,” Senator Ted Cruz of Texas told an associate in 2016, explaining why he was not endorsing Mr Trump, according to the new book “Confidence Man”, by Maggie Haberman. Yet Mr Cruz eventually bent the knee—even though Mr Trump had attacked his wife, Heidi, so cruelly that even a Republican not named Cruz also said he could not back him. That Republican, Rudy Giuliani, would go on to make a bonfire of his reputation in service to Mr Trump. Read More

LISBON, Portugal -- Clergy sexual abuse cases are casting a pall over the Catholic Church in Portugal, ensnaring senior officials even as authorities scramble to explain why shelter was given to a Nobel Peace Prize-winning bishop at the center of sexual misconduct allegations. Senior Catholic leaders apologized over the weekend for decades of abuse and cover-up — current estimates number around 400 cases — with the archbishop of Lisbon begging the faithful to not lose faith in the church. Read More

Press play to listen to this article U.K. Chancellor Kwasi Kwarteng has junked his plan to cut taxes for high earners after a backlash from financial markets and Conservative Party colleagues that plunged his country into economic crisis. "We get it, and we have listened," Kwarteng said as he announced the dramatic U-turn on Twitter on Monday. Read More

Content This content can also be viewed on the site it originates from. I have few memories of being four—a fact I find disconcerting now that I’m the father of a four-year-old. My son and I have great times together; lately, we’ve been building Lego versions of familiar places (the coffee shop, the bathroom) and perfecting the “flipperoo,” a move in which I hold his hands while he somersaults backward from my shoulders to the ground. But how much of our joyous life will he remember? What I recall from when I was four are the red-painted nails of a mean babysitter; the brushed-silver stereo in my parents’ apartment; a particular orange-carpeted hallway; some houseplants in the sun; and a glimpse of my father’s face, perhaps smuggled into memory from a photograph. These disconnected images don’t knit together into a picture of a life. They also fail to illuminate any inner reality. I have no memories of my own feelings, thoughts, or personality;... Read More

“The Science Guy” offered three words to conservative lawmakers while addressing Hurricane Ian's impact. Read More

The Native American activist died on Sunday, less than two months after the Academy apologised over her treatment at the 1973 Academy Awards. Sacheen Littlefeather, Native American activist who famously declined Marlon Brando’s Oscar for The Godfather, has died aged 75, the Academy of Motion Pictures announced on Sunday. Littlefeather had been suffering from breast cancer. Read More

Several media outlets claim to have identified the person responsible for allegedly tricking illegal migrants into boarding Republican Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis-chartered flights to Martha’s Vineyard, Massachusetts. Perla Huerta, a former Army counterintelligence agent and combat medic specialist, allegedly paid an illegal migrant in San Antonio, Texas, to recruit other illegal migrants to board planes to the island, according to multiple media outlets.  (RELATED: Democrat-Run Border City Will Ask The Biden Admin To Pay Millions For Illegal Migrant Charter Buses Across The Country) Read More

The U.K. government's reversal on scrapping the top rate of income tax is down to political optics and will not reassure market skittishness, analysts told CNBC Monday. Read More

Ukrainian troops have continued to push on with their offensive that has embarrassed Moscow, with Kyiv officials and foreign observers hinting at new gains in the southern strategic region of Kherson Read More

Ulrich Körner says he is ‘confident we have what it takes to succeed’ and tells staff coverage of bank’s crisis contains ‘inaccurate statements’ The chief executive of Credit Suisse has attempted to reassure staff the globally significant Swiss bank has a solid balance sheet after credit markets rated its risk of default as the highest in a decade. In a memo to staff, Ulrich Körner said there were “many factually inaccurate statements being made” in media coverage of the bank’s crisis, which has seen its share price plunge by 56% this year. Read More

Michael Sheppard has since been fired from his job at Texas jail and faces, along with his brother, a charge of manslaughter. After stopping for water near the US-Mexico border, one migrant was shot dead and another was wounded when they were fired on by the warden of an allegedly abusive Texas jail and his brother last week. Michael Sheppard – the warden of West Texas Detention Facility, a privately-owned jail which once housed migrants detained by the federal government – and Mark Sheppard each face a charge of manslaughter after the 27 September shooting in rural Hudspeth county, roughy 90 miles (145km) from El Paso. The Associated Press contributed reporting. Read More

On Sep. 27,  Frank Garrison, an attorney working for a conservative legal group, brought the first legal challenge to Biden's plan, arguing that forgiveness would cause him personal injury in the form of a state tax bill. Canceled student debt can be considered taxable income. Although borrowers won't be required to pay federal taxes on their canceled student debt, thanks to a pandemic-era relief provision in the the American Rescue Plan of 2021, some states — including Indiana, where Garrison resides — may charge levies on the relief. Read More

Brett Favre’s new attorney, Eric Herschmann, said Monday that Favre did not know state and university officials had diverted funds intended for welfare programs to a volleyball facility Favre was lobbying them to build. The former White House lawyer is representing Favre after the Mississippi Department of Human Services filed a civil lawsuit against him for the alleged misappropriation of $23 million in state funds, according to Axios. The state alleges that he used funds intended for the state’s poor and needy to construct a volleyball facility at his alma mater, the University of Southern Mississippi, where his daughter also attended. Read More

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. -- Florida school shooter Nikolas Cruz told a prosecution psychiatrist he began contemplating a mass murder during middle school, doing extensive research on earlier killers to learn their methods and mistakes to shape his own plans, video played at his penalty trial showed Monday. Cruz told Dr. Charles Scott during a March jailhouse interview that five years before he murdered 17 at Parkland's Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School on Feb. 14, 2018, he read about the 1999 murder of 13 at Colorado's Columbine High School, which first sparked the idea of his own mass killing. Cruz told Scott how Columbine, the 2007 murder of 32 at Virginia Tech University and the 2012 killing of 12 at a Colorado movie theater all played a part in his own preparation. Read More

Brazil's pollsters got it wrong, very wrong. Not only did far-right incumbent Jair Bolsonaro rob left-wing predecessor Lula Ignacio Da Silva of a first round knockout he can also boast upset wins for key allies in gubernatorial and congressional races. Next up, the October 30th presidential runoff where Lula still boasts a sizeable five-point lead  but where the momentum's undoubtedly with his rival. Read More

At the heart of both cases is Section 230, which protects tech companies from being held legally liable for what users post or see because of an algorithm. Read More

Jetson Maffia-Kerbey fell into family friend’s hot tub in Folkestone, Kent in June 2022. The death of a one-year-old boy who drowned in a hot tub in a family friend’s garden was a “tragic accident”, an inquest has concluded. Jetson Maffia-Kerbey was three months short of his second birthday when he died on 13 June 2022. The inquest at Maidstone county hall heard that on the day of Jetson’s death, his father, Nigel Kerbey, took him to spend the day with the family friend Graham Morgan and his three-year-old daughter at their home in Folkestone, Kent. Read More

No one can pinpoint the exact date when it became clear that investing in index funds had won out over investing in active management, but Warren Buffett declaring it to be so is certainly a pivotal moment. Read More

The Jan. 6 committee will not release its final report prior to the approaching midterm elections, the committee’s chairman said Sunday. Democratic Mississippi Rep. Bennie Thompson told Just the News that the committee will hold a delayed public hearing in October’s second week, but said he was uncertain if they would speak with any additional witnesses before issuing the report. Hurricane Ian prompted the committee to push the hearing back from Sept. 28, and Thompson said its final report would not be issued before the elections. Read More

More than 68% of likely general election voters reported that the increasing cost of food was either “somewhat” or “very much” motivating them to vote in the upcoming midterm elections, according to a Monday poll from the Trafalgar Group. The motivating pressure is more pronounced in 18-25 year-olds, Hispanics and Republicans, who were “very much” motivated to vote at rates of 61.9%, 60.6% and 71.1%, respectively, according to the Trafalgar Group. The poll was conducted from Sept. 17 to 20 after a hotter-than-expected inflation report from the Bureau of Labor Statistics revealed that the cost of groceries rose annually in August by 13.5%, the highest rate since 1979. (RELATED: Despite Food Costs Skyrocketing, Biden Claims Victory At ‘Kitchen Table’) Read More

The new Covid-19 mRNA bivalent boosters are different but at the same time the same. And the same might apply to the side effects that you may experience. For their bivalent boosters, both Pfizer-BioNTech and Moderna basically used the same approach and technology as they used for their primary series and first two booster vaccines. In all cases, the vaccines have primarily consisted of messenger RNA (mRNA for short) packaged in lipid nanoparticles. The mRNA is supposed to serve as blueprints that your cells use to produce copies of the spike proteins that stud the surface of the severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2). These spike proteins make the Covid-19 coronavirus look like the end of one of the those BDSM maces. You know the maces that you may keep hidden in your closet when guests who aren’t in the know are around. Read More

UnitedHealth Group says it has completed its acquisition of Change Healthcare, closing the roughly $8 billion deal a couple weeks after a judge rejected a challenge from regulators Read More

America has always been known for its cultural exports, and that gallery of amusements now includes "spewing insane lies when you lose an election." In fairness, Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro has not yet lost his bid for re-election. He came second in the first round of voting, but leader-of-the-pack Lula failed to crack 50 percent so the two are headed to a runoff. And Bolsonaro is correct, as Donald Trump once was, that polling agencies have underestimated his support through some flaw(s) in their methodology. Still, the fact that pre-election polls undercounted Bolsonaro voters is not proof that he actually won, and actually he got 6 million fewer citizens' votes. Now things are really starting to sound familiar, and it doesn't stop there: Jair, you see, is definitely going to say the election was rigged if he loses. In fact, like his good pal Don in both 2016 and 2020, he started saying it before the election even happened. Bolsonaro has said it's "easy to rig" voting machines, that votes are counted in secret rooms, that "it's impossible to audit elections in Brazil." There is no evidence to support any of this, but what did you expect? This is how the global right does things now. Well, they also invade their neighbors. But mostly, they like to lie to their own supporters, whom they disdain. Now, almost a third of Bolsonaro's supporters don't trust the electoral system "at all." Read More

Benjamin Fogel. In Brazil, support for Jair Bolsonaro, and the far right in general, proved significantly stronger than polling indicated. The post Lula Wins the First Round, but “Bolsonarismo” Is Here to Stay appeared first on The Nation. Read More

COLUMBUS, Miss. -- Forty years after Mississippi University for Women started enrolling men, its president says the school should consider choosing a more inclusive name. Previous attempts to remove “women” from the name, including the most recent one in 2009, have brought strong backlash from alumni of the school, nicknamed the W. Read More

Then, in October 1921 and again in September 1926, deadly hurricanes churned into Sanibel, one of a string of islands ringing Charlotte Harbor where Ian, and Charley 18 years before, also charged the coast. The Gulf of Mexico overtook the land, drowning the fruit and vegetable farms. The soils never recovered. Survivors turned to a more viable trade: hosting visitors from the Northeast. Only the wealthiest, like fishing pals Thomas Edison, Harvey Firestone and Henry Ford, could make their way by train and ferry for extended holidays. During the Great Depression, their kind of industrial wealth built livelihoods and a tourist economy on Sanibel and its sister enclave, Captiva, as the rest of Florida spiraled in the state’s first real estate bust. Read More

A new study from the Medical College of Georgia at Augusta University has found that irrigating your nose twice a day with a saline solution after testing positive for Covid-19 can decrease your chances of hospitalization and death in higher-risk patients. Read More

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The U.S. Supreme Court declined to intervene Monday in a defamation lawsuit against MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell filed by Dominion Voting Systems. Lindell had asked the high court to consider his appeal of a federal judge’s August 2021 rejection of a motion to dismiss the lawsuit. Read More

Kim Kardashian's crypto settlement could be a lesson for us all. The reality TV superstar agreed to pay $1.26 million to settle charges with the Securities and Exchange Commission for failing to disclose she got paid to publish a post on Instagram about EthereumMax's crypto asset, the agency announced Monday. Read More

When details started to emerge from Martha's Vineyard about the mechanics of Florida Gov. Ronald DeSantis' dirty trick, one of the principal villains was the mysterious “Perla,” who (one assumes) has some interesting tales to tell about how she landed the gig, including who hired her and what her instructions were. If only we knew who she was! Imagine that: CNN figured it out. She's Perla Huerta. From CNN: Read More

Recent discoveries in Alzheimer's disease research have thrown into question fundamental assumptions about the disease and its origins. In the second installment of this series, we introduce the primary risk factor of Alzheimer's and how it may cause cognitive decline. Read More

As Europe scrambles to avoid a disastrous energy crisis this winter, Chinese energy companies are selling excess gas to Europe at a massive profit, The Wall Street Journal reported. The opportunity comes for Chinese companies as reduced economic activity at home has led to lower energy demands, while an impending ban on Russian natural gas imports and the alleged sabotage of the Nord Stream 2 pipeline has left Europe scrambling for a new supply, according to the WSJ. The source of this excess gas is primarily the U.S. — the two countries have several long-term contracts for the sale of natural gas that were implemented during the Trump administration — or Russia, which has ramped up gas shipments to China by 30% in 2022, according to the WSJ. Read More

Max Moran. Congressional leaders turn their backs on a popular issue that helped Democrats win a Senate majority in 2020.  The post Capitol Flight: How Dems Dropped the Stock Ban appeared first on The Nation. Read More

Economic issues like inflation are of top mind for midterm voters a month out from Election Day, giving Republicans a slight edge over Democrats in a new poll released Monday by Monmouth University. For the first time since the Supreme Court's Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health decision overturned the constitutional right to abortion, a majority of voters polled by Monmouth say they think Republicans should take back control of Congress. Read More

Apart from the gold coins, the excavation - in a residential quarter of the ancient city - also uncovered the remains of buildings, water channels and pipes, bronze coins and much more, Israeli authorities said. Read More

WASHINGTON — The highest-profile trial to be held so far against participants in the Capitol riot got underway Monday as prosecutors began to show jurors how a group of far-right Oath Keepers plotted to stop the peaceful transfer of presidential power from Donald Trump to Joe Biden. The Oath Keepers’ founder, Elmer Stewart Rhodes, sat alongside four others linked to the extremist group in federal court, where they are charged with seditious conspiracy against the United States. Read More

Secretary of State Antony Blinken said on Friday that the sabotage of the Nord Stream natural gas pipelines could be advantageous for Europe because the continent may no longer be able to rely on Russian energy. Blinken told reporters that Europe now has a “tremendous opportunity” to achieve energy independence since it can no longer rely on Russian gas deliveries through Nord Stream 1 and 2 during a press conference. After European nations discovered gas leaks in the Baltic Sea on Sept. 27, President Joe Biden and the European Union (EU) both said that the leaks were caused by a “deliberate act” of sabotage. (RELATED: ‘Deliberate Act’: EU Declares That Crucial Pipelines Were Sabotaged) Read More

The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine was awarded to Sweden’s Svante Paabo for cracking an extinct human species’ genetic code. Paabo’s work is focused on understanding how the human species evolved and spread out around the world, according to the BBC. He recently uncovered the genetic code for one of our ancient relatives, the Neanderthals. Read More

BERLIN -- The leaders of Hungary, Austria and Serbia met Monday in Budapest to find solutions on how to stem the increasing number of migrants arriving in Europe, among them many young men from India. The three leaders agreed to take joint action to control the new arrivals along the migration route that leads through Serbia. Read More

Hurricane relief politics watch: Marco Rubio says he'll oppose any aid bill with unrelated 'pork' in it as his state faces the ravages of Ian. Read More