Month: October 2024

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Bay Curious - An Eerie Night on the USS Hornet

There are plenty of 'haunted' places in the Bay Area. But some locations are said to attract ghosts, even if they don't have a connection to the place. Ghost hunters say the USS Hornet, a retired WWII aircraft carrier docked in Alameda, is one such place. Reporter Katherine Monahan recently took a late night tour of the ship with a group of paranormal enthusiasts, and took along her recorder to see if she could pick up any ghostly communications.

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The Daily Detail - The Daily Detail for 10.31.24

ALABAMA

  • SoS Wes Allen praises SCOTUS injunction for VA voter roll purging
  • Sen. Britt says Biden Harris border policy has brutal affects on US women
  • State lawmakers have bills to ban gender ideology taught in public schools
  • The Daily Wire reports that AL may become Springfield OH re: migrants
  • A Fire Danger Advisory issued to al 67 counties by Forestry Commission

National

  • 3 SCOTUS justices disagreed with VA removal of non-citizens from voter rolls
  • PA judge orders ballot on demand deadline to extend to this Friday
  • Joe Biden walks back comment that Trump supporter are garbage
  • Trump rides in garbage truck from airport to rally venue in Green Bay WI
  • CEO of Univision says Hispanics are voting on issues not as Dem voting block
  • The Federalist says Harris campaign astroturfing on Reddit and X platform
  • Lawsuit filed against Sean Combs alleges rape of 10 year old boy in 2005
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The Daily Signal - What to Know About Latest Russia-North Korea Alliance

Russia and North Korea have a long history of partnership, but it is unclear if the relationship “is a true alliance or more a marriage of convenience,” according to Bruce Klingner, a senior research fellow in the Asian Studies Center at The Heritage Foundation.  

“The longer it goes on, it seems a bit more of an alliance,” Klingner says.

“The two leaders, [Vladimir] Putin and Kim [Jong Un], signed a strategic partnership agreement earlier this year where they pledged to help defend each other, and Putin has sort of cited that as a reason for justifying North Korean troops being there because they're defending Russia against attacks by not only Ukraine, but he claims NATO,” Klingner explains. 

The Pentagon announced Monday that North Korea has sent about 10,000 troops to Russia to aid in Russia’s fight against Ukraine. 

In exchange for troops, Klingner says North Korea is receiving “funding, getting cash, both direct and indirectly, likely food deliveries, fuel deliveries, and what is particularly worrisome is concerns that it may also be getting military technology.” 

Klingner joins “The Daily Signal Podcast” to discuss the relationship between Russia and North Korea and what the two countries' latest partnership means for the war in Ukraine.

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Honestly with Bari Weiss - Trick or Treat: It’s Our Halloween Special!

Need a break from political programming? Well, today we have a special treat: It’s The Free Press’s scary movie Halloween special!


It’s that time of year: changing leaves, pumpkin spice lattes, animal costumes with sex appeal and, of course, gory, bloody, nightmare-inducing horror movies.


We all remember the first horror movie that we were allowed to watch—or maybe that we weren’t allowed to watch, but saw anyway: Silence of the Lambs, Rosemary’s Baby, The Exorcist, The Blair Witch Project, Jaws, Carrie, Halloween, or The Shining. For today’s host Suzy Weiss, it was 20 minutes of the movie It—the TV miniseries from 1990, not the 2017 remake. Suzy remembers seeing Pennywise the Clown on the screen and thinking, This will take me years to get over. She still sometimes checks the drain!


Year after year, horror movies are consistently profitable—more so than dramas—but they are snubbed when it comes to award shows and critical acclaim. But here at The Free Press, we value and love horror, so much that we’ve gathered our scariest FP writers—Suzy Weiss, River Page, and Kat Rosenfield—to analyze four new horror movies.


River, Kat, and Suzy will review MaXXXine, set in grimy and glamorous 1980s Hollywood, about a night killer who targets a porn star who herself is targeting big-screen stardom. Apartment 7A, a prequel to Rosemary’s Baby, about a woman taken in by an unassuming family. Longlegs, a serial killer story about an FBI agent trying to crack the case. And The Substance, about a woman who takes the latest anti-aging elixir, but at a harrowing cost.


They talk about what they loved, what they hated, and how they think each movie relates to our current social ills. We’ll also note this episode has spoilers, so let this be a warning!


Happy Halloween, folks!


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WIRED Politics Lab - Stacey Abrams on Outworking Elon Musk and the Far Right in Georgia

It’s the election homestretch, and today on the show, we spoke with Stacey Abrams. Abrams has fought voter suppression for more than a decade — and she’s still fighting it. She joins Leah from Kamala Harris’s campaign trail to talk about election conspiracies, Elon Musk's influence, ballot box fires, Joe Rogan, and whether a Democratic candidate can win Georgia.



Leah Feiger is @LeahFeiger. Write to us at politicslab@WIRED.com. Be sure to subscribe to the WIRED Politics Lab newsletter here.



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US Intel Says Insider Threats Are 'Likely' During the Election by Tess Owen and Dell Cameron

Election Fraud Conspiracy Theories Are Already Thriving Online by David Gilbert

Russian Propaganda Unit Appears to Be Behind Spread of False Tim Walz Sexual Abuse Claims by David Gilbert

Elon Musk's PAC Is Buying Ads for Donald Trump on Elon Musk's X by Vittoria Elliott

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NBN Book of the Day - Dariusz Wojcik et al., “Atlas of Finance: Mapping the Global Story of Money” (Yale UP, 2024)

From the emergence of money in the ancient world to today’s interconnected landscape of high-frequency trading and cryptocurrency, the story of finance has always taken place on an international stage. Finance is one of the most globalized and networked of human activities, and one of the most important social technologies ever invented.

Atlas of Finance: Mapping the Global Story of Money (Yale University Press, 2024) by Dr. Dariusz Wójcik is the first visually based book dedicated to finance and uses graphics and maps to bring the complex and abstract world of finance down to earth, showing how geography is fundamental for understanding finance, and vice versa. It illuminates the people—including Adam Smith, Karl Marx, and John Maynard Keynes—who have shaped our thinking about global finance; brings to life the ways that place-specific histories, laws, regulations, and institutions influence finance; shows how finance relates to innovation, globalization, and environmental change; and details how finance plays a key part in drawing the landscape of uneven development, inequality, and instability.

This interview was conducted by Dr. Miranda Melcher whose new book focuses on post-conflict military integration, understanding treaty negotiation and implementation in civil war contexts, with qualitative analysis of the Angolan and Mozambican civil wars.

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Everything Everywhere Daily - Werewolves

The myth of the werewolf, a human who transforms into a wolf, is one of the most enduring and pervasive tales in folklore. 

Tales of werewolves could be found in many countries for over 2000 years. 

In the Middle Ages, people suspected of being werewolves were hunted alongside witches and vampires.

By the 20th century, the werewolf myth had evolved into a common narrative and appeared in a multitude of media properties. 

Learn more about werewolves, their origin in legends, and how the modern version was created on this episode of Everything Everywhere Daily.


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What A Day - Trump Slings More Garbage

In the wake of former President Donald Trump’s Madison Square Garden rally Sunday, Major Puerto Rican stars with tens of millions of social media followers have been throwing their support behind Vice President Kamala Harris. On Wednesday, singer Nicky Jam, who endorsed Trump last month, renounced his support for the former president in a video to his supporters, citing the joke a comedian made at the rally about Puerto Rico being an ‘island of garbage.’ Adrian Carrasquillo, a national political reporter who writes about our increasingly Latino America, talks about the ongoing fallout from the MSG rally within the Puerto Rican community.

And in headlines: Billionaire Elon Musk says Trump’s economic plans will come with some ‘hardship,’ Republicans revive talk of repealing Obamacare, and the U.S. Supreme Court says Virginia can keep purging its voter rolls.

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The NewsWorthy - Controversial ‘Garbage’ Comments, World Series Winner & Halloween’s Popularity – Thursday, October 31, 2024

The news to know for Thursday, October 31, 2024!

We'll tell you how a controversial joke at a Trump rally led to a controversial comment from President Biden—and why that got former President Trump to ride in a garbage truck.

Also, we’ll explain the Supreme Court’s decision about voter rolls in Virginia, and why we may not know the winner of the presidential race for days after polls close.

Plus, more data shows the economy doing well, which city is celebrating a World Series win, and where to get deals on Halloween treats all day...

Those stories and even more news to know in about 10 minutes! 

 

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