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Quote:The White House on Saturday unveiled details of a “historic” trade agreement between President Donald Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping — a sweeping deal at easing tensions between the world’s two largest economies.
The agreement, which was described by the administration as a “massive victory,” was finalized this week during a bilateral meeting in Busan, South Korea.
It includes US tariff reductions and a series of Chinese commitments on fentanyl, rare earth exports and agricultural trade, according to a White House news release.
The agreement “safeguards US economic strength and national security while putting American workers, farmers, and families first,” according to the White House.
Under the deal, China will curb the flow of fentanyl precursor chemicals into the US, pause new export controls on rare earth elements and magnets, reopen its markets to US soybeans and other agricultural goods and lift retaliatory measures against major US companies, according to the announcement.
China specifically agreed to:
- Suspend new export controls on rare earths announced on Oct. 9.
- Issue general licenses for exports of rare earths, gallium, germanium, antimony and graphite.
- Take “significant measures” to curb the flow of fentanyl to America.
- Suspend all retaliatory tariffs imposed since March, including on US farm products such as soybeans, pork, corn and dairy.
- Remove non-tariff countermeasures targeting US industries.
- Purchase 12 million metric tons of US soybeans by year’s end and 25 million tons annually through 2028.
- Resume imports of US sorghum and hardwood logs.
- Resume trade from Nexperia’s chip facilities in China.
- Lift sanctions taken in retaliation for the US investigation into China’s maritime, logistics and shipbuilding sectors.
- End investigations of US semiconductor companies.
- Extend its market-based tariff exclusion process for US imports through Dec. 31, 2026.
In return, the US agreed to:
- Cut tariffs on Chinese imports — originally imposed to curb fentanyl flows — by 10 percentage points starting Nov. 10, while keeping higher reciprocal tariffs suspended until Nov. 10, 2026.
- Extend certain Section 301 tariff exclusions through Nov. 10, 2026.
- Delay enforcement of a new export rule targeting affiliates of blacklisted Chinese firms until Nov. 10, 2026.
- Suspend new trade actions linked to investigations of China’s shipbuilding and logistics sectors until late 2026, while continuing coordination with South Korea and Japan to strengthen US shipbuilding.
The White House hailed the agreement as the latest in a string of “historic wins for the American people” during Trump’s Asia trip.
Quote:The US military has carried out another lethal strike on alleged drug smugglers in the Caribbean Sea, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth announced Saturday.
Hegseth in a social media posting said the vessel was operated by a US-designated terrorist organization but did not name which group was targeted. He said three people were killed in the strike.
It’s at least the 15th such strike carried out by the US military in the Caribbean or eastern Pacific since early September.
“This vessel—like EVERY OTHER—was known by our intelligence to be involved in illicit narcotics smuggling, was transiting along a known narco-trafficking route, and carrying narcotics,” Hegseth said in a posting on X.
The US military has now killed at least 64 people in the strikes.
Trump has justified the attacks as a necessary escalation to stem the flow of drugs into the United States. He has asserted the US is engaged in an “armed conflict” with drug cartels, relying on the same legal authority used by the Bush administration when it declared a war on terrorism after the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks.
US lawmakers have been repeatedly rebuffed by the White House in their demand that the administration release more information about the legal justification for the strikes as well as greater details about which cartels have been targeted and the individuals killed.
Hegseth in his Saturday posting announcing the latest strike said “narco-terrorists are bringing drugs to our shores to poison Americans at home” and the Defense Department “will treat them EXACTLY how we treated Al-Qaeda.”
Senate Democrats renewed their request for more information about the strikes in a letter on Friday to Secretary of State Marco Rubio, Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard and Hegseth.
“We also request that you provide all legal opinions related to these strikes and a list of the groups or other entities the President has deemed targetable,” the senators wrote.
Among those signing the letter were Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer as well as Sens. Jack Reed, Jeanne Shaheen, Mark Warner, Chris Coons, Patty Murray and Brian Schatz.
The letter says that thus far the administration “has selectively shared what has at times been contradictory information” with some members, “while excluding others.”
Earlier Friday, the Republican chairman and ranking Democrat on the Senate Armed Services Committee released a pair of letters sent to Hegseth written in late September and early October requesting the department’s legal rationale for the strikes and the list of drug cartels that the Trump administration has designated as terrorist organizations in its justification for the use of military force.
Quote:President Donald Trump threatened Nigeria in social media post Saturday night that he would go into the African nation “guns-a-blazing” with military force if they don’t stop Islamic extremists from killing Christians.
“If the Nigerian Government continues to allow the killing of Christians the U.S.A will immediately stop all aid and assistance to Nigeria, and may very well go into that now disgraced country, “guns-a-blazing,” to completely wipe out the Islamic Terrorists who are committing these horrible atrocities,” the president wrote in a post to Truth Social Saturday evening.
“I am hereby instructing our Department of War to prepare for possible action. If we attack, it will be fast, vicious, and sweet, just like the terrorist thugs attack our CHERISHED Christians! WARNING: THE NIGERIAN GOVERNMENT BETTER MOVE FAST!”
The boldfaced threat was issued one day after the US State Department placed the west African nation on the “Countries of Particular Concern” list, which is a designation for countries which fail to secure religious freedom for citizens.
More than 7,000 Christians have been massacred in Nigeria in the first 220 days of 2025, according to human right NGO Intersociety.
Since 2009, when Boko Haram Islamists launched an insurgency in Nigeria, more than 125,000 Christians have been slaughtered and 19,000 churches have been destroyed, that report stated.
Nigeria, Africa’s most populous country and biggest oil producer, vowed to fight for religious freedom following their inclusion on the “Countries of Particular Concern” list.
“The Federal Government of Nigeria will continue to defend all citizens, irrespective of race, creed, or religion,” the Nigerian Foreign Ministry said in a statement Friday. “Like America, Nigeria has no option but to celebrate the diversity that is our greatest strength.”
“Nigeria is a God-fearing country where we respect faith, tolerance, diversity and inclusion, in concurrence with the rules-based international order,” the ministry added.
In September, Texas Sen. Ted Cruz introduced a bill called “Nigeria Religious Freedom Accountability Act of 2025” that would protect Christians and other religious minorities being persecuted in Nigeria.
That legislation would impose targeted sanctions against Nigerian officials who facilitate violence against Christians and other minority groups and impose targeted sanctions against officials who enforce sharia or blasphemy laws.
Quote:Former CIA Director John Brennan snapped at a man who confronted him for signing the infamous letter in 2020 that claimed the bombshell Hunter Biden email scandal exposed by The Post had “all the classic earmarks of a Russian information operation.”
Brennan, 70, grew visibly incensed and angrily got in the face of the man who pressed about the letter, poking him on the chest repeatedly before backing off.
“You misrepresented that,” Brennan shouted at conservative national security consultant Thomas Speciale during the tense clash.
“We never said it was disinformation; we said it was Russian influence operations, which is what they do. There’s a big difference,” he added.
After Speciale pushed back, the ex-CIA boss waved his hand in frustration and vented, “I’m not going to waste my time with you.”
Speciale, who claimed the confrontation took place last Thursday, posted video of the fiery moment Saturday alongside text of the infamous “spies who lie” letter that Brennan signed.
Shortly after The Post’s bombshell October 2020 exposé of emails on Hunter’s “laptop from hell” — which illustrated how he leveraged his father’s vice presidency in his dealings with Ukrainian businessmen — 51 current and former intelligence officials signed a letter pushing back.
The 51 individuals, who clearly had no direct knowledge of the situation, leveraged their intelligence credentials to make the public skeptical of The Post’s reporting, weeks before the 2020 election.
Politico amplified the story with the headline, “Hunter Biden story is Russian disinfo, dozens of former intel officials say.”
Several signatories have since distanced themselves from that headline.
“There are a number of factors that make us suspicious of Russian involvement. Such an operation would be consistent with Russian objectives, as outlined publicly and recently by the Intelligence Community, to create political chaos in the United States and to deepen political divisions here,” they wrote in the public letter.
After publishing the report, The Post was blocked by Twitter, which prevented users from sharing the story and even briefly blocked The Post from tweeting.
The story had been a massive development as it shed light on how Hunter used his father in business dealings and raised questions about former President Joe Biden’s attempts to pressure Ukrainian officials into firing Prosecutor General Viktor Shokin.
Shokin had publicly speculated that Biden pushed for his ouster because he was investigating Ukrainian natural gas giant Burisma, a firm that had Hunter on its board.
Biden denied that and claimed that he wanted Shokin gone because he wasn’t being aggressive enough on corruption cases.
Notably, the feds used material from Hunter’s laptop when prosecuting Hunter on charges of illegally purchasing a firearm while addicted to illicit drugs.
Brennan has long been in the GOP crosshairs. Last month, he was referred to the Justice Department for criminal prosecution by the House Judiciary Committee for allegedly peddling “numerous willfully and intentionally false statements” to Congress.
Quote:Washington, DC Mayor Muriel Bowser has announced a citywide curfew for anyone under the age of 18 beginning Saturday night in response to weeks of ongoing violence and unrest.
The move comes just a few months after President Trump mobilized thousands of National Guard troops who were deployed to the nation’s capital to combat what he described as a “crisis” of crime.
Bowser’s order which runs through Nov. 5 allows police to set up so-called “special zones”, or high risk areas where law enforcement can enforce curfews as early as 6 p.m.
Four of the zones will go into effect on Saturday. They include Banneker Recreation Center, Union Station, Navy Yard and the U Street Corridor.
The limited curfew goes into effect Saturday at 11 p.m. local time and ends at 6 a.m.
Any minor or juvenile who violates the curfew will face a fine of up to $300 or up to 10 days in jail, according to authorities.
DC police have also been authorized by the mayor to set up temporary curfew zones in areas where more than eight minors congregate, posing a potentially heightened threat to public safety.
The curfew was announced following a violent clash involving scores of teens on Halloween night at the Navy Yard, where at least 10 people, including one 18-year-old and four minors, were booked on charges including public marijuana use, affray and failure to obey.
One police officer was treated for injuries at the scene, according to officials.
Several social media users posted video and images showing massive unrest in the district on Halloween night.
Quote:House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries smacked down the notion that socialist mayoral hopeful Zohran Mamdani is the future of the Democratic Party, but gave a jumbled rationale for why.
“No, I think the future of the Democratic Party is going to fall, as far as we’re concerned, relative to the House Democratic Caucus and members who are doing great work all across the country,” Jeffries (D-NY) told CNN’s “State of the Union.”
Jeffries had begrudgingly endorsed Mamdani late last month, after dragging his feet since June on whom he would back in New York City’s mayoral race.
The Brooklyn Democrat commended Mamdani for being “relentlessly focused on addressing the affordability crisis” while acknowledging “there will be areas of agreement and areas of principled disagreement.”
Other bigwig Democrats have refrained from endorsing Mamdani, such as Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) and former President Barack Obama — who reportedly praised him in a recent phone call.
Several New York Democratic Reps, such as Tom Suozzi, Dan Goldman, and Laura Gillen, have also not given Mamdani their official stamp of approval.
Gov. Kathy Hochul (D) endorsed Mamdani, but he has so far refrained from returning the favor ahead of her 2026 re-election bid.
Republicans have already begun taking Democrats to task over Mamdani, tying them to his far-left agenda.
But Jeffries downplayed concerns that a Mamdani victory could pose a significant liability for his party.
“No, the lightning rod in terms of what’s going to impact the ability of either side to win control of the House or hold control of the House in 2026 is going to be the failure of Republicans to actually deliver on the promises that they have made and to actively make life worse for everyday Americans,” he said..
Mamdani is the clear front-runner heading into the Tuesday election, with a lead in every credible poll and a 14.5-percentage point edge in the latest RealClearPolitics polling aggregate.
The self-described democratic socialist has previously trashed Jeffries.
Quote:The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) issued a ground stop advisory on Sunday, as disruptions intensified across major U.S. airports amid a government shutdown now in its 33rd day.
The FAA cited staffing shortages as the direct cause of the disruptions, noting a medium probability that delays would extend beyond initial timeframes.
A spokesperson for the U.S. Department of Transportation told Newsweek on Friday," As Secretary Duffy has said, there have been increased staffing shortages across the system. When that happens, the FAA slows traffic into some airports to ensure safe operations."
Why It Matters
The government shutdown has forced 13,000 air traffic controllers (ATC) and 50,000 Transportation Security Administration (TSA) officers to work without pay, sparking staffing shortages at multiple airports, including the major hubs of Orlando, Florida; Dallas/Fort Worth; and Washington, D.C.
Ground stops are among the most severe traffic management tools available, implemented only when system capacity is fundamentally compromised. The FAA's official documentation of 832 total minutes of delays across multiple facilities, combined with a medium probability of extension, signals that aviation officials anticipate disruptions may worsen rather than improve.
The ripple effects extend beyond individual passengers to encompass the broader economy, affecting tourism, business travel, and industries dependent on air freight and passenger mobility.
What To Know
Newark Liberty International Airport in New Jersey experienced delays ranging from two to three hours, with the FAA documenting maximum individual flight delays of 75 minutes and an average delay of 38 minutes across affected facilities.
Hours later, the FAA expanded traffic management restrictions to Los Angeles International Airport, implementing a Ground Delay Program affecting LAX and surrounding Southern California airspace. The program documented maximum delays of 121 minutes and average delays of 61 minutes, with the FAA noting that delays could extend an additional 30 minutes beyond initial estimates.
Dozens of additional flights faced delays and cancellations at major hubs including Dallas Fort Worth International Airport, Chicago O'Hare, George Bush Intercontinental in Houston, and airports in San Francisco, Los Angeles, Denver, and Miami, according to flight tracking service FlightAware.
New York City's Emergency Management office issued a public alert warning travelers to expect schedule changes, gate holds, and potential missed connections, urging passengers to check flight status before heading to airports and prepare for longer waits.
The crisis stems from unprecedented staffing shortages compounded by the shutdown, operating within a system already managing a critical pre-shutdown shortage of approximately 3,000 controllers.
Controllers face an untenable situation: reporting to work without compensation or making difficult decisions regarding their families' financial needs. The FAA's traffic management protocol requires slowdowns and ground stops when staffing falls below operational minimums—a measure designed to prioritize safety but one that directly causes passenger delays.
The disruptions affect multiple departure facilities beyond Newark itself, including facilities serving the broader Northeast and Canadian airspace, demonstrating how regional shortages create cascading effects across the national air traffic system.
Quote:Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said on CNN’s State of the Union on Sunday that Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) benefits, which impacts roughly 42 million Americans, could resume as soon as Wednesday.
His comments come days after two federal judges ruled that the administration must use contingency funds to make SNAP payments.
Newsweek has reached out to the Treasury Department for comment via email on Sunday.
Why It Matters
The federal government has been shut down since October 1, and Republicans and Democrats have been in a stalemate, trading blame back-and-forth over who is responsible for the shutdown and seeking to garner support for resolutions to reopen the government. The GOP holds a majority in the House and Senate but requires Democratic support to reach a deal.
The shutdown has resulted in many federal employees working without pay or furloughed. Several crucial benefits and services have also been paused, with SNAP at the center of policy debates.
SNAP is issued monthly to nearly 42 million Americans, with nearly 75 percent of SNAP households at or below the poverty level. The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) has said that these benefits will not be paid until the shutdown ends, which has raised concerns among many constituents and led a coalition of Democratic-led states to sue the government over its failure to use contingency funds for the matter.
On Friday, two federal judges ruled the administration must continue to pay the benefit with emergency funds. The delay in payouts is expected to leave millions of people without sufficient funds for their groceries.
What To Know
On Sunday, Bessent told CNN’s Jake Tapper on State of the Union that “there’s a process that has to be followed” in order to determine how to allocate the funds for the in limbo SNAP benefits, noting that the administration has "to figure out what the process is."
Both judges separately ruled that the administration must at least partially pay SNAP recipients this month amid the ongoing government shutdown.
A federal judge in Rhode Island, U.S. District Court Judge John J. McConnell Jr. ruled on Friday that the administration must use some emergency funding to bankroll the SNAP benefits payout.
He said on Friday, “There is no question that the congressionally approved contingency funds must be used now because of the shutdown.”
Similarly, another judge, U.S. District Judge Indira Talwani, also ruled on Friday that the USDA must continue SNAP payments during the shutdown, calling the suspension “unlawful.” She directed the government to advise her by Monday on whether the USDA will fully or partially fund the program.
USDA has argued that it lacks the legal authority and sufficient funds to provide full SNAP benefits for November amid the ongoing partial government shutdown. The agency also contended in court that even if contingency funds were available, they would not cover the full payments and implementing reduced benefits nationwide would be administratively challenging. According to administration lawyers, $5.25 billion is currently available in the program’s contingency fund, though ensuring full payments for November could require at least $8.5 billion.
The treasury secretary told Tapper, “President Trump wants to make sure that people get their food benefits.” Benefits are already late, and the process of loading up cards can take weeks in some states, pushing the timeline back even further for when the cash might arrive for some people.
Trump wrote in a Truth Social post on Friday: “Our Government lawyers do not think we have the legal authority to pay SNAP with certain monies we have available, and now two Courts have issued conflicting opinions on what we can and cannot do.” He added that the administration and its legal team are exploring how to “legally fund SNAP as soon as possible.”
Tapper followed up on Sunday, asking Bessent, “So it could be done by Wednesday?” to which Bessent said that it “could be. And five Democratic senators could cross the aisle and open the government by Wednesday,” he added, echoing the administration's stance on the government shutdown.
Local food banks and community volunteers have been mobilizing for days, stocking shelves and launching neighborhood food pantries in preparation and support of those who are not going to receive SNAP benefits in a timely manner. Some states have declared a state of emergency, such as New York with Democratic Governor Kathy Hochul directing more than $100 million for emergency food supplies.
Quote:A coalition of nonprofits and private industry groups will band together to boost funding for New York City’s food banks and pantries as 1.8 million residents of the five boroughs see their SNAP benefits run dry due to the ongoing government shutdown, the city announced.
Mayor Eric Adams’ office said that his administration will partner with the New York Community Trust, Partnership for New York City and United Way of New York as well as with local businesses and philanthropic groups to provide emergency fundings for food distribution centers in the five boroughs.
“When New Yorkers support one another in times of need, we become a better city,” Adams said.
“That’s why today, along with the New York Community Trust, the United Way, and the Partnership for New York City, we’re launching a slate of public-private initiatives to support SNAP recipients in our city who rely on these much-needed benefits to put food on their tables.”
The US Department of Agriculture planned to freeze payments to the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program starting Sunday because it said it could no longer keep funding it due to the shutdown.
The program serves about 1 in 8 Americans and is a major piece of the nation’s social safety net. It costs about $8 billion per month nationally.
Two federal judges on Friday ruled that the Trump administration must continue to pay for SNAP using emergency reserve funds during the government shutdown.
President Trump has blamed congressional Democrats for the shutdown, suggesting that the government would comply with the rulings but also that it needed more clarity first.
“If we are given the appropriate legal direction by the Court, it will BE MY HONOR to provide the funding,” Trump wrote on his Truth Social account on Friday.
The judges in Massachusetts and Rhode Island gave the administration leeway on whether to fund the program partially or in full for November.
That also brings uncertainty about how things will unfold and will delay payments for many beneficiaries whose cards would normally be recharged early in the month.
Quote:Pennsylvania Sen. John Fetterman tore into his own party for “moving against our core values” in shutting down the government and faulted Democrats for the “deeply distressing” lapse in food stamp funding.
“For me, fundamentally, it’s deeply, deeply distressing to know that 42 million Americans are going to lose their SNAP [Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program] benefits,” Fetterman vented to CNN’s “State of the Union” on Sunday.
“That’s one of the big reasons why I refuse to shut our government down,” the hoodie-wearing senator added. “I feel like the Democrats really need to own the shutdown. I mean, we’re shutting it down.”
The Keystone State Democrat has been one of three Democratic-caucusing senators who voted against blocking the “clean” stopgap measure to reopen the government, alongside Sens. Catherine Cortez Masto (D-Nev.) and Angus King (I-Maine).
Fetterman has also been one of the loudest Democratic critics of the government shutdown, at one point going so far as to call on the GOP to use the “nuclear option,” and eliminate the 60-vote threshold needed to break a filibuster.
Democrats have been leveraging the government shutdown fight in an attempt to extract concessions from Republicans on Medicaid and the enhanced Obamacare subsidies.
On Saturday, funding for SNAP ran out, though a court has ordered the Department of Agriculture to tap into a contingency fund to keep the critical program afloat for a few more weeks.
President Trump announced Friday that he’s asked his legal team to get clarification about what he can do under the law, citing two conflicting court rulings.
The Pennsylvania Democrat previously explained that he will witness the impact of the shutdown fight firsthand because his wife runs a free store that provides food to the needy.
“This is an absolute fail,” Fetterman went on. “It’s embarrassing, honestly, if we can’t even kind of get — keep the lights on like this, and now reminding everybody federal workers have had to borrow more than a third of a billion dollars just to pay their own bills.
“Now people can’t count on their SNAP benefits, and now also WIC [Women, Infants & Children] and Head Start. These are the kinds of people why I’m a Democrat, fighting for people just like that,” he lamented. “It seems like we’re moving against our core values to keep our government shut down.”
Fetterman acknowledged that he agrees with the Democrats’ goal of extending the enhanced Obamacare subsidies, which are set to expire at the end of the year.
Gavin Newsom claims he ‘never had’ concerns about Biden’s capacity — except for one glaring incident
Quote:California Gov. Gavin Newsom claimed Sunday that he “never had” any doubt about former President Joe Biden’s mental capacity to run the country — except after that one little infamous California fundraiser.
At the June 2024 fundraiser in Los Angeles, the then-prez didn’t recognize megawatt celeb, co-host and longtime pal George Clooney — leaving the actor “shaken to the core,’’ a book co-authored by CNN’s Jake Tapper has said.
Newsom, asked on NBC’s “Meet the Press” whether he ever had concerns about Biden’s decline in the Oval Office, insisted, I never had that.
“The one exception, as it relates to the interaction I had with him, that gave me pause, one, was the fundraiser in Southern California,” the gov then added. “And all of us were a little taken aback. But we also were mindful that [Biden] had been in Europe twice in about a week.”
Fewer than two weeks after the fundraiser, Biden engaged in a televised debate with Donald Trump — a disastrous showing that paved the way for the Dem to drop out of the race less than a month later.
Newsom on Sunday at times appeared to ignore what nearly the entire nation — including many of Biden’s closest allies — saw at the time.
The term-limited California governor instead stubbornly ticked off Biden’s top achievements, such as the CHIPS and Science Act and the COVID-19 pandemic recovery, as examples of the former president’s abilities in office.
“I just talked to the president a few hours ago. I’ve been privileged to have a relationship with the president,” Newsom said.
Still, Newsom — who recently declared that Biden “was one of the most successful presidents in the last century” and insisted, “I will defend that to my grave” — admitted that “with grace and humility,” he privately raised the alarms about the 46th president’s debate debacle.
Asked why he didn’t go public with those concerns, Newsom replied, “For me, it wasn’t my job to go out there.
“My job was to let [Biden], give him the space,” he said. “I just have a different approach.”
Newsom also dodged a question about whether he believed Biden was fit for another four years in the White House before he dropped out.
“I think my focus was, frankly, situational,” he said, sidestepping the question. “It was making sure Donald Trump didn’t get back into office, to experience everything that we’re experiencing today. And there was no interaction I had that suggested otherwise.”
During his wide-ranging interview, the Golden State Democrat also addressed his recent admission that he’s considering a run for president in 2028.
Quote:Clocks will "fall back" on November 2 at 2 a.m. local time, marking the end of Daylight Saving Time (DST) for 2025.
But 19 states have already passed legislation to make DST permanent—they're just waiting for Congress to give them the green light.
The push for year-round DST hit a roadblock on October 28 when Senator Tom Cotton, an Arkansas Republican, opposed efforts to fast-track a federal bill that would eliminate the twice-yearly clock changes.
This means Americans will continue setting their clocks forward in March and back in November for the foreseeable future.
Why It Matters
In April, President Donald Trump urged Congress to pass what he called a "very popular" bill that would make DST permanent.
"The House and Senate should push hard for more Daylight at the end of a day. Very popular and, most importantly, no more changing of the clocks, a big inconvenience and, for our government, A VERY COSTLY EVENT!!! DJT," he posted on Truth Social.
State legislatures have considered over 750 bills and resolutions in recent years to establish year-round DST, according to the National Conference of State Legislatures (NCSL). The debate affects daily routines, sleep patterns, and public health for millions of Americans, with studies linking time changes to increased risks of heart attacks, strokes, and traffic accidents.
Amber Batteiger, veterinary nurse, PR ad communications manager at Embrace Pet Insurance, previously told Newsweek that even pets are impacted by the time change because dogs are extremely reliant on routine, a sudden shift or change can throw off their internal rhythm.
If Congress eventually passes enabling legislation, nearly 40 percent of U.S. states would immediately switch to permanent DST. However, federal law currently permits states to adopt permanent standard time but prohibits them from implementing permanent DST independently.
What To Know
Since 2015, virtually every state has considered multiple time zone bills, but none of significance passed until 2018, when Florida became the first state to enact legislation to permanently observe DST, the NCSL reports.
The 19 states that have passed laws to adopt year-round DST, pending federal authorization, are:
- Texas
- Oklahoma
- Colorado
- Alabama
- Georgia
- Minnesota
- Mississippi
- Montana
- Idaho (Pacific time zone only)
- Louisiana
- South Carolina
- Utah
- Wyoming
- Delaware
- Maine
- Oregon (Pacific time zone only)
- Tennessee
- Washington
- Florida
California voters approved Proposition 7 in 2018, requiring a two-thirds legislative vote to enact changes, but no action has followed.
Seven states and territories already observe standard time year-round:
- Hawaii
- Arizona (except the Navajo Nation)
- American Samoa
- Guam
- Northern Mariana Islands
- Puerto Rico
- U.S. Virgin Islands
According to a 2020 Congressional Research Service report, the U.S. experimented with year-round DST twice: during World War II from 1942 to 1945, and during the 1973 energy crisis from January 1974 to April 1975.
Quote:Energy Secretary Chris Wright clarified comments that were made last week by President Donald Trump on Truth Social about renewed nuclear testing during an appearance on Fox News' The Sunday Briefing.
Wright told Fox News' Peter Doocy that people wouldn't see explosions or anything similar to previous nuclear tests carried out in the United States, saying, “I think the tests we’re talking about right now are system tests. These are not nuclear explosions. These are what we call non-critical explosions.”
Wright elaborated that such tests involve “all the other parts of a nuclear weapon to make sure they deliver the appropriate geometry and they set up the nuclear explosion,” but do not include actual atomic detonations.
Newsweek reached out to the White House regarding testing nuclear testing Sunday.
The Pentagon referred Newsweek to a statement provided last week by Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth saying, “America will ensure that we have the strongest, most capable nuclear arsenal so that we maintain PEACE THROUGH STRENGTH.”
Why It Matters
U.S. nuclear weapons policy has global ramifications, impacting diplomatic relations and international security.
The U.S. last conducted a nuclear weapons test in 1992 at the Nevada National Security Site underground. In 1996, the country signed onto the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty, which "bans all nuclear test explosions, whether for military or civilian purposes." However, the Senate rejected its ratification in 1999.
With rivals like Russia, China and Iran accelerating their nuclear programs, the Trump administration’s public signals have drawn close scrutiny from lawmakers, the public, and America’s allies and adversaries.
The clarification from Wright provides new insights on the administration's approach to nuclear deterrence and the ongoing debate about how best to maintain the safety and reliability of the U.S. arsenal while avoiding breaches of international bans on nuclear detonations.
What To Know
On Truth Social last week, Trump wrote that the U.S. "has more nuclear weapons than any other country," saying it was "accomplished, including a complete update and renovation of existing weapons" during his first term.
The president added: "Because of the tremendous destructive power, I HATED to do it, but had no choice! Russia is second, and China is a distant third, but will be even within 5 years. Because of other countries testing programs, I have instructed the Department of War to start testing our Nuclear Weapons on an equal basis. That process will begin immediately. Thank you for your attention to this matter!"
On Wednesday, reporters aboard Air Force One asked Trump about his post, seeking details about what it would look like for the U.S. resuming such tests.
“We’re going to do some testing,” the president said. “Other countries do it. If they’re going to do it, we’re going to.” He declined to provide further details.
During his appearance on The Sunday Briefing, Wright was asked by Doocy if residents near the U.S. military’s nuclear testing site in Nevada “should expect to see a mushroom cloud at some point.”
Wright responded: “No, no worries about that.”
The Federation of American Scientists estimates that the U.S. has a nuclear stockpile of about 3,700 warheads, with about 1,700 deployed, while the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI) puts the total U.S. inventory at 5,177, with Russia at 5,459. SIPRI notes that "Russia and the USA together possess around 90 percent of all nuclear weapons." The U.S. and the Soviet Union engaged in a nuclear arms race during the Cold War.
Quote:Anti-Israel protests on college campuses over the last two years were “encouraged” by Iran — and involved mostly outside agitators and not students, the chancellor of Syracuse University said.
Speaking at a panel in Washington, D.C. with fellow chancellors from Vanderbilt and Washington University in St. Louis this week, Syracuse’s Kent Syverud said the at-times violent campus demonstrations in the wake of the Oct. 7, 2023 Hamas terror attack may have been orchestrated by the Islamic regime.
“When things happened that I really believe were encouraged from Iran,” said Syverud, noting that the protests at Syracuse University were mostly made up of outside agitators, and “did not have the involvement of very many, if any, of our own students.”
He said meting out punishments to students or other individuals involved in violence or destruction of property was made more difficult by the widespread use of facial coverings to obscure their identities.
“People were using masks to avoid accountability for what they were saying and doing,” he said.
Though he didn’t name Iran specifically, Vanderbilt Chancellor Daniel Diermeier said he believed the protests like those that took place at the Nashville campus followed a “playbook,” and were the result of “organized networks” that could have put out a call to action.
“[Students] were looking at [and] were using the playbook that they had seen at Columbia and other places, and it was the same messaging. It’s more than social contagion,” he said.
“I think there are organized networks as well. And for sure we saw that.”
Andrew Martin, chancellor of Washington University, agreed, and said he personally witnessed protests that were chiefly made up of people with no affiliation to the school.
“Many of the things that happened on our campus, including an attempted encampment, we didn’t allow it to take place and ultimately had folks arrested to shut it down on a Saturday evening,” Martin said.
“Three quarters of those individuals had nothing to do with the university.”
The same scenario played out at Barnard College — Columbia University’s sister school — in March when a violent mob of hundreds stormed the Morningside Heights campus’ Milstein Library. Cops arrested nine participants, none of whom were students of the elite women’s college.
Quote:An Ivy League student accused of making up an entire life story to gain admission was expelled earlier this semester, prompting fresh concerns over academic fraud and gaps in university vetting that experts say could also expose elite institutions to foreign influence and espionage risks.
At Yale University in Connecticut, administrators recently kicked out an undergrad student identified as “Katherina Lynn” after she allegedly lied about her background, according to the Yale Daily News, a student-run paper.
She reportedly comes from California’s Bay Area but adopted a “Western name” to distance herself from her Chinese-American roots, the online magazine Air Mail reported, and allegedly concocted a fake origin story, reinventing herself as a daughter of rural North Dakota.
“She knew that… when it comes to diversity, it’s not just about race,” said Adam Nguyen, founder of Ivy Link and a former Columbia admissions advisor. “Diversity for colleges has a much broader definition. It also includes socioeconomic diversity… and geographic diversity. So she made herself into basically a White applicant with a very Caucasian-sounding name from a little town in North Dakota.”
Next, she spent years plotting to fool Ivy League admissions teams and forging paperwork until she wound up as a Yale freshman. It was a suspicious roommate who uncovered the scheme, according to the report — by looking at her luggage tags and finding another name and address.
“As with any institution, whether it’s elite universities like Columbia, Harvard, Yale or workplaces, any employer, you’ll see that if someone has the intent and the talent to do it, they can get through the screening process, whether it’s faking your transcript, faking employment record, faking even testimonials from former employers or teachers, etc.,” Nguyen said. “So you’re seeing that here, this particular individual went through great lengths, right, and knew how to do all the right things. That said, the college admissions process is essentially trust but verify. Right now, they use different things like software, they do spot checking, but at the end of the day, it’s not 100% foolproof.”
While there’s no evidence she has ties to a foreign government, the scandal raises questions about keeping schools safe from bad actors.
The State Department has been warning of Chinese influence on American and Canadian university campuses going back to at least 2020, when officials said Chinese government-linked groups were using academic partnerships and exchange programs to collect sensitive research and influence U.S. students and faculty.
And the Heritage Foundation lists the infiltration of the Chinese Communist Party into American education as a threat at “all levels” of academia, from kindergarten classrooms up to elite universities.
Nguyen said graduate programs could pose the highest risk, because students often gain access to sensitive research and laboratory systems.
The recent exposure of an Iowa superintendent as an illegal immigrant with a criminal record and allegedly falsified academic background is yet another example of lax vetting in education.
Ian Roberts, who had been superintendent of Des Moines Public Schools, was making $270,000 a year. And the district announced a lawsuit this month against the consulting firm that helped hire him.
UKRAINE
Quote:The Pentagon has approved sending long-range Tomahawk missiles to Ukraine — giving President Trump the final say on whether to arm Kyiv with them, according to a new report.
The Pentagon gave the White House the green light on Saturday after an assessment found that transferring the missiles would not impact US stockpiles, US and European officials told CNN.
Trump had previously said he would be hesitant to give “away things that we need to protect our country,” but the Pentagon’s assessment appears to clear away that hurdle for Ukraine.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has pleaded with Trump to provide Kyiv with Tomahawk missiles, which could really hit Vladimir Putin where it hurts.
With a range of more than 1,500 miles, Tomahawk missiles would enable Ukraine to hit critical military, logistical and energy targets deep inside Russia, severely limiting Russia’s ability to continue his invasion, which is approaching its fourth year.
The missiles were at the forefront of Trump’s meeting with Zelensky last month, with the president expressing his worries on providing the weapons at the cost of America’s defenses.
The US has more than 1,000 Tomahawks available, though some experts believe Washington wouldn’t sell more than 50 to Ukraine, according to the Center for Strategic and International Studies.
The Pentagon had previously halted its shipment of missiles and ammunition to Ukraine in the summer over concerns that America’s own stockpile was being depleted.
Trump’s decision not to deploy Tomahawks last month also came just a day after he spoke with Putin over the phone, with Moscow repeatedly warning the US not to allow Ukraine to fire long-range missiles over the border.
Neither the Pentagon nor the White House immediately responded to The Post’s request for comment.
Quote:The locations of more than 330 abducted Ukrainian children have been identified by the country’s Foreign Intelligence Service, President Volodymyr Zelensky assured his countrymen.
At least 35,000 Ukrainian children are believed to be missing since Russia launched its invasion – kidnapped by Moscow’s troops and forced into indoctrination programs — a move that has strongman Vladimir Putin facing war crimes.
“We are providing our partners with lists of children who must be returned,” Zelensky said on X Friday. “This is a sensitive issue, with a great deal of quiet diplomatic work underway.”
Ukraine is finalizing the first such list, which will contain the names and addresses of 339 children — and the names of the Russian individuals or institutions believed to have taken them “and tried to erase their identities,” Zelensky added.
“I’ve asked our intelligence to provide data that is indisputable for the Russians,” Zelensky told reporters during a press briefing this week, according to the Kyiv Post.
“It’s crucial that those responsible face the consequences,” he added, hoping sanctions are slapped on the Kremlin.
Zelensky said the list will be ready within a week or two and shared with leaders assisting in returning the children to Ukraine.
A pair of US lawmakers, earlier this week, said they were working on holding Senate hearings on the issue. Sens. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) and Brian Schatz (D-HI) told The Hill they’re looking to bring Russia’s ambassador to the US, Alexander Darchiev, to testify.
“This is a real atrocity, and the American government should help to establish the record,” said Schatz.
Shocking images from Russian state television have shown young Ukrainian boys and girls assembling and firing assault rifles, all while the Russian flag and a portrait of Putin loomed in the background.
Russia even launched a twisted adoption catalog where kidnapped Ukrainian kids were sorted by age, eye and color, and number of siblings, according to the Save Ukraine charitable organization.
Russia tested Poseidon nuclear torpedo capable of destroying cities with radioactive tsunamis: Putin
Quote:Russian President Vladimir Putin announced that his country’s military successfully tested a massive nuclear-torpedo dubbed the Poseidon capable of leveling coastal cities with 1,600-foot high radioactive tsunamis.
The despot, while enjoying tea with wounded Russian soldiers at a hospital in Moscow Wednesday, said the underwater bomb was launched from a submarine the day before and was a “huge success.”
“For the first time, we managed not only to launch it with a launch engine from a carrier submarine, but also to launch the nuclear power unit on which this device passed a certain amount of time,” Putin said.
“There is nothing like this.”
“This is a huge success,” Putin said, adding that the destructive power of the Poseidon surpasses the Sarmat intercontinental ballistic missile, ominously known as the Satan II, which can carry 15 nuclear warheads.
“The Poseidon’s power significantly exceeds the power of even our most promising Sarmat intercontinental range missile,” Putin said.
While not much is publicly known about the Poseidon, reports estimate that the weapon is capable of carrying a 2 megaton warhead — or more than 150 times the power of the bomb the US dropped on Hiroshima in 1945.
They are designed to trigger radioactive tsunamis up to 1,600-feet high from hundreds of miles away, according to Russia state media.
The foreboding Poseidon test comes just days after Putin ordered another nuclear drill and on Sunday confirmed Russia had successfully tested its “invincible” nuclear-powered Burevestnik cruise missile, which experts have dubbed a “tiny flying Chernobyl.”
Putin announced the Poseidon and Burevestnik projects in 2018 in response to the US withdrawal in 2001 from the 1972 Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty and NATO’s expansion.
Russia may have previously tried and failed at an attempt to test the Poseidon in 2022 during the first year of the Ukraine war.
The apparently botched exercise took place in the Arctic Sea and involved Russia’s behemoth Belgorod nuclear submarine, a senior US official told CNN at the time.
Quote:Russia fired one of its largest drone and missile assaults against Ukraine overnight, killing three people, including a 7-year-old girl, and cutting power to thousands as winter approaches, officials said.
About 705 drones and missiles flew over the border late Wednesday into early Thursday, wreaking havoc across Ukraine and killing two men in Zaporizhzhia and a little girl in Ladyzhyn who died in the hospital due to her severe injuries, according to Kyiv.
Ukrainian Prime Minister Yulia Svyrydenko slammed the attack as yet another assault on civilian areas, including energy stations, with the damage forcing nationwide power restrictions.
“Its goal is to plunge Ukraine into darkness,” Svyrydenko said of the latest attack. “…To stop the terror, we need more air defense systems, tougher sanctions, and maximum pressure on the aggressor.”
Ukraine’s air force said Russia had launched 653 drones and 52 missiles during the assault, with 82 avoiding the military’s interception efforts and hitting 20 different locations in the country.
At least 17 people were injured in the Zaporizhzhia region, including six children, with four hurt in Vinnystia, the region where the 7-year-old was killed.
The projectiles also hit energy facilities in central, western, and southeastern Ukraine, causing Kyiv to announce nationwide limits on electricity to retail and industrial consumers.
“This attack is a bad blow in our efforts to keep power flowing this winter,” said Maxim Timchenko, the CEO of DTEK, Ukraine’s largest private energy company whose thermal power stations were targeted in the assault.
“Based on the intensity of attacks for the past two months, it is clear Russia is aiming for the complete destruction of Ukraine’s energy system,” Timchenko added.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said Kyiv was working to restore and maintain necessary services across the impacted areas, as he called on the West to levy harsher sanctions against Russia.
“Russia continues its terrorist war against life itself, and it’s crucial that every such vile attack on civilians boomerangs back on Russia with concrete consequences – sanctions and real pressure,” Zelensky said.
“We count on America, Europe, and the G7 countries not to ignore this. Moscow’s intent to destroy everything. New steps are needed to increase pressure – on Russia’s oil and gas industry, its financial system, and through secondary sanctions on those who bankroll this war,” he added.
Quote:Ukraine struck a major pipeline near Moscow that fuels the Russian army, with its military intelligence boasting it’s done more damage to Russia’s oil industry than international pressures.
“Our strikes have had more impact than sanctions,” said Kyrylo Budanov, the head of Ukraine’s military intelligence, on Telegram Saturday.
“It’s just a mathematical truth. We caused much greater damage to the Russian Federation through direct action than any economic levers of influence that had been introduced on them until now.”
Forces struck the Koltsevoy pipeline ovenight into Saturday, which supplies the Moscow’s troops with a combined 60 million barrels of gas, diesel and jet fuel from refineries across Russia — spanning 250 miles.
The strikes destroyed all three fuel lines, Ukraine’s military intelligence said, describing it as a “serious blow” to Russia’s war machine.
They’re part of Ukraine’s intensifying efforts to directly target Russia’s warfare infrastructure.
Ukraine has made close to 160 successful strikes against oil facilities across Russia this year, according to its Security Service.
“Oil extraction and refining make up around 90% of Russia’s defense budget,” Security Service chief Vasyl Maliuk said at a press briefing in Kyiv Friday, according to the Kyiv Independent. “These are the dirty petro-rubles funding the war against us.”
“These are legitimate military targets.”
Maliuk said Russia’s domestic fuel shortage is nearing 20%. It’s prompted Moscow to ban exports of refined oil products until the end of the year.
Meanwhile, Russia’s defense ministry claimed Saturday that it defeated Ukrainian special forces that were rushed to the frontline city of Pokrovsk — a key focal point in the coveted Donetsk region.
Quote:Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky’s top adviser praised President Trump for courting China to “help” end the Russia-Ukraine war — as some experts and European officials urged caution in taking Beijing at its word.
Andriy Yermak, the head of the presidential office in Ukraine, told The Post he supported Trump’s efforts to bring in Chinese President Xi Jinping to lean on Moscow.
“First of all, it’s great that this meeting has happened,” Yermak said. “… Maybe with this, starting this dialog, we will see China give Russia a strong push to end the war.”
“Volodya, enough. Everybody is tired of you,” he added, using the diminutive of Russian dictator Vladimir Putin’s first name.
Trump huddled with Xi for the first time during his second term in South Korea as the world’s two largest powers discussed potential joint efforts to stop the conflict that has dragged on for more than three years.
“The sides are, you know, locked in fighting, and sometimes you have to let them fight, I guess — crazy,” Trump said of the cooperation. “But [Xi’s] going to help us, and we’re going to work together on Ukraine.”
The president said the Ukraine-related discussion focused largely on finding a path to peace — not on his sanctions on Russian oil or Beijing’s energy ties to Moscow. He did not disclose further details of how the US and China could team up to end the war
Trump this month levied sanctions on Russia’s top two state-owned oil companies, Rosneft and Lukoil. Still, Beijing remains the largest purchaser of Russian energy.
One of the most helpful ways China could end the war, one European official said, would be to stop purchasing Russian oil — which Trump has called the main source of funding for Russia’s “war machine.”
However, Trump said he and Xi’s conversation had little to do with his sanctions on Russian energy.
“He’s been buying oil from Russia for a long time. It takes care of a big part of China,” Trump said. “And, you know, I can say India has been very good on that front. But we didn’t really discuss the oil. We discussed working together to see if we could get that war finished.”
The president also emphasized that the conversation with Xi stayed narrowly focused on Ukraine, saying that even Beijing’s claims over Taiwan — which Xi considers his top priority — never entered the discussion.
“For the most part, we discussed something — we’re going to work together to try and get the war with Russia and Ukraine solved,” Trump said. “Taiwan never came up, not discussed.”
China has long been partners with Russia, and Xi’s influence on Putin has been discussed as a potential point of leverage worth tapping into, even dating back to the Biden administration. However, any motivations for Beijing wanting the conflict to end have been unclear.
Some insiders expressed skepticism over whether China would follow through on its apparent pledge to help Trump stop the war, given Beijing and Moscow’s alignment.
“China has a stake in Russia ‘winning’ the war,” one European official told The Post. “They benefit from Putin continuing on.”
China has publicly remained neutral in the war, but privately supplied Russia with dual-use items that can be deployed for military purposes in its war on Ukraine — as well as military intelligence on Ukrainian targets for Moscow to strike with missiles, Kyiv has said.
Quote:Russian President Vladimir Putin’s special envoy claimed Washington and Moscow were close to a “diplomatic solution” to the war in Ukraine, estimating that the conflict would end within a year.
Speaking before an investment conference in Saudi Arabia on Wednesday, Kirill Dmitriev suggested that Russia’s invasion was nearing its end despite the recent decision to postpone a second summit between Putin and President Trump.
“We are sure that we are on the road to peace and as peacemakers we need to make it happen,” Dmitriev said, adding that he believes the war would end within one year.
The war in Ukraine has dragged on for more than three years, with Moscow repeatedly refusing to make any compromises as Putin seeks to conquer the regions that have fended off his invasion force so far.
While little headway has been made in trying to secure a diplomatic end to the war, Russia has focused some of its efforts on dissuading the US and the West from supporting Ukraine.
Dmitriev was notably in the US over the weekend as part of a public relations campaign aimed at schmoozing top Trump officials.
George Barros, of the Washington-based Institute for the Study of War, told The Post that Dmitriev’s visit was part of a coordinated move from the Kremlin to convince the US it should be a close ally with Russia — all while Putin attempted to scare the West with boasts of Moscow’s “flying Chernobyl” missile.
Dmitriev reiterated his pitch for US-Russian unity during his appearance in Saudi Arabia, touting the two nations as ones who should help secure world peace rather than sow division.
“People are right now focused on the regional conflict that exists around Russia, but we do not want it to escalate into a bigger conflict,” the Kremlin official said. “And for that we have to do better than we have been doing, not worse.”
Quote:WASHINGTON — The Republican chairmen of the House and Senate Armed Services Committee bashed the Pentagon’s Wednesday decision to remove hundreds of US troops from Romania — which shares a border with Ukraine — arguing the move clashes with the White House’s pressure campaign on Russia.
“This decision … sends the wrong signal to Russia at the very moment President Trump is applying pressure to force Vladimir Putin to come to the table to achieve a lasting peace in Ukraine,” Sen. Roger Wicker (R-Miss.) and Rep. Mike Rogers (R-Ala.) said in a joint statement.
“The President has it exactly right: now is the time for America to demonstrate our resolve against Russian aggression. Unfortunately, the Pentagon’s decision appears uncoordinated and directly at odds with the President’s strategy,” they added.
The troop pullout would not be the first time the Pentagon has taken unilateral action that contradicts Trump’s strategy for ending the war in Ukraine. US defense officials have previously tried to halt weapons shipments to Ukraine — only to be reversed once the president caught wind of the moves.
The Republican rebuke came after the Department of War announced it would not replace the 2nd Infantry Brigade Combat Team of the 101st Airborne Division when the unit rotates to their Kentucky home base as scheduled.
While the Pentagon did not say how many troops would be affected, the Romanian Defense Ministry stated that Bucharest expects between 700 and 800 US forces to leave the country, with between 900 and 1,000 remaining.
The Pentagon denied that the move would “change the security environment in Europe,” arguing the pullback was appropriate because NATO allies could now do the job of US troops, thanks to “President Trump’s call [for them] to take primary responsibility for the conventional defense of Europe.”
“This is not an American withdrawal from Europe or a signal of lessened commitment to NATO and Article 5,” US Army Europe and Africa Command (USAREUR-AF) said in a statement. “Rather this is a positive sign of increased European capability and responsibility.”
While Rogers and Wicker acknowledged that “thanks to President Trump’s leadership, our European allies have agreed to shoulder historic levels of the burden of collective defense,” they said that drawing down the US presence too soon could cause the president’s progress to backslide.
EUROPE
Quote:A survivor of the UK train mass stabbing has described how she begged for her life, and the madman attacker told her “the devil’s not going to win.”
Dayna Arnold was in the same train car as the attacker when he began slashing at “anyone he could find,” during horrific scenes on board a London-bound train in the east of England just after 7:30 p.m. on Saturday.
“I was going with the crowd but then I got knocked into some seats. I looked back and saw the knifeman running so I slid down to the floor,” Arnold, 48, told the Sun.
She added: “He came at me with the knife and I begged, ‘Please don’t.’ Then something shifted in his face and he just carried on. I feel very fortunate to still be alive.”
Arnold, who was on board the train with friend Andy Gray, 37, recalled the attacker’s sinister words as he spared her life amid the mass slashing that left 11 people wounded, two of whom are still fighting for their lives.
“Then a minute or so later he came back through, looked at me again and said ‘the devil’s not going to win,’ and continued on,” she said.
“I was waiting because I could still hear him in the carriage. I heard the doors open and ran off the train. I saw him take off running and then minutes later police rushed past me and I saw him get tasered,” Arnold said.
One 32-year-old British man is in custody for attempted murder following the attack, which saw armed cops scrambled to the small market town of Huntingdon, Cambridgeshire.
A second man was detained, but later released without charge.
Arnold described the suspect as “quite tall with dark colored skin,” and wearing dark clothing and a hat over shoulder-length braided hair.
Her friend, Grey, used his belt as a makeshift tourniquet to stop a young man bleeding out following the attack.
“A young lad there was only 19 or 20 and had been cut and stabbed really badly. He had a gash on his arm and had several puncture wounds under his arm,” Grey told the Sun.
“He somehow got past me and was panicking walking through saying ‘please somebody help me, I’ve been stabbed,'” he said.
LATIN AMERICA
Quote:A Mexican mayor who called for “brute force” against the country’s violent drug cartels was gunned down in public Saturday night during “Day of the Dead” celebrations in his hometown.
Carlos Manzo, 40, the firebrand mayor of Uruapan in Mexico’s Michoacan province, was shot dead by two gunmen in front of shocked supporters in the city’s central square, the Los Angeles Times reported.
“I condemn in the strongest possible terms the vile assassination of the mayor of Uruapan, Carlos Manzo,” Mexican president Claudia Sheinbaum wrote on X. “I express my deepest condolences to his family and loved ones, as well as to the people of Uruapan, for this irreparable loss.”
Security consultant David Saucedo described the brazen assassination as a “kamikaze attack.”
Manzo gained fame as head of the city of 300,000 when he stood up to the bloody cartels that have terrorized Mexico for decades — and acknowledged the risk he was taking.
“I don’t want to be just another murdered mayor,” he said in a haunting statement last month. “But it is important not to let fear control us.”
His assassination sparked outrage in Mexico City as well as in Washington, DC.
“On this All Souls’ Day, my thoughts are with the family and friends of Carlos Manzo, mayor of Uruapan, Michoacán, Mexico, who was assassinated at a public Day of the Dead celebration last night,” US Deputy Secretary of State Christopher Landau, a former ambassador to Mexico, wrote on X.
“The US stands ready to deepen security cooperation with Mexico to wipe out organized crime on both sides of the border,” he said. “Here’s Carlos holding his young son at the celebration just moments before the attack. May his soul rest in peace and may his memory inspire prompt and effective action.”
Manzo came up in Mexican politics with Sheinbaum’s Morena Party before declaring himself independent, and was critical of former President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador’s “hugs not bullets” approach to the vicious narcotraffickers in ravaging the Central American nation.
Quote:Venezuela claimed it captured a “mercenary group” linked to the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) on Sunday, and accused them of aiming to spark a military conflict with the South American country.
“A false flag attack is underway in waters bordering Trinidad and Tobago or from Trinidadian or Venezuelan territory to generate a full military confrontation with our country,” Venezuelan Vice President Delcy Rodriguez said in a statement.
Rodriguez claimed the mercenary group was captured “with direct information of the American intelligence agency, CIA.”
The Venezuelan official did not provide any evidence to substantiate her wild claims, including the number of people captured, where they were from, what was found on them and what they were allegedly plotting.
Rodriguez likened the purported plot to the 1898 explosion of the USS Maine off the coast of Cuba and the 1964 Gulf of Tonkin incident near Vietnam – the precipitating causes of the Spanish-American and Vietnam wars, respectively.
The White House did not respond to The Post’s request for comment.
The accusation from Venezuelan dictator Nicolas Maduro’s regime comes as the Trump administration has ramped up military operations aimed at countering drug cartels linked to the socialist South American strongman.
War Secretary Pete Hegseth deployed the Gerald R. Ford Carrier Strike Group to the Caribbean Sea last week, where it will join several other high-powered Navy ships already conducting operations in international waters.
Joint military exercises between the US and Trinidad and Tobago are currently underway.
President Trump confirmed reports earlier this month that he authorized the CIA to carry out covert operations in Venezuela.
The president also hinted at targeting drug cartels over land last week.
Quote:Police allegedly decapitated a teen gangster and hung his head from a tree as a warning after a bloody gang crackdown in Brazil ahead of next month’s flagship COP30 Climate Summit in Rio de Janeiro.
More than 100 alleged gangbangers were hunted and killed in Brazil’s deadliest-ever police operation, which began Tuesday in two of Rio’s favelas and targeted drug traffickers.
Police said it followed a yearlong investigation into the dangerous Red Command gang, which originated in Rio’s prison system and has expanded its power in recent years.
The violent raids have sparked intense gun battles, with gangs deploying drones against cops in retaliation. At least four cops have also been killed in the unprecedented violence.
The body of a 19-year-old alleged gangbanger was found missing a head on Tuesday after the police stormed the Penha district of Rio, according to Brazilian media.
The teen’s mom said they hung her son’s head “from a tree like a trophy.”
“They slit my son’s throat, cut his neck, and hung the head from a tree like a trophy,” Raquel Tomas told local media.
“They executed my son without giving him a chance to defend himself. He was murdered.
“Everyone deserves a second chance. During an operation, police should do their job, arrest suspects, but not execute them,” the grieving mom added.
Some of the bodies allegedly bore signs of possible torture, such as “burn marks,” and many of the dead had been tied up, lawyer Albino Pereira Neto, who is representing three of the grieving families, told Brazilian media.
Several bodies of alleged gang members were also displayed in the streets, wearing just their underwear.
Hundreds of police with helicopters, armored vehicles and drones entered the two sprawling favelas that house the Red Command, Rio’s oldest drug trafficking group, exchanging heavy gunfire.
Gangbangers allegedly responded to the violence by dropping bombs and launching drones on the police after blocking the exits from the slum using buses as barricades.
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