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En esta ciudad de Pensilvania, los dos partidos políticos buscan el voto latino - @barbarasprunt npr.org/2026/10/01/g-s1-1454…
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Should the Pentagon execute Hasan publicly, the US will join the small number of countries, including Iran, Afghanistan and North Korea, that embrace the practice ft.com/content/0c390d03-427f… via @ft
The president of the U.S. was quoted as saying he went to war with Iran knowing it was doomed but that "in the end, we all die anyway, so it doesn’t matter."
And hardly anyone batted an eye. npr.org/sections/npr-public-…
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I went in @BBC Newshour to talk about our new book, Our Hearts Burned For Home, on Uyghur fighters in Syria, hitting shelves October 13 (at the 40 min mark) bbc.com/audio/play/w1730bn7c…
Ex-deputy UN chief told NPR last month frontrunners for top job are viewed “as very capable, decent individuals w/ a high level of integrity” but not much enthusiasm and he suspects other candidate may come forward to win. npr.org/2026/09/21/nx-s1-597…
Argentina says it's going to ask an international court to stop UK oil exploration in the Falklands/Malvinas islands, Clarin reports clarin.com/politica/malvinas…
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The Security Council is holding its 5th straw poll tomorrow to test the viability of the candidates for Secretary General.
The frontrunner is a highly respected senior UN official whose parents were Jewish WW2 refugees who fled to Costa Rica.
globaldispatches.org/p/the-r…
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Incredible @NPR story on how Fox journalists got killed in Ukraine after the lead reporter ignored repeated security warnings and took his team into a battlefield they had been told to avoid. A Russian missile then destroyed their car. npr.org/2026/10/04/nx-s1-573…
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1/ New from me: Chinese diplos scrambled 90 min before the Xi/Trump visit to the National Archives to stop a Taiwan-related treaty from being shown.
..."an indication of pushback from within the U.S. gov against President Trump's warm reception of Xi.."
npr.org/2026/09/29/nx-s1-598…
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🇲🇽 MEXICO's FM Roberto Velasco @CFR_org today:
"We have an excellent relation with 🇨🇦Canada, with PM Carney. We respect him very much"
"But let me talk to you from the Mexican perspective: We don't view ourselves as a middle power. We don't view the world in terms of powers"
US Ambassador to UN Mike Waltz tells NPR Morning Edition the administration is "internalizing" an Iranian proposal following talks yesterday
npr.org/2026/09/23/nx-s1-597…
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NEW: #Venezuela opposition leader María Corina Machado tried three times in the past 24 hours to return home but was unable to complete the journey.
Machado sought to travel from Panama to Venezuela by several routes, according to a source with direct knowledge of her attempts.
The efforts came as acting President Delcy Rodríguez visited New York for the United Nations General Assembly, where she met with US President Donald Trump and Secretary of State Marco Rubio on Tuesday night.
bloomberg.com/news/articles/…
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Watch LIVE as @UN_PGA and @antonioguterres kick off the #UNGA General Debate at UN Headquarters in New York.
webtv.un.org/en/asset/k17/k1…
thank you Capital Weather for keeping em honest. Been seeing people and corporations have been crowing about the start of fall weeks ago - FALSELY. Tomorrow is the equinox, humans, and thus the first day of fall. The days leading up to this day this month have still been summer.
🚨 We’re calling it: Summer is over in DC.
After 50 days of 90+ heat and one of our 10 hottest summers on record, the pattern has finally flipped.
70s today. 60s Tuesday and Wednesday. And no sustained heat in sight.
Welcome, fall. 🍂
Link: capitalweather.com/we-declar…
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HUGE from @BenBartenstein @k3blu3: Inside the US ‘Kill Chain’ That Destroyed an Iranian School
Pentagon investigators discovered that flawed intel, outdated imagery & overreliance on AI contributed to a missile strike that killed 123 children in Minab
🎁 bloomberg.com/graphics/2026-…
"Vast troves of highly sensitive police data are lying on Microsoft cloud platforms which an official UK security assessment deemed to be vulnerable to “compromise” by foreign actors and the US government, a Guardian investigation can reveal." theguardian.com/uk-news/2026…
