Mario Nawfal

🇺🇸 Trump has a new plan to make Americans love data centers... pay them. He says new data centers are “mandated” by him to make their own electricity and sell any extra back to the local grid, so power bills won’t go up. He says they could even come down. His tip for tech companies facing angry locals: pay the community, or individuals in it, a “dividend.” He says data centers that were “highly unpopular” turned “extremely popular” once the money showed up. Back in August, he said towns that reject data centers will end up “backwards and poor.” A Fox News poll from July found 70% of voters don’t want one in their community. And nothing wins hearts and minds when it’s a matter of principle... actually, you know what? Scrap that. Money does. Money wins hearts and minds. Sources: Truth Social, AP, Fox News / Writer: Julie

🇺🇸🇸🇴 Federal agents raided Ilhan Omar’s home. The very next day, she was asking for donations. Now she’s on TikTok, holding back tears and thanking supporters for chipping in “$5, $10, $20.” The DOJ calls it an ongoing CRIMINAL investigation. Omar says it targets her immigration status, and anonymous sources point to paperwork her late father filed when she was a child. She hasn’t been charged, but Omar wasn’t about to let a perfectly good fundraising opportunity go to waste. Sources: Bloomberg, Newsweek / Writer: Julie t.co/e7FMVB0ur0

Someone got paid a fortune for designing Jaguar's new hideous looking Type 01 Shame they didn't think about its turning circle Writer: Ian t.co/u9vBd2uftm

🇺🇸🇺🇦 Rubio says Ukraine wouldn’t exist today without American money. “There would be no Ukraine today were it not for the assistance the United States has supplied Ukraine in the billions of dollars, going back to the Biden administration and going through this administration as well.” Biden must be delighted to hear his name mentioned without an insult attached 😂 Writer: Julie t.co/ybOQ1jAqmy

🇺🇸🇮🇱 Fmr. National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan: the war with Iran only serves Israel "What particularly the war in Iran highlighted is the divergence in Israel's interest from the United States. Netanyahu has basically talked about wanting to have a forever war with Iran, and he doesn't mind if the Strait of Hormuz is closed because it doesn't affect him, whereas it does matter to the American people." Writer: Mhedi t.co/E6MAnCPOP8

When Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 4's full release drops, millions of hours that could've been spent doing something productive are going straight down the drain Writer: Ian t.co/anzxPgC3Wc

Grok Bot can book dinner the old-fashioned way. By picking up the phone. It finds the restaurant's number, speaks to the staff, sorts out the reservation and comes back with the details. Even restaurants that only take bookings over the phone are covered. You choose where to eat. Grok Bot makes the arrangements. You just have to show up hungry. That's my kind of delegation. @Grok @Bot @spacexai / Writer: Annette, Designer: Janné

🇫🇷 That's one way to defend your shop from looters Writer: Ian t.co/jAEI8ltvXd

🇫🇷 A French military fighter jet has crashed in a massive fireball during a training flight, killing one crew member and triggering an urgent search for another. The Mirage 2000D aircraft went down yesterday evening near the Nancy Air Base in northeastern France, close to the commune of Rogeville. Witnesses reported hearing a powerful explosion and seeing a fireball as the aircraft crashed, with reports placing the incident between 9 p.m. and 10:30 p.m. French military officials confirmed that at least one crew member appeared to have been unable to eject before impact. The cause of the accident has not yet been established. Source: The Independent / Writer: Mhedi

🇷🇺🇪🇺 U.S. intelligence believes Putin has ordered a major escalation of covert sabotage operations across NATO countries, raising fears of a direct confrontation between Russia and the alliance. The campaign reportedly began with an attempted explosive-drone attack at Germany's Leipzig airport in August. The operation has since expanded to target military suppliers, communications infrastructure and commercial shipping, in an alleged Russian attempt to disrupt European support to Ukraine. The Leipzig incident was particularly dangerous; an explosives-laden drone targeted an airport used to transport military supplies, but the attack failed. Aides to German Chancellor Friedrich Merz said Berlin would have considered invoking NATO's Article 5 collective-defense clause if the attack had caused mass casualties. Such a move could have escalated the conflict into a direct military confrontation with Russia. Source: The Wall Street Journal / Writer: Mhedi

🇺🇸 The internet spent the weekend calling for a Black Monday crash. Wall Street went shopping instead. By Friday, CNN's Fear & Greed Index had plunged to 18, deep in "Extreme Fear," after the Nasdaq's worst week since June. Chip stocks had lost 15.7% over 8 sessions, and on Saturday, nearly $52 million in leveraged crypto bets tied to those stocks were liquidated in just 10 minutes. Wall Street wasn't even open! Then came Monday, exactly 39 years after the original Black Monday. Chip stocks finally snapped their losing streak, the Nasdaq jumped 1.1%, and the S&P 500 rose 0.4%. The S&P added another 0.3% yesterday, although chip stocks stalled. For perspective, on October 19, 1987, the Dow crashed 22.6% in a SINGLE day. Its worst day since was a 12.9% plunge during the COVID panic in March 2020. After 1987, Wall Street installed emergency brakes to halt trading during severe crashes. In 38 years, they've been triggered on just 5 days: once in 1997 and 4 times in March 2020. And Friday's "Extreme Fear" reading? It did its job. It measured how terrified investors were. The mistake was treating it like a preview of Monday's market. Fear makes great headlines. It's just a terrible fortune teller. Sources: CNN, Reuters, CoinDesk, AP, Federal Reserve, SEC / Writer: Julie

🇺🇸🇷🇺 Steve Witkoff has landed in St. Petersburg with a new peace plan fresh from Oslo. Putin’s envoy Kirill Dmitriev met him at the airport before they headed to Constantine Palace for talks with Putin. Witkoff has been to Russia so many times he should be collecting air miles. Whether this trip finally lands a deal is another story. Writer: Julie t.co/Mlk9YlgGH5 t.co/PzoOGdhYXK

Looks like a normal Trump clip... Then the camera zooms out WTF? Writer: Ian t.co/aNsDd7UPuj

🇬🇺 Earth’s strongest storm of 2026 now has a twin. Super Typhoon Champi has exploded to Category 5-equivalent strength with 185 mph sustained winds, tying Super Typhoon Sinlaku for the top spot this year. Just 3 days ago, it brushed past Guam as a Category 4, its center passing just 10 miles from the island. Even so, nearly half the island lost power. And it still wasn't done getting stronger. Thankfully, Champi is now unleashing its fury over open water. Let’s hope it stays that way. Writer: Julie t.co/KBCd4JZ9lx

Who came up with this 😂😂 Writer: Ian t.co/6UgkCBIG5h

Bro's got a unique approach to fishing 😂 Writer: Ian t.co/MgIK5QEehv

The new Tesla Roadster is now giving fighter jets a run for their money. Literally. Its SpaceX cold-gas thrusters deliver over 80 kN of thrust, helping it hit 0–60 mph in just 0.81 seconds during the reveal. That's faster acceleration than a fighter jet launching off an aircraft carrier. Those thrusters push the car forward without relying entirely on tyre grip. The same technology lets it jump over vehicles and manoeuvre in mid-air. A car that launches like a fighter jet and flies when it feels like it. Quite a machine. @Tesla @SpaceX / Writer: Annette, Designer: Janné

🇮🇱🇱🇧 Israeli and Lebanese officials are sitting in the same room at CENTCOM's Tampa headquarters to work out how Hezbollah gets disarmed Two IDF sources confirmed the meeting at MacDill, the third round after Washington and Rome, and Beirut says it runs into Wednesday. Lebanon's president signed off on sending a delegation with two asks: Israel stops operating in the south and pulls its troops out. Source: Jerusalem Post / Writer: Daniel

🚨🇺🇸 House Republicans have outraised Democrats $250 million to $249 million this cycle... while losing the generic ballot by 12 points The NRCC enters the home stretch with $61 million in the bank against the DCCC's $55.7 million, after Democrats beat them by $84 million in 2024 and $74 million in 2022. September alone brought in $28.5 million for the GOP, though $14 million of that was a transfer from the RNC, and Speaker Johnson has personally raised over $220 million since taking the gavel. So the party with the money is the party at 31% presidential approval, and the party that's broke by comparison leads 47 to 35 on the ballot. Cash buys ads in the dozen districts that decide the House, which is the one thing that can keep a 218-214 majority from turning into a 20-seat loss. The question for the next two weeks is whether $61 million can out-shout a $6 gallon of gas in the suburbs of Pennsylvania, Arizona and New York, or whether the ad buys end up being the most expensive concession speeches in history. Source: Axios / Writer: Daniel

Streamer tosses a girl into the pool as she struggles and repeatedly tells him no, only for him to react to her getting out of the pool by saying this to the camera guy: "That was hot" This generation is cooked. Writer: Daniel t.co/jAm6FgOY3S

🇬🇧🇮🇷 Two men rearrested for "assisting a foreign intelligence service" in the plot against the US bomber base at RAF Fairford... and the B-1s still haven't come back A 24-year-old Briton and a 25-year-old British-Iranian dual national now face the National Security Act charge that Britain reserves for spies, out of seven men picked up since late September, and police say the evidence still points to Iran's state. The prime minister already said the plot was "almost certainly" IRGC-directed; this is the first time the case has moved from terrorism to espionage on paper. The plot was apparently blown by a woman who called 999 about three vans and ten masked men blocking her driveway, which the defense secretary thanked her for on TV. Days later every American long-range bomber left Fairford over an unspecified threat and Trump said the US "moved them around a little bit." Three weeks on, none have returned. The next question is whether they go back before the post-midterm strike window, or whether they fly it from somewhere else. Source: CNN / Writer: Daniel

🇾🇪 NEW SATELLITE IMAGES show damage to the unloading line at Yemen’s Ras Isa terminal. Images from around October 18 appear to match the timing of Saudi strikes on Houthi fuel sites along the Red Sea coast. Ras Isa has already suffered major damage from earlier U.S. and Israeli raids. Damage to the tanker connection could further disrupt oil flows as fuel remains scarce for civilians and fighters. In a war targeting energy infrastructure, one damaged link can disrupt the entire supply chain. Writer: Lucas t.co/mAdlTtPM0R

🇺🇸 The CIA quietly BOUGHT thousands of Steve Jobs’ NeXT computers, helping keep his struggling company alive. Journalist Sharon Weinberger later uncovered that the agency bought customized machines for spy satellite analysis, giving NeXT crucial sales when few others were buying. That contract bought Jobs time to prove NeXT could work and helped pave the way back to Apple. Writer: Lucas t.co/5EUp4p0ZSP

🚨🇦🇱 Protesters in Tirana SMASHED the chairs that Albanese PM Rama set out as an invitation to talk 👀 He arranged empty seats outside parliament and said anyone who wanted dialogue without violence was welcome. Demonstrators showed up and broke the chairs instead. The government got the message clear as water 💀 Source: DWNews YT / Writer: Lucas

🇺🇸🇨🇳 Beijing threatens "necessary measures" after the US sanctions five Chinese firms built around a Google engineer who stole AI secrets and got 12 months Linwei Ding was convicted in January of taking Google's AI trade secrets while secretly working for two Chinese companies, then went home and founded Zhisuan, pitching that he could copy Google's supercomputing setup. The State Department hit Zhisuan, the incubator MiraclePlus that funded it for equity, and three affiliates, the first time the trade-secret sanctions authority has been aimed at a Chinese startup ecosystem rather than a state firm. Beijing's response is that its AI progress comes from "long-term cultivation" and "independent innovation" and has "nothing to do" with theft, which is a bold position to take about a company founded by a man a US jury convicted of exactly that. The judge tossed the espionage counts and gave him a year; the DOJ is appealing. To be honest, just 12 months for walking out of Google with the blueprints is the part that should bother everyone more than Beijing’s statement... Source: AP, WaPo / Writer: Daniel, Lucas

🚨🇺🇸 Vivek owns the $4 million ad in which Amy Acton's estranged mother calls her a liar... the same mother Acton says sided with the stepfather who sexually abused her at 12 Asked on camera whether the spot was his, Vivek claimed it and said the people who "know her best," from her former boss to the Ohio State Medical Association, are telling voters to pick him, and her mother fits "a pattern." His campaign says it tested well with persuadables. Acton says she was abused by her mother's husband from 10 to 12, her mother "did nothing to protect me," she and her brother were taken out of that home by the state, and she hasn't seen the woman since. Her brother called the ad "disgusting." Marist has Acton up 50 to 43, and Vance campaigns with Vivek in Cincinnati tomorrow. Source: Axios / Writer: Daniel t.co/BcoQOjbV0W

🇦🇱 Albania’s PM office placed RED VELVET CHAIRS labeled “DIALOGUE” in Tirana’s MAIN SQAURE It’s a PR stunt with no substance. And seriously, red velvet? Way to connect with the people… Writer: Marie t.co/ydbM644GAv

🇮🇱🇸🇾 Israeli fighter jets reportedly flew over Syria on the route toward Iran for "military drills"... a day after Netanyahu told Trump they have "a job to finish" Damascus already had its guard up: a senior Syrian official told the Jerusalem Post this week that Israeli reconnaissance over the south has spiked and that Israel is arming Druze militias in Sweida, a claim Israel hasn't addressed. A week before Israelis vote, the air corridor to Iran got a dress rehearsal. Source: Fox News / JPost / Writer: Daniel t.co/SdFbSDulYw

🚨🇺🇸🇮🇷 The Pentagon is deciding which bombed-out Middle East bases are worth rebuilding and handing the list to the GOLDEN DOME team to pick which ones get defended first... A senior defense official told reporters today that CENTCOM is assessing installations "from an installation perspective" and weighing future posture against the bill, which is the first on-record admission that some bases may not come back. The known list: the air operations center at Al Udeid knocked out, installations in Saudi Arabia and Jordan hit, and the Fifth Fleet's home in Bahrain so wrecked the Navy's top admiral said it won't be used "anytime soon." Hegseth's $37.5 billion war estimate to Congress left base repairs out entirely, and Senate Armed Services asked this week for the full number. The official didn't have one. What he did have was a new doctrine: the two oceans no longer protect the homeland, "the installation is the weapon system," and the Golden Dome team is now ranking which bases get defended first. Theoretically, the strike plan being drawn up for after the midterms would launch from exactly this footprint. The last round left the Navy without a headquarters in the Gulf and the Air Force running the air war from somewhere other than Qatar, and the Pentagon is openly asking whether it even wants those bases back before it decides to go again. Iran might not necessarily be winning the oil war... but it did make every American base in the region a line item somebody has to defend and justify in a budget hearing. Source: Breaking Defense, CBS / Writer: Daniel

🇺🇸🇰🇵 North Korea keeps firing missiles while Trump talks about meeting Kim, and some call it WEAKNESS. Marco Rubio’s point earlier was simple: grown-up foreign policy means nuclear powers still have to talk. You can’t reduce the risk of conflict by refusing to pick up the phone. The higher missile test count doesn’t prove diplomacy failed. North Korea is advancing its weapons programs and strengthening ties with Russia and China. Talking still doesn’t hand anyone a free pass, but keeps worst options off the table while the rest gets sorted. Source: CSIS / Writer: Lucas