Biden has a slight lead over Trump, his predecessor and current frontrunner for the Republican nomination, with 49 percent of registered voters saying they’d choose the incumbent and 47 percent siding with Trump, according to the latest poll. Independents favor Trump by an 8-point margin. The race remains virtually unchanged from August and is inside the poll’s margin of error.

Former President Donald Trump is expected to endorse Rep. Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) to be the next House Speaker, Rep. Troy Nehls (R-Texas) claimed in a post online.

A bombshell government report also found that a CBP official used the data to track coworkers with no investigative purpose.

A Republican senator furious at Matt Gaetz's efforts to oust Kevin McCarthy as the speaker of the House claimed on Wednesday that Gaetz was widely disliked in his party, and shunned after he bragged about his sexual escapades.

Christopher Livingston is the undisputed king of dicking around in Bethesda games and Starfield sucks hard enough to kill his joy.

Several plaintiffs affiliated with a national Democratic redistricting group on Thursday asked the Ohio Supreme Court to find the state’s newly passed legislative redistricting plan to be unconstitutionally gerrymandered. It’s the first legal challenge filed against the new state legislative maps passed unanimously by the Ohio Redistricting Commission last week. The new redistricting plan, passed Sept. 27, gives Republicans an advantage in 61 of 99 Ohio House districts and 23 of 33 state Senate districts, according to State Auditor Keith Faber, the commission’s Republican co-chair. The two Democrats on the seven-member commission voted for the plan, saying (among other things) that it was preferable to Republicans passing a map even more favorable to them.

Scott's tickets are selling for $14 on StubHub after the tour was "overbought" by speculators. One ticket reselling scheme is going to lose a single company more than $1 million.

Punjabi musicians fear they will be caught in the middle of rising tensions between India and Canada.

A woman has been sentenced to life in prison after multiple deputies with the Douglas County Sheriff's Office were exposed to fentanyl during a drug bust near South Lake Tahoe in October 2022... "As we opened that container, it pressurized just like on a plane and pushed some of the substance out," he said. Video of the initial exposure was not available because it was during an undercover drug bust and undercover deputies are not required to wear body cameras under Nevada law. Coverley said he believes other deputies were exposed when in direct contact while searching the suspects, who he said had drugs on them from using earlier that day. Five of his deputies were rushed to the hospital where they were treated for pretend bullshit.

Water loss to main breaks and leaking pipes is costing cities billions of gallons of water, and sometimes millions of dollars along with it.

A military judge at Guantanamo Bay has ruled one of the 9/11 defendants too mentally ill to stand trial, after a military medical panel found that the man's torture in CIA custody years earlier has rendered him psychotic. Al-Shibh has complained for years since his transfer to the U.S. naval base at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, that his guards were attacking him, including by invisible rays, so as to deprive him of sleep and cause him pain. Defense attorney David Bruck argued at a hearing by the military court Tuesday for McCall to accept the medical panel’s finding that al-Shibh’s mental issues were too severe for him to meaningfully take part in his defense. Bruck pointed to what he said was al-Shibh’s solitary confinement over four years in detention at CIA black sites, and torture that included his being forced to stand sleepless for as long as three days at a time, naked except for a diaper and doused with cold water in air-conditioned rooms, for the man’s lasting belief that his American guards were still conspiring to deprive him of sleep. Bruck indicated that al-Shibh would be expected to remain in custody if found incompetent to stand trial.

Preeti Kathrecha is suing Equality and Human Rights Commission alleging unfair dismissal and race discrimination

Center for Biological Diversity: STARR COUNTY, Texas — The Biden administration announced today that for the first time it will waive environmental, public health and cultural resource protection laws to fast-track construction of the U.S.-Mexico border wall in Texas. The administration says it will take “immediate action to construct barriers and roads” along the border, including through the fragile Lower Rio Grande Valley National Wildlife Refuge and neighboring lands.

Last year, an Airbnb guest at a luxury studio in Brentwood refused to check out after her scheduled stay ended. She hasn't paid rent in more than 500 days.

Microsoft’s Bing Image Creator creator has been around since March, using “AI” technology to generate images based on whatever the user types. You never know where this sort of thing might lead, though, and in recent weeks users have been using the tool to create images of Kirby and other popular characters flying planes into skyscrapers. Microsoft doesn’t want you digitally recreating the September 11 attacks, but because AI tools are impossible to control, it seems unlikely it can stop users who really want to see SpongeBob committing acts of simulated terrorism.

More than 100 participants underwent brain scans and had their gut bacteria measured in order to study the effects of discrimination.

French newspaper Libération has reported that five ex-Ubisoft employees have been arrested in connection with a sexual harassment investigation by French police. According to the paper, in 2021, French police received complaints from the Solidaires Informatique union — a French union that serves digital, consulting, and video game workers — and two individuals. After more than a year of investigation involving extensive interviews with around 50 current and former Ubisoft employees, the arrests were carried out over October 3rd and 4th. Of the five individuals arrested, only two are named — former chief creative officer Serge Hacosët and editorial vice president Tommy François, both of whom left the company in 2020.

Newly appointed Sen. Laphonza Butler came from EMILY’s List, which spends tens of millions backing Kamala Harris while laying off staff.

Meta has started slowly rolling out its new AI-generated stickers for Messenger, and the results so far are totally unhinged. The company, which owns Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp, announced that it would be introducing AI tools to Messenger last week, starting with a limited rollout in the US. On Tuesday night, examples of the kinds of stickers the AI tool generates based on user prompts went viral, and it’s easy to see why. Montreal-based artist Pier-Olivier Desbiens posted a few examples, and they include: Nintendo character Waluigi holding a rifle, a Mickey Mouse-toilet hybrid, child soldiers, a nude Justin Trudeau bending over, and a busty Karl Marx wearing a dress. Desbiens used Meta’s tool to generate stickers of other well-known characters as well, such as a pregnant Shrek and Elmo holding a knife. Stickers generated by other users included Hilary Clinton in jail and President Xi Jinping morphed with Winnie the Pooh—a notorious insult directed at Xi by detractors.

Picketing has begun at Kaiser Permanente hospitals as some 75,000 workers who say understaffing is hurting patient care go on strike in five states and the District of Columbia.