Morning Digest
25 stories from 4 sources, 61 more held back.
The Pentagon was accused of whitewashing US Army crimes after publishing its annual estimate of civilian casualties in 2025. The report, submitted to Congress late Monday and obtained by US news outlets, contains numbers that are far lower than estimates by independent outlets. The Pentagon concluded that US military operations killed 153 civilians and injured 243 last year.
UK’s Burnham calls for more housing for illegal immigrants. British Prime Minister Andy Burnham has called for immigrants to be housed more widely across the UK, as the country continues to grapple with large numbers of people crossing the English Channel.
Moscow’s response for seizing Russian vessels will put West in its place – Carl Zha to RT. The only response Western nations will understand for seizing Russian commercial vessels is a forceful one, including retaliation in kind, Carl Zha, the host of the Silk and Steel podcast, told RT.
The US called Ukraine to heel for targeting oil tankers in the Black Sea after Kiev began launching drone attacks on vessels sailing to a partly US-owned Caspian Pipeline Consortium (CPC) terminal in Russia, the Financial Times reported. The CPC funnels Kazakh crude across southern Russia to a marine terminal near Novorossiysk, where tankers carry it onward to Europe and Asia.
A video recently released by the Russian Defense Ministry features a female drone pilot reporting the details of a successful battle against Ukrainian forces. Women are being increasingly accepted for combat roles in the country, marking a shift in gender roles.
When we think of WWI-era aviation, what usually comes to mind is the ‘Red Baron’ and Zeppelin raids—in short, most people think of the Western Front in all its fury. However, few people know that during the First World War, Russia was waging its own aerial war, full of challenges and drama. Aviation pioneer Igor Sikorsky didn’t plan to build a bomber.
New Ebola variant linked to unknown animal source – study. Scientists have identified a new variant of the Ebola-causing Bundibugyo virus behind the 2026 outbreak in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DR Congo) and Uganda, according to a study published in Nature Medicine on Monday.
The great Patriot hoarding: Why Kiev’s donors have locked their missile vaults. Kiev has stepped up its long-range strike campaign against Russia, seemingly expecting its European backers to provide anti-air missiles to defend against Russia’s inevitable retaliation. There’s just one problem: The missiles don’t exist.
Russia created largest non-dollar crypto stablecoin – bank boss. Russia has created the largest stablecoin not pegged to the US dollar through its A7 cross-border payment system, the chairman of Promsvyazbank (PSB), Pyotr Fradkov, has said.
Southern African bloc raises alarm over severe El Nino. A severe El Nino could deepen the humanitarian crisis across Southern Africa by worsening drought, hunger, water shortages, and disease outbreaks, the Southern African Development Community (SADC) has warned.
Russia has the capability to set up its own comprehensive cross-border payment network that would be domestic in origin, but international in function, the chairman of Promsvyazbank (PSB), Pyotr Fradkov, has said.
New details are emerging about Donald Trump’s secret flight out of Turkey last month in a decoy jet, with a new report finding that he made sure his favorite young blonde staffer came with him while top Cabinet officials got left behind. Texas Republican Senate candidate Ken Paxton got publicly humiliated on a phone town hall when a voter asked him why he cheated on his wife.
Trump is now demanding his Justice Department resurrect criminal charges against a former American Olympian, even after his own handpicked prosecutor admitted there was no evidence. Former President Barack Obama couldn’t help but mock Trump’s gold-gilded Oval Office during a cameo on HBO Max.
With the midterms less than three months away, Raw America managing editor Carl Gibson interviewed Kelly Dietrich, founder and CEO of the National Democratic Training Committee (NDTC), to talk about how Democrats can get involved in 2026 campaigns, and how they can mount candidacies of their own up and down the ticket in 2028. Gibson and Dietrich covered various topics, including:.
The PGA Tour's band is back together this week, at least the two most accomplished and popular golfers, as the FedEx Cup playoffs tee off with the FedEx St. Jude Championship in Memphis, Tennessee, on Thursday. World No. 1 golfer Scottie Scheffler and No. 2 Rory McIlroy are both in the field after the latter skipped the first leg of the playoffs last season.
Which two teams will face off inside Hinkle Fieldhouse in Indianapolis for the 2026 Emirates NBA Cup? On Wednesday, the league unveiled the full group stage schedule for this year's in-season tournament, with action taking place every Friday from Oct. 30 to Nov. 27 and on special Cup nights during Thanksgiving week (Nov. 24-25).
After losing to Spain last month, the defeated and dejected Argentina players had one crumb of consolation: They knew where their next FIFA World Cup match would be taking place. For the first time since 1978, the World Cup returns to Argentina in 2030 -- a full 52 years later, during which time both the United States and Mexico have had two bites at the cherry.
A second marquee matchup of the reigning NBA champion New York Knicks against the Philadelphia 76ers and LeBron James, along with the Los Angeles Lakers playing at the Golden State Warriors mark the first opening day of NBA Cup play on Oct. 30. The league on Wednesday announced the full NBA Cup schedule as well as the 15 nationally televised games that will air on ESPN, Prime Video or NBC/Peacock.
The ESPN fantasy women's basketball playoffs are here in standard leagues, and that brings another update to the rankings. The top three of A'ja Wilson, Caitlin Clark and Breanna Stewart remains the same, while Napheesa Collier and Olivia Miles of the WNBA-best Minnesota Lynx move into the top five of the rest-of-season rankings.
The seconds are counting down to the trade deadline in ESPN fantasy baseball leagues, which arrives on Friday at noon ET. If you haven't done a comprehensive evaluation of your roster to fine-tune it for the stretch run, it's imperative you do so now.
The businessmen were involved in the expansion process in Las Vegas, but in a stunning turn, they pivoted to make an aggressive offer to buy the Lakers from Mark Walter, who had purchased a controlling interest in the team from the Buss family last year for a then-record franchise valuation of approximately $10 billion.
Pittsburgh Pirates ace Paul Skenes, battling another dip in his fastball velocity, was lifted after just 65 pitches in Tuesday's loss to the Miami Marlins, leading to further speculation about the health status of the reigning National League Cy Young Award winner.
The FedEx St. Jude Championship begins Thursday and tee times were announced Tuesday for the first and second rounds. Here are the tee times for each player, including Scottie Scheffler and Rory McIlroy playing together the first two days. 8:10 a.m./11:05 a.m. -- Jackson Koivun.
Countless players have set LeBron James up for a slam dunk across his two-decade-plus NBA career. But a freshly painted mural in Philadelphia has James catching a hypothetical dime from a prominent member of the city's history: William Penn. Murals have popped up in and around the city since James decided to sign with the 76ers last month.
That memo you just worked with Claude to write? It might soon carry an invisible signature that says so. Anthropic just quietly detailed the rollout of invisible watermarks that label everything its Claude models touch, and, like most features forced onto the world, a lot of users aren’t happy about it.
The Pentagon was accused of whitewashing US Army crimes after publishing its annual estimate of civilian casualties in 2025. The report, submitted to Congress late Monday and obtained by US news outlets, contains numbers that are far lower than estimates by independent outlets. The Pentagon concluded that US military operations killed 153 civilians and injured 243 last year.
UK’s Burnham calls for more housing for illegal immigrants. British Prime Minister Andy Burnham has called for immigrants to be housed more widely across the UK, as the country continues to grapple with large numbers of people crossing the English Channel.
Moscow’s response for seizing Russian vessels will put West in its place – Carl Zha to RT. The only response Western nations will understand for seizing Russian commercial vessels is a forceful one, including retaliation in kind, Carl Zha, the host of the Silk and Steel podcast, told RT.
The US called Ukraine to heel for targeting oil tankers in the Black Sea after Kiev began launching drone attacks on vessels sailing to a partly US-owned Caspian Pipeline Consortium (CPC) terminal in Russia, the Financial Times reported. The CPC funnels Kazakh crude across southern Russia to a marine terminal near Novorossiysk, where tankers carry it onward to Europe and Asia.
A video recently released by the Russian Defense Ministry features a female drone pilot reporting the details of a successful battle against Ukrainian forces. Women are being increasingly accepted for combat roles in the country, marking a shift in gender roles.
When we think of WWI-era aviation, what usually comes to mind is the ‘Red Baron’ and Zeppelin raids—in short, most people think of the Western Front in all its fury. However, few people know that during the First World War, Russia was waging its own aerial war, full of challenges and drama. Aviation pioneer Igor Sikorsky didn’t plan to build a bomber.
New Ebola variant linked to unknown animal source – study. Scientists have identified a new variant of the Ebola-causing Bundibugyo virus behind the 2026 outbreak in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DR Congo) and Uganda, according to a study published in Nature Medicine on Monday.
The great Patriot hoarding: Why Kiev’s donors have locked their missile vaults. Kiev has stepped up its long-range strike campaign against Russia, seemingly expecting its European backers to provide anti-air missiles to defend against Russia’s inevitable retaliation. There’s just one problem: The missiles don’t exist.
Russia created largest non-dollar crypto stablecoin – bank boss. Russia has created the largest stablecoin not pegged to the US dollar through its A7 cross-border payment system, the chairman of Promsvyazbank (PSB), Pyotr Fradkov, has said.
Southern African bloc raises alarm over severe El Nino. A severe El Nino could deepen the humanitarian crisis across Southern Africa by worsening drought, hunger, water shortages, and disease outbreaks, the Southern African Development Community (SADC) has warned.
Russia has the capability to set up its own comprehensive cross-border payment network that would be domestic in origin, but international in function, the chairman of Promsvyazbank (PSB), Pyotr Fradkov, has said.
The PGA Tour's band is back together this week, at least the two most accomplished and popular golfers, as the FedEx Cup playoffs tee off with the FedEx St. Jude Championship in Memphis, Tennessee, on Thursday. World No. 1 golfer Scottie Scheffler and No. 2 Rory McIlroy are both in the field after the latter skipped the first leg of the playoffs last season.
Which two teams will face off inside Hinkle Fieldhouse in Indianapolis for the 2026 Emirates NBA Cup? On Wednesday, the league unveiled the full group stage schedule for this year's in-season tournament, with action taking place every Friday from Oct. 30 to Nov. 27 and on special Cup nights during Thanksgiving week (Nov. 24-25).
After losing to Spain last month, the defeated and dejected Argentina players had one crumb of consolation: They knew where their next FIFA World Cup match would be taking place. For the first time since 1978, the World Cup returns to Argentina in 2030 -- a full 52 years later, during which time both the United States and Mexico have had two bites at the cherry.
A second marquee matchup of the reigning NBA champion New York Knicks against the Philadelphia 76ers and LeBron James, along with the Los Angeles Lakers playing at the Golden State Warriors mark the first opening day of NBA Cup play on Oct. 30. The league on Wednesday announced the full NBA Cup schedule as well as the 15 nationally televised games that will air on ESPN, Prime Video or NBC/Peacock.
The ESPN fantasy women's basketball playoffs are here in standard leagues, and that brings another update to the rankings. The top three of A'ja Wilson, Caitlin Clark and Breanna Stewart remains the same, while Napheesa Collier and Olivia Miles of the WNBA-best Minnesota Lynx move into the top five of the rest-of-season rankings.
The seconds are counting down to the trade deadline in ESPN fantasy baseball leagues, which arrives on Friday at noon ET. If you haven't done a comprehensive evaluation of your roster to fine-tune it for the stretch run, it's imperative you do so now.
The businessmen were involved in the expansion process in Las Vegas, but in a stunning turn, they pivoted to make an aggressive offer to buy the Lakers from Mark Walter, who had purchased a controlling interest in the team from the Buss family last year for a then-record franchise valuation of approximately $10 billion.
Pittsburgh Pirates ace Paul Skenes, battling another dip in his fastball velocity, was lifted after just 65 pitches in Tuesday's loss to the Miami Marlins, leading to further speculation about the health status of the reigning National League Cy Young Award winner.
The FedEx St. Jude Championship begins Thursday and tee times were announced Tuesday for the first and second rounds. Here are the tee times for each player, including Scottie Scheffler and Rory McIlroy playing together the first two days. 8:10 a.m./11:05 a.m. -- Jackson Koivun.
Countless players have set LeBron James up for a slam dunk across his two-decade-plus NBA career. But a freshly painted mural in Philadelphia has James catching a hypothetical dime from a prominent member of the city's history: William Penn. Murals have popped up in and around the city since James decided to sign with the 76ers last month.
New details are emerging about Donald Trump’s secret flight out of Turkey last month in a decoy jet, with a new report finding that he made sure his favorite young blonde staffer came with him while top Cabinet officials got left behind. Texas Republican Senate candidate Ken Paxton got publicly humiliated on a phone town hall when a voter asked him why he cheated on his wife.
Trump is now demanding his Justice Department resurrect criminal charges against a former American Olympian, even after his own handpicked prosecutor admitted there was no evidence. Former President Barack Obama couldn’t help but mock Trump’s gold-gilded Oval Office during a cameo on HBO Max.
With the midterms less than three months away, Raw America managing editor Carl Gibson interviewed Kelly Dietrich, founder and CEO of the National Democratic Training Committee (NDTC), to talk about how Democrats can get involved in 2026 campaigns, and how they can mount candidacies of their own up and down the ticket in 2028. Gibson and Dietrich covered various topics, including:.
That memo you just worked with Claude to write? It might soon carry an invisible signature that says so. Anthropic just quietly detailed the rollout of invisible watermarks that label everything its Claude models touch, and, like most features forced onto the world, a lot of users aren’t happy about it.