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Nov 9, 2026 - World

Actor and comedian Russell Brand, who later became an outspoken supporter of Donald Trump, has been sentenced to 10 years and six months in prison after being convicted of rape and sexual assault.The sentence comes days after a London jury found Brand, 51, guilty of one count of rape and three counts of sexual assault, according to Variety. Jurors cleared him of two additional rape charges and an attempted indecent assault charge. Brand had denied all of the allegations.Under British law, rape carries a maximum penalty of life in prison, while sexual assault carries up to 10 years.According to Variety, the judge declined to grant Brand conditional bail after the verdict, and he was taken into custody. Brand showed no visible reaction as the verdicts were read. On his way to the holding cells, he gave his lawyers a thumbs-up and mouthed “I’m OK” and “I’m good,” Sky News reported. His wife, Laura Brand, quickly left the courtroom.The case covered alleged attacks between 1999 and 2009. Prosecutors brought three rape counts, including one of oral rape, along with a 2001 attempted indecent assault charge tied to MTV’s U.K. offices and sexual assault counts dating from 2004 to 2009.According to Variety, Brand could face more charges. London’s Metropolitan Police confirmed after the trial that it is investigating new rape allegations from two other women. Brand has been questioned but not charged in those cases.

Nov 9, 2026 - World

President Donald Trump outraged some political analysts on Sunday after he blurted out a false claim about military casualties in the Iran conflict. Speaking to reporters at the airport in West Palm Beach, Florida, Trump claimed no soldiers have been killed in the conflict, a claim that his own Department of Defense has refuted. In October, the Pentagon raised the official death toll in the Iran war to 23, Stars and Stripes reported. "We won in Iran," Trump said. "It's just a matter of closing it out now. Maybe we'll wait. Some of their neighbors would prefer that we keep it the way that it is." "Again, we haven't lost anybody. No soldiers," he added, comparing America's casualties in Iran with larger conflicts like the war of Russian aggression in Ukraine and the Vietnam War. Trump's comments sparked a firestorm of criticism online. Nick Field, a politics writer, described the president's comments as "f------ horrible" in a post on X, reiterating the number of casualties that have been reported. Quentin Ocama, state outreach officer for the Minnesota Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party, posted on X that Trump's claim was also "wildly disrespectful" to service members. "Wildly disrespectful of the service members who have been killed or injured in this clusterf--- of a conflict," he wrote. "Our crisis with a lack of serious and competent leadership continues…."Journalist Aaron Rupar described Trump's claims in a post on X as "lies." Trump lies that he's "won in Iran" and lies that "we haven't lost anybody. No soldiers." https://t.co/Oiak44fnOx— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) November 8, 2026

Nov 8, 2026 - World

President Donald Trump was brutally mocked Sunday after he revealed what some analysts saw as a sign that he's "collapsing on every front."During an interview with CNN, Trump said it was "highly unlikely" that his administration would launch further strikes against the Iranian regime as long as negotiations about the country's nuclear program and reopening the Strait of Hormuz continue to progress. Trump's comments marked a departure from his repeated threats to wipe out the Iranian civilization because of the regime's reluctance to negotiate. The president's comments sparked a wave of mockery on social media. Josh Marshall, founder of Talking Points Memo, wrote in a post on X that Trump's comments were quite revealing. "Just collapsing on every front now," Marshall posted. Democratic strategist Leslie Marshall noted that Trump appeared to be trying to reinstate the conditions that existed before the war began. "You mean like we had before?" Marshall posted on X. Maryam Jamshidi, a non-resident fellow at the Quincy Institute, remarked that Trump's comments didn't reflect the reality on the ground in the Middle East. "The longer this goes, the more likely it is, in my view, that there will be no significant strikes," Jamshidi posted on X. "That being said, the U.S. is still carrying out limited strikes, its blockade is in place, and now it’s claiming to expand it to land routes - so the war is ongoing [and] still illegal."

Nov 8, 2026 - World

Secretary of State Marco Rubio warned Trump administration officials about one of their biggest corporate allies' ties to an alleged spy this spring, and was met with silence, according to a new report. The New York Times reported Sunday that Rubio told Trump administration officials about Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang's ties to an alleged Chinese spy, Alice Huang, about a year ago, citing "multiple people briefed on the matter." The report was published the same day as Nvidia's board of directors had opened an independent investigation into Huang's ties to the alleged spy. Jensen and Alice Huang are not related. However, Rubio's warnings seemed to fall on deaf ears inside the administration, the New York Times reported. For instance, it said President Donald Trump waved off concerns about Huang because he views the company as central to America's competitive advantage over China in artificial intelligence and a key player in the recent stock market rally. The report also raises questions about some of the policies Huang, whom the report describes as "a pivotal figure in the explosive growth of A.I., remained an influential voice with Mr. Trump over policy on the issue," has lobbied for. "Mr. Huang has opposed calls for more tightly regulating the export of the most advanced A.I. chips and has pushed to be able to sell all but the most recently developed technology to China, the main competitor to the United States in the global rush for A.I. supremacy," according to the report.

Nov 8, 2026 - World

President orders prompt investigation after one train derails in collision in al-Ayyat about 50km from CairoSeven people were killed and at least 125 injured when two trains collided on Sunday south of the Egyptian capital, Cairo, officials said.The crash occurred in al-Ayyat district in Giza province, about 50km (30 miles) south of Cairo, when a train travelling to Fayoum province crashed into the rear of a train heading to the southern province of Aswan, according to the transport ministry. Continue reading...