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Oct 5, 2026 - World

President Donald Trump launched yet another attack on how elections are conducted in the US by insisting in a midnight tirade that they should not be trusted.With his eye on Brazil's first-round presidential election on Sunday, which is headed to an Oct. 25 runoff between President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva and Flávio Bolsonaro, he ramped up the familiar grievance."125 Million People voted today in the first round of Brazil's Presidential Election. The results came out shortly after the vote closed, on the SAME DAY!" Trump wrote. "In Detroit, Philadelphia, California, and numerous other U.S. Cities and States, the results, with much smaller numbers, will often take weeks to Rig, I mean, calculate. Voting in America is CORRUPT!!!"The post was not without its own hiccup. Newsweek reported that screenshots showed the original version referred to "India's Presidential Election" before it was changed to Brazil. Newsweek also noted that Brazil runs a fully electronic voting system that allows results to come in quickly.The outburst is the latest in a string of late-night election complaints from the president, who has spent months pushing to sharply restrict mail-in voting ahead of November's midterms. He signed the message "President DJT."

Oct 4, 2026 - World

Outrage poured in on Sunday after reports indicated a U.S. Marine had been arrested in Japan on suspicion of burglary and murder. The Associated Press reported on the service member's arrest in Okinawa, a southern island that has had a large U.S. military presence since World War II. The report indicated that police arrested a 29-year-old Marine for allegedly killing a 39-year-old woman in a hotel in the island's capital of Naha, and taking her wallet and belongings afterward. The individual who has been accused of the crime was caught on video entering the hotel with the woman and leaving alone, the report added. The report set off a firestorm in Japan and abroad. “The case deals a major shock and adds fear to the Okinawans who have already been forced to live next to U.S. bases,” newly elected Okinawa Gov. Genta Koja told the AP. “It is absolutely unforgivable, and we are outraged.”Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi condemned the report in a statement to CNN. "The occurrence of such an extremely brutal and heinous incident is a matter of profound regret, and as the Japanese government, we have lodged a strong protest with the U.S. side," she said. CNN's Clare Sebastian reported that the U.S. embassy in Japan is cooperating in the investigation, and that it "risks political fallout between the U.S. and its key ally in the Pacific."Geopolitical analysts expressed outrage at the report on social media. "The US military rapes and murders in Japan. But clearly the biggest threat to Japan is China," Aidan Simardone, a geopolitical analyst and immigration lawyer, posted on X. "This is just breaking news here in Japan, pissing off a lot of people and it’s not the first time," Thomas Logan, an East Asia strategist, posted on X.

Oct 4, 2026 - World

One of President Donald Trump's supporters found himself caught in the middle of a horrific immigration case last week, one that has him questioning his support for the president, according to a new report. Jack Buhring, a truck driver, was hauling along his normal route on August 31 when his truck struck and killed a 20-year-old Haitian immigrant named Pierre Damas Bel, who had jumped out in front of him near Springfield, Ohio, The Atlantic reported. Bel had been granted Temporary Protected Status to stay in the country because of instability in his home nation. However, Bel was one of thousands of legal immigrants who lost their immigration status when the Supreme Court allowed the Trump administration to end TPS for Haitians. “I feel really bad for the family,” Buhring, who voted for Trump for the first time in 2024, told the outlet. “I just don’t want to take the chance for the safety of my family. I mean, he jumped out in front of me. But I still killed their son.”"I feel guilty," he added. Dealing with the incident has been a challenge for Buhring, according to the report. Buhring told The Atlantic that Bel made eye contact with him before Buhring's truck killed him. Buhring has also tried to find as much information about Bel as possible since the event, and has continued to reach out to a first responder who helped Buhring get out of his truck after the incident occurred. “I felt a big thump, and I knew it was him,” he told The Atlantic. “I could feel it all.”The incident also has Buhring rethinking his support for Trump. He described the administration as a "joke," even though he does not see Democrats in any more favorable light. Bel's death set off a firestorm in Ohio, The Atlantic reported. "When I visited in early September, much of the Haitian community was in hiding," the report reads in part. "Families were getting food delivered to their homes, attending church services online. Haitian activists told me that some people had spoken of suicide as an alternative to deportation. At the vigils for Pierre, the people who showed up included his high-school teachers, his soccer coaches and teammates, waiters from Texas Roadhouse, and others who described themselves as neighbors, including a man who told a crowd one night that Pierre’s death was 'a failing of broader policy, but I will always bear the guilt that there is more that I could have done and we could have done.'”Aaron Reichlin-Melnick, an immigration attorney, described the report as "searing.""I feel very sorry for Mr. Buhring, who became an unintentional victim of Trump's hate campaign against the Haitians in Springfield," he wrote on X. "The tragedy of what Trump is doing to the Haitians who had safety here keeps growing (sic) worse."

Oct 3, 2026 - World

Fears mounted Saturday that the Trump administration was “gearing up for something” ahead of Brazil’s presidential election on Sunday, in which incumbent president Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva will face off against far-right candidate Flávio Bolsonaro, an ally to the White House.“They are absolutely gearing up for something and they won’t try to hide it because they assume nobody will do anything to stop it,” argued Vesper Jordan, an independent filmmaker and video essayist.In what some critics called an “unprecedented move,” the Trump administration suspended all U.S. consular services in Brazil on Friday, just two days before Brazil’s first-round presidential election. The U.S. State Department said the suspension was due to unspecified “security concerns,” though critics feared the move was part of an effort to “interfere in the country’s democratic elections.”Critics also expressed outrage over the apparent lack of media attention that the Trump administration’s actions in Brazil had received. Foreign affairs journalist Ishaan Tharoor argued that “the U.S. role in Brazil’s election” was “criminally under-discussed in the U.S.,” and journalist Noah Kulwin issued a similar but far more blunt assessment.“If we had a real news media instead of smug a------- who do video podcasts and video podcasts that are now broadcast on TV, this is the kind of thing that would be breaking through,” Kulwin wrote in a social media post on X.Bolsonaro is a lawyer, politician and son of Trump ally Jair Bolsonaro, Brazil’s former president who’s currently serving a 27-year sentence on charges related to an attempted coup after his election loss in 2022.Last year, Trump imposed a 50% tariff on Brazil in response to Jair Bolsonaro’s prosecution, calling it a “Witch Hunt that should end IMMEDIATELY.”“The way that Brazil has treated former President Bolsonaro, a Highly Respected Leader throughout the World during his Term, including by the United States, is an international disgrace,” Trump wrote in a July 2025 letter to Lula. “This Trial should not be taking place.”The US role in Brazil's election is criminally under-discussed in the US, though obviously front and center of the conversation in Brazil. https://t.co/qqnagh3LX0— Ishaan Tharoor (@ishaantharoor) October 2, 2026

Oct 3, 2026 - World

Jared Kushner's questionable ties to a deal he helped negotiate are again in the spotlight a day after he spoke out to defend himself.On Saturday, The New York Times reported that Kushner's business partners stand to profit from a Russian oil deal he helped broker. A day earlier, Kushner took to X to blast a CNN report scrutinizing his business dealings in Israel.Talks between the Trump administration and Russia over ending the war in Ukraine have widened to include a multibillion-dollar sale of international assets owned by Lukoil, one of Russia's largest oil companies, the Times reported. Russian President Vladimir Putin raised the deal during a September 5 Kremlin meeting with Kushner and special envoy Steve Witkoff, according to the report.The leading group bidding for Lukoil's assets includes Trump megadonor Todd Boehly, a federal agency and two Middle Eastern investment groups with business ties to Kushner or Witkoff's family. One is a Qatar-based conglomerate run by brothers Moutaz and Ramez Al-Khayyat, who have partnered with Kushner and his wife, Ivanka Trump, on a luxury resort in Albania.Another member of the group is a fund controlled by Emirati national security adviser Sheikh Tahnoon bin Zayed Al Nahyan, whose separate fund Lunate ranks among the biggest backers of Kushner's private equity firm.The Times found no sign that Kushner or Witkoff would personally profit. But a senior administration official confirmed both men had a direct hand in shaping the federal government's financial stake, pushing for a "substantial upfront payment and profits interest for the United States."Hui Chen, a former Justice Department prosecutor and ethics adviser, raised red flags about the arrangement."This is an alarming and very concerning set of entanglements," Chen told the Times. "And it means you have to question how the Trump administration is evaluating the different bidders involved here. Are the personal interests involved going to wrongly influence the outcome?"The revelations land one day after Kushner went on the offensive against CNN, which reported Thursday that his firm Affinity Partners is the top shareholder in an Israeli financial company invested in suppliers to Israel's military. CNN noted it found no evidence his diplomacy affected those holdings."For the last 10 years, I have ignored false and misleading stories about me and focused on the work," Kushner posted on X Friday. He called CNN's story "deeply misleading" and vowed to start publicly rebutting coverage he views as inaccurate.