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• Developer of Stick Run video game kills himself on livestream

  21-10-2026 23:54 via The Washington Times stories: News
  Manuel Otto, the German creator of the Stick Run video game, committed suicide live on the streaming platform Twitch on Tuesday.
  
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• Sister of American Stephen Hubbard says he's in disbelief following release by Russia

  21-10-2026 23:53 via The Washington Times stories: News
  The younger sister of Stephen Hubbard, the American freed Wednesday after spending more than four years in a Russian prison, said she spoke with her brother by phone and described him as being in disbelief.
  
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• Stephen A. Smith 'not apologizing' for joining Trump dinner at White House

  21-10-2026 23:44 via The Washington Times stories: News
  Commentator Stephen A. Smith refused to apologize for attending a dinner at the White House hosted by President Trump on Thursday.
  
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• Barbra Streisand, Ken Burns, Bill Nye, among celebs backing Dems in midterm messaging

  21-10-2026 23:06 via The Washington Times stories: News
  Hollywood celebrities such as Barbra Streisand, documentarian Ken Burns and science personality Bill Nye are the latest figures to back the Democratic Party in its final push before midterm elections.
  
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• Dundalk man pleads guilty to vandalizing headstones at Jewish cemetery with swastikas

  21-10-2026 23:05 via The Washington Times stories: News
  A Dundalk man pleaded guilty Tuesday to defacing headstones in a Jewish cemetery with swastikas and other antisemitic symbols.
  
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• Serial rapist, cosmetics heir in California walks free despite 124-year prison sentence

  21-10-2026 22:58 via The Washington Times stories: News
  California prison authorities have released convicted rapist and cosmetics heir Andrew Luster, igniting strong opposition from local leaders after he served roughly 20 years of his original 124-year sentence.
  
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• Government websites in Europe go offline as companies update software flaw

  21-10-2026 22:58 via The Washington Times stories: News
  The home page of the lower house of the Dutch parliament was among scores of government websites throughout Europe taken offline as a precautionary measure following the discovery of vulnerabilities in PHP, the programming language used to build websites.
  
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• Neil Bush, citing opposition to Trump, votes for Democrat James Talarico in Texas Senate race

  21-10-2026 22:53 via The Washington Times stories: News
  Neil Bush, the younger brother of former President George W. Bush, said Wednesday he voted for Democrat James Talarico, defying his family's GOP legacy in the battleground state.
  
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• Veteran 'SNL' star says cast, Shane Gillis 'would have to have a real chat' if he were to host again

  21-10-2026 22:42 via The Washington Times stories: News
  Longtime "Saturday Night Live" star Kenan Thompson responded to the Shane Gillis controversy that has overshadowed the show since Mr. Gillis hosted the program on Oct. 10.
  
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• Preparing for 'Ukraine's worst day': Army general says U.S. can fend off Russian drones, missiles

  21-10-2026 22:42 via The Washington Times stories: News
  The numbers look daunting, but U.S. Army leaders say they know exactly what's expected of them if a full-blown war breaks out in Europe.
  
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• Kenan Thompson says 'SNL' cast, Shane Gillis 'would have to have a real chat' if Gillis hosts again

  21-10-2026 22:42 via The Washington Times stories: News
  Longtime "Saturday Night Live" star Kenan Thompson responded to the Shane Gillis controversy that has overshadowed the show since Mr. Gillis hosted the program on Oct. 10.
  
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• Trump says 'nobody cares' about the Brewers-Rays World Series

  21-10-2026 22:29 via The Washington Times stories: News
  President Trump says he's not interested in this year's World Series between the Milwaukee Brewers and Tampa Bay Rays, two teams that have some of the lowest payrolls and smallest markets in the sport.
  
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• DHS asks Supreme Court to bless Trump's border wall construction

  21-10-2026 22:29 via The Washington Times stories: News
  Homeland Security rushed to the Supreme Court Wednesday seeking the justices' permission to keep building President Trump's border wall in Texas's Big Bend region.
  
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• NATO sending more planes, drones to Black Sea amid surge in commercial ship attacks

  21-10-2026 22:26 via The Washington Times stories: News
  NATO is sending additional military assets to the Black Sea amid a dramatic escalation in attacks targeting commercial merchant vessels passing through the vital waterway.
  
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• Inside the Ring: Marco Rubio seeks China role nuclear arms talks

  21-10-2026 22:14 via The Washington Times stories: News
  Secretary of State Marco Rubio said he and President Trump are trying to convince a reluctant Chinese government to join three-way talks with the United States and Russia on nuclear arms.
  
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• 19-year-old arrested after UNC Charlotte student alleges he filmed sex, sent it to frat group chat

  21-10-2026 22:08 via The Washington Times stories: News
  Authorities are accusing a 19-year-old man of filming himself in an "explicit act" with a student at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte without her knowing she was being filmed and sending it to a fraternity's group chat.
  
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• Trump vows nationwide response to cybercrime

  21-10-2026 21:53 via The Washington Times stories: News
  President Trump on Wednesday vowed to crack down on foreign criminal networks that have bilked Americans out of tens of billions of dollars through online fraud schemes and cryptocurrency scams.
  
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• Old Dominion University building shut down and its classes canceled following death

  21-10-2026 21:45 via The Washington Times stories: News
  A person died at Old Dominion University's Batten Arts and Letters building Wednesday, leading the school to cancel classes there and close it down.
  
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• DOJ tries to boot judge who criticized Trump on immigration from hearing noncitizen voting case

  21-10-2026 21:39 via The Washington Times stories: News
  The Justice Department has filed a motion to have U.S. District Judge John Tunheim in Minnesota recuse himself from hearing a criminal case charging a man with illegally casting a ballot as a noncitizen, saying he's shown himself to be a headline-chasing jurist.
  
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• How Booz Allen is putting AI and real-time data into soldiers' hands

  21-10-2026 21:35 via The Washington Times stories: News
  At AUSA 2026, Booz Allen senior vice president Joel Dillon explains how AI, edge computing, real-time data, and augmented reality could help troops make faster decisions--even when disconnected from the network.
  
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• Vance defends Vivek Ramaswamy ad featuring Amy Acton's mom: 'I'm a little bit disgusted'

  21-10-2026 21:30 via The Washington Times stories: News
  Vice President J.D. Vance on Wednesday defended Vivek Ramaswamy's controversial ad featuring his opponent's mother in the Ohio gubernatorial race.
  
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• U.S. Army leadership: Tech modernization push has to keep pace with China

  21-10-2026 21:27 via The Washington Times stories: News
  The U.S. Army can no longer count on the unfettered sanctuary of bases inside the United States to project power abroad because major adversaries like China and Russia are showing increasing willingness to threaten American forces in the homeland.
  
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• Meta ordered to pay $25 billion for violating New Mexico's consumer protection law

  21-10-2026 21:15 via The Washington Times stories: News
  A district judge on Wednesday ordered that Meta pay a $25 billion civil penalty to New Mexico for violating the state's consumer protection law.
  
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• Justice Department won't investigate handling of Reflecting Pool vandalism case, say lawyers

  21-10-2026 21:08 via The Washington Times stories: News
  The Justice Department's internal watchdog has declined to investigate the failed prosecution against former Olympian David Hearn, who was accused of intentionally vandalizing the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool, according to his lawyers.
  
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• Driver charged in connection with fatal collision suspected of watching porn minutes before crash

  21-10-2026 20:49 via The Washington Times stories: News
  Utah prosecutors charged a California woman in connection with a fatal collision in which she was suspected of watching pornography on her phone minutes before she allegedly slammed into two other cars.
  
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• Feds bust massive marriage fraud ring that arranged 200 bogus weddings to get green cards

  21-10-2026 20:39 via The Washington Times stories: News
  Federal authorities announced charges Wednesday against six people they said were part of a major marriage fraud ring in Massachusetts that charged immigrants as much as $40,000 and set them up in sham unions with American citizens so they could get quick legal status here.
  
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• Clerical error helped keep sunken German U-boat hidden off British coast 82 years

  21-10-2026 20:34 via The Washington Times stories: News
  British divers and a German historian who found the German World War II submarine U-672 in the English Channel say it stayed hidden for over eight decades due to a paperwork mistake.
  
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• Feds charge social media influencer Shawty Dred with fraud in food-stamp crackdown

  21-10-2026 20:33 via The Washington Times stories: News
  Federal prosecutors announced charges Wednesday against Shawty Dred, an Atlanta-based social media figure, accusing him of stealing more than $4 million in food stamp benefits.
  
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• Hilary Swank pushes back against criticism of pregnancy in her 50s

  21-10-2026 20:32 via The Washington Times stories: News
  Oscar-winning actress Hilary Swank is pushing back on criticism of her decision to give birth at the age of 52.
  
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• Justice Dept. clamps down on $42 million fraud scheme in food stamp program

  21-10-2026 20:25 via The Washington Times stories: News
  Nearly $42 million in food stamp fraud has been uncovered by a joint federal enforcement initiative involving suspected illegal immigrants.
  
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• Police detain 4, Montgomery County schools in secure status after shooting reports

  21-10-2026 20:18 via The Washington Times stories: News
  The Montgomery County Police Department detained four people it suspects are linked to reports of shots fired Wednesday in the 6600 block of Rockledge Drive in Bethesda, Maryland.
  
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• Trump's political groups spend nearly $277 million in late midterm blitz on behalf of GOP candidates

  21-10-2026 20:13 via The Washington Times stories: News
  President Donald Trump's political groups have spent more than one-quarter of a billion dollars to bolster Republicans in the final stretch of this year's midterm elections, an unprecedented amount for a sitting president that underscores the stakes on Nov. 3.
  
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• Kissimmee mayor arrested on grand theft and fraud charges

  21-10-2026 19:24 via The Washington Times stories: News
  Jackie Espinosa, the Democratic mayor of Kissimmee, Florida, was arrested on charges of grand theft and organized scheme to defraud Wednesday.
  
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• House subpoenas New Jersey over how 6,600 noncitizens ended up on voter rolls

  21-10-2026 19:16 via The Washington Times stories: News
  Two House committees issued a subpoena Wednesday to New Jersey as part of an effort to get the state's documents detailing how thousands of noncitizens ended up on its voter rolls.
  
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• House Republican nominee's website deletes 'The President is not popular'

  21-10-2026 19:15 via The Washington Times stories: News
  A House Republican nominee's website has removed a sentence that said President is unpopular and read like a recommendation from an artificial intelligence chatbot.
  
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• 'Glee' return announced for Disney+ and Hulu

  21-10-2026 19:12 via The Washington Times stories: News
  Producer Ryan Murphy's hit TV show "Glee" will return to screens via Disney+ and Hulu, according to the show's official Instagram account.
  
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• 'Glee' reboot announced for Disney+ and Hulu

  21-10-2026 19:12 via The Washington Times stories: News
  Producer Ryan Murphy's hit TV show "Glee" will return to screens via Disney+ and Hulu, according to the show's official Instagram account.
  
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• USDA recalls 1.58 million pounds of ready-to-eat meat products

  21-10-2026 19:07 via The Washington Times stories: News
  The U.S. Department of Agriculture has announced a recall of 1.58 million pounds of ready-to-eat hot dogs, bacon, sausages and other precooked or cured meat that may not have been cooled properly before shipping to grocery stores.
  
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• Macron slams as 'stupid' claims by Trump and others blaming Muslim migrants for French riots

  21-10-2026 19:04 via The Washington Times stories: News
  French President Emmanuel Macron said Wednesday that foreign leaders -- including those "on the other side of the Atlantic" -- were seeking to exploit France's tense social climate for political gain following a weekend of street violence and looting.
  
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• Montgomery County approves bills for more speed cameras, stiffer penalties for street takeovers

  21-10-2026 18:53 via The Washington Times stories: News
  The Montgomery County Council passed bills seeking to install speed cameras in school zones and certain highway stretches while creating harsher penalties for illegal car rallies that can turn violent.
  
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• New Mexico sues Epstein attorney and accountant, accuses them of hiding sex trafficking operation

  21-10-2026 18:49 via The Washington Times stories: News
  New Mexico's attorney general filed a lawsuit Wednesday against Jeffrey Epstein's attorney and accountant, accusing them of concealing his sex trafficking operation and seeking to stop them from accepting any payments from the disgraced financier's estate.
  
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• Cryptocurrency companies can keep paying interest-like rewards, say federal bank regulators

  21-10-2026 18:22 via The Washington Times stories: News
  Cryptocurrency companies can continue to pay interest-like rewards to customers, federal regulators said Wednesday, despite warnings from banks that such programs could drain trillions of dollars in deposits from the banking system.
  
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• Israeli forces detain and then release U.S. congressional candidate at West Bank harvest

  21-10-2026 18:19 via The Washington Times stories: News
  Israeli forces detained U.S. Democratic congressional candidate Brad Lander on Wednesday as he helped Palestinian farmers harvest olives in the occupied West Bank, releasing him hours later while dozens of other volunteers, including a group of American rabbis, remained in custody.
  
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• Israeli PM Netanyahu tells his military, intel officers to overthrow Iranian regime

  21-10-2026 18:14 via The Washington Times stories: News
  Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Wednesday said he instructed his country's military and intelligence leaders to pursue overthrowing the Iranian regime in Tehran.
  
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• California state workers begin 1-day strike over return-to-office mandate, pay and healthcare

  21-10-2026 18:13 via The Washington Times stories: News
  California state workers began a one-day strike Wednesday, urging Gov. Gavin Newsom's administration to agree to a new contract that increases workers' pay, ensures affordable healthcare access and allows more flexibility for remote work.
  
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• U.S. must pay for gender transitions for prisoners after Supreme Court declines Trump case

  21-10-2026 18:08 via The Washington Times stories: News
  The Supreme Court on Wednesday declined to revive the Trump administration's policy barring taxpayer money from going to pay for drugs or operations for prisoners seeking to switch genders.
  
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• OceanGate CEO accused of knowing submarine would implode

  21-10-2026 18:08 via The Washington Times stories: News
  OceanGate CEO Stockton Rush, who was killed in the ill-fated submarine project Titan that imploded during a dive to see the Titanic's remains in 2023, is being accused by a friend of wanting to become a part of "Titanic mythology."
  
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• Driver is fatally shot while crossing the George Washington Bridge

  21-10-2026 18:06 via The Washington Times stories: News
  A 46-year-old man was shot and killed while driving across the George Washington Bridge near the end of the evening rush, snarling traffic for hours on the busy span that connects New York City and New Jersey.
  
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• FACT FOCUS: Trump and Republicans blame France's immigrants for riots without evidence

  21-10-2026 17:51 via The Washington Times stories: News
  U.S. President Donald Trump and leading Republicans are trying to leverage widespread riots in France ahead of midterm congressional elections by making unsubstantiated claims that the social unrest in Europe is caused by Muslim migrants.
  
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• King Charles leads tributes to survivors of Aberfan school disaster on 60th anniversary

  21-10-2026 17:46 via The Washington Times stories: News
  King Charles III led tributes Wednesday to the people of the Welsh village of Aberfan on the 60th anniversary of a coal slide onto a school that claimed the lives of 116 children and 28 adults.
  
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