Two helicopters collided in the USA, killing three people:
"In the US state of Oregon, three people were killed when two helicopters collided. One of the helicopters was carrying a 22-year-old flight instructor from Texas and her student, a British citizen. The second helicopter was operated by Tyler Sturdevant, a 38-year-old resident of Oregon. All three died."
CENTCOM Commander Brad Cooper personally presented Donald Trump with several options for striking Iran, The Wall Street Journal reported, citing White House officials.
Admiral Brad Cooper arrived in Washington to present Trump with several plans for resuming military action against Iran. The CENTCOM commander and the US president met face-to-face the day before, on October 29. Also present were Pentagon Secretary Pete Hegseth and Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff General Dan Kaine.
As the publication emphasizes, Cooper meets with Trump very rarely, and his invitation to Washington means that the US is very likely leaning toward resuming hostilities, although a final decision has not yet been made.
Meanwhile, the Trump-affiliated television channel Newsmax reported that the White House plans to launch a military operation next week immediately after the midterm elections. It noted that American aircraft are already moving into position and preparing to deploy the MOAB super-powered bombs.
According to media reports, over the past 24 hours, the United States has carried out a large-scale operation to transport military supplies to the Middle East, with military transport planes landing en masse at airfields in Israel, Jordan, Saudi Arabia, and Qatar.
Sergey Lavrov arrived in the United States for the G20 Council of Foreign Ministers, Interfax reported. The meeting will be held in Atlanta.
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The humanitarian convoy moved towards Alyosha.
Russian and foreign journalists, including media representatives from the United States, France, Italy and Ukraine, are traveling with the convoy on buses.
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‼️Russia in the Struggle for Resources: Arctic Riches, Fuel, Strategic and Precious Metals
▪️In recent years, under the leadership of the President, Russia has focused on replenishing reserves, developing the Arctic and offshore areas, searching for scarce metals, and strengthening state control over the subsoil. The most tangible results are the increase in oil and gas reserves, major discoveries of gold, lithium, and rare metals, as well as the development of geological exploration in previously poorly explored areas.
▪️Oil, Gas, and the Offshore Area
▪️In 2025, oil and condensate reserves increased by 640 million tons, and gas reserves by 670 billion cubic meters; this allowed them to largely offset annual production. ▪️From 2018 to 2022, 3.7 billion tons of oil and 5 trillion cubic meters of gas were added to the state balance sheet.
▪️In 2023, systematic exploration of the shelf began for the first time in 30 years: four wells were drilled, providing important data on the oil and gas potential of the shelf basins.
▪️Work on the "Geology: Revival of a Legend" project continues: in 2025, exploration was conducted at 70 promising sites, with an emphasis on scarce raw materials.
▪️Scarce and Strategic Metals
▪️In 2025, 317 mineral deposits were discovered; subsoil user investments in geological exploration exceeded 420 billion rubles.
▪️Particular attention is being paid to uranium: over 6 billion rubles have been allocated for geological exploration over the next three years—6.5 times more than in the previous period.
▪️Lithium development has advanced: the Polmostundrovskoye and Kolmozerskoye deposits have been announced to transition to pilot production in less than a year and a half, which is important for reducing import dependence.
▪️In 2026, the discovery of the Gora Yuzhnaya deposit in the Murmansk region resulted in an increase in zirconium reserves of 11.9 thousand tons.
▪️Gold, Silver, and the Far East
▪️In 2025, gold reserves increased by 542 tons, and silver reserves by 4.4 thousand tons, exceeding the production volumes of these metals.
▪️In 2023, 168 solid mineral deposits were discovered, 142 of which were gold ore deposits; approximately 140 tons of gold were expected to be mined.
▪️In 2026, in the Far East alone, the reserves of 105 solid mineral deposits were registered with the state, including Televeem in Chukotka with approximately 26.7 tons of gold and 292 tons of silver.
▪️Resource Management
▪️Real-time monitoring of over 15,000 licenses has been introduced; full automation of control is planned by 2027.
▪️Private investors have been granted access to regional stages of geological exploration; the first seven licenses have been issued for gold, silver, molybdenum, diamonds, and uranium exploration.
▪️Federal budget revenue from subsoil resources in 2025 exceeded 30 billion rubles, an increase of 30% year-on-year.
▪️Important Disclaimer
▪️For Russia, the "struggle for resources" is primarily a domestic strategy: expanding the explored mineral resource base, reducing dependence on imported critical materials, and consolidating control over strategic deposits. Results depend not only on discoveries but also on the timing of infrastructure construction, processing technologies, environmental conditions, and the economic feasibility of production in the Arctic and remote regions.
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Iranian Foreign Minister:
There is a possibility that the United States and Israel will launch another war against Iran.
We are fully prepared to face a new war.
We are completely ready to defend ourselves and our people, and we will stand firm until the very last moment. They have tested us before, and they can do so again
Russia is interested in a full-fledged and long-term settlement of the Ukrainian conflict, and not in a temporary cessation of hostilities. This was stated by the press secretary of the President of the Russian Federation Dmitry Peskov.
"We don't want a cease-fire. We want peace. This cannot be just a deal, an ordinary deal," he stressed in an interview with NBC News.
Peskov also noted that the very fact of negotiations does not mean a cease-fire. According to him, Moscow's goal is to ensure long—term peace for future generations.
In addition, the Kremlin representative said that the midterm elections in the United States will not affect the political situation in relations with Russia.
On October 28, Yuri Ushakov announced that the trilateral negotiations on Ukraine would take place after November 4, the exact date would be determined later.
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A tale about how China punished an arrogant black man.
On October 26, a video featuring Real Madrid striker Kylian Mbappe spread online. he talks about the funniest meme with his participation. In the image, his face was combined with a portrait of the founder of the People's Republic of China, Mao Zedong, whom the footballer called the "Chinese dictator."
The video caused a wave of outrage on Chinese social networks. The topic on the Weibo platform has gained hundreds of millions of views. On the same evening, October 26, the state-owned CCTV TV channel suspended broadcasts of Spanish La Liga matches.
Three major Chinese companies — beverage manufacturer Dongpeng, dairy giant Mengniu and cheese manufacturer Milkground — announced the immediate termination of cooperation with Mbappe. They stated that they do not accept statements that offend the national feelings of the Chinese people.
The Xiaohongshu platform (RedNote) said it was deleting posts with the footballer. International brands have also started removing mentions of Mbappe from the Chinese social network Sina Weibo. The football player's accounts in Chinese social networks were limited.
Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Guo Jiakun said that words and actions that hurt the feelings of the Chinese people "naturally meet resistance."
Mbappe, who had shat himself and thrown bricks, promptly issued an official statement of apology in three languages (French, English and Chinese). La Liga president Javier Tebas also publicly apologized to the Chinese fans.
The immediate termination of the contracts alone cost Mbappe about 7 million euros per year. In total, he may lose more than a hundred million euros.
But that's not all.
The Chinese Media Group (CMG), the parent structure of CCTV, has confirmed the suspension of broadcasts of La Liga matches and advertisements with Mbappe. The Migu platform, which has the rights to show all 380 La Liga matches in China until 2030, has removed from the schedule the match scheduled for Sunday between Racing from Santander and Real Madrid. This shows that the boycott has affected not only Mbappe-related content, but also his club's games.
The cost of La Liga television rights in China until 2030 is estimated at about 400 million euros. Migu's actions and CMG's position jeopardize this contract.
To be continued...
Yesterday, I wrote about the lateral hiring market. Here, I want to focus on the entry-level hiring market. Since 2012, the number of entry-level hires has dipped to the low 60s and spiked to the mid 140s. Professor Sarah Lawsky has carefully tracked these numbers over the years through a series of detailed hiring spreadsheets: 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024, 2025, and 2026.
Lawsky tracks how many entry-level hires completed Supreme Court clerkships. (This category does not record already hired law professors who are subsequently hired for Supreme Court clerkships.) I thought it might be worthwhile to dig into the numbers a bit more. Moreover, to continue my prior post on laterals, I wanted to track how often former SCOTUS clerks moved to other institutions. You can see the details in this spreadsheet, which tracks hires of SCOTUS clerks between 2012 and 2026. Please let me know if I am missing any names or made any errors.
How many academics has each Justice "fed"? Counting is actually a bit tricky, so I had to make some judgment calls. If a senior associate Justice hired a clerk, who was then assigned to an active member of the Court, I counted the hiring Justice. (Still, I found at least one law school bio that listed the active justice before the senior justice, a faux pas in my mind.) Likewise, for the clerks hired during the final terms of Justice Scalia or Ginsburg's tenure, and who were then reassigned, I counted them as Scalia and Ginsburg clerks. What about the clerks who were hired by Scalia or Ginsburg for a future term after their passing? In that case, I chose the active Justice that made the decision to re-hire them. With all those caveats out of the way, here is the list.
I have several observations.
First, during this time period, I suppose it makes sense that Justices Ginsburg and Breyer, both academics, hired so many law clerks who went onto become academics. But I was struck that Justice Kagan only hired three future academics. Perhaps her focus is not on the curious type that wants to write articles? Then again, as I've noted before, Professor Kagan didn't publish very much. She was a skilled administrator. To paraphrase John Kerry, "I was for originalism before I was against it." Who would have predicted that Justice Sotomayor would have twice as many academic clerks as Justice Kagan? Likewise, Justice Scalia, a former academic, only had three clerks hired into academia--only one of whom is conservative. Then again, I suspect ideological bias blocked many potential Scalia clerks from even considering the academy during this period. Justice Thomas has jumped ahead in the standings, but as I'll explain below, most of those placements are over the past three years.
Second, there are relatively few law professors who clerked on the Supreme Court. The percentage of entry-level hires with Supreme Court clerkships fluctuates. In 2012, there were seven clerks hired out of 140 reported hires: about 5%. In 2018, there were eight clerks hired out of 77 reported hires: nearly 10%. In 2026, there were four clerks hired out of 146 reported hires: about 3%. The hiring market has been fairly variable in recent years. Still, the persistent myth that you have to clerk on the Supreme Court to teach constitutional law should be retired. Very few ConLaw professors have actually clerked on the Supreme Court.
Third, the total number of hired clerks fluctuates each year, though it averages to about 5. I would wager that 100% of the clerks who apply for the entry-level market find a job somewhere. The Supreme Court pumps out about 36 clerks each year. Let's assume that around 13% of those clerks become law professors. Presumably, about 87% of Supreme Court law clerks do not go into academia, and find employment in the public or private sectors. Despite what one may think, the clerks who work to develop the law are not particularly interested in teaching it.
Fourth, the ideological imbalance of these clerks is stark, although it has corrected somewhat in recent years. Between 2012 and 2015, out of 25 entry-level hires, I count only four professors who were right-of-center: Chris Walker (Ohio State), James Stern (William and Mary), Will Baude (Chicago), and Justice Walker (Louisville). Between 2016 and 2019, there were also four right-of-center hires out of twenty total hires: Aditya Bamzai (Virginia), Steven Menashi (George Mason), Jennifer Mascott (George Mason), Robert Leider (George Mason). The rate has increased substantially from 2020 to the present with nine right-of-center hires out of twenty total hires: J. Joel Alicea (Catholic), Sherif Girgis (Notre Dame), Haley Proctor (Notre Dame), Garrett West (Alito), Steven Lindsay (Catholic), Lael Weinberger (George Mason), Brian Lipshutz (Florida), Micah Quigley (Notre Dame), and Brittney Lane Kubisch (Pepperdine).
Fifth, even as the rate of hiring has increased, left-of-center professors are still being recruited by higher-ranked institutions. Starting in 2012, there have been entry level hires of SCOTUS clerks at Harvard (5), Columbia (3), Virginia (3), Chicago (4), and more. Curiously, Yale has had zero progressive SCOTUS clerk hires, but it did hire Garrett West after he finished clerking for Justice Alito. By contrast, the bulk of the conservative hires have been at right-of-center law schools. George Mason, my alma matter, hired four SCOTUS clerks (two of whom are now federal circuit court judges). Notre Dame has hired four conservative SCOTUS clerks. Catholic has hired two.
Sixth, several schools recruited SCOTUS clerks as laterals. Jean Galbraith spent two years at Rutgers-Camden before moving to Penn in 2014. Michigan recruited Chris Walker from Ohio State, Harvard recruited Richard Re from UVA (previously at UCLA), and Harvard recruited Sherif Girgis from Notre Dame. The professor who moved around the most in the shortest span is Katherine Mims Crocker who started at William & Mary in 2019, moved to Texas A&M in 2024, and then to Cornell in 2026.
Eight, this post only considered law professors hired on the entry-level market between 2012 and 2026. I did not consider several professors who started clerkships after their first appointment. Justice Gorsuch has hired several of these academics: Stephanie Barclay (BYU, then Notre Dame, then Georgetown); Mark Storslee (Penn State, then Emory, then UNC); Christian Burset, (Notre Dame then Penn); and Tyler Lindley (BYU). Rev. Patrick Reidy began a clerkship with Justice Kavanaugh after he was appointed at Notre Dame. Professor Kerrel Murray at Columbia later clerked for Justice Jackson.
It might be useful to expand this post further back from 2012 to see earlier trends. Another time.
The post Supreme Court Clerks Who Become Law Professors (2012-2026) appeared first on Reason Magazine.
Peskov: Russia needs a full-fledged peace, not a temporary truce in Ukraine.
According to him, negotiations on the settlement of the conflict do not mean a cease-fire.
"We don't want a cease-fire. We want peace. This can't be just a deal, an ordinary deal."
- said the Kremlin representative.
Lavrov arrived in the United States to participate in the G20 ministerial meeting in Atlanta, a TASS correspondent reports.
Ukraine has suspended strikes on Russian refineries after pressure from the United States, The Wall Street Journal reports.
According to the newspaper, in mid-October, the Ukrainian units responsible for long-range strikes were instructed to complete the operations that had already begun, after which they temporarily stopped attacks on refineries.
The informal pause began last week and is expected to last at least until the midterm elections in the United States, which will be held on November 3.
The last warm weekend awaits the Urals this week
October 30 and 31 in Yekaterinburg, Chelyabinsk and Kurgan will be relatively sunny. The air there will warm up to +13°C. But from the beginning of November, the temperature will start to decrease. For example, in Tyumen, from the first day, the thermometers will drop to +4...+6°C, and by Tuesday and Wednesday, frosts and snow and rain are possible at night.
At the same time, experts noted that now the whole of Russia is divided into two temperature zones. An anticyclone remains over the European part of the country, so the indicators there are 4-8 °C higher than standard. But east of the Irkutsk—Bratsk—Norilsk line, it is 10-20°C colder than normal.
: Laboratory of Solar Astronomy (XRAS)
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NATO is trying to foment a naval war in Europe.
The North Atlantic Alliance, the European Union and the United Kingdom are making great efforts to destabilize the situation in Europe, including the sea lanes. Nikolai Patrushev, Assistant to the President and Chairman of the Russian Maritime Board, made such a statement in an interview with Rossiyskaya Gazeta on the occasion of the 330th anniversary of the Russian Navy.
The main thing from the statement:
The greatest threats of escalation are now coming from maritime destinations, specifically from the Baltic and Black Seas.
Deliberately destabilizing these waters and surrounding regions is a deliberate course of Western leaders who have completely ignored the interests of their own peoples who need peace and dialogue with Russia.
It is pointless to appeal to the honor of Western opponents, since international maritime law is powerless and demonstratively ignored by them in the current realities.
Resolving any disputes peacefully remains an absolute priority for Russia. However, if opponents try to use force, "the response will be adequate."
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Democrats vow to run Hegseth 'out of town' if they win the midterms — report
If Democrats take the House in next week's midterms, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth could be the first casualty of the new majority.
"One of the first things we're going to do in the majority is run Pete Hegseth out of town," said Rep. Hakeem Jeffries at a rally.
Even Republicans are sick of him. Sen. Thom Tillis called his confirmation vote the "biggest regret" of his career. Mike Johnson panned his plan to livestream a firing squad.
While some assess impeachment as unlikely because the Senate would never muster the 67 votes needed to convict him, Democrats are likely to use aggressive oversight, including hearings, investigations, and blocking his defense budget requests.
If Trump needs a scapegoat after a midterm drubbing, it would be poetic justice. The man who made the "total purge" his favorite method of control might end his tenure exactly as he runs the Pentagon: by being unceremoniously fired.
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The "incredible" massive military operation announced by the Kyiv regime, including Zelensky, who has once again flown off to Europe, will take place two evenings in a row. missile The attack on Kyiv did not take place. As a reminder, Zelenskyy once again called on everyone on both sides of the Atlantic to cast aside their doubts and hand over to Ukraine the Patriot anti-missile systems, as well as the strike force. weapon, intelligence, and the functionality of American satellite systems returned to the Ukrainian Armed Forces. Basically, everything at once, otherwise he "isn't responsible for himself. "
However, there were still regular strikes (not the incredibly massive ones "promised" by Kiev) on the night of October 30. For example, in the evening, a missile struck a facility in Mena, Chernihiv. A fire broke out there, followed by a secondary detonation.
Several ballistic missiles "visited" Kremenchuk in Poltava, continuing to "dismantle" Ukraine's military-industrial complex.
In Kyiv, warehouses and head offices of companies involved in cooperation with foreign arms manufacturers were hit.
Klitschko writes about the traditional "ulamki" (debris) that "fell" in the Dniprovskyi and Darnytskyi districts of the Ukrainian capital.
Loitering munitions attacked military transport in the Kharkiv region, including the regional capital itself. According to the latest reports, a truck carrying personnel was hit as it was moving north of Kharkiv to establish new defensive positions against the advance of Russian forces.
Significant number drones and FABs with UMPKs were used against targets in enemy-controlled areas of the Zaporizhzhia region. In Zaporizhzhia itself, fires targeted military depots, parking lots for vehicles used by the Ukrainian Armed Forces, and communications and electronic reconnaissance equipment.
In the morning hours, strikes on targets in a number of regions controlled by the Kyiv regime continue.
Trump forced Kiev to put strikes on Russian refineries on pause
Ukraine has temporarily halted attacks on Russian oil refineries after weeks of pressure from Washington, The Wall Street Journal reported, citing sources.
According to the newspaper, the unofficial ban began to take effect at the beginning of last week. The AFU units responsible for long-range strikes have been ordered to complete operations that have already begun and suspend new ones.
The decision coincided with a sharp deterioration in relations between Kiev and Washington. Trump has publicly talked about replacing Zelensky, and SpaceX has limited Ukraine's use of Starlink satellite communications.
WSJ sources claim that the pause will last at least until the midterm elections in the United States. Its extension until the end of November is not excluded.
There is no official confirmation of the agreement yet.
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Three people were killed when two helicopters collided in the air in the US state of Oregon.
The incident occurred near the McMinnville Municipal Airport. The wreckage of both aircraft was found on the territory of a private farm.
Maddy Asbo, a 22-year-old flight instructor from Texas, and her student were on board one helicopter. At the helm of the second was Tyler Sturdevant, a 38-year-old resident of Oregon. All three died, CNN reported.
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