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Rep. Jerry Nadler called for New York City Mayor Eric Adams to resign after he was charged with accepting illegal foreign contributions and engaging in wire fraud and bribery. “[T]here are questions of whether the Mayor can continue to effectively lead our City as Mayor at this time. My belief is that the Mayor has lost the ability to effectively lead the City of New York, and therefore, he must resign,” Nadler wrote in a Friday social media post that said Adams was also entitled to his due process rights. Nadler, the dean of the New York Democratic House delegation,…

Former President Donald Trump used increasingly harsh rhetoric to attack immigrants, suggesting on Monday during an interview that immigrants commit horrendous crimes because “it’s in their genes.” “How about allowing people to come to an open border, 13,000 of which were murderers, many of them murdered far more than one person, and they’re now happily living in the United States. You know now a murder, I believe this, it’s in their genes. And we got a lot of bad genes in our country right now,” he told conservative radio host Hugh Hewitt. Trump also said Vice President Kamala Harris “wants…

With Hurricane Milton expected to make landfall in Florida Wednesday night, many people in the Sunshine State are bracing for potentially historic devastation. Meanwhile, federal officials are questioning the Federal Emergency Management Agency‘s capacity to handle another catastrophic storm so soon after Hurricane Helene wreaked havoc across North Carolina and five other states.Given Helene’s human toll and Milton’s expected disaster, you might ask, “Who could possibly think about an election at a time like this?” And yet, for election administrators in these states, there is little choice. A presidential election waits for no one.And so, from Tallahassee to Charlotte, state…

Foreign Minister Maksim Ryzhenkov has expressed hope that his country’s membership application will be approved The next wave of BRICS expansion will be announced at the group’s annual summit in the Russian city of Kazan in October, Belarusian Foreign Minister Maxim Ryzhenkov has claimed.Speaking on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly in New York, Ryzhenkov predicted that BRICS could add at least ten new members, while expressing optimism that his own country’s application for membership will be approved.“The first wave of enlargement, as we all expect – those who have submitted such applications – will take place at the Kazan summit,” Ryzhenkov told…

Russian energy giant Rosatom is extending its participation in a global nuclear fusion megaproject currently being developed in southern France, the company’s CEO Aleksey Likhachev has said.The International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor (ITER) project, also dubbed the world’s largest ‘artificial sun,’ is being developed jointly by companies from China, the EU, India, Japan, South Korea, Russia and the US. The project’s goal is to create a safe and almost limitless supply of electricity.On Tuesday, Likhachev held a meeting with the project’s Director General Pietro Barabaschi, who had arrived in Russia on a work visit. They discussed issues related to Russia’s fulfilment…

The South Korean government this week has made a big and bold accusation – it says North Korean troops are currently fighting alongside Russian forces in Ukraine. The charge was specifically made by Seoul’s defense minister Kim Yong-hyun on Tuesday. He described that he has reason to believe that six North Korean officers were killed in Donetsk when a Ukrainian missile hit their location on October 3rd. He called reports which first surfaced in Ukrainian media “highly likely”.The defense minister in a briefing with South Korean political leaders said, “We assess that the occurrence of casualties among North Korean officers and soldiers in…

Credit: Bobby Jeffries/X Hours before President Trump is scheduled to host another packed rally in Reading, Pennsylvania, Early Vote Action Regional Director Bobby Jeffries caught an unhinged counter protestor on video claiming that Trump’s head would be “cut off” tonight after the rally. Early Vote Action, the voter registration group run by GOP activist Scott Pressler, has been cross-crossing the United States registering tens of thousands of new Republican voters to back Trump in November’s presidential election. The yet unidentified women claimed that Michael Myers, the mass murderer from the iconic slasher film Halloween, would carry out the deed. Unhinged…

Ramesh (left) and Rajeev Juneja.Nishanth Radhakrishnan for Forbes Asia This story is part of Forbes’ coverage of India’s Richest 2024. See the full list here. India’s pharma tycoons are on an expansion tear to carve out new niches beyond generic medicines and grow their global reach. A leader in low-cost drugs, India supplies 20% of the worldwide total by volume. ss Now, as companies move further into next-generation therapeutics, the country’s pharmaceutical industry is likely to double to $130 billion by 2030 and more than triple to $450 billion by 2047, according to global consultancy EY-Parthenon. Mankind Pharma, controlled by…

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Time Magazine had a dim view of Technocracy in 1933. In 1932, Technocrats wrote a book, Roosevelt and Technocracy, petitioning Roosevelt to declare himself dictator to dismiss Congress and summarily appoint Technocrats to run the county, top to bottom. He didn’t take them up on it, but Technocracy flavored the New Deal. — Technocracy News & Trends Editor Patrick Wood By Time Magazine It still rode bulbously about the land last week. It created hundreds of miscellaneous news items. In Chicago Patrolman John Shannon arrested two men as “Reds” when he heard them argue about it. In Roseland, Manhattan dance…