2020 Vision: Hillary Clinton thinks Russia will back Tulsi Gabbard to help Trump stay in power

Reminder: There are 108 days until the Iowa caucuses and 382 days until the 2020 presidential election. 2016 Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton said this week that Rep. Tulsi Gabbard, D-Hawaii, is likely being groomed by Moscow as a third-party candidate for the 2020 race. In an interview on the podcast of former Obama campaign manager David Plouffe, Clinton expressed her concerns about possible Russian interference in 2020.

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  Van Jones: Hillary Clinton Is Playing A 'Dangerous Game' With Tulsi Gabbard Remarks

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• Gabbard Responds to Hillary’s Russia Attacks, Challenges Her to Join Dem Primary

  National Review

Hunter Biden Served as ‘Ceremonial Figure’ on Burisma Board for $80,000 Per Month

Mykola Zlochevsky, the Kremlin's former minister of natural resources and the founder of Burisma Holdings, reportedly hired Hunter Biden “as a helpful non-executive director with a powerful name,” according to a Friday Reuters report. Oleksandr Onyshchenko, a Ukrainian businessman and former politician who knows Zlochevsky says Burisma's founder hired Biden in 2014 “to protect [the company]” in the face of potential prosecution. According to sources, Hunter Biden never visited Ukraine, but participated regularly in biannual board meetings, all of which were held outside Ukraine.

Mexico deports 311 Indian nationals in 'unprecedented' move

More than 300 Indian nationals who paid tens of thousands of dollars each trying to get into the United States arrived in New Delhi Friday after an "unprecedented" mass deportation by Mexico. The move, which saw those deported flown back to the capital on a charter flight, follows a deal on illegal migration struck between Mexico and US President Donald Trump in June. The only woman in the group of 311 people, Kamaljit Kaur, 34, told the Press Trust of India news agency she spent 5.3 million rupees ($74,500) for herself, her husband and her son.

The Latest: Mayor: Chief drank before falling ill in car

Chicago's mayor says that the police superintendent told her that he had a couple of drinks with dinner the night he later pulled over his vehicle because he felt lightheaded and fell asleep. Mayor Lori Lightfoot tells the Chicago Sun-Times that Superintendent Eddie Johnson also told her what he told the media about that he had recently changed medications and felt ill while driving home early Thursday and pulled over. Lightfoot says she has "no reason to doubt" Johnson's account of what happened, saying that she knows about various medical issues including high blood pressure that Johnson is dealing with.

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  Mayor Lori Lightfoot says CPD Supt. Eddie Johnson had 'a couple of drinks' before medical episode

  WLS – Chicago
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  Chicago Police Supt. Eddie Johnson Admits to Drinking Before Being Found 'Slumped Over'

  WGN - Chicago

Atomwaffen Division’s Washington State Cell Leader Stripped of Arsenal in U.S., Banned from Canada

Kaleb James Cole, the 24-year-old leader of Atomwaffen Division's Washington State Cell stripped of his firearms by a “red-flag law” late last month, was deported and banned for life from Canada earlier this year, according to court records, which also showed that he had been previously interrogated by American border agents about his extremist views. Cole, a National Socialist black metal enthusiast who goes by the alias “Khimaere,” was first identified as a member of Atomwaffen Division in a 2018 ProPublica investigation. Atomwaffen Division is an underground neo-Nazi guerrilla organization which had 23 chapters throughout the United States as of mid-2018.

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  Kaleb James Cole: Guns seized from suspected neo-Nazi leader over ‘race war’ fears

  The Independent
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  Police seize guns from man believed to be neo-Nazi leader

  Yahoo News Video

Demonstrators Set Off Fires in Subways, Banks: Hong Kong Update

Hong Kong activists set fire to rail-station entrances and banks, and vandalized stores after an unauthorized march ended, forcing police to use water cannons and tear gas to disperse protesters. Tens of thousands of people earlier marched from Tsim Sha Tsui to West Kowloon despite a police ban on the event because of the potential for violence. The rally was originally called to protest a government law forbidding the use of masks at demonstrations, and comes after Wednesday's attack on Civil Human Rights Front's organizer Jimmy Sham.

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  Nets draw Hong Kong protest backers as NBA-China row simmers

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  Tear Gas and Water Cannon Deployed by Police, Petrol Bombs Thrown by Protesters in Hong Kong

  Storyful

Restored 1972 Dodge Challenger Rallye Crosses Auction Block

If you're on the hunt for a classic American muscle car fresh off a rotisserie restoration, this 1972 Dodge Challenger Rallye should be of interest. After all, muscle cars are supposed to be all about offering monumental power. Now that you know this is a proper performance vehicle, you can concentrate on how this Dodge looks.

McConnell rebukes Trump administration: Syria withdrawal is a 'grave strategic mistake'

LOUISVILLE – Sen. Mitch McConnell has published a stern rebuke of the Trump administration's decision to pull military forces out of Syria, saying the decision "will leave the American people and homeland less safe, embolden our enemies and weaken important alliances." In a Washington Post op-ed published Friday afternoon, and later provided to the Courier Journal, McConnell, R-Ky. the withdrawal of U.S. forces from Syria "a grave strategic mistake."

Trump calls Mexico's president to express 'solidarity'

Mexico's president, Andrés Manuel López Obrador, said on Saturday that President Trump called him to express his "solidarity" following an attempt to arrest a drug kingpin's son that prompted a wave of violence in the city of Culiacan.

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  Mexico president defends freeing El Chapo’s son 'to protect citizens' as death toll rises to eight

  The Independent
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  'We do not want war': Mexico president defends release of El Chapo’s son

  The Guardian

Deep-sea explorers find Japanese ship that sank during WWII

Deep-sea explorers scouring the world's oceans for sunken World War II ships are focusing in on debris fields deep in the Pacific, in an area where one of the most decisive battles of the time took place. Hundreds of miles off Midway Atoll, nearly halfway between the United States and Japan, a research vessel is launching underwater robots miles into the abyss to look for warships from the famed Battle of Midway. Weeks of grid searches around the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands already have led the Petrel to one sunken warship, the Japanese aircraft carrier Kaga.

Let jihadists return home, French anti-terror magistrate urges

The refusal of the French government to take back Islamic State fighters from Syria could fuel a new jihadist recruitment drive in France, threatening public safety, a leading anti-terrorism investigator has told AFP. David De Pas, coordinator of France's 12 anti-terrorism examining magistrates, said that it would be "better to know that these people are in the care of the judiciary" in France "than let them roam free". Turkey's offensive against Kurdish militia in northeast Syria has sparked fears that some of the 12,000 jihadists, including thousands of foreigners, being held in Syrian Kurdish prisons could escape.

Russia's Stealth Su-57 Is a Beast, But Can Russia Afford It?

Key point: The Su-57 is may not fundamentally change Russia's military strategy. The Russian defense ministry staged an impressive video shoot with four of its Su-57 stealth fighter prototypes. But the dramatic display doesn't make the Su-57 any more relevant.

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  The F-22 and F-35 Have a Big Problem. A Stealth Tanker Could Solve It.

  The National Interest
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  Meet the Mythical F-52 Stealth Fighter

  The National Interest

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Erdogan Vows to Crush Kurd YPG if It Doesn’t Leave: Syria Update

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan vowed to resume the offensive against Kurdish forces in northeast Syria if they don't withdraw by the end of a U.S.-brokered truce on Tuesday night. Kurdish and Turkish officials have repeatedly accused each other of violating the truce U.S. Vice President Mike Pence announced Thursday to allow Kurdish fighters to withdraw from areas along the border. One Turkish soldier was killed in an attack with anti-tank and light weapons by Kurdish YPG militants in the border town of Tal Abyad on Sunday, Turkey's defense ministry said.

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  All U.S. troops withdrawing from Syria expected to go to western Iraq: Pentagon chief

  Reuters
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  U.S. ground troops will not enforce Syria safe zone: defense secretary

  Reuters

Black security guard fired after asking student not to use racial slur

A black school security guard has been fired after asking a pupil not to call him the N-word. Marlon Anderson said the teenager, who is also African American, used the racial slur repeatedly to refer to him. He responded to a call about the student, who was being disruptive, on 9 October at Madison West High School, Wisconsin.

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  Wisconsin HS students walk out in protest of racial slur firing

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  The Latest: Cher offers to cover fired guard's legal bills

  Associated Press

Here's the Deadline Countdown for Every Trump Impeachment Subpoena Issued So Far

If Congress drops a subpoena and no one responds, does it have an impact? At present, six of the eight major subpoenas that House Democrats have issued to Trump administration officials and departments have gone unanswered past the deadline set in the request, with the clock rapidly ticking down on the final two, which are due Friday, Oct. 18. Subpoenas can both compel an individual to testify and/or turn over documents, as is the case with U.S. Ambassador to the E.U. Gordon Sonderland, who testified in a closed-door hearing Thursday but has not provided any requested material.

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  Why Firing Mick Mulvaney Is Riskier Than Keeping Him

  The Atlantic
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  Shifting explanations from White House alarm some in GOP

  Associated Press

The Chicago teachers' strike shows how to go on offense against neoliberalism

Seven years ago, Rahm Emanuel had just been elected mayor and was looking to deal the Chicago Teachers Union (CTU), who he saw as a barrier to privatizing the city's education system, a crushing defeat. That agenda was shared by both Republicans and Democrats across the country, with a barrage of attacks on teachers' unions, devastating budget cuts to schools and charter school networks – intended to undercut public schools and do an end run around their unions – rapidly multiplying.

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  Chicago Teachers Strike: Union leaders say progress still not enough, return to bargaining table as strike enters 3rd day

  WLS – Chicago
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  Chicago Teachers Strike: Mayor Lori Lightfoot says CPS classes unlikely to resume Monday as negotiations continue on 3rd day of strike

  WLS – Chicago

7 Things To Do With Your Old Smartphone

Put those outdated gadgets to good use. From Popular Mechanics

How Catalan protest tactics are inspired by Hong Kong

From blocking airports to using encrypted messaging apps, Catalan separatists demonstrating against the jailing of nine of their leaders are openly copying tactics devised by pro-democracy protestors in Hong Kong. Shortly after Spain's Supreme Court on Monday sentenced nine Catalan leaders to prison terms of up to 13 years over their role in a failed 2017 independence bid, 240,000 users of Russian-designed messaging app Telegram received a message urging them to head to Barcelona's El Prat airport, Spain's second busiest. The goal according to the message -- sent by a new anonymous separatist organisation called Democratic Tsunami -- was to "paralyse" the airport, just as demonstrators did in Hong Kong in September.

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  Catalan Separatists Protest in the Streets Over Sentencing of Leaders

  Rolling Stone
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  Spanish government dismisses call for Catalan talks; police brace for more unrest

  Reuters

Could France and Germany Jointly Build an EU Aircraft Carrier?

While discussing France and Germany's joint development with France of the FCAS sixth-generation stealth fighter in March 2019, the new head of Germany's governing CDU party Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer raised eyebrows with her suggestion of a chaser. As a next step, we could start the symbolic project of building an aircraft carrier to give shape to the role of the European Union as a global force for security and peace. German chancellor Angela Merkel endorsed the idea a few days later.