WTOP-TV [Washington, DC],
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A contractor providing roadway maintenance to portions of Interstate 66 and the Capital Beltway in Northern Virginia abruptly closed in late October, citing material costs, labor shortages and a loss of funding from its primary lender. DBi Services provided maintenance services to Interstate 66, Interstate 495 and the Woodrow Wilson Bridge, including drainage, mowing, guardrail repairs, debris and roadkill pickups, and incident response, according to the Virginia Department of Transportation. The company also maintained all of Northern Virginia’s rest areas. “Macroeconomic forces as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic, including supply chain disruptions, higher material costs and the labor shortage, coupled with increased financial requirements from sureties and lenders,
Daily Mail (UK),
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Tommy Taylor
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American Airlines has continued its streak cancellation over the course of Halloween weekend as a quarter of its scheduled flights—634 of them—were cancelled on Sunday. The airline has blamed weather control issues, such as strong winds from Dallas, and ongoing staff shortages due to lay-offs made when travel cratered at the start of the COVID outbreak. In total, more than 1,500 flights have been axed by the airline since Friday with 738 delays and 342 cancellations, according to FlightAware. On Saturday, 543 flights were cancelled with more than 400 also delayed. 'With additional weather throughout the system, our staffing begins to run tight as crew members end up
New York Daily News,
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Muri Assunção
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A group of LGBTQ Afghans fleeing the Taliban rule have safely arrived in the U.K., British officials said. According to U.K.’s Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office, 29 LGBTQ Afghans arrived in Britain on Friday “to start their new lives.” They are the first group to be helped by the British government since the end of the evacuation in late August. Their arrival is “hoped to be the first of many,” officials said in a statement. The news comes just hours after the regime said that it doesn’t plan on respecting LGBTQ rights. Ahmad Wali Haqmal, a spokesman for Afghanistan’s Taliban government told Reuters that “LGBT... That’s against our Sharia law.”
Daily Mail (UK),
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William Cole
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President Joe Biden has warned Vladimir Putin not to weaponise natural resources for political purposes after Russian gas pipeline starting flowing backwards out of Germany. Fuel supplies in the Yamal—Europe pipeline with goes from Russia to Germany via Poland had come to halt on Saturday, with the direction of gas actually reversing. But energy firm Gazprom played down concerns saying that all European orders were being fulfilled.(Snip)Russian troops movements near Ukraine have also caused concern among some US and European intelligence officials, according to the New York Times.
Videos posted on social media show large numbers of tanks and soldiers being moved from Siberia towards Ukraine.
CNBC,
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Leslie Josephs
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American Airlines has canceled more than 1,000 flights since Friday, disruptions it blamed on staffing problems and high winds at its busiest hub. On Saturday, American canceled nearly 460 flights, or 17% of its mainline schedule, according to flight-tracking site FlightAware. Dallas-based Southwest Airlines cut 86 flights, or 2% of its Saturday operation. American canceled another 285 flights, or 10% of its schedule planned for Sunday, on top of 340 cancellations on Friday.(Snip)Pilot and flight attendant availability were listed as reasons for most of the cancellations on Saturday and Sunday, according to internal tallies, which were seen by CNBC.
New York Post,
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The FDNY shut down 26 firehouses across the Big Apple as of 7:30 a.m. Saturday because of staff shortages caused by the vaccination mandate, The Post has learned. Rep. Nicole Malliotakis, a Republican who represents Staten Island and Brooklyn, tweeted Saturday that five of the companies were in her district—and said it’s Hizzoner who could have blood on his hands. “If someone dies due to a slower emergency response, it’s on Bill de Blasio and his overreaching mandates. I hope this fool fixes it ASAP!” she tweeted.(Snip)
“Twenty six companies out of service is an unconscionable number,” said Councilman Joe Borelli, a Staten Island Republican who chairs
Washington Times,
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Mike Glenn
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China and Russia have dramatically accelerated their naval shipbuilding and modernization programs in recent years, while the U.S. has struggled to improve its own capacity for warfighting missions and been tagged with a poor readiness rating from national security analysts. The Chinese have made particularly notable strides, engaging in a maritime buildup that made global headlines a year ago when Pentagon officials sounded the alarm that Beijing’s total fleet roughly 350 warships had surpassed the roughly 300 maintained by Washington.(Snip)“They’ve got a lot of shipyards and a lot of capacity,” says Brent Sadler, a retired U.S. naval officer and analyst with the Heritage Foundation. “They’re building lots of ships.”
Daily Mail (UK),
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Ronny Reyes
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JFK's assassin Lee Harvey Oswald trained at a secret CIA camp preparing for an invasion of Cuba, the son of his alleged sniper teacher said. But Ricardo Morales Jr said that trainer—his dad Ricardo Sr—insisted after the November 1963 assassination that there was no way Oswald had the marksmanship to pull off the murder, further bolstering conspiracy theories over the doomed president's death. Morales Jr., 58, of Michigan, told Miami's Actualidad Radio that his father was a contract CIA worker, anti-Castro militant, counter-intelligence chief for Venezuela, FBI informant and drug dealer. Morales Sr went by the nickname 'Monkey', and was among the FBI's most infamous informants.
Daily Mail (UK) & Reuters,
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Harriet Alexander
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A U.S. government watchdog on Friday accused the State Department and Pentagon of suppressing information that lawmakers and the public need to understand the collapse of Afghanistan's former government and military and the chaotic U.S. troop pullout.
John Sopko, the special inspector general for Afghanistan reconstruction (SIGAR), spoke out on Friday after it emerged that many of the routine documents had now been marked as classified. 'The full picture of what happened in August—and all the warning signs that could have predicted the outcome—will only be revealed if the information that the departments of Defense and State have already restricted from public release is made available,' said Sopko.
Associated Press & Daily Mail (UK),
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A declassified US intelligence report has concluded COVID wasn't developed as a biological weapon—but conceded that coronavirus may well have emerged from the Wuhan Institute of Virology. The paper issued by the Director of National Intelligence on Friday elaborates on findings released in August of a 90-day review ordered by President Joe Biden. That review said that U.S. intelligence agencies were divided on the origins of the virus, but that analysts do not believe the virus was developed as a bioweapon, and that most agencies believe the virus was not genetically engineered.(Snip)They added that China's continued obfuscation over COVID—including allegations that the United States itself is responsible
CNN,
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Geneva Sands
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US Border Patrol recorded more migrant deaths on the US southern border in fiscal year 2021 than in any prior year on record, according to data shared by the agency Thursday. There were 557 Southwest border deaths during the fiscal year, which ended September 30. That's up from 254 deaths in fiscal year 2020 and 300 deaths in 2019, marking a significant increase amid a 30-record year for border crossings. The agency data on deaths dates to 1998.
A majority of migrant border deaths have been related to heat exposure, according to the agency.(Snip)Several factors led to the increase in recorded deaths, including more people crossing the border
Daily Mail (UK),
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Gina Martinez
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The mayor of St. Louis did not flinch during a press conference when gunfire erupted nearby, saying she was unfortunately used to it. Mayor Tishaura Jones was speaking to the press on Friday about her and Kansas City Mayor Quinton Lucas' efforts to reduce violent crime following a roundtable discussion about public safety when what sounded like gunfire went off nearby. But Jones did not miss a beat and sarcastically responded 'Oh isn't that wonderful,' before getting back to the topic at hand.(Snip)'Well I hear gunshots in my neighborhood every night,' she said. 'My son and I fall asleep to the lullabies in the distance every night CORRECTION*
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Why would a Republican government do anything but pretend to defend the people against whatever a corporation or government might want to do to them in the name of profit or control?