A man and woman were left wounded and bleeding in the San Fernando Valley after being stabbed by a suspect who entered their residence Monday night, according to police. Officers were sent to the 8900 block of Orion Avenue in the North Hills neighborhood of Los Angeles following a report of a stabbing shortly before […]
https://ktla.com/news/local-news/man-woman-stabbed-in-violent-los-angeles-home-invasion/
Texas Tribune ^ | November 18, 2025 | Eleanor Klibanoff Posted on by Miami Rebel Texas cannot use its new congressional map for the 2026 election and will instead need to stick with the lines passed in 2021, a three-judge panel ruled Tuesday. The decision is a major blow for Republicans, in Texas and nationally, who pushed through this unusual mid-decade redistricting at the behest of President Donald Trump. They were hoping the new map would yield control of 30 of the state’s 38 congressional districts up from the 25 they currently hold and help protect the narrow GOP majority in the U. S. House. “The public perception of this case is that it’s about politics,” U. S. Judge Jeffrey Brown, a Trump appointee, wrote in the ruling striking down the new lines. “To be sure, politics played a role in drawing the 2025 Map. But it was much more than just politics. Substantial evidence shows that Texas racially gerrymandered the 2025 Map.” Brown ordered that the 2026 congressional election “shall proceed under the map that the Texas Legislature enacted in 2021.” The case will likely be appealed to the U. S. Supreme Court, but time is short: Candidates only have until Dec. 8 to file for the upcoming election. (Excerpt) Read more at texastribune. org . TOPICS: Miscellaneous KEYWORDS: congress; texas Click here: to donate by Credit Card Or here: to donate by PayPal Or by mail to: Free Republic, LLC PO Box 9771 Fresno, CA 93794 Thank you very much and God bless you. 1 posted on by Miami Rebel Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by.
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The YWCA NorthEastern NY in Schenectady has begun a new project to redevelop its main campus on Washington Avenue.
https://www.news10.com/news/schenectady-county/schenectady-county-schenectady-county/schenectady-ywca-redevelopment-project-breaks-ground/
Outgoing New York City Mayor Eric Adams said Jewish residents of the city should be nervous as far-left Democrat Zohran Mamdani succeeds him. “If I was a Jewish New Yorker with children, I would be concerned right now,” he said in an interview with the Forward. “I think this is a period where they [Jews in New York City] need to be very conscious that there’s a level of global hostility towards the Jewish community,” Adams said Sunday. In 2024, anti-Semitic incidents were 54 percent New York City’s so-called hate crimes. “I’m not going to lie. I’m not going to pretend as though everything is fine,” Adams said. Mayor Adams, speaking about rising antisemitism, at first open-to-press event in Israel: “If I was a Jewish New Yorker with children, I would be concerned right now.. “I’m not just the mayor that’s leaving office, I’m your brother, and we will continue to stand side by side.” pic. twitter. com/7wtrg0ory8 Jacob N. Kornbluh (@jacobkornbluh) November 16, 2025 “There is something to be worried about,” Adams said in the interview, according to The New York Times, adding that “the community must prepare itself.” During the mayoral campaign, Adams said New York City would face “Islamic extremism” under Mamdani’s leadership. Mamdani representative Dora Pekec pushed back in a statement. “Zohran Mamdani was proud to earn the support of hundreds of thousands of Jewish New Yorkers and looks forward to both protecting and celebrating all Jewish New Yorkers as the next mayor of this city,” she said. During a visit to Israel, Adams said New Yorkers do not believe the same things as their mayor. “We want to clearly send the right message that 49 percent of New Yorkers made it clear that they don’t embrace the philosophy of anti-Israel. We still consider Israel as an ally and as a friend,” he said, according to the Times of Israel. During the visit, Israeli President Isaac Herzog said, “we are worried about how things will look post the mayoral elections in New York.” After Mamdani was elected, the Combat Anti-Semitism Movement said it had its work cut out for it. “Jewish New Yorkers are right to be alarmed,” the group’s Chief Government Affairs Officer Lisa Katz said, noting that Mamdani’s “radical outlook and history of antisemitic rhetoric should concern all New Yorkers.” “The Jewish community continues to face unprecedented antisemitic threat levels. Yet barring an improbable 180-degree ideological about-face from Mamdani, Jews in New York City will lack an ally in City Hall come January. If past is prologue, a Mamdani administration will refuse to recognize as antisemitism hate that vilifies and demonizes Jews on the basis of the Jewish people’s connection to Israel,” Katz said.
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2025/11/eric-adams-warns-israelis-jews-might-not-safe/
Machine learning researchers using MLX will benefit from speed improvements in macOS Tahoe 26.2, including support for the M5 GPU-based neural accelerators and Thunderbolt 5 clustering.ML Researchers can cluster Macs together with MLX. Thunderbolt 5 will help improve performance. People working in the field of machine learning have been able to use Apple’s MLX framework for quite a while, with it helping to train and deploy models using Apple’s hardware. As part of Apple’s update to macOS Tahoe 26.2, those using newer hardware can expect to see some potential improvements in performance.MLX is Apple’s open-source machine-learning framework, designed to take advantage of Apple Silicon’s features. Able to run on any Apple platform that supports Metal, it can benefit from things like CPU and GPU processing and unified memory. Continue Reading on AppleInsider | Discuss on our Forums
https://appleinsider.com/articles/25/11/18/macos-tahoe-262-will-give-m5-macs-a-giant-machine-learning-speed-boost
In a joint press conference with survivors of convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, House lawmakers bashed President Donald Trump and Republican leadership ahead of the lower chamber’s vote to compel the release of the so-called “Epstein files.” Standing before survivors, longtime Trump sycophant and MAGA standardbearer Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) told reporters that the debacle over the Epstein files has been “one of the most destructive things to MAGA.” “I wasn’t ‘Johnny come lately’ to the MAGA train,” Greene said. “Watching the man that we supported early on [.] Watching this actually turn into a fight has ripped MAGA apart.” Greene has long supported transparency in the Epstein case, while Trump has pressured the nation to move on from the scandal. The president whose was once close friends with Epstein and whose name reportedly appears in the files recently revoked his endorsement of Greene, and repeatedly bash her as a “traitor” to his movement. The congresswoman addressed the president’s attacks on Tuesday. “I gave him my loyalty for free,” she said. “I’ve never owed him anything. But I fought for him for the policies and for America first. And he called me a traitor for standing with [survivors] and refusing to take my name off the discharge petition.” A bipartisan coalition of House members, led by Reps. Thomas Massie (R-Ky.) and Ro Khanna (D-Calif.), bucked House leadership and Trump’s efforts to silence calls for the administration to follow through on its campaign promise for transparency regarding the cases against Epstein. The members spent months shoring up support for a discharge petition that would allow them to bring “The Epstein Files Transparency Act” to a floor vote without the approval of House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.), who has been allied with the president on the issue. Johnson for seven weeks stalled the swearing-in ceremony of Rep. Adelita Grijalva (D-Ariz.), who ultimately cast the vote to bring the resolution to the floor When it became clear the petition would be coming to a vote, Trump flipped his position, encouraging House Republicans to vote yes. Editor’s picks Survivors were not buying it. Halye Robinson, who worked closely with members of Congress to secure a vote to release the files, spoke directly to Trump: “To the president of the United States of America who is not here today. I want to send a clear message to you: while I do understand that your position has changed on the Epstein files and I’m grateful that you have pledged to sign this bill I can’t help to be skeptical of what the agenda is.” “I am traumatized. I am not stupid, I am traumatized,” she added. “You have put us through so much stress: the lockdowns, the halting of these procedures that were supposed to have happened 50 days ago. Adelita Grijalva, who waited to get sworn in. And then [you] get upset when your own party goes against you because what is being done is wrong. It’s not right.” Survivors and lawmakers who spoke called on the Senate to also pass the resolution, and criticized lawmakers including Johnson who only decided to lend their support after it became clear the vote had enough momentum to pass. “I think the speaker wants to save face,” Massie said. “He’s going to vote for a piece of legislation today that he’s disparaged for four months.” In a subsequent press conference, Johnson said “if and when” the legislation makes it to the Senate Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-Mont.) would take the time to carefully amend the act in order to assuage “concerns” about its scope. Trending Stories Johnson expressed worry that releasing the files “could ruin the reputations of completely innocent people, such as those who may just have known Epstein but knew nothing of his crimes or whose names he exploited and used to try to get close to his intended victims.” The American justice system exists precisely as the mechanism to try those accused of crimes, and fear of reputational damage is no reason to continue denying Epstein’s survivors the justice they deserve.
https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/mtg-epstein-survivors-files-vote-press-conference-1235467233/
Tensions between managers and staff, workers’ waning confidence in business leadership, and job scarcity mean big challenges for business owners next year.
https://www.inc.com/bruce-crumley/forever-layoffs-and-slo-mo-rto-lead-glassdoors-2026-workplace-trends/91265572
Looking today at week-over-week shares outstanding changes among the universe of ETFs covered at ETF Channel, one standout is the Neos Nasdaq-100 High Income ETF (Symbol: QQQI) where we have detected an approximate $297.7 million dollar inflow — that’s a 5.1% increase week over
https://www.nasdaq.com/articles/noteworthy-etf-inflows-qqqi-app-panw-crwd
Players have instead spoken out in favor of trans inclusion.
https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2025/11/a-ceo-tried-to-bribe-professional-women-athletes-into-being-transphobic-she-failed-miserably/
The chamber is expected to vote overwhelmingly in favor of releasing the federal government’s files on Jeffrey Epstein. Here are the latest updates.
http://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/house-vote-epstein-files-live-updates-news.html
