Battlefields are loud, but in the sense of movement, the Ukrainian front lines have been stable. Russians are happy to dig new fortifications and weird WWII-style straight trenches, and Ukraine is happy to let HIMARS and Excalibur precision-guided artillery shells degrade Russian artillery, command and control, and logistics in the rear. Unseasonably wet weather and the return of the famous mud isn’t helping.

A project funded in part by the Defense Department, Energy Department, and other federal agencies sure looks like it was worth the money. Researchers were able to develop a charging device that can recharge a standard electric vehicle battery in just 10 minutes. Such swift charging helps alleviate what’s known as “range anxiety,” defined as the fear that an EV will run out of power before reaching a charging station.

Tens of thousands of Ukrainians fleeing Russia’s unprovoked invasion have been able to find safety in the U.S. under a successful Biden administration policy implemented this past spring. Under the Uniting for Ukraine policy, Americans can apply to sponsor a Ukrainian refugee (or refugees). The program has been immense, with nearly 125,000 Americans submitting an application as of last month.

Twenty years ago on Oct. 10, the House of Representatives voted to approve the Iraq Resolution, formally known as the Authorization for Use of Military Force Against Iraq Resolution of 2002. The Senate voted for it two days later on Oct. 12.

Since his loss in May to three-term state senator and business owner Chuck Edwards, Republican Rep. Madison Cawthorn hasn’t been up to much more than spitting chewing tobacco and avoiding doing his actual job for his constituents in North Carolina’s 11th Congressional District.

Now that the one son Republican Georgia Senate candidate Herschel Walker had publicly acknowledged as his own has thrown up his hands and abandoned dad’s campaign, that campaign has gone even further off the rails than it was before. And it was never on the rails to begin with.

In the first few months of the war, the news was rampant with Belarus is joining the war hysteria. Terrorist Vladimir Putin was clearly leaning on Belorussian dictator Alexander Lukashenko to join the war, and Lukashenko was happy to pretend, time and time again, that he was ready to do his master’s bidding. Yet he never followed through. 

It was clear that Lukashenko had zero interest in joining the war.

Day Five of the Oath Keepers trial was dedicated to a methodical plodding through a heap of damning text messages that the Justice Department argues are proof beyond a reasonable doubt that Elmer Stewart Rhodes and four of his Oath Keeper associates conspired to stop the peaceful transfer of power by force on Jan. 6, 2021. 

Standing trial alongside Rhodes at the federal courthouse in Washington, D.C.

The United States’ relationship with oil-producing Saudi Arabia has never risen to the status of “good,” and soured considerably after the Saudi monarchy’s murder of a Washington Post correspondent who criticized the regime. While it does depend somewhat on whether the current American president is or is not a sociopath, murdering journalists is allegedly something we still take quite seriously in our own diplomatic relations.