India and US have overcome historically rocky relations to forge a key defense pact aimed primarily at China MORE

Ohio Wesleyan University is eliminating 18 majors. The University of Florida’s trustees this month took the first steps toward letting the school furlough faculty. The University of California, Berkeley, has paused admissions to its Ph.D. programs in anthropology, sociology and art history. MORE

All of Europe is grappling with how to halt a fall resurgence of the virus before its hospitals become overwhelmed again.

Nightly curfews have been implemented in French cities. Schools must close at 6 p.m. Schools have been closed in Northern Ireland and the Czech Republic. German officials have ordered de-facto lockdowns in some areas near the Austrian border and new mask-wearing requirements are popping up weekly across the continent, including a nationwide requirement in Russia. MORE

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I don’t know if the guard was black or white, but where was the protest over this two BLACK women.

A store security guard in Chicago was allegedly stabbed 27 times after asking two women to wear masks while shopping. Now the two women, who are sisters, are being held without bond, the Associated Press reports. MORE

They’re also free to express themselves. After French President Emmanuel Macron said his government would strike at “radical Islam” in response to the Oct. 16 beheading of a teacher who showed students cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad, leaders of Muslim nations have struck back. Yesterday Pakistan’s foreign office summoned the French ambassador over France’s “Islamophobic acts, ” while Turkey’s president joined Qatar and Kuwait, which have removed French products from store shelves, in urging a boycott. Meanwhile, Manchester United soccer star Paul Pogba, a convert to Islam, denied reports that he was quitting over Macron’s policies. MORE

CNA Staff, Oct 23, 2020 / 05:48 pm MT (CNA).- A laicized priest who had been the spiritual director to six people who said they experienced visions of the Blessed Virgin Mary in the Bosnian town of Medjugorje has been excommunicated. MORE

The Silverado Fire in Irvine, California that has gravely injured two firefighters was started by a cigarette that was tossed onto dry brush, authorities said as state officials ordered 100,000 people to evacuate in Orange County. MORE

Tesco shopper is charged with criminal damage and breaching coronavirus regulations after tearing away plastic sheets covering ‘non-essential’ items in Welsh supermarkets MORE

The Senate voted to confirm Judge Amy Coney Barrett to the Supreme Court on Monday night, making her the third justice to join the nation’s highest court under President Donald Trump.

The Senate confirmed Barrett along partisan lines, 52-48. MORE

I’m his kid.

Storms and damaging winds up to 100km/h wreaked havoc in multiple states, with volunteers responding to hundreds of calls for help. MORE

Half of California’s community college students struggle to buy food, a majority have trouble paying the rent and one in five are homeless. Those are the disturbing results of a survey of 40,000 community college students. MORE