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Matthew Hay Brown @matthewhaybrown.bsky.social · 5m

GOOD NEWS Some 880 people stranded on Mount Everest have been rescued, Chinese state media says, and the last 10 were making their way down. They had been trapped more than halfway up the Tibet side by heavy weekend snows @leo-sands.bsky.social and Sammy Westfall report

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Hundreds of Mount Everest hikers rescued from snowstorm, 10 remain

Some 580 hikers and over 300 mountain guides, yak handlers or support staff were rescued, Chinese state media said, after heavy snows stranded them on Mount Everest.

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Matthew Hay Brown @matthewhaybrown.bsky.social · 1d

Here's a good report on the election from the dream team of @schmidtsam.bsky.social @marialuisapaul.bsky.social @datab.ae and Ana Vanessa Herrero

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Maduro lost election, tallies collected by Venezuela’s opposition show

Edmundo González likely beat President Nicolás Maduro in the July 28 election by millions of votes, a review of data from election receipts shows.

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Matthew Hay Brown @matthewhaybrown.bsky.social · 1d

The buddy movie we didn’t know we needed

Captain Fanta @sassy0210.bsky.social · 1d

"Do you have a moment to talk about our Lord and Savior Edgar Allan Poe?"

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Matthew Hay Brown @matthewhaybrown.bsky.social · 1d

When a judge told Claudio David Balcane González “Welcome to the United States,” he sobbed. He had finally been granted asylum.

Then ICE detained him for 63 more days @marialuisapaul.bsky.social reports

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A Venezuelan singer won asylum. ICE detained him for two more months.

The singer known online as Davicito59 won his asylum case in July. Still, ICE kept him in custody for two more months — a holdup several experts called unlawful.

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Matthew Hay Brown @matthewhaybrown.bsky.social · 1d

Indigenous people are 5 percent of Canada's population but have made up more than half its wildfire evacuees this year while their generational knowledge of forest stewardship is largely ignored. Indigenous Services Canada says “more work needs to be done”

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Canada’s historic wildfire season hits Indigenous people hardest

Indigenous people make up 5 percent of Canada’s population but have accounted for more than half its wildfire evacuees this year.

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Matthew Hay Brown @matthewhaybrown.bsky.social · 7d

BREAKING U.N. Security Council approves militarized, 5,500-member force to take on Haiti’s gangs and clear the way for its first presidential and legislative elections since 2016 – an acknowledgment the Kenya-led police mission it once supported has failed to wrest back control

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U.N. approves militarized force to take on Haiti’s gangs

The Security Council vote was an acknowledgment that the police mission it once backed had failed to wrest back control of the beleaguered Caribbean nation.

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Matthew Hay Brown @matthewhaybrown.bsky.social · 8d

Also in the set: Less Than Zero (about Oswald Moseley), Deportee, Brilliant Mistake (“He thought he was the king of America …”)

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Matthew Hay Brown @matthewhaybrown.bsky.social · 8d

Elvis Costello’s walk-on music tonight in D.C.: Heaven 17’s (We Don’t Need This) Fascist Groove Thang

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The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 8d

Exclusive: Military leaders have raised serious concerns with the Trump administration’s forthcoming defense strategy, exposing a divide between the Pentagon’s leadership as Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth summons top brass to a highly unusual summit.

Military leaders voice concern over Hegseth’s new Pentagon strategy

Top military officials have voiced concern over the Trump administration’s forthcoming defense strategy, exposing a divide between the Pentagon’s political and uniformed leadership.

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Matthew Hay Brown @matthewhaybrown.bsky.social · 8d

It’s not kiwi every year?

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Threatened kārearea falcon wins New Zealand’s 2025 bird of the year

The country’s fastest bird has taken out the top prize in a scandal-free year for the annual poll

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Matthew Hay Brown @matthewhaybrown.bsky.social · 9d

With armed gangs controlling 90 percent of Port-au-Prince, Haiti's outnumbered, outgunned security forces are fighting back with weaponized drones.

There have been no reports of gang leaders killed, but the drones have blown up several children

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Anti-gang drones kill children, and Haiti’s government remains silent

At least eight children were killed in a government drone strike in Haiti while the gang leader who was targeted escaped unharmed. The families want answers.

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Matthew Hay Brown @matthewhaybrown.bsky.social · 13d

The U.S. imposes sanctions on the wife of Alexandre de Moraes, the Brazilian supreme court justice who prosecuted Trump ally Jair Bolsonaro, the former president sentenced this month to 27 years for attempting a military coup to stay in power after his 2022 election loss
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U.S. imposes sanctions on wife of judge who led Bolsonaro prosecution

The sanctions on Viviane Barci de Moraes, wife of Brazilian Supreme Court Justice Alexandre de Moraes, escalate the feud between Donald Trump and Brazil’s leadership.

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Matthew Hay Brown @matthewhaybrown.bsky.social · 13d

EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW (GIFT LINK) Colombian President Gustavo Petro tells The Post’s @schmidtsam.bsky.social that the Trump administration’s lethal boat strikes won't stop narcotrafficking, are “only for television” and amount to “murder”

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Colombian president: Trump’s boat strikes won’t stop narco traffickers

In an interview with The Washington Post, Colombia’s Gustavo Petro argued the Trump administration’s boat strikes are “only for television” and amount to “murder.”

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Matthew Hay Brown @matthewhaybrown.bsky.social · 13d

Agents surround the 5-year-old U.S. citizen and beckon her father to come out.

“Don’t touch her!” Edwards Hip Mejia yells.

“You’re more than welcome to come pick her up,” one agent responds.

From the @bostonglobe.com’s Giulia McDonnell Neto del Rio and @samanthajgross.bsky.social

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Leominster family says ICE agents held their daughter outside their home so they would turn themselves over - The Boston Globe

“Is that your daughter? Come here so I can see those IDs,” an agent tells the father, waving at him to come out of the house, according to video the family recorded.

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Matthew Hay Brown @matthewhaybrown.bsky.social · 16d

TALIBAN ISOLATION EASING Anti-immigrant sentiment in Europe, concerns about militancy in Asia and acceptance that the regime is unlikely to collapse soon are bringing the militants in from the cold @ricknoack.bsky.social reports from Islamabad

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The Taliban are reaching out — and some countries are responding

Anti-immigrant sentiment in Europe, concerns about militancy in Asia and acceptance that the Taliban regime is unlikely to collapse soon present a diplomatic opening.

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The Beaverton @thebeaverton.com · 17d

Horoscope says Mercury will pass through the fifth house before slamming into your house

Mercury just plain old doesn’t like you and finally intends to do something about it.

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Matthew Hay Brown @matthewhaybrown.bsky.social · 18d

When President Trump began threatening Canada and Mexico with tariffs, some Canadian officials proposed negotiating a U.S.-Canada trade deal that excluded Mexico. Now PM Mark Carney has gone to Mexico to try to make up
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Threatened by Trump, Canada tries to make up, team up with Mexico

Canadians mused last year about a U.S.-Canada trade deal that cut out Mexico. Prime Minister Mark Carney is visiting President Claudia Sheinbaum to mend ties.

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Matthew Hay Brown @matthewhaybrown.bsky.social · 18d

OVERNIGHT Federal law enforcement agents dismantled the White House Peace Vigil, the nation’s oldest and longest lasting protest, two weeks after President Trump ordered it taken down. Some sign-wielding volunteers remained @marissajae.bsky.social reports
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The White House Peace Vigil, after standing for decades, is dismantled

Parts of the vigil were removed earlier this month after Trump ordered, “Take it down.” On Thursday night, only the vigil volunteers and some signs remained.

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Matthew Hay Brown @matthewhaybrown.bsky.social · 18d

POST EXCLUSIVE DEA leaders advocated this year for military strikes on Mexican cartel leaders and infrastructure. Some in the White House and Pentagon were alarmed @danlamothe.bsky.social and @ellenwapo.bsky.social report

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DEA faced pushback at White House, Pentagon after urging Mexico strikes

The suggestion, though not acted upon, was met with alarm from officials who warned that Congress has not authorized such action.

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Ryan Teague Beckwith @ryanbeckwith.bsky.social · 18d

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Matthew Hay Brown @matthewhaybrown.bsky.social · 20d

"Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances."

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Chicago Tribune @chicagotribune.com · 21d

Costco considers a recalled wine so dangerous that it has sent a letter to every store member who bought a bottle telling them to immediately throw it away.

Costco’s urgent recall: Get the bottle out of the house, don’t even try to return it

Costco considers a recalled wine so dangerous that it has sent a letter to every store member who bought a bottle telling them to immediately throw it away.

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Matthew Hay Brown @matthewhaybrown.bsky.social · 21d

UPDATE Trump today: “We knocked off actually three boats, not two, but you saw two”

@taracopp.bsky.social @schmidtsam.bsky.social @danlamothe.bsky.social report

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U.S. kills 3 in strike on alleged drug boat from Venezuela, Trump says

The president also signaled that his administration was preparing to take military action against Latin American cartels that move narcotics over land.

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Matthew Hay Brown @matthewhaybrown.bsky.social · 21d

Claudia Sheinbaum’s government doesn’t want to ban narcocorridos. They want to compete with them

@teoarmus.bsky.social reports from CDMX

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To fight the narcos, Mexico tries a new approach: A song contest

A Eurovision-style competition to counter narcocorridos, popular songs that romanticize the drug trade, draws viewers — and skeptics.

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The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 22d

The U.S. military has conducted a second attack on alleged drug smugglers from Latin America, killing three individuals in a strike in international waters, President Donald Trump announced Monday.

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U.S. forces kill 3 alleged drug smugglers from Venezuela, Trump says

The operation marks the second time this month that the U.S. military has unleashed deadly force on a vessel originating from Venezuela.

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