“Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky on Tuesday said he visited troops near the embattled city of Pokrovsk, as Kyiv scrambles to defend the logistics hub that Russia has tried to capture for months. … Hundreds of Russian soldiers have infiltrated the logistics hub, Kyiv said earlier this week. Others are closing in on its outskirts in a pincer-shaped movement, according to battlefield maps published by the Institute for the Study of War. The Russian army on Tuesday said it was ‘tightening the encirclement around the enemy’ in Pokrovsk and claimed to have captured a few dozen buildings in the town” (11/04/25)
“Typhoon Kalmaegi has left at least 26 people dead in the Philippines, mostly in flooding set off by the storm, which barreled across the central part of the country on Tuesday, disaster response officials said. Floodwaters trapped scores of people on their roofs and submerged cars. A Philippine air force helicopter with five personnel on board crashed in a separate incident in southern Agusan del Sur province while flying to help provide humanitarian assistance to provinces battered by Kalmaegi. … Before the typhoon’s landfall, officials said that more than 387,000 people had evacuated to safer ground in eastern and central Philippine provinces. Authorities warned of torrential rains, potentially destructive winds and storm surges of nearly 10 feet.” (11/04/25)
“Six people became ill and died after eating prepared pasta meals that were contaminated with listeria and sold at major grocery chains across the country, federal health officials said. The meals, sold at Albertsons, Kroger, Sprouts Farmers Market, Trader Joe’s and other major stores, were recalled in recent months in connection with the outbreak, which the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said grew last week. Federal health officials said the supplier, Nate’s Fine Foods Inc., had found Listeria monocytogenes, a bacterium that can cause illness and death, in a sample of its pasta. Health officials said that a total of 27 people in 18 states had been affected by the outbreak, and that they were working to investigate the source.” (11/04/25)
“Secretary of Transportation Sean Duffy says an ‘all clear’ has been given at Reagan National Airport near Washington, D.C. on Tuesday following an unfounded bomb threat against a United Airlines plane.’ Earlier today, a United flight from Houston to Washington D.C. received a bomb threat. The flight landed safely at DCA, passengers were evacuated, and law enforcement conducted a full search of the aircraft,’ Duffy wrote on X. … A ground stop was temporarily issued at the airport as passengers from the United Airlines flight were bussed to a terminal.” (11/04/25)
“A supermassive black hole violently gobbled up an enormous star, producing a cosmic outburst with the light of 10 trillion suns, according to a new study. The black hole flare, as the phenomenon is known, is thought to be the biggest and most distant ever recorded — it was detected from 10 billion light-years away. ‘This is really a one-in-a-million object,’ said Matthew Graham, a research professor of astronomy at the California Institute of Technology and the lead author of the study, which was published Tuesday in the journal Nature Astronomy. Graham said a black hole flare is the most likely explanation based on the outburst’s intensity and duration, but follow-up studies will help the researchers confirm their findings.” (11/04/25)
“The Biden Justice Department seized President Trump’s official cellphone from his first term and issued a subpoena for his personal call logs, Attorney General Pam Bondi revealed Tuesday. Bondi said the apparently unprecedented action was part of the Arctic Frost investigation of the steps by Trump and his allies to challenge his loss in the 2020 election. … Bondi did not say which phone company was subpoenaed for Trump’s personal call logs or whether the company complied or challenged the subpoena. Smith was prosecuting Trump for his effort to overturn the 2020 election results before the Republican won a second term last November.” (11/04/25)
“The BBC has ‘serious questions to answer,’ a cross-party group of MPs has said, following reports that a Panorama documentary misled viewers by editing a speech by US President Donald Trump. The Telegraph said it had seen an internal memo suggesting the programme edited two parts of Trump’s speech together so he appeared to explicitly encourage the Capitol Hill riots of January 2021. The House of Commons culture, media and sport committee said it had written to BBC chairman Samir Shah to ask what action is being taken over the concerns raised in the memo. A BBC spokesperson said: ‘While we don’t comment on leaked documents, when the BBC receives feedback it takes it seriously and considers it carefully.'” (11/04/25)
“Two men were arrested following an explosion this weekend at Harvard Medical School, according to the FBI’s Joint Terrorism Task Force and the Harvard University Police Department. … Tuesday’s announcement about the arrests followed an apparently ‘intentional’ explosion at a Harvard University medical building early Saturday. … Surveillance footage circulated by police showed two masked people, one of them wearing what appeared to be a gray ski mask and the other a long face mask and black hoodie. A message sent to the Harvard Medical School community Sunday afternoon said there was no structural damage to the building.” (11/04/25)
“A group fighting against the development of artificial intelligence said it was their public defender who tried to hand OpenAI CEO Sam Altman a subpoena on stage at a San Francisco theater on Monday night. Altman had just sat down for a conversation with Golden State Warriors coach Steve Kerr and host Manny Yekutiel on Monday night when a man walked onto the stage and said he had a subpoena for Altman. Yekutiel quickly moved out of his chair to intercept the man from getting to Altman and security officials escorted him out of the building. Overnight on social media, Stop AI — a civil disobedience group that has regularly protested at OpenAI’s San Francisco headquarters and other AI companies around the city — took credit for the incident, saying the man was legitimately serving Altman with a subpoena.” (11/04/25)
“Binance CEO Richard Teng has dismissed claims that the cryptocurrency exchange helped boost a Trump-backed stablecoin before former CEO Changpeng Zhao received a presidential pardon. The claims in question relate to a $2 billion investment Binance received from Abu Dhabi’s state-owned investment firm MGX. The deal was settled using USD1, a stablecoin created by the Trump family’s crypto venture, World Liberty Financial. … in a CNBC interview on Monday, Teng rejected the notion that Binance — the world’s largest cryptocurrency firm — had given USD1 any preferential treatment.” (11/04/25)
