The government shutdown gets uglier at the end of this week. With President Donald Trump traveling abroad and Congress still deeply divided over a path to fund federal agencies, a pileup of deadlines on and around Nov. 1 is set to put many U.S. households at risk of new hardship: Popular programs that provide nutrition assistance, early childhood education and air service to rural communities are now among those about to run out of money.

California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) hinted Sunday that he will run for president in 2028, making a formal announcement after the 2026 midterm elections. CBS News reported Sunday: In an interview taped Thursday in San Jose, Newsom was asked whether he would give “serious thought” to a White House bid once next year’s midterm elections are over. “Yeah, I’d be lying otherwise,” Newsom replied. “I’d just be lying. And I’m not — I can’t do that.” Newsom, whose term ends in January 2027 and is prevented from running again due to term limits, cautioned that any decision is years away.

Small importers for large U.S. retailers rushed in China-made strollers and wares meant for spring and are storing the goods in their own warehouses to avoid the big tariff bills that had been threatened over the next month. Before Sino-American talks on the sidelines of the ASEAN Summit in Kuala Lumpur eliminated the threat of U.S. President Donald Trump's 100% tariffs on Chinese imports starting November 1, importers were expecting to shoulder the staggering levies.

Nigel Farage has always been a master of political innuendo. As a schoolboy in South London in the early 1980s, when neofascists and racists rioted across Britain, Mr. Farage’s favorite prank was to scrawl “NF” on the classroom chalkboards. The joke was that these were his initials and those of the National Front, the leading neofascist group at the time. The splendor of Mr. Farage’s school, Dulwich College, added to the transgression. Designed by the son of the architect that built the Palace of Westminster, the school — all haughty buildings and pristine grounds — surely seemed a world away from far-right thuggery. Yet Mr. Farage has always been curious about the potential for combustion, comic and otherwise, when those two worlds collide.

In the shadowed streets of Derry, Maine, where the Kenduskeag River whispers secrets through rusted storm drains, a small-town hardware store owner unearths a forgotten ledger from 1908, its pages etched with names of children who vanished under harvest moons. As autumn leaves crunch underfoot and the annual Canal Days Festival lights up the midway, whispers of a clown-suited figure in silver bells draw a ragtag crew of misfits—each scarred by the town’s buried sins—into a web of recurring cycles, where balloons float like omens and the air thickens with the scent of popcorn laced with something sharper. It: Welcome to Derry unspools the fog-shrouded history that birthed the eternal dance between fear and the forgotten, one Derry dawn at a time. It: Welcome to Derry Review COMING SOON WOKE REPORT COMING SOONThe post It: Welcome to Derry first appeared on Worth it or Woke.

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