All eyes and fears on October 29..
Professor Avi Loeb says 3I/ATLAS, an interstellar object from beyond our solar system, is closing in fast.
“I don’t know if there will be meaning to money if this object turns out to be technological, after October 29th.
If you want to take a vacation, take it before that date. Because who knows what will happen.”
Developing…
Tmz and other sources are reporting that Trump will insert himself into Diddy…
Donald Trump is considering commuting Diddy’s sentence as early as this week, according to a high-ranking White House official.
According to our source, the President is “vacillating” on a commutation. We’re told some of the W.H. staff are urging Trump not to commute the sentence. But, our source states the obvious — “Trump will do what he wants,” and we’re told Trump could set Diddy free as early as this week
Here is the full TMZ story here ..
Developing this week..
Shock drop.. mystery object hits window..
10,000 Foot Drop — Pilot Injured as Windshield Shatters Midflight!
A United Airlines flight from Denver to Los Angeles was forced to make an emergency landing in Salt Lake City on October 16, 2025, after the windshield of the Boeing 737 MAX 8 suddenly shattered midair.
Reports indicate that the plane dropped nearly 10,000 feet before stabilizing. One of the pilots suffered minor injuries from flying debris and shattered glass as the cockpit became littered with fragments.
Early speculation points to a possible meteorite strike or space debris impact, though officials haven’t confirmed a cause.
Despite the terrifying ordeal, the plane landed safely, and all 140 passengers and crew were reported safe.
The scariest part of Halloween is media .. again, they are busy telling us all the reasons that Halloween is dangerous for children.
Halloween is here.. And the media is once again using the opportunity to scare parents about the season of the witch.. no spells. No ghosts.. no goblins.. Not even Michael Myers lurking behind a bush.
No, the UPI instead of using the seasonal topic of bad luck that may befall your child..
Trips. Toxic masks.. an visibility..
From their hard hitting piece on something to make your parental situation even more nervous:
Avoid tripping hazards. Costumes that are too long or baggy can easily cause falls. Hem hand-me-downs or homemade outfits so they don’t drag on the ground.
Stay visible. Add reflective tape to costumes, give kids flashlights or choose light-up treat buckets so drivers can easily see them.
And if you thought they would not bring up the candy situation> Think again!!
Lastly, after trick-or-treating, sort through candy before kiddos dig in. Watch for hard candies that pose choking risks for children under 3, and avoid homemade or unwrapped treats that could contain allergens or other hazards.
Empire Online is hoping that their 5 covers of Stranger Things will help sell some print again..
As the run up to the final season of Stranger Things begins in full swing, the advertising campaign is as well.. the latest PR information being revealed by the Duffer Brothers is not filled with spoilers but instead a steady stream of pro Linda Hamilton news..
“She’s hyper-intelligent and intimidating,” Matt Duffer told Empire of the character Dr. Kay, a government agent hunting down Millie Bobby Brown’s Eleven, in their new Stranger Things Season 5 issue.
And it looks like she’s probably going to be using those smarts to, quite frankly, kick some ass. “She’s a scientist but if she needs to, she can get into a fight and shoot a gun,” Matt added.
More..
And it looks like she’s probably going to be using those smarts to, quite frankly, kick some ass. “She’s a scientist but if she needs to, she can get into a fight and shoot a gun,” Matt added.
Capitalizing on the Stranger Things finale is Empire Online’s other conviction..
They are revealing 5 print covers–you can order yours from them directly since newstands don’t really carry news weeklies anymore..
There was some more sad information for true fans of the Eddie Munson character from the show..
Perhaps this is an example of an anti-spoiler..
The Duffer brothers on whether Eddie Munson will return for Stranger Things 5 “He’s dead, Joe is so busy anyway, that everyone should know he’s not coming back. He’s shot like five movies since! When the hell has he got time to come and shoot Stranger Things? No, sadly, RIP.”
So all those hyped of rumors that spread online were.. untrue? Unless the Duffers are pulling a fast one.. Munson fans will continue hoping for a triumphant return until the end..
The Ball Room will be completed by 2029..
Coming soon: The ball room.
Demolition crews on Monday began tearing down part of the White House to build President Donald Trump’s long-desired ballroom despite his pledge that construction of the $250 million addition wouldn’t “interfere” with the existing building.
Construction teams were demolishing a portion ofthe East Wing, with a backhoe ripping through the structure, according to a photo shared with The Washington Post and two people who witnessed the activity and spoke on the condition of anonymity to describe it.
A cluster of people, including members of the Secret Service, stood on the steps of the Treasury Department to watch the construction unfold, said one of the people. Sounds of construction were also audible on the White House campus, although the project was not easily visible to the public given fencing on the grounds.
The White House said the demolition will not effect any structural integrity of the rest of the building..
The Administration said the project will be completed by 2029..
The East Wing of the White House will be modernized at the same time as the ballroom is constructed. BBC News described the proposed interior as being “lavish … including chandeliers and ornate columns”.
We don’t really know what caused the big net outage yet. But according to what people are saying, many woke up at 3 o’clock in the morning for the beginning of it.
No Sleep Till Beijing
So, a funny thing happened at 3 o’clock in the morning last night.
I’ve been scrolling social media today and seeing a strange pattern — a lot of people say they suddenly woke up around that exact time. Some say their Alexa beeped weirdly or just stopped working. Others can’t explain why they woke up, only that something felt off.
Coincidence? Maybe. But that’s also right around the moment when the big internet outage began.
Across the globe, Amazon Web Services went dark — and when AWS goes down, so does a huge chunk of the modern world. Social apps, gaming platforms, even Roku and Fortnite were hit. Slowly but surely, things have come back online… but no one seems completely sure why it happened.
And then came a new twist.
China has accused the United States of launching a “major cyberattack” against its National Time Service Center, claiming it could have disrupted communications, financial systems, and even the power grid. In a statement posted on WeChat, China’s Ministry of State Security said it had “irrefutable evidence” that the NSA exploited a security flaw in a foreign phone brand’s messaging service to steal sensitive data.
Now, there’s speculation tonight that what we experienced here — this mysterious outage — might have been retaliation.
No official explanations. Just silence, glitches, and a lot of people wide awake at 3 a.m.
Maybe it’s nothing.
Maybe it’s something.
But for now… there’s no sleep till Beijing.
The internet seems to be crippled today
These days, when the internet goes down — it really goes down.
In the early hours of Monday morning, Amazon Web Services (AWS) — the backbone of much of the modern web — experienced a major outage, knocking out a long list of high-profile sites and services.
AWS reported what it called an “operational issue” impacting “multiple services,” and confirmed that engineers were “working on multiple parallel paths to accelerate recovery.” At one point, over 70 AWS services were affected — a reminder of just how deeply this single company is embedded in the infrastructure that keeps our world online.
By 3:35 a.m. PDT, AWS announced the issue had been “fully mitigated,” saying most systems were now running normally.
Still, it’s hard not to think about how fragile our digital lives have become.
When one company sneezes, half the internet catches a cold.
Invasion did occur.. of the private contractors in our skies!!
It’s been about a year since the New Jersey drone phenomenon first lit up our skies — and our imaginations.
Remember how it dominated headlines? Those bright lights hovering silently above the Garden State and beyond had everyone speculating. Was it an alien invasion? A secret military test? A government conspiracy right above our heads?
But there was also another theory — that we were being gaslit. That the whole thing was a trick, a setup, a staged mystery designed to stir up confusion.
Well, now, you can decide for yourself whether we were fooled… or if we just witnessed a different kind of invasion — not from outer space, but from private contractors.
At the Army’s UAS and Launched Effects Summit at Fort Rucker this past August, a private company allegedly took credit for the chaos. According to a source who spoke to The New York Post, the company held a live demonstration of a manned aerial craft that stunned the audience with its strange design and otherworldly flight movements.
And then came the bombshell:
> “You remember that big UFO scare in New Jersey last year? Well, that was us,”
one of the contractor’s employees reportedly told a small group after the demo.
So was the New Jersey “UFO invasion” a real mystery from the skies — or just a marketing stunt that spiraled out of control?
There is an ounce of truth to the urban legends about tainted Halloween candy. But it is not nearly as widespread, and much more tragic, […]
Every year, when you sort through your children’s Halloween candy, you’re doing it for two reasons.
First, probably to steal the best ones before they notice. But second, because you’ve heard the stories: knives in apples, poisoned chocolate bars, and cyanide-laced sweets handed out by strangers.
Guess what? Here is the tough news to consider…
It’s not really true and there may be no real logical requirement to keep doing this.. (though we all still will )
There is some history on the origin for this candy fear..
The first report of Halloween treats being tampered with in North America was in 1959. That year, a California dentist named William Shyne distributed 450 laxative-laced candies to children — 30 of whom fell ill. He was later charged with “outrage of public decency” and “unlawful dispensing of drugs.”
Another high profile case made headlines in 1964, when a 47-year-old mother from Greenlawn, N.Y., named Helen Pfeil handed out bags of treats containing arsenic-laced ant traps, metal mesh scrubbing pads and dog biscuits.
And just a few years ago in Pennsylvania, cops warned parents to check their kids stash for THC-laced Nerd ropes..
But the real fear began with one man, in Texas, nearly fifty years ago.
On Halloween night 1974, a father named Ronald Clark O’Bryan, later called “The Candyman” by major media that loves naming killers for pop culture and sales purposes, laced powdered candy with cyanide. He was also called the The Pixy Stix Killer but that name didn’t seem to stick …
O’Bryan didn’t lace candy to poison his neighborhood in Pasadena, Texas. He did it to kill his own 8-year-old son, Timothy, for life-insurance money.
That is the horrid truth behind this urban legend.. It was real in a sense, but it was disgustingly personal for O’Bryan.
O’Bryan, a 30-year-old optician from nearby Deer Park, joined his children and neighbors for trick-or-treating. One house was dark; no one answered the door, so the kids moved on. O’Bryan lagged behind for show, then caught up holding five giant Pixy Stix, about 21 inches long, sealed with staples. They were tampered with– by him.
He explained to the children they were lucky: The “rich neighbors” were handing out expensive treats. Each child got one. Later, he gave one to his five-year-old daughter and another to a ten-year-old boy from his church.
That night, Timothy ate a few spoonfuls of the powdered candy, complained it tasted bitter, and collapsed. Within minutes he was dead.. he was poisoned by his own father.
O’Bryan claimed a mysterious neighbor had handed him the candy. But the man he blamed, Courtney Melvin, was at work as an air-traffic controller on duty that night and he had more than 200 coworkers confirming his alibi to law enforcement.
Detectives soon learned O’Bryan’s life was a complete train wreck. He was more than $100,000 in debt, behind on his mortgage and car payments, suspected of theft at work, and had held 21 jobs in 10 years. In the months before Halloween, he quietly took out life-insurance policies totaling up to $60,000 to $100,000 on his children!
At trial, witnesses testified that O’Bryan had asked about buying cyanide and even discussed lethal doses. His sister-in-law told the court that at Timothy’s funeral, he spoke excitedly about collecting insurance money and taking a vacation.
Prosecutor Mike Hinton told jurors: that the only inescapable conclusion you can draw is that this man killed his own child for money.
The case seemed as air tight as people can desire.
It took the jury 46 minutes to find O’Bryan guilty.
O’Bryan maintained his innocence for nearly a decade. On March 31, 1984, he was executed by lethal injection. His final meal: steak, French fries, peas, corn, salad, rolls, iced tea, and for desert a Boston cream pie.
Outside the prison, protesters wearing Halloween masks chanted “Trick or Treat!”
It was both macabre theater and a grim bookend to the legend he had created.
O’Bryan’s crime transformed Halloween. Parents no longer saw candy as harmless; they saw potential danger. In the years that followed, rumors spread nationwide .. tainted treats, razor blades in apples, needles in chocolate bars.
By the 1980s, police and hospitals offered X-ray screenings for candy. Families examined every wrapper under bright kitchen lights.
To this day, continued stories occur each Halloween season in which people report tampering of candy to cops.. such as this from 2015 in Kennett Square PA, when parents complained to police about needles in treats.. which turned out to be a hoax.
The Candyman’s story became the template for America’s Halloween anxiety. It was a true crime that birthed a thousand false ones..
Every October, parents still dump candy onto the dining-room table, sifting through it like forensic scientists. It’s ritual now, a strange inheritance from 1970s.
Because even though the candy isn’t poisoned, the fear still is there..
According to Professor Joel Best, there have been approximately 80 reports of sharp objects inserted into Halloween treats since 1959. The great majority of those reports turned out to be hoaxes
Don’t feel guilty about checking the candy.. you know, just in case.
And while you’re looking through, maybe just throw away those candy corns that ruin teeth and don’t taste good anyway.
