The vehicle had been abandoned on a highway in Chilpancingo, a city known for its violence. In fact, Chilpancingo’s mayor was beheaded just last month—only a few days after taking the job. 

“They have murdered our mayor of Chilpancingo, Alejandro Arcos, and just three days ago the secretary of this same City Council, Francisco Tapia,” Senator Alejandro Moreno wrote on social media at the time. “They had been in office for less than a week. They were young and honest officials who sought progress for their community. Our condolences and solidarity go out to their families.”

Violence continues to surge throughout the city, with innocent individuals losing their lives to senseless crimes.

While it’s unclear why, exactly, these 11 new victims were killed, authorities are treating the case as a homicide. Their identities remain unknown at this time, and most of the bodies have reportedly been dismembered, per local media. 

Chilpancingo is the capital of the southern state of Guerrero—one of Mexico’s most violent states, due in large part to drug trafficking. 

Despite government involvement, “More than 450,000 people have been murdered and tens of thousands have gone missing across Mexico since the government deployed the army to combat drug trafficking in 2006,” BBC reported.

Mexico’s new president, Claudia Sheinbaum, is set on addressing violent crime—or, at the very least, decreasing its prevalence—throughout the state and Mexico as a whole.

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During an aborted takeoff, the Honda HA-420 jet smashed through the fence of Mesa Falcon Field Airport and into a vehicle, ultimately bursting into flames and killing five. This occurred just before 5 p.m., according to CNN.

“Preliminary information indicates that the plane impacted the airport perimeter fence and a passenger vehicle during an aborted takeoff,” the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) told CNN.

Joshua Golabi, a pilot who heard—but did not see—the event, described the sound of the crash. “He went through that dip. He went past the road through the metal gated fence that they have, through I believe a few concrete walls,” the pilot explained.

“We were just about to get into our aircraft and go when we heard a pop and saw a plume of smoke,” Golabi continued. “It’s just jarring and it’s a reminder to all pilots to always fly and maneuver as safe as you can.”

Four of the five passengers in the jet were killed: Spencer Lindahl, 43; Rustin Randall, 48; Drew Kimball, 44; and Graham Kimball, 12. Each was from Arizona. The fifth passenger survived but has been hospitalized with burn injuries.

The other victim was driving the car involved in the crash, and they remain unidentified pending confirmation. 

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Baltasar Ebang Engonga, a relative of the president and a prominent figure in Equatorial Guinea, also known as the country’s “financial crime boss,” has gotten himself into deep trouble for recording sex tapes with the wives and relatives of government leaders. In fact, over 400 pornographic videos have been leaked after being discovered during a fraud investigation. 

After a stash of these videos was found, the explicit content flooded social media, undoubtedly destroying families and reputations in the country’s government. Engonga himself is married with six children.

“As the government, we cannot continue to see families destroyed,” said Teodoro Nguema Obiang Mangue, vice president of Equatorial Guinea.

Mangue is calling for more cameras in government offices and is attempting to stop the spread of these videos online. 

Additionally, Engonga, who was initially being investigated for fraud, is now facing legal heat for unprofessional conduct and public health risks. According to Equatorial Guinea’s chief prosecutor, Anatolio Nzang Nguema, if Engonga was “infected with a sexually transmitted disease,” he would face more charges.

“This action is a decisive step in our policy of zero tolerance towards behaviors that undermine the integrity of the public service,” Mangue said on X.

“Ethics and respect are fundamental in our administration, and we will not allow irresponsible behavior to compromise public trust. Responsibility and professionalism must be the pillars of our work as servants of the state.”

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Tate’s political analysis had the tone of a 14-year-old playground bully, but Musk’s excitement at men turning out to vote spoke to something fundamentally true: that Donald Trump’s plan was working. When I first read the tweet, I began searching for evidence that men were indeed turning up in record numbers. On Musk’s platform, X, I was greeted with videos from Philadelphia and Miami of young men wearing red caps celebrating in the streets—pickup trucks tearing down street-lit highways with MAGA flags trailing from their cargo beds. After covering the Manosphere and the hyper-online ‘Bro’ Right for the past five years, I knew that in recent months they had mobilized like never before behind Trump, and that if they were motivated enough to actually go out and vote, Trump had a serious edge. 

Videos began to spread of frat boys across the US declaring their support for Donald Trump. When his victory was announced, one group filmed themselves performing Trump’s dance moves to “Y.M.C.A.” on the steps of their fraternity. 

Men aged 18-29—a group that has been politically unengaged in recent years—voted decisively for Trump. The Wall Street Journal reported a shift to the right of 28 points among this group. According to the Center for Information and Research on Civic Learning, 56 percent of young male voters opted for Trump in 2024—a marked increase from 41 percent in 2020. In Trump’s successful courtship of this cohort, his secret weapon appears to have been his 18-year-old son, Barron. 

In the early hours of November 6th, Trump took to the stage in West Palm Beach, Florida, to declare victory. The very first people to join Trump in front of the cheering crowds were his wife Melania, and the apple of his eye, Barron. At 6’7”, Barron towered over his father as he smiled at the MAGA loyalists in the audience, some of whom have come to see him as his father’s political heir in recent months. Reportedly his father’s favorite son, what many don’t realize is how crucial Barron may have been in helping his father secure re-election. 

When UFC boss Dana White was summoned to the podium by Trump, he thanked a cadre of podcasters and influencers, including his close friend Joe Rogan. There were three other names in that list, however, that show Barron’s hand in Trump’s media strategy—Adin Ross, the Nelk Boys, and Theo Von. The content Trump made with these creators in the run up to the election was viewed hundreds of millions of times, primarily by that key demographic of 18- to 30-year-old men. In Trump’s interview with comedian Theo Von, which has now been viewed by over 14 million people on YouTube alone, Trump tells him: “Your thing is going really great. My son’s a big fan of yours.” But Barron isn’t just a fan of alternative media stars like Theo Von—he’s a friend to some of them, too. 

Adin Ross is a 24-year-old American influencer and streamer, whose career highpoints include being the man who sniffed Andrew Tate’s chair after interviewing him, hosting a stream with white supremacist Nick Fuentes, and repeatedly being banned from streaming site Twitch for his use of “hateful slurs or symbols” and “hateful conduct.” In August of this year, Adin Ross and his team set up in the living room of Mar-a-Lago for a livestream with Trump, who began by passing on a “hi” from Barron. At the end of their interview, Trump told Ross: “Barron says, ‘Dad, he’s really big,’ he said, ‘He’s also a friend of mine.’” The pair then exited Mar-a-Lago, whereupon Adin Ross gifted Trump a Rolex and a custom wrapped Cybertruck featuring the image of the returning President raising his fist after being shot in the ear. This inadvertently sparked a debate over whether the gift constituted a campaign finance violation. The clips of Trump and Ross dancing in front of the car went viral. 

But Barron’s role in Trump’s media strategy goes beyond just introducing Trump to figures like Adin Ross. Barron and his best friend, fellow 18-year-old Bo Loudon, were tasked by the campaign with helping Trump reach a young male audience. Loudon is a pro-Trump influencer, and son of the conservative media personality Gina Loudon, former co-chair of Women for Trump. Bo and Barron reportedly set up the Adin Ross stream, and Bo has claimed he helped set up Trump’s interview with Joe Rogan, too. 

On the day of the election, figures from across the vast and frequently depressing multiverse that is the online ‘Bro right’ gave their ringing endorsements of Donald Trump, and implored their fans to go and vote for him. Upon the announcement of his victory, John Shahidi of the Nelk Boys tweeted: “Idc what anyone says, podcasts helped us win this election.” When the Wall Street Journal reported that ‘Younger Men Voted Decisively for Donald Trump,’ Shahidi reposted it alongside the message, “Shout-out to our entire team!”

A part of Trump’s message that particularly resonated with his young male audience, and the podcast hosts he made appearances with, was his seemingly favorable stance towards cryptocurrencies, and his puzzling claim that Bitcoin will be “made in the USA.” Earlier this year, in Austin, Texas, I interviewed an African-American man who told me he would vote Trump for the first time, almost entirely because of his stance towards crypto. 

Trump has hailed his son Barron for showing him the potential of crypto, claiming: “Barron knows so much about this… he knows it inside and out.” When the Trumps launched their own crypto venture World Liberty Financial (WLF) in September this year, a leaked document obtained by CoinDesk listed Barron as its “DeFi [decentralized finance] visionary.” But it appears WLF wasn’t Barron’s first involvement in a crypto project. 

Shortly after the Trump-inspired ‘DJT token’ launched in August 2024, its price began to spike when rumors emerged that Trump and his son Barron were behind the project—then the market crashed when a ‘whale’ sold roughly $2million worth of the token. A $150,000 bounty was put out online for whoever could identify the token’s creator, which set off a chain of events that led to the creator outing themselves. It was Martin Shkreli, the comic book villain known for his price gouging of essential medicines, and purchasing the only copy in existence of a rare Wu-Tang Clan album, which he then repeatedly threatened to destroy. There was, however, another twist: Shkreli claimed he was not alone in the project, and that he had indeed created the token with the help of Barron Trump. 

Given his track record—including serving a six-and-a-half-year stretch in federal prison for financial crimes—it’s not surprising that many did not believe Shkreli’s claim. But Shkreli was adamant. He claimed he had thousands of pieces of evidence that he created the token with Barron, and he shared one of them: a screenshot with the notorious influencer Andrew Tate. It appears Tate was one of the ‘celebrities’ contacted to promote DJT to his audience, in a bid to ‘pump’ the price of the token. The screenshot showed messages between Shkreli and Tate, in which the manosphere figurehead appeared to confirm Barron’s involvement. 

If Shkreli is telling the truth, then Baron Trump isn’t just ushering his father into a media sphere of which he is a fan, but one of which he is an active part. With direct links to figures like Andrew Tate and Adin Ross, Barron has the ability to rally support from them for his father like no child of a candidate before him. Tate has over 10 million (mostly young male followers) on X, and spent election day live-streaming and repeatedly tweeting, telling all his American followers to get out for Trump. His brother Tristan shared the same Wall Street Journal stat as Shahidi before him, claiming a part in the male shift towards Trump. 

“It’s men vs gays and chicks.” 

I’ve spent the last five years investigating Andrew Tate for a series of documentaries, including one for VICE, as well as a book. Tate and his team have been working towards this kind of election impact for a while. During production, we acquired a tranche of private messages sent between senior ‘War Room’ members, and for the past four years the election has been referred to as an impending “gender war,” where the modern markers of identity politics would fall away, and it would all become a case of men vs women. Young male voters across a wide range of economic and racial backgrounds did vote for Trump, including Hispanic men, who many had expected to turn against him. 

The rise of influencers like Tate and Ross aren’t just a symptom of young men shifting to the right, but an active factor that has exacerbated it. The ideology gap is widening between young men and women, not just in America, but all over the world. In the UK there is a 25-point gap between the views of young men and women; in Germany, this rises to 30. 

The factors that have led us here are wide-ranging, but in making a concerted effort to reach out to disaffected young men, Trump gained an edge in what is being described as one of the most consequential elections in US history. We saw a similar effect in the UK during the last election, as young men shared their support for Nigel Farage and his Reform Party. 

Many of the complaints coming from young men may appear to be misguided. Yet if politicians on the Left do not find a way to reach out to this group, and engage with it where it dwells online, opportunist populists like Trump and Farage most certainly will.

In this election, one of Trump’s strongest weapons appears to have been his gigantic, chronically online 18-year-old son, his best friend Bo, and the ‘Bros’ they swung for Trump.

Follow Jamie Tahsin on X.

Clown World, a book on Andrew Tate co-authored by Jamie Tahsin and Matt Shea, is available now through Quercus Books.

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The problem? Judge Lewis Liman has ordered Giuliani to turn over the vehicle—along with many other possessions, NBC News reported. The items will go towards the $146 million Giuliani owes two election workers he defamed.

Per the outlet, Giuliani’s valuable car was once owned by Lauren Bacall. President-elect Donald Trump’s one-time lawyer was given one week to part ways with the vehicle—as well as cash accounts, jewelry, Yankees memorabilia, and other valuables—on Oct. 22.

However, Giuliani has yet to hand over assets to Ruby Freeman or Wandrea “Shaye” Moss, the defamed election workers’ lawyer, Aaron Nathan, told the outlet.

Nathan alleged Giuliani and his legal team “have refused or been unable to answer basic questions about the location of most of the property subject to the receivership.”

Nathan further claimed that Giuliani played coy about the location of the Mercedes and other items.

Ted Goodman, Giuliani’s spokesperson, claimed the car snafu was all one big misunderstanding.

“Our lawyers have requested documentation to transfer over the title of the vehicle, and haven’t heard back from opposing counsel,” Goodman claimed to the outlet.

In light of Giuliani’s public defiance of Liman’s orders—and his unwillingness to cough up his possessions—the outlet reported that the judge ordered the disgraced lawyer to appear in a New York City court on Nov. 7.

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The bus was carrying 60 passengers—almost 20 more than it could safely accommodate. When rescuers arrived at the scene to pull passengers out, the bus was overturned with parts of it completely destroyed. 

Thankfully, some passengers were able to escape the scene themselves, which is how they were able to alert authorities. The death toll is unfortunately feared to rise, however, as some of the injured passengers are in critical condition. 

Vineet Pal, a state official, said that the state government has opened an investigation into the incident. He added that the bus likely skidded off the road before plunging down a 200-foot-deep gorge. 

The vehicle, of course, was likely in poor condition, contributing to the accident. So far, in fact, two transport officials have been suspended for approving the bus, per AP News.

Furthermore, the vehicle clearly violated safety regulations by piling in so many individuals—far more than what it could safely carry. It’s unclear whether that had something to do with the crash itself, but more people were likely not buckled or safely seated when it occurred.

According to BBC, around 160,000 people are killed in road accidents in India – the highest rate of any country across the world.

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Currently, and since 1998, the San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency, or SFMTA, has been using 35-inch floppy disks to control its automatic light-rail systems. Floppy disks were much more common back in 1998, though they would soon be replaced by CDs.

If you’re going to invest a ton of money as a city to change the entire technical system that runs your trains, you probably take a “if it ain’t broke, don’t fix it” approach. The trains ran mostly well and on time for nearly 30 years, so why spend hundreds of millions of dollars to change them?

Well, it seems like the time has finally come that the aging system poses risks of data degradation which could potentially lead to catastrophic failures as time goes on. The change is all about getting ahead of any potential catastrophes.

The upgrade was originally set to begin in 2018 but faced several delays, one of which being COVID-19, which delayed everything in life for everybody. All the delays pushed the anticipated completion date all the way back to 2030.

The new system promises to enhance communication and efficiency through Wi-Fi and cellular communications. SFMTA says that the long overdue upgrades will streamline several processes across the city, increasing operational speed and reliability.

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Currently, UK prosecutors are investigating the comedian and deciding whether they should charge him over past sexual offenses. After a 13-month inquiry, Met police have supplied prosecutors with files of evidence and are recommending Brand be charged.

“We have been passed a file by the police to consider a charging decision in this case,” the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) said in a statement. “Any decision to charge is made independently, based on the evidence, and in line with our legal test.” 

Previously, London’s Metropolitan Police detectives interviewed Brand regarding the alleged “non-recent sexual offenses”—which Brand claimed were “always consensual.” Despite already recommending the CPS charge Brand, Met police are still heavily involved in the case.

“Our investigation continues and a file has now been passed to the CPS,” said Detective Superintendent Andy Furphy. “We have a team of dedicated officers providing specialist support to the women who have come forward. We are committed to investigating sexual offenses, no matter how long ago they are alleged to have taken place.”

These allegations accused Brand of sexually assaulting four women—one being a 16-year-old girl at the time—between 2006 and 2013. However, the actor has continuously denied the incidents. 

In recent years, he’s also entirely rebranded himself as a wellness influencer and conspiracy theorist. Back in January, Brand sat down for an interview with Tucker Carlson and spoke directly about these allegations.

“Attacks like this, a crisis like this—hurtful as it is to be accused of what I consider to be the most appalling crime—to be accused of this is very painful and very hurtful,” Brand said during the interview, per USA Today. “But I am being shown that there are consequences for the rather foolish way I lived in the past. Though, of course, again, to reiterate, due to the nature of the world we live in, of course, I deny any allegations of the kind that have been advanced.”

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That’s exactly what happened with Philadelphia 76ers star, Joel Embiid. The reigning MVP was in an altercation with a local sports columnist who wrote a not-so-nice story, pointing out the player’s missed games and essentially calling him a disappointment to his late brother and young son. Yikes. 

That reporter quickly found out his egregious story and his title as a media member doesn’t make him immune to human emotion. Embiid was clearly pissed at the contents of the column and called the reporter out on it after the game – which he did not play in. 

Cue a shove and some verbal sparring that had NBA social media abuzz on Saturday evening. As of this writing, the league is investigating this situation and figuring out how they should govern something like this.

If you’re unfamiliar with the league, stuff like this just doesn’t happen. I can’t recall ever seeing an athlete get into it with a reporter to this extent, so there’s not really any precedent on what the repercussions could or will be. 

I don’t even want to spotlight the reporter or the story he wrote because it’s so ludicrous. That being said, the paragraph in question has circulated everywhere so it’s worth highlighting the part that sent Embiid over the edge.

“Joel Embiid consistently points to the birth of his son, Arthur, as the major inflection point in his basketball career. He often says that he wants to be great to leave a legacy for the boy named after his little brother, who tragically died in an automobile accident when Embiid was in his first year as a 76er,” the columnist wrote. “Well, in order to be great at your job, you first have to show up for work. Embiid has been great at just the opposite…”

All of that was uncalled for, to be honest. Calling a player out for not playing up to standards or even questioning his motivation with a questionable injury is fair. Looping all of that into his son and dead brother is beyond low. 

According to the Associated Press and those in the locker room, Embiid traded words with the reporter prior to shoving him, “The next time you bring up my dead brother and my son again, you are going to see what I’m going to do to you and I’m going to have to … live with the consequences.” 

This is an absolutely wild story that’s making the NBA season feel more like a reality show than a sport. We’ll see what transpires next, but I have a feeling this won’t be the end of this.

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On Thursday, authorities announced the seizure of “a record number of illegal firearms, synthetic drugs, and precursor chemicals” from a sophisticated illicit drug lab. This includes “54 kilograms of fentanyl, ‘massive’ amounts of precursor chemicals, 390 kilograms of methamphetamine, and smaller amounts of cocaine, MDMA and cannabis,” police said in a press release.

Allegedly, this lab mass-produced and distributed fentanyl and methamphetamine throughout Canada. When authorities searched the lab, they also found explosive devices, ammo, silencers, body armor, and a total of 89 firearms, “many of which were loaded and ready to be used,” police said. 

Police then arrested Gaganpreet Randhawa, a suspect facing numerous drug and firearms-related charges.

Just two weeks ago, the RCMP stated they had been working with the FBI “for over a year to target a Mexican Cartel-linked criminal network” and had made arrests in connection to another transnational organized crime group.

“This network has been moving large amounts of methamphetamine and cocaine from Central and South America via the United States to Canada and overseas,” the RCMP wrote. “It also has been commissioning murders across North America, and laundering significant proceeds of crime.”

As for the recent arrest and takedown of Canada’s largest super lab?

“This is undoubtedly a major blow to the transnational organized crime groups involved, and a great step towards ensuring the safety of Canadians, and the international community,” said Jillian Wellard, Officer in Charge of Federal Policing Pacific Region.

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