🚨🇧🇷 BRAZIL CHOOSES ITS NEXT PRESIDENT THIS SUNDAY - AND NEWSFORCE WILL BE THERE Brazil is split over two radically different futures. Lula’s supporters fear what a Bolsonaro victory could mean for the country’s institutions. Bolsonaro’s supporters fear more crime, corruption, censorship, and judicial overreach under Lula. Neither side thinks this is a normal election, and the race is coming down to the wire. The polls remain tight, but @Kalshi has Flávio Bolsonaro heavily favored to win. And NewsForce will be on the ground in Brazil as the country makes its choice. Watch LIVE this Sunday, October 25.

🇬🇷 Greece is the latest European country hit by mass protests, with thousands of protesters marching in Athens, Thessaloniki and other cities. About 10,000 people marched in Athens, and primary school teachers went on strike.

🇸🇻🇭🇹 UPDATE: El Salvador’s President Bukele has launched a military operation to rescue four Salvadoran soldiers kidnapped by gangs in Haiti. @NayibBukele: “We have already finished with the gangs in El Salvador, and we can finish with you too.” The four aviation technicians, part of a UN-backed anti-gang force, went missing after gangs attacked their armored vehicle Sunday. Gangs control about 70% of Haiti’s capital, Port-au-Prince.

🇫🇷 A patient in France has died after doctors found a cattle virus in a human for the first time ever. Shamonda virus usually infects livestock and spreads through bites from tiny flies called midges. It was thought not to infect people. Officials think the patient caught it in eastern France, where it spread among animals this year. French health officials say there’s no risk to the general public for now.

🇺🇦🇷🇺 Ukrainian troops moved about 9 miles through underground gas pipelines to get behind Russian lines near Kupiansk, a Ukrainian unit says. The Khartiia Corps says the operation, code-named “Veles,” captured more than 30 Russian soldiers and caused over 100 Russian casualties. Russia has used the same pipelines to sneak troops in before.

🇺🇸 A Minneapolis café that stopped charging for food to protest ICE raids is closing for good at the end of the year. In January, Modern Times owner Dylan Alverson said he was “done making money for the fascists that occupy our city” and switched to free, donation-based meals, welcoming everyone “except ICE.” He brought prices back in August but kept giving away 25 meals a day. He says he’s run out of options.

🇺🇸🇫🇷 Republican Sen. @Eric_Schmitt says France’s riots are “exactly what they want here,” referring to Democrats aligned with the DSA, a radical left-wing group. The Missouri senator called the Democratic Party “post-American” and warned that a Democratic House after the Nov. 3 midterms would threaten funding for ICE. He pointed to new Boeing fighter jet jobs and a federal crime crackdown in St. Louis as wins from working with Trump.

🇺🇦 Ukraine will be able to buy weapons through NATO’s own purchasing agency, which could get them faster and cheaper, the Financial Times reports. The NATO Support and Procurement Agency buys arms in bulk for member countries. Ukraine, which isn’t a NATO member, can now use its existing contracts, supply networks and deals with manufacturers.

🇫🇷🇶🇦 Qatar and France are calling for the Strait of Hormuz to reopen to ships “without constraints or fees,” and condemned Iran’s attacks on countries in the region. After meeting in Doha, Qatar’s emir and Macron also urged Israel to pull its troops out of Gaza under the ceasefire deal and let aid in without limits. About 1.4 million Gazans face severe hunger, the UN says. Iran’s FM says Iran is “prepared to give diplomacy another chance.”

🇨🇳 Natural disasters in China have left 1,162 people dead or missing so far this year, up from 742 at this point last year. Typhoons, floods and landslides caused $30 billion in damage through September, and more than 5 million people had to leave their homes. The deadliest event was an August flash flood along the Nepal-Tibet border that left 562 dead or missing.

🇧🇷 The PT and Lula’s campaign are spreading false or distorted information about @FlavioBolsonaro in the final stretch of the runoff, potentially amounting to an electoral crime. Accusations circulated that Flávio intended to strip Nossa Senhora Aparecida of her title as Patroness of Brazil. This is an outright lie. He publicly denied the claim, and the title isn’t even granted by the President of the Republic. Even so, the material was used in PT campaign pieces. The Electoral Court upheld a video that calls Flávio a “Master liar” and lists dozens of alleged “lies,” treating what is a distortion of context as political criticism. The state and party machinery are being used to manufacture a narrative against the opponent. Inventing or distorting information to influence votes is not “political combat.” It is abuse.

🇧🇷 Federal police are investigating @FlavioBolsonaro's ties to lawyer Willer Tomaz. The case, which grew out of a broader inquiry into betting platforms and money flows, reached the Supreme Court and became public hours before the first runoff debate. It was drawn by the standard electronic lottery to Justice Alexandre de Moraes, the same justice who oversaw the conviction of Flávio’s father, @JairBolsonaro . Moraes is himself the subject of a multimillion-real scandal: his wife’s law firm held a contract worth roughly R$ 130 million with Banco Master for “strategic consulting.” The random draw, the subject matter, and the precise timing, less than a week before Sunday’s runoff against Lula, have fueled claims that the process is being weaponized, regardless of the underlying facts of the inquiry

🇺🇸 A Michigan Democratic Party organizer was fired after he was secretly filmed claiming Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed takes donations from overseas. Foreign nationals are banned from donating to US campaigns, though Americans living abroad can give. El-Sayed’s campaign called the claims “untrue” and said the organizer never worked for it.

🇫🇷 Marine Le Pen says France is “on the brink of civil war” and that Macron bears most of the blame. @MLP_officiel was responding to Macron blaming AI and misinformation for claims that migrants caused last weekend’s riots: “The images we saw last Saturday were not generated by artificial intelligence.”

🇺🇸 @Tesla is generating strong free cash flow while advancing its AI, robotics, and autonomy roadmap, and @ElonMusk sees major upside in combining it with @SpaceX. Tesla refined its 2026 capital plan to roughly $20 billion and delivered a surprise $1.53 billion in free cash flow last quarter. The company continues to invest in Optimus, @robotaxi/Cybercab, AI compute, and related initiatives, while managing capital efficiently to fund growth primarily from operations. Elon called a Tesla-SpaceX merger a “good idea,” noting substantial synergies across superintelligence software, chip design, robotics, energy, mass-to-orbit, and connectivity.

🇺🇸🇷🇺 Stephen Hubbard, the 73-year-old American jailed in Russia since 2022, is back in the U.S. His plane landed at a military base in San Antonio, Texas, on Wednesday. The Kremlin says Putin freed the retired teacher at Trump’s request because of his poor health, and Trump says the U.S. gave nothing in return.

🇺🇸 The USDA has confirmed the 1st case of the flesh-eating New World screwworm parasite in American wildlife after discovering it in an elk in Texas. Screwworm larvae feed on the living flesh of animals, and officials are continuing to track its spread and potential threat.

🇺🇸 Airbnb is banning hosts from forcing guests to strip beds, wash dishes, do laundry, or take out trash before checking out. The new rules, taking effect Nov. 20, follow complaints from guests who were expected to clean rental properties despite already paying cleaning fees. Hosts can still request simple tasks like placing dirty dishes in the sink, but they can no longer impose their own fines or require guests to complete work normally handled by professional cleaners.

🇫🇷 BREAKING: A French military fighter jet crashed during a nighttime training mission in northeastern France, killing both crew members. The aircraft was carrying a fighter pilot and a weapons systems officer, and French authorities have launched an investigation into what caused the crash.

🇺🇸 "Jane Doe" of the "Cornell 7" alleged gang rape case has dropped her lawsuit against a former fraternity president after identifying the wrong man. Orazio Petito was named in the case for allegedly failing to prevent the 2024 assault, despite not being president of the fraternity at the time. Petito was never accused of participating in the alleged assault, and the claims against him have been permanently dismissed.

🇨🇳 Chinese AI company DeepSeek has reportedly raised nearly $15 billion in a major push to challenge American AI. The funding includes backing from Tencent, the company behind WeChat, and CATL, a leading battery manufacturer, as DeepSeek builds up resources to develop more powerful AI models. The company is also preparing for a potential stock market debut in 2027.