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Breaking and very sad news -- Sen. Chris Murphy is hospitalized following a stroke, an aide to the Connecticut Democrat confirmed Sunday. His staff began notifying people Saturday afternoon of the hospitalization and stroke, a person told POLITICO at the time. “Yesterday afternoon, Senator Murphy started experiencing numbness in his arm while at his son’s hockey game. He was taken to a local hospital, where it was discovered he had experienced a stroke,” Allison Herwitt, Murphy’s chief of staff, said in a statement. “He was transferred to Johns Hopkins for further monitoring and is responding well to treatment. The doctors are encouraged by his progress, he is awake and alert, and we are optimistic he will make a full recovery,” she added. Murphy, who is viewed as a potential 2028 White House candidate, has been traveling the country to campaign for candidates, including recent stops in Michigan, Minnesota and Florida. He had been previously scheduled to attend campaign events in New Hampshire on Sunday. more w/ @jordainc politico.com/news/2026/11/01…

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Le saviez-vous ? Le journal intime d’une Berlinoise (Marta Hillers, publié anonymement) décrit sans filtre l’enfer d’avril-mai 1945 : hordes de soldats soviétiques alcoolisés qui défilent dans les appartements, choisissent leurs victimes, violent en groupe, puis exigent que les femmes « choisissent » un « protecteur » parmi leurs bourreaux pour survivre aux suivants. Femmes de tous âges traitées comme du butin de guerre. Le livre, censuré à l’Est, a longtemps été accusé de « salir » les victimes allemandes. Pourtant, il est l’un des rares témoignages directs publiés en français. La vengeance totale, sans distinction entre nazis et civils innocents. Liens fiables : • Gallimard (édition française) et articles associés : gallimard.fr/catalogue/une-f… • NonFiction.fr : « Un témoignage unique » → nonfiction.fr/article-764-un… • Radio-Canada / Ici : entretien sur le journal → ici.radio-canada.ca/ohdio/pr… • Le Monde (article lié) : lemonde.fr/europe/article/20…

Wells Fargo alleges that a local developer and affiliated investors have fallen behind a loan tied to the restoration of two downtown buildings, and is now demanding repayment of nearly $30 million. bizjournals.com/buffalo/news…

February 27, 1943. Nine Norwegian commandos stand at the edge of a deep, icy gorge in the mountains of Norway. On the other side is the most important factory in Europe. The Germans think the gorge is impossible to cross. That's exactly why the commandos are going to cross it. The factory was the Vemork plant, near the town of Rjukan. It made something called heavy water. In 1943, almost nobody knew what it was. But the scientists who did were terrified. Heavy water could be used in nuclear research. And Vemork was the only plant in the world producing it on a large scale. The Germans controlled it. The Allies feared it could help Hitler get closer to an atomic bomb. So it had to be destroyed. The first attempt was a disaster. In November 1942, British commandos were sent in by glider. Both gliders crashed in terrible weather. The survivors were captured. On Hitler's orders, every one of them was executed. But four Norwegian commandos had already been dropped into the mountains ahead of time to prepare the way. When the mission failed, they were left alone on the frozen Hardanger plateau. They survived the entire winter up there. They ran out of food. They were starving. Just before Christmas, one of them shot a reindeer. They ate everything, including the half digested moss in its stomach, because it was the only vegetable they had. In February 1943, six more Norwegians parachuted in to join them. Their leader was 23 year old Joachim Rønneberg. Together they skied toward Vemork. The plant sat on a cliff above the gorge, with one heavily guarded bridge across it. Attacking the bridge would mean a firefight. So instead, on the night of February 27, they climbed down into the gorge, crossed the frozen river at the bottom, and climbed straight up the other side. They found a railway line running into the plant. Nobody was guarding it. The demolition team slipped in through a cable tunnel and found the room where the heavy water was made. Inside was a Norwegian night watchman. They held him at gunpoint and calmly started placing explosives. As they lit the fuse, the watchman suddenly begged them to wait. He'd left his glasses on the table. Glasses were almost impossible to replace in wartime Norway. Rønneberg's team let him grab them. Then they ran. Moments later the charges went off. The heavy water equipment was destroyed. Months of production gone. No shots were fired. Nobody was killed. The Germans were furious. Thousands of soldiers swept the mountains searching for the saboteurs. Five of the commandos skied hundreds of miles across the snow to neutral Sweden. Others stayed hidden in the mountains and kept working with the resistance. None of them were caught. The story didn't end cleanly. The Germans repaired the plant. In 1944 they tried to ship the remaining heavy water to Germany by ferry across Lake Tinn. Norwegian saboteurs sank the ferry. Norwegian civilians on board died with it, a decision the resistance had to live with forever. But Germany never built an atomic bomb. Joachim Rønneberg lived to 99. For most of his life he refused to call himself a hero. He said they were just doing a job.