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Mafra – Detido por posse de arma proibida
Detivemos um homem, por posse de arma proibida, no concelho de Mafra.
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@pitchforkmedia Looking forward to your writeup of the new @imaginedragons album
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(Now on CNN from the wonderful Chris Lamb)
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Learned about phrase yolo on NPR. It is what all the "kids" are saying. "You only live once." Better take that to heart as I am getting old.
I will forever delight in pointing out that the Popeyes here was once the bar that Popeye Doyle (played by Gene Hackman) raids in "The French Connection." Entirely coincidentally, Popeyes Chicken is named after Popeye Doyle.
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A Brazilian source close to Bolsonaro said that the politician had feared arrest in Brazil. He is currently under investigation by the country’s highest court for alleged acts of corruption, money laundering and currency evasion. cnn.com/2026/10/27/americas/…
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“The State Department will issue visas to Flavio Bolsanaro and his family and allow them entry into the United States," a senior State Department official confirms to @jmhansler.
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Brazilian senator Flávio Bolsonaro has left Brazil and is headed to the United States after losing Sunday's presidential election, two sources have confirmed to CNN. cnn.it/4eVQqdE
I really enjoyed speaking with @DrJaredWesley earlier this week on Alberta's referendum-to-have-a-referendum and far-right populism in Canada. Read more here:
cnn.com/2026/10/24/americas/…
Story update:
ALT After this story was published, the prank voicemail disappeared. Callers who dial the mission now hear only the beep of an answering machine and are able to leave a message.
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Someone may have hacked the North Korean UN mission’s voicemail.
It’s the line to #NorthKorea’s permanent mission to the #UN — their only diplomatic outpost on American soil.
@MaxSaltman and @YongXiong2008 have more.
edition.cnn.com/2026/10/06/a…
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It's actually INSANE how prescient this was.
They made this in 2011! This is basically what it's like to use computers now. It's barely exaggerated
Someone appears to have hacked the North Korean UN mission's voicemail, rerecording the greeting as a monologue about mass starvation and Kim Jong Un.
The guy who answered listened to the whole message, then claimed that it was "not our number" before slamming the door. But days later, the same number appeared on an official copy of a speech delivered by the Vice Foreign Minister at the UN!
You can read more about it here, and if you happen to know anything about how the voicemail was changed, feel free to reach out on Signal at maxsaltman.37!
cnn.com/2026/10/06/asia/nort…
