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O’Rourke, a former Texas representative, spoke to MSNBC’s Morning Joe on Thursday about the situation in his home state and highlighted the viral photos of Cruz, which purportedly showed the senator on an airplane heading to Cancun. Newsweek asked Cruz’s office for comment on the matter but had received no reply at the time of publication. Other media outlets, including major Texas newspapers, also reported that Cruz had not responded to questions about the flight....

Justice, a Republican, displayed his dog’s rear end during his state of the state address on Thursday as a rejoinder to critics and said they could kiss his pet’s “hiney.” The governor’s his fondness for his English bulldog is well-known. He has used the animal—named Babydog—as a means to promote COVID-19 vaccination uptake in his state. Film legend Midler had apparently angered the governor in a tweet about Senator Joe Manchin (D-WV) that was critical of the people of West Virginia....

I have my own nomination, and before you yawn, hear me out for a moment. This is not a story that should be on the cover of NEWSWEEK or trumpeted from the rooftops. It’s technical, highly unvisual (and thus not fit for much TV coverage) and unrelated to our lives in the short run. But that’s the key-the short run. Because in the long run-say, 25 years from now-the decision this week by six major publishers of medical journals to give researchers in poor countries free or discounted online access to more than 1,000 publications is profound....

Most people hardly give road maps a second thought, except when they happen to fold one the wrong way and it springs from the glove compartment like a caged bat. Likewise, in the study of cartography they have been mostly footnotes-at least until now, with the opening of a show called “The Power of Maps” at the Cooper-Hewitt Museum in New York, the National Museum of Design. Co-curator Lucy Fellowes has unearthed rare treasures from antiquity, and the only slightly less remote 1960s, represented by a map of the East Coast with south at the top....

With her four wins on Sunday, the queen of R&B and pop now has 28 Grammy Awards to her name, more than any other female artist. The previous holder of that record was country and bluegrass artist Alison Krauss, who has won 27 Grammys in her career. Krauss’ most recent Grammy win was in 2012, when she won Best Bluegrass Album for her 2011 album Paper Airplane under the band name Alison Krauss & Union Station....

And not just because she’s the most unforgettable commercial star since Clara Peller went searching for beef. The fact is, Eisenberg has upstaged half of Hollywood. As the ventriloquist-like Pepsi Girl, she’s gotten the better of Marlon Brando, Aretha Franklin and Joe Pesci. She turns in the most affecting performance in Sally Field’s film “Beautiful,” where she plays the daughter of a beauty queen. This week Eisenberg goes for the hard stuff....

With the decollectivization of Chinese agriculture between 1979 and 1983 and with the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991, communal working of the land is today seldom advocated as land reform (although such farming practices continue in modified form in many parts of the former Soviet Union). And the argument for family farms remains contested. In an era when advances in technology mean that far fewer people can produce abundant harvests, many argue that agribusiness may provide cheaper foodstuffs for the market while releasing rural labor for other pursuits....

Kellogg’s workers have been on strike at four plants in Michigan, Nebraska, Oklahoma and Tennessee since October 5. After workers rejected a tentative agreement on Tuesday, the Kellogg Company issued a statement saying that the “prolonged work stoppage has left us no choice but to hire permanent replacement employees in positions vacated by striking workers.” Biden reacted to the company’s plan in a statement on Friday. The president said that collective bargaining was “an essential tool to protect the rights of workers that should be free from threats and intimidation from employers,” while describing the move to replace the striking Kellogg’s workers as an “existential attack....

The Trump administration’s decision to exit Iran’s nuclear deal led Tehran to eventually defy every restriction the accord placed on its nuclear advancement. Iran now enriches a small amount of uranium up to 63 percent, not far from weapons-grade levels. Previously, Iran enriched only 3.67 percent under the deal. The country also spins much more advanced centrifuges, the number of which increased since the accord fell apart. The move has nuclear nonproliferation worried despite assurances of a peaceful program from Tehran....

But this past July, when another Palestinian, 27-year-old Ali Hassan Harb, was stabbed to death by an Israeli settler who was trying to illegally seize land in a Palestinian village, Israel’s reaction was very different: It sufficed with closing the probe into Harb’s death and letting the assailant walk free. No condemnations or condolences were made. There was just deafening silence—from the Israeli government and the international community alike....

Results of a CBS News survey, conducted between October 20 and 23, showed candidates neck and neck in the typically red Southern state. It tracked Trump and Biden’s progress among battleground state voters across the U.S. In addition to collecting responses from Georgia residents, CBS News tracked each presidential nominee’s support in Florida and North Carolina, which are considered two of the most critical swing states to secure this year....

A Monmouth University poll released Tuesday found that Biden’s approval rating dropped to a new low in June, with 58 percent of Americans saying they disapprove of the job he’s doing. Just over a third of Americans—36 percent—approve. While the new figures show only a slight shift from May, they are part of a downward trend that first hit the Biden presidency last summer. The survey also marks a year since Biden has had a net positive rating....

In the “Yes, we can!” optimism of the change of power in Washington, D.C. in January 2009, a profound rethinking of “Bush’s wars” was one of the top priorities. Afghanistan was no longer the “other war” but the “good war,” Iraq the unnecessary “war of choice.” While both wars were to be ended, the administration was not united on how that should be done. Obama hedged between values and interests in foreign policy, idealist promotion of democracy against realist focus only on U....

At an OPEC Plus meeting in Vienna, the cartel’s Joint Ministerial Monitoring Group recommended oil output be cut by 2 million barrels a day, or around two percent of the global oil supply. A final decision will be taken at the OPEC Plus Ministers meeting later today (October 5). If confirmed, this would be the deepest cut in oil production since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020....

“I have to admit to you, a lot of us elected officials have been in office for a while. Every once in a while, something you learn makes you viscerally angry. Like if you had the person in front of you, you’d want to pop them,” Biden said from the Port of Los Angeles, America’s busiest, on Friday afternoon. “No, I really mean it.” “There are nine major ocean line shipping companies that ship from Asia to the United States....

Biden is ahead in most surveys with two weeks to go, with advantages in a number of battleground states as well as at a national level. Of 14,994 likely voters asked by Morning Consult from October 16 to 18, more than half, 52 percent, backed Biden, compared to 43 percent for Trump. In a breakdown of age groups, Biden took a majority of younger voters while he also got the most support from older voters....

Officially, of course, nothing has changed. White House officials continue to insist that U.S. policy remains the same, that the Assad regime is still an international pariah and that there are no plans for engagement with Damascus. Behind the scenes, however, observers say there’s an unmistakable sense that a “creeping normalization” of Assad’s government is taking shape. This impression, Josh Rogin of The Washington Post has noted, is what propelled the recent overtures of Jordan’s king, Abdullah II, toward the Assad regime, with whom Amman resumed diplomatic contacts and reopened its border in recent days....

As one of the first places that reveals its presidential preferences, Dixville Notch on the U.S.-Canadian border gets a lot of media attention. In a tradition now in its 60th year, eligible voters gather in a room at The Balsams Resort to cast their secret ballots once polls open at midnight. It may not be accurate to extrapolate Dixville Notch’s results to fit the whole country, but Biden did refer to it when it was revealed that he got 100 percent backing from the five people who voted....