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Conservative Figures Spread Baseless Claims About Attack on Paul Pelosi "A man armed with a hammer broke into the home of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and fractured the skull of her husband, Paul. Some conservative figures — including Donald Trump Jr. — have shared social media posts claiming with no evidence and contrary to police reports that the man was a prostitute known to Paul Pelosi. He wasn’t." (more) https://www.factcheck.org/2022/11/conservative-figures-spread-baseless-claims-about-attack-on-paul-pelosi/

North and South Korea exchange missile launches as tensions ratchet up even further Seoul, South Korea — Air raid sirens sounded on a South Korean island and residents there evacuated to underground shelters after North Korea fired at least 17 missiles Wednesday, at least one of them in its direction and landing near the rivals' tense sea border, the South's military said. South Korea quickly responded by launching its own missiles in the same border area. ... The launches came hours after North Korea threatened to use nuclear weapons to get the U.S. and South Korea to "pay the most horrible price in history" in protest of the ongoing South Korean-U.S. military drills that it views as an invasion rehearsal. (more) https://www.cbsnews.com/news/north-south-korea-dueling-missile-tests/

SEOUL, Nov 2 (Reuters) - North Korea fired at least 23 missiles into the sea on Wednesday, including one that landed less than 60 km (40 miles) off South Korea's coast, which the South's President Yoon Suk-yeol described as "territorial encroachment". It was the first time a ballistic missile had landed near the South's waters since the peninsula was divided in 1945, and the most missiles fired by the North in a single day. South Korea issued rare air raid warnings and launched its own missiles in response. https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/north-korea-fires-ballistic-missile-says-south-korean-military-2022-11-02/

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Death toll rises to 156, as authorities admit crowd control measures were inadequate before Halloween disaster in Itaewon South Korea’s prime minister has called Saturday’s deadly Halloween crush in Seoul a “disastrous accident that should not have happened”, as authorities responded to growing public anger with a series of apologies. Expressing sorrow to bereaved families as the first memorial services were held, Han Duck-soo admitted that institutional failures in managing crowds played a role in the disaster, and said the government would work with all ministries, agencies and medical institutions to ensure such problems during spontaneous events never happened again. The country’s police chief, Yoon Hee-keun, apologised for an “inadequate” emergency response. “We’ve judged that the response to the emergency calls was inadequate,” he said, noting the large number of calls placed before the disaster unfolded. (more) https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/nov/01/seoul-halloween-crowd-crush-south-korea-itaewon-police-response

Rio de Janeiro — Truckers and other protesters on Tuesday blocked highways for a second day in support of President Jair Bolsonaro, who has yet to accept his election loss to leftist Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva. The country's Federal Highway Police (PRF) reported more than 250 total or partial blockages in at least 23 of Brazil's 27 states. On Monday night, protests blocked roads outside Sao Paulo's Guarulhos airport, the country's main international hub, and several flights were cancelled, local media reported. These protests have since been dispersed. (more) https://www.cbsnews.com/news/brazil-election-results-2022-protest-lula-bolsonaro-road-blocks/

(CNN) — Chief Justice John Roberts agreed to temporarily put on hold a lower court order requiring the release of former President Donald Trump’s tax returns by the Internal Revenue Service to a Democratic-led House committee. The tax returns had been set to be turned over to the House Ways and Means Committee later this week. Roberts asked for a response by November 10. The “administrative stay” is temporary in nature and does not always reflect the final disposition of the dispute. (more) https://www.cnn.com/2022/11/01/politics/trump-tax-returns-supreme-court-john-roberts/

The Justice Department has filed federal felony charges against the man who broke into House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's San Francisco home and attacked her husband with a hammer. The accused could face a maximum of 50 years in prison in last Friday's attack. David Wayne DePape faces two felony charges after allegedly breaking into the Pelosi's home: one count of assault of an immediate family member of a United States official with the intent to retaliate against the official on account of the performance of official duties, which could bring a maximum prison sentence of 30 years; one count of attempted kidnapping of a United States official on account of the performance of official duties, which could bring a maximum of 20 years. (more) https://www.npr.org/2022/10/31/1132944661/pelosi-david-depape-charges-assault-attempted-kidnapping Alleged Pelosi attacker now faces federal and state charges ... DePape was charged with attempting to kidnap a federal official — Nancy Pelosi — and assaulting an immediate relative of a federal official. Later Monday, San Francisco District Attorney Brooke Jenkins announced DePape also would face state charges, including attempted murder, assault with a deadly weapon, elder abuse, residential burglary, false imprisonment, and threatening the life or serious bodily harm to a public official. ... Both Jenkins and Scott appeared visibly shaken when discussing the attack on Paul Pelosi, with Jenkins saying it was clearly a “politically motivated” attack." (more) https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/10/31/pelosi-attack-republicans-house-speaker/

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'Heartbroken and traumatized': Nancy Pelosi shares first comments since attack on her husband Paul Pelosi WASHINGTON – House Speaker Nancy Pelosi on Saturday night shared her first public comments since "a violent man" broke into her San Francisco home and "brutally attacked" her 82-year-old husband Paul Pelosi. In a letter to colleagues, she confirmed the attacker demanded to confront her during the attack. Pelosi was not in San Francisco at the time of incident. "Yesterday morning, a violent man broke into our family home, demanded to confront me and brutally attacked my husband Paul," the speaker said in the letter. "Our children, our grandchildren and I are heartbroken and traumatized by the life-threatening attack on our Pop." (more) https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/heartbroken-and-traumatized-nancy-pelosi-shares-first-comments-since-attack-on-her-husband-paul-pelosi/ar-AA13wYrt

Suspect was trying to tie Paul Pelosi up 'until Nancy got home' "NBC News has spoken with a family member traveling with Nancy Pelosi who says the man who attacked the House speaker's husband Paul was trying to tie him up in their residence, allegedly "until Nancy got home." https://www.nbcnews.com/now/video/suspect-was-trying-to-tie-paul-pelosi-up-until-nancy-got-home-151815749552 CNN: Man who allegedly attacked Paul Pelosi had bag with zip ties, source says The man who is alleged to have attacked Paul Pelosi, the husband of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, in the couple’s San Francisco home had with him a bag that contained multiple zip ties, among other things, according to a source who has been briefed on the incident. ... DePape also tried to tie up Paul Pelosi, two sources told CNN on Friday. The cries of “Where is Nancy” had echoes of the January 6, 2021, attack on the US Capitol." (more) https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/cnn-exclusive-man-who-allegedly-attacked-paul-pelosi-had-bag-with-zip-ties-source-says/ar-AA13xR9I

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Alleged assailant filled blog with delusional thoughts in days before Pelosi attack ... David DePape, 42, also published hundreds of blog posts in recent months sharing memes in support of fringe commentators and far-right personalities. Many of the posts were filled with screeds against Jews, Black people, Democrats, the media and transgender people. ... The domain frenlyfrens.com was registered Aug. 8 under DePape’s name and to an address in Richmond, Calif., where a neighbor told a Post reporter he lived. The web address uses the phonetic spelling of “friend,” which has become a slang term adopted by many in the far right — a term that is sometimes written as an acronym for Far Right Ethno-Nationalist. (more) https://www.washingtonpost.com/investigations/2022/10/29/david-depape-blog-pelosi-fairies/