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The announcement came after Russian President Vladimir Putin met US President Donald Trump's special envoy Steve Witkoff in St Petersburg.
The announcement came after Russian President Vladimir Putin met US President Donald Trump's special envoy Steve Witkoff in St Petersburg.
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<p>Cameras reportedly set up near site for Trump’s proposed arch, Arlington Memorial Bridge and reflecting pool</p><p>The US Park Police are spending $343,000 to lease mobile surveillance cameras from a company that also supplies <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/ice-us-immigration-and-customs-enforcement">Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE)</a>, federal contract records show. The deal comes as <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/donaldtrump">Donald Trump</a> has insisted that vandals damaged the reflecting pool, one of Washington’s best-known landmarks – charges that have since been dismissed.</p><p>The Department of the Interior, which oversees the Park Police, awarded the lease to the Utah-based company LiveView Technologies (LVT) on 14 September, on a <a href="https://govtribe.com/award/federal-contract-award/delivery-order-47qtca23d00dn-140p2126f0168">fully obligated government contract</a> that runs through the end of February. The records do not say how many camera trailers are covered.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/oct/21/park-police-surveillance-cameras-washington-dc">Continue reading...</a>
<p>Wedgewood Polls said project was designed to highlight lack of scrutiny over polling sector by mainstream media</p><p>A polling firm has admitted to using fabricated data in surveys that were picked up by national media outlets in the US, claiming the project was a “social experiment” designed to expose the lack of scrutiny over the sector.</p><p>Wedgewood Polls released a <a href="https://x.com/WedgewoodPolls/status/2112669955917242510">statement</a> on Tuesday on social media, after the polling and election analysis site FiftyPlusOne <a href="https://blog.fiftyplusone.news/p/fiftyplusone-just-caught-a-pollster">reached out</a> for comment on an investigation it had conducted into their surveys and data.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/oct/21/polling-fabricated-data-social-experiment">Continue reading...</a>
<p>Hepatitis B study in Guinea-Bissau that was to be funded by CDC and that drew global backlash ‘will not move forward’</p><p>The US-backed hepatitis B vaccine trial in African newborns that drew global backlash was halted, the lead researcher said on Wednesday.</p><p>It was “now clear” that the study “will not move forward in Guinea-Bissau”, Frederik Schaltz-Buchholzer, a Danish researcher, <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/missed-opportunity-guinea-bissaus-children-why-trial-frederik-wttde/">wrote</a> on LinkedIn, adding, “we were not given the necessary governmental approval.”</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/oct/21/us-vaccine-trial-african-newborns-hepatitis-b">Continue reading...</a>
French President Emmanuel Macron made a surprise stop in Riyadh to meet Saudi Crown Prince during his ongoing Gulf tour.