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What Happened Today – October 16, 2025

A Smartmatic voting machine in Marinka, Philippines, where the company allegedly paid over $1 million in bribes to secure $182 million in contracts for the 2016 election before U.S. prosecutors charged the firm with foreign corruption. (Photo: Patrickroque01, CC BY-SA 4.0)

🔥 Americans have sat in slowly warming water that will soon boil. The military is destroying boats and killing their inhabitants in the Caribbean with missiles. Three prominent Trump critics have been criminally indicted in 21 days. Three days after signing a peace accord, Trump says “we will have no choice but to go in … Read more