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White House official confirms that the federal takeover of DC police department is expected to be in effect for 30 days
but added that this would be ‘subject to change’

Trump vows to ‘clean up’ DC crime
-- despite sharp drop in violence

I just rewatched #babylon5 Season 2 Episode 15. It is frighteningly familiar on so many levels. Go, give it a watch, if you can... the episode... makes sense as a standalone.
If you never heard of this, consider to watch it over its full story arch spanning five seasons.

😮‍💨 Carbon credits have little to no effect on making companies greener, study reveals
#climatechange

Carbon credits have little to no effect on making companies greener, study reveals
Many companies across the world use carbon credits as part of their climate strategies to offset emissions. A carbon credit is a certificate that represents the reduction, avoidance or removal of one ton of carbon dioxide from the atmosphere. While organizations claim these credits help them reduce their environmental impact, there is debate about whether companies that buy credits decarbonize faster. However, an in-depth study of 89 multinationals, published in Nature Communications, reveals t…

Modelling and evaluating travel information during disruptions: An illustrative example from Swedish railways
Abderrahman Ait-Ali, Anders Peterson
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.08254

Modelling and evaluating travel information during disruptions: An illustrative example from Swedish railways
Accurate and timely travel information is an asset for enhancing passenger travel experience during normal traffic, and for mitigating the discomforts during disruptions. With longer and more frequent disruptions as well as increasing ridership, traffic delays can incur substantial costs for passengers and other transport stakeholders, e.g., operators and infrastructure managers. Such costs can, however, be reduced thanks to effective travel information strategies during traffic disruptions. In…

Event Driven CBBA with Reduced Communication
Vinita Sao, Tu Dac Ho, Sujoy Bhore, P. B. Sujit
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.06481 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2509.06…

Event Driven CBBA with Reduced Communication
In various scenarios such as multi-drone surveillance and search-and-rescue operations, deploying multiple robots is essential to accomplish multiple tasks at once. Due to the limited communication range of these vehicles, a decentralised task allocation algorithm is crucial for effective task distribution among robots. The consensus-based bundle algorithm (CBBA) has been promising for multi-robot operation, offering theoretical guarantees. However, CBBA demands continuous communication, leadin…

Cluster Catalog Validation with Multiwavelength Data
Ethan K. Steelberg, Tesla E. Jeltema, Jackson H. O'Donnell, Rance Solomon, The LSST Dark Energy Science Collaboration
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.07268

Cluster Catalog Validation with Multiwavelength Data
The Legacy Survey of Space and Time (LSST) will provide a ground-breaking data set for cosmology, but to achieve the precision needed, the data, data reduction, and algorithms measuring the cosmological data vectors must be thoroughly validated and calibrated. In this note, we focus on clusters of galaxies and present a set of validation tests for optical cluster finding algorithms through comparison to X-ray and Sunyaev-Zel'dovich effect cluster catalogs. As an example, we apply our pipeline t…

Aluminum-Based Superconducting Tunnel Junction Sensors for Nuclear Recoil Spectroscopy
Spencer L. Fretwell, Connor Bray, Inwook Kim, Andrew Marino, Benjamin Waters, Robin Cantor, Ad Hall, Pedro Amaro, Adrien Andoche, David Diercks, Abigail Gillespie, Mauro Guerra, Cameron N. Harris, Jackson T. Harris, Leendert M. Hayen, Paul Antoine Hervieux, Geon Bo Kim, Annika Lennarz, Vincenzo Lordi, Jorge Machado, Peter Machule, David McKeen, Xavier Mougeot, Francisco Ponce, Chris Ruiz, Amit Samant…

Aluminum-Based Superconducting Tunnel Junction Sensors for Nuclear Recoil Spectroscopy
The BeEST experiment is searching for sub-MeV sterile neutrinos by measuring nuclear recoil energies from the decay of $^7$Be implanted into superconducting tunnel junction (STJ) sensors. The recoil spectra are affected by interactions between the radioactive implants and the sensor materials. We are therefore developing aluminum-based STJs (Al-STJs) as an alternative to existing tantalum devices (Ta-STJs) to investigate how to separate material effects in the recoil spectrum from potential sig…

Twenty years of blazar monitoring with the INAF radio telescopes
N. Marchili (INAF Istituto di Radioastronomia), S. Righini (INAF Istituto di Radioastronomia - Stazione di Medicina), M. Giroletti (INAF Istituto di Radioastronomia), C. M. Raiteri (INAF Osservatorio Astrofisico di Torino), R. P. Giri (INAF Istituto di Radioastronomia, Dipartimento di Fisica e Astronomia 'Augusto Righi', Universita' di Bologna), M. I. Carnerero (INAF Osservatorio Astrofisico di Torino), M. Vil…

Twenty years of blazar monitoring with the INAF radio telescopes
The extreme variability of blazars, in both timescale and amplitude, is generally explained as the effect of a relativistic jet closely aligned to the observer's line-of-sight. Due to causality arguments, variability characteristics translate into spatial information about the emitting region of blazars. Since radiation at different wavelengths is emitted in different parts of the jet, multi-frequency observations provide us with a virtual view of the structure of the jet on different scales. R…

A senior official in the Department of Justice was caught in a honeytrap scheme
bragging about department plans to “redact every Republican”
from Jeffrey Epstein’s client list.
Joseph Schnitt, an acting deputy chief in Attorney General Pam Bondi’s DOJ,
was recorded on camera divulging details of a planned cover-up regarding the names of Epstein’s high-profile clients.
Schnitt was secretly filmed by a woman he met on Hinge who works for the O’Keefe Media Group, a …

Top DOJ Official Spills Epstein Cover-Up Plans to Honeytrap
Pam Bondi’s acting deputy chief was filmed bragging to a date about the department’s plans to alter the Epstein files.