NICARAGUA - Hurricane Eta has made landfall in northern Nicaragua, where it will bring devastating winds, feet of storm surge and flooding rainfall. Potentially catastrophic, life-threatening flooding rainfall will then last for days in much of Central America after Eta moves inland. Eta's eye arrived along the coast of Nicaragua about 15 miles south-southwest of Puerto Cabezas, Nicaragua around 4 pm EST Tuesday. At that time, maximum sustained winds were estimated at 140 mph, a Category 4 hurricane on the Saffir-Simpson hurricane wind scale, according to the National Hurricane Center.

GERMANY - Berlin is calling on the incoming administration in Washington to take carefully concerted action against Beijing by taking Germany's particular interests into account. "Americans and Europeans" have many common demands on the People's Republic of China, particularly those concerning trade and investments in China, German Foreign Minister Heiko Maas declared, and side by side, they must raise them now. A "Transatlantic Working Group" could coordinate a transatlantic policy toward China, which should, for example, include the US vice president, relevant EU representatives and foreign, defense and other ministers of EU member states, according to a proposal drawn up under the co-authorship of German diplomat Wolfgang Ischinger. High significance is attached to the competition for global technological leadership. At the same time, Berlin is rejecting some of the US aggressions, including the plans to decouple China from the West: "We do not support every stance and every advance by the government in Washington," the German Defense Minister declared.

GERMANY - Berlin will seek a diplomatic "new deal" with Washington after the US elections, said German Foreign Minister Heiko Maas. Multilateralism, not nationalism, is needed when it comes to trans-Atlantic relations. "We had to listen to Trump describing China, Russia and the EU in one breath as the USA's greatest enemies. This has to come to an end." As US presidential campaigning neared its close, Trump claimed Saturday that various nations, including Germany, hoped he would lose Tuesday's election. "China wants me out. Iran wants me out. Germany wants me out," Trump told his supporters.

USA - In the closing hours of a campaign shadowed by a once-in-a-century pandemic, President Donald Trump charged across the nation Monday delivering an incendiary but unsupported allegation that the election is rigged, while Democratic challenger Joe Biden pushed to claim states once seen as safely Republican. America stood at a crossroads. Never before in modern history have voters faced a choice between candidates offering such opposite visions as the nation confronts a virus that has killed 230,000 Americans, the starkest economic contraction since the Great Depression and a citizenry divided on cultural and racial issues. The two men broke sharply Monday on the voting process itself while campaigning in the most fiercely contested battleground, Pennsylvania. The president threatened legal action to stop counting beyond Election Day. If Pennsylvania ballot counting takes several days, as is allowed, Trump charged that “cheating can happen like you have never seen.”

USA - When lifelong Democrat Mayra Gomez told her 21-year-old son five months ago that she was voting for Donald Trump in Tuesday's presidential election, he cut her out of his life. "He specifically told me, 'You are no longer my mother, because you are voting for Trump'," Gomez, 41, a personal care worker in Milwaukee, told Reuters. Their last conversation was so bitter that she is not sure they can reconcile, even if Trump loses his re-election bid.

USA - In my entire lifetime, I have never seen Americans so emotionally invested in the outcome of a presidential election. Yes, things always get intense as we approach Election Day, but this time around is different. There are many Democrats that do not even want to imagine another four years under Trump. In fact, for many of them it is literally the worst thing that they could possibly imagine ever happening. But for many Republicans, a Trump loss would be equally as devastating. Not since the days of Ronald Reagan have we ever seen Republicans adore a president the way that they love Trump, and a loss would be emotionally crippling for millions of them.

USA - Build Back Better. This is the slogan of the New World Order – aka the Great Reset. You hear it often these days intoned — in the manner of dutiful Stepford Wives — by everyone from UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson and the Prince of Wales to Canadian [prime minster] Justin Trudeau and, inevitably, Joe Biden who has adopted it as his campaign slogan.

USA - Dr Michael Brown appeared on CBN Newswatch to discuss the rise of witchcraft in America. He says the rapid rise of witchcraft is a very real danger. On Saturday, many little girls and even grown women around the country will dress up as witches for Halloween. But playing with magic and sorcery isn't a harmless children's activity. As CBN News reported, thousands of real witches have been gathering to cast spells on President Trump, and they're planning to do it again on Halloween to cause him to fail and lose the election on Tuesday.

UK - The Scottish government is planning a new law that allows people who use language deemed to be abusive or hateful in their homes to be prosecuted. This is dangerous & wrong, and will encourage children to snitch on their parents. It seems that one of the aims of the government run by the Scottish National Party is to eradicate the distinction between people’s private lives and how they behave in public. In true totalitarian fashion, it is determined to ensure that it has the authority to intervene in people’s home life and regulate family affairs.

EUROPE - Portugal has become the latest European state to announce new coronavirus restrictions, as Austria and England also prepare for lockdown, amid public backlash in other states forced into quarantines by the second wave of Covid-19. In Portugal, people were ordered to stay home except for work, school or essential shopping, while companies will switch to remote working wherever possible.

USA - An author attempting to publish a book arguing against transgender treatment for teenagers realized that woke America has no time for “common sense” after receiving backlash over her publication. Published in June, Abigail Shrier’s ‘Irreversible Damage’ argues that teachers, therapists and the media are encouraging vulnerable teenage girls to identify as “transgender,” and pushing life-changing treatments and surgeries – including puberty-blocking hormones and double mastectomies – on these teens. Childhood gender dysphoria is a relatively recent phenomenon, but one that has entered the mainstream. At a town-hall event last month, Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden even said there should be “zero discrimination” against children wanting to transition. In this woke climate, Shrier said that she faced immense difficulty in voicing her “commonsense” opposition.

PHILIPPINES - At least four people have died and a million others have been forced to flee their homes as Super Typhoon Goni slammed into the southern part of the Philippines’ main island of Luzon on Sunday. The immensely powerful storm brought “catastrophic” winds and intense downpours of rain as it made two landfalls in the Southeast Asian country. The typhoon is the world’s strongest so far this year, boasting sustained winds of 225 kph (140 miles per hour) and gusts of up to 310 kph (190 mph). The Philippines weather bureau said “catastrophic violent winds and intense to torrential rainfall” were expected to prevail over Bicol and surrounding provinces. The disaster management agency said that up to 31 million people could be affected by the typhoon.

PHILIPPINES - At least ten people have died as a devastating super typhoon has wreaked havoc in the Philippines, bringing 174 mile-per-hour winds triggering volcanic mudflows that engulfed some 150 houses. Typhoon Goni - one of the most powerful typhoons in the world this year - blasted into the eastern island province of Catanduanes at dawn with sustained winds of 140 miles per hour, threatening some provinces still recovering from a deadly typhoon that hit a week ago. Goni - which brought severe gusts of 174 miles per hour at its most extreme - barreled through densely populated regions and threatened to sideswipe Manila, which shut down its main airport in response. But the typhoon shifted southward on Sunday night and spared the capital, the government's weather agency said.

ISRAEL - A second term for US President Donald Trump would threaten the future of NATO, embolden Russia’s role in the Middle East and put Israel in a tough situation, says former US ambassador to Israel, Dan Shapiro, ahead of the 2020 election. Shapiro told Haaretz that “NATO would be unlikely to survive a second Trump term,” noting that the 45th president has expressed interest in the past in withdrawing the United States from the influential alliance, which has served as a deterring force against Russia ever since the days of the Cold War.

USA - A storm is coming in, and soon it will envelop the entire nation. We are accustomed to seeing businesses board up their doors and windows in coastal cities that are about to get hit by a hurricane, but I can’t think of another time when businesses all across America have been boarding up their doors and windows all at the same time. There is widespread fear that this election could be the spark that sets off another round of horrifying civil unrest in cities all over the United States, and business owners are taking measures to protect their businesses from the violence. The fact that we are even talking about the possibility of widespread violence after a presidential election shows just how much our country has fallen already. Our society is literally coming apart at the seams all around us, and at this point even Forbes is urging everyone to prepare for a worst case scenario…