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Saturday, October 25, 2025
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855 Addington Bridge Road
GENERAL OUTLOOK
Dry and cool conditions persist through at least Friday, with very low-end fire weather concerns possibly materializing on Tuesday and Wednesday afternoons. Another cold front increases rain chances over the weekend.
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GENERAL FORECAST
(since this is a quick forecast intended to cover the whole county, bear in mind that higher elevations may experience cooler temperatures than this and the lower elevations may experience higher temperatures than those in the forecast)
..TODAY....Sunny. Highs in the mid 60s. Winds out of the northwest around 5 mph.
...TONIGHT....Mostly clear. Lows in the lower 40s. Winds out of the south around 5 mph.
...TUESDAY....Sunny. Highs in the mid 60s. Winds out of the west 5 to 10 mph.
...TUESDAY NIGHT....Mostly clear. Lows around 40. Winds out of the northwest 5 to 10 mph with gusts up to 25 mph.
...WEDNESDAY....Sunny. Highs in the upper 50s. Winds out of the northwest 5 to 10 mph. Gusts up to 25 mph in the morning.
...WEDNESDAY NIGHT....Mostly clear. Lows in the mid 30s.
HAZARDOUS WEATHER
Hazardous weather is not expected today or tonight.
NEWS UPDATES
(Links aggregated to show what various news outlets are reporting)
• Macon County Board of Commissioners: October 2025 Regular Meeting [Macon Media]
• Longtime eastern NC state senator arrested and charged for DWI [NC Newsline]
• Thousands rally across WNC against Trump's policies in 'No Kings' protests [WLOS-TV (Asheville, NC)]
• What to know about NC Republicans' effort to flip a U.S. House seat through redistricting [WRAL-TV (Raleigh, NC)]
• Sen. Thom Tillis returns millions to donors as North Carolina Senate race shifts [Raleigh News and Observer]
• Asheville 'No Kings' protest dwarfs June crowd, closes roads as marchers slam Trump admin [Asheville Citizen-Times]
World News
Priceless jewellery has been stolen in a heist at the Louvre in Paris | Sky News
John Bolton Warns: The System Is Breaking Down. The World’s Out of Control And No One's in Charge | Decoding Geopolitics Podcast with Dominik Presl
Will Pakistan-Afghanistan peace agreement hold? | Inside Story | Al Jazeera
• Giuffre thought she might 'die a sex slave' at hands of Epstein and his circle, memoir reveals [BBC News]
• Middle East Liveblog: Israel returns to ceasefire after Gaza strikes [DW News]
• The Louvre heist raises decades old questions about museum security [France 24]
Russo-UKraine War
Is Trump turning his back on Ukraine again? | World News Tonight | TVP World
• Trump threw maps, cursed at Zelenskyy while demanding Ukraine cede Donbas to Russia – FT [Euromaidan Press]
• Trump shares AI video of himself bombing ‘No Kings’ protesters with feces [Russia Today (Russian State-Controlled News Outlet)]
• Intensive diplomatic efforts underway to prepare Putin-Trump meeting — diplomat [TASS (Russian State-Controlled News Outlet)]
• Russian Offensive Campaign Assessment, October 19, 2025 [Institute for the Study of War]
National News
FBI investigates potential Trump security threat | NBC News
• When could the shutdown end? 5 key dates to watch [The Hill]
• We Found That More Than 170 U.S. Citizens Have Been Held by Immigration Agents. They’ve Been Kicked, Dragged and Detained for Days. [ProPublica]
• To hit back at the United States in their trade war, China borrows from the US playbook [AP News]
• Pete Hegseth’s tie causes diplomatic spat [The Telegraph (UK)]
• Trump boards AF1 quickly, using small stairs due to 'increased security measures': WH official [Fox News]
• ‘Top of my list of worries’: Why the stock market’s boom could become America’s biggest risk [Yahoo Finance]
• Trump administration agrees to deliver more student loan forgiveness [CNBC]
Oracle Red Bull Racing's Schwartz and Mekies Speak on F1 Partnership and Success | Bloomberg Television
Q and A Podcast: Jill Dougherty — My Russia: War or Peace and a Life Covering the Kremlin | C-SPAN
ABC World News Tonight with David Muir Full Broadcast - Oct. 19, 2025 | ABC News
PBS News Hour, Oct. 19, 2025 | PBS News Hour
Technology and Science News
Science and Technology News
TWiV 1263: Dementia vaccine? | Microbe TV
Zorin OS 18: Linux for Windows 10 Users | ExplainingCompters.com
• First known fossil hand of the hominin Paranthropus boisei [Nature]
• Free Software Foundation Is Serious About The Librephone Project [To Bring Mobile Freedom To The Masses] [FOSS NEWS]
• SpaceX lofts 10,000th Starlink satellite to orbit on record-tying 132nd Falcon 9 launch of the year [Space.com]
• How to Become a Backyard Meteorologist With a Few Simple Tools [Gizmodo]
• Something from “space” may have just struck a United Airlines flight over Utah [Ars Technica]
• Professor Coin: Bitcoin, Energy and the Future of Sustainable Crypto [Decrypt]
• Andrew Cuomo pitches crypto-fueled comeback in NYC mayoral bid [Coin Telegraph]
NTSB (National Transportation Safety Board) and ASN (Aviation Safety Network) Accident Investigation Pages
• Cirrus SR22T Crash [09/18/2025 - Franklin, NC]
• Midair Collision PSA Airlines Bombardier CRJ700 Airplane and Sikorsky H-60 Military Helicopter [1/29/2025 - Arlington, VA]
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Published at 6.00am on Monday, October 20, 2025
Author: Bobby Coggins
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