First Thing Today with Joe Thomas
Oct 22, 2026 · 54 min · 38 segments
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First things this morning, Jared Witkoff spent yesterday with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky and now is in St. Petersburg, the other one, with Vladimir Putin doing some shuttle diplomacy on a way to end the war between Russia and Ukraine.
Whistleblowers not named Vindman in the US government have called Wall Street Journal and said it was Elon Musk who ordered the slowdown of Starlink that crippled Ukrainian capabilities on the battlefield in the middle of October.
According to the Wall Street Journal report, two people, U.S. officials familiar with the matter, confirmed it.
Meanwhile, one of them says that Musk called President Trump right after the decision was made, but they can't be clear as to whether the U.S. knew about it in advance.
Alberta has voted yesterday to not move forward with the process of seceding from Canada.
75% of the voters that turned out and cast more than 1.8 million votes supported the idea of not beginning the process to leave Canada.
President Trump's administration says they've revoked more than 300,000 U.S. visas during his second term.
on a marketplace, adding to a death toll that already is reaching 150,000 in the three-year-long battle between two generals of the Sudanese army over the oil-rich South Sudan.
First things this morning, Jared Witkoff spent yesterday with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky and now is in St. Petersburg, the other one, with Vladimir Putin doing some shuttle diplomacy on a way to end the war between Russia and Ukraine.
Whistleblowers not named Vindman in the US government have called Wall Street Journal and said it was Elon Musk who ordered the slowdown of Starlink that crippled Ukrainian capabilities on the battlefield in the middle of October.
According to the Wall Street Journal report, two people, U.S. officials familiar with the matter, confirmed it.
Meanwhile, one of them says that Musk called President Trump right after the decision was made, but they can't be clear as to whether the U.S. knew about it in advance.
Alberta has voted yesterday to not move forward with the process of seceding from Canada.
75% of the voters that turned out and cast more than 1.8 million votes supported the idea of not beginning the process to leave Canada.
President Trump's administration says they've revoked more than 300,000 U.S. visas during his second term.
on a marketplace, adding to a death toll that already is reaching 150,000 in the three-year-long battle between two generals of the Sudanese army over the oil-rich South Sudan.
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