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🚨 KRISTI NOEM Fired As DHS Sec’y By Trump
⛽️IRAN WAR: Oil Pumps Higher, GAS Up $0.25
🎢STOCKS: Sink As Iran War Enters 2nd Week
🧑🏭INSANITY: More US Troops To Iran War
🔫TERRORISM IN USA?: FBI Probes TX Shooting
🤖A.I. WORRIES: Pentagon Will Spy On YOU
📁EPSTEIN: A.G. Bondi Subpoenaed To Testify
📺GUTHRIE: Savannah Visits Today Show
🚨 KRISTI NOEM Fired As DHS Sec’y By Trump
President Trump has fired homeland security secretary, Kristi Noem. He plans to replace her with Senator Markwayne Mullin of Oklahoma, after she was grilled by Republican lawmakers this week at congressional hearings on a variety of topics, including her knowledge of a lucrative advertising contract.
The final straw for Trump was Noem’s combative hearing Tuesday before the Senate Judiciary Committee, which showed bipartisan frustration with Noem’s leadership, according to advisers familiar with Trump’s thinking.
Noem’s decision to allot $200 million for an advertising campaign, featuring herself urging living illegally in the U.S. to self-deport, had already rankled the president for months for its self-promotional style. Trump denies authorizing the ad.
Trump announced the change on social media, along with a new, and previously nonexistent, role for Noem: special envoy for the Shield of the Americas, which he said would be a new security initiative for the Western Hemisphere.
⛽️IRAN: Oil Pumps Higher, GAS Up $0.25, STOCKS SINK
The Strait of Hormuz through which 1/5th of the world’s oil passes is shut. Thousands of ships in the Persian Gulf are trapped, the oil industry has stopped pumping.
GAS prices are up over 25-cents a gallon at the pump in less than a week. STOCKS are sinking.
Exiger CEO Brandon Daniels tells NewsNation gas prices are expected to pump even higher.
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President Donald Trump’s chief of staff, Susie Wiles, is reportedly telling oil executives and Trump advisers to bring ideas to the Oval Office to lower gas prices when they meet Friday.
Defense Secretary and former Fox News Host Pete Hegseth curtly likened the War with Iraq to a football game!
In a Pentagon briefing Hegseth said, “The (Iran) team knew what plays to run in the beginning, because their drives were scripted…Now that the game is started Iran doesn’t know what plays to call. We are winning.”
The U.S. and Israel still relentlessly attacking Iran; Iran attacking Israel, neighboring Arab countries and U.S. bases and embassies.
More U.S. forces are headed for the Mideast. President Trump says he’s not ruling out ‘boots on the ground,’ sending U.S. ground troops into Iran “if they are necessary”.
Israel launched strikes across Iran, including shooting down a jet fighter over Tehran and targeting air defenses and command centers.
An American submarine sank an Iranian warship in the Indian Ocean, the first such incident since WW2. The U.S. says it has destroyed 17 Iranian ships and nearly 2,000 targets, and dealt a severe blow to Tehran’s defenses.
✔️The U.S. “hunted down and killed” the leader of an Iranian unit that sought to assassinate President Trump, according to Defense Secretary Hegseth
✔️Iranian missile and drone attacks targeted sites across the region including U.S. bases and embassies.
✔️6 U.S. service members have been killed in ‘Operation Epic Fury’. President Trump says he’s not ruling out sending U.S. ground troops into Iran “if they are necessary”.
✔️Americans stuck in the Middle East criticizing the U.S. government for not warning them earlier or assisting them to evacuate after the State Department urged all Americans to “DEPART NOW” from 14 countries using available commercial travel, embassies in Saudi Arabia and Kuwait are closed after they were hit by drones.
✔️Trump says U.S. strikes will continue 4 or 5 weeks, but “we have the capability to go far longer than that”.
✔️Israel reports 9 dead, Iran says over 900+ killed.
✔️The American military confirms three F-15 fighter jets crashed over Kuwait in an incident of so-called “friendly fire”, shot down by Kuwaiti air defenses. All 6 pilots have been rescued.
✔️Widening the conflict in the Middle East, Israel struck Hezbollah targets in Lebanon, and seized territory there.
✔️The Pentagon is rapidly burning through its stocks of precision weapons less than a week into the massive campaign of airstrikes against Iran, while also expending sophisticated air defense missiles at a rate that puts the U.S. military potentially “days away” from having to prioritize which targets to intercept according to the Washington Post.
✔️The Trump administration claims Iran was building ‘powerful missiles and drones’ to shield its nuclear ambitions.
Bob Kolasky, senior vice president of critical infrastructure at AI supply-chain company Exiger says Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps is a well-resourced organization and sophisticated cyber actor, “It would be surprising if they weren’t using AI to advance their offensive cyber capabilities”:
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Dow 🔻 900 pointsNasdaq 🔻 0.60%S&P 500 🔻 0.85%Gold 🔻 $5088Bitcoin 🔻 $71K🔫TERRORISM IN USA?: FBI Probes TX Shooting
A shooting in downtown Austin, Texas, killed three people and injured 14, with authorities investigating a connected to Mideast terrorism.
Austin Police Chief Lisa Davis said a man wearing a “Property of Allah” hoodie, armed with a pistol opened fire from his SUV and shot at people on a patio and in front of a bar.
The man then drove to another street, exited the vehicle with a rifle and started shooting at people walking by. Police officers shot and killed him at an intersection, Davis said. The area is usually packed with thousands of revelers and police on patrol.
The gunman was identified as 53-year-old Ndiaga Diagne, the Department of Homeland Security said in a statement.
It comes as an ex-intelligence chief in the Israeli army has warned that the Iranian regime will be waking up sleeper agents in the West to avenge the death of Ayatollah Khamenei.
Brig. Gen. (Res.) Yossi Kuperwasser says ‘dormant’ pro-Regime forces could carry out terror attacks to destabilize the U.S. and its supporters.
One of Iran’s most senior grand ayatollahs declared it a religious obligation for all Muslims to avenge the death of the country’s supreme leader. Iran’s foreign ministry also vowed that repercussions for Ali Khamenei’s assassination ‘will extend to the world’.
🤖A.I. : Worries Pentagon Will Spy On YOU
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth designated Anthropic—the maker of the AI model Claude—a supply chain risk to national security.
The dispute between the Pentagon and Anthropic is over two usage restrictions in Anthropic’s military contract—prohibitions on mass surveillance and autonomous weapons.
President Trump directing “EVERY Federal Agency” to “IMMEDIATELY CEASE” using Anthropic’s technology. Hegseth’s designation includes a six-month transition period during which Anthropic will continue providing services to the military during the transition to Open AI. Anthropic, in turn, has vowed to “challenge any supply chain risk designation in court.”
Open AI has accepted no such restrictions and is now being used by the government. Is mass surveillance next?
📁EPSTEIN: A.G. Bondi Subpoenaed To Testify
The House Oversight Committee voted to subpoena the attorney general, Pam Bondi, to testify about the Justice Department’s handling of the case against Jeffrey Epstein and the release of its files on the matter. The 24 to 19 vote by the Republican-led panel to force a cabinet member to testify was a rebuke to the Trump administration.
Bill Clinton reluctantly testified before a Congressional committee saying he “saw nothing, I did nothing wrong”. The former President adding, “I Don’t Believe I Was A Honey Trap Victim.
Clinton claimed the racy photos of himself in the Epstein files don’t change the fact that he did “nothing wrong.”
The first former President to be compelled against his will to testify to Congress says if he knew of Epstein’s crimes he would have “turned him in, myself”.
Former First Lady and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton appearing in a closed hearing yesterday, said she had no idea of Epstein’s criminal activities. Hillary said she, “like every decent person,” has been horrified to learn of Epstein’s crimes.
Hillary says she and Bill would have preferred an open hearing, in public, before live cameras but the committee denied that for her and Bill.
Hillary Clinton also called for President Trump to be quizzed under oath. She said: “If this Committee is serious about learning the truth about Epstein’s trafficking crimes, it would not rely on press gaggles to get answers from our current president on his involvement; it would ask him directly under oath about the tens of thousands of times he shows up in the Epstein files.”
The deposition was paused after Republican Congresswoman Lauren Boebert sent a photo of the closed-door proceeding to a conservative influencer. Benny Johnson, a right-wing Youtuber, posted a photo of Clinton at the deposition online and said Boebert had provided it.
The closed-door depositions in the Clintons’ hometown of Chappaqua, a typically quiet hamlet north of New York City, come after months of tense back-and-forth between the high-powered Democratic couple and the Republican-controlled House Oversight Committee.
The vast trove of documents released by the Justice Department from its investigations into the convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein failed to include some key materials related to a woman who made an accusation against President Trump, according to a review by The New York Times.
The police in Britain arrested and then released Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor, formerly known as Prince Andrew, over suspicions of misconduct in public office after accusations that he shared confidential information with Jeffrey Epstein while serving as a British trade envoy. The investigation will continue.
The fallout continues:
Larry Summers, former president of Harvard University, will retire from teaching at the university at the end of the year in connection with a school review of documents relating to Epstein. The former treasury secretary stopped teaching in November, when the school began investigating documents newly released by the government.
Bill Gates admitted to Gates Foundation staff members that he had two affairs and also said it was a “huge mistake” to spend time with late financier and sex offender Epstein.
Peter Attia has resigned from his position as a contributor to CBS News, about three weeks after the revelation of his relationship with the sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.
Thomas Pritzker, a scion of the Hyatt Hotels empire, has stepped down as executive chairman of the hotels giant, after the files revealed that he was in regular contact with the convicted sex offender in the years after Epstein’s 2008 plea deal on sex crimes charges.
Trump administration Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick admitted he and his family had lunch on the private island of the notorious sex offender years earlier.“
Brad Karp, the longtime chairman of Paul Weiss, one of the nation’s top corporate law firms, resigned after correspondence between him and Epstein emerged in the files.
Peter Mandelson, the former British ambassador to the United States, resigned his seat in the House of Lords as the Metropolitan Police in London announced an investigation into his relationship with Epstein.
A top official in Slovakia also appeared in the files, and also resigned.
The files include 1,056 documents naming Russian President Vladimir Putin and 9,629 referring to Moscow.
📂EPSTEIN: 14 Year Old Claims Trump Forced Sex
A Bombshell allegation in the latest Epstein Files document release ... a 13-14 girl claims she was forced to perform oral sex on Donald Trump approximately 35 years ago in New Jersey. Her name is redacted from the files.
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📺GUTHRIE: Savannah Visits Today Show
NBC PR: “Savannah Guthrie stopped by the studio this Thursday morning to be with and thank her TODAY colleagues. While she plans to return to the show on air, she remains focused right now supporting her family and working to help bring Nancy home.”
Guthrie is offering up to $1 million for information that leads to finding her mother, Nancy, who was abducted from her home more than three weeks ago. Guthrie revealed in a video she and her family have accepted that her mom, Nancy Guthrie, may be dead as the search for the 84-year-old enters its 24th day.
The DNA on a potentially crucial glove found near Nancy Guthrie’s Arizona home — as well as other genetic material in her house — do not match any records in the FBI’s database, officials reveal.
The genetic material on the discarded glove, which was discovered 2 miles from Guthrie’s house in Tucson, resulted in no hits within the agency’s Combined DNA Index System, or CODIS, database, according to Pima County Sheriff Chris Nanos.
In a new video posted online, Savannah Guthrie tells whoever has abducted her mother, Nancy Guthrie, that “it is never too late to do the right thing,” making an emotional direct appeal at the two-week mark of the her mother’s disappearance.
“The Guthrie family – to include all siblings and spouses – has been cleared as possible suspects in this case,” Pima County Sheriff Chris Nanos said Monday.
“The family has been nothing but cooperative and gracious and are victims in this case,” he added. “To suggest otherwise is not only wrong, it is cruel. The Guthrie family are victims plain and simple.”
The DNA found on a recovered glove belongs to “an unidentified male” according to authorities.
The Sheriff Says the Search for Missing Nancy Guthrie, Savannah Guthrie’s Mother, Could Take “Months or Years” but “We Won’t Quit”.
Authorities are even flying over the area with a high-tech Bluetooth signal detector, also known as a signal sniffer, in an attempt to locate a signal from Guthrie’s
At least three people were taken into custody in two separate investigations late Friday — including swarming a local Tucson property, all were questioned and released.
As you’d expect Savannah Guthrie will remain off the “Today” show for the “foreseeable future” amid the desperate hunt for her mother and is reportedly thinking of leaving the show for good.
📺CNN PANIC: As Paramount Wins Warner
The media world is shocked. CNN staffers are panicking wondering about their future under the new Trump-friendly management.
Now the hard part begins as state attorneys general have pledged to take a hard look at the deal, which will also most likely require approval from European regulators.
CBS parent Paramount-Skydance has emerged victorious in the fight to buy Warner Bros. Discovery after Netflix said it wouldn’t match the David Ellison-led company’s $111 billion takeover bid.
Netflix pulled the plug on its deal soon after the Warner board of directors said it determined Paramount’s latest offer for the entire company (including CNN) was superior to Netflix’s bid.
It comes after Netflix CEO Ted Sarandos meetings with the White House and DOJ Thursday.
President Trump broke precedent last year by inserting himself directly into the sale process, saying he would “be involved” in the outcome and favored Paramount.
Paramount CEO David Ellison reportedly told the Trump administration that he would “make sweeping changes to CNN” were his company to acquire it. Trump publicly weighed in, saying it is “imperative that CNN be sold.” Trump has long complained about the network, which he maintains is unfair to him.
🎢TRUMP ECONOMY: Stocks 🔻 As Inflation Increases
Wholesale prices rose 0.8% in January, much more than expected. The report comes as President Trump has repeatedly insisted that inflation has been tamed, and his tariffs will have no effect on prices paid by companies and consumers.
In his State of the Union, President Trump insisted he’s sparked an economic boom at home and imposed a new world order abroad in hopes that the speech can counter his sliding approval ratings.
Trump was determined to will Americans into a better economic mood, seeking to paint over the affordability concerns at the center of upcoming midterm elections with statistics and self-congratulation.
At the core of Trump’s address was the belief he can persuade Americans that the economy is in better shape than many think it is.
In touting “a turnaround for the ages,” the president opted against sending a message to voters that he understands the anxiety that polling shows is widely felt. Trump described inflation as “plummeting,” pointing to the prices of rent, eggs and gasoline. “It’s like another big tax cut,” he said.
BUT: polls are showing Trump’s popularity near all-time lows, especially on economic issues, compiled by Realclearpolitics.com:
🏠MORTGAGES: Below 6% First Time in 3Yrs
The average 30-year fixed mortgage rate fell to 5.98% this week, the lowest level since September 2022. Still it’s difficult first-time buyers to afford a down payment.
➡️Housing Expert Rick Sharga says the American dream is turning into the American nightmare:
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🚨TARIFFS: FedEx Sues For Refund Delivery
FedEx has filed a lawsuit against President Trump’s government, seeking a full refund plus interest for what it paid in trade duties stemming from tariffs enacted last year. Others filing suit include Costco, Revlon, Bumble Bee Foods and Kawasaki Motors. Many other company bosses WANT THEIR MONEY BACK.
💸WHAT’S NEXT? Exiger CEO Brandon Daniels on NewsNation:
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🤖A.I. : Coming For YOUR Job
Much of the recent market downturn blamed on fear growing as the A.I. industry tells us, with a new urgency, it’s all moving faster than expected—the A.I. of even six months ago has been far surpassed—AND THE MACHINE IS COMING FOR YOUR JOB.
Matt Shumer, a noted A.I. executive warnes, “If your job happens on a screen (a computer) then AI is coming for significant parts of it.”
AND GET THIS: An A.I. bot wrote an online blog post attacking an engineer because he had rejected lines of code the bot had submitted to an open-source project.
Wall Street is worried, and STOCKS are wavering as A.I. threatens to raise unemployment and disrupt the business models of whole industries.
On Main Street, nearly three-quarters of Americans expect A.I. to slash jobs. Amazon is Laying off 16,000 on a push to invest heavily in artificial intelligence. UPS is cutting 30,000 jobs as Amazon eliminates using big brown to deliver many of its packages. Home Depot laying off 800.
Polls showing President Trump’s approval rating on the economy are at a dismal 33% as people struggle to make ends meet.
Kingsview’s Scott Martin on NewsNation says it’s a tale of two economies.
🚢CUBA: Kills 4 On U.S. Speed Boat
U.S.-Cuba relations deteriorating.
The Cuban government said Wednesday that a speedboat from Florida that had entered Cuban waters was carrying weapons and that its occupants, Cuban nationals living in the U.S., allegedly planned to carry out terrorism on the island. Cuba’s coast guard killed four people on the boat after the occupants opened fire, the interior ministry in Havana said.
The boat was one nautical mile northeast of the El Pino canal in Cayo Falcones, the ministry said, and had a Florida registration number. When five members of the Border Guard Troops approached the boat for identification, those aboard the speedboat allegedly began shooting. The commander of the Cuban boat was injured, the ministry said.
Cuba’s Interior Ministry said the boat was carrying 10 people armed with assault rifles, handguns, Molotov cocktails, bulletproof vests, telescopic sights and camouflage uniforms, and the occupants of the boat were attempting to “carry out an infiltration for terrorist purposes.” The ministry said all 10 people were Cubans living in the U.S., and alleged that most “have a known history of criminal and violent activity.”
☄️MEXICO: Under Attack By Drug Cartel
At least 20 of Mexico’s 31 states have seen violent clashes in the wake of the death of the country’s most wanted man, head of the Jalisco New Generation Cartel . Tourists are warned to stay inside.
The Mexican government said it killed the nation’s most wanted cartel boss, setting off a wave of fires and violence across the country as cartel operatives sought to exact revenge in an unsettling show of force.
American Airlines canceled flights to and from Guadalajara, Mazatlán and Puerto Vallarta. Southwest also canceled flights, along with Delta. United and Air Canada.
Nemesio Oseguera Cervantes, known as “El Mencho,” was the longtime leader of one of Mexico’s most powerful cartels, the Jalisco New Generation Cartel, and was widely regarded as one of the country’s most violent criminal figures. He presided over a criminal enterprise that has expanded rapidly over the past decade, producing and selling drugs, extorting local businesses and terrorizing communities across the country.
💉OZEMPIC: Manufacturer Cuts Price By 50%
Novo Nordisk plans to slash list prices for its popular weight-loss and diabetes drugs Wegovy and Ozempic by up to half starting next year.
Under the changes, both Ozempic and Wegovy will list for $675 a month, effective Jan. 1, 2027. That is half of the current price tag for anti-obesity therapy Wegovy and a 34% cut for diabetes treatment Ozempic. The price cuts also will apply to pill versions of both injections, including one sold as Rybelsus.
📺”CRAP”: Stephen Colbert Torches CBS
Stephen Colbert slammed CBS after it denied his claim that it blocked an interview with Texas state representative James Talarico from airing, dismissing the network’s statement as “crap.”
Colbert clashed with his network after he accused CBS lawyers of warning him “in no uncertain terms” that he “could not have” his booked guest, who is running in the Democratic primary for a Senate seat in Texas, “on the broadcast.” Colbert said on Monday that the advice referenced guidance from Federal Communications Commission chairman Brendan Carr, who suggested talk shows could be subject to the “equal time” rule. The Late Show then shared the full interview with Talarico on its YouTube channel.
CBS, however, rejected that account and issued a statement of its own on Tuesday:
THE LATE SHOW was not prohibited by CBS from broadcasting the interview with Rep. James Talarico. The show was provided legal guidance that the broadcast could trigger the FCC equal-time rule for two other candidates, including Rep. Jasmine Crockett, and presented options for how the equal time for other candidates could be fulfilled. THE LATE SHOW decided to present the interview through its YouTube channel with on-air promotion on the broadcast rather than potentially providing the equal-time options.
Opening Tuesday night’s show, Colbert held up a printed copy of the statement and revealed that “every word” of his Monday night script calling out the nixing of the Talarico interview was “approved by CBS’s lawyers who for the record approve every script that goes on the air.”
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📺COLBERT: CBS Again Shoots Itself In Foot
TV is dying the same death as radio and CBS, as it did with radio, is only hastening that death.
This YouTube video of the Steven Colbert segment that CBS did not want you to see has already surpassed the average rating of “The Late Show”.
As of February 18, the unaired interview with Texas Rep. James Talarico on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert YouTube channel has received over 5 million views. On CBS In the 4th quarter of last year Colbert averaged 2.69 million total viewers across 37 original episodes.
Therefore if you’re Colbert why not just do the show on YouTube after it leaves CBS?
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🚨ICE: Ends Minneapolis Surge
The Trump administration will end its immigration crackdown in Minneapolis . The 10-week surge roiled Minnesota and the nation, left two U.S. citizens dead and proved politically toxic for the White House.
White House border czar Tom Homan announced that a “significant drawdown” of the roughly 2,000 remaining federal agents is underway and will continue through next week.
“Operation Metro Surge is ending,” he said. “In the next week, we’re going to deploy the officers here on detail back to their home stations or other areas of the country [that] are needed.”
While local immigration enforcement will continue, Homan said the operation has achieved the “successful results we have came here for,” citing over 4,000 arrests and “unprecedented cooperation” from local law enforcement.
Homan replaced Border Patrol chief Greg Bovino in a stunning turnaround, after a second U.S. citizen was killed by federal agents.
A preliminary report finds two federal immigration officials fired shots at Alex Pretti in that fatal encounter in Minneapolis last weekend, the Department of Homeland Security said in document sent to Congress. Witness footage of the episode, showing at least 10 shots fired, raised questions about how many immigration officials took aim at Pretti. The CBP report doesn’t say how many shots were fired or which shots killed Pretti.
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In addition National Guard troops which the Trump administration tapped to support aggressive immigration operations have left Chicago, Los Angeles and Portland, Ore., according to the U.S. military.
🎸U2’s ANTI-ICE SONG: Hits #1
Irish rockers U2 became the latest high-powered musical act to condemn the federal immigration raids with the surprise release of a song for slain Minneapolis protester Renee Good.
Following in the footsteps of Bruce Springsteen, Bad Bunny, Billie Eilish and other artists, U2 recorded “American Obituary,” a four-minute plus musical condemnation of the crackdown that left Good, the mother of three, dead on Jan. 7.
🧑🏭ICE: Springsteen Protest Song Here:
Bruce Springsteen has released “Streets of Minneapolis,” in response to what he called “the state terror being visited on the city of Minneapolis,” and in honor of the residents slain by ICE agents, Renee Good and Alex Pretti.
AIR DELAYS: TSA Warns With Gov’t Shutdown
Here we go again! Airport delays as TSA agents are not getting paid and staffing may be cut.
A partial U.S. government shutdown is underway after the House of Representatives and Senate left Washington earlier this week without providing full funding for the Department of Homeland Security.
Only that department is getting left high and dry, but that’s still significant given its arms include the Transportation Security Administration, the Federal Emergency Management Agency and the U.S. Coast Guard.
🩺YOUR HEALTH: Trump Repeals Pollution Rules
Nearly 17 years after the Environmental Protection Agency declared that carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases threaten the public’s health and welfare, President Trump rescinded the landmark legal opinion.
At an event at the White House on President Trump called the decision “the single largest deregulatory action in American history.” He added, “And I think we can add the words, ‘by far.’”
Doctors warn your health is at risk.
🎬ROBERT DUVALL: Dead at 95
Robert Duvall, the Academy Award-winning actor known for his roles in Hollywood classics such as “The Godfather” and “Apocalypse Now,” is dead. He was an actor’s actor who befriended hoodlums in East Harlem while preparing for the role that would help make him a star: that of Tom Hagen, the sensible consigliere to the Corleone crime family in the “Godfather”.
Robert Duvall was 95.
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📺ANDERSON COOPER: Out at CBS 60 Minutes
Anderson Cooper is leaving’ “60 Minutes” the latest high-profile journalist to depart CBS News since the arrival of Bari Weiss.
“For nearly twenty years, I’ve been able to balance my jobs at CNN and CBS, but I have little kids now and I want to spend as much time with them as possible, while they still want to spend time,” Cooper said in a statement Monday.
Weiss had expressed interest in bringing Cooper to CBS News on a full-time basis, including the possibility of him anchoring the CBS Evening News program, according to a Puck news report, citing sources familiar with the situation.
🔻AMERICAN OPTIMISM: Record Low
The percentage of U.S. adults who anticipate high-quality lives in five years declined to 59.2% in 2025, the lowest level since measurement began nearly two decades ago, according to Gallup.
Since 2020, future life ratings have fallen a total of 9.1 percentage points, projecting to an estimated 24.5 million fewer people who are optimistic about the future now versus then.
Americans’ ratings of their current lives have also declined since rebounding in 2021 but not as steeply as their future life ratings. And current life ratings are not at a low point; that occurred in 2020, during the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic.
🚀CARTEL Drone Or Party Balloon: U.S. Disables
The Pentagon says it disabled drones controlled by Mexican cartels
The airspace over El Paso’s international airport was briefly closed after the drones breached U.S. airspace, according to an administration official.
“The FAA and DOW (DOD) acted swiftly to address a cartel drone incursion,” Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy said on X.
But the New York Times quotes people briefed on the situation saying, military officials deployed anti-drone technology against what they thought was a cartel drone, but which turned out to be a party balloon.
🏈SUPER BOWL: Second Most Watched TV Show, Ever
The Seattle Seahawks’ resounding defeat of the New England Patriots in Sunday’s Super Bowl attracted a TV audience of 124.9 million viewers, host NBC said, a 2.2% decline from last year’s record, but still the second most watched TV show ever.
Seattle dominated the New England Patriots from start to finish in Super Bowl LX, smothering the Pats all night en route to a 29-13 victory that wasn’t nearly as close as the final score.
The Seahawks delivered one of the best defensive performances in Super Bowl history. The Patriots finished with 331 yards of offense, but more than a third came on two garbage-time drives that each covered over 100 yards with New England down multiple scores late in the fourth quarter. The so-called “Dark Side Defense” conjured images all night of the famed “Legion of Boom” unit that led Seattle to its last Super Bowl victory -- and by the end of the evening, it was hard to argue this group wasn’t worthy of the comparison.
⛷️TRUMP SLAMS: Bad Bunny & Olympic Skier
Joined by Lady Gaga and Ricky Martin, Bad Bunny exclaimed to the crowd in Levi’s Stadium to “dance without fear, speak without fear” as a Puerto Rican flag waved behind him.
Under the last vestiges of the California afternoon sun, a phalanx of dancers, fruit vendors, piragua sellers, boxers, power line repairmen (highlighting the constant outages on the island territory), that trademark Concho toad, a string section, a real-life wedding, flags of the hemisphere’s nations and migrant workers clad in the emblematic pavas, the global superstar was blunt in his mantra of the day that “the only thing more powerful than hate is love.” His signature Casita (which he exuberantly crashed through the roof of at one prerecorded point) housed an awards show VIP table of celebs, including Pedro Pascal, Jessica Alba and collaborators Young Miko, Karol G and Cardi B.
President Trump took to social media during the Super Bowl to criticize Bad Bunny’s halftime show.
“The Super Bowl Halftime Show is absolutely terrible, one of the worst, EVER!” Trump posted on Truth Social. “It makes no sense, is an affront to the Greatness of America, and doesn’t represent our standards of Success, Creativity, or Excellence. Nobody understands a word this guy is saying, and the dancing is disgusting, especially for young children that are watching from throughout the U.S.A., and all over the World. This ‘Show’ is just a ‘slap in the face’ to our Country, which is setting new standards and records every single day — including the Best Stock Market and 401(k)s in History!”
If the cheers from the more than 60,000 in the home of the San Francisco 49ers were any indication, there was a lot of love in the house – and not just the aforementioned casita, if you know what I mean? When Bunny handed his Best Album Grammy to a young boy who was reminiscent of Liam Conejo Ramos — the 5-year-old recently freed after being kidnapped and detained by ICE — the whole place picked up what he was really putting down and went wild.
President Donald Trump also called Olympic skier Hunter Hess “a real loser” after Hess said he had “mixed emotions” about representing the United States in this year’s Games. Trump said Sunday on Truth Social that if Hess doesn’t want to represent the U.S. at the Winter Olympics, “he shouldn’t have tried out for the Team, and it’s too bad he’s on it.”“Very hard to root for someone like this,” Trump added.
🦧OBAMAS: Trump Won’t Apologize For Racist Video
The White House deleted a meme video posted on President Trump’s Truth Social that depicted former President Barack Obama and his wife, Michelle, as apes — after GOP Sen. Tim Scott (R-SC) called the clip the “most racist thing I’ve seen” and demanded it be taken down.
Speaking to reporters on Friday, Trump said “I didn’t make a mistake” when asked whether he was going to apologize. He added he had only seen the beginning of the video before it was posted by a staff member and didn’t know it contained that depiction of the Obamas.
White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt initially defended the post and accused critics of fomenting “fake outrage” — but the video was taken down a little before noon Friday.
A White House official added that a staffer had “erroneously made the post. It has been taken down.”
Scott, the highest-ranking black Republican in Congress, chided the White House earlier on X: “Praying it [the post] was fake because it’s the most racist thing I’ve seen out of this White House. The President should remove it.”
☕️COFFEE FIGHTS DEMENTIA: New Study
Go ahead have that second cup of joe.
A large new study provides evidence of cognitive benefits from coffee and tea — if it’s caffeinated and consumed in moderation: two to three cups of coffee or one to two cups of tea daily.
People who drank that amount for decades had lower chances of developing dementia than people who drank little or no caffeine, the researchers reported. They followed 131,821 participants for up to 43 years.
The findings, published in JAMA, don’t prove caffeine causes these beneficial effects, and it’s possible other attributes protected caffeine drinkers’ brain health. But independent experts said the study adjusted for many other factors, including health conditions, medication, diet, education, socioeconomic status, family history of dementia, body mass index, smoking and mental illness.
🦠NIPAH VIRUS OUTBREAK: Deadlier Than COVID
An outbreak of the deadly Nipah virus in India has put the world on high alert, given the fatality rate in humans can be between 40% and 75%.
Several countries, including Thailand, Malaysia, and Singapore, have introduced new screening and testing measures, after at least two people died of Nipah virus in the Indian state of West Bengal this month.
Like Hendra virus, Nipah is in a category of viruses called henipaviruses. It is zoonotic, meaning it can spread from animals to humans.
There are three major ways it’s transmitted.
The first is via exposure to bats, and in particular via contact with the saliva, urine, or faeces of an infected bat. Infections can also occur from contact with other infected animals, such as pigs in the original outbreak in Malaysia.
🗳️ELECTIONS: Trump Wants GOP To Nationalize
President Donald called on Republicans to “take over” and “nationalize” voting as he continued to make false claims about the electoral process in the U.S. with the 2026 midterm elections on the horizon.
Trump made the comments in an interview with former FBI Director Dan Bongino, who resigned from his post in December and returned to podcasting.
“The Republicans should say, ‘We want to take over,’” Trump said. “We should take over the voting ... in at least many, 15 places. The Republicans ought to nationalize the voting. We have states that are so crooked and they’re counting votes.”
The Constitution gives states the authority to conduct federal elections, subject to laws passed by Congress. The elections clause states, in part, that “state legislatures will establish the times, places, and manner of holding elections for the House of Representatives and the Senate.”
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‼️TRUMP: Wants Name On Penn Station, Dulles
No kidding
The Trump administration asked Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., for Dulles International Airport and New York’s Penn Station to be named after President Donald Trump in exchange for releasing the federal funds required to build a long-delayed tunnel between New York and New Jersey.
The administration halted funding for the $16 billion Gateway project at the start of the federal government shutdown last fall. But even though the shutdown ended in November and the full appropriations packages passed this week, the administration has yet to release the money.
The massive $16.1 billion project includes a new railway tunnel under the Hudson River that would connect New Jersey and New York. The project underwent years of delays and other problems, but it got a boost in 2024 when President Joe Biden’s administration agreed to provide an additional $6.9 billion.
🎭KENNEDY CENTER: Trump Closing For 2 Yrs
President Trump shutting down the Kennedy Center, which has been battered by cancellations and boycotts, for two years starting this summer. He said that would allow his administration to transform what he called “a tired, broken, and dilapidated Center,” into “the finest Performing Arts Facility of its kind.”
Trump’s announcement came after a major backlash by performers, contributors and audience members and amounted to a sudden change in direction for what has been a high visibility initiative of his second term.
💸TRUMP INC.: Sues IRS For $10 Billion
President Trump, his two eldest sons, and his family business sued the IRS for $19 Billion over alleged leaks of their confidential tax information, court records showed Thursday.
The civil complaint alleges that the IRS and Treasury failed in their obligation to prevent the leak of those tax records by former IRS employee Charles “Chaz” Littlejohn in 2019 and 2020.
A spokesman for Trump’s legal team told CNBC in a statement, “The IRS wrongly allowed a rogue, politically-motivated employee to leak private and confidential information about President Trump, his family, and the Trump Organization to the New York Times, ProPublica and other left-wing news outlets, which was then illegally released to millions of people.”
“President Trump continues to hold those who wrong America and Americans accountable,” the spokesman said.
💻X: Probed Over Sexual A.I. Pic Spread
Elon Musk’s X is being investigated by the European Union over concerns it fails to prevent its Grok AI from spewing out deepfake images “that may amount to child sexual abuse material.”
“Non-consensual sexual deepfakes of women and children are a violent, unacceptable form of degradation,” said EU tech commissioner Henna Virkkunen. The case falls under the bloc’s online content rulebook, the Digital Services Act, which places strict guardrails on harmful and illegal material on the web.
Global condemnation of Grok has escalated over recent weeks after users across multiple countries flagged the AI chatbot for generating sexualized imagery and posting it to X, prompting swift rebukes from regulators and child safety advocates.
💻TIKTOK: Deal To Keep Operating In US
The United States and China have signed off on a deal that would hand control of TikTok’s U.S. operations to a group of investors backed by President Donald Trump, according to a White House official.
The deal, facilitated by the Trump administration, means the U.S. version of TikTok will become majority-owned by a group of investors that includes the American tech giant Oracle, the California-based private equity fund Silver Lake and the United Arab Emirates investment firm MGX.
China’s ByteDance will keep a 19.9% stake in the U.S. operation, TikTok said in a December memo.
Exiger’s Bob Kolasky worries that China still has access to your data
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🏛️Jack Smith: Trump investigations
Former special counsel Jack Smith on Thursday defended his decision to secure two criminal indictments against President Trump and asserted his team had gathered enough evidence to convict.
Smith gave his first public testimony about his work, appearing before the House Judiciary Committee. Republican members of the panel attacked Smith’s move to collect phone records of lawmakers who had been in contact with Trump allies around the time of the Capitol riot in 2021. And they cast the historic investigations of Trump as politically motivated.
“It was always about politics and to get President Trump, they were willing to do almost anything,” said Rep. Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, the panel’s chairman.
Smith insisted if he had it to do again he’d indict Trump or any President who tried similar shenanigans.
FORD EMPLOYEE: Trump Gives Him The Finger
A Ford employee has been suspended after a verbal exchange with President Donald Trump that led to Trump flipping off the employee during the president’s visit to Ford Dearborn Truck Plant.
In the incident the president is reported to have made an obscene gesture in return to the worker.
Trump visited the factory where Ford assembles its F-150 pickup ahead of a planned speech before the Detroit Economic Club. It was a visit that started off well and by and large was positive, Ford Executive Chair Bill Ford told the Detroit Free Press on the sidelines of the Detroit Auto Show late Jan. 13.
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🇮🇱ANTISEMITES: Trump-MAGA Has No Room
President Trump says the MAGA movement doesn’t have room for people with antisemitic views, his most direct public statement yet.
“I think we don’t need them,” he said during an interview with The New York Times, when asked whether such people had a place in his coalition. “I think we don’t like them.”
Trump’s comments stand in contrast to Vice President JD Vance, who said last month that the party did not need “purity tests.”
“I didn’t bring a list of conservatives to denounce or to deplatform,” Vance said at Turning Point USA’s annual gathering, AmericaFest.
🛢️VENEZUELA: YOUR Tax $ To Rebuild Oil Industry
President Trump has suggested YOUR tax money could reimburse energy companies for repairing Venezuela’s infrastructure to pump and ship oil for years to come. But, as President Trump pushed U.S. oil companies to commit to invest $100 billion in Venezuela at a White House meeting, the CEO of ExxonMobil warned the company is far from enlisting and said that Venezuela is “uninvestable.”
And now Secretary of State Marco Rubio says Trump wants to buy Greenland with YOUR tax money. Rubio says he will meet with officials from Denmark next week about Greenland. Rubio’s comments on Capitol Hill came as the Trump administration has amped up its rhetoric about taking over Greenland, which is a self-governing territory of Denmark.
🧩Venezuela & Greenland:
It’s About The Oil and More
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Americans are now paying an average of around $2.80 at the pump, the lowest level since early 2021, according to the Energy Information Administration.
President Trump claims Venezuela will turnover as much as 50 million barrels of oil to the US, worth roughly $2.8 billion, saying the oil will be sold with profits controlled by him:
“A tremendous amount of money will have to be spent in Venezuela and the oil companies will spend it, and then they’ll get reimbursed by us or through revenue,” President Trump said. Yes, that’s you the taxpayer.
Ousted Venezuelan leader Nicolás Maduro and his wife pleaded not guilty to drug trafficking and other federal charges in a New York courtroom, telling the Judge he was ‘Kidnapped’ and is a prisoner of war.
The federal judge ordered them detained pending a trial that could be more than a year away.
Secretary of State Marco Rubio told lawmakers that recent administration threats against Greenland didn’t signal an imminent invasion and that the goal is to buy the island from Denmark, according to the Wall Street Journal.
Trump again said the U.S. will “run Venezuela” until a “safe, proper and judicious transition” of power can be arranged. Trump did not say whether U.S. forces would occupy Venezuela, although he added he was not afraid of “boots on the ground.” It comes after the U.S. military captured Maduro in a weekend strike on Caracas.
Delcy Rodríguez, previously Maduro’s vice president, was sworn in on Monday as Venezuela’s interim leader. She has red to work on a “cooperative agenda” with the U.S. but also condemned what she described as its “illegitimate military aggression.”
Venezuela has declared a state of emergency. At least 80 people were reportedly killed in the U.S. attack, including Cuban troops guarding Maduro, military personnel and civilians, according to a senior Venezuelan official. President Trump said that no American troops had been killed. He said, however, that some service members had been injured.
The Trump administration has accused Maduro of leading a drug-trafficking organization that represented a national security threat, while Trump has also made reference to the country’s vast oil reserves.
The United Nations will meet on Venezuela today. It recently issued a report detailing more than a decade of killings, torture, sexual violence and arbitrary detention by Maduro and his henchmen against political opponents. He stole Venezuela’s presidential election in 2024. He has fueled economic and political disruption throughout the region by instigating an exodus of nearly eight million migrants.
📺CBS:Trump to Dokoupil-I’m Why You Have Job
President Trump bluntly told Tony Dokoupil of “CBS Evening News” he owes his new job — and his paycheck — to Trump’s 2024 election victory, making the assertion straight to the news anchor’s face during a live interview.
The remarks came during an exclusive sit-down Tuesday at a Ford plant in Detroit, where the president linked Dokoupil’s recent promotion to the Trump-era approval of the Paramount-Skydance merger and seemed to take a dismissive tone about the anchor’s compensation.
Asked about the overall economy, Trump took a highly personal approach with Dokoupil, whose hiccups since taking the anchor gig have generated a steady stream of headlines.
SOCIAL SECURITY: Day Of Reckoning
Senators elected this year won’t be able to ‘kick the can’ any longer —Social Security’s future insolvency is their problem.
After years of Congress sidestepping the issue, the lawmakers will have to confront the program’s challenges before their new six-year terms conclude. Recent projections pegged late 2032 as the moment when Social Security’s reserves and incoming tax revenue won’t yield enough money to pay full benefits
Failure to act would trigger automatic benefit cuts. Acting is no picnic either, because raising revenue or reducing promised payments could be politically painful.
🩺 FLU CASES: Highest in 25 Years
If it seems like this year’s flu season is a lot worse than it normally is, that’s because it definitely is…the US is at its highest level of respiratory illness since at least the 1997-98 flu season, according to the CDC.
New government data for flu activity through the week of Christmas — showed that by some measures this season is already surpassing the flu epidemic of last winter, one of the harshest in recent history.
The data was released the same day that the Trump administration said it will no longer recommend flu shots and some other types of vaccines for all children.
Forty-five states were reporting high or very high flu activity during the week of Christmas, up from 30 states the week before.
💉VACCINE RECOMMENDATIONS CUT: Blame RFK Jr
The CDC announced updated recommendations for childhood vaccines with some significant changes. The new guidelines recommend fewer shots and are facing pushback from many doctors and public health experts.
Under the new guidelines, the CDC recommends all children be vaccinated against 11 diseases, a decrease from the 17 immunizations previously recommended.
The vaccines recommended under the new guidelines include diphtheria, tetanus, acellular pertussis (whooping cough), Haemophilus influenzae type b (Hib), Pneumococcal conjugate, polio, measles, mumps, rubella, and human papillomavirus (HPV), as well as varicella (chickenpox). (Some vaccines, such as the MMR shot for measles, mumps and rubella, protect against multiple diseases.)
🪦KENNEDY CURSE: Tatiana Schlossberg Dead
Tatiana Schlossberg, daughter of Caroline Kennedy and granddaughter of President John F. Kennedy, has died following a battle with terminal cancer.
“Our beautiful Tatiana passed away this morning,” the JFK Library Foundation said in a statement. “She will always be in our hearts.”
Tatiana Schlossberg was just 35 years old, and is just the latest in a long line of tragedies to hit the Kennedy family.
She's survived by her husband, George Moran, their young son and daughter, as well as her parents, Caroline Kennedy and Ed Schlossberg, and siblings Rose and Jack Schlossberg.
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🗞️FREEDOM OF THE PRESS: Disappearing
As we head into 2026 Freedom of the Press is in greater danger than ever and it comes from the man who is supposed to uphold that constitutional guarantee— President Donal Trump.
In one of his latest rants on Truth Social the President writes:
If Network NEWSCASTS, and their Late Night Shows, are almost 100% Negative to President Donald J. Trump, MAGA, and the Republican Party, shouldn’t their very valuable Broadcast Licenses be terminated?,” He then answered his own question: “I say, YES!”
While the FCC cannot cancel broadcasting licenses for TV networks such as ABC, CBS, and NBC, they can pull the licenses of their owned and operated local stations.
Trump further accused the New York Times of “endangering national security”, calling the newspaper “a serious threat” in another rant on his Truth Social platform.
“The Failing New York Times, and their lies and purposeful misrepresentations, is a serious threat to the National Security of our Nation,” he wrote.
“Their Radical Left, Unhinged Behavior, writing FAKE Articles and Opinions in a never ending way, must be dealt with and stopped. THEY ARE A TRUE ENEMY OF THE PEOPLE! Thank you for you attention to this matter. PRESIDENT DJT”.
Trump said The Times published what he described as false and misleading reporting and accused it of biased coverage, without providing any evidence to support the allegations.
🎥NETFLIX/WARNER: Paramount Bid Rejected
Paramount has amended its offer for Warner Bros. Discovery, with billionaire Larry Ellison agreeing to personally guarantee $40.4 billion of equity financing for the deal and publish records related to the family trust that backstops the deal.
Warner Bros. Discovery earlier recommended shareholders reject Paramount’s unsolicited all-cash bid for the company saying it believes Netflix’s proposal for its studios and HBO Max streaming service is still superior.
Paramount has launched the hostile takeover bid for Warner Brothers, escalating the battle with Netflix for the movie and TV giant.
It comes as President Trump raised potential antitrust concerns around Netflix planned acquisition of the company. Trump says the deal “could be a problem” because of the size of the combined market share.
Netflix CEO Ted Sarandos and Paramount CEO David Ellison have been courting President Trump like contestants on the Dating Game. Sarandos met with the President last month to grease the skids for his acquisition. Ellison last week met with Trump officials to lobby against the Netflix deal.
Trump shockingly says he wants a new owner for CNN as part of any sale of its parent Warner Bros. Discovery – a signal that he may prefer an offer by Paramount Skydance to purchase the media conglomerate instead of Netflix.
Netflix started as a company mailing videotapes of rented movies in red envelopes to your home, now it wants to transform Hollywood.
Netflix has used technology to disrupt the movie and TV industries, from the way consumers rent movies and TV shows, to the way in which new series are released and even the economics of how entertainment is made.
Netflix offer for Warner Brothers Discovery—a $72 Billion dollar deal— would join the world’s top streaming service with one of Hollywood’s classic studios.
But the deal faces a great amount of regulatory scrutiny .
Prior to the closing of the sale, Warner Bros Discovery would complete the planned spinoff of cable channels including CNN, TBS and TNT.
Netflix is already the world’s largest streaming service, with more than 300 million subscribers. Bulking up with Warner Bros. Discovery assets would create a monster with greater leverage over theater owners and entertainment-industry unions. It could force smaller companies to merge as they scramble to compete. Hollywood is worried.
The big winner: Warner CEO David Zaslav, who is poised to become a billionaire if the deal closes.
The big loser: Paramount Skydance Chief Executive Officer David Ellison, who kicked off the bidding for Warner Bros. with multiple unsolicited bids.
Newly-hired CBS News editor in chief Bari Weiss saw the network’s ratings decline for her first town hall special with Erika Kirk, the widow of conservative activist Charlie Kirk.
The special, which aired at 8 p.m. on Saturday, averaged 1.5 million viewers — a whopping 20% decline in viewers compared to the year-to-date average for the hour, which previously was airing a third hour of “48 Hours,” according to preliminary Nielsen ratings data released Tuesday.
For the all-important 25- to 54-year demographic, ratings tanked 44% to 237,000, the agency said.
🛍️Buy Now Pay Later -or is it-Buy Now Regret Later❓
Cyber Monday spending grew more slowly in the U.S. then Europe, a new phenomenon that partly reflects the impact of President Trump’s trade war on tariff-stung shoppers. Global online spending increased about 5%, while US spending rose by 2.6%, according to Salesforce.
Bargain-hunters clicked their way online to spend $12 Billion on Black Friday weekend, 5% more than last year.
But many consumers are financing their purchases with Buy-Now-Pay-Later plans. The Consumer Guy with warnings from Mark Scribner of Wealth Enhancement Group:
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💊WEIGHT LOSS PILL: Approved BY F.D.A
The FDA just approved a pill version of Novo Nordisk's popular weight-loss drug Wegovy (semaglutide), making it the first daily oral GLP-1 medication for weight management and heart risk reduction, expected in early 2026, offering a needle-free option with similar efficacy to the injectable, a major step in the growing obesity treatment market.
The company’s stock has popped 7% on the approval.
🎤BARRY MANILOW: Lung Cancer
Barry Manilow has lung cancer and will reschedule his January shows to undergo surgery.
The 82-year-old singer-songwriter revealed the diagnosis in a statement shared via Instagram. He said that he recently had bronchitis for two periods of multiple weeks, so his doctor ordered an MRI out of precaution.
“The MRI discovered a cancerous spot on my left lung that needs to be removed,” he wrote. It’s pure luck (and a great doctor) that it was found so early,” he said. “The doctors do not believe it has spread, and I’m taking tests to confirm their diagnosis,” he added.
Manilow is “going into surgery to have the spot removed,” forcing him to reschedule the January shows on his Christmas: A Gift of Love concerts.
🥃JIM BEAM: Stops Production-Booze Struggles
It’s enough to drive you to drink!
Jim Beam, the country’s largest maker of bourbon, has announced a year pause in production amid challenges facing the American whiskey industry.
The decision is the latest in a series of production cuts, layoffs and financial crises across the wine, beer and spirits sector, which has seen sales drop.
The situation will likely get worse as 2025 draws to a close: At the end of October MGP Ingredients, which distills whiskey on contract for other brands, reported a 19% drop in sales for the third quarter.
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🚬SMOKIN’: Trump Orders Pot Rules Relaxed
Cannabis stocks HIGHER as President Trump eases restrictions on marijuana.
Trump has ordered marijuana reclassified as a less dangerous drug, a move that represents one of the biggest shifts in US policy toward cannabis in decades.
Trump has discussed the idea with marijuana industry executives, Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services Administrator Mehmet Oz.
The Amplify Seymour Cannabis ETF (CNBS) rallied more than 19%.
🏆AND THE OSCARS GO TO: YouTube
In news that is sending shock waves across the entertainment industry, the Oscars ceremony — which has aired on traditional TV for 70 years — will be moving to YouTube starting in 2029 and will be streamed by the Google Owned company through at least 2033.
ABC will continue to air the Oscars — long the world’s most watched awards telecast — through the 100th edition of the awards show in 2028. After that, the ceremony will be available live and for free to over 2 billion people around the world on YouTube, and to YouTube TV subscribers in the U.S.
🤖A.I.: Trump Signs Order to Cut State Laws
President Trump signed an executive order that aims to override state laws on artificial intelligence.
The order would allow the Justice Department to punish states with rules deemed restrictive for AI, in a move to bring the U.S. under one federal standard. Silicon Valley executives had been lobbying the president to ban state AI laws that they said could cause the U.S. to lose the AI race to China.
White House AI czar David Sacks said Thursday that the government planned to keep laws protecting children’s safety but target certain state regulations deemed onerous.
At the local level, many voters objected to the spread of data centers, the building blocks of AI’s advance, whose huge demand for electricity is getting linked to bigger household bills. That affordability issue now has political traction. It helped Democrats score major wins in Virginia and New Jersey.
🧑🏭TRUMP: U.S. May Seize MORE Oil Tankers
The U.S. may seize more oil tankers according to the White House, after it took over a tanker off the coast of Venezuela, loaded with crude oil.
President Trump has been engaged in a pressure campaign on the government of President Nicolás Maduro, whom he has labeled a terrorist drug cartel leader. Maduro vowed to “kick in the teeth” of America after the seizure.
President Trump claims the tanker is the largest ever to be seized, and says “other things” would be coming soon.
Asked what would happen to the oil on the seized oil tanker near the coast of Venezuela, President Trump said: “Well, we keep it, I guess.”
Venezuela’s government called the seizure a “barefaced robbery and an act of international piracy” aimed at stripping the country of its oil wealth.
Top military officers showed senior members of Congress video of a Sept. 2nd attack on a boat suspected of carrying drugs, and defended the follow-up strike that killed two survivors. Lawmakers left the closed-door meetings with starkly different conclusions: Democrats said the video deepened their concerns about the legality of the Trump administration’s military campaign, while several Republicans said they were satisfied it was lawful.
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said during a cabinet meeting that he never ordered Admiral Bradley, a special operations commander, to carry out the second strike which destroyed the boat and killed two survivors, though he defended the officer’s actions.
Sen. Mark Kelly (D-AZ) stepped up his war of words against Hegseth, calling him a “12-year-old playing army.”
In a separate incident the Pentagon’s watchdog has reportedly found that Hegseth put U.S. personnel and their mission at risk when he used the Signal messaging app to convey sensitive information about a military strike against Yemen’s Houthi militants.
🚨NATIONAL GUARD: Suspect Charged With Murder
U.S. Army Specialist Sarah Beckstrom, 20, died after being shot in Washington, D.C.; the second soldier who was shot remains in critical condition.
The suspect, Rahmanullah Lakanwal, is to be charged today with first-degree murder. The alleged gunman is an Afghani who worked with C.I.A.-backed military units during the U.S. war in Afghanistan.
Officials call the attack a “targeted shooting” by the lone gunman, who guardsmen tackled after the shootings.
Trump called for “reverse migration” in the US after announcing that the soldiers had died from her injuries. Trump proposed measures such as permanently pausing admissions from “third world” countries and revoking citizenship for some naturalized migrants.
Defense Secretary Pere Hegseth says Trump, who was in Florida at the time of the shooting, has ordered him to deploy 500 more national guard troops to the nation’s capital.
Trump has called the operation “the most successful public safety and national security mission in the history of our nation’s capital,” and earlier this week he said, “We haven’t had a murder in six months.” Data from the local police shows at least two dozen homicides since the Guard was deployed to the city.
National Guard troops are barred from carrying out police duties under the 1878 Posse Comitatus Act, which precludes the military from domestic law enforcement.
Last week, a federal judge ordered a temporary suspension of the deployment, which began in August, finding that it is likely illegal.
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⚾️ METS: Two Stars Leave For More Money
A big hole in Mets pitching.
Edwin Díaz and the World Series champion Dodgers are in agreement on a deal, The Post’s Jon Heyman confirmed. The sides agreed on a three-year, $69 million contract, a record average annual value for a reliever.
The Mets offered three years and $66 million with modest deferrals, The Post’s Joel Sherman reports, and they expressed there was wiggle room to go higher.
And slugger Pete Alonso has a new home.
The Polar Bear is headed to the Orioles on a five-year, $155 million contract.
Alonso is coming off a season in which he hit 38 home runs.
🗳️ MIAMI: Elects Dem Mayor Over Trump-Backed Candidate
Eileen Higgins became the first Democrat to win the Miami mayoral office in three decades, defeating Trump-backed Republican Emilio González.
The mayor’s race was the latest to draw national attention in the wake of recent gubernatorial and other elections in which Democrats won or outperformed expectations. Though the Miami mayor’s powers are limited and the contest was officially nonpartisan, the race became infused with broader issues over affordability and Trump administration policies on immigration and the
👨🏭UKRAINE: White House Pushes Peace Plan
Vladimir Putin could return to the world stage under a European peace plan that agrees to allow Russia back into the G8.
The offer was made in a counter-proposal to Donald Trump’s 28-point plan, which heavily favoured Russia.
The European plan contains several concessions, including a cap on the size of Ukraine’s army and a commitment to elections that could see Volodymyr Zelensky removed from power – a key demand of Moscow.
Following an emergency summit in Geneva, Marco Rubio, the US secretary of state, said on Sunday night that the US was now “making some changes” to its peace plan.
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🤖MORE JOB CUT WOES: Blame AI
New data shows it was the worst October for layoff announcements since 2003 as companies slashed jobs to save money, pared back pandemic-era hires, and planned ahead for artificial intelligence, according to the global outplacement firm Challenger, Gray & Christmas.
Employers announced 153,074 cuts last month, compared to 55,597 cuts in October 2024.
Amazon is laying off 14,000 corporate employees this year, and as many as 30,000 employees in the near future, driven by ‘Artificial Intelligence integration’.
The job cuts will affect departments including human resources, cloud computing, and advertising, to reduce costs.
Also sighting A.I. advances, UPS has since last year reduced its work force by 48,000 employees, the company said on Tuesday, in a cost-cutting drive aimed at bolstering profits and winning back investors.
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A news special on Britain’s Channel 4 titled “Will AI Take My Job?” investigated how automation is reshaping the workplace and pitting humans against machines. At the end of the hour-long program, a major twist was revealed: the anchor, who narrates and appears throughout the telecast reporting from different locations, was entirely AI-generated.
And this song created through artificial intelligence has made history topping a Billboard country music chart, but it has also sent shockwaves through the music industry, with artists getting vocal about the AI-generated hit.
The new country tune, “Walk my Walk” by Breaking Rust, recently hit No. 1 on Billboard’s Country Digital Song Sales chart, reaching over 3 million streams on Spotify in less than a month.
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🎶Keep on Rockin’🎶
Listening to music in your senior years could cut your dementia risk by 40%.
Older adults who listened to music at least once a week had a significantly lower risk of dementia, according to a new study in the International Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry.:
Always listening to music was associated with a 39% reduced dementia risk and better global cognition and memory scores.
Playing an instrument was associated with a 35% reduced dementia risk, but no significant association with changes in cognitive test scores over time.
Regularly engaging in both music listening and playing was associated with a 33% decreased risk of dementia and 22% decreased risk of cognitive impairment no dementia.
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🤳A PICTURE: Worth A Thousand Words
Need we say more about Trump destroying the White House East Wing and building a Ballroom?
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🤖ROBOT UMPIRES: Called Up to Bigs for 2026
Human umpires may be called ‘OUT’ soon!
Robot umpires are getting called up to the big leagues next season.
Major League Baseball’s competition committee approved use of the Automated Ball/Strike System in the major leagues in 2026.
Human plate umpires will still call balls and strikes, but teams can challenge two calls per game and get additional appeals in extra innings. Challenges must be made by a pitcher, catcher or batter — signaled by tapping their helmet or cap — and a team retains its challenge if successful. Reviews will be shown as digital graphics on outfield videoboards.
New York Yankees outfielder Austin Slater, one of four players on the competition committee, said three voted in favor after getting support from 22 of the 30 teams. All six management reps voted in favor.
“I think with any sort of technology, there’s not 100% certainty of the accurateness of the system,” Slater said. “I think the same can be said of umpires. So I think it’s just coming to grips with the impact that technology is going to have and whether or not we were willing to live with that error that was associated with the system, even if the error is very, very miniscule.”
Big league umpires call roughly 94% of pitches correctly, according to UmpScorecards.
💻A.I. : Coming For YOUR JOB
Americans are deeply concerned over the prospect that advances in artificial intelligence could put swaths of the country out of work permanently, according to a new Reuters/Ipsos poll.
Very low rates of Americans with jobs are quitting or being fired each month. But those on the unemployment rolls are now staying there longer than at any time since before the pandemic.
Employers are instead experimenting with AI to make their workforces more productive,
Get this: President Trump on Friday fired the Bureau of Labor Statistics commissioner, hours after the agency reported that job growth in the U.S. had slowed.
Uber is just the latest example of artificial intelligence coming for your job.
The company has just announced a partnership to deploy more than 20,000 robotaxis over the next six years as demand for driverless cars kicks into high gear.
As part of the partnership, the ride-hailing company is teaming up with Lucid, the electric vehicle maker, and Nuro, an autonomous vehicle startup. Under the agreement, Uber will invest $300 million in Lucid. Nuro will develop the self-driving technology that Lucid will use to supply Uber with robotaxis over the course of the deal and receive a multi-hundred-million-dollar investment.
The rapid adoption of AI has stirred up worry among many workers, as it is still unknown exactly what the impacts of the technology will be.
The automation of Amazon warehouses is approaching a new milestone: There will soon be as many robots as humans.
The Wall Street Journal reports Amazon has deployed more than one million robots in those workplaces, Amazon said. That is the most it has ever had and near the count of human workers at the facilities.
Meta shares hit a record intraday high, underscoring investor interest in the company’s new ‘AI super-intelligence’ group.
CEO Mark Zuckerberg has been on an AI hiring blitz amid fierce competition with rivals such as OpenAI and Google-parent Alphabet.
“Artificial intelligence is going to replace literally half of all white-collar workers in the U.S.,” Ford Chief Executive Jim Farley said in an interview last week with author Walter Isaacson at the Aspen Ideas Festival. “AI will leave a lot of white-collar people behind.”
Microsoft will layoff another 9,000 employees. The move is the latest instance of cost-cutting by Big Tech companies as they spend heavily on artificial intelligence. It may also be tied to growing efficiency at these businesses.
🛫RUSSIAN: Drones Shot Down Over Poland
Poland shot down drones that entered its airspace during a widespread Russian attack in western Ukraine, with the NATO member calling the incursion “an act of aggression.”
Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk said that he was in “constant contact” with NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte. Tusk has called for an emergency meeting of the NATO council of ministers, a government spokesman said.
Poland’s military command said drones repeatedly violated Polish airspace during the Russian attack across the border, in western Ukraine.
Leaders across Europe condemned the incident as the latest sign of escalation from the Kremlin, which has rebuffed President Donald Trump's bid to broker peace talks.
Russia labeled the accusations “
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🇺🇦UKRAINE: Trump Fails To Get Putin To Agree To Ceasefire
President Trump spoke with Russian President Putin on a plan to halt fighting in Ukraine for 30 days.
Putin agreed to a limited cease-fire against Ukraine’s energy infrastructure, but remained defiant to a full ceasefire.
It comes after Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said his Oval Office blowup with President Donald Trump was “regrettable,” adding that he stands ready to work under Trump’s “strong leadership” to get a lasting peace.
The shouting match blew up plans to sign a minerals deal.
Exiger’s Kit Conklin tell’s NewsNation the US really needs those minerals.
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🛫Airplane Safety Worries For Your Next Trip
Two people were found dead in the wheel well of a JetBlue plane from New York City after it landed at Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport, the airline said Tuesday. It’s the latest in a string of incidents that have raised concerns over airline security.
A Jeju Airlines plane burst into a deadly fireball during a failed belly landing in South Korea, killing 179 people.
If your fear of flying has ramped up in recent months you’re not alone. More than half of travelers say recent news of aircraft and airline incidents has affected the way they book travel.
The latest problem: turns out new Boeing and Airbus jets have parts made from titanium, sold using fake documentation.
Exiger President Carrie Wibben tells NewsNation it raises concerns about the structural integrity of those planes.
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💻Hackers Take Advantage Of Airline Computer Glitch
It keeps getting worse!
Regulators are investigating how Delta Air Lines is treating passengers affected by canceled flights after the airline’s global tech outage, which forced Delta to cancel more than 5000 flights.
CrowdStrike now warning its customers: hackers are trying to exploit the computer outage.
➡️Exiger’s Katie Arrington with the fallout:
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🚌Childcare Economic Crisis
The Cost of Childcare Is Out Of Control. What Will President Trump Do?
Debbie Bermudezof IMAGINE EARLY LEARNING with the problems on NewsNation
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🎯 Chinese Slave Labor Making Your iPhone
Republican Vice Presidential nominee JD Vance says that shiny-new iPhone you want to buy may be made by Chinese slave labor. Vance named China the biggest threat to the U.S. & Democratic VP Candidate Tim Walz agrees.
While Apple denies it uses slave labor, China and Supply Chain expert, Exiger CEO Brandon Daniels tells NewsNation many US companies unknowingly use Chinese slave labor, and that needs to stop now.
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