🚨 ISRAELI HOSTAGES RELEASED🚨
💸YOUR 401K 🆙: New US/CHINA Trade War?
✈️SHUTDOWN: Flight Delays-Controller Sickout
👩🎨TROOPS: Trump—‘Jail Chicago Mayor, IL Gov’
💊BITTER PILL: Drug Tariff
💉VACCINES: Trump Gets Covid, Flu Shots
🎥DIANE KEATON: Dies at 79
🚨ISRAELI HOSTAGES RELEASED🚨
Seven Israeli hostages were freed by Hamas on Monday morning as part of a cease-fire in Gaza, the Israeli military said, starting an exchange that was also expected to see Israel release nearly 2,000 Palestinian prisoners later in the day.
The remaining 13 living Israeli hostages in Gaza have been transferred into the hands of the Red Cross, the Israeli military said in a statement.
The release of the first hostages was a crucial step in a deal between Israel and Hamas that took effect on Friday and was brokered in part by the United States.
President Trump landed in Israel on Monday morning and arrived at the Knesset, the country’s Parliament, where he was scheduled to speak. He was then expected to fly to Egypt to attend a summit on the cease-fire deal with other world leaders.
The U.S.is sending 200 troops to Israel to monitor the implementation of the cease-fire deal.
251 people were abducted during Hamas’s October 7, 2023 attack which resulted in the deaths of 1,219 Israelis, mostly civilians.
Israel’s retaliatory campaign in Gaza has killed at least 67,194 people, according to the health ministry in the Hamas-run territory, figures the United Nations considers credible.
💸YOUR 401K🆙: New US/CHINA Trade War?
Stock futures rising this morning, rebounding from Friday’s sell-off after President Donald Trump said trade relations with China “will all be fine.”
Dow dropping almost 900 points to end last week with President Trump threatening a 100% tariff on all products from China, after Beijing restricted access to rare- earth minerals.
The minerals are needed by American companies to manufacture everything from smart phones, to EVs, to jet fighters.
“Threatening with high tariffs at every turn is not the right way to get along with China,” Beijing said. “China urges the U.S. to correct its wrong practices as soon as possible.”
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Drug manufactures in China and elsewhere are already subject to a 100% tariff – unless the drugmaker is building a plant in the U.S.
➡️Exiger CEO Brandon Daniels says China is a major supplier of many over-the-counter drugs you may use every day, and that’s a “Bitter Pill to swallow.”
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It comes as parts of the country are in recession and housing is out of reach for many. Kingsview Partners Scott Martin tells NewsNation it’s the tale of two economies.
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A growing sense of economic pessimism is taking hold as a Fannie Mae survey shows nearly 70% of Americans believe the economy is headed in the wrong direction, 73% saying it’s a bad time to buy a house.
Americans have the most ever in stocks. Data from the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis shows that households and nonprofits were investing about 45% of their assets in stocks the highest exposure to stocks ever.
📉By the Numbers at the Close
Dow 🔻 878 points
S&P 500 🔻 2.5%
Nasdaq 🔻 3.5%
Gold 🆙 $4,015
📲TIKTOK: U.S./China Deal Still Needs Work
President Trump approved a proposed deal for sale of TikTok’s U.S. business but there’s still a question whether China will go along.
Trump announced that he and Chinese leader Xi approved an agreement for a group of investors to take control of TikTok’s U.S. operations. Rupert Murdoch and tech entrepreneur Michael Dell could be among the U.S. investors who will be part of the potential deal Trump said, but there’s no confirmation of the deal from China.
Exiger’s Bob Kolasky, tells NewsNation , “No matter a deal or not, China still has dangerous access to YOUR personal information.”
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💉VACCINES: Trump Gets Covid, Flu Shots
Do as I say not as I do!
Despite cautioning against the shots, a White House memo from President Trump’s physician summarizing his visit to Walter Reed Army Medical Center says it included a Covid vaccine booster and a flu shot.
Trump’s doctor, Sean Barbarella, said in the one-page document that Trump “remains in exceptional health, exhibiting strong cardiovascular, pulmonary, neurological, and physical performance.”
Trump’s visit to Walter Reed Friday was described in the memo as a “scheduled follow-up,” which White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt on Wednesday had characterized as a “his routine yearly check-up” — despite being Trump’s second such visit after undergoing an annual physical exam in April.
The memo said Friday’s check-up was part of Trump’s “ongoing health maintenance plan.” The president underwent “advanced imaging, laboratory testing, and preventative health assessments,” his physician wrote.
🏅NOT TRUMP: Venezuelan Wins Nobel Peace Prize
Dashing President Trumps much publicized hopes to become the recipient, Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado has been awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. The Nobel Committee praised “her tireless work promoting democratic rights for the people of Venezuela and for her struggle to achieve a just and peaceful transition from dictatorship to democracy.”
Machado emerged from Venezuela’s political sidelines before the 2024 election. That followed years of political apathy in Venezuela, where the government of President Nicolás Maduro crushed protests and arrested dissidents, helping to spur an enormous exodus from the country.
✈️SHUTDOWN: Flight Delays-Controller Sickout
More than 50 cancellations and 9,000 flights delayed over the last two days due to staffing shortages caused by the government shutdown according to FlightAware.
Delays have rippled across the country, impacting airports in Dallas, Chicago, Nashville and Washington, DC, as controllers are forced to work without pay. The Trump administration had also warned that flights to small, rural airports could end as soon as this weekend before additional funding was found to secure them until early November.
Federal health and homeland security workers have received layoff notices, agency officials said Friday, as the White House began another round of cuts to fulfill President Trump’s threats to cull agencies and jobs while the government is shut down.
President Trump said he had directed the Pentagon to pay military service-members despite the government shutdown. This as the White House Says Federal Workers’ Back-Pay During the Shutdown Isn’t Guaranteed.
Air traffic controllers are required to work through the shutdown, but will only be paid after it ends.
Roughly 750,000 federal employees have been placed on furlough. “Essential employees,” including those flight controllers and active-duty military members, are required to work despite not getting paid. Trump has threatened mass layoffs of federal workers during the shutdown.
This is the first federal shutdown since 2019, when parts of the government were shuttered for 35 days.
This time, the dispute is over Democrats’ demand that the president agree to extend expiring health care subsidies and restore Medicaid cuts.
Social Security payments still go out. Seniors relying on Medicare coverage can still see their doctors and health care providers can be reimbursed.
Airport TSA checkpoints will keep working, as will air traffic controllers.
The U.S. Postal Service is unaffected by a government shutdown and veteran health care also continues during a shutdown.
FBI investigators, CIA officers, and agents operating along with members of the Armed Forces.
Democratic leaders lashed out at Trump for posting a crude, A.I.-generated video insulting and mocking them on Monday night, hours after meeting with them at the White House to discuss the impasse.
The deepfake video superimposed a cartoon mustache and sombrero over Representative Hakeem Jeffries of New York, who was pictured standing silently while Mariachi music played and the voice of Senator Chuck Schumer was distorted to deliver expletive-laden remarks that included the line, “Nobody likes Democrats anymore.”
Jeffries responded by posting a photograph of Trump smiling alongside Jeffrey Epstein, the disgraced financier who died in prison in 2019 while awaiting trial on sex trafficking charges.
👩🎨TROOPS: Trump—‘Jail Chicago Mayor, IL Gov’
A judge has blocked the deployment of National Guard troops in the Chicago area for two weeks, finding no substantial evidence that a “danger of rebellion” is brewing in Illinois. It’s a victory for Democratic officials who lead the state and city and have traded insults with President Donald Trump about his drive to put troops on the ground in major urban areas.
“We must now start calling this what it is: Trump’s Invasion,” says Illinois Governor JB Pritzker.
Meantime, a federal judge in Oregon accused the President of circumventing her order, even as Trump turned to Texas for troops to send to Portland.
Trump told a stunned group of the nation’s top military officers gathered in Virginia that troops should use “dangerous” American cities as “training grounds.”
Trump said defending the homeland was the military’s “most important priority.” He signaled the leaders in the room could be tasked with aiding in federal interventions in Democratic-led cities such as Chicago and New York City.
The Posse Comitatus Act, an 1878 law, generally bars active-duty forces from providing domestic law enforcement.
Over the objections of local and state officials, Trump previously sent the National Guard and active-duty Marines to Los Angeles, where there were protests against immigration raids.
The National Guard continues to patrol in Washington, DC, and a deployment is expected in Memphis.
📺KIMMEL: A Lesson For Corporate America
The final holdout in the Jimmy Kimmel boycott, Nexstar, has decided to resume carrying the telecast. Both Nexstar and Sinclair will carry tonight’s program.
According to Nielsen Live+3 day ratings, Kimmel’s September 23 broadcast drew a total of 8.6 million viewers to ABC — a 2 million jump over the initial same-day tally. That is over four times the amount of his usual audience, even though more than 20% of ABC affiliates boycotted the show. And the episode has over 25 million views on YouTube. The normal Kimmel YouTube clip of a monologue is around 250,000.
It is a triumph of people —the audience— over corporate America —Disney. Pressure was mounting against Disney and ABC from celebrities and policymakers after Kimmel’s show was pulled off air following the host’s comments about Charlie Kirk. The company also came under pressure from its customers, some of whom canceled Disney+ subscriptions and Disney World vacations in protest. Disney caved and returned Kimmel to air.
“This show is not important,” Kimmel said fighting back tears in his returning monologue. “What’s important is that we get to live in a country that allows us to have a show like this.” Kimmel says President Trump’s attacks on the news media and late-night hosts are “anti-American.”
Kimmel said it “was never my intention” to make light of the murder of a young man.“ He teared up while praising Erica Kirk for forgiving the man who killed her husband, saying he was touched by her “selfless act of grace” and that the country needs more of that.
“I can’t believe ABC Fake News gave Jimmy Kimmel his job back,” President Trump complained in a truth social post, roughly an hour before Kimmel’s show was set to air. Trump suggested that he might sue ABC over its reinstatement of. Kimmel — “I think we’re going to test ABC out on this,” he wrote — and cited a $16 million payment that the network made last year to settle a previous defamation lawsuit that he filed against ABC News.
Trump-appointee, FCC Chairman Brendan Carr threatens “we’re not done yet” with the changes in “the media ecosystem”. It comes after ABC pulled ‘Jimmy Kimmel Live’ off the air after remarks Kimmel made about the death of Charlie Kirk.
Kimmel was benched after saying “the Maga Gang [is] desperately trying to characterize this kid who murdered Charlie Kirk as anything other than one of them and doing everything they can to score political points from it.”
The FCC chairman earlier suggested ABC’s broadcast licenses were at risk from Kimmel’s statements about Tyler Robinson, the accused killer of Kirk.
📋ENEMIES LIST: Comey Indicted: GA D.A, Next?
Former FBI director James Comey has been indicted and charged with making false statements to Congress and obstructing its investigation of the Russia probe.
The indictment of a former FBI director is unprecedented and the culmination of a years-long feud between Comey and President Trump.
“I am not afraid,” Comey said in a video posted to his Instagram account. “Somebody that I love dearly recently said that fear is the tool of a tyrant and she’s right. But I’m not afraid, and I hope you’re not either.”
:“’JUSTICE IN AMERICA!’ One of the worst human beings this Country has ever been exposed to is James Comey, the former Corrupt Head of the FBI,” Trump said in a Truth Social post.
The Justice department has issued a subpoena for records related to the travel history of Fani Willis, the Georgia district attorney who charged President Trump in a sweeping election interference case, according to a federal grand jury subpoena reviewed by The New York Times.
👧AUTISM: False Alarm
President Trump spoke about autism and vaccines at the White House, giving direct and unproven medical advice about vaccines and the use of a common painkiller, acetaminophen, Tylenol, in pregnancy and infancy despite not having any medical background.
The President claimed there was a link between rising autism rates and the use of the painkiller. But multiple health agencies around the world — including the F.D.A. — have not found a conclusive link.
Even Trump admitted the evidence is flimsy: “Bobby wants to be very careful with what he says,” Trump said, referring to Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. “But I’m not so careful with what I say.”
One-out-of-31 children are born with Autism.
Best advice: talk with your doctor.
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🎥DIANE KEATON: Dies at 79
Diane Keaton, who won an Oscar for Woody Allen’s comedy “Annie Hall” and appeared in some 100 movie and television roles, an almost equal balance of them in comedies like “Sleeper” and “The First Wives Club” and dramas like “The Godfather” and “Marvin’s Room,” has died.
Her death was confirmed by Dori Rath, who produced a number of Ms. Keaton’s most recent films. She did not say where or when Ms. Keaton died or cite a cause.
Woody Allen is reportedly taking the death of his former girlfriend, hard. The 89-year-old director is “distraught” over her death, according to People. “He is extremely distraught and surprised and upset,” a source told the outlet.
Diane Keaton was 79.
🎶DOLLY PARTON: “I Ain’t Dead, Yet”
Dolly Parton is sharing an update on her health one day after her sister activated the superstar’s fanbase by asking for their prayers.
“I know lately everybody thinks that I am sicker than I am,” Parton said in a video posted to Instagram Wednesday, captioning the post, “I ain’t dead yet!”
“Do I look sick to you?” Parton said in the video. “I’m working hard here!”
Parton, who noted she was filming the video on Oct. 8 in between working on commercials, said she wanted to “put everybody’s mind at ease, those of you that seem to be real concerned.” She assured fans she is “OK” but said she has “some problems” to deal with and is undergoing “a few treatments.”
🏈MARK SANCHEZ: Victim Sues ExQuarterback
The truck driver who stabbed exJet quarterback Mark Sanchez is suing the saying he was left permanently disfigured by the alleged attack.
Perry Tole, 69, filed a lawsuit against Sanchez, 38, and his employer, Fox Sports, for punitive and compensatory of damages following the alleged violent attack in an Indianapolis alleyway at around 12:30 a.m. Saturday.
The lawsuit alleges that Sanchez, who was in Indiana to report on Sunday’s game between the Colts and the Raiders, “appeared intoxicated” when he “instigated an altercation” with Tole, who was parking in a loading bay in the alleyway while collecting grease from nearby businesses.
🎶TAYLOR SWIFT: Economy
Having conquered the world’s biggest stadiums with her sold-out concert tours, Taylor Swift is proving again she can rule the big screen, too.
,“The Official Release Party of a Showgirl,” is dancing to the top of box office charts with $33 million over the weekend. The “cinematic experience,” as the project has been dubbed, collected another $13 million at the international box office for a global total of $46 million. It’s a significant tally given that “Showgirl” was announced just over two weeks ago and landed in theaters with minimal promotion outside of Swift’s social media feeds.
It isn’t a traditional movie, or a concert film like Swift’s record-breaking “The Eras Tour,” but instead a 89-minute listening party that offers fans a look at a new music video and behind-the-scenes footage for her 12th studio album, “The Life of a Showgirl.” This is Swift’s second No. 1 box office debut after 2023’s “The Eras Tour,” which opened to a staggering $93.2 million.
🦍JANE GOODALL: Dead At 91
Dr. Jane Goodall, a renowned chimpanzee researcher and animal advocate, died Wednesday due to natural causes, the Jane Goodall Institute announced in a statement.
“Dr. Goodall’s discoveries as an ethologist revolutionized science, and she was a tireless advocate for the protection and restoration of our natural world,” the statement said.
She was 91
🤖AI ACTRESS: Draws Fire
The creator of AI actress Tilly Norwood has released a statement following a weekend of heated backlash over the news that talent agents were already interested in signing the digital character.
“To those who have expressed anger over the creation of my AI character, Tilly Norwood, she is not a replacement for a human being, but a creative work – a piece of art. Like many forms of art before her, she sparks conversation, and that in itself shows the power of creativity,” Eline Van der Velden wrote in a statement on Instagram, also posted on Norwood’s own Instagram page.
“I see AI not as a replacement for people, but as a new tool, a new paintbrush. Just as animation, puppetry, or CGI opened fresh possibilities without taking away from live acting, AI offers another way to imagine and build stories. I’m an actor myself, and nothing – certainly not an AI character – can take away the craft or joy of human performance.”
Norwood is the first creation to emerge from recently launched AI talent studio Xicoia, a spin-off from Van der Velden’s AI production studio Particle6. Speaking at the Zurich Summit on Saturday, Van der Velden said that agents had been circling the AI character and an announcement would be made over which agency would be representing her in the coming months.
🤖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.
🏠AMERICAN DREAM: Now $5M Nightmare
The American Dream has long symbolized the promise of opportunity, prosperity, and upward mobility — but that’s turning into an unachievable nightmare for many.
For most Americans, owning a home is the most tangible sign of financial success.
According to new research published by Investopedia, the lifetime cost of attaining the traditional American Dream—including homeownership, retirement, raising children, a wedding, new cars, healthcare, pets, and annual vacations—now totals roughly $5 million.
It comes as Existing home sales stalled last month amid higher mortgage rates.
➡️Housing Expert Rick Sharga says it’s getting harder and harder for young Americans to buy their first home:
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🍦JERRY: Of Ben & Jerry’s Resigns—Politics
Ben & Jerry’s co-founder Jerry Greenfield said he is quitting the brand after 47 years, ahead of parent company Unilever’s planned spinoff of its ice-cream business as a separate entity.
In posts on Instagram and X, Greenfield said he decided to leave Ben & Jerry’s because it was no longer allowed to stand behind social justice issues that were core to its business.
“It’s profoundly disappointing to come to the conclusion that that independence, the very basis of our sale to Unilever, is gone,” he wrote in the social-media posts that were posted on co-founder Ben Cohen’s account on Greenfield’s behalf.
🎤EPSTEIN: Trump—Lewd Drawing Not Mine
House Democrats have released a screenshot of what appears to be a letter signed by President Donald Trump, which was included in a collection of notes sent to notorious sex offender Jeffrey Epstein for his 50th birthday in 2003.
The letter features a conversation between Trump and Epstein inside an apparently hand-drawn outline of a woman’s torso.
Trump’s signature is located just below the hips of the drawing.
The letter is publicly visible for the first time since its existence was first reported by The Wall Street Journal in mid July. Trump has not only denied writing the letter, but sued the newspaper for defamation.
EPSTEIN VICTIMS ANNOUNCE THEY WILL RELEASE THEIR OWN LIST: "We know the names. Many of us were abused by them. We will compile the names we all know were regularly in the Epstein world, and it will be done by survivors and for survivors; no one else involved."
Through tears, a group of women who say they were victimized by Jeffrey Epstein shared their stories on Capitol Hill as they called on lawmakers to support the release of records that the Department of Justice has so far withheld from Congress.
"This is not a hoax. It's not going to go away," said Marina Lacerda, a central witness in Epstein's 2019 indictment.
Ghislaine Maxwell, longtime confidante of the disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein, told a top administration official she never saw President Trump engage in improper or illegal acts during his long friendship with Epstein, according to interview transcripts released late Friday.
She also insisted that a “client list” of the rich and powerful associated with Mr. Epstein did not exist, and denied any scheme to blackmail his associates.
The transcripts and audio, covering two days of discussions in late July between Ms. Maxwell and Todd Blanche, a former Trump defense lawyer tapped to the No. 2 post at the Justice Department, are likely to raise as many questions as they answer. Ms. Maxwell has been seeking to overturn her 20-year sentence, giving her enormous incentive to tell Mr. Trump’s team what they wanted to hear to avoid spending the rest of her life behind bars.
The Maxwell transcript comes as President Trump and his administration fights to silence critics over apparent backtracking on the ‘Epstein Files’. When asked about a pardon for Maxwell Trump said he hadn’t yet considered it.
💸WORLD’s RICHEST: Ellison Beats Musk
Elon Musk lost his title as world's richest man.
Bloomberg News reports Larry Ellison, the co-founder of Oracle beats Musk.
His wealth went up by $101-billion to $393-billion after an extremely strong Oracle earnings report, Oracle stock jumping 35% higher after reporting killer cloud demand numbers.
Musk's net worth is $385-billion.
📺Call It Paramount-CBS-Warner-Discovery-CNN
A blockbuster entertainment deal.
Paramount-Skydance is preparing a bid for Warner Bros Discovery that is backed by the Ellison family, the Wall Street Journal reports.
Shares of Warner Bros surged nearly 30% while Paramount was up 7% after the news. A bid has not yet been submitted and the plans could still fall apart, WSJ said.
If successful, such a deal would bring together two of Hollywood’s most storied studios and the parent companies of streaming services HBO Max and Paramount+. Warner is home to “Barbie,” DC Comics, Harry Potter and TV shows such as “The White Lotus,” as well as cable networks CNN, TBS and TNT.
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💻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 “groundless."
⁉️KAMALA: Blames Biden, Dems For Her Loss
What a crybaby!
Former Vice President Harris suggests in her forthcoming book that former President Biden’s decision to run for reelection last year amounted to “recklessness.”
“And of all the people in the White House, I was in the worst position to make the case that he should drop out,” Harris said in an excerpt for “107 Days” published early Wednesday by The Atlantic. “I knew it would come off to him as incredibly self-serving if I advised him not to run. He would see it as naked ambition, perhaps as poisonous disloyalty, even if my only message was: Don’t let the other guy win.”
“‘It’s Joe and Jill’s decision.’ We all said that, like a mantra, as if we’d all been hypnotized. Was it grace, or was it recklessness? In retrospect, I think it was recklessness,” she added. “The stakes were simply too high. This wasn’t a choice that should have been left to an individual’s ego, an individual’s ambition. It should have been more than a personal decision.”
🥊TREASURY SECY: Threatens to Punch Housing Official in the Face
Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent was fed up and threatened to punch the Federal Housing Finance Head in the face.
For weeks, the Treasury secretary believed that Bill Pulte was bad-mouthing him to President Trump.
And then, last Wednesday, the two men found each other face to face at a dinner .
A back-and-forth by the bar ensued. Mr. Bessent demanded to know why Mr. Pulte was trash-talking him to the president, and then threatened to punch him in the face.
📺SUCCESSION: Lachlan Murdoch Gets Fox
It’s a finale worth of TV’s “Succession”.
Lachlan Murdoch has now seized control of Fox News, The New York Post and The Wall Street Journal from which to influence President Trump and world leaders.
In a seismic development in the decades-long media dynasty presided over by Rupert Murdoch, a settlement has been reached in the Nevada legal fight over his family trust.
The settlement will see James and Elisabeth Murdoch and Prudence MacLeod formally cut ties with the family business and surrender all their equity in News Corp and Fox Corp.
They had objected to several aspects of the strategic path taken by Rupert Murdoch, now 94, and appeared to be in position to exercise majority control toward that end after the death of the eldest Murdoch. In part, James and Elizabeth Murdoch, who blazed their own separate trails in the media business, had concerns about Fox News and the close affiliation of the news network with the family.
🎤TOM HANKS: West Point Cancels Award
The alumni association at the U.S. Military Academy at West Point has canceled an award ceremony for actor and veterans advocate Tom Hanks, citing a desire for the Army service academy to focus on preparing future officers for war after several political controversies involving the Trump administration shook the institution this year, The Washington Post reports.
🧑🏭DEPT of WAR: Trump Renames Defense Dept
President Donald Trump is expected to rename the Defense Department the Department of War through an executive order Friday, a move that the administration has said more accurately reflects the mission of the men and women serving in uniform today.
“Restoring the name ‘Department of War’ will sharpen the focus of this Department on our national interest and signal to adversaries America’s readiness to wage war to secure its interests,” according to a document describing the forthcoming executive order.
The administration had been teasing the change for weeks, with Trump telling reporters during an Oval Office meeting last month that the renaming would be coming very soon. On Thursday, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth in a commencement speech to new military officers at Fort Benning in Georgia said that his job title as “may be a slightly different title tomorrow; we’ll see.”
😷COVID: California Wave
A COVID wave is washing over California, with the state seeing continued increases in the number of newly confirmed cases and hospitalizations as some officials urged the public to take greater precautions.
The extent of the recent increases has prompted some county-level health officials to recommend that residents once again consider wearing masks in indoor public settings, at least until transmission has declined.
California currently has "high" coronavirus levels in sewage, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. And increases are being seen across the Golden State, from Los Angeles County to the San Francisco Bay Area to areas around the state capital.
💉NOT HEALTHY: Former CDC Directors—RFK Dangerous
Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. doubled down on false claims about vaccines and claimed he isn’t limiting access to Covid shots during his Senate testimony, as senators grilled him on his manic changes to immunization policy and federal health agencies.
Kennedy’s leadership is “unlike anything our country has ever experienced,” nine former directors and acting directors of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention wrote in a scathing guest essay for The New York Times.
The piece came days after President Donald Trump fired CDC director Susan Monarez. Through her lawyers, Monarez has maintained she refused to sign off on reckless and unscientific orders.
Meantime, CVS, the country’s largest pharmacy chain, is currently not offering Covid vaccines in 16 states, even to people who meet newly restricted criteria from the Food and Drug Administration.
Amy Thibault, a spokeswoman for CVS, cited “the current regulatory environment” as the reason the vaccine was not available in those states, or in the District of Columbia, emphasizing that the list could change. Legal experts said that federal decisions were creating an extremely difficult situation for pharmacies to navigate.
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💍The Taylor Swift Economy
As a result of Taylor Swift’s engagement to Travis Kelce—Signet Jewelers one of few publicly traded jewelry companies has jumped more than 3%.. That builds on gain of around 3% in Tuesday’s session, which included a pop directly following Swift and Kelce’s afternoon post.
Kelce is reported to have designed the ring with a jeweler, with its vintage-inspired style seeming to match the aesthetic of Swift's newly announced album The Life of a Showgirl.
Industry experts estimate the ring could cost anywhere from $500k up to $4m, said Ruth Faulkner, the managing editor for Retail Jeweller magazine.
The diamond looked to be an 8-10 carat vintage stone, which Ms Faulker said is "quite rare" for an antique piece.
Swift's estimated net worth is $1.6 billion, making her the richest female musician in the world.
🧑🏭TROOPS: Chicago, New Orleans, Baltimore?
The National Guard could be headed to your city next!
President Trump says he could soon direct federal law enforcement intervention to combat crime in New Orleans, Chicago and Baltimore. Asked by reporters in the Oval Office about sending National Guard troops, Trump said, “We’re going in,” but added, “I didn’t say when.”
A federal judge in California rules Trump broke the law by deploying Marines and National Guard troops to Los Angeles in June in response to immigration protests. The judge said Trump, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth and the Defense Department had violated the Posse Comitatus Act, which prohibits using the military to enforce domestic law.
Washington, DC has filed a lawsuit against President Trump and the military over the deployment of the National Guard in the nation’s capital.
“Trump has run roughshod over a fundamental tenet of American democracy — that the military should not be involved in domestic law enforcement,” the suit maintains.
Several other major cities had higher homicide rates than Chicago and New York last year, including St. Louis, Detroit and Baltimore.
Get this, Fox News reports Nation Guard troops will be deployed to support Immigration crack-downs in these states:
Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Idaho, Indiana, Iowa, Nebraska, Nevada, New Mexico, Ohio, South Carolina, South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, Virginia, Wyoming
Bill Maher cautions, Democrats should be focusing their energies on stopping Trump’s “slow-moving coup,” which could shut liberals out from running the federal government as Trump consolidates Republican power.
Trump hinted at such actions in NYC in the future.
🏠FBI: Raids Trump Critic’s Home
F.B.I. agents raided and searched the Maryland home of John Bolton, President Trump’s former national security adviser, an F.B.I. official said. Bolton has become a frequent critic of Trump, appearing often on TV news shows.
Asked about the visible F.B.I. presence at Bolton’s home, a spokesperson for the bureau said agents were “conducting court-authorized activity in the area.”
Bolton was the target of an investigation at the end of Trump’s first term for allegedly disclosing classified information in his 2020 memoir, The Room Where It Happened.
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🚢Trump: Make American Ship Building Great Again
President Trump has signed a deal with South Korea to build more ships in the U.S.
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👹DEVIL IN THE DETAIL: Is Putin-Zelensky-Trump Meeting Really Next?
Nyet - no deal.
Russia launched 270 drones along with missiles at Ukraine , causing injuries and damaging energy facilities. The attacks came just hours after President Trump urged Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky and Russian President Vladimir Putin to meet face to face at a peace conference he would convene in a dark-horse bid to end the war.
Russian officials gave little indication they were working toward such a meeting. Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said plans for any contacts between officials should be laid out “with the utmost care.” Other Russian officials ridiculed Zelensky as an unserious politician.
Zelensky met with Trump and a delegation of European leaders at the White House, seeking to defend his nation’s interests, as Trump presses for a quick peace agreement with Russia that would require Ukraine to make sweeping concessions.
After the meetings, Trump called Putin while Zelensky and the other European leaders were still at the White House, two people briefed on the call said.
Putin’s foreign policy aide said the Russian president and Trump spoke for 40 minutes and agreed that more senior negotiators would be appointed for direct talks between Russia and Ukraine, but he made no mention about Putin participating.
A hot mic caught President Trump whispering something he called “crazy”…“I think he [Russian President Vladimir Putin] wants to make a deal,” Trump whispered to French President Emmanuel Macron in the East Room. “I think he wants to make a deal for me, you understand that? As crazy as it sounds.”
Trump portrayed his meetings with the European leaders as fruitful and said they discussed how to implement security guarantees for Ukraine. He also said that he had initiated steps for a meeting between Zelensky and Putin, at a site to be determined, and said it would be followed by a further trilateral meeting that he would attend.
But Putin has said in the past he would meet with Zelensky only after the details of a peace deal had been negotiated.
Trump claimed Sunday that Ukraine could bring the war with Russia to a halt “almost immediately,” if Zelensky was willing to make two major concessions. Trump called for Ukraine to drop its bid to join NATO, a demand long held by Russia, and also said there would be “no getting back” Crimea – signaling to the nation to accept Russia’s illegal 2014 annexation of the region.
Ukrainian leaders have adamantly opposed relinquishing any of their land to Russia, and the country’s constitution bars Zelensky from ceding any territory.
And so it goes…
🍔KIDS MEALS: For Adults!
Sign of Economic Times, Warning for Restaurants or are people eating less?
Nearly half (44%) of adults are ordering from the kids’ menu for themselves.
Their reasons?
Smaller portions (38%),
simpler choices (37%),
budget-friendly prices (31%).
Whether it’s a mini burger, pizza or mac and cheese, the kids’ menu is becoming a smart option—not just a nostalgic one, according to Lightspeed’s survey of 1,000 U.S. consumers
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📺PARAMOUNT/CBS: ‘Painful’ Job Cuts
Looking to save $2 billion David Ellison’s Paramount is going to have to make some deep cuts.
Those cuts are likely going to be coming in one fell swoop, Paramount president Jeff Shell made clear as CEO Ellison and his top team met with the press in Los Angeles a week after officially taking over from Shari Redstone in an $8.4 billion acquisition.
“We do not want to be a company that has layoffs every quarter,” Shell said, an obvious swipe at the past Paramount regime and its water-torture approach to cost- and staff-cutting. So, it’s going to be painful. It’s always hard, but we don’t want to be a company that every quarter is laying people off.”
“So, it is important for us to get done what we’re doing in one big thing and then be done with it,” added Shell.
🇮🇱NETHANYAHU: Says Israel Will Take Over Gaza Strip
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu say Israel intends to take control of the entire Strip, then hand it over to an unspecified Arab governing force.
The premier said a “detailed plan” will yet be developed for this post-Hamas government, and that it will not place Israel in control of the Strip as a civil government, nor allow the Palestinian Authority to play a role.
“Our plan is not to occupy or annex Gaza. Our goal is to destroy Hamas and get our hostages back, and then hand over Gaza to a transitory government,” Netanyahu said.
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📺CBS: Can Skydance Fix Paramount
The Federal Communications Commission has approved the merger between Paramount Global and Skydance Media, clearing the way for an $8.4 billion sale of some of the most prominent names in entertainment, including the CBS broadcast television network, Paramount Pictures, and the Nickelodeon cable channel.
In recent days, Skydance took steps to assure the FCC that it would install an official at the news division to ensure fairness in its journalism and committing to avoiding diversity, equity and inclusion programs at the company. Many at CBS News take offense to suggestions they are not fair in reporting.
It comes days after Stephen Colbert had a succinct message to President Trump.
In his monologue opening Monday’s “The Late Show With Stephen Colbert,” Colbert referred to Trump’s celebrating CBS‘s sudden decision to axe the show. The president, in a post on Truth Social last Friday, wrote, “I absolutely love that Colbert got fired. His talent was even less than his ratings.”
Colbert then appeared in an on-screen frame that said “Eloquence Cam” and, staring directly into the camera, affected a clipped New York accent: “Go fuck yourself.” (The f-bomb was bleeped out.) The line drew a massive roar of approval from the audience in the Ed Sullivan Theater, followed by cheers of “Stephen! Stephen! Stephen!”
In a decision that rocked the media world, CBS says it’s canceling the most-watched show in late night, “The Late Show With Stephen Colbert,” effective in May after his contract expires.
CBS executives said in a statement that the cancellation was “purely a financial decision against a challenging backdrop in late night.”
“It is not related in any way to the show’s performance, content or other matters happening at Paramount,” said the executives, who included George Cheeks, the president of CBS.
Jon Stewart, host of “The Daily Show” on Paramount’s Comedy Central, said on a podcast he hosts that he is hopeful his show has a future on the channel under new owner Skydance, but “they may sell the whole f—ing place for parts. I just don’t know.”
🏈REDSKINS: Trump—Rename Commanders
President Donald Trump is threatening to hold up a new stadium deal for Washington's NFL team if it does not restore its old name of the Redskins, which is considered offensive to Native Americans.
Trump also said that he wants Cleveland's baseball team to revert to its former name, the Indians, saying there was a "big clamoring for this" as well.
The Washington Commanders and Cleveland Guardians have had their current names since their respective seasons in 2022, and both have said that they don't plan to change them back.
Trump said that the Commanders would be "much more valuable" if they restored their old name.
"I may put a restriction on them that if they don't change the name back to the original 'Washington Redskins,' and get rid of the ridiculous moniker, 'Washington Commanders,' I won't make a deal for them to build a Stadium in Washington," Trump said on his social media site.
📺PBS, NPR: Cuts
Congress has passed and sent to President Trump's a bill to clawback federal funding for the Public Broadcasting Service, National Public Radio and foreign aid programs.
The bulk of the funds targeted in the full bill — about $8 billion — would cuts foreign assistance programs. The remaining $1.1 billion is for the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, which funds NPR and PBS.
Republican Sens. Lisa Murkowski and Susan Collins joined all Democrats in voting against it.
The vote incensed Democrats, who argued that Republicans were ceding Congress’s constitutional powers in the name of cutting a minuscule amount of spending, just weeks after passing their marquee tax bill that would add $4 trillion to federal deficits.
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📱TikTok: Trump Teases Wealthy Buyers
PresidentTrump says a group of buyers for TikTok has emerged.
It comes as TikTok is reportedly building a new U.S.-specific version of its app. The Chinese-owned video platform is planning to roll out the app on American platforms by Sept. 5th.
GisermanGroup client, Exiger’s JC Herz says TikTok as it stands now is dangerous.
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💸WALL ST SPOOKED: Socialist Wins NYC Mayoral Primary
Zohran Mamdani declared victory in New York City’s Democratic mayoral primary after Andrew Cuomo conceded the race. It was a stunning upset, as the young, progressive upstart who was virtually unknown when the contest began built a substantial lead over the more experienced but scandal-scarred former governor.
The pro-business community in New York is already donating to Mayor Eric Adams — who is running for re-election as an independent — and trying to figure out how they can best support the current mayor. Adams Wednesday met with business leaders and political brokers to discuss how to stop the rise of Mamdani
Mamdani’s platform includes increasing taxes on those making more than $1 million a year. He has said he would make the city more affordable by freezing rents on rent-stabilized apartments, investing $70 billion in publicly subsidized housing, providing free bus service and opening government-operated grocery stores.
☢️IRAN NUKES: Severely Damaged Or Not?
The U.S. strikes on three of Iran’s nuclear facilities did not destroy the core of the country’s nuclear program and likely only set it back by months, according to an early US intelligence assessment. The attack sealed off the entrances to two nuclear facilities but did not collapse their underground buildings, classified findings indicated. The report suggests that President Trump’s earlier statement on the strike’s success was overstated.
Trump repeated his previous claims that the attacks were a massive success. At a NATO summit at The Hague, he said the strikes led to the “virtual obliteration” of Iran’s nuclear capabilities and set its program back “by decades.”
C.I.A. director, John Ratcliffe, said the strikes had “severely damaged” Iran’s nuclear program, and repeated Trump’s claims that those initial report, by the Defense Intelligence Agency were based on preliminary assessments and already outdated.
Trump also says U.S. negotiators will meet with an Iran delegation in the week ahead.
The fragile ceasefire seems to be holding after President Trump ripped into both Iran and Israel for breaking the truce hours after it was supposed to start — Trump raging that both “don’t know what the f–k they’re doing.”
“I think they both violated it,” the President said as he left Joint Base Andrews for a NATO summit.
“We basically have two countries that have been fighting so long and so hard that they don’t know what the f–k they’re doing, do you understand?”
-Still, there’s concerns that Iran will close the Strait of Hormuz through which 20% of the world’s oil passes if the ceasefire is not successful.
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🇺🇸USA HIGH ALERT
Virtually every critical infrastructure sector in the U.S. is NOW on high alert amid the conflict between Iran, Israel and the U.S.
The organizations representing critical networks that keep the lights on, the water running and transportation systems humming across the U.S. are bracing for a possible surge of Iranian cyberattacks.
Hackers backing Tehran have targeted U.S. banks, defense contractors and oil industry companies following American strikes on Iranian nuclear facilities — but so far have not caused widespread disruptions to critical infrastructure or the economy.
Exiger’s Bob Kolasky, a GisermanGroup client and former CyberCzar for the Department of Homeland Security, says that could change if the ceasefire between Iran and Israel collapses or if independent hacking groups supporting Iran make good on promises to wage their own digital conflict against the U.S.
The U.S. strikes could even prompt Iran, Russia, China and North Korea to double down on investments in cyberwarfare, according to Kolasky.
Kolasky adds,”As the conflict evolves — and particularly now that the U.S. has struck Iran directly — targets in the United States could be prioritized for action by Iran’s cyber threat capability.”
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💸SOCIAL SECURITY: Runs Out of $ in 8 Years
The Social Security trust fund is on track to run out of money in 8 years, its trustees said in a new report, a year sooner than the last projection.
The U.S. faces a major fiscal reckoning in the early 2030s, as retirement benefits would be on track to be slashed automatically, if Congress does not act to preserve the benefits on which millions of Americans rely.
A law enacted at the start of this year expanding Social Security for railroad and public pension recipients was the main reason for the quicker drawdown.
The new Social Security and Medicare Trustees report, the government's formal annual estimate of the programs' finances, finds that the trust fund for the Social Security retirement program is set to go bust in 2033, the same as last year.
💻STREAMING: Beats Broadcast & Cable Combined
Nielsen reports for the first time last month, streaming viewership in the U.S. eclipsed both cable and broadcast combined.
Streaming's assent has been rapid over cable in particular. When Nielsen first started measuring monthly TV consumption by medium in September 2021, cable represented 38% of viewership, while streaming only represented 28%.
Last month, streaming represented 44.8% of all TV viewership, its largest share of viewing to date. Both broadcast and cable fell to near all-time lows.
📱TRUMP MOBILE: Pres Now In Cell Phone Biz
Nope, we’re not kidding.
The new service, Trump Mobile, will offer a $47.45-per-month plan that includes unlimited talk, text and data, as well as roadside assistance and a “Telehealth and Pharmacy Benefit,” according to its website.
The company, owned by President Donald Trump, also announced it will sell a “T1” smartphone, which appears to feature a gold-colored metal case etched with an American flag.
✈️Summer Of Hell For Airlines
Memorial Day signaled what is expected to be a summer of hell for airlines with one problem after another.
The FAA issued another ground-stop on all flights at Newark Liberty International Airport on Wednesday evening as New York City's second-busiest airport continued to struggle with staffing shortages.
Air traffic control problems are causing flight delays and cancellations, feeding into traveler worries over safety that began in January with the worst US air crash in decades. A global trade war and other economic concerns are driving down the value of the dollar, making overseas travel more expensive for Americans.
About 1.9 million foreigners arrived at the U.S.’s main airports in the past four weeks, down 6% from the same period last year, according to data from U.S. Customs and Border Protection. Airline bookings data for the summer suggest things won’t be picking up soon. Flight bookings to the U.S. from Europe are down by about 12% through August.
Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy says that Newark airport will see “several weeks” of reduced capacity as officials grapple with spiraling delays and safety lapses at one of the country’s busiest hubs, add to that problems at Washington Reagan and Denver’s airport.
☕️COFFEE PERK: Study Finds Healthy Aging
Go ahead, have that second and third cup…
In a new study scientists have found that coffee may offer long-term benefit of healthy aging.
The study has not been peer-reviewed or published, but it was rigorous and included a large number of women who were followed for many years. It also adds to a large body of evidence linking coffee to longer lives and various health advantages, including lower risks of certain chronic diseases .
Many other studies have linked drinking coffee regularly to a lower risk of early death. In a study of more than 46,000 U.S. adults published in May, researchers found that those who consumed one to three cups of coffee per day were about 15 percent less likely to die within the next nine to 11 years than those who didn’t drink coffee.
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👜NO KIDDING!: Homeland Security Secy’s Handbag Stolen
Get this — the woman in charge of America’s security can’t guard her own pocketbook
Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem’s Bag, with Security Badge and $3,000 in cash was Stolen while dining at a Washington, D.C., restaurant. She also lost her passport and keys.
‼️TEXT-GATE: Excuses, Lies & Coverups
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s personal phone number, the one used in a recent Signal chat, was easily accessible on the internet and public apps as recently as March, potentially exposing national security secrets to foreign adversaries, according to rge New York Times.
He apparently did it a second time —Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth used his personal phone to send information about U.S. military operations in Yemen to a 13-person Signal group chat, including his wife and his brother, according to reports.
Asked by reporters if he still had confidence in his defense secretary, President Trump defended Pete Hegseth. “He’s doing a great job — ask the Houthis how he’s doing,” he said, referring to the rebel group in Yemen. The Houthis were the target of strikes about which Hegseth shared information in a private Signal group.
The development comes about a month after it became public that Hegseth shared details of strikes in Yemen in a separate Signal chat with top administration officials. The editor-in-chief of The Atlantic was mistakenly
🔥ARSON : Jewish PA Governor Attacked on Passover
Police say a suspected arsonists has been arrested and will be charged with terrorism after Pennsylvania Governor Josh Shapiro and his family were evacuated from their home after a fire broke out.
Shapiro, a Democrat and a Jew, said on Facebook that the Pennsylvania State Police woke his family by banging on the door around 2 a.m. to warn them of the fire which significantly damaged the Governor’s residence. He said no one was injured.
Hours before the fire, Gov. Shapiro wrote on social media that he and his family were marking Passover, which began at sunset on Saturday.
🏛️HARVARD: Hits Back At Trump
President Trump threatened Harvard University’s tax-exempt status after the school hit back at his administration’s demands for a series of policy changes.
The threat came a day after the Trump administration halted more than $2 billion in federal funding for Harvard because the university rejected changes to its hiring and admissions practices and curriculum.
“No government — regardless of which party is in power — should dictate what private universities can teach, whom they can admit and hire, and which areas of study and inquiry they can pursue,” says Alan Garber, Harvard’s president.
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👙HOOTERS BANKRUPT: Inflation or Deflation?
Hooters, the restaurant chain known for its all-female serving staff in revealing outfits has filed for bankruptcy in a Texas court, the company announced on Monday.
Under the bankruptcy agreement, a group that includes the company’s founders — who independently run about a third of the franchised locations in the United States — will buy the company-owned restaurants in the United States from the private equity firm that owns the chain.
The complicated bankruptcy filing is a way to keep many of the restaurants open.
📺YOUTUBE: Tops TV Viewing
YouTube commanded more TV time than any other media provider in February, and its top ranking was thanks in part to viewers over the age of 50.
The service accounted for 11.6 percent of all TV use in the country in Nielsen‘s rankings of media distributors for the February period (which ran from Jan. 27-Feb. 23). That’s an all-time high for YouTube and the second time it has placed atop the distributor rankings; it previously did so in July 2024.
YouTube improved from 10.8 percent of TV use in January and passed Disney (10 percent) for the overall spot among TV content distributors. Nielsen notes that the rise for YouTube was fueled partly by a somewhat surprising source: people over 50, who accounted for about 36 percent of all time spent watching YouTube on TV screens — more than the combined 28 percent for teenagers and adults 18-34. The media distributor rankings don’t include viewing on computers or mobile devices, which means the demographics Nielsen cited might not be fully representative of YouTube’s total usage across all devices.
🧪23andMe: Files Bankruptcy-Your DNA Safe?
23andMe filed for bankruptcy late Sunday night and announced the resignation of its chief executive, capping a precipitous fall for the DNA-testing company.
So, is that DNA you gave them, and information garnered from it safe?
More than 15 million people provided the company with their DNA samples, a virtually unprecedented repository of human genetic information that could be sold in bankruptcy proceedings.
California’s Attorney General Rob Bonta issued an alert to consumers in his state, reminding them of their right to delete their information, a step some may scramble to take due to concerns over who may ultimately own their personal genetic data.
🇺🇦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.
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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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🤖AI—Latest Battleground For US & China
Artificial Intelligence—the latest battleground for the U.S. and China.
Exiger’s JC Herz tells NewsNation China already knows how to hack American Water Systems and Electrical Grids.
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