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🚨Biden Has COVID, Says He’d Leave Race If Diagnosed With Severe Medical Condition
🗳️Top Dems Tell Biden To Drop Out
🔦Secret Service Failures In Spotlight After Trump Assassination Attempt
🎢It’s The Economy Stupid: Tech Stocks Higher After Sinking, Gold Records
📲Your AT&T Data Hacked
✈️Airplane Safety Alert-Busiest Travel Days Ever
🎢The Economy Stupid: Tech Sinks, Gold 🆙
The tech-heavy Nasdaq sinking over 2.75%, for its worst day since 2022, on the threat of increased tensions between China and the U.S. But Nasdaq futures higher in after hours trading.
Meta, Apple, Netflix and Microsoft all dropped more than 1%.
Semiconductor stocks struggled in particular within the tech sector following a Bloomberg report that the Biden administration is considering tougher trade restrictions if companies continue granting China access to U.S.-made technology. Republican Vice Presidential Nominee J.D. Vance is also a China hawk.
But Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell hinting at an interest rate cut in Capitol Hill testimony, “Reducing policy restraint too late or too little could unduly weaken economic activity and employment,” Powell said.
Nasdaq closed down 2.77%
Dow up 245 points NEW RECORD CLOSE
S&P 500 lost 1.40%
Bitcoin around $65k
Gold Record: Spot bullion rose as high as $2,469.66 an ounce
BTW: Amazon’s Prime Day sales climbed almost 12% in the first 7 hours compared with the same period a year ago
The tech-heavy Nasdaq led the way over the first half of the year, climbing 18% as the artificial intelligence craze captured investor excitement. The S&P 500 jumped 14%, while the Dow lagged with a gain of about 4%.
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⛽️Oil & Gas Prices Higher
Record Summer Travel for the July 4th holiday as Gas pumps higher.
Exiger CEO Brandon Daniels tells Bloomberg blame world hotspots and higher shipping costs:
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📻Biden’s Way Out?: Says He’d Leave Race If Diagnosed With Medical Condition
President Biden has COVID, and is self-isolating in Delaware and canceling campaigning for now.
On a related matter … there may be a face-saving way out for the President: Biden said in a new interview with BET that he would consider dropping out if diagnosed with a serious “medical condition” by doctors.
Senator Chuck Schumer and Rep. Hakeem Jeffries, the two top Democrats in Congress, have each reportedly told Biden privately over the past week that their members were deeply concerned about his chances in November and the fates of House and Senate candidates, according to the New York Times.
Former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi has reportedly conveyed to Biden and his campaign the political peril the Democratic Party faces if he remains atop the ticket, according to Axios.
Meantime, Congressman Adam Schiff (D-CA) says President Biden should step aside in the 2024 race to make way for another candidate, becoming one of the highest-profile Democrats to make such a call.
And an AP/NORC poll shows Democrats favor a new candidate other than Biden.
It comes as the DNC has pushed back its nomination plans by a week as unease continued to grow.
The president spoke for nearly an hour Friday, answering complicated questions off the top of his head, making some minor flubs but mostly appearing like a different person than the one who appeared at the debate two weeks ago. Yet even before he took the microphone, it might already have been too late.
Biden mistakenly referred to Vice President Harris as “Vice President Trump” in the opening question of his highly-anticipated news conference : “Look, I wouldn’t have picked Vice President Trump to be vice president [if] I think she’s not qualified to be president,” Biden said,.
The president misspoke and appeared to lose his train of thought several times as he answered reporters’ questions.
In another blunder, Biden wrongly referred to his chief of staff as “my commander in chief” before catching his mistake.
The President insisted repeatedly that he won't drop out of the 2024 election, remaining resolute in the face of a growing faction of his party that doesn't want him as their presidential nominee…he batted away questions about his age and fitness for office, while defending his record.
"I'm not in this for my legacy. I'm in this to complete the job that I started," Biden said, as he successfully fielded questions about NATO, Ukraine, Israel and domestic issues.
The number of House Democrats calling on him to withdraw rose to more than 18.
Democratic consultant James Carville saying, “You know how bad Chicago is going to be?” , referring to the convention that awaits his party next month. “We are going to sit shiva for four days.”
Longtime Democratic fundraiser George Clooney wrote in a New York Times op-ed Biden should step aside as the Democratic presidential nominee.
Media czars are joining in including Reed Hastings of Netflix; Barry Dillerof IAC; director Rob Reiner; and media heir Abigail Disney.
A massive PR campaign is underway to reject those calls — and rally Democrats to move on from public debate about age and his future.
But we can’t unsee what we saw at the debate, an old, stumbling Biden.
51 Million Voters (across all platforms) watched live and are digesting President Biden’s poor debate performance and Donald Trump’s outright lies.
Biden looked and acted old, tired and feeble. He struggled to cite facts and statistics to bolster his arguments. Some of his responses were incoherent and rambling, like one early in the debate that elicited a rare truthful and accurate statement from Trump: “I really don’t know what he said at the end of that sentence. I don’t think he knows what he said either.” Biden’s debate performance is almost universally panned.
Trump, 78, made wild assertions and false statements, remaining unapologetic about claims the 2020 election was stolen, but in contrast to Biden looked like a President. At the very least, Trump will never agree to debate Biden again. He’ll be happy to leave it exactly where it is.
🚨Keeps Getting Worse: Secret Service Beefed Up Security After Trump Targeted In Iran Assassin Plot - IT DIDN’T WORK
It keeps getting worse and worse we now learn the U.S. obtained intelligence in recent weeks about an Iranian plot to assassinate Donald Trump, and the information led the Secret Service to increase security around the former president BEFORE THE SHOOTING AT THE RALLY. It clearly didn’t work!
Trump, a bandage on his right ear, showed up at the Republican Convention in Milwaukee — without his wife, Melania — 48 hours after the shooting at a campaign rally. He was officially nominated as the Republican candidate.
Trump tells the NY Post: “The doctor at the hospital said he never saw anything like this, he called it a miracle,” …“I’m not supposed to be here, I’m supposed to be dead, “I’m supposed to be dead.”
NBC reports, Before the would-be assassin took aim at Trump, local police notified the former president’s Secret Service detail that they were looking for a suspicious person in the area.
A man fired a weapon at Trump at a rally in Butler, Pennsylvania hitting the former president in the ear. Trump was immediately surrounded by secret service and rushed to a medical facility. As he was escorted to his motorcade, Trump, whose face and right ear were bloodied, pumped his fist in a defiant gesture to the crowd.
Trump now appears to be fine.
One rally attendee was killed. two are in critical conditions and the suspected shooter was killed by the Secret Service.
The shooter was identified as Thomas Matthew Crooks, a 20-year-old from Bethel Park, Pa., and officials say ‘explosives’ were also found in his car and his home It was his father who purchased the AR-style weapon.
The Secret Service is in the hot seat. At the heart of the investigations: How was a 20-year-old lone shooter able to take up an exposed firing position on an open rooftop not much more than a football field away from the former president?
The Secret Service said in a statement that the suspected shooter fired multiple shots toward the stage from an rooftop position outside the rally and is investigating the incident as an assassination attempt .
An Eyewitness tells the BBC that he informed police and Secret Service prior to the shooting about a suspicious man on a roof with a rifle. He apparently was ignored.
🎤Trump’s VP Choice
The Republican National Convention kicked off with Donald Trump picking J.D. Vance as his Vice Presidential running mate.
The Ohio senator is one of the former president's closest allies on Capitol Hill. He’s the author of “Hillbilly Elegy,” which was adapted into a Netflix movie of the same name in 2020.
You can be sure the convention will feature many images of a bloody Donald Trump.
📲Your AT&T Data Hacked
AT&T Says The Data of “Nearly All’ Customers Was Hacked, as cyberattacks against businesses, schools and health systems continue to spread.
Exiger’s Bob Kolasky tells NewsNation how You can protect your data:
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✈️Why Flying Is Less Safe This Summer
2.99 million airline passengers screened on Sunday, the highest-ever in a single day according to the TSA, BUT A MAJOR PROBLEM LURKS IN AIRPLANES.
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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📺Streaming Record Audience
Streaming viewership accounted for a record 40.3% of TV usage in June, according to Nielsen, beating the previous single category record previously set by cable. It’s the highest share of TV ever reported.
Nielsen reports that four streaming services grew their usage by double-digits in June — Disney+ (+14.8%), Tubi (+14.7%), Netflix (+11.8%) and Max (+11.0%).
Summer usually sees a rise in streaming, especially for younger audiences, which is what seems to be happening once again.
📺Paramount Global Agrees to Skydance Deal
CBS’ Owner has agreed to merge with David Ellison’s Skydance, paving the way for a deal.
The merger will marry movie-maker Paramount, broadcaster CBS and cable networks including Nickelodeon, Comedy Central and MTV—with Skydance. Skydance also owns an animation studio and a gaming division, and has a joint venture with the NFL.
🛒Shoppers Cutting Back
Malls are empty as Inflation takes a bite out of wallets.
Retail Analyst Burt Flickinger of SRG on Bloomberg
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🏬Saks Buying Neimans With Help From Amazon
The parent of Saks Fifth Avenue has a $2.65 billion deal to buy rival Neiman Marcus, according to the Wall Street Journal.
Amazon would take a minority stake in the new company, which will be called Saks Global, and plans to provide it with technology and logistical expertise.
🍔Fast Food Deals
$5 value meals — the fast-food industry's latest push to bring consumers back. Restaurant chains, including McDonald's, Burger King and Starbucks, are promoting affordability as consumers trade down to eat at home.
McDonald's $5 meal has a choice of a sandwich (McDouble or McChicken), small fries, four-piece Chicken McNuggets and a small soft drink.
Burger King rolled out its new $5 "Your Way Meal", which comes with chicken nuggets, fries and a soft drink and a choice of three sandwiches.
Starbucks released a new "Pairings Menu" that starts at $5.
🏡Housing Crisis For Millennials
The median price of an existing home sold in May was $419,300, a record-high price and up 5.8% year over year.
Housing Expert Rick Sharga tells NewsNation the American Dream is turning into the American Nightmare for millennials with sky high home prices and near 7% mortgages:
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🚌DayCare Costs More Than Rent
Laura Tulchin, Chief Strategy Officer at Imagine Early Learning tells NewsNation it’s a key issue in the Presidential Election:
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🚙Cyberattack Targets Car Dealers
Buying a new car is even a bigger headache now than normal, hackers have taken down key software for about 15,000 car dealerships across the US and Canada.
Exiger’s JC Herz tells NewsNation such cyberattacks should serve as a warning to all of us:
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💧Your Drinking Water Target of CyberAttacks
A recent string of cyberattacks on water utilities included systems in Kansas, Texas, and Pennsylvania…
…GDIT’s Matt Hayden, Former Dept of Homeland Security Cyber Czar, tells NewsNation the threat is all too real
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💻Cleveland Hacked! - It Can Happen To YOU Too
Cleveland City Hall shut for two days after a “cyberattack”.
Exiger’s Bob Kolasky tells NewsNation it can happen to YOU or YOUR Business:
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🇫🇷France Shifts Right
Marine Le Pen's far-right National Rally party scored historic gains to win the first round of France's parliamentary election. The final outcome will depend on days of alliance-building before next week's runoff.
President Emmanuel Macron's centrist alliance placed third, behind a left-wing bloc.
The results were a huge setback for Macron, who called the snap election after his ticket was trounced by the RN in European Parliament elections last month, Reuters reports.
🏛️WikiLeks Founder Freed
WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange released from a British prison and on his way to a remote Pacific island where he will plead guilty to a conspiracy charge as part of a plea deal with the U.S. Justice Department, according to court documents.
The agreement will free Assange and end the yearslong legal battle over the publication of a trove of classified documents.
Assange was charged by criminal information — which typically signifies a plea deal — with conspiracy to obtain and disclose national defense information, the court documents said.
A letter from Justice Department official Matthew McKenzie said Assange would appear in court in the Northern Mariana Islands, a U.S.-controlled territory north of Guam, at 9 a.m. local time Wednesday (7 p.m. ET Tuesday) to plead guilty.
🔫Guns Public Health Crisis
Guns, the leading cause of death among children and adolescents, are a public health crisis, U.S. Surgeon General Dr. Vivek Murthy declared in an advisory.
Research shows that gun-related suicides—which encompass the majority of all firearm-related deaths—has increased by 45% for people aged 15-24 and 68% for children aged 10-14 from 2012 to 2022, according to the advisory.
Adults have also been impacted by the ongoing crisis. More than half of U.S. adults or their family members have experienced a firearm-related incident throughout their lives, according to an April 2023 survey.
🍿Bad Summer Movies Hurting Malls
Another quiet weekend at movie theaters, dominated once again by Sony’s “The Garfield Movie,” Warner Bros.’ “Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga” and a slew of holdovers.
“The Garfield Movie” earned $14 million in ticket sales while “Furiosa” settled into third place in a close race with “IF,” according to studio estimates.
It’s The Worst Summer Movie Box Office in 30 Years and it’s Hurting Business at The Mall Analyst Burt Flickinger Explains on Bloomberg.
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💻Surgeon General Calls For Teen Warning On Social Media
U.S. Surgeon General Vivek Murthy is calling on Congress to require a tobacco-style warning advising parents that using social platforms might damage adolescents’ mental health.
In an op-ed in The New York Times, Murthy said the mental health crisis among young people is an urgent problem, with social media “an important contributor.”
He said his vision of the warning includes language that would alert users to the potential mental health harms of the websites and apps.
"A surgeon general’s warning label, which requires congressional action, would regularly remind parents and adolescents that social media has not been proved safe," he wrote.
💊Abortion Pill—SCOTUS Throws Out Challenges
The Supreme Court threw out its biggest abortion-related case since overturning Roe v. Wade two years ago, saying that anti-abortion forces who tried to restrict access to a commonly used abortion pill lacked legal standing.
Rejecting the highly-anticipated case preserves access to mifepristone but allows the court to skirt making a ruling on the merits of the case.
The Supreme Court held that the plaintiffs — a group of doctors who oppose abortion but don't take or prescribe mifepristone — couldn't show they were directly injured, as the Biden administration asserted during oral arguments.
But senate Republicans have defeated a bill that would have established a federal right to in-vitro fertilization, a piece of legislation that Democrats brought to the floor as part of an election-year effort to contrast their approach to reproductive rights with that of the party across the aisle.
🍎Apple Soars—Takes a Byte of AI
Apple is again the world’s richest company, beating Microsoft in valuation, shares closing at a new high a day after announcing its long-awaited artificial intelligence push, ‘Apple Intelligence’.
CEO Tim Cook emphasized the need for privacy and personalization, “beyond artificial intelligence,” into “personal intelligence.
Siri now is said to understand more and can perform numerous tasks on iPhones, iPads and Macs. Siri can also tap into ChatGPT.
Most processing will be done your device instead of on servers in the cloud. But the company said for running larger AI models Apple will keep it private by running its own servers with what it calls Private Cloud Compute.
Here are some of its capabilities:
Context-driven notifications: Apple Intelligence can recognize which notifications are important to your personal context.
Writing improvements: Apple Intelligence will introduce system-wide proofreading and style improvements across third-party and native apps.
Image generation: Apple Intelligence can create generative photos based on your photo library, similar to some other platforms. There are three styles: Sketch, Illustration, and Animation.
Cross-application tasking: Apple Intelligence can delve into your apps and execute tasks on your behalf. One of the examples Federighi gave was asking Apple Intelligence to pull up files sent by a contact in a certain time period.
Focus on personal context: Apple Intelligence can draw upon the full suite of your activity but also on what’s on your screen. For example, you can ask it whether a shifted meeting will cause you to be late to a personal commitment, Federighi said.
🚗How Much Is Elon Musk Paid?
Tesla soaring after shareholders approved Elon Musk’s controversial $48 billion pay package.
The 2018 package made Musk eligible for as much as $55.8 billion in stock options if Tesla hit certain milestones. The current value of the options was closer to $48.4 billion at the close of trading Thursday.
The outcome helps Musk qualify as the world’s richest person, worth well over $200 billion.
🇮🇱 Israel Rescues Hostages
Israel’s military rescued four hostages from central Nuseirat in Gaza on Saturday morning, in what it described as a complex daytime operation.
There are still eight Americans being held hostage by Hamas, five living and three dead.
The latest operation brings the total hostages rescued alive to seven since the start of the war following the Hamas-led attack on Oct. 7.
The newly freed hostages — Noa Argamani, 26; Almog Meir Jan, 22; Andrey Kozlov, 27; and Shlomi Ziv, 41 — were kidnapped by Hamas from the Nova music festival on Oct. 7. All four are in good medical condition and have been transferred to a hospital in Israel for further examination, the Israeli authorities said in a statement.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says Israel will not agree to a permanent cease-fire before the destruction of Hamas’s “military and governing capabilities,” a day after President Biden laid out a three-stage road map to a sustained cease-fire that the President said was backed by Israel.
The Israeli military took control over the Rafah border crossing and much of Rafah itself, in what it called a limited operation aimed at destroying Hamas targets it says were used to attack Israeli soldiers.
Exiger CEO Brandon Daniels, a GisermanGroup client, on NewsNation says make no mistake it’s not over yet:
Exiger!s Daniels on Bloomberg TV says YOUR Wallet was Targeted in the initial Iran Attack.
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🚨US & China Economic War Heats Up
The US slams unfair trade practices by China and imposes stiff tariffs on everything from EVs to Computer Chips to Solar Cells.
Exiger CEO Brandon Daniels, a China & SupplyChain expert, tells NewsNation this is one of the few issues on which President Biden and Donald Trump agree:
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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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🛒Why Is Government At War Over Supermarket Merger?
The Government war against the merger of Kroger and Albertsons is heating up. Noted Retail Analyst Burt Flickinger, a GisermanGroup client tells Scripps News the merger is good for shoppers and union workers:
💊Concerns the proposed merger will stifle costumers’ access to prescription drugs are widely exaggerated, says Retail Expert Flickinger. KXL Radio spoke with Flickinger to get the down-low:
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💻TikTok Ban
TikTok has sued the US government over a new law that will force its Chinese parent company ByteDance Ltd. to divest the popular video app or face a ban across the country.
Is Chinese Retaliation next? Exiger’s JC Herz on Scripps News:
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➡️Exiger’s Bob Kolasky, a GisermanGroup client, former Dept of Homeland Security Assistant Director for Cybersecurity tells NewsNation TikTok is dangerous
BTW: President Biden’s campaign says it will continue to use its account on TikTok even after he signed the legislation into law that forces its Chinese parent company, to sell its stake or face a ban in US app stores.
The bill providing $60 billion in funding for Ukraine comes at a desperate moment for the country’s beleaguered defenders and holds the prospect of helping them stave off a Russian onslaught at the last possible moment.
For Israel, the package contains $26 billion—direct aid as well as money for replenishing U.S. stockpiles and supporting U.S. operations in the region.
💧CyberAttacks On Your Drinking Water
The Biden administration is warning states to be on guard for cyberattacks against water systems, citing ongoing threats from hackers linked to the governments of Iran and China.
➡️Exiger’s Bob Kolasky shared the warning with NewsNation:
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🚗Your Car Is Spying on You
Car manufacturers admit they are selling your driving habits and more to insurance companies and others. Many of the automakers also saying they would share your information with the government or law enforcement without a court order.
➡️Exiger’s Bob Kolasky, a GisermanGroup client, former Dept of Homeland Security Assistant Director for Cybersecurity tells Scripps News why you should be concerned:
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☕️Coffee Fights Aging
Drink up!
New research has unveiled the potential health benefits of trigonelline — a natural molecule found in coffee.
This discovery is pivotal in the quest to improve muscle health and functionality, especially as we age.
Sarcopenia is characterized by the gradual weakening of muscles due to cellular changes associated with aging. This leads to a significant decline in muscle mass, strength, and ultimately, a reduction in physical independence.
In pre-clinical models, coffee which contains supplementation with trigonelline enhanced mitochondrial activity, thus aiding in the preservation of muscle function during
Defense Secretary Warns Of Russia-NATO War
NATO could be dragged into a war with Russia if Vladimir Putin's forces are not stopped in Ukraine, Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin warned.
Exiger CEO Brandon Daniels just returned from Ukraine. He shares his unique perspective with NewsNation:
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