🏛️SHUTDOWN: 750K Furloughed, Your 401k🔻
👩🎨TRUMP TROOPS: War On American Cities
💊BITTER PILL: Drug Tariff
📋ENEMIES LIST: Comey Indicted: GA D.A, Next?
📱TIKTOK: U.S./China Deal Still Needs Work
⚾️WILDCARD: RedSox Take Game 1 Over Yanks
🤖AI ACTRESS: Draws Fire From Hollywood
🏛️SHUTDOWN: 750K Furloughed, Your 401k🔻
Stocks sink as the Government Shuts Down.
The federal government has run out of money after Congress and President Trump failed to agree on a new funding deal.
Just after midnight, a banner across the White House website read, “Democrats Have Shut Down the Government.”
At the same time, Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer said in a statement that “Donald Trump and Republicans have now shut down the federal government because they do not want to protect the healthcare of the American people.”
Roughly 750,000 federal employees have been placed on furlough. “Essential employees,” including active-duty military members, will be required to work despite not getting paid.
Trump has threatened mass layoffs of federal workers during the shutdown.
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 on Monday night 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.
This is the first federal shutdown since 2019, when parts of the government were shuttered for 35 days.
Despite the latest declines, Wall Street had an unusually strong September. Stocks setting record after record, Gold at new highs, Crypto selling off as the Fed lowered interest rates by a quarter point.
📉Stocks By the Numbers at the Close
DOW 🆙 80 pointsS&P 500 🆙 0.40%NASDAQ 🆙 0.30%👩🎨TRUMP TROOPS: War On American Cities
President 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 constitution prohibits use of the military for domestic security.
Oregon has sued the President after he said he will send troops to Portland, authorizing “Full Force, if necessary”.
Trump says in a Truth Social post that he is directing Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth to provide troops to what he dubbed “War ravaged Portland” as well as “any of our ICE Facilities under siege from attack by Antifa, and other domestic terrorists.”
Trump’s announcement appears likely to set up a first test for a White House effort targeting left-wing protest groups. It comes just days after Trump signed an executive order directing the nation’s full counterterrorism apparatus against domestic political opponents despite long precedent restricting such a move.
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.
IN CHICAGO: Dozens of federal agents took people into custody during a winding patrol through downtown Chicago, as a top U.S. Border Patrol official said the agents were arresting people based on “how they look.”
The agents, clad in military-style fatigues, roamed past some of Chicago’s most well-known landmarks. The highly visible show of force came just three days after Border Patrol boats carrying armed officers appeared on the Chicago River.
Trump will be speaking this week to military brass from all over the world hastily called to Virginia.
The National Guard continues to patrol in Washington, DC, and a deployment is expected in Memphis.
💊BITTER PILL: Drug Tariff
The White House unveiling a direct-to-consumer website for Americans to buy drugs, dubbed ‘TrumpRx.’
It comes after President Trump said brand-name or patented drugs will be subject to a 100% tariff starting Tomorrow, October 1st – unless the drugmaker is building a manufacturing plant in the US.
The president sees tariffs as a way to pressure drug manufacturers to ramp up production in the US and to strengthen the supply chain for essential medicines.
➡️Supply-Chain Expert Brandon Daniels, a GisermanGroup Client on NewsNation 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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Procter & Gamble — the maker of Bounty, Charmin, Crest and Tide — is raising prices on its products because of the $1 billion tariff hit it expects annually.
Coffee prices perking higher - surging 14.5% in July year over year. The average retail price for a pound of ground coffee hit $8.41.
Walmart, a bellwether for the industry has targeted baby gear, kitchenware and toys — items mostly manufactured in China.
Industry experts expect groceries will soon follow.
President Trump again ‘TACOs*” on trade with China. The U.S. and China have extended a tariff delay for another 90 days. It pushes off a huge, open question for U.S. businesses and investors on the future of trade with China.
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*TACO - Wall St. Slang: Trump Always Chickens Out
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TRUMP TARIFFS BY COUNTRY
➡️What it all means for YOU, YOUR MONEY & YOUR BUSINESS — Exiger CEO Brandon Daniels on Bloomberg
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📲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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📺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.
Kimmel’s return averaged 6.2 million viewers, according to preliminary figures from Nielsen. That is nearly four times the amount of his usual audience, even though more than 20% of ABC affiliates boycotted the show. And the episode hasover 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.
“Last Wednesday, we made the decision to suspend production on the show to avoid further inflaming a tense situation at an emotional moment for our country,” the Walt Disney Company, ABC’s parent company, said in a statement.
“It is a decision we made because we felt some of the comments were ill-timed and thus insensitive,” the statement said. “We have spent the last days having thoughtful conversations with Jimmy, and after those conversations, we reached the decision to return the show on.”
“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.
Meantime FCC commissioner Anna Gomez says the Federal Communications Commission under the Trump administration is "weaponizing its licensing authority in order to bring broadcasters to heel”.
Nexstar Media Group, which is seeking FCC approval for a $6 billion merger with Tegna, earlier said company-owned “television stations affiliated with the ABC Television Network will preempt ‘Jimmy Kimmel Live!’ for the foreseeable future.”
President Trump applauded ABC’s earlier move in a social media post from Britain, where he is on a state visit, calling it “Great News for America” and urging NBC to take the same step with its late-night lineup.
BUT, Don’t forget where the late Charlie Kirk stood on people speaking their mind, even if it offended some: Kirk was a self-declared supporter of free speech and Turning Point USA was known for its free speech advocacy.
In several instances, Kirk used the First Amendment to sue universities that tried to block his presence.
The pause on Kimmel’s show came after CBS announced that it was canceling ‘The Late Show with Stephen Colbert’. The cancellation of Colbert’s show similarly drew widespread criticism from fans.
🔥KIRK KILLING: Right Wing Unfairly Blames Libs
There is zero evidence that left-wing groups played a role in Charlie Kirk’s killing.
Trump administration officials using Kirk’s assassination by threatening to bring the weight of the federal government down on what they alleged was a left-wing network that funds and incites violence. The administration seizing on the killing to make broad and unsubstantiated claims about their political opponents.
Even as the suspected shooter in the killing of Kirk is in custody, President Trump is fanning the flames of polarization. Prosecutors AEW seeking the death penalty against alleged shooter 22 year old Tyler Robinson.
But while other presidents have typically tried to lower the temperature in moments of national crisis, Trump is turning up the flames. He does not subscribe to the traditional notion of being president for all the people. He acts as president of red America and the people who agree with him, while those who do not are portrayed as enemies and traitors deserving payback.
Three unfired casings found in the chamber of the rifle reportedly used by Robinson included slogans such as “Hey fascist! Catch!” engraved on the side along with an up arrow, a right arrow and three down arrows.
Kirk was a major supporter of President Trump and his agenda.
The head of Turning Point USA, a conservative youth organization, Kirk was speaking at a campus event at Utah Valley University when he was fatally shot in the neck.
He played a central role in organizing young voters and giving shape to the pro-Trump agenda.
In April 2023, Newsweek reported on Kirk's controversial comments regarding gun deaths made after a school shooting in Nashville. Kirk said at a Turning Point USA event that some gun deaths were a "cost" worth paying to preserve Second Amendment rights, calling it a "prudent deal".
Charlie Kirk was 31.
📋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.
💉NOT HEALTHY: CDC Panel Nixes COVID Vaccine
Blame RFK, Jr.
The Health Secretary’s handpicked vaccine advisers voted to nix positive recommendations for Covid shots for all Americans, and instead advised “individual decision-making.”
The panel’s unanimous vote means that U.S. adults no longer are recommended to get the Covid shot, if the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention acting director signs off on the panel’s guidance.
In a confusing meeting that evolved into near chaos, federal advisers also voted 8 to 3 against vaccinating children under 4 years old with a combination shot that protects against measles, mumps, rubella and chickenpox.
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🇮🇱GAZA:Trump Netanyahu Peace Plan, Non Starter
President Trump and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel unveiled a proposal Monday to end the war in Gaza that they trumpeted as a giant step toward peace in the Middle East, and they demanded that Hamas accept it.
It appeared unlikely that Hamas would agree to their plan, which calls for the militant group to disarm, to accept considerably less than a full Israeli withdrawal from the territory and to play no role in governing Gaza in the future.
Britain, Canada and Australia formally recognized a state of Palestine ahead of U.N. Week in New York, breaking sharply with the United States.
The three nations became the biggest countries to recognize a Palestinian state, acting in coordination with France, which is expected to make a similar declaration on today at the United Nations. Later Sunday, Portuguese Foreign Minister Paulo Rangel announced from the U.N. that his country was also formally recognizing a Palestinian state.
Their embrace of Palestinian statehood is a momentous shift in long-standing diplomatic positions and reflects the grave consternation in many capitals over Israel’s war in Gaza.
🤖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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🛑TRUMP: Sics A.G. On Enemies
Former Justice Department officials said they are stunned by what they see as the acceleration and increasing audacity of President Trump’s demands as he sicks Attorney General Pam Biondi on his enemies.
Just in the past week, the president and members of his administration threatened to prosecute critics for what they described as “hate speech,” which itself is not illegal under federal law. They floated the notion of charging Democratic donors and organizers under federal racketeering statutes. And on Friday, they forced out Erik S. Siebert, the Trump-appointed U.S. attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia, after he opted not to pursue indictments against New York Attorney General Letitia James (D) and former FBI director James B. Comey, citing a lack of evidence that they had committed crimes.
Any one of those events, in previous administrations, could have spawned congressional investigations, probes by inspectors general and widespread pushback from inside the Justice Department, an institution that since Watergate has prized itself on its independence from direct White House pressure, legal observers said.
🎫TICKETMASTER: FTC Sues Over Scalping
The F.T.C. and several states sue Ticketmaster.
The regulators accused the ticketing giant and its parent company, Live Nation, of illegally letting brokers buy up millions of dollars of tickets for resale at higher prices. Ticketmaster and Live Nation have been under scrutiny — including from federal regulators in both the Trump and Biden administrations — over the power they wield over live events.
🎥 ROBERT REDFORD: Dead
Hollywood icon Robert Redford has died.
His death, in the mountains outside Provo, was announced in a statement by Cindi Berger, the chief executive of the publicity firm Rogers & Cowan PMK. She said he had died in his sleep but did not provide a specific cause.
His biggest films included “Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid” , “All the President’s Men” and “Three Days of the Condor”.
He won an Oscar for directing “Ordinary People” and founded the Sundance Film Institute
Robert Redford was 89.
🍦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.
🛫AIRPLANE FUMES: Making You Sick?
New evidence that airplane fumes are making people sick.
Thousands of so-called fume events have been reported to the FAA since 2010, in which toxic fumes from a jet’s engines leak unfiltered into the cockpit or cabin. The leaks occur due to a design element in which air you breathe on an aircraft is pulled through the engine. The system, known as “bleed air,” has been featured in almost every modern commercial jetliner except Boeing’s787.
The rate of incidents is accelerating in recent years, driven in large part by leaks on Airbus’s bestselling A320 family of jets—the aircraft Chesson was flying, according to the Wall Street Journal.
The Journal’s reporting—based on a review of more than one million FAA and National Aeronautics and Space Administration reports, thousands of pages of documents and research papers and more than 100 interviews—shows that aircraft manufacturers and their airline customers have played down health risks, successfully lobbied against safety measures, and made cost-saving changes that increased the risks to crew and passengers.
The fumes—sometimes described as smelling of “wet dog,” “Cheetos” or “nail polish”—have led to emergency landings, sickened passengers and affected pilots’ vision and reaction times midflight, according to official reports.
Most odors in aircraft aren’t toxic, and neither are all vapors. The effects are often fleeting, mild or present no symptoms.
But they can also be longer-lasting and severe, according to doctors, medical records and affected crew members.
🎢TRUMP ECONOMY: Heading Downhill
It’s the economy stupid!
Tariffs hitting you in your pocketbook.
The consumer price index posted its biggest gain since January, a 0.4% increase for the month, the putting the annual inflation rate at 2.9%, up 0.2 percentage point from the prior month.
We’re seeing the toughest time in years to be searching for work in America.
More Americans are facing stretches of unemployment of six months or more, a worrisome sign for the U.S. economy. More than 1 in 4 workers without jobs have been unemployed for at least half a year, new data shows. That number is a post-pandemic high and a level typically only seen during periods of economic turmoil.
Approval of Trump’s economic leadership has fallen to 38% after it hit 56% in early 2020, according to polling by The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research.
Nonfarm payrolls increased by just 22,000 for August, while the unemployment rate rose to 4.3%.
When the federal government reported a sharp decline in hiring for July, President Trump dismissed the numbers, claiming without evidence that they were “rigged,” and then ousted the official responsible for producing them. Now he claims the “real numbers” will arrive “in a year from now” as companies begin to invest more in the U.S.
There are now more unemployed Americans than job openings for them.
🎤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?
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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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