Michael Jackson biopic, “Michael”

The man who authorities say tried to storm the White House Correspondents’ Association dinner with guns and knives has been charged with the attempted assassination of President Donald Trump.

The Supreme Court will hear arguments on Monday in a case about whether law enforcement’s use of geofence searches — which collect cell phone location data from an area in which a crime occurred — violates the Fourth Amendment’s protections against unreasonable searches and seizuresb

• Looksmaxxing in 60 Minutes
• Anthropic announces they will not release their latest artificial intelligence model
• President Trump signed an executive order Saturday directing the FDA to expedite review of psychedelics

• The Associated Press offers buyouts to an unspecified number of US-based journalists as it shifts focus from newspaper journalism to visual journalism and artificial intelligence
• The world's wildest company retreat involves 120 employees meeting in Honduras for a Survivor-style experience that included eating a dead tarantula, sitting on a fire ant hill, and a rogue porcupine
• On Sunday, President Donald Trump announced that the U.S. Navy will impose a blockade on the Strait of Hormuz after peace negotiations with Iranian officials failed to produce a breakthrough
• Former US Senator Ben Sasse sat down with Ross Douthat last week to talk about his impending death and our institutions
• Former US Senator Ben Sasse sat down with Ross Douthat last week to talk about his impending death and our institutions

• Gen Z Catholic influencers make church look cooler than ever — snapping up hundreds of thousands of social media followers
• Artemis II breaks Apollo 13’s distance record as humans travel farther from Earth than ever before
• Eight Scientists Missing or Dead: Full List of Baffling Disappearances in the U.S.
• AOC hit with ethics complaint over $19K in campaign cash spent on ketamine specialist

1. Kash Patel Reveals That The FBI Purchases Americans' Location Data After Questioning By Wyden
2. Netflix Documentary ‘Inside the Manosphere’ Exposes a Digital Pipeline to Misogyny
3. Chuck Norris, martial artist, actor, and cultural icon, died March 19 in Hawaii. He was 86. Just nine days earlier, he posted a video sparring, captioning it: "I don't age. I level up."
4. Larry Fink’s Warning: Invest or Risk Getting Left Behind by AI

- Newt Gingrich’s Nuclear ‘Detonations’ proposal in Response to Straight of Hormuz Blockade Raises Eyebrows

- Protesters in Cuba attack Communist Party office amid blackout fury

- Washington Square Park, once a hub for counterculture and political protests in the city, has now been overrun with social media influencers.

- Today marks 150 years since Alexander Graham Bell made the first tele- phone call from his Boston lab to his assistant in a nearby room.

- Harvard researchers say AI is giving workers "brain fry."

- Two men who brought explosives to a protest outside New York City’s mayoral mansion said they were inspired by the Islamic State extremist group. (Gothamist)

- Iran’s 88-member Assembly of Experts selected Mojtaba Khamenei as the country's next supreme leader, succeeding his father, Ali Khamenei, who was killed in an Israeli strike last month. Israel and the US have indicated they would not accept Khamenei as leader. (The Dick Cheney of Iran)

- A Georgia teacher died after a good-natured prank by his students resulted in a fatal car accident.

- Trump says Iran operations likely to last 4 to 5 weeks, but he’s prepared ‘to go far longer’

- Shia LaBeouf says he's 'scared' of gay people in post-arrest comments

Armed man shot and killed at Mar-a-Lago last weekend (NPR, AP)

Meanwhile, in Afghanistan…

- OpenAI executive Ryan Beiermeister fired in January for alleged sexual discrimination after opposing ChatGPT adult mode

- Instagram Head Denies Social Media Is ‘Clinically Addictive’

- Ring, the Amazon-owned home security company, ended its partnership with a surveillance technology firm after a Super Bowl commercial generated backlash.

- Federal Prosecutors Open Investigation Into Fed Chair Powell (NYTimes)

- 15,000 Nurses Go on Strike Against NYC’s Richest Hospitals (Indypendent)

- The Department of Homeland Security has promised to send hundreds more federal agents into Minneapolis, days after one shot and killed a woman there.

- US Overdose Deaths Drop as Fentanyl Supply Weakens, Study Finds (Bloomberg)

- 2025's biggest business story: The rise of Artificial Intelligence.

- Iranian President declares "full-scale war" with the United States, Israel, and Europe.

- Say goodbye to the dining room. It’s disappearing from new home designs.

- Melissa Reviews: The New Dave Chappelle special sucked.

- Wall Street Journal published a report on the rise of the Invitation-only stock market for the wealthy

- The Metropolitan Opera wants to court a younger generation with an abridged production of Mozart’s opera “The Magic Flute.

- A glimpse into Turning Point USA’s America Fest Conference

- Anti-artificial intelligence activist Sam Kirchner has been missing for two weeks

- Hep B vaccine controversy

- Why Restaurant Quality Is Declining

- AI Actress signs NDAs for multi-million dollar film projects

- What this Black Friday weekend is show ing about the US economy

- Le Bal des Debutantes París 2025

- Lilly Wachowski tells us what fascism does and is

- Gunman fires on members of the West Virginia National Guard in Washington DC last Wednesday

- Nicki Minaj delivers speech at UN to highlight claims of Christian persecution in Nigeria

- Urban Raccoons Are Showing Signs of Early Domestication, With Shorter Snouts Than Their Rural Cousins

- Trump Mamdani meeting at White House

- US set to label Maduro-tied Cartel de los Soles as a terror organization (AP Breakdown )

- Grindr Presents 'I Wool Survive': How We Connected Gay Sheep to the NYC Runway

- Trump Welcomes Saudi Arabia’s Crown Prince

- Michelle Obama says US 'Not Ready' for Woman President

- The U.S.’s most advanced aircraft carrier, the USS Gerald R. Ford, arrived in the Caribbean Sea yesterday, joining nearly a dozen other naval warships there.

- In a reversal, Trump says House Republicans should vote to release Epstein files

- US Border Patrol arrests 81 on first day of Charlotte immigration crackdown

- Tech leaders including Jeff Bezos and Elon Musk are proposing AI data centers in space.

• The US Mint ended penny production Wednesday in Philadelphia after 230 years.
• Planned Parenthood says it’s getting harder to fulfill its mission while also prioritizing essential services.
• Teen Vogue closes.
• More than 15 years after Limelight closed, a new exhibit at Left Bank Books in the West Village offers a rare glimpse into the club's inner workings, runaway success and ultimate implosion.

• ‘No hire’ job market leaves unemployed in limbo as threats to economy multiply
• Elon Musk bounded to the stage of the company's AGM accompanied by dancing robots after shareholders approved his pay package.
• The Senate voted 60-40 on Sunday night to move forward with a temporary funding package aimed at ending the 40-day government shutdown, the longest in U.S. history.
• Sydney Sweeny GQ interview

- FAA reducing air traffic by 10% across 40 ‘high-volume’ markets during government shutdown

- Arrests in Louvre Heist Show Power of DNA Databases in Solving Crimes

- High court’s conservative majority halts a lower-court order requiring the government to keep letting people choose male, female or X on their passport to line up with their gender identity on passports

- President Donald Trump unveiled a deal Thursday with drugmakers Eli Lilly and Novo Nordisk to expand coverage and reduce prices for their popular obesity treatments Zepbound and Wegovy

- White House attack

- Federal food aid will not go out Nov. 1st due to shutdown

- Trad son

- Military mobilization into Latin America

- US passport falls to 12th place

- The Supreme Court said on Monday that it will consider whether people who regularly smoke marijuana can legally own guns, the latest firearm case to come before the court since its 2022 decision expanding gun rights

- President Donald Trump announced he had commuted the sentence of former Rep. George Santos (R-NY), who was serving a seven-year prison sentence for fraud and identity theft.

- Tens of thousands of people flooded city streets for anti-Trump "No Kings"protests on Saturday

- Thieves used a portable electric ladder to break into a second-floor wing of the Louvre and steal jewels from Napoleon’s reign.

• The Trump administration has reportedly given authorization to the Central Intelligence Agency to conduct covert operations in Venezuela
• OpenAI CEO Sam Altman says ChatGPT will soon allow 'erotica' for adult users
• The Justice Department asked Meta to take down a Facebook group where members shared information about ICE agents in Chicago.
• Health officials are weighing whether to remove aluminum salts from vaccines

• Columbus/Indigenous Peoples Day
• RIP Diane Keaton
• Support for I.C.E. is Melting
• Gaza Aftermath

- Sean Combs sentenced

- Consumer news about Costco

Tech

- Elon Musk's xAI is building massive AI data centers in Memphis

- AI Caste system

Foreign Policy

- The Gaza peace deal

National

- Federal authorities arrested a man suspected of starting the Palisades fire in Los Angeles in January

- Government Shutdown still in effect.

International

- Man kills 2 and wounds 4 in car ramming and stabbing at English synagogue on Jewish holy day.

- The terror group Hamas publicly agreed on Friday to Trump’s proposed ceasefire and complete hostage release plan, with certain conditions

National

- President Donald Trump has declared drug cartels operating in the Caribbean are unlawful combatants and says the United States is now in a “non-international armed conflict”

Vigilante Justice

- A federal district judge on Friday sentenced the would-be assassin of Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh to more than eight years in jail, followed by supervised release for life.

- A Free Press investigation reveals how dozens of Catholic dioceses are subverting the Child Victim Act, stopping lawsuits in their tracks and pressuring victims to accept pennies on the dollar.

- Government Shutdown

- New study shows more Americans feeling disconnected

- US comedians defend decision to play in Saudi Arabia

- Jane Goodall, the conservationist renowned for her groundbreaking chimpanzee field research and globe-spanning environmental advocacy, has died. She was 91.

- Researchers analyze shifts in Taylor Swift’s dialect

- NYC rat czar officially resigns

Tech

- Meta has released “Vibes,” a short-form vertical video feed exclusively of AI-generated content. Those interested can download the Meta AI app

Vigilante Justice News

- man admits to killing parents on live television (AP news)

- Michigan church shooting and North Carolina shooting hours apart

- Sara Jane Moore, who tried to assassinate President Gerald Ford in 1975, dies at 95

- Assata Shakur, a Black liberation activist sought by the US since 1979, dies in Cuba

Nation

- Trump says he will send troops to Portland

- The number of people charged with breaking US federal drug laws dropped to the lowest level in decades this year after the Trump administration ordered enforcement agencies to focus on deporting immigrants, a Reuters review of nearly 2 million court records found.

- RFK impeachment introduced by House Democrat Stevens citing health care chaos under secretary

Foreign

- China remains No. 1 threat in space: Space Force general

- Jimmy Kimmel

- Google

- American’s Math and Reading Scores

- Latest in vigilante justice

- United Nations General Assembly

• Sam Altman and Tucker Carlson interview
• Charlie Kirk Memorial and Erika Kirk's speech
• Obama's commentary on the Kirk assasination
• Kimmel Show Back on Air

- ABC pulls Jimmy Kimmel Live! Off the air after Charlie Kirk jokes

- Maha news

- Cocaine markets surge amidst crackdown on Fentanyl

- Conservative coalition teaming with Trump administration to push patriotism in education

Rapid Fire

- Federal reserve lowering interest rates

- Trump to designate Antifa a terrorist group

- Rudy Giuliani is ordered to pay $1.36 million in legal bills

- Democrats press FBI director on Epstein files

- Rumors of president trumps death

- Chicago was “about to find out why it’s called the Department of WAR,” Trump told reporters that he merely wanted to “clean up” the city

- JD Vance tweet

- Trump’s DOJ is reportedly weighing a ban on trans Americans owning firearms

- China begins enforcing world’s strictest A.I. labeling laws

- Texas Lt. Gov. and Chair of the Religious Liberty Commission Dan Patrick discusses "Religion Lifts People Up"

- A.I. company Anthropic settlement with writers

- New Study: Moderate drinking is actually healthier than not drinking

- Trial begins for man charged with attempting to assassinate Trump

- Recent notable poll of Americans opinions on the state of America

- Latest in income wealth disparity

- Corporate America and Tech companies

- Congress is back in session

- Bonus rapid fire headlines

USA strikes Iranian nuclear facilities

House Oversight Committee meeting on "Transhumanism"

(Wall Street Journal) CVS Wants to Help You Spend Less Time in CVS

(The Guardian, NY Times) Google has confirmed it will rename the Gulf of Mexico as the Gulf of America on Google Maps in the US, after an executive order from Donald Trump

(Fast Company) Expository dialogue, often viewed as cringe, may be Netflix’s new engagement strategy: the streamer has reportedly been telling screenwriters to have characters announce what they’re doing so that viewers can follow along while scrolling TikTok and folding laundry.

- The mother of an OpenAI whistleblower demanded an FBI investigation into her son’s death, calling it a “cold-blooded murder declared by authorities as suicide (AP NEWS)

- Aristotle becomes latest casualty in China’s narrative war with the West as scholar questions philosopher’s existence (SCMP)

- GOP congresswoman Kay Granger’s quiet move to retirement facility sparks social media frenzy (NYPOST)

- Alabama profits off prisoners who work at McDonald’s but deems them too dangerous for parole

- Vivek Ramaswamy Roasted for ‘Truly Amazing Non-Understanding’ of ’90s Television After ‘Boy Meets World’ Complaints

Suspect in German Christmas market attack railed against Islam (AP NEWS)

(MULTIPLE SOUCES - FOX, NYTIMES) Paris Hilton, politician and lobbyist, sells political merch and advocaates against child abuse

(HOLLYWOOD REPORTER) Billionaires’ Survivalist Bunkers Go Absolutely Bonkers With Fiery Moats and Water Cannons

Suspect in UnitedHealthcare’s CEO killing charged with murder as an act of terrorism

- With fewer than 50% of New York City elementary and middle schoolers scoring proficient in reading on the most recent state tests, teachers said they want more training and other resources to help boost those numbers.

- Texas officials are suing a New York doctor they accuse of illegally mailing abortion pills to a 20-year-old woman residing in their state.

Lilly Phillips vows to bed 1000 men in 24 hours

Ukraine provided support yo Syrian rebels

More children watching porn than ever according to NYTimes report

News earnings show AI deals are paying off for publishers as media fragments

NY attorney general condemns racist texts sent to students

Dozens of monkeys escape from South Carolina research facility

Australian dancer Raygun retires from Olympic break dancing

(NPR) Vice President Harris yesterday conceded the election, urging her supporters not to despair about her loss and to "never give up the fight for our democracy."

Latino voters in Florida and Texas helped propel President-elect Trump to victories Tuesday in counties where Democrats had an edge in the past two presidential elections.

A California Ballot Measure to Ban Forced Prison Labor Is Failing

Migrant caravan of 3000 headed to US border

Half of Gen Z voters said they’ve lied about who they’re voting for

YouGov poll: 1 in 8 women say they have voted differently than their partner without telling them

San Francisco Startup Sees Big Demand for Sleeping Pods That Cost $700 a Month

Libraries have become public stages for social problems. The people who work there are burning out.

AP sources: White House altered record of Biden’s ‘garbage’ remarks despite stenographer concerns (AP News)

Faked video depicting voter fraud in Georgia has been linked to 'Russian influence actors', U.S. intelligence officials say (AP News)

Ghost jobs are wreaking havoc on tech workers (San Francisco Gate)

Harris campaigns in suburban Las Vegas with the singer Jennifer Lopez (AP News)

Harris campaign encourages wives of Trump voters to lie about voting for Harris

• 2500 potentially fraudulent ballot applications found in Lancaster Pennsylvania
• Kamala Harris campaign creates Fortnight "Freedom Town"

Sean Combs accused of sexually assaulting 10 and 17 year old

An Afghan province bans all media from showing images of living things to comply with Taliban laws

Meet Kamala’s Megadonors Michael Bloomberg, Alex Soros, and James Murdoch are among the billionaires behind Harris’s cash flow.

Kamala Harris town hall host Maria Shriver shuts down Michigan voter hoping to ask a question: ‘We have some pre-determined questions’

Obama raps lyrics to Eminem’s ‘Lose Yourself’ at Detroit Rally

Meta suspended accounts that track the private-jet journeys of celebs including Taylor Swift, Elon Musk, and Kylie Jenner. Now the PJs are even more private.

Michael Jeffries, the former head of Abercrombie & Fitch, is facing charges of sex trafficking and interstate prostitution

As hurricanes and fires increase, private equity’s rushed into the $200B disaster-recovery industry, which some see as “recession-proof.” 

In a campaign stunt, Trump served fries in a McDonald’s while wearing a shirt with gold cuff links. He has claimed without evidence that Harris never worked there (her campaign and an old family friend say she did).

- Sinwar was tracked by an Israeli mini drone as he lay dying in the ruins of a building in southern Gaza, which filmed him slumped in a chair covered in dust.

- An anti-Israel TikTokker filmed herself tearing down what she thought were Israeli flags outside a restaurant in New Jersey.

- The New Cola Wars As activists call to boycott Coca-Cola, Salaam Cola offers an alternative.

- Hillary Clinton-produced feminist musical to end its Broadway run due to money issues

Violent crime went up, not down under Biden, revised FBI numbers show

Americans’ trust in the media has plunged to a new low, according to Gallup

Americans becoming increasingly detached from reality.

Pill that simulates exercise

Former Google CEO says about AI energy demand “we’re not going to hit climate goals anyway”

Uber and Lyft may have been locking New York City drivers out of their apps in order to game city regulations and thereby save millions.

One in five Gen Z voters say that Adolf Hitler had “some good ideas.”

Law enforcement officials arrested a 49-year-old man at a checkpoint near former President Donald Trump’s rally in California’s Coachella Valley on Saturday, finding he was “illegally in possession of a shotgun, a loaded handgun, and a high-capacity magazine.”

(REUTERS) A handful of Republican leaders have condemned hurricane misinformation spread by their own party.

(GOTHAMIST) Emergency management officials are warning about an incoming geomagnetic storm that could disrupt technology and critical infrastructure.

(REUTERS) Exclusive: Virginia congressional candidate creates AI chatbot as debate stand-in for incumbent

(NYTIMES) In Interviews, Kamala Harris Continues to Bob and Weave

Trump lashes out at Harris and ‘The View’ co-hosts, as Hurricane Milton makes landfall

(POLITICO) This proud liberal city is throwing out its entire government

In a press conference on Tuesday, State Department spokesman Matthew Miller said that the U.S. government supports Israel’s recent military operations targeting Hezbollah, the Iran-backed, Lebanon-based terrorist organization, and is no longer in favor of a ceasefire between the two parties.

New York City First Deputy Mayor Sheena Wright, a longtime ally to New York City Mayor Eric Adams, resigned from her position on Tuesday, less than two weeks after the Justice Department indicted Adams on a series of bribery and campaign finance charges.

Attorneys general from 13 states and Washington, D.C., sued the video-based social media app TikTok on Tuesday, accusing the platform of harming young users’ mental health and deceiving the public about the platform’s safety.

Nevada politician guilty of using $70,000 meant for statue of slain officer for plastic surgery, daughter's wedding.

Chaos Erupts Man sets himself on fire outside White House

Less than a month away from Election Day

State Police agree to pay $2.75 million to settle federal probe of discriminatory hiring

Julian Assange first public speaking appearance since release at Council of Europe

Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs accused of sexual misconduct by 120 people, attorney says, - Julian Assange, the founder of whistleblower media group WikiLeaks, told European

lawmakers his guilty plea to US espionage accusations was necessary because legal and political efforts to protect his freedom were not sufficient

Rising cocoa prices driven by global production shortfalls have led to increased thefts of the commodity in farms in Cameroon, farmers and authorities say, forcing farmers to turn to machete-armed vigilantes, and amulets to stop thieves

Dockworkers on the US East Coast and Gulf Coast began their first large-scale stoppage in nearly 50 years, halting the flow of about half the nation's ocean shipping after negotiations for a new labor contract broke down over wages

As olive-oil prices hit record highs, EVOO crime is on the rise. From a surge in fake olive oil to chainsaw-wielding “grove robbers,” condiment criminals are getting extra.