A 93-year-old Russian man won the Open Russian Weightlifting Cup this week. His nickname is the Iron Grandad and he has been weightlifting since 1957. He’s Russia’s Jack LaLanne! Be sure to watch the video! Photo credit – Idman.biz
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🏦 The Fed’s October minutes indicate that policymakers are torn and may not cut rates again in December.
🇷🇺 Russia claims that Ukrainian forces fired U.S.-provided ATACMS missiles into Russian territory, specifically targeting the city of Voronezh—marking a significant escalation in the conflict.
⚖️ The Department of Justice has charged Florida Congresswoman Sheila Cherfilus-McCormick with stealing FEMA funds.
🏛️ The House just passed a bill that requires DHS to monitor how terrorists use AI.
The Justice Department now says it may not release all Epstein documents because it has opened a “new investigation.” That’s an interesting turn, considering the Attorney General already told the public that there was “no evidence” Epstein trafficked girls to other men. So what exactly is there to investigate now?
Attorney General Pam Bondi hinted at “new information,” but nothing she described is actually new unless the DOJ has simply chosen not to look at it for two decades.
If the government suddenly wants leads, there are some obvious ones. Start with Les Wexner: the only billionaire who ever handed Epstein full power of attorney, gave him his townhouse, his jets, and control of his money. Wexner is the financial origin point of Epstein’s empire, yet he has never been charged, subpoenaed, or interviewed in any federal probe.
Representative Thomas Massie warned that the DOJ has no authority under the new transparency law to hide documents behind a fresh investigation. But it certainly looks like they’re going to try. The only question now is whether this “new investigation” is a real inquiry or just another mechanism to keep the public from seeing who Epstein was really working with.
 Israel’s Fire Not Ceasing
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Israel killed at least 28 people including women and children in Gaza on Wednesday. Israel and Hamas are both accusing one another of firing first but no Israeli soldiers were harmed.
Israel claims that their soldiers were attacked near Khan Yunis so they opened fire and killed at least 17 women and children. This happened on the Israeli-occupied side of the yellow line.
According to Antiwar.com, “the strikes on Wednesday bring the total death toll during the “ceasefire” to more than 300.”
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Why has the U.S. ramped up drone strikes in Somalia? The U.S. bombed Somalia for the 97th time since President Trump took office and the attacks are getting almost no attention. I guess we’re just used to killing people with our tax dollars?
Over the weekend, the attacks reportedly killed 12 civilians, including eight children, three women, and an elderly man.
AFRICOM offered no details about the most recent strike other than that it was to target an ISIS affiliate.
The U.S. strikes ISIS groups to hold up a weak government in Somalia. Why does our military bother with this with so many other global conflicts on the horizon? Who knows. We fight ISIS in Somalia but support ISIS-linked groups in Syria.
Based on Antiwar.com’s count, the previous record for most bombings in Somalia in a year were in 2019 when President Trump bombed the country 63 times. He has since surpassed it by about a third with no end in sight.
Since we’re counting, President Biden launched a total of 51 airstrikes in Somalia throughout his four years in office, and President Obama launched 48 over eight years.
News By The Numbers
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$800 million. That is the value of new broadcast deals that Major League Baseball made with ESPN, NBCUniversal and Netflix.
29%. That is how much shares of Exact Sciences rose on Wednesday on news that Abbott Laboratories is weighing a takeover of the cancer-testing company.
5. That is how many people have died at Disney World in the last month alone. It is curious.
What’s Trending?
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Mikayla Demaiter is trending for looking like this on Instagram. She is a former hockey player and social media personality.
Summer Worden is trending for pleading guilty to lying to law enforcement over what was said was the first crime to be committed in space when she accused her ex-husband of accessing their bank accounts while she was in space. Note to self: Online banking seems to be unavailable in space.
Ryan Wedding is trending because the former Canadian Olympic snowboarder has been charged with murder and “overseeing the operations of a criminal enterprise.” The U.S. is offering between $10 and $15 million for his capture.
The HHS Bombshell on Gender Medicine
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The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services released a peer-reviewed study showing what most sensible people have always known: it is not safe to put children on hormones or give them surgery to try to change their sex.
The government calls this “sex-rejecting procedures.” The Biden administration called it “gender-affirming care.” One of them is based in reality and the other is not.
The review examined the evidence behind puberty blockers, cross-sex hormones, and surgical interventions for minors and found the scientific support to be weak, inconsistent, or nonexistent. Long-term outcomes are largely unknown, the risks to fertility and bone development are significant, and the quality of most studies was rated “low” or “very low.”
The report makes clear that psychological support, not irreversible medical procedures, should be the first-line approach for children in distress. It warns that the medicalization of minors has outpaced the evidence, driven more by ideology and clinical momentum than by data.
Notably, the report does not address two of the most scientifically significant realities in this field: there are unusually high rates of autism and other neurodevelopmental conditions among gender-dysphoric youth. The report also omits longstanding research showing that most children with early-childhood gender dysphoria naturally resolve once they pass through puberty. Those omissions matter, because both factors dramatically affect diagnosis, treatment planning, and long-term outcomes.
This is very much in line with the UK’s Cass Report from 2024, which reached a similar conclusion after a years-long independent investigation: the evidence supporting pediatric gender-transition treatments is unreliable, the harms are under-studied, and mental-health evaluation must come before medicalization. Taken together, the Cass Report and the new HHS study form the strongest international repudiation yet of rushing children into life-altering procedures under the banner of “affirmation.”
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