I wasnât interested in yet another Kennedy series â until I saw that Michael Fassbender was cast as the patriarch. Okay, youâve got my attention.
Netflix announced an eight-episode drama about the rise of the Kennedy dynasty, with Fassbender playing Joseph P. Kennedy Sr., the ambitious father who built the familyâs political machine. His performance as Mr. Rochester in Jane Eyre won my loyalty. I’m a sucker for brooding and romantic British masterworks of literature.
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In Case You Missed It
đşđ¸ The United States Court of Appeals ruled that the âŻTrump administration can deploy up to 200 âŻNational âŻGuard soldiers into Portland, Oregon despite state and local objections.
đŽââď¸ Police in the UK dropped all investigations into comedian Graham Linehan who was arrested for gender critical Tweets in September.
đĽ A new study shows that peanut allergies are declining after parents were encouraged to stop avoiding peanuts.
âď¸ A Boeing 737-MAX 8 was forced to make an emergency landing after its cockpit windshield cracked mid-flight. Investigators suspect it may have been struck by “space debris.”
đ The Trump administration is reportedly on pace to shatter U.S. deportation records having already surpassed 515,000 removals. The administration expects to reach 600,000 by yearâs end, which would break the previous record set under President Obama, whose administration deported about 409,000 people in 2012.
*Stock data as of market close, cryptocurrency data as of 5:00 AM.
Lead: 135 Bodies, Zero Accountability
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At least 135 bodies of Palestinians returned from Israeli prisons bear the marks of “torture, execution and abuse,” according to officials in Gaza.
This is horrific but it would not be unusual. Palestinians have been trying to catch the world’s attention for decades about Israel’s practice of administrative detention, which Israel uses to hold Palestinians without charge or trial under horrific conditions. And yet the world still calls them prisoners. They’re hostages.
Last year, when the Knesset moved to punish prison guards accused of sexually abusing Palestinian detainees, Israeli officers and lawmakers rioted in protest.
Israel has got away with this for decades. According to the Israeli rights group Yesh Din, less than 1% of complaints against soldiers leads to prosecutions.
Human rights groups are calling for an investigation into these bodies but why would these be any different than the abuses of decades past?
The Israeli military gave the usual response: We’ll look into it.
The government shutdown is now entering its fourth week and Republicans need a new game plan. The bill that Democrats refuse to pass was only meant to fund the government through November. Given thatâs only weeks away, thereâs little point in asking Democrats to approve it just to have the same fight all over again before Thanksgiving.
But if Republicans can’t get Democrats to agree to a short-term solution, how will they agree to a long-term one? It feels impossible while both sides are playing tough on X for their base.
The shutdown is already stretching into historic territory, and public patience is wearing thin, if there was any. Meanwhile, real-world impacts are piling up. Federal workers are missing paychecks and that alone should be the reason millions are protesting but instead they’re protesting the person who cannot fix this: President Trump.
The irony here is tragically comical. If President Trump were in fact a king, he could end the shutdown by passing a spending bill, cutting government programs and re-opening the government. He cannot do those things because the executive office is limited by design.
Imagine caring more about your own emotions about President Trump than the working people who don’t know how they will make ends meet. Partisan politics demeans us all.
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There are rumors that President Trump may issue a pardon for Diddy. Why would he do that?
Sean “Diddy” Combs was acquitted of charges of sex trafficking and racketeering, but was convicted on two counts of âtransportation to engage in prostitution.â President Trump has said that he would not get involved but he also said that he would release the Epstein data to the public and has failed to do that.
In fact, President Trump’s administration is actively sabotaging the only Congress members who want to release Epstein data, especially Congressman Thomas Massie. Why would he do that?
Yo @realDonaldTrump, we asked you to free Edward Snowden and Julian Assange, not Diddy.
News By The Numbers
102. That is how many floors are in the midtown Manhattan high rise at 432 Park Avenue that may soon be condemned and abandoned due to safety issues. Jennifer Lopez and Alex Rodriguez once bought an apartment there.
2,000. That is how many employees of The Interior Department will be laid off. The agency’s chief said that the layoffs were planned prior to the shutdown.
2.4 million. That is how many Bibles were sold in September, a 36% increase from September of 2024, likely due to the Charlie Kirk assassination.
What’s Trending?
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Colman Domingo is trending because the actor revealed that he plays The Cowardly Lion in the upcoming Wicked sequel.
Glock is trending due to speculation that the gun maker may discontinue certain pistol models.
Kristen Bell is trending for this Instagram post about her wedding anniversary. It was a joke but people didn’t like it because of the reference to domestic violence.
Government websites in the UK were down, airline booking sites were down, online shopping was down and my son could not do his math practice! He didn’t find that a tragedy.
But this has become a familiar tale of late. Why?
Amazon says the problem came from inside the house: an internal subsystem that monitors its network load balancers failed, which in turn caused widespread DNS errors and database disruptions in its U.S.-East-1 region. The company later said the issue had been âfully mitigated.â
The bigger story is our growing dependence on these few private companies to keep everything running â from public infrastructure to teenagers’ homework. It is an uncomfortable reality to face, isn’t it?
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