A truck carrying rhesus monkeys on their way to a medical testing lab overturned in Mississippi. The driver warned that the monkeys were “dangerous” and “posed a threat to humans,” while the lab insisted they were “not infectious.” Authorities say they captured and euthanized all but one so beware if you see what you *think* is a child in a monkey Halloween costume this week!
🚔 At least 64 people died in a massive police raid on Rio de Janeiro’s northern favelas targeting the Comando Vermelho gang, marking the deadliest security operation in the city’s history.
🎖️ A retired U.S. Army colonel says he found “beyond a reasonable doubt” that the Israel Defense Forces intentionally killed Palestinian-American journalist Shireen Abu Akleh in 2022—despite the United States State Department’s public conclusion that the shooting was accidental.
🗿 A statue of Confederate General Albert Pike that was toppled in Washington, D.C., during 2020 protests has been refurbished and reinstalled by the National Park Service under a federal directive to restore removed monuments.
❓ Sources say that the trans lover of accused shooter Tyler Robinson has vanished. If he ever existed.
✈️ A small tourist plane crashed shortly after takeoff in Kenya’s Kwale County, killing all 11 people onboard as it was en-route to the Maasai Mara National Reserve.
🌀 Hurricane Melissa, described as Jamaica’s “storm of the century,” made landfall as a catastrophic Category 5 cyclone with sustained winds of 185 mph, unleashing storm surges, extreme rainfall, and widespread destruction across the island. It has now been downgraded to a Category 3.
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Israel is wiping its backside with the ceasefire that President Trump arranged for them. We knew they would but it is surprising that they’ve done it so brazenly.
On Tuesday, Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu said that he had ordered “forceful strikes in the Gaza Strip” due to “security consultations.”
Israel claims the strikes were retaliation for a Hamas attack on its forces and says it has not yet received the remains of deceased hostages that were promised. Hamas, for its part, says it’s trying to recover the remains but needs “heavy equipment.”
Why? Because Gaza is a wasteland of destroyed buildings. It stands to reason that they would need heavy machinery to retrieve so much as a family pet.
Netanyahu warned on Monday that he was not going to be bound by what the U.S. wants in the most direct response to accusations of government infiltration that we’ve ever seen.
He said the notion that he controls the U.S. government is a joke, and the idea that the U.S. controls Israel is just as absurd. In other words: they’ll do what they want.
This is an embarrassment for President Trump who so loudly victory-lapped his peace agreement. How will he respond? If past is prologue, he’ll release a strongly worded Truth Social about Hamas.
Pfizer’s RSV Vaccine: All Hype, No Life Saved
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A new study shows that the RSV vaccine is a big fat dud. It prevented a whopping three hospitalizations for every thousand people over 60. Wow. A whole three.
This is the Pfizer vaccine that had Magic Johnson as its spokesperson telling us to “sideline RSV.” This is the vaccine that reported 11 deaths during the clinical trials and over 1,500 serious adverse events. So for all of that risk and marketing hoopla, the payoff is… three fewer hospitalizations?
The JAMA data show no reduction in death, meaning that even the vaccinated people who wound up in the hospital had the same chance of dying as everyone else.
This is pure marketing hullaballoo for a vaccine that is hardly worth getting. The results are absurdly trivial. Keep that in mind when the marketing campaign starts in on you this winter.
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Speech on Trial in France: Ten Charged for Posts About Brigitte Macron
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Ten people in France are being tried in court for “cyber-harassment” of France’s first lady, Brigitte Macron. If convicted, they face up to two years in prison.
The Macrons sued because the defendants made social media posts about the first lady’s gender identity and the fact that she groomed her husband, President Macron, when he was her 14-year-old student and she was a 39 year-old teacher.
It is true that she groomed him, no matter what her gender is. His parents yanked him out of the Jesuit school where they met when they discovered the relationship but that intervention clearly did not work. The palace lied and said that the relationship began when he was 17 but he entered her class at 14, and his parents separated them at 15. It is not harassment to say that this is inappropriate but the Macrons are taking it to court anyway.
The first lady sued two journalists whose work led them to question if she was born a man and a court recently overturned their convictions. This may serve as precedent to help these 10 French citizens sued by their own President.
Whether or not Brigitte Macron is a man is almost irrelevant, although there is credible work pointing to the fact that she is. What is most relevant here is that the French President is suing his own constituents for what should be free speech. In a free society, you can question what your own eyes tell you.
The founder of Ben and Jerry’s Ice Cream, Ben Cohen, says that Unilever prevented the brand from creating a flavor for Palestine. Unilever bought Ben & Jerry’s in 2000 but Cohen has stayed on the board.
Now he says he’ll go it alone and make the flavor himself. He’s taken to X to crowdsource flavor ideas but so far, all he’s got is watermelon so he needs your help.
We suggested he add pomegranate since pomegranates are native to West Asia. Also, the word “grenade” comes from the French word grenade, which means pomegranate. Imagine a world where grenadas were only for treats, not death.
News By The Numbers
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48,000. That is how many management and operations jobs were cut at UPS.
18. That is how many innings were played in the World Series on Monday to break the tie between the Dodgers and the Blue Jays. The game tied the record for the longest game in World Series history.
$4 trillion. That was the market cap for both Apple and Microsoft on Tuesday. It was the first time Apple has hit that benchmark but not the first time for Microsoft.
What’s Trending?
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Alba Baptista is trending because the Portuguese actress welcomed her first baby with her husband Chris Evans.
Kelsey Grammar is trending because the 70-year-old actor has fathered his eighth child.
Tom Jones is trending because the Las Vegas showman was featured in a BBC special this week. I always forget that he’s Welsh.
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