In case youâve got a case of the Mondays, just remember, it canât be as bad as showing up to your loved oneâs funeral only to find a total stranger in the casket. Thatâs exactly what happened to one poor family in California when the funeral home misplaced the real body and the shock was enough to send an uncle into cardiac arrest.
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In Case You Missed It
âď¸ A judge in the Tyler Robinson murder trial in the death of Charlie Kirk will rule today on whether or not cameras will be allowed in the courtroom.
đ The tropical cyclone Hurricane Melissa has rapidly intensified into a Category 4 storm as it approaches Jamaica, threatening catastrophic winds, flooding, and widespread damage in the northern Caribbean region.
đ Two men have been arrested in connection with the daring $102 million jewel heist at the Louvre Museum in Paris, in which royal crown jewels were stolen in less than eight minutes. Forgive me but I am not confident that they’ve got the correct people.
đ A U.S. Navy MH-60R Sea Hawk helicopter and an F/A-18F Super Hornet fighter jet went down in the South China Sea during separate incidents this weekend. All crew were rescued but the military says that the incidents will be investigated.
đ° A British journalist was detained by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) after criticizing Israelâs assault on Gaza, prompting the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) to demand his immediate release.
đď¸ Russia claims that it has encircled roughly 10,000 Ukrainian troops as President Vladimir Putin visited a Russian command post to meet with top military officials and review battlefield operations.
*Stock data as of market close; cryptocurrency data as of 5:00 a.m. ET.
Lead: So Much for the Ceasefire: U.S. Greenlights Israelâs Gaza Strike
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So far, the ceasefire in Gaza has not applied to Israel. Over the weekend, Israel struck the Nuseirat area of central Gaza, .targeting a member of Palestinian Islamic Jihad who, they claim without proof, had been planning an attack.
According to reports, the strike was carried out only after the United States Central Command (CENTCOM) approved it under a new coordination mechanism between Washington and the IDF. It is reportedly a system designed to âmanageâ operations during the U.S.-brokered truce.
Meanwhile, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu insists that Israel does not need U.S. approval to do anything.
âWe do not seek approval from anyone,” he said. “We control our own security and have made it clear to international forces that Israel determines which forces are acceptable on its territory. That is also accepted by the United States, as its senior representatives stated recently. Israel is a sovereign state, and we will defend ourselves on our own and continue to determine our destiny.â
Palestinian Islamic Jihad has denied Israelâs claims, accusing it of using fabricated threats as justification for violating the ceasefire.
Four people were injured and the hospital that treated them said that the victims were targeted in a civilian car.
Two Californians, Zero Self-Awareness
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California Governor Gavin Newsom has declared his intention to run for President. If that surprises you, congratulations and welcome to Earth!
The problem is that Kamala Harris refuses to give up the ghost of her failed presidency. She told the BBC she could âpossiblyâ run again, insisting, âI am not done.â
Unfortunately for her, the voters were done with her decisively in 2024.
Harris has spent the last year pretending her loss wasnât catastrophic, while Newsom has spent it pretending California is a model for America. He never answered for the stateâs failure to respond to the Palisades fires, and he has faced multiple recall efforts over his incompetence, all while insisting that California represents the nationâs future.
Between her denial and his delusion, the Democratic bench looks like a rerun no one asked for. The one thing they both have going for them is that the Democratic Party keeps kneecapping anyone with genuine promise before they can get traction. Just ask David Hogg.
The dystopia of California already dragged Harris down once. The question now is whether Newsom can rise above the smog or just choke on it. Most of the country does not idolize California as a template. They see it as a cautionary tale.
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The First Lady and the Lie
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New reports have surfaced that French First Lady Brigitte Macron once filed her taxes under the male name Jean-Michel, which incidentally is the same name journalists have long alleged she used when she was born a man!
The ĂlysĂŠe Palace insists it was simply a clerical error. A typo, they say. Someone just happened to type exactly the name that investigative reporters have spent years claiming was her original identity.
SacrĂŠ bleu!
And for the record, this isnât a Candace Owens conspiracy. Macronâs alleged identity was first uncovered by liberal French journalists, not conservative commentators. Those journalists were threatened and personally sued by the First Lady, but they were exonerated this year after a French appeals court overturned their convictions.
At this point, it almost doesnât matter whether Brigitte is a man or not. Whatâs indisputable is that she groomed Emmanuel Macron when she was his 39-year-old teacher and he was her 14-year-old student â a relationship the Palace has also lied about for years. But it does matter for the depths of deceit and darkness that the Palace has concealed.
It looks like so-called âconspiracy theoristsâ might be adding another tally in the win column.
News By The Numbers
86.19 million. That is how many Americans own a home, according to Redfin. That is a 0.1% decline from home ownership last year, the first time home ownership has fallen in the U.S. since 2016.
95. That will be the high temperature for some parts of Southern California this week due to a heat advisory from Santa Ana winds.
164,190. That is how many voters took to the polls to vote early in New York City this weekend due to the high stakes mayoral race.
What’s Trending?
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This dapper French manis trending because he was photographed near the police who are guarding The Louvre. The Internet originally thought he was a detective but it seems heâs not. He is just a well-dressed monsieur that we all wish were the main detective.
Celebrity chef Tom Colicchio is trending after posting about how sad he is that the East Wing has been demolished, along with a photo of himself and his wife supposedly taken there. The problem? The photo wasnât taken in the East Wing at all. The portrait behind them is of George Washington, which hangs in the Diplomatic Reception Room of the White House. Naturally, the internet is having a field day, mocking Colicchio in creative ways.
Tyler Oliveira is trending for this video showing himself at a poop-throwing festival in India. It was cow poop, not human poop but some people have no sense of fun.
Good News! The Healthier People Lived Longer
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A new study found that cancer patients who took the COVID vaccine lived longer than cancer patients who did not. Sounds like a miracle, right?
Hold the phone.
The study showed that people with either lung or skin cancer who took the vaccine within 100 days of starting immunotherapy lived longer than people in the same group that did not. Note, these were patients on immunotherapy, which is NOT the same as chemotherapy. A cancer patient that is on immunotherapy is, by definition, in a stronger position and has a healthier outlook than one on chemotherapy. That means they were healthier, stronger patients, already pre-selected for good immune function.
More specifically, the study found that the vaccinated lung cancer patients lived about 16â17 months longer than the unvaccinated ones. But because this was not a randomized trial, researchers cannot attribute that difference to the COVID vaccine. It could just as easily reflect a healthier baseline â meaning the vaccinated group started out stronger, with better immune function and access to care.
As for the skin cancer patients, thereâs no clear metric for how long the vaccinated group lived because their median survival hadnât yet been reached at the time of publication. In other words, too many of them were still alive for the researchers to calculate an average. That sounds promising on paper, but again, without randomization or control for health status, itâs impossible to separate vaccine effect from selection bias.
The media is dressing this up as a miraculous âvaccine enhances cancer survivalâ story, when in reality itâs a self-selecting, immune-healthy group outperforming the immunocompromised one. Itâs like saying âpeople who were well enough to get the vaccine lived longer.â Yeah, no kidding.
This study did not show any benefit to anyone who did not take the vaccine outside of that 100-day window.
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