Flights were delayed in Lithuania after weather balloons smuggling contraband cigarettes drifted over the airport. A story with some good levity… Get it?
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The Lead: Egypt Wants U.S. Troops in Gaza to “Keep the Peace”
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At peace talks between Hamas and Israel, Egyptian officials have reportedly requested that American forces serve in Gaza to stabilize the region.
The U.S. did something similar in the early 1980s when Israel returned the Sinai Peninsula to Egypt and it mostly worked. Israel had occupied the land after the Six-Day War but agreed to withdraw after the 1978 Camp David Accords and the 1979 Egypt–Israel Peace Treaty. It’s hard to imagine the U.S. enforcing the IDF’s withdrawal in the year 2025 but Egypt has expressed confidence that the U.S. could do it.
Under this proposal, the U.S. would deploy troops to participate in a multinational peacekeeping mission intended to secure Gaza during a transitional period. Egypt reportedly wants the force structured along the lines of the Multinational Force and Observers (MFO) that monitors the Sinai peninsula.
This may seem like escalation but the U.S. has reportedly spent over $21 billion in military aid and $10 billion on wars defending Israel since October 7, 2023. What’s a few more billion to monitor a volatile peace deal, amiright?
All that money sent abroad while our own government remains shut down and American federal workers without a paycheck. For shame.
The ceasefire discussions still continue. Reports are that Hamas is willing to release hostages and is demanding a full Israeli withdrawal from the Gaza Strip, something Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu has vowed not to do, even though President Trump made it clear that they must. Stop me if you think you’ve heard this one before.
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Every time Congress gets close to voting on the Epstein files, Speaker Mike Johnson smacks it back down again — like a game of political Whack-A-Mole.
On Tuesday Speaker Johnson once again delayed a House vote to release Epstein-related documents, using procedural tricks and stalled swearing-ins to run out the clock. The move comes after months of backlash over his July decision to shut down the House just as lawmakers were preparing to force a transparency vote.
The pattern is becoming impossible to ignore: each time the Epstein files resurface, the Speaker finds a new reason to block or postpone them. The latest excuse? The delayed swearing-in of Rep.-elect Adelita Grijalva, whose seat would give transparency advocates the critical 218th vote they need.
Meanwhile, U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi who told Fox News in February that the Epstein list was on her desk is now walking it back, claiming she didn’t mean a list list, you know? She meant it was a file and the DOJ summary of it is all she has to say on the matter. Epstein was into child pornography and no one else was involved. That’s the unbelievable company line.
So the files stay sealed. The list (if it exists) stays buried. And Washington keeps playing Epstein Whack-A-Mole, hammering down every attempt to bring daylight to one of the darkest scandals in American history.
$131,000. That is the price tag of the Urban Jürgensen UJ-2 watch that Timothée Chalamet wore to a movie premiere this week.
24 hours. That is how long Wells Fargo and Bank of America will close on Monday to honor Columbus Day, or Indigenous Peoples’ Day, whichever you chose to call it.
$250,000. That is how much the NFL fined Dallas Cowboys owner and general manager Jerry Jones for flipping the bird during the TV broadcast of the game on Sunday.
Ozempic for Teens? Even Researchers Admit They Don’t Know How to Stop It
Ozempic is not currently approved for kids but the medical industry wants to get there.
A new JAMA Pediatrics article argues that GLP-1 receptor agonists (the same class behind drugs like Ozempic/Wegovy) could be used more broadly in adolescents with obesity or related conditions. Early evidence suggests modest improvements in blood sugar, weight, and blood pressure. But even the authors admit they don’t know how to safely monitor or discontinue these drugs in young patients.
A recent study showed that most people who start these drugs quit within a year because the side effects are unbearable.
Why would they want to do this to children? Wouldn’t the ethical approach be to protect young people from a pharmaceutical treadmill that has no end?
Researchers ignore key questions about how these powerful metabolic drugs might affect puberty and long-term growth. And there’s still no protocol for safely going off them without rapid rebound — meaning these are maintenance drugs, not cures.
Maintenance drugs with hellish side effects including relentless nausea, diarrhea, vomiting, constipation, acid reflux.
Why would we put young people on that? Why would we normalize a lifetime of chemical management before they’re even done growing?
Trans activists have shouted themselves hoarse insisting that being trans is something you cannot change. They’ve wrapped it in layers of academic jargon, preaching that gender identity is so immutable it deserves the same legal protection as skin color or disability.
But now that people are starting to see through the act — that there was never real science behind any of that — the story is changing. The new line to save their cause is this: Being trans is too “limiting.” Sometimes you can be trans. Sometimes you can be straight. Sometimes neither. That’s how it goes now — according to JAMA Pediatrics.
In a recent commentary, researchers claim that the trans/cis binary is outdated and that gender among adolescents should be viewed as “multidimensional” and “fluid.” So after years of insisting that gender identity was fixed, they’re now arguing that it moves around — that it’s an experience, not a state.
But that is literally what early researchers said about gender dysphoria all along — that it is not a permanent state! The first long-term studies on the subject, beginning in the 1960s by Dr. Richard Green, found that most children who experienced gender confusion grew out of it naturally after puberty. Many later identified as gay or simply became comfortable in their own sex. That was the scientific consensus for decades, before ideology replaced it.
The irony couldn’t be louder. The same medical and academic institutions that demanded blind faith in gender ideology are now rewriting the rules — and pretending it was always this way.
Except it was this way. It was them who refused to see it. The evidence was there from the start — they just buried it under ideology.
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Dolly Parton is trending because her sister says that the country legend has been unwell and asked fans for prayers for her recovery.
Pam Bondi is trending because the Attorney General had a heated exchange with Senator Richard Blumenthal in a Senate hearing in which she accused him of lying about his military service, which he did.
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