Kitchen Briefs

Kitchen Briefs - September 29, 2026

• Two Palestinians have been killed and 15 injured due to an Israeli attack on a residential building in Gaza
• The Iranian army confirms a small number of foreign vessels have passed through the Strait of Hormuz
• Iraq’s Defense Ministry says that US troops have left Iraq a day ahead of the deadline but Washington has yet to confirm
• Israel is threatening Hamas leaders living outside of Gaza
• Israeli attacks on Lebanon have destroyed homes, water wells and now has severed parts of its water network
• Russia struck an animal shelter in Ukraine killing 10 cats and 3 dogs
• Trump said the conflict in Iran will end very soon and suddenly oil prices plummeted
• Former Special Counsel Jack Smith is testifying before the Senate Judiciary Committee
• Secretary Hegseth approved plans to reduce military positions for generals and admirals by 20%
• Supreme Court Justice Alito recused himself from a case to be heard next week on climate change
• In a Texas immigration court unaccompanied children as young as 2 years of age are representing themselves
• Measles in Pennsylvania are now at over 900 cases with 55 new cases since Wednesday
• Six Flags has permanently closed its ride X2
• Today the ban set forth by Trump went into effect on Canadian alcohol, dairy and motorcycles
• Trump unveiled America.gov which is an AI powered website that simplifies public access to government information and services
• Nearly 2 million pounds powered sugar and light brown sugar are being recalled
• Dennis Haskins who played Mr. Belding the principal on Saved By The Bell has died at the age of 75
• Today’s National coffee day so cheers to 843 days left

Kitchen Briefs - September 28, 2026

• Iran’s foreign minister is meeting mediators in New York today
• Israeli forces are intensifying their attack in southern Lebanon
• Israel’s army is claiming to have killed another Hamas fighter in Gaza
• The five men arrested in the UK on charges of plotting against the RAF base have been released on bail
• New York prosecutors have reopened their investigation into the Cornell 7
• FBI co-deputy Andrew Bailey has resigned
• Senator Fetterman slipped up and said he’s a lifelong Republican
• Nvidia has launched a new tool to keep AI agents from going rogue
• Blue Cross Blue Shield has discovered AI is helping hospitals overcharge to the tune of almost $1B in two years
• SpaceX launched its enormous Starship into orbit today and successfully delivered the most advanced Starlinks yet
• Major League Baseball has approached the White House about hosting a game in the Grand Teton National Park in 2028
• Ireland’s National soccer team wore black armbands and declined shaking hands with Israel’s players
• Houston Texans linebacker Azeez Al-Shaair wrote the names of slain Palestinian children on his black eye tape and was told it must be removed since it didn’t meet NFL uniform policies
• Trump made an appearance at the President’s Cup outside of Chicago yesterday

Kitchen Briefs - September 27, 2026

• US Treasury Secretary Bessent claims China has substantially reduced their assistance to Iran
• Five men have been arrested in the UK near the RAF Fairford Air Force Base
• Trump claims that last night the US transported a record amount of oil from the Strait of Hormuz
• The Israeli army is claiming to have killed another Hamas commander
• Two mass shootings in South Africa have left 27 people dead
• The White House has launched another TV ad funded by you and me
• Over 130,000 people are without power in the north east due to storms and a New York City Housing authority worker has died after a tree fell
• Trump attended yesterday’s Tennessee vs Texas college football game
• Sierra Nevada Cheese in Willows, CA has initiated a recall on it’s raw milk cheese after an e. Coli outbreak in 9 states has occurred

Kitchen Briefs - September 26, 2026

• Four Palestinian farmers were arrested while picking olives on their own land by Israeli forces
• Israeli forces have shot and killed another Palestinian in Gaza
• Iran has moved its part of their defense assets underground to shield military capabilities
• Iran is warning that US bases in the Middle East would be targeted if Washington makes a mistake
• Trump posted to Truth Social and image of "Trump Strait"
• Trump said he rejects Iran’s proposal for a 7 day ceasefire and he expects to resume bombing campaigns after the midterms
• The Pentagon has raised the Iran war injury toll by 37 without an explanation
• Yemen is facing a massive crisis as over 125,000 citizens have been forced to leave their homes in a matter of weeks making resources scarce
• US Ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee says the public souring of opinion on Israel really stems from those who don’t believe there is a God, disinformation and propaganda and those who don’t know the Bible
• South Africa’s new ambassador to the US says white genocide does not exist
• Pope Leo is in France and receiving a warm welcome. He spoke about the risks of AI and Peter Thiel called him a "useful idiot" for the Chinese communist party
• The bots are trying to hack government websites without OpenAI’s knowledge
• The White house has barred CNN from flying on Air Force One
• The US deported LGBTQ migrants to countries where homosexuality makes them a target
• Trump is cancelling nearly $1B in spending approved by Congress using a rare power to cut funding for immigrant services and diversity focused initiatives
• Mississippi police say Tasia Fortune’s hanging was staged after her death in a drug dispute

Kitchen Briefs - September 25, 2026 AM

• Yemen’s leadership is offering general amnesty to Houthi fighters and affiliates who leave the group
• The Lebanese army is saying they’ve defused two explosives left behind by Israeli attacks
• Pakistan is denouncing what they are calling Israel’s genocidal agenda in Palestine, and their aggression in Lebanon and Syria
• Classified documents provided to Congress reveal that American intelligence assesses Saudi Arabia has not ruled out developing nuclear weapons
• Congressman Ro Khanna is calling for the release Palestinian political leader Marwan Barghouti who is serving 5 life sentences in Israeli prisons on charges of murder
• The Supreme Court has again sided with Trump and says the controversial database to check voter citizenship is allowed
• Ground cinnamon now has a recall on it for potential lead contamination
• New Jersey’s Lt Governor is resigning after Gov Mikie Sherrill demanded his departure following an ethics investigation
• Cornell University and seven Chi Pi fraternity members are facing a lawsuit over r*pe allegations
• Register to vote, check your voter status and start making your plans for voting day

Kitchen Briefs - September 25, 2026 AM

• Iran proposed to the US a 7 day roadmap to ending the war
• All Iranian flights to and from Iraq have been suspended
• The Yemeni government has announced they have captured the summit of Mount Numan
• Another Palestinian has been killed by an Israeli drone attack in the Gaza Strip
• The Israeli Army have said two of their soldiers were killed by an army explosive drone in Gaza and they’ve now halted drone operations
• Yesterday China’s President Jinping told Trump that China’s position on national reunification remains clear and urged the US to oppose Taiwan independence
• Five sources have told CNN that Chinese satellite imagery and intelligence have boosted Iran’s ability to hit US targets
• The crypto platform BitGet was hacked for over $351M in assets
• Democratic Congressman Steve Cohen of Tennessee has introduced 26 articles of impeachment against Trump
• The nor’easter is expected to affect 40 million people and could dump a month’s worth of rain in parts of Massachusetts and Rhode Island along with coastal flooding, Tropical Storm Nolo is now a hurricane and looks like it’s shifted south a bit from Hawaii but still has the potential to cause flooding
• The woman who accused Jay-Z of raping her when she was 13 now says that was a lie
• Tropical sea turtles have started coming ashore in California for the first time in recorded history
• Today, a reminder from Dolly. We can’t just hope for a brighter future. We have to work for a brighter future.

Kitchen Briefs - September 24, 2026 PM

• France is sending troops to help Saudi Arabia
• Iran’s Parliament speaker is mocking the US amid reports that the 10-year US Treasury yield surged to 5.11 percent, the highest in nearly 2 decades and said 'Nobody told you Iran isn’t for arrogant amateurs?'
• Netanyahu spoke to the UN General Assembly
• Over 100 people were arrested at a pro-Palestine protest outside the UN including actress Susan Sarandon
• CNN, MS NOW and Politico are now allowed back into the White House
• The California Supreme Court has Sheriff Chad Bianco to return the over 650,000 ballots he stole for his “investigation” into unfounded voting improprieties
• Fox News and Newsmax are running 30 second ads with Trump that says America will never be a communist country paid for by tax dollars
• An investigation by Mother Jones reveals that the shooter in the Tumbler Ridge shooting in Canada back in February where 8 people were killed was coached by ChatGPT
• Secretary Kennedy has disclosed $4M in book advances and $270K in gifts
• Macklemore has announced concerts to benefit Palestinian aid organizations
• Roxane Gay wrote in the New York Times reminding us all that opting out of taking political stands is in and of itself a political stand: a politics of self-interest

Kitchen Briefs - September 24, 2026 AM

• An Israeli airstrike has killed one person and injured 14 others in Gaza City
• Greek military personnel have intercepted a ballistic missile and a drone in Saudi Arabia
• Egypt is saying it stands by Saudi Arabia
• Saudi Arabia has intercepted 6 ballistic missiles fired by Houthis in Yemen
• Media in Iran report that all flights by Iranian airlines to the UAE have been cancelled following newly announced US sanctions
• Saudi Aramco is working on building a 4th and 5th route for crude oil exports since the Strait of Hormuz and the Red Sea are disrupted
• Norway is going to provide $13M in aid to Palestinians
• Poland is saying that a fire at a Starlink station is sabotage
• A judge has ruled the ban unconstitutional and ordered the White House to reinstate media access for CNN, MS NOW and Politico
• Senators Whitehouse and Schumer have issued a report on how Trump asked oil execs for a $1B donation in exchange for tax breaks
• VP J.D. Vance was the anonymous source on one of the articles that prompted the media ban in the White House
• Trump posted on Truth Social how he met President Jinping at the plane
• The family of Nolan Wells is planning on releasing cell phone records
• The Pentagon is investigating the misshipment of F35 parts that ended up in Hong Kong
• OpenAI gained unauthorized access to Australia’s government health website
• Hurricane Polo sending rain into Mexico, Hurricane Nolo nearing Hawaii and the East Coast is eyeing a nor’easter already
• Starbucks is closing 250 stores this week

Kitchen Briefs - September 23, 2026 PM

• Israeli settlers have set fire to Palestinian land in the occupied West Bank
• Israeli airstrikes continue to strike Lebanon
• Israel’s ambassador to the US has said his son is a soldier who has been injured in a car ramming incident at a checkpoint in the West Bank
• An Indian crew member has been killed after a vessel was attacked off the coast of Oman
• Marco Rubio says that the US has a defense agreement with Saudi Arabia and intends to uphold it
• China’s President Jinping has arrived in DC
• The heads of the major AI companies pleaded with the United Nations on Wednesday to save the world or at least its people in the form of somehow regulating the burgeoning technology that they have been designing
• US Navy Secretary has told Congress that 8 sailors assigned to the US carrier group attempted to commit suicide
• 167,000 lbs of beef, pork and goat has been recalled
• Mississippi police have arrested a 2nd person in the death of Tasia Fortune who was found hanging from a tree
• Alabama Republican Senator Tommy Tuberville gave a lie-filled Senate speech falsely claiming doctors secretly perform transition surgeries on kids and calling for mental institutions to house trans people
• Harvey Weinstein has been sentenced to 15 years in prison for sexual assault in 2006 in New York
• DoorDash invested $1.5M to try to get Andrew Cuomo to beat Mamdani
• It appears Trump was trading DoorDash stock at the same time as they appeared at the white house faking a delivery
• Walmart will have to pay California $16M after selling expired baby formula
• Paramount has been discussing bringing on Elon Musk to ease some financial burden

Kitchen Briefs - September 23, 2026 AM

• Iran says the threats of Trump to annihilate them demonstrates America’s strategic dead end
• An elderly Palestinian woman was shot in Gaza by Israeli gunfire outside the area currently controlled by Israeli forces. Israeli forces have also at least 6 people today in attacks across Gaza
• There is also currently Israeli artillery fire in Lebanon
• Netanyahu claims Israel has killed Hamas’ head of finance
• The United Kingdom Maritime Trade Operations says it received a report of an incident in the Strait of Hormuz and there are two casualties
• The Houthis are warning they will strike US assets if the US joins the Yemen war
• Iran’s President is speaking this morning at the UN General Assembly
• Today the Board of Peace is unveiling a six month, $2.45B recovery and reconstruction plan for Gaza
• Secretary Hegseth removed gender differences from the fitness test for combat roles but women are still passing
• ICE mistakenly targeted a US citizen in Evanston, Illinois
• The DOJ is siding with Trump saying he can shut out reporters from the White House at his will for national security.
• First Lady Melania actually invited CNN and Politico to her press briefing
• Trump posted on Truth Social referring to CNN’s Kaitlin Collins as a third rate reporter with an addiction to him
• Over 100 lawsuits are being filed against Six Flags Magic Mountain after riders allege they have sustained traumatic brain injuries after riding X2
• Dolly Parton’s nephew had his security contract terminated by the estate and the estate was granted a restraining order against him