Topics

• ‘No hire’ job market leaves unemployed in limbo as threats to economy multiply
• Elon Musk bounded to the stage of the company's AGM accompanied by dancing robots after shareholders approved his pay package.
• The Senate voted 60-40 on Sunday night to move forward with a temporary funding package aimed at ending the 40-day government shutdown, the longest in U.S. history.
• Sydney Sweeny GQ interview

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- FAA reducing air traffic by 10% across 40 ‘high-volume’ markets during government shutdown

- Arrests in Louvre Heist Show Power of DNA Databases in Solving Crimes

- High court’s conservative majority halts a lower-court order requiring the government to keep letting people choose male, female or X on their passport to line up with their gender identity on passports

- President Donald Trump unveiled a deal Thursday with drugmakers Eli Lilly and Novo Nordisk to expand coverage and reduce prices for their popular obesity treatments Zepbound and Wegovy

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- White House attack

- Federal food aid will not go out Nov. 1st due to shutdown

- Trad son

- Military mobilization into Latin America

- US passport falls to 12th place

• taking testosterone for menopause
• White House East Wing Demolished
• Peanut allergy rates fall by 43 percent
• Amazon Web Services Crash
• Latest in Climate Research

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- The Supreme Court said on Monday that it will consider whether people who regularly smoke marijuana can legally own guns, the latest firearm case to come before the court since its 2022 decision expanding gun rights

- President Donald Trump announced he had commuted the sentence of former Rep. George Santos (R-NY), who was serving a seven-year prison sentence for fraud and identity theft.

- Tens of thousands of people flooded city streets for anti-Trump "No Kings"protests on Saturday

- Thieves used a portable electric ladder to break into a second-floor wing of the Louvre and steal jewels from Napoleon’s reign.

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• The Trump administration has reportedly given authorization to the Central Intelligence Agency to conduct covert operations in Venezuela
• OpenAI CEO Sam Altman says ChatGPT will soon allow 'erotica' for adult users
• The Justice Department asked Meta to take down a Facebook group where members shared information about ICE agents in Chicago.
• Health officials are weighing whether to remove aluminum salts from vaccines

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• Columbus/Indigenous Peoples Day
• RIP Diane Keaton
• Support for I.C.E. is Melting
• Gaza Aftermath

Culture

- Sean Combs sentenced

- Consumer news about Costco

Tech

- Elon Musk's xAI is building massive AI data centers in Memphis

- AI Caste system

Foreign Policy

- The Gaza peace deal

National

- Federal authorities arrested a man suspected of starting the Palisades fire in Los Angeles in January

- Government Shutdown still in effect.

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International

- Man kills 2 and wounds 4 in car ramming and stabbing at English synagogue on Jewish holy day.

- The terror group Hamas publicly agreed on Friday to Trump’s proposed ceasefire and complete hostage release plan, with certain conditions

National

- President Donald Trump has declared drug cartels operating in the Caribbean are unlawful combatants and says the United States is now in a “non-international armed conflict”

Vigilante Justice

- A federal district judge on Friday sentenced the would-be assassin of Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh to more than eight years in jail, followed by supervised release for life.

- A Free Press investigation reveals how dozens of Catholic dioceses are subverting the Child Victim Act, stopping lawsuits in their tracks and pressuring victims to accept pennies on the dollar.

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- Government Shutdown

- New study shows more Americans feeling disconnected

- US comedians defend decision to play in Saudi Arabia

- Jane Goodall, the conservationist renowned for her groundbreaking chimpanzee field research and globe-spanning environmental advocacy, has died. She was 91.