News Recap - September 25-26, 2024
News Recap - September 25-26, 2024
Highlighted news events from September 25-26, 2024
Plenty of news stood out to me over the past 2 days. I’ve bolded the items that are even more of a highlight:
Domestic
NYC Mayor Eric Adams has been indicted by a grand jury on 5 federal public corruption charges. Adams said he’s looking forward to defending himself. [More]
Helene has made landfall in Florida as a Category 4 hurricane. A Florida Sheriff has asked people who didn’t evacuate to write their name and other details on their body with a permanent marker so they can be identified later. [More]
Congress passed a 3-month stopgap spending bill to avoid a government shutdown and prevent a 22 percent pay cut for overseas federal employees. [More]
A preliminary Senate report has detailed some “preventable” lapses by the Secret Service Secret in their handling of the first Trump assassination attempt. [More]
The FBI is warning that scammers are impersonating landowners. [More]
California Gov. Gavin Newsom has signed a bill to protect compensation for child influencers and content creators. [More]
There was a bus hijacking in Los Angeles that killed one passenger. The gunman led police in a downtown case before he was arrested. [More]
Former NYC mayor Rudy Giuliani has been disbarred in Washington, D.C., over his efforts to challenge the results of the 2020 election. [More]
UC Chicago received a $100 million gift from an anonymous donor to support freedom of expression. [More]
May be related, or not: This comes after UChicago’s president defended the right of one of its students for saying “low IQ is why black people are murdering and mugging” his classmates. The student had made a post earlier this month detailing his concerns over students being mugged at/near the campus, which included mentions of black people. [More]
Health
A California judge has ordered the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to address the potential risk of fluoride in drinking water over concerns of lowered IQ in children. This comes after a study published earlier this year found fluoride could be associated with “neurobehavioral problems” in children. [More]
Also earlier this year: A U.S. government report says that fluoride in drinking water when at twice the recommended limit is linked to a lower IQ in children. [More]
Another death is linked to the Boar’s Head deli meat listeria outbreak. The CDC says the actual number of infection cases linked to the outbreak is likely higher than currently reported, because it can take up to 10 weeks for symptoms to show, and some people may recover without further medical care. [More]
The U.S. Department of Agriculture announced Boar’s Head plants across the U.S. are now part of an ongoing law enforcement investigation. [More]
The Biden administration has revived its free COVID-19 test by mail program for the third year in a row. Here’s how to get 4 free tests. [More]
A lot of the antiviral Remdesivir (a COVID-19 treatment) has been recalled over glass particle contamination. [More]
Election 2024
There’s reports that Trump’s plane (Trump Force One) is being targeted by missiles. While we can’t confirm that, because the sources are anonymous, we know U.S. intelligence officials briefed Trump’s campaign this week about threats from Iran, including that Iran wants revenge on Trump for ordering the killing of a top Iranian general in 2020. [More]
Far-left blogger Ken Klippenstein published a »supposedly« Iranian-hacked dossier on J.D. Vance, and then X suspended him for publishing it, probably because it violated X’s rules, as the dossier contains personal information, including the first 5 digits of Vance’s SSN and more. For this reason I am also not going to link to the dossier. [More]
Former CDC Director Dr. Robert Redfield endorses Trump’s plan to improve Americans’ health, and says Robert F. Kennedy is the right man for the job. [More]
Non-citizens in Arizona admitted to being registered to vote. [More]
~747,000 ineligible voters have been removed from North Carolina’s registration rolls. [More]
International
China’s newest state of the art nuclear submarine sank in a shipyard near Wuhan earlier this year, the Pentagon confirmed. [More]
President Joe Biden met with Vietnam’s leader, in part to counter the country’s ties with China and Russia. [More]
Perspectives
Not Even Taylor Swift Wants To Be A Childless Cat Lady [The Federalist]
Steve Bannon Pens ‘Victory is at Hand’ Message to MAGA from Danbury Prison [The National Pulse]
Canada is fining the Amish $300,000 for not downloading a COVID app. [American Thinker]
Inspiration
Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Some blunders and absurdities no doubt crept in; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day. You shall begin it serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson