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#1 Supreme Court Drops Major Announcement - Samyarup Chowdhury for Knews/MSN, UChicago Law School, Cannabis Seed Bank of ME, Jose A. B. Nalla, D.C. Bar,
The term will open on October 6 with Villareal v. Texas, a case that asks whether a defendant’s right to counsel is violated when a court prevents the defendant and attorney from discussing testimony during an overnight recess. On the same day, the Court will hear Berk v. Choy, which will decide whether a state law requiring the dismissal of a complaint without an accompanying expert affidavit applies in federal court. Other cases scheduled for October include Chiles v. Salazar, Barrett v. United States, Bowe v. United States, Ellingburg v. United States, Bost v. Illinois Board of Elections, Postal Service v. Konan, Louisiana v. Callais, Robinson v. Callais, and Case v. Montana...#2 Vanity Fair Staff Threaten to Quit as New Editor Proposes Melania Trump Cover - Karah Rucker for Straight Arrow News, Laura Ingraham, FLOTUS Report,Tucker Carlson News, ꪻꫝể ꪻꫝể, and Acyn on X
Vanity Fair’s new top editor is considering featuring First Lady Melania Trump on the magazine’s cover, a move that has already sparked pushback from some employees, according to multiple reports. Mark Guiducci, who became Vanity Fair’s global editorial director in June, is seeking to broaden the publication’s reach and rethink how it approaches coverage of public figures, according to Semafor. Guiducci has told colleagues he is interested in working with the first lady, who has a background in fashion modeling, according to the report...
#3 20 Years After Katrina, a Mississippi Town Is Still Waiting on FEMA Funding to Rebuild - Kati Weis for CBS News, Marie Frances, Ron Fournier, Charles Coney, Secretary Kristi Noem, and Kristine Froeba on X
Twenty years ago Friday, Katrina made its second and most destructive U.S. landfall, coming ashore just southeast of New Orleans as a Category 3 hurricane. While the damage and destruction left by Katrina in 2005 changed New Orleans forever, the storm surge and powerful winds also left a lasting blow to other parts of the Gulf Coast, including Alabama and Mississippi. Two decades later, Biloxi, Mississippi, is still trying to rebuild. Mayor Andrew "FoFo" Gilich says it has been a constant battle with the Federal Emergency Management Agency over funding. To rebuild the city's pier stronger than before, the city says it needs $4 million. Gilich says FEMA has proposed a different number: $555,000. "$555,000, which in my mind is absolutely ridiculous, you can't build anything with that," Gilich told CBS News...
#4 End of “De Minimis” Exemption Means New Tariffs on Millions of Packages - Ben Berkowitz for Axios, thebeast, Seth Golden, HerrBitz, Don Winslow/sam/Shaughn_A/FlGirl 4E89, The Straits Times, and Kim Rampling on x
Tariffs on small packages from around the world went into effect early Friday morning, with the end of the "de minimis" exemption on postal shipments to the U.S. worth less than $800. Dozens of national postal services have stopped shipping to the U.S. altogether, because they say the government's new trade regime is simply too hard to decipher or implement. Even once that's all worked out, consumers could soon find themselves on the hook for billions of dollars in new fees. From the Latin for a thing of "little importance," the de minimis exemption has historically meant that low-value shipments to the U.S. from other countries did not face tariffs, regardless of other levies on those products or from those countries. Earlier this year, President Trump ended the de minimis exemption for packages from China, which accounted for 60% of the roughly 1.3 billion such parcels last year...
#5 Newborn Babies in the US Lack Gut Bacteria Crucial to Lifelong Health - Tracy Beanz and Michelle Edwards for The HighWire, Leeza_Lee, Ratkin/Vigilant Fox, and News Medical on X
Understanding the critical importance of Bifidobacterium in an infant touches on a field that is as delicate and vital as the unfolding of a life’s first breath. Yes, laying the foundation for an infant to begin its life with a healthy gut is that important. Indeed, in the tapestry of infancy, Bifidobacterium species emerge as foundational weavers—early colonizers of the infant gut whose role threads through immunity, development, and even long-term health. Yet, sadly, a new study has found a widespread deficit of Bifidobacterium in infants born in the United States, which is driving prevalent gut dysbiosis and an increased risk of allergic disease. In other words, in both grounded study and in the more intrinsic delicate balance of new life, many infants in the US suffer a disturbance in the likewise delicate microbial symphony forming within their newborn gut, leaving them prone to various allergic outcomes, including food allergies, eczema, and asthma, all conditions that significantly disrupt their health...
#6 White House Names RFK Jr Deputy as Replacement CDC Director - Nadine Yousif and Peter Bowes for BBC News, Scripps News, 𝔗𝔥𝔢 𝔊𝔬𝔩𝔡𝔢𝔫 𝔄𝔤𝔢 𝔗𝔦𝔪𝔢𝔰, Adam Feuerstein, FATIMA OLIVEIRA/VOZ, and Raab Wilder on X
The White House has named a replacement for the director of the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), a day after its previous leader was forced out of the job. Jim O'Neill currently serves as the deputy to Health Secretary Robert F Kennedy Jr, and will replace Susan Monarez after she was in the role for just a month. Lawyers representing Dr Monarez said her sacking was illegal, and alleged she was targeted by Kennedy because she refused "to rubber-stamp unscientific, reckless directives". The reason for her removal was that she was "not aligned with the president's agenda", the White House said in a statement...
#7 USA Today Omits a Crucial Detail About the Minneapolis Shooting - Matt Vespa for Townhall, Tom Braven, Rick, CD74, Eric Daugherty/TheDavidtollah, GoHeelsNC1979, and Stop Math Abuse and Chart Crime on X
The mass shooting at Annunciation Catholic School in Minneapolis on Wednesday should be the final nail in the coffin for legacy media’s credibility regarding reporting on what actually happened. It’s bad enough that The New York Times opted to use the pronoun preference of the shooter, which we will touch on later today. It’s even worse to omit the attacker completely, which is what USA Today did. There was no mention of the shooter, Robert “Robin” Westman, and the reasons are obvious. I mean, this is anti-journalism:#8 RFK Jr. Investigating Whether Minneapolis Church Shooting May Have Been Sparked by Gender Transition Drugs - Carlos Garcia for Blaze Media, Nick Sortor, Tuck's News, RainiersSixPac, #primalscreamgranny, Adriel Bettelheim, and Tracy Beanz/Gigi Bowman on X
He said the drugs involved had been linked to side effects related to violence. Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said he's looking into whether gender transitioning drugs possibly taken by a transgender suspect could have led to the mass shooting at a Minneapolis Catholic church. The horrific shooting took the lives of two children aged 8 and 10 years old and injured 17 others, including 14 children. Authorities have revealed that Robin Westman, who took his life after the shooting, was transgender and left extremist messages on social media...
#9 Trump Scraps $5B in Foreign Aid in Rare ‘Pocket Rescission’ - Steven Nelson for New York Post, Mario Nawfal, The Beacon, Maverick, and Levan Gudadze on X
President Trump is moving to cancel nearly $5 billion in congressionally approved foreign aid and peacekeeping spending in a rare “pocket rescission,” The Post has learned — making use of a legally debated maneuver that hasn’t been done in 48 years. Trump on Thursday night notified Congress of his request to cancel the funds, which had been tied up in a court case until earlier in the day. A pocket rescission is a request that’s presented to Congress so late in the fiscal year — which ends Sept. 30 — that it’s made regardless of whether Congress acts. The clawback includes $3.2 billion in United States Agency for International Development (USAID) development assistance, $322 million from the USAID-State Department Democracy Fund, $521 million in State Department contributions to international organizations, $393 million in State Department contributions to peacekeeping activities, and $445 million in separately budgeted peacekeeping aid...
