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#1 Supreme Court Won’t Stop Trump’s Tariffs, Officials Say - David Lawder for Reuters, Shirley Boyce, Dwibble News, Unlikely Buddah, C Courtbowi, and 𝐽𝑢𝑠𝑡𝐵𝑒𝑖𝑛𝑔𝑀𝑒 on X
U.S. factory equipment maker OTC Industrial Technologies has long used low-cost countries to supply components - first China and later India - but President Donald Trump's blitz of tariffs on numerous trade partners has upended the supply chain math for CEO Bill Canady. "We moved things out of China and went to some of those other countries, and now the tariffs on those are as bad or worse,"
#2 Israeli Military’s Ex-Top Lawyer Arrested as Scandal Over Video Leak Deepens - Sebastian Usher for BBC, The Jerusalem Post, CBN UNFILTERED, WarFront Witness, Fiona Wallace, and The Cradle on X
The former top lawyer in the Israeli military has been arrested, as a political showdown deepens over the leaking of a video that allegedly shows severe abuse of a Palestinian detainee by Israeli soldiers.Maj Gen Yifat Tomer-Yerushalmi resigned as the Military Advocate General of the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) last week, saying that she took full responsibility for the leak.
On Sunday, the story took a darker turn when she was reported as missing, with police mounting an hours-long search for her on a beach north of Tel Aviv.
#3 Kimberly-Clark to Buy Kenvue in $48.7 Billion Deal - NBC News/Reuters , SuzcoolTT, Dr. DVD, Ctzn, Virginia Business, and Market Bot on X
Kimberly-Clark said on Monday it will buy Tylenol maker Kenvue KVUE.N in a cash-and-stock deal valued at about $48.7 billion, to create one of the biggest consumer health goods companies in the United States. Shares of Kenvue were up 18% in premarket trading, while Kimberly-Clark‘s shares were down 12.5%. Kenvue has been under a strategic review, leadership shake-up, and mounting litigation risks. It came under fresh scrutiny following President Donald Trump’s comments linking its popular pain medicine Tylenol to autism....
#4 Mexican Mayor Who Took Hard Line Against Drug Gangs Shot and Killed at Day of the Dead Event - Anders Hagstrom for Fox News, A Tiempo Noticias, EL IMPARCIAL,
José Ángel/Juan Ortiz, and Theo Prinse/La Derecha Diario México on X
A Mexican mayor who was outspoken in his opposition to drug cartels and pushed for hardline laws against trafficking was killed in a shooting at a Day of the Dead celebration this weekend. Before his death, Uruapan Mayor Carlos Manzo had been critical of Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum for what he saw as a lack of effort in combating cartels. His city lies in Michoacán State, which suffers from particularly high levels of cartel violence. "We need greater determination from the president of Mexico," Manzo told local media in September, vowing not to take "a single step back."
#5 Microsoft Enters Approx $9.7b Contract With Iren That Gives It Access to Nvidia Chips - Michelle Chapman ABC News, Telbloggram, Squid Traders, Money Qubit/Mike Alfred, NeowinFeedand MPost Media Group on X
Microsoft has entered into a $9.7 billion cloud services contract with artificial intelligence cloud service provider IREN that will give it access to some of Nvidia's chips. The five-year deal, which includes a 20% prepayment, will help Microsoft as it looks to keep up with AI demand. Last week, the software maker reported its quarterly sales grew 18% to $77.7 billion, beating Wall Street expectations while also surprising some investors with the huge amounts of money it is spending to expand its cloud computing infrastructure and address the growing need for AI tools. Microsoft spent nearly $35 billion in the July-September quarter on capital expenditures to support AI and cloud demand, nearly half of that on computer chips and much of the rest related to data center real estate...
#6 Trump’s Call for End to Filibuster Faces GOP Headwinds - Brett Samuels for The Hill, The White House, Brad/Cuz i Kan, High Impact Information, Straub, and kttk234567 on X
President Trump’s fresh push for Republicans to abandon the Senate filibuster is showing little sign of success, even as lawmakers struggle to find a way out of the ongoing government shutdown. Trump’s call for Senate Republicans to use the “nuclear option” underscores his growing frustration with the government shutdown as it enters its second month. But it faces stiff headwinds from senators in his own party who have been adamantly opposed to getting rid of the tactic.
#7 Congress to Crush Us Record This Week for Longest Shutdown - Politico, Sue Ellen, ABC11 EyewitnessNews, Ashok Malik, X-Connect, and Las Vegas Review-Journal on X
Congress is on track this week to break an unflattering record: presiding over the longest government shutdown in U.S. history. The ongoing funding lapse will hit the 35-day mark Tuesday night, eclipsing the partial shutdown that ended in early 2019 and also occurred under President Donald Trump. Bipartisan talks among rank-and-file senators are underway, which could thaw the weekslong freeze between the two parties. Lawmakers over the weekend were confronted with the grim reality that millions of Americans could lose SNAP food aid — as well as more closures of early education centers, shortages of air traffic controllers, and first glimpses of higher health care premiums as Obamacare subsidies are set to expire...
#8 Trump Says He Will Help ‘Dilbert’ Creator Scott Adams Obtain Cancer Treatment - Reuters, Donald Trump Jr., Dan Scavino Jr., Autism Capital, William Makis (McGill Medicine), and Eric Daugherty on X
U.S. President Donald Trump said on Sunday he would help the creator of the "Dilbert" comic strip get treated for his metastatic prostate cancer, after the cartoonist directly appealed to him on social media."On it," Trump replied in a brief social media post, after cartoonist Scott Adams posted that he would ask Trump for help getting his healthcare provider, Kaiser Permanente of Northern California, to schedule his treatment with the targeted radiotherapy drug Pluvicto...
#9 White House Launches Spoof Myspace Page Mocking Democratic Leaders Over Shutdown - Alexandra Marquez for NBC News, The White House, Cassie N, Jessie T, LifeZette, and Eliza Orlins on X
The White House has launched a spoof MySpace-style webpage that mocks Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer and House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries and blames them for the government shutdown. The page, called “MySafeSpace,” appeared on the White House website over the weekend as the shutdown entered its second month on Saturday, with President Donald Trump and congressional Republicans continuing to blame Senate Democrats for not voting in favor of a GOP-backed stopgap funding resolution to reopen the government...
#10 ZOA: Heritage Chief Must Retract Tucker Support or Resign - Newsmax, Dan Pollak, John A. Berana, SCW, fnover, Matt Walsh/Joel Berry/Alex
The Zionist Organization of America (ZOA) issued a blistering statement Monday demanding that Heritage Foundation President Kevin Roberts either retract his support for former Fox News host Tucker Carlson or resign, calling Roberts "unfit to lead" the influential conservative think tank. In a sharply worded release, ZOA President Morton A. Klein accused Roberts of "whitewashing and allying" himself and the Heritage Foundation with "Jew-hating Israel-basher Tucker Carlson."
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