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#1 Mamdani Criticized by Fellow Democrats for Statement Mourning Oct. 7 Attacks While Condemning Israel - Joe Walsh for CBS News, New York Post, POLITICO, Fox News Politics, John Solomon, and Newsweek on X
A statement by New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani that recognized three years since Hamas' "horrific" attack on Israel — and extensively criticized Israel's "ongoing genocide" in the Gaza Strip — has drawn fury from some Democrats. Mamdani is a longstanding and vehement critic of Israel's actions during its war with Hamas in Gaza, and an opponent of U.S. aid to Israel — issues that have divided Democrats nationwide and drawn criticism for the mayor from moderates, leaders of Jewish groups, and Israeli officials. Mamdani has long defended his stance, saying criticism of Israel is distinct from antisemitism...
#2 Kennedy Plans Federal Vaccine Injury Initiative, Drawing Wary Eye From Experts - Sheryl Gay Stolberg for The New York Times, Rap. Clay Higgins, Eric Daugherty, Jack/Polymarket, Technopolotik, and Insider Paper on X
Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. announced a major initiative with a dedicated National Institutes of Health clinic to study and treat vaccine-related injuries. It includes a new billing code to reimburse physicians for documenting serious adverse events and upgrades to reporting systems. Supporters call it long overdue for those previously ignored, while experts welcome more research but stress the need for rigorous science amid mixed reactions...#3 Court Orders Hope Florida Grand Jury Report Expunged, Says Settlement Arrangement Was Legal - CBS News, Ron DeSantis, Gigi Bowman, Tampa Bay Times, First Coast News, Azat TV, and Miami Herald on X
A state appellate court on Wednesday ordered that a grand jury report alleging that $10 million from a Medicaid settlement was "misappropriated" be expunged. The grand jury report, though, has already been leaked and extensively reported in the press, first obtained and published by CBS News Miami. The 19-page ruling from the 1st District Court of Appeal was critical of the report and of its leak to the press. Under state law, grand jury reports that don't lead to indictments are supposed to be sealed until those named in the report are given a copy and the opportunity to suppress and expunge the record.
#4 GLP-1 Friendly: Selling the Fix for the Fix - Tracy Beanz & Michelle Edwards for The HighWire, UncoverDC, Forbes, The Washington Post, FiercePharma and BiotechTV on X
For a nation battling obesity, we can now confirm that one in ten adults in America is now injecting a drug designed to make the body stop wanting food. Since 2024, use of GLP-1 drugs like Ozempic and Wegovy has nearly quadrupled, and an analysis that same year in JAMA Cardiology estimated that more than half of all of the adults in the United States—roughly 137 million people—are medically eligible to take these drugs. The GLP-1 craze may be the fastest change in how a nation eats that we’ve ever seen. And while a great many argue whether these drugs are a wonderful miracle or a destructive menace, the nation’s food industry has quietly gotten to work rebuilding how it subliminally sells us food. Yes, indeed, Big Food has taken note of the medicated future, done the math, and decided it’s time to repackage what it sells. Tweak the products and capture the new market, so to speak...#5 Trump to Award National Medal of Science to Elon Musk - Sarah Davis for The Hill, non aesthetic things, As Found, Deborah J Simmons, Yordie Sands/X Freeze, Vanguard Newspapers, and TeslaBoomerPapa on X
President Trump will award the National Medal of Science to Elon Musk and other prominent tech executives Thursday, a White House official confirmed to The Hill’s broadcast partner, NewsNation. Musk, the head of SpaceX and Tesla, will receive this high honor at the White House’s “Science: A New Golden Age” summit. Three other tech leaders will be presented this award, including Google co-founder Sergey Brin, Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang, and Advanced Micro Devices CEO Lisa Su...
#6 ‘Honey Please’: Kimberly Guilfoyle Pushed Donor to Wire $100,000 to Her Amex Account - The Wall Street Journal, Randy Page, Us Rapid News 24, wmateo, James Surowiecki/Aaron Reichlin-Melnick, David Sydow, and Good Morning America on X
Kimberly Guilfoyle was preparing for her congressional hearing to become U.S. ambassador to Greece when she reached out to a Trump donor with an urgent request: She needed $100,000 that she said she owed American Express—in a way that wouldn’t leave a paper trail. “It won’t show up anywhere if you wire money to American Express,” she wrote on Signal, according to messages reviewed by The Wall Street Journal. “Please.”
#7 Biden-Era FBI Records Reveal Sprawling Wiles Monitoring as Buried Contacts Surface - Ashley J. DiMella for Fox News, Erik Hoffmann, Sherri™/KAS, NDTV World, Commentary Trump Daily Posts, and The FSOJ on X
Newly released documents reveal the extent of the FBI’s monitoring of President Donald Trump’s now-chief of staff Susie Wiles, showing investigators tracked phone metadata reflecting her contacts with attorneys, journalists, campaign officials, Trump Organization personnel, and Secret Service contacts. Documents released Monday by the White House detail "Plasmic Echo," the investigation into Trump’s handling of classified documents and other presidential records that led to the FBI’s 2022 search of Mar-a-Lago and later included possible obstruction of the investigation. The records show the FBI tracked Wiles’ phone activity from at least February through May 2023, cataloging who called her, whom she called, when the calls occurred, and how long they lasted...
#8 Physics Nobel Awarded to Francis Halzen for Unlocking a ‘New Kind of Astronomy’ - The Associated Press/NBC News, MPM Planetarium Dept, Inti Landauro, Peter Tu, Amit Jha, and Universe Space Tech on X
Francis Halzen won the Nobel Prize in physics Tuesday for his efforts to demystify a rare group of neutrinos, tiny cosmic particles that scientists believe offer clues to how the universe evolved. “It was a great surprise, and I obviously didn’t expect it,” Halzen, speaking to the committee by phone from Italy, said in a call broadcast at the news conference to announce the winner. Halzen said it was predicted before that he would win the Nobel Prize but the announcement still made him feel “strange.” “I am working on a proposal, and I hope that this prize will help getting it approved,” he said to chuckles from the audience...
#9 Trump Has ‘No Regrets’ Endorsing Ken Paxton for Senate in Texas, Even After a New Audio Leak - CNN, TrumpsTaxes (@trumpstaxes.com on bsky), Marty Taylor/Will Steakin, Kelly Dearborne, Paul Rogers, Agent TruthTeller, and D. Lesser on X
CNN's Audie Cornish and the Group Chat break down the latest Trump visit to Texas to prop up Ken Paxton's Senate campaign: Video
#10 Trump Interrupted by Protesters as He Fights to Rally Texas Voters - ABC News, Wipapa, O.C. Register, 1America, Ricky Gulliroy, Nance Mace, and #TuckFrump on X
President Donald Trump, facing protesters and a poor political climate, fought to rally Texas voters behind Senate candidate Ken Paxton on Wednesday night in a bid to stave off sweeping Democratic victories in the nation's most populous red state. But Trump's remarks were not focused solely on Paxton. Speaking to a packed Freeman Coliseum, Trump also pledged to award retired baseball star Roger Clemens the Presidential Medal of Freedom, restated his support for the death penalty for drug dealers, and clarified recent comments in which he talked about the possibility of Iran bombing American cities as part of a recurring riff about how high fuel costs are “a small price to pay” for the war...
