Trump is set to visit China this week for the first time since 2017
More than a dozen Americans from Hantavirus cruise ship are being watched at National Quarantine Unit in Nebraska
1 in 4 Americans think the April shooting at the White House correspondents’ dinner was staged including 1 in 3 Dems
STALEMATE: Trump called Iran’s response to the latest U.S. proposal to end the war `totally unacceptable`, `total garbage`, says ceasefire is on `life support`Trump is set to visit China this week for the first time since 2017
More than a dozen Americans from Hantavirus cruise ship are being watched at National Quarantine Unit in Nebraska
1 in 4 Americans think the April shooting at the White House correspondents’ dinner was staged including 1 in 3 Dems
STALEMATE: Trump called Iran’s response to the latest U.S. proposal to end the war `totally unacceptable`, `total garbage`, says ceasefire is on `life support`
A-1 Top Headlines
- WHATEVER: Trump replaces Tulsi as DNI with Bill Pulte [nbcnews]
- CHOW DOWN TO CHINATOWN: Rick Chow not guilty of murder in the 2023 shooting of black 14-year-old, Cyrus Carmack-Belton, 'This case is about a father who sees a gun pointed at his son and had to make a decision' [cbsnews]
- NICE JOB PROTECING HENRY NOWAK, ENGLAND (BUT, HEY, AT LEAST YOU'RE NOT RACIST): 'The contempt of the officers towards the innocent teenager who died at their feet cannot be ignored' [telegraph.co.uk]
- 'YOU'VE BEEN STABBED? DON'T THINK YOU HAVE MATE': Henry Nowak's stabbing death at the hands of Vickrum Digwa, aided by British police officers who handcuffed Nowak as he lay dying [independent]
- WOULD PREFER TO HEAR AUDIO OF THIS: Trump (supposedly) lays into Bibi over Lebanon bombing -- 'Everybody hates you now. Everybody hates Israel because of this.' [axios]
- WHAT'S THE INCENTIVE FOR BUYING A 'NEW' CAR WHEN YOU CAN BUY USED: 1 Million New Car Buyers Vanish From U.S. Economy [gizmodo]
- WELP: Iran suspends talks with the U.S. to protest Israel’s expanding military offensive in Lebanon [nbcnews]
Crime/Justice/Lawfare
- CHOW DOWN TO CHINATOWN: Rick Chow not guilty of murder in the 2023 shooting of black 14-year-old, Cyrus Carmack-Belton, 'This case is about a father who sees a gun pointed at his son and had to make a decision' [cbsnews]
- NICE JOB PROTECING HENRY NOWAK, ENGLAND (BUT, HEY, AT LEAST YOU'RE NOT RACIST): 'The contempt of the officers towards the innocent teenager who died at their feet cannot be ignored' [telegraph.co.uk]
- 'YOU'VE BEEN STABBED? DON'T THINK YOU HAVE MATE': Henry Nowak's stabbing death at the hands of Vickrum Digwa, aided by British police officers who handcuffed Nowak as he lay dying [independent]
- 'TICK-TOCK, TICK-TOCK, THIS IS HOW YOU'LL END UP, WE'LL CATCH YOU': Inside Serbia's notorious human slaughterhouse [fern]
- WELL, YOU FAILED: Captured Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) terrorist plotted to kill Ivanka Trump to avenge Trompy taking out his mentor; had blueprints of her FL home [nypost]
- PUSHY PEOPLE WHO'LL NEVER LEAVE YOU ALONE: Jewish real-estate lady (with black husband) suing to move into Return to Land, an Arkansas community for people with common ancestry [nbcnews]
- HOW LOS ANGELES DEALT WITH HOODLUMS IN THE 1980S: LA's infamous 'CRASH' unit [popo medic]
Culture
- BIGGEST A24 OPENING EVER: 20-year-old director Kane Parsons’ Backrooms smashes expectations, brings in $81 million domestically, $118 million international sales [msn]
- 'FIGHT CLUB ISN'T POWERFUL ENOUGH, OR GOOD ENOUGH TO BE CALLED 'PROPHETIC'': Armond White looks back on the criminally overrated Fincher film Fight Club [nro]
- LEFTISTS ARE OBSESSED WITH GEN-Z GIBBERISH: ANOTHER article about mogging (read it on your time) [nytimes]
- WILL 'BECKY' PEPPER-JACKSON BE THE LAST OF THE TR00NS TO COMPETE WITH GIRLS IN W.V.? Transgender West Virginia high schooler competing on a girls’ track team won the state championship; SCOTUS will announce its ruling on a state law barring biological boys from female sports [nypost]
- 'BRO, YOU NEED TO JACK UP YOUR TEST, TREN, WINSTROL, AND MASTERON LEVELS': Extreme human enhancement is having its moment and (some) young men are all about it [moon]
- AFFIRMATIVE ACTION ALLOWS FOR GLARING BLIND SPOTS IN EDUCATION: Yale grad Lupita Nyong'o said she 'had no idea what The Odyssey was' after Helen of Troy casting, [post-millennial]
- BE HONEST - WOULD YOU TRUST A BLACK DOCTOR WITH YOUR LIFE? Demographic disparities in medical and scientific knowledge show up long before admissions time. DEI manipulation at the end of the process doesn’t solve the problem. [city-journal]
Finance - Stock Market - Crypto - Tech
- THIS IS THE WAY: Bolt CEO fired his entire HR department, 'We had an HR team, and that HR team was creating problems that didn’t exist' [nypost]
- DIGITAL NOMADS AND INFLUENCERS HAVE FOUND THEIR BEACH: Bali is where everyone is going to waste time, pretend to run a business, and get Instagram-worthy content [moon]
- TAKING ON DEBT TO MAKE SURE YOUR KIDS DON'T MISS OUT ON THE CHILDHOOD MEMORIES (YOU NEVER HAD): '45 percent of parents with children under 18 who have gone to Disney went into debt for the trip' [nytimes]
- HITTING TOO CLOSE TO HOME: Communities standing up against Data Centers. 'campuses would include 51 data warehouses — each about the size of a Walmart Supercenter ' [wapo]
- LITHIUM MOTHER LODE FOUND IN APPALACHIAS: $65 BILLION worth of lithium -- located in Carolinas, Maines, NH -- could power US for centuries (allegedly), including 130 million EVs for thousands of years [nypost]
- BIG DATA: The one issue uniting Americans of every tribe is they're all against data centers [nytimes]
- NEW EV TECH DISRUPTOR? Donut Lab, a Finnish startup, CLAIMS to have perfected solid-state battery, full charge in 5 mins, not affected by heat/cold, longer range [wsj]
Immigration/Deportation/ The Border
- A SELF-DEPORTATION SUCCESS STORY: Venezuelan illegals in Colorado walks into ICE custody, seeking to go back home [denverpost]
- INDIANS GETTING BTFO: foreigners seeking green cards will have to return to their home countries to apply, 'reduces the need to find and remove those who decide to slip into the shadows and remain in the U.S. illegally after being denied residency.' [nytimes]
- MAYBE SHE SHOULD'VE STAYED IN HONDURAS: Instead of blaming ICE for everything, how about some accountability for the ILLEGAL ALIENS that comes here ILLEGALLY and endanger THEIR children [wapo]
- CAN'T STAY HERE: Voluntary deportations up, 'Immigrants are giving up their claims for humanitarian protection and opting to depart the United States in exponentially higher numbers under the Trump administration'[wapo]
- OPEN 'EM BACK UP AND FLOOD THE GATES: Federal appeals court ruled Friday that Trump’s declaration of an 'invasion' at the U.S.-Mexico border was illegal, clearing the way to reopen the United States to migrants seeking asylum [wapo]
- STRIPPED: DOJ has ID'd 384 foreign-born Americans whose citizenship it wants to revoke, part of a push to increase the pace of denaturalizations [nytimes]
- FINALLY SOMETHING USEFUL: New app keeps track of H-1B visa applications by county [layoffhedge]
International
- WELP: Iran suspends talks with the U.S. to protest Israel’s expanding military offensive in Lebanon [nbcnews]
- 'THEY'VE LITERALLY GOT A GPS IN THEIR HAND AND THEY CAN'T FIGURE OUT HOW TO NAVIGATE?!' 5NYC international correspondent, SBA, investigates how long it takes to get scammed in Bangladesh [small brained american]
- PEACE IS AT HAND. SIKE, THE U.S. JUST BOMBED IRAN: New strikes targeted a military site that threatened US troops and commercial shipping traffic in the Strait of Hormuz [nypost]
- SUCKS FOR THEM, GOOD LUCK WITH ALL THAT: Ebola outbreak in Congo and Uganda spreading faster than expected, risks becoming 'the deadliest on record' [abcnews]
- IRAN WILL GIVE UP ITS STOCKPILE OF HIGHLY ENRICHED URANIUM? Latest on Israel/US-Iran peace deal talks [ap]
- MIXED SIGNALS: U.S. carries out 'self-defense' strikes in Iran, including missile sites and boats placing mines, Trump says negotiations are 'proceeding nicely' [pbs]
- ART OF THE DEAL: 'Either we reach a good deal, or I'll blow them to a thousand hells' Trump says of Iran negotiations [sky news]
National
- WHAT'S THE INCENTIVE FOR BUYING A 'NEW' CAR WHEN YOU CAN BUY USED: 1 Million New Car Buyers Vanish From U.S. Economy [gizmodo]
- IMAGINE THAT: University of California faculty say that when standardized tests were dropped as an admissions requirement, student learning fell [wsj]
- NEXT STOP SCOTUS: Federal court blocks Alabama plan for new congressional districts [wpri]
- PAYBACK: PATRIOTIC PEACEFUL PROTESTORS of January 6th will be recompensed $1.6 BILLION for their troubles courtesy of Uncle Sam; 'Americans were targeted through political abuse of government power' [nytimes]
- MANIFESTO: San Diego mosque gunmen left behind 75-page document that praised Adolf Hitler, targeted Muslims, Jews, and gays, angling for 'all-out race war' [aol]
- CONTAGION: White House resisted allowing American doctor exposed to Ebola while working in the Congo to return to the United States [wapo]
- ALLAH ABOARD: Latest on San Diego mosque shooting [newsweek]
Politics
- WHATEVER: Trump replaces Tulsi as DNI with Bill Pulte [nbcnews]
- WOULD PREFER TO HEAR AUDIO OF THIS: Trump (supposedly) lays into Bibi over Lebanon bombing -- 'Everybody hates you now. Everybody hates Israel because of this.' [axios]
- STORIES WE'RE NOT REALLY PAYING ATTENTION TO: Graham Platner, a Democrat U.S. Senate candidate in Maine, shared sexually explicit text messages with other women in early 2025 [headlines]
- HIDDEN BRADLEY EFFECT FOR PRATT? Mark Halperin thinks Karen Bass won't make runoff, thinks Spencer Pratt will beat Nithya [2way]
- 'TOO BUSY CLAPPIN DEM CHEEKS IN HER CHAMBERS': Judge Eleanor Ross, Obama-appointed married judge, was having sex in court during business hours with cop [nypost]
- FUNNY, WHEN I THINK SOMEONE IS HAVING A STROKE, I TEND TO CALL 911 (UNLIKE DOCTOR JILL BIDEN): Jill Biden said she thought Joe Brandon was ‘having a stroke’ during 2024 debate with Trump; 'I was frightened, because I had never, ever seen Joe like that before or since. Never' [nypost]
- AN OLE FASHION WHOOPIN: In Texas Senate Primary Runoff, Ken Paxton eviscerates RINO Jon Cornyn by almost 30 points, will face Dem James Talarico in General [nbcnews]
Random
- BOURDAIN COULD NEVER: Best croissant in paris [luis]
- FIRST TIME? UK blocks Hasan Piker and his uncle Cenk Uygur from entering the country [reuters]
- STRONGEST INDIAN KILLED BY BEAR: Indian wannabe-MMA fighter takes permanent L in contest with bear [cbc.ca]
- 'FREE ME.. THE NEWS IS NOT GREAT': Hasan Piker admits he was in communication with a state-sponsor of terror [asmongold]
- WHAT THE HECK IS AN ALDI? Can we just have Winn-Dixies and Piggly Wigglys? [michael girdley]
- LOCK HIM UP: Hasan Piker (and Medea Benjamin) issued subpoenas over recent trips to Cuba, possible violations of sanctions and travel regulations [turkiyetoday]
- RUNNING UP THE GUT: Long-distance marathon runners might be more predisposed to colon cancer [wapo]