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Sources: On This Day: AANS — Woodrow Wilson's Hidden Stroke of 1919 | Deseret News — President Wilson suffers a stroke Grok: TechCrunch — Grok reportedly encouraged Trump to capture Maduro | MS NOW — Trump sought chatbot input on military strikes | Raw Story — Insiders: "hard to convince him to do anything" | CNBC — America.gov uses Gemini, Grok Memecoin dinner: CNN — Another Trump meme coin dinner | CoinDesk — Dinner advertised for top investors | Mediaite — "Most exclusive dinner in the world" | Rolling Stone — Dinner for crypto investors | ABC News/AP — U.S. withdraws from GRECO Government ads: Yahoo/Reuters — Democrats seek probe | CNBC — $20 million in DHS funds | Public Citizen — FCC and FTC complaint | Deadline — Carr sees nothing out of the ordinary CNN pool: NewsNation — White House blocks CNN from pool duty | NBC News — CNN removed for Texas, Oklahoma trip | NPR — Outlets ask court to bar enforcement Hispanic Heritage remark: Washington Post — "Only Hispanic" could survive fall | The Hill — Same Hearn: CNBC — Judge cites risk Trump will force new charges | PBS — Case permanently dismissed | Fox News — Same Watergate: Yahoo — DOJ to review whether Nixon was mistreated | Political Wire — DOJ reviews if Nixon got a raw deal | Mediaite — Riley Moore: Nixon "framed" Epstein 302: Yahoo — Wyden accuses DOJ, FBI of withholding interview | IBTimes — Wyden demands release | Axios — Judge warns Blanche of contempt FTC: CNBC — FTC investigating OpenAI, Anthropic and others | Axios — FTC probe over AI safety risks | PBS — Self-policing accord Chinese hackers: CNN — China-linked hackers impersonated U.S. AI insiders | Yahoo/Reuters — Hackers impersonated ex-U.S. official Hegseth: NPR — Hegseth says he has transformed the military | Time — Sweeping cuts to top ranks | Boston Globe — 20% cut confirmed | Department of War — Address and initiatives Iraq: PBS/AP — Withdrawal complete | ABC News — Last troops depart | Democracy Now — Headlines, Oct. 1 Iran delegation: The Hill — Rubio orders Iranian delegation out | CTV — Delegation ordered to leave early | Fox News — Trump: more bombing "possible" | Fox News — Troop deployments, oil prices Egypt: WRAL/AP — Rubio waives restrictions on $320 million | Al-Monitor/Reuters — Waiver letter | Sen. Murphy — Democrats urged Biden to withhold the same aid Renee Good: PBS/AP — Family sues U.S. government and officials | ABC News — Family sues over fatal ICE shooting Mandatory detention: WTOP/AP — Supreme Court grants review | Marshall Project — ICE says it can detain as long as it wants | NPR — Third-country ruling Afghan files: Yahoo — 40% error rate | Epoch Times — IG findings | U.S. News/Reuters — SAVE error rates Pike: NBC News — "It was a mess" | NPR — Governor halts executions | The Hill — Lee halts executions Clancy: CBS Boston — Judge denies bid for not-guilty finding | Boston 25 — Motion denied | ABC News — Same Rick Ross: CBS Miami — Arrested on battery, strangulation charges | Rolling Stone — Domestic violence charges Victor Marx: Mediaite — Clip shows candidate describing "slamming" wife into door | Daily Beast — Candidate's past revealed | IBTimes — "She bent over and started crying" | CNN KFile — Bo French LSU: NBC News — Student says she was raped by player still on team | The Advocate — Punishment reduced | LSU Reveille — Criminal investigation opened Good news: Kathmandu Post — Tiger population rises to 429 | WWF — Nepal's wild tigers triple
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Sources: On This Day: Federal Reserve History — Stock Market Crash of 1987 | Library of Congress — Black Monday Sanctions waiver: CNBC — Trump waives broad new Russia sanctions | ABC News — Order waiving Graham Act sanctions | France 24 — Rubio: 60 days to analyze | RFE/RL — Ukrainian officials slam waiver | The Hill — Zelensky denounces waiver | White House — Implementing the Graham Act | Debevoise — Graham Act explainer Starshield: Kyiv Post — Rubio: Ukraine lacks access to Starshield | Newsweek — Rubio denies ordered slowdown | CBS News — Ukraine still unable to intercept drones | CNBC — Musk: “ultimately POTUS” Dmitriev: TASS — UK, EU “sabotage” peace efforts | TASS — “Checkmate” | Gazeta do Povo — AI image of U.S. and Russia facing Europe | CNN — Dmitriev praises waiver Bend: CBS News — 3 children, teacher killed | PBS — Shooter attacked special-education classroom | NBC News — Bystander identified | Central Oregon Daily — Teacher threw phone, fought shooter | OPB — Survivors remain hospitalized Wichita: CBS News — Boy among 2 killed, 11 injured | ABC News — Truck drives through soccer game Measles: Al Jazeera — 4,410 cases | CDC — Cases and outbreaks | Contagion Live — October 16 update Omar: The Hill — Obama: probe is a political attack | Yahoo/Fox — Obama’s statement | Fox News — Homan on denaturalization | Arolsen Archives — The expatriation card file | JTA — Thomas Mann’s citizenship cancelled (1936) | Jewish Museum Berlin — 1933 revocation of naturalization UTSA: ESPN — Service member died from fall | TPR — Airman dies in rappelling accident | KSAT — Air Force statement Vance: Daily Beast — Blindsided by grieving husband | Yahoo — Minnesota widower demands answers | IBTimes — Vance: “huge mistake” BBC suit: Forbes — Judge threatens sanctions | Bloomberg — Judge threatens Trump with sanctions | TheWrap — Bailing on deposition Zacharia / East Potomac: CNN — Why Trump fired Zacharia after five days | NPR — Zacharia out | Washington Post — Photos obscuring what appears to be map of East Potomac | CNN — Administration seeks to remove judge | CNN — Work to start mid-November | Washington Post — Satellite images of tree removal France: Al Jazeera — Hundreds of thousands protest | CBS News — 1,800 arrested | France 24 — “Like we had a war” Meta / No Kings: TheWrap — Instagram account disappears | Common Dreams — Censorship fears | Raw Story — “We demand answers” | TPR — No Kings draws crowds with early-voting focus | Arizona Mirror — Crowds channel anger into early votes Norte Fire: ABC News/AP — Blaze burned 6 homes, 16,000 evacuated | FOX Weather — First Santa Ana event Good news: Physics World — Optogenetic therapy shows promise | Technology Networks — Gene therapy helps patients detect objects | NPR — Nobel for optogenetics
Reminder: I will be in Scotland for my birthday next week! Libras UNITE! Yesterday's news will still be coming out leading into midterms, but the time of day may change slightly, I will have a few days that I take off completely from being online, but I will announce those. SOURCES On This Day: JFK Library — October 16, 1962 | Office of the Historian — Cuban Missile Crisis
Sources: On This Day: History.com — Shot in the chest, Roosevelt kept talking | WPR — Shot in Milwaukee, 1912 Youngstown rally: CNN — Trump holds raucous Ohio rally | NBC News — Live blog | AOL — Protester punched in face as Trump calls her "fat guy" | Raw Story — "They're scum" | WFMJ — Live notes | The Vindicator — Trump stumps for Husted, Ramaswamy Musk: CNBC — $276 million, biggest known donor | CNN — Top booster for Republicans | MPR/AP — Quietly becomes biggest donor | The Hill — $366 million cycle total Grassley: BizPac Review — Files for reelection; would be 101 | Townhall — Files for 2028 bid Voting rules: Washington Times/AP — GOP states impose new voting rules | Mississippi Today/AP — Same | CNN — Ohio early voting shift Bankruptcies: Newsweek — Bankruptcies surge | Epoch Times — Filings up 11 percent | Time News — Small trucking fleets file Tariffs: Globe and Mail/AP — Trump sticks with tariffs despite disapproval | CP24/AP — Voters turn against tariffs | CNN — Author of tariff statute says tariffs are illegal | GBQ — Section 301 tariffs on 60 economies Ukraine: CNBC — Zelenskyy accuses Russia of violating ceasefire | Euronews — Russia ignored ceasefire | PBS — Strikes continue despite claim | Axios — Trump announces ceasefire Houston: CNN — Man struck by ICE vehicle broke both legs | Click2Houston — Parra undergoes surgery, family allegations | Houston Chronicle — ICE vehicle hits man Pike: CNN — Emergency help delayed by confusion | CBS News — 911 calls | NBC News — Calls highlight confusion Mamdani: NY1 — Review after teen's death | Yahoo/CNN — Department-wide review | CNN — Marble Hill ICE shooting AI center: U.S. News/Reuters — Officials to move to White House | Crypto Briefing — CAISI under White House oversight Good news: Billboard — Musgraves fires back at Noem | Hollywood Reporter — Dig about killing her dog | TheWrap — Snarky clapback
Misspoke: There is a podcast episode this week, not next week. Sources: On This Day: History.com — Chilean miners rescued after 69 days | TechCrunch — Most-watched Ustream event ever
The word “gossip” started out as something sacred. In Old English it was godsibb, literally “God-sibling,” the name for a godparent or anyone who stood with you at a baptism and became spiritual kin. By the Middle Ages the meaning had loosened to cover any close friend or companion, and in particular the circle of women who gathered in the birthing room to help a mother through labor. Those long hours of waiting were filled with talk, and the “gossips” became known as much for their conversation as for their support. Men, fearful and suspicious of women in community without men supervising began to demonize women gathering publicly or speaking to each other. Male writers of the 1500s and 1600s sneered at “gossips” as idle, chattering women, and by the 1800s the verb “to gossip” meant exactly what it does today. It was uniquely WOMAN sin and was built to isolate a woman from network. Then... they added it to the Bible.