https://apnews.com/article/texas-tylenol-autism-texas-rfk-trump-3b39d3ac55b3b766b44c8fb03bad8b5e

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton on Tuesday accused the companies behind Tylenol of deceptively marketing the pain reliever to pregnant mothers in a lawsuit that asserted unproven claims that early exposure to acetaminophen increased risk of autism and other disorders.

Paxton, an ally of President Donald Trump and a Republican candidate for U.S. Senate, announced the suit against Johnson & Johnson and Kenvue weeks after Trump and Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. asserted an unproven link between the pain reliever and autism while announcing a wide-ranging effort to study the causes of the complex brain disorder.

The suit alleges that the companies violated Texas consumer protection laws by hiding the danger that acetaminophen, the active ingredient in Tylenol, posed to fetuses and young children and “deceptively marketed Tylenol as the only safe painkiller for pregnant women.”

It also alleges that Johnson & Johnson fraudulently transferred liabilities arising from Tylenol to Kenvue to shield assets against lawsuits.

In 2021, New Brunswick, New Jersey-based J&J announced that it would turn its consumer health business, which makes Tylenol and other products, into a separate company now known as Kenvue. It referenced that divestment in a statement Tuesday, saying “all rights and liabilities associated with the sale of its over-the-counter products, including Tylenol (acetaminophen), are owned by Kenvue.”

“Big Pharma betrayed America by profiting off of pain and pushing pills regardless of the risks. These corporations lied for decades, knowingly endangering millions to line their pockets,” Paxton said in a statement. “Additionally, seeing that the day of reckoning was coming, Johnson & Johnson attempted to escape responsibility by illegally offloading their liability onto a different company.”

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The M7 now accounts for more than a third of the entire S&P 500 and Nvidia has a share price to earnings ratio of 54; investors would normally begin to twitch at a ratio of 25. Microsoft and Apple both passed $4tn valuation on Tuesday, joining Nvidia as the only companies to pass that threshold, though Apple later eased back just below.

Earlier this month, Carson Block, founder of the short seller Muddy Waters, told the Financial Times: “Cycles have become so long and the corrections so short, that the demand for traditional short selling is just not there.”

Block said investors were confident, and ballsy, rallying around battle cries such as BTFD, or “buy the fucking dip”.

On 3 April, while the S&P 500 dived by almost 5% the day after Trump announced his “liberation day” tariffs, retail investors pushed more than $3bn into US stocks, according to Vanda Research – the largest daily injection of cash since the market analyst began keeping a tally in 2014.

The phenomenon is leading to more interest in the “inelastic markets hypothesis”, proposed in 2021 by the economists Xavier Gabaix and Ralph Koijen, of the US thinktank the National Bureau of Economic Research, which argues that share prices can be pushed up by an increase in the amount of money available to invest.

The theory goes that prices are rising not because of the prospects and profitability of the M7 and other popular assets, but because of the wall of money being pushed into the markets by amateur speculators. The trend has been compounded by an increase in low-cost passive investments by pension schemes and fund managers, which channel savings into an ever-smaller group of the fastest growing stocks.

https://www.theguardian.com/business/2025/oct/28/amateur-investors-riding-out-dips-ai-bubble-stomach-steel

Prime Minister Takaichi made her de facto diplomatic debut by joining an online summit of a coalition supporting Ukraine, where she expressed Japan’s commitment to continue providing assistance.

Takaichi said, "I pointed out that the outcome of this war will have a significant impact on the entire international order, extending beyond Europe to include East Asia."

On the night of October 24th, Takaichi participated for the first time since taking office in an online summit co-hosted by the United Kingdom and France, which was also attended by Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky.

During the meeting, she emphasized that Japan will continue to work with the international community to support Ukraine and to advance sanctions against Russia.
https://newsonjapan.com/article/147382.php

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> 10/26/2025
Putin up to no good…
> Top Headlines
Flashback: Trump wants Venezuelan oil! (Red Text)
> https://x.com/davenewworld_2/status/1958241885128130831
Warships aren’t in Venezuela to fight drugs…
> https://www.aljazeera.com/opinions/2025/10/24/the-us-warships-off-venezuela-arent-there-to-fight-drugs

> Main Headlines
Putin tests the ‘Skyfall’ Nuke Missile…
> https://www.the-sun.com/news/15398217
A ‘Flying Chernobyl’!
> https://www.express.co.uk/news/2126103
Explosions rock Moscow!
> https://newsukraine.rbc.ua/news/explosions-shake-moscow-streets-as-drones-1761513740.html

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>Argentinian peso surges 10% after election
>The US of A just made an easy $4 billion off the swop
>https://www.cnn.com/2025/10/27/business/argentina-stock-market-milei-party-win

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It's a tale as old as it is preventable. While Republican incompetence and indifference threatens the lives and livelihoods of American citizens, it falls to Democrats to step in and protect the people.
As Republicans continue to hold the nation hostage with a government shutdown on track to cross the one month mark and the President Trump remains focused entirely on his new ballroom in between cognition tests, Democrat governors are working overtime to pick up the slack.

https://www.cbsnews.com/minnesota/news/gov-tim-walz-announces-emergency-food-shelf-funding-amid-shutdown/

>The federal government shutdown entered its 27th day Monday, leaving hundreds of thousands of federal workers without pay — and threatening to cut off food assistance for thousands of Minnesotans by the start of November.

>In response, Gov. Tim Walz announced $4 million in emergency state funding to support food shelves across Minnesota. The one-time funding aims to fill the gap as federal Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, or SNAP, benefits are set to end if the shutdown continues.

>"This is meant to be a bridge," Walz said during a news conference at the Open Door Pantry in Eagan, Minnesota. "It will not make up and backfill everything that is going to drop off starting on Saturday."

>The funds will come from the Department of Human Services' emergency services account and the Family First Prevention Services Act. The state will distribute the money through Minnesota's existing food shelf network. Each food shelf and tribal nation will receive a base amount of $5,000, and additional funding based on local need.

>More than 440,000 Minnesotans rely on SNAP, according to state data. Of those, 38% are children and 18% are seniors. Walz said about 9 million visits were made to food shelves statewide last year.

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US airports have reported more than 20 incidents of air traffic controller shortages on Saturday, said Sean Duffy, transportation secretary, in the latest sign of the government shutdown’s impact.

A ground stop was issued by the agency at Los Angeles international airport due to the air traffic controller staffing shortages at around 11.30am ET (15.30 GMT). The restriction covered most of the southern California region and delays are likely when flights resume.

The Trump administration warned flight disruptions are expected to increase as they drag the shutdown on.

Duffy told the Fox News’s Sunday Morning Futures program that the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) on Saturday had 22 “triggers” that indicated shortages of air traffic controllers. He said that figure was “one of the highest that we’ve seen in the system” since 1 October.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/oct/26/air-traffic-controller-shortages-shutdown

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>La Libertad Avanza, won nearly 41% of the vote, taking 13 of 24 Senate seats and 64 of the 127 lower-house seats that were contested.
>57.5% increase in vote share.
>73% increase in the lower-house
>120% growth in the Senate
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c4gw8qpyvqdo

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https://www.wect.com/2025/10/25/13-people-shot-2-dead-according-deputies-after-shooting-robeson-county/

ROBESON CO., N.C. (WECT) - Officials with the Robeson County Sheriff’s Office confirm 13 people have been shot and at least two people are dead following a shooting.

Officials posted the information in a Facebook post saying it happened during a large party just outside of Maxton.

Deputies say there is no current threat to the community and it appears to have been an isolated incident.

The post says more than 150 of people ran from the location before law enforcement arrived. They’re asking anyone with information or anyone who was at the scene when it happened, to make contact with Sheriff’s Investigators by calling 910-671-3100 or email sheriff.wilkins@robesoncountysonc.gov.

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https://www.theverge.com/policy/806425/ice-social-media-surveillance-free-speech-assault

As Immigration and Customs Enforcement carries out raids across the country, the agency is working rapidly to expand an online surveillance system that could potentially track millions of users on the web. Federal records uncovered by The Lever reveal that ICE is paying $5.7 million to use an AI-powered social media monitoring platform called Zignal Labs, something Will Owen, the communications director at the Surveillance Technology Oversight Project (STOP), calls an “assault” on democracy and free speech.

The “real-time intelligence” platform is capable of ingesting and analyzing vast amounts of publicly available data, like social media posts, according to its website. In a pamphlet shared by The Lever, Zignal Labs says it uses machine learning, computer vision, and optical character recognition to analyze more than 8 billion posts per day in over 100 languages. This allows it to process and sort data into “curated detection feeds” that ICE could use to flag individuals for deportation.

The pamphlet highlights Zignal’s ability to capture geolocated images and videos while providing alerts and information to “operators.” One example states that Zignal Labs used its technology to analyze a Telegram video showing “the precise location of an ongoing operation in Gaza.” The company says its tool identified emblems and patches to “confirm the operators involved,” allowing it to notify operators on the ground. That means ICE could potentially trace someone’s location based on the location attached to a video posted on TikTok, or even a picture on Facebook.

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https://www.thedailybeast.com/stephen-miller-puts-up-hysterical-defense-of-white-house-teardown/

White House Deputy Chief of Staff Stephen Miller mounted an impassioned defense of President Donald Trump’s controversial White House renovations, for which the entire East Wing has been destroyed.

In an appearance on Fox News’ The Will Cain Show, Miller railed against the left, which has “scarred the landscape of our country with grotesque, so-called ‘modern art’ that celebrates ugliness, that celebrates defacement.”

“The tragedy is a political party and a movement that has ripped down our statues, our monuments, our holidays, our heroes, our heritage,” Miller continued, ignoring the fact that the Trump administration has itself called for the removal of statues that do not align with its version of history.

“The Republican Party under President Trump celebrates beauty again and beautification again, and just as President Trump has beautified Washington D.C., now he’s repairing, finally, an area of the White House that has been left in disrepair for decades.”

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https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2025/10/25/trump-2028-steve-bannon-comments/86897789007/

WASHINGTON – MAGA podcaster and former West Wing aide Steve Bannon suggested in a recent interview that a plan exists for President Donald Trump to attempt to defy the Constitution and seek a third term in office in 2028.

"Trump is going to be president in ’28, and people just ought to get accommodated with that," he told The Economist on Oct. 23.

Though Bannon, who served a four-month stint in prison last year and has pleaded guilty to separate fraud charges, isn't empowered in the White House like he was during Trump's first term, he indicated there are "many different alternatives" for keeping his former boss in the presidency.

"At the appropriate time, we’ll lay out what the plan is," Bannon said. "But there is a plan."

Trump has toyed publicly with the idea on many occasions since he won reelection in 2024, despite the fact that the 22nd Amendment forbids a president from seeking office for more than two four-year terms, regardless of whether they were consecutive.

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https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/us-military-deploy-aircraft-carrier-south-america-amid-soaring-tensions-with-2025-10-24/

Deployment adds to warships, fighter aircraft already in region
Move follows recent U.S. strikes on alleged drug vessels
Maduro warns of insurrection if U.S. intervenes in Venezuela
Sanctions imposed on Colombian President Petro amid tensions

WASHINGTON, Oct 24 (Reuters) - President Donald Trump’s administration escalated a U.S. military buildup in the Caribbean on Friday by announcing the deployment of the Gerald Ford aircraft carrier group to Latin America — a show of force far beyond any past counter-narcotics effort and Washington’s most assertive move in the region yet.

The deployment, which adds to the eight warships, a nuclear submarine and F-35 aircraft already in the region, marks a significant escalation amid heightened tensions with Venezuela, whose government Washington has long accused of harboring drug traffickers and undermining democratic institutions.

"The enhanced U.S. force presence in the USSOUTHCOM AOR will bolster U.S. capacity to detect, monitor, and disrupt illicit actors and activities that compromise the safety and prosperity of the United States homeland and our security in the Western Hemisphere," Pentagon spokesperson Sean Parnell posted on X.

He did not specify when the carrier would be moving to the region, but as of a few days ago, the carrier was traveling via the Strait of Gibraltar and in Europe.


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Republicans are trying to feed the country during the Schumer Shutdown. Heartless Democrats are expected to vote against it and let the American public starve to death or force them into food riots
https://thehill.com/homenews/house/5572105-snap-funding-government-shutdown/
Bill to fund SNAP in shutdown introduced in House

Rep. Mariannette Miller-Meeks (R-Iowa) on Friday introduced a bill to fund the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) as the government shutdown threatens payments of the food aid in some states.

The Keep SNAP Funded Act of 2025 would keep the food aid program funded during the government lapse until the Department of Agriculture is funded through regular appropriations or stopgap measures.

The bill is the companion to a SNAP-funding bill in the Senate being led by Sen. Josh Hawley (R-Mo.), which Senate Republicans are reportedly considering for a floor vote. Rep. Max Miller (R-Ohio) is a co-sponsor of the House bill.

SNAP benefits are funded by the federal government while states operate and share the cost of administering the program and distributing the benefits. Since funding is sent to states monthly, October benefits were not impacted — but November payments could be at risk. The Department of Agriculture has warned there will be insufficient funds to pay full SNAP benefits in November if the shutdown continues.

“More than 262,000 Iowans, including over 100,000 children rely on SNAP to put food on the table. They cannot afford to be ‘leverage’ in the Democrats’ political games. That’s why I’m introducing legislation to ensure SNAP remains funded throughout the shutdown. Access to food is not negotiable,” Miller-Meeks said in a statement.

Senate Democrats have repeatedly blocked a House-passed, GOP-crafted “clean” stopgap to fund the government through Nov. 21 as they demand that Republicans negotiate on health care issues like enhanced Affordable Care Act tax credits.

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Inflation was lower this month than expected, only growing 0.3% for the month according to the Fed.
Inflation is now lower than at any point during Biden's presidency.
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/10/24/tame-inflation-report-keeps-fed-rate-cut-on-track-00621391
Tame inflation report keeps Fed rate cut on track
The CPI release offers a small reprieve for the Fed, which has been deprived of key economic data while much of the government is not operating.

The annual inflation rate ticked up to 3 percent in September but didn’t increase by as much as expected, leaving the Federal Reserve on track to cut interest rates again next week.
Prices rose 0.3 percent from August, according to the Labor Department’s latest consumer price index report, which drew more attention than usual because it was delayed by the government shutdown.
The report is also crucial because increases in Social Security benefits are tied to the inflation rate. After the CPI release, the Social Security Administration announced that benefits would rise 2.8 percent in 2026 in the annual cost-of-living adjustment.
Fed policymakers will decide next Wednesday whether to reduce interest rates again. Chair Jerome Powell has been under constant pressure from President Donald Trump to lower borrowing costs to spur the economy.
“There was little in today’s benign CPI report to ‘spook’ the Fed and we continue to expect further easing at next week’s Fed meeting,” Lindsay Rosner, head of multi-sector fixed income investing at Goldman Sachs Asset Management, said in an emailed statement.
“A December rate cut also remains likely with the current data drought providing the Fed with little reason to deviate from the path set out” in policymakers’ September projections, she added.
The CPI report offers a small reprieve for the Fed, which has been deprived of key economic data while much of the government is not operating.