Trump can "do anything"; AI now writing ransomware; flesh-eating bacteria spreading; CDC director canned; limits on Covid vaccine; Florida man gets his own section.
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Knee Deep in the Hoopla
"I have the right to do anything I want to do. I'm the president of the United States." (Video)
Shooter who opened fire on Catholic school posted rambling videos. YouTube videos posted to coincide with the shooting showed reverence for other mass shooters, and gun magazines scrawled with “Kill Donald Trump” and racial slurs.
White House fires CDC director who says RFK Jr. is ‘weaponizing public health’. Susan Monarez was confirmed as the CDC’s director in July. Three top agency officials announced resignations as the Trump administration moved to oust her.
FDA limits approval for new coronavirus vaccines to high-risk people. Public health experts and industry groups said the narrowed approval injects uncertainty for Americans not considered high-risk who want to get another coronavirus vaccine. They said it’s not clear who will ultimately be able to get the shot, whether insurance will cover it and whether they can get vaccinated at their local pharmacy.
Prosecutors fail to obtain indictment against man who threw a Subway sandwich at a federal agent. Grand jurors didn’t consider assault with a deli weapon to be chargeable. So much for being able to indict a ham sandwich. (Video)
Inside the USAID Fire Sale. Around the world, defibrillators, motorbikes, and water towers are being donated, sold, or simply abandoned.
The first AI-powered ransomware has been discovered — "PromptLock" uses local AI to foil heuristic detection and evade API tracking.
Flesh-eating bacteria cases are rising. Climate change is to blame, say scientists.
Texas Legislature approves bill making ivermectin an over-the-counter drug.
Our daily Florida Man updates:
Florida man in Batman pajamas stops burglary suspect.
Doorbell camera shows bear sneaking up on Florida man before attacking.
Keep scrolling down. Lots of interesting stuff in today’s daily features.
Quote of the Day:
It is easier to perceive error than to find truth, for the former lies on the surface and is easily seen, while the latter lies in the depth, where few are willing to search for it.
--Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (Wikipedia link)
(More Goethe quotes from the KGB Quotations Database)
Today’s holidays:
Chadwick Boseman Day, Crackers Over The Keyboard Day, Dream Day Quest and Jubilee, International Cabernet Sauvignon Day, International Read Comics in Public Day, National Bow Tie Day, National Cherry Turnovers Day, National Power Rangers Day, National Red Wine Day, National Thoughtful Day, Race Your Mouse Around the Icons Day, Radio Commercial Day, Rainbow Bridge Remembrance Day, and Thoughtful Thursday.
Astronomy Picture of the Day from NASA.
On This Day:
2003 – In "one of the most complicated and bizarre crimes in the annals of the FBI", Brian Wells died after becoming involved in a complex plot involving a bank robbery, a scavenger hunt, and a homemade explosive device. (Graphic Video)
1999 – The Russian space mission Soyuz TM-29 reached completion, ending nearly ten years of continuous occupation on the space station Mir as it approached the end of its life.
1993 – NASA's Galileo probe performed a flyby of the asteroid 243 Ida. Astronomers later discovered a moon, the first known asteroid moon, in pictures from the flyby and name it Dactyl.
1990 – An F5 tornado devastated the Illinois cities of Plainfield and Joliet, killing 29 people. (Video)
1988 – Ramstein air show disaster: Three aircraft of the Frecce Tricolori demonstration team collided and the wreckage fell into the crowd. Seventy-five are killed and 346 seriously injured. (Video)
1968 – Police and protesters clashed during 1968 Democratic National Convention protests as protesters chanted "The whole world is watching". (Video)
1964 – The Philadelphia race riot began. (Video)
1963 – Mahalia Jackson prompts Martin Luther King Jr. to improvise his “I Have a Dream” speech.
1963 – March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom: Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. gave his I Have a Dream speech. (Video)
1957 – U.S. Senator Strom Thurmond began a filibuster to prevent the United States Senate from voting on the Civil Rights Act of 1957; he stopped speaking 24 hours and 18 minutes later, at that time the longest filibuster ever conducted by a single Senator.
1955 – Black teenager Emmett Till is lynched in Mississippi for whistling at a white woman, galvanizing the nascent civil rights movement.
1936 – Nazi Germany began its mass arrests of Jehovah's Witnesses, who were interned in concentration camps.
1916 – World War I: Germany declared war on Romania.
1916 – World War I: Italy declared war on Germany
1898 – Caleb Bradham's beverage "Brad's Drink" was renamed "Pepsi-Cola".
1845 – The first issue of Scientific American magazine was published.
1609 – Henry Hudson discovered Delaware Bay.
1565 – Pedro Menéndez de Avilés sighted land near St. Augustine, Florida and founded the oldest continuously occupied European-established city in the continental United States.
(For comprehensive lists of the day’s historical events, check here, here, and here.)
Some Birthdays:
1986 – Armie Hammer, American actor
1982 – LeAnn Rimes, American singer-songwriter and actress
1969 – Jason Priestley, Canadian actor, director, and producer
1969 – Jack Black, American actor and comedian
1965 – Shania Twain, Canadian singer-songwriter
1965 – Amanda Tapping, British-Canadian actress and director (Stargate series)
1962 – David Fincher, American director and producer
1961 – Jennifer Coolidge, American actress
1960 – Emma Samms, English actress
1959 – Brian Thompson, American actor, director, producer, and screenwriter
1958 – Scott Hamilton, American figure skater
1957 – Daniel Stern, American actor and director
1956 – Luis Guzmán, Puerto Rican-American actor and producer
1951 – Wayne Osmond, American singer-songwriter and actor (died 2025)
1948 – Vonda N. McIntyre, American author (died 2019)
1943 – David Soul, American actor and singer (died 2024)
1930 – Ben Gazzara, American actor (died 2012)
1929 – Roxie Roker, American actress (died 1995)
1925 – Donald O'Connor, American actor, singer, and dancer (died 2003)
1921 – Nancy Kulp, American actress and soldier (died 1991)
1917 – Jack Kirby, American author and illustrator (died 1994)
1899 – James Wong Howe, Chinese American cinematographer (died 1976)
1899 – Charles Boyer, French-American actor, singer, and producer (died 1978)
1774 – Elizabeth Ann Seton, American nun and saint, co-founded the Sisters of Charity Federation in the Vincentian-Setonian Tradition (died 1821)
1749 – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, German novelist, poet, playwright, and diplomat (died 1832)
(A more complete list of today’s birthdays.)
Some Deaths:
2020 – Chadwick Boseman, American actor and playwright (born 1976)
2007 – Miyoshi Umeki, Japanese-American actress (born 1929)
1988 – Max Shulman, American author and screenwriter (born 1919)
1987 – John Huston, Irish actor, director, and screenwriter (born 1906) (Video)
1985 – Ruth Gordon, American actress and screenwriter (born 1896)
1978 – Robert Shaw, English actor (born 1927)
1955 – Emmett Till, African-American kidnapping and lynching victim (born 1941)
(A more complete list of today’s deaths.)
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