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Trump signs bill to release Jeffrey Epstein case files after fighting it for months.
What’s next now that Trump has signed bill releasing the Epstein files.
Larry Summers going on leave at Harvard as university investigates ties to Jeffrey Epstein. The former treasury secretary announced earlier that he would step down from the board of directors at OpenAI.
The Trump steamroller is broken. Infighting. Bad polls. Party divisions. Midterm fears. It’s all back.
Trump’s toddler response to the Epstein saga. “He looks like he has something to hide even if he doesn’t,” asserts the Wall Street Journal editorial page. “This is a self-inflicted wound,” complains Megyn Kelly.
Democratic Florida lawmaker indicted for allegedly stealing $5m in FEMA funds.
‘Triple whammy’ will decide if Wall Street crashes within the next day.
America’s deepening affordability crisis summed up in five charts.
Trump’s words loom over Comey case as judge weighs tossing indictment.
The Simpsons’ gets dedicated channel on Disney+ streaming every episode in order, 24/7.
Tesla’s robotaxi fleet can’t stop crashing into things.
What happens when even college students can’t do math anymore? They run for Congress?
Scientists found a mysterious golden orb at the bottom of the ocean. “I just hope when we poke it, something doesn’t decide to come out,” one researcher said. “It’s like the beginning of a horror movie.” Then don’t poke it. Sheesh.
Owning a cat could double your risk of schizophrenia, research suggests. TLDR: The key word here is “suggests”. “There is a need for more high-quality studies in this field,” the authors emphasize in their published paper.
Patient hospitalized after first human case of bird flu linked to rare strain of virus.
Late Night:
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Trump can’t keep his hands off MBS as Epstein files release is imminent -
The Daily Show (Video)Trump braces for Hurricane Epstein, spews nonsense and Elon joins for dinner with Saudi crown prince.-Jimmy Kimmel (Video)
Schumer: Trump “Can’t f*** around” with Epstein files release | Messing with Texas | RFK On DMT-Stephen Colbert (Video)
Trump loses battle to conceal Epstein files; Greene hits back over “traitor” nickname: A Closer Look-Seth Meyers (Video)
History highlight:
1983 - Over 100 million people watched the television movie “The Day After” on ABC. (Trailer) (Complete film)
Keep scrolling down. Lots of interesting stuff in Quote of the Day, Holidays, On This Day, Birthdays, and Deaths.
Quote of the Day:
Las Vegas is Everyman’s cut-rate Babylon. Not far away there is, or was, a roadside lunch counter and over it a sign proclaiming in three words that a Roman emperor’s orgy is now a democratic institution. ‘Topless Pizza Lunch.’.
--Alistair Cooke (Wikipedia link)
(More Alistair Cooke quotes from the KGB Quotations Database)
Today’s holidays:
Africa Industrialization Day, Beaujolais Nouveau Day, Beautiful Day, Future Teachers of America Day, Globally Organized Hug a Runner Day, Great American Smokeout, Name Your PC Day, National Absurdity Day, National Peanut Butter Fudge Day, National Rural Health Day, Pediatrician Day, Social Enterprise Day, Transgender Day of Remembrance, Use Less Stuff Day, World Children’s Day, World Pancreatic Cancer Day, and World Philosophy Day.
Astronomy Picture of the Day from NASA.
On This Day:
2003 – Music producer Phil Spector charged with murder.
2002 – The 12th James Bond film, “Die Another Day”, premiered in the UK. (Video)
1998 – The first space station module component, Zarya, for the International Space Station was launched from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan.
1993 – Savings and loan crisis: The United States Senate Ethics Committee issued a stern censure of California senator Alan Cranston for his “dealings” with savings-and-loan executive Charles Keating.
1992 – In England, a fire broke out in Windsor Castle, badly damaging the castle and causing over £50 million worth of damage.
1989 – Velvet Revolution: The number of protesters assembled in Prague, Czechoslovakia, swelled from 200,000 the day before to an estimated half-million.
1985 – Microsoft Windows 1.0, the first graphical personal computer operating environment developed by Microsoft, was released.
1983 – The film “Terms of Endearment” premiered in New York City. (Video)
1983 - Over 100 million people watched the television movie “The Day After” on ABC. (Trailer) (Complete film)
1980 – Lake Peigneur in Louisiana drained into an underlying salt deposit. A misplaced Texaco oil probe had been drilled into the Diamond Crystal Salt Mine, causing water to flow down into the mine, eroding the edges of the hole. (Video)
1977 – Egyptian President Anwar Sadat became the first Arab leader to officially visit Israel, when he meets Israeli prime minister Menachem Begin and speaks before the Knesset in Jerusalem, seeking a permanent peace settlement.
1974 – The United States Department of Justice filed its final anti-trust suit against AT&T Corporation. This suit later leads to the breakup of AT&T and its Bell System.
1969 – Occupation of Alcatraz: Native American activists seized control of Alcatraz Island until being ousted by the U.S. Government on June 11, 1971.
1969 – Vietnam War: The Plain Dealer (Cleveland, Ohio) published explicit photographs of dead villagers from the My Lai Massacre in Vietnam.
1968 – A total of 78 miners were killed in an explosion at the Consolidated Coal Company’s No. 9 mine in Farmington, West Virginia in the Farmington Mine disaster.
1966 – The original production of “Cabaret” opened on Broadway. (Video)
1962 – Cuban Missile Crisis ended: In response to the Soviet Union agreeing to remove its missiles from Cuba, U.S. President John F. Kennedy ended the quarantine of the Caribbean nation.
1959 – The Declaration of the Rights of the Child was adopted by the United Nations.
1958 – American puppeteers Jim Henson and his future wife Jane Nebel established Muppets, Inc. (now known as The Jim Henson Company)
1947 – The Princess Elizabeth married Lieutenant Philip Mountbatten, who became the Duke of Edinburgh, at Westminster Abbey in London.
1945 – Nuremberg trials: Trials against 24 Nazi war criminals started at the Palace of Justice at Nuremberg.
1923 – The three-position traffic signal was patented by Garrett Morgan.
1866 – The modern pedal bicycle was patented by Pierre Lallement.
1820 – An 80-ton sperm whale attacked and sunk the 88-foot Essex (a whaling ship from Nantucket, Massachusetts) 2,000 miles from the western coast of South America. (Herman Melville‘s 1851 novel Moby-Dick was in part inspired by this incident.)
1789 – New Jersey became the first U.S. state to ratify the Bill of Rights.
(For comprehensive lists of the day’s historical events, check here, here, and here.)
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Some Birthdays:
1971 – Joel McHale, American comedian, actor, and producer
1959 – Sean Young, American actress and dancer
1956 – Bo Derek, American actress and producer
1951 – Rodger Bumpass, American actor and singer
1948 – Richard Masur, American actor and director
1948 – John R. Bolton, American lawyer and diplomat, 25th United States Ambassador to the United Nations
1947 – Joe Walsh, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, producer, and actor
1946 – Samuel E. Wright, American actor, voice actor and singer (died 2021)
1946 – Duane Allman, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (died 1971)
1943 – Veronica Hamel, American actress and model
1942 – Bob Einstein, American actor, producer, and screenwriter (died 2019)
1942 – Norman Greenbaum, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
1942 – Joe Biden, American politician, 46th President of the United States
1941 – Dr. John, American singer and songwriter (died 2019)
1939 – Dick Smothers, American actor and comedian
1932 – Richard Dawson, English-American actor and game show host (died 2012)
1927 – Estelle Parsons, American actress and director
1925 – Robert F. Kennedy, US Navy officer, lawyer, and politician, 64th United States Attorney General (died 1968)
1924 – Benoit Mandelbrot, Polish-American mathematician and economist (died 2010)
1919 – Phyllis Thaxter, American actress (died 2012)
1917 – Robert Byrd, American lawyer and politician (died 2010)
1913 – Judy Canova, American actress and comedian (died 1983)
1913 – Charles Berlitz, American linguist (died 2003)
1908 – Alistair Cooke, British-American journalist and author (died 2004)
1907 – Fran Allison, American entertainer (died 1989)
1900 – Chester Gould, American cartoonist and author, created Dick Tracy (died 1985)
1890 – Robert Armstrong, American actor (died 1973)
1889 – Edwin Hubble, American astronomer and cosmologist (died 1953)
(A more complete list of today’s birthdays.)
Some Deaths:
2006 – Donald Hamilton, American author (born 1916)
2006 – Robert Altman, American director, producer, and screenwriter (born 1925)
1975 – Francisco Franco, Spanish general and dictator, Prime Minister of Spain (born 1892)
1973 – Allan Sherman, American actor, comedian, and producer (born 1924)
1954 – Clyde Vernon Cessna, American pilot and engineer, founded the Cessna Aircraft Corporation (born 1879)
1910 – Leo Tolstoy, Russian author and playwright (born 1828)
(A more complete list of today’s deaths.)
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