Space x launches rescue mission for stranded astronauts 
 
Helene destroys parts of Florida Georgia North Carolina 
 
Ice releases numbers that in the last year over 425,678 convicted criminals from foreign countries were released into US after crossing the border.
 
IDF takes out Hezbollah leader and 20+ commanders and in subsequent attack took out the second in command putting a huge hole in leadership.  Houthi rebels fire missiles at Israel taken out by Iron dome
 
Kris Kristofferson dies at 88
 
Dikembe mutumbo dues at 58 of brain cancer.  Mutumbo the first African born player in the NVA known for his blocking and finger no no
 
Maggie Smith , famed actress, known by many as headmistress in Harry Potter dies at 93
 
Pete Rose dies at 83
 
California will allow eating drinking and smoking at Amsterdam style cannabis cafes
 
Dockworkers launch massive strike 
 
John Amos of good times fame dies at 84
 
Helene death total reaches 200
 
Dockworkers agree to suspend strike till January 15th
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96% of union workers at Boeing goes on strike over not getting a 40% pay increase.  Thus can hurt Boeing and airline industry
 
Arizonas 19th century abortion law officially repealed
 
Another assassination attempt on Trump at Mar a lago
 
Sean combs arrested for sex trafficking 7 months after the raid on his houses
 
In a local interview Kamala Harris rambles  on and on about policy without saying anything.  This has been the fear of her campaign 
 
Teamster union passes on endorsing candidate due to their rank and file survey being leaning heavily towards Former President Trump and because they did not get sufficient promises from candidates, per their president. 59.6% for Trump 37.65 for Harris
 
Dow hits record after rate cut
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Job report released only showed 142,000 below expectation, although unemployment dropped to 4.2%, the lowest since 2019.
 
X wins appeal to block CA social media law which was requiring semi annual reporting to attorney general how they are moderating content.
 
Kendrick Lamar will headline Super Bowl in. Ew Orleans halftime show 
 
Harvey Weinstein moved to riders island hospital for emergency heart surgery
 
James earl Jones, Darth Vader, dies at 93
 
Presidential debate occurred amidst different reactions.  Independent focus groups showed Trump won over independents 30-60 at a rate of 7 out of 10 per CSPAN but Kamala Harris won over younger voters at a rate of 8.5 out of 10 per cspan
 
Space X completes first successful commercial space walk.  
 
Top Dems advise Harrison not to do interviews to avoid being pressed on issues.  Bernie Sanders tried to ease worries of liberals by saying don’t worry Harrison is more liberal than me she just saying this to get elected.
 
Harvey Weinstein re inducted after conviction overturned 
 
Two more accounts against Trump in  GA case have been tossed
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Biden administration keeping up ties with. Gina to see if they can finalize some actions beneficial for each country.
 
Trump campaign gets in trouble for filming while recognizing the 13 fallen from Abbey Gate attack at Arlington
 
Utah releases its first homeless mortality report, finding homeless in Utah die at a much faster rate and at a 35% younger age than the rest of their population.  Utah is estimated to have the fifth highest homeless population behind Oregon California, New York and Washington.  Nevada is inn6th.  Only California has published a similar report, and Utahs statistics puts them just behind them by a tenth of a point.
 
Kamala Harrison does her first interview since announcing her presidential run.  In a 18 minute interview she failed to impress and admitted she hasn’t switched her positions stating her values have not changed.  The optics of the interview were also off with her running mate towering over as she answered questions l.
 
California legislators close the loophole from their 2014 plastic bag ban in new bill clearly banning all plastic
 
Small town in Oklahoma rallies behind young student after the local public school bans him from flying the US flag on his truck, clogging up the streets with a flag parade.  
 
On ESPN Gameday, a texas A&M student wins 50,000 on the Pat McAfee kick challenge.
 
60 year old woman dies at her desk at her Wells Fargo office and is found 4 days later only after a foul order is detected.  
 
Far right party AFD is about to win two states in Germany the first for the far right since the end of WWII.
 
Angel Reese part of the best rookie class in the WNBA history breaks rebound record with 407.
 
Caitlin Clark adds to her record year breaking Tameka Catchings rookie record of most points scored.  WNBA has tripled their average attendance and has sold out almost 85% of their games due to the crop of rookies Angel Reese, Clark, Cameron Brink, Kelsey Martin and more.  All of these rookies were widely popular in college and had strong Social media presence along with NIL deals, bringing rise to strengthening players images before they go pro.
 
6 Israeli hostages, one of them a dual citizen with the US, in Gaza, were found executed in a tunnel.
 
Kamala Harris did not get a convention bump actually losing 3 points and is turning to Joe Biden for help joint campaigning through PA.  The only thing that increased was the number of positive Covid tests as almost 40% of attendees have tested positive
 
10 states have put abortion rights as part of constitutions, most are fair bills making it to viability instead of the ridiculous 6 week bans but these could affect election results favoring democrats as this is a major rights issue and can bring out vote
 
US seizes Venezuelan President Maduro’s plane for violating sanctions room’s and being illegally smuggled from us.
 
Jane’s Darren “Gidget” teen idol dies at 86
 
Russian missile strike kills 41 in Ukraine
 
Hunter Biden agrees to surprise guilty plea in tax case.
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Volcanoes in Iceland dormant for over 800 years has erupted for the 6th time in 8 months.
 
Secret service puts 5 agents involved in Trump security detail on date of assasination attempt on admin leave
 
RFK jr suspends campaign and endorses Donald Trump
 
AZ man accused and arrested for threatening Donald Trumps life
 
Strong winds send trampoline flying into houses in Alabama 
 
Dodger player Shohei Otani becomes fastest player and only the 6th player in history to enter the 40-40 club (40 steals and 40 home runs in a single season) with a grand slam.  
 
Deadly knife attack occurs in Germany, Islamic state claims responsibility 
 
5 people arrested in the overdose death of Matthew Perry.
 
Israeli jets attack targets in Lebanon 
 
Kennedy family denounces RFK jr and calls him a traitor to family values
 
Tulsi Gabbard endorses Donald Trump
 
Telegram boss arrested in France for not providing French government and the US access to their encrypted network
 
NASA decides Boeing spaceliner not safe to ferry astronauts back so they are stranding them on the ISS until February when a space x plane can ferry them back.
 
Trump is reindicted with a more narrow focus on the charges to try to fit within the Supreme Court ruling earlier this year.  Essentially separating his comments from being presidential to that of a campaigner.  
 
Mexico suspends embassy relations with the US over us anbassador Samazar criticism over Mexico’s intention to change constitution before their recent election.  Salazar said it would destroy democracy in Mexico
 
Aurora Colorado is under siege by a migrant Venezuelan gang pending asylum claims.  They are taking over apartment buildings by force having them pay their rent to them.
 
Group of Migrants near Jamul California have tried to board a school bus with children on board, they were removed by parents two days in a row
 
Caitlin Clark breaks 3 point record for rookies in WNBA adding to her records this year including assists.
 
 
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Kamala Harris released her economic plan.  Overall the plan followed the Trump Tax cut agenda:  higher child care credits, home buyer credits, higher credits for health insurance.  But she also pushed federal government price controls on all items as her counter to inflation, highlighted she wants to end what she calls price gouging and agreed with AOC on increasing tax rates up to 70%
 
A 13 year old girl dies in Christine Texas after an unknown accident caused life threatening injuries that her mom and step dad tried to treat with smoothies and vitamins for 4 days before finally calling 911
 
US confirms Trump Campaign was breached by Iran and that Iran is trying to keep Trump from being elected.
 
RFK jr. weighs supporting Donald Trump and backing out race.
 
Bill pastel, long term New Jersey congressman dies at 87.
 
Phil Murphy replaces Bob Menendez with Murphy’s former chief of staff.  George Hrlmy will serve out the year as Menendez term ends in December and there is currently two candidates running for his seat.  Murphy followed Gavin Newsom example of appointing someone not interested in running but will focus on interim needs of state.
 
Department of Labor releases a job correction stating they overstated job creation by 800,000.  The administration says it’s a Donald Trump lie although it came from their own administration 
 
California trying to pass a bill making it easier with government dollars for illegals to buy homes.
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Susan Wojicki a significant leader in the rise of google and also CEO of you tube dies at 56


Us men’s basketball wins 5th straight gold under lights out shooting by Steph Curry


Women’s water polo chokes and loses to Netherlands making it first time us women don’t make podium


Men’s water polo wins bronze.  


Is team dominates at the Track


Tim Walz, vice president candidate, under attack by his former unit for stolen valor, desertion and misstatement of rank


In 2023, it is estimated over 65,000 rape related pregnancies occurred in states with complete abortion bans and no rape or incest exclusions including Texas and Oklahoma


US approved 20 billion weapons package including jets for Israel, creating a divide between Muslims and the Harris Campaign after she promised it won’t happen over the weekend.


UAW files workforce intimidation claim with Department of Labor on Elon Musk and Donald Trump.


Backlash from Small Business Owners over Tim Walz and how he shutdown businesses during Covid pandemic and put people in jail and took their businesses. 


Ilhan Omar wins very narrow primary avoiding being the third squad member to lose.


University of Columbia president after almost a year of turmoil and missteps and having her campus taken over has resigned


Vance and Walz agree to a debate in October.  Why do all the debates. Happen so late?  Primaries are later in the year, at least this year.
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Trump blows up his campaign questioning Kamala Harrison race origins, and race issues in general at the NABJ, and saying he’s the victim of racism causing republicans running for office to run from him.  
 
IOC defends its admittance of two boxers in the female category whom have failed gender  tests in the past and then put beatings on competitors who withdrew from competition causing an uproar.
 
Grant Fisher runs an amazing race holding off race favorites for podium spot I n the men’s 10,000 meter track event.  Fisher claims Bronze and is only the 4th American make to medal in this event ever.
 
After historic plea deal with the architect of 9/11 attacks, Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin revokes plea deal and fires defense official who signed off.
 
Katie Ledecky closes out her Olympics with a record 9 golds most of any individual woman 
 
Us swim team wins most medals but loses to Australia in Golds.  US 4x100 mixed medley relay team closes program with gold and a world record
 
Ryan Crouser makes history winning 3rd straight gold medal in shoutout. Joe Kovacs takes Silver giving US 1-2
 
President Meduro of Venezuela claims he won the election although voting records show opposition leaders won and sending the opposition leaders into exile.  Government hit squads are rounding up opposition to repress this.  The US Spain and over 45 countries have acknowledged opposition leader Gonzalez and President Javier Mile of Argentina is leading the charge to have him removed 
 
Scottie Scheffler comes back from 5 strokes down to win Olympic Gold becoming the first world number one to win gold and bringing home gold for the US.
 
Ellison takes fifth medal in Archery losing by a millimeter on a sudden death arrow
 
Kristin Faulkner, who did not qualify for Olympics was given a spot by someone who decided to other events, wins the Olympic women’s cycling road race with an amazing breakaway bringing back gold to the US for the first time since 1984 Olympics
 
Novak Djokovic, The Joker, becomes only the fifth person to win the golden slam, bringing home Olympic gold in tennis.
 
Bobby Finke becomes the lone US men’s swimmer to win gold at Paris Olympics with an amazing 1500 meter race and breaks the world record held by one of the Chinese athletes who were caught doping in Tokyo, repeating his Tokyo title and becoming only second man in history to repeat 1500 golds 
 
Noah Lyle’s wins 100m run first American in 20 years in a photo finish won by .005 seconds
 
Bangladesh prime minister resigns after weeks of protest
 
Ukrainian high jumper wins gold for her countrymen 
 
Algeria Kaylia Nemour wins gold in inventory bars, become first gymnast from African nation to win a medal
 
Federal judge rules Google is a monopoly
 
Harris picks Minnesota Gov tim walz as running mate
 
Cole shocker shocks world and wins 1500m track with us taking gold and bronze
 
Cori Bush, becomes second “squad” member to lose primary this season as democrats show support over Israel
 
USA wins first ever gold in women’s Team Pursuit
 
Sydney Mclaughlin lerone becomes first woman to win gold in 400m hurdles twice ​

Japanese Olympic Gymnast captain dismissed for underage drinking and smoking


Houston politician and African American trailblazer for human rights and current Congressional representative for the Houston area, Sheila Jackson Lee, dies after battle with cancer.


Woman dies in a gym pool near Las Vegas after struggling for over 20 minutes. Video shows multiple people walking by her on the pool deck as she struggled in the water to survive and as multiple people were swimming next to her.


President Biden steps aside from the campaign saying he isn’t well.  This is driving additional comments about him stepping down as president.  This also leads to a potential open convention.  No knowledge of who will take over.  At First Joe Biden did not endorse Kamala Harris  for president but came out an hour later and endorsed his vice president. Behind the scenes it is reported that Nancy Pelosi was instrumental in getting President Biden to drop out to save down ballot races.  He is officially now a lame duck president


Podaj Togescar wins 3rd in a row Tour de France


Michelin announces they are bringing their Michelin Guide to Texas elevating texas restaurants 


Crowdstrike which secures most of the world’s companies and governments was affected by a Microsoft outage that crippled the globe across industries halting commerce for over 28 hours.


After Biden withdraws from race, stock market jumps up 500 points immediately afterwards.


Paris is hosting the Summer Olympics.  The water events, non indoor swimming, are under danger of being held due to the Seines’ environmental condition bringing back memories of Rio where hundreds of athletes got sick.  France’s measure is the ability bathe, 8 years ago you could not bathe in the Siene now you can bathe 4 out of 7 days with goal to be 6 out of 7.  Brings up additional concerns about Los Angeles water quality as well, however their levels are already lower than Rio and Paris.


Le Bron James will be flag bearer for US in Paris


Israel bombs Yeomen in retaliation for Houthi missiles hutting Tel Aviv.


Secret Service Director tells Congress they failed to protect former President Trump.


Secret Service Director resigns after a tough grilling on Capital hill


Israeli Prime Minister addresses Joint Session of Congress, but multiple democrats are boycotting including Vice President Harris so that they do not appear showing support for Israel so they don’t lose the Islamic vote.


Many democratic groups including BLM are calling on DBC to have an open process and are very upset she was coronated as the presidential candidate putting some major concerns that she will shore up much needed constituencies.  Making claims that the party is hypocritical and a party of oligarchs not democracy.


Anti Israel protesters vandalize DC during Netanyahu visit and speech destroying monuments and blocking traffic.


In a huge win for the Gig economy companies, Uber Lyft and others win case in California to treat their providers as contractors dealing a huge blow to unions.

Shark attacks have moved from Florida to Texas waters.   Us Coast guard  warns people not go in water off South Padre Island and Brownsville  after multiple shark attacks


In a historic vote in the UK the Labour Party trounced the Conservative Party ending a 14 year 5 prime minister run and countering the right wing movement in the rest of the European area where conservatives are trouncing the left in multiple countries.  The Labour Party won over 400 of the 650 seats forcing a major power shift, and running on hiring more teachers and cutting wait times at NHS by hiring more professionals amidst a wave of higher inflation.


The US added 206,000 jobs in June


Kansas Supreme Court rules the state constitution protects Abortion rights cementing Kansas as an abortion haven amidst a conservative region.


China through an agreement with the Biden administration starts to crack on fentanyl suppliers in china


Alec Baldwin starts his criminal Trial on accidental death on a movie set.


In the second round of French parliamentary elections the moderate and far left parties coordinated to beat the far right by removing their place candidates creating a hung parliament 


Rescued Israeli hostage suing US non profit for supporting hamas and leading to his capture

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​There is a long running anecdote about what is worse: Used car Salespeople or Insurance People.  Other industries might be able to be thrown in there as well, but for the purpose of this article we will focus on insurance. 
There are many memes out there of the sketchy things that insurance people use, and how they communicate.  There is one group that uses the types of cars they drive as the reason why you should buy insurance from them.
Essentially, Insurance has a bad reputation, and because of that there is distrust about insurance. Enter Financial Advisers who might be the defensive line between consumers and insurance.  Now there are many ethical and above-board insurance agents out there, the few examples of bad actors we know of similar to any industry there are people who are driven for reasons that are not about the client.
Focusing on the client’s needs, read fiduciary although that is a term that divides the industry, rather than the commission or revenue is taking a stronger hold in the insurance industry.  However, fiduciary, in the sense it is applied, does not mean that commission is bad, or you should find the lowest possible price on insurance policies.  Pricing, commission, and client’s best interest do go hand in hand, and may differ from product line to product line. 
This is why advisers need to improve their relationship with insurance.  The drive for the lowest price and that high price means people are sold” rather than helped needs to be changed, and that change comes from Financial Advisers.
First, the importance of insurance needs to be addressed and established for the client.  Insurance can take a portion of their cash flow (let’s say 7% for all types of insurance: Life, Disability, LTC (if appropriate) Auto, and Home) and offload the greater risk.  The offloading of risk is what advisers look at and because of that they want the lowest cost products to minimize what is spent in offloading that risk.  When focusing on pricing though there may be some things that might be missed.
Auto and Home Insurance is an excellent example of this price to benefit picture.  Auto and Home also share a distinction, unlike most insurance, where there are specific laws or forces requiring individuals to have these types of insurance.  Homeowners or Property Insurance is usually required by the bank or a HOA or a lease, and auto insurance is required in all 50 states at some level.  Because they are required, we go ahead and get the insurance, but we want to make sure we pay the lowest, thus we shop constantly for that lower price.  When we get that lower price though, we are not aware of what we might be giving up to get that lower price, and because of the distrust of insurance agents inherent in society we may not fully listen to them explaining the differences and just push for lower pricing, and unfortunately find this out when we go to claim.  But having insurance is a requirement so we meet the minimum requirements to do that and feel we covered as pricing does not always compute with consumers to value received.
Disability insurance is a splendid example of that.  Many consumers obtain their disability insurance through work and obtain coverage at an extremely low cost and thus think they are properly covered.  However, a lot of times that lower price has some sacrifices, benefit period, definitions, etc.  Thus, an adviser may recommend a supplemental individual policy, but both the adviser and the client tend to be shocked by the pricing.  Pricing for individual disability insurance pricing is more expensive for a few reasons: 1. You are paying the full premium, not being subsidized by your company, 2. It is calculated based on your age and your situation not in a general sense of your company, and your gender can affect it as well and 3. You are getting better definitions and value for what you are paying, thus you will pay more for that policy.  If you do not have Disability Insurance through your employer, or you are the employer, and you try to obtain insurance on your own sometimes the price may be shocking.  There are no legal requirements to own Disability Insurance, unless in some rare situations a bank requires you to have a policy, so this would be a luxury purchase by definition (not needed but a nice have).  Thus, pricing is even more important with this product line, but if the only focus is price, then the client may not be serving their best interests.
The three types of policies I just mentioned here are all what are called definitional policies.  This means that the definitions of the policies matter and will affect pricing but more important claims. Thus, they may become more expensive than what you originally thought, you pay less in premiums but do not cover what you were expecting and thus you pay more out of pocket on the claim and become more expensive for you.
Now, the policies I have not mentioned are what usually cause a lot of issues.  Permanent policies.  There are three permanent policies that are based on a term chase, Universal/Guaranteed Universal Life, Variable Universal Life, and Indexed Universal Life, and there is one true policy that is whole life, Whole Life.  The UL policies all have good fits for an insurance portfolio.  The Guaranteed UL is a permanent death benefit, does not build cash value for very long, and provides a long-term death benefit.  Usually, these policies are used for estate planning or to provide a pure death benefit.  The current Assumption ULs are outdated and used more for conservative options; Whole Life is a better fit for that (explain later). The Indexed and Variable Universal Life Policies are where some controversy occurs.  They are market adjacent or dependent, and VUL’s can have fees that may make them more expensive than other options.  However, IUL’s especially have a good fit in the industry and for solutions. 
The problem with IUL’s is they are often implemented underfunded or funded at simply the target level (read commission) and may not perform the way they are designed.  Although sometimes they do perform, usually they are shown as a cheaper option, but because of how they are being designed, and may not be getting the maximum value out of them.
Whole Life Policies also get a bad rap.  They are the most expensive cash value policies, but they do provide true guarantees.  Because of the minimum guarantees, whole life policies can be a great addition to the portfolios of clients.  Business owners and several cultures like the guaranteed columns on the illustrations and look at everything else as extra.
Term, though, can cover most of the needs a client has for insurance.  Cash Value policies should not be used to cover an insurance need completely, but to provide for the permanent needs a client has for insurance.  If a client has a 2MM need, I personally feel a majority of that need can be covered by term, but maybe a 100 or 250,000 should be with a cash value policy.  This will provide a death benefit for the client’s life, but also can provide some supplemental needs if appropriate.  Determining the permanent need is easy.  Most financial advisers make the decision or have the opinion that as assets grow the insurance need decreases.  While this is true for the overall need, liquidity of those assets], although large, may be hard to free things up, so I always advocate what would be needed if there is all the net worth in the world and someone dies for 3-6 months.  That is the permanent need, so that fire sales do not need to be done.
There are scenarios where large death benefits on a cash value policy do make sense though.  Usually when you are doing a shorter pay strategy, you need to put more money in, thus, to provide for a non-modified endowment contract, the death benefits need to be larger.  These shorter pay strategies are generally when you have robust portfolios elsewhere and you are transferring some value into a different structure.  These are common but they are not a 40-year payment commitment, usually a 10-20 year.  I know there are many out there that will counter this in different arguments, but this is simply my opinion.
Changing the relationship advisers have with insurance, and subsequently consumers have with insurance, form simply a commodity to offload risk, but to a tool to where it can minimize exposure but we need to identify what that exposure is, becomes vital to making sure we are not under or over exposed. 
Advisers that look at insurance products as a tool rather than a competition to their advice or as a bad thing, help clients protect their risk, minimizing their cost, but having the most accurate exposure identified.  This is why advisers need to change their relationship with insurance.  Instead of it being a negative or a cost, how can we make insurance be a part of the planning process and be part of the solution?
I am not advocating selling the most expensive products here, instead, trying to find a balance.  We know that Home and Auto is usually required.  Life, Disability and in most states LTC is not required, consequences of not having these though can be pretty severe if they are not held.  The advocation here is to focus on the definitions of the policies and embrace what these insurances do for the client and look at their best interest beyond just the cost, but what value are they getting for it.  

Supreme Court ruled that federal agencies cannot interpret the law written if it was vague, restricting the agencies from creating their own interpretations of laws.


They also ruled that cities and states can use anti camping rules to deter homeless.


In a 6-3 ruling the court also ruled that the obstruction clause that was used to charge Jan 6 defendants giving them out to get cases dropped.


Texas Supreme Court upheld gender affirming care ban for children


Another huge ruling from the Supreme Court puts the power of lawsuits back into the plaintiffs hands ruling that bankruptcy settlements need to be adequate and not benefit the company.  This was in conjunction with thePurduePharma lawsuit.


Reformist enters runoff in Iranian presidential election with the lowest turnout in Iranian history 


Hurricane Beryl becomes first major hurricane in the Atlantic, setting all types of records, including earliest cat 3 stirm, earliest cat 4 storm in the season.  This is bringing worries that the season will be worse in severity than expected and also in storms


Trump immunity case is ruled on in 6-3 extending presidential immunity to all formal acts while in office but informal acts are not included.  They then sent the case back to the lower court for them to interpret how the ruling affects the case


After dismal debate performance Biden says he will not be pushed out amidst major dems calling for him to resign 

Hawaii in an agreement with environmental youth extortionists to de carbonize by 2045. Some of the agreements were a 40 mm investment in electric charging stations, electric public transportation with a 300 bb investment.  But they are still going forward with infrastructure improvements that will allow more carbon cars.  No talk about incentives to lower electric vehicle or a change in the electric production.


The Supreme Court will drop major decisions that can affect the outcome of the election and give rise to the talk they are a political arm not a disinterested third party by June 27.


Trump overcomes Bidens Campaign Cash advantage after the trial results came in


JJ Reddick becomes Lakers new coach.  A close relationship with Le Bron James shows who really is in charge at the Lakers.


US Olympic Swim team rounding out with some young newcomers taking over but some tried and true veterans still holding their own.  Katie Ledecky wins a dominant 1500 Caleb Dressel and Simone Manuel both don’t make the 100 individually but still qualify for the team on the relay.  Ryan Murphy completes his quest to be the only American to swim the 100 and 200 back in 3 Olympics, Lily King completes the same feat on the women’s side for the 100 and 209 breaststroke and also gets engaged on pool deck.


Americans are title contenders for the synchronized diving.


Missouri and Arkansas enacted a new law for teachers bringing a state mandate for starting teacher salaries to $40,000 & $50,000 respectively.  This has upset veteran teachers who were making that amount after 20 years of service and mandatory raises were removed putting the power into hands of  the districts.  The raise was done to allow rural districts to pay a living wage and attract teachers but with the removal of a raise component larger districts may still hold an advantage in the long run.


Supreme Court rules that guns can be removed from abusers under a restraining order protective order.


In department of state vs. munoz the court ruled that a citizen does not have a liberty interest in their non citizen spouse potentially putting Bidens new EO into jeopardy 




Russia blames Ukraine for bombing killing 5 people.


Sha’Carri Richardson wins 100m at Olympic trials why  as lifting for her first Olympics 


6 killed off coast of Florida due to deadly rip currents.


Los Angeles lakers draft Bronny james making a historical first father son on same team


The first presidential debate was held this week and probably the last.  Some notable lines from Biden: I defeated Medicare, no murders or terrorists crossed the border, no troops died under my watch as I ended all wars, ignoring the 13 people dying at Afghanistan withdrawal and per DoD over 1300 have died since 2021 in active duty.  Trump notable line - I don’t know what he said.  Trump was very unimpressive in the debate didn’t look like he fully grasped some issues but with the pure Elder abuse of putting Biden up there he looked liked the. OST competent person in the world.

​House Dems and senators calling for Justice Alito to recuse himself from the Jan 6 and 2020 election cases
 
Biden and Trump agree on debates but show how much they want to rig the election screaming that Criteria for debate allows Kennedy and actually excludes them, saying they’ll back out.  
 
670 died in landslide in Paula New Guinea
 
Influencers focused on wellness space are telling people to avoid sunscreen as the sun heals, causing a slight uptick in skin cancer over past 3 years.
 
At least 11 dead in Texas, Oklahoma. Arkansas after severe weather rolled through over Memorial Day
 
A Korean study concluded that patients with heart problems that got the Covid 19 vaccine have less problems and are living longer.  3 years out this might be difficult to predict long term but of the study participants, 100% were considered close to heart failure.  50% got the Covid 19 vaccine, and have a mortality rate of 10% the other half without the vaccine have a mortality rate of 35%
 
Governor Abbott is continuing his attach against republicans who voted against Vouchers last year, up to 9 have lost in primaries and four more are being challenged in a special election, with over 30mm having been poured in from out of state.  I’m for vouchers but you got to ask who’s funding this and why.
 
International Criminal Court issues arrest warrant for Netanyahu, US rejects the jurisdiction.
 
Bill Walton, hall of famer, dies at 72 from cancer
 
Trump convicted on all 34 counts n NY trial, further galvanizing and separating the country.
 

Israel orders evacuation of Rafah in Gaza.


Surfing Tourists in Mexico were killed for their car and money a couple weeks ago.  The crime has led to the exposition of how organized crime works in Mexico threatening Mexicos tourist industry.




Biden to Quadruple tariffs on Chinese EVs, going against his push to lower evs for the masses raising prices among those vehicles higher than US car prices creating a WTO complaint.


RFK Jr now on 7  - 20 ballots.  He says 20 but only seven have been confirmed.  4 of the 7 are battleground states such as Michigan and in Gallup polls when you add his name Biden goes from 3 points behind Trump to almost 15 points minimum behind Trump.  If RFK Jr gets on More ballots especially large democratic strongholds he may hurt Bidens electoral math by taking away large numbers.


Divorce and Parental Custody battle took a turn of the strange where one member was actively on the Space Station and accessed her partner’s financials and her partner charged her with identity theft.  The astronaut was cleared her partner charged with lying to federal investigators and a debate about are you outside the law in space or what law are you covered by?


Nikki Haley, suspended her campaign months ago, but still won 22% times n Indiana without campaigning 


Putin replaces war Secretary 


Roger Corman, king of B movies dies at 98


Biden and Trump agree on2 debates


Governor Abbot pardons Brandon Perry who was convicted of killing BLM protesters in 2020

US Jobs slowed to 1750,000 in April
 
Over 800 Chinese nationals were apprehended crossing the southern border.  So maybe 10 times that got through.
 
Abortion rights ballot measure to allow abortion takes major step forward in Missouri.
 
Crookie is hottest dessert in Houston, cross between the cookie and Croissant or a Texas Version of the Cronut.
 
Since January 1st 2024 4000 restaurants in Texas, most with long established history, have closed, announced closure, or switching to food truck/catering only.  Representing approximately 15% of current restaurants with an expectation of another 8,000 to announce similar announcements next couple months.  Per Texas Restaraunt association 40% of that 4,000 is occurring in affluent neighborhoods and responsible for almost 20,000 jobs lost.
 
U.S. Fertility rates drop to lowest level ever.  Now at 1.62 births per woman in the U.S. putting us almost 35% below the minimum number we need to replace our population, bringing up concerns of future labor forces and economic stability.
 
Mystik Dan and 18-1 odds wins Kentucky Derby in a photo finish and an amazing race.
 
ONFS same site 7 years ago where Trump announced a huge development that never materialized. Biden announced 3bb AI center being built by Microsoft in Wisconsin
 
Marjorie Green triggers Speaker Johnson removal vote.  Leading to a massive defeat for Greene only obtaining 19 Republican votes and 36 democrat votes, house overwhelmingly keeps Johnson 
 
Biden says he will defy Congress will and withhold aid to Israel unless they do what he wants.  Exactly what Trump was impeached for over Ukraine.  Although Bidens demand is not to invade Rafa to save lives and Trumps was for a potential campaign advantage, the base premises are equal a President going against the wishes of Congress which was the impeachable offense.
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Kristi Noem in hot water for shooting and killing her dog as it was an useless hunting dog


Hezbollah and Israel are headed for conflict opening up for a second conflict and a huge escolation!


Protests continue to rage at college campuses for Pro Hamas.  Schools reacting differently across the country, schools in the South have cleared protesters from their grounds and threatened suspensions.


Colombia  University has actually banned Jewish professors and students from attending the university 


More and more Colleges and universities are closing their doors, due to rapid deceleration of attendance.  Most of these are private colleges but we are seeing some public colleges as well.  This can be a drastic concern to the economy.


Further showing our efforts for 20 plus years in the Middle East were in vain,  Iraq criminalizes same sex relationships and strikes their constitutional protection we helped put in before we turned over control, putting Iraq laws back to Saddam Hussein era.


Fed says inflation has stalled so they are taking a wait and see approach.


NYPD storms seized building on Columbia University, police cart off over 100 protesters off UT Austin campus, Florida expels and prosecutes all protesters.  Major riot on UCLA and USC campuses.


In an attempt to soften election issues in Arizona, Arizona Senate votes to repeal 1864 abortion ban that has cause stir this year.
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In a weird twist a recent study from JAMA trans gender individuals are getting better healthcare than menopausal women.  Doctors need to learn about how they can ask better questions.
 
House advances 95 billion aid package to protect foreign borders but does not address us border.  
 
UAW secures historic win in TN Volkswagen auto election.  This is the first auto plant in the south to unionize since the 1940s and is part of the UAW drive to unionize 150,000 new workers in 2024.
 
Funny memes come up this week about some of the gaffs 
 
Huge Supreme Court case heard on Wednesday.  Combined case of Moyle v United States and Idaho v United States will probably further complicate the US abortion issue.  At center of the case is whether hospitals can perform abortions in Emergency situations in states where abortions are illegal and a 1986 federal law  requiring hospitals not to turn people away.
 
Midland and Odessa high schools locked in a Texas baseball record battle of 23 innings taking place over 2 days, setting a TX record and ending up 2 innings short of the national record
 
Reggie Bush gets his 2005 he is an trophy back after 
 
Caitlin Clark signs with Indiana Fever as number one pick gets a 76,000 team salary league gave her a 400,000 league salary along with Angel Reese and Cameron Brink and Kristin Camazo as ambassadors trying to minimize the negative stories of low team salaries in the WNBA.
 
House and Senate pass 85bb bills to fund Ukraine Israel and Taiwan security but not the border.
 
Federal Judge releases the mob that illegally crossed the border in EL Paso, then the Assistant US Attorney 
 
The Biden Administration is potentially nervous about losing the upcoming election as different departments try to push overarching regulations. The department of labor released both their fiduciary ruling retreading it from the Obama Administration, plus the new employee test to make more independent contractors employees.  In addition the FTC announced a ruling that bans non competes.  All three will face court challenges and 2 have already been filed in East TX.
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​Trump and Speaker Johnson announce bill to secure voting.  This is simply an election stunt and will not go anywhere past the house.
 
Recent poll shows Trump has won over multiple black voters and young people.
 
Iran launches attack on Israel
 
Arizona Supreme Court sideshow with a law from 1894 outlawing abortions in the state causing a mass rush for abortions before the law is enacted.
 
Boeing whistleblower says Boeing cut corners to fix problems with 787.
 
Semi truck,stolen, runs into DPS office in Brenham texas, injuring 16.
 
Speaker Johnson pushing Ukraine Israel Taiwan funding now that two congressional reps have signs on to vacate.
 
With Caitlin Clark being drafted #1 in the WNBA draft a lot of talk about her rookie salary of 76,850 a year verses other rookies in leagues signing 1mm to 38mm depending on the league, mostly males.  This has sparked further conversation about pay discrepancy ignoring the overall revenues between the leagues people are just looking at the salaries not overall finances.
 
Senate votes to dismiss impeachment against Myorkas 51-49