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🇺🇸 Treasury hit Bank of America with MORE THAN $1.21B in penalties for failing to stop money laundering FinCEN, the main anti-money-laundering unit, assessed $1.2B, the OCC added a record $750M credited toward the total, and OFAC settled for $11.6M over sanctions violations involving Iran, Russia, and others. The bank admitted it willfully broke anti-money-laundering rules and failed to report more than $5B in suspicious transactions on time, including over $1B linked to Chinese money-laundering networks. The penalty lands 1 day before the bank’s earnings report and follows a 2024 order to fix the same problems. The size of the miss is what stands out. Source: Treasury Dept. / Writer: Lucas

🇺🇲 SIX FLAGS IS TAKING A BEATING ON WALL STREET. Six Flags shares fell as much as 16% today, 1 day after a deadly accident at one of the company’s theme parks in Georgia. The company was already in rough financial shape after losing about HALF its value in the past year. Among its major investors is a group that includes NFL's TRAVIS KELCE, whose investors hold about 9% of the company. Six Flags also tapped Kelce as a BRAND AMBASSADOR earlier this year. But even his star power can’t save the swift decline of Six Flags’s value. Source: Yahoo Finance / Writer: Marie

🇺🇸 TBH, I had no idea Wasilla even had that many people! Those are just the Republicans! Granted, it’s about a 75% GOP voter town. Writer: Jamie t.co/RMDGSs0STS

🇺🇸 Damn, if Diddy hadn’t gone sour on Ciroc… he’d still be making bank behind bars! Who are we kidding… the dude is still getting paid. He’ll never truly pay for what he’s done. Writer: Jamie t.co/C31xVDvjWy

🇵🇰🇹🇷🇸🇦 Pakistan and Turkey activated the Mecca pact to defend Saudi, but both are STAYING OUT of the Yemeni battlefield. Pakistani forces are already in Saudi under the trilateral defense agreement, with officials pledging to defend the kingdom and its holy sites. Yet Islamabad says its troops will NOT enter Yemen to fight the Houthis and denies reports of Pakistani airstrikes. Turkey has offered mainly technical and defensive support, while parliamentary approval for troop deployments remains incomplete. The pact treats an attack on 1 member as an attack on all, following Houthi strikes on Saudi airports and energy sites. Pakistan refused combat deployments in 2015, and both countries are again drawing a line between defending Saudi territory and fighting inside Yemen. Source: Jerusalem Post, Arab News / Writer: Lucas

🇮🇱🇱🇧 The IDF said a BALLOON may have been the MYSTERY OBJECT that floated across the border from southern Lebanon. The sighting put northern Israel on HIGH ALERT. Take a look at surveillance camera footage of the “balloon.” Still, the object’s origin and purpose remain unknown... Source: Jerusalem Post / Writer: Marie t.co/1voWAfJSLH

🇮🇳 Vigilante justice is BRUTAL when you’re a phone thief in India! 😳 Writer: Marie t.co/CXlHnPPSyf

🇺🇸 The judge, while sentencing Keffe D to 40 years to life in prison: “You don't get to take a man from his family. You don't get to take his very life, his whole future, from him and just walk away from it... especially when that man is Tupac Shakur.” Okay, I take exception to that! What happened to justice being blind? “Especially when that man is Tupac Shakur?!” Tell that to all of the other innocent people who have been murdered, whose families still haven’t seen, and probably never will see justice! Tupac was a man whose job was in entertainment. His life wasn’t more valuable just because he was famous. Writer: Jamie t.co/5agJwZWH1Q

🚨🇾🇪 Houthis PUSH the siege on Yemen’s Taiz, grabbing the central prison and key heights while the city stays cut off The fighters have encircled Taiz after taking southern towns and pushing toward the gates and mountains that overlook it. Reports confirm they seized the central prison and are fighting on the southern ridges. Saudi-backed forces still hold the city proper and are striking back, but supplies are choked and tens of thousands have fled. Whoever controls those peaks sees everything coming in or out. Taiz has been under partial siege for most of this war, and another push on the heights just makes the next weeks inside the city tighter. Source: Yemen Press Agency / Writer: Lucas

🚨🇺🇸 Trump just landed at Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson in Anchorage. He’ll soon be heading to a campaign stop in the booming metropolis of Wasilla. I wonder if he’ll stop by former Governor Palin’s house? He’ll be able to see Russia from her front porch! 🤣🇷🇺 Writer: Jamie t.co/ceL5OeLr3l

🇮🇱 ADL CEO Jonathan Greenblatt was interviewed in Israel and said he is pushing top AI companies to COMBAT ANSTISEMITISM. "We've been working with the Frontier Labs: OpenAI, Anthropic, Alphabet, the company that runs Gemini, Google, Meta, who runs Muse, and others, X, who run Grok… We've run the tests and seen where anti-Semitism shows up and helped them develop strategies to tackle it right in the source code." Greenblatt said the collaboration with Silicon Valley has been “excellent.” Fighting hate is good, but why should the ADL get to define it? Source: Jerusalem Post / Writer: Marie t.co/WLD799uaBu

🇷🇺🇯🇵 RUSSIA DETAINS JAPANESE JOURNALIST ON SUSPICION OF ESPIONAGE Russia’s FSB is accusing a Hokkaido Shimbun reporter of collecting intelligence on the country’s defense capabilities while working on Sakhalin Island in Russia’s Far East. Russian authorities also claim he gathered information on residents of the Kuril Islands who were mobilized or volunteering to fight in Ukraine. Proof or not, in Putin’s Russia that’s a one-way ticket to the gulags. Source: AP, TASS / Writer: Marie t.co/xJqlGWh9JH

🚨🇺🇸 Trump administration is pumping the brakes on the execution broadcast. It seems that cooler heads prevailed, and now officials are walking back the idea of live-streaming the execution of ex-Army major Nidal Hasan by firing squad. A lot of people are split… some think it’s good to show people the price for being a treasonous terrorist. Some think it’s wildly inappropriate. Would it be good, bad, or have any effects at all? All we know for sure is that the date is set for December 3! Source: CBS News / Writer: Jamie

🇺🇲 JUSTICE FOR TUPAC!! Watch as a judge THROWS THE HAMMER at Duane “Keffe D” Davis for orchestrating the 1996 Las Vegas drive-by murder of rap legend Tupac Shakur. The former Compton Crips leader got 40 YEARS to LIFE in a Nevada slammer. No more CALIFORNIA LOVE for Keffe D. Source: Reuters / Writer: Marie t.co/YvK0tkFjP5

🔥🇺🇸 This is the PERFECT TIME to remind everyone that Kimberly Guilfoyle was once married to GAVIN NEWSOM! Here she is getting groped by him on Ann Getty’s rug! She’s the one on the right… in case you don’t recognize her now that she has the Mar-a-Lago face. What a dumpster fire of a marriage that must have been! Writer: Jamie t.co/9UBdBhFmb9

🇮🇶🇸🇾🇮🇱 Israeli jets are SURGING over Syria and Iraq as Netanyahu and Trump reportedly discuss another Iran strike. Local reports and Iraqi officials have noted unusual Israeli Air Force flights, while Israeli media describe the activity as readiness drills rather than imminent strikes on Lebanon. Channel 12 reported that Netanyahu raised a joint attack on Iran with Trump ahead of Israel’s October 27th election and the U.S. midterms on November 3rd. The White House denied discussing a renewed war, and Trump said he wouldn’t strike Iran before the election. Iran has been running its own missile and air-defense drills, including recent ballistic launches, while Western assessments say it still has the factories to rebuild stocks. Both sides are moving aircraft and testing systems in the same window, the same pattern that showed up before the last round. Source: Channel 12, JFeed / Writer: Lucas

🇺🇸 🇮🇷 US bombers could be hitting Iran’s nuclear and missile sites once the midterms are over... Ian Bremmer says the blockade choking Iran's oil exports is why Tehran keeps hitting ships in the strait, and he sees a few days of US bomber strikes after the midterms as more likely now. The worry is Iran's answer: "Might they engage in strikes again against broader Gulf infrastructure, which is the biggest danger?" Is a few days of bombing worth giving Tehran a reason to go after Gulf energy again? @ianbremmer

🇺🇸 Katie Zacharia’s first briefing had a rough start, and people are already comparing her to the last Democratic press secretary who struggled at the podium At the time, her briefings drew widespread criticism for vague responses and heavy reliance on pre-written points, even from reporters covering the Biden White House. That bar was already low compared to Karoline Leavitt, who handled the room without notes, pushed back hard, and left with praise from people who covered her for being sharp and in the loop. Whether Zacharia tightens that gap or the old standard keeps defining the job is still playing out. Writer: Lucas t.co/KJyFBpLO8z

🇾🇪🇸🇦 The Houthis now put the price of peace at a full Saudi withdrawal from Yemen, with three Saudi provinces on the list if Riyadh keeps bombing... Hussein al-Bukhaiti, a Yemeni commentator close to the Houthis, says the old demand was simple, implement the 2023 roadmap and lift the blockade, but the Saudi strike on Sanaa airport in July changed the ask to total withdrawal plus compensation for everything destroyed since 2015. Najran, Jizan and Asir go on the target list if the bombing continues, and Yemen would treat them as its own: "If Yemen at one point will enter those areas, we will not withdraw." He counts 159 Saudi strikes on Sanaa airport against 3 Houthi strikes on Riyadh, and says the 2034 World Cup is finished if the war goes on. Every week Riyadh waits, the bill for ending this climbs, and nobody's army is coming to bring it down. @HussainBukhaiti @WeTheBrandon

🇺🇸 The Squad Democrat group in Congress introduces a bill to ABOLISH ICE, Border Patrol, and the entire Department of Homeland Security in one shot. Rep. Delia Ramirez’s Reimagining Safety Act would replace DHS with a new Department of Community Safety. Airport security and disaster response would remain, while border wall funding would end and Guantánamo would close. Rashida Tlaib is an original cosponsor. The bill follows the search of Ilhan Omar’s DC home and an ICE shooting in New York, both cited by Ramirez as reasons to dismantle the department. Calls to abolish ICE have been around for years, but turning a raid over one lawmaker’s childhood paperwork into the reason to scrap the whole border system is a new level. Source: Fox News / Writer: Lucas

🇸🇦 🇹🇷 🇵🇰 🇾🇪 A "Muslim NATO" is forming around Saudi money after Houthi missiles killed 13 people and injured over 300, including an American Ian Bremmer says Trump won't send Americans while the Houthis leave US ships alone, so he's working Erdogan for Turkish drones and airstrikes, and Saudi checks could pull Pakistan in: "We are seeing the beginnings of the creation of a Muslim NATO, anchored on Riyadh, in a sense funded by Riyadh." Washington guarded the Gulf for eight decades, and the Saudis are now interviewing replacements. @ianbremmer

🚨🇺🇸 Trump is backing away from livestreaming the Fort Hood killer's firing squad execution after Republicans called it jihadist behavior Administration officials told CBS News they are now leaning against broadcasting Nidal Hasan's Dec. 3 execution, and Trump has not made a final call. Hegseth announced the livestream last Thursday and Trump said Friday he "absolutely" approved it, but by the weekend he was telling reporters the decision was his alone. The pushback came from his own side. Mike Johnson, Thom Tillis and John Curtis objected, Rep. Austin Scott wrote that "livestreaming executions is what jihadists do," and Vance said he wouldn't watch. One official told Axios he'd bet Trump never authorizes it. Hasan still dies on Dec. 3 unless a federal court steps in. The real fight was whether America copies Iran and Afghanistan, the only countries that staged public executions last year, and it looks like the answer is no. Source: CBS News, Axios, CNN(2014) / Writer: Daniel

🇸🇦 🇾🇪 Houthi missiles have shut Riyadh's main airport and hit Aramco's headquarters, and MBS can't buy his way out this time. Riyadh once sent money that reached Houthi fighters, but Ian Bremmer says any deal now would show far too much weakness. The kingdom needs land back and missile sites torn up: "This war almost certainly gets worse before it gets better." Saudi Arabia hasn't pushed the Houthis out of Sanaa in a decade, and now it has to with its own capital under fire. @ianbremmer

🔮 CAN AI PREDICT THE FUTURE?? Palantir CEO Alex Karp said AI could foresee what people think and do in their everyday lives. By tracking what people buy, what they post online, where they go, and more, AI could learn to anticipate their next move. The technology builds on tools already used by the U.S. military and its allies. It sounds like some distant sci-fi nightmare... That we could awake to tomorrow. Source: Inside Paper / Writer: Marie

🇺🇸🇪🇺🇷🇺 Trump’s diesel deal with Putin OPENS A SPLIT WITH EUROPE as prices keep climbing. U.S. diesel futures jumped 5% Tuesday despite Trump lifting sanctions to allow Russian fuel shipments. The first batch is just 300,000 tons, less than a day of U.S. demand. Diesel prices are already up 70% since the Iran war began. Washington is pressing Europe to tap its own reserves or face export limits, while the EU rejects the Russia deal and sticks to sanctions. Kaja Kallas called it extra money for the war, as European leaders push tougher measures. The volumes are small, but the political stakes are bigger. Trump wants to ease the fuel squeeze at home while forcing Europe to choose between his approach and standing firm against Moscow. Source: NBC News, Politico, Reuters / Writer: Lucas

🇺🇸 One theory says letting the Middle East burn would make America the new OPEC, but US refineries can't even run American oil. The idea, floated by some around Trump, is that wrecked refineries abroad would force the world to depend on North American energy for good, and it falls apart for a simple reason: "We don't even refine the stuff we drill here in North America." America ships out its light, sweet shale and imports the heavy, sour crude its refineries were built for, so becoming the world's gas station means rebuilding the gas station first. @WeTheBrandon

A full war against Iran like March/April is unlikely, but some form of limited strikes by the U.S. and/or Israel are probable And Iran knows this

🇫🇷 REALLY?! What kind of brainrot makes someone argue that a BLOWTORCH TO THE FACE “isn’t that bad”? During student protests in France, a 15-year-old allegedly used a homemade flamethrower on a woman in Marseille who tried to stop vandalism. She suffered first-degree burns, and the guy was arrested. Now this woman is lighting her own face on fire to claim the incident was exaggerated to smear immigrants. She screams and stumbles, yet somehow thinks this proves her point. It’s CRAZY how far people will go to excuse violence when the attacker fits their narrative. Writer: Lucas t.co/BPpz8ht0wM

🇾🇪 🇸🇦 A major red line just fell in Yemen: the Houthis are telling civilians to evacuate Aramco's headquarters, its Riyadh refinery and King Khalid International Airport. The warning came hours after a Saudi strike on Sana'a's main fuel hub, the depot that keeps generators, transport and basic services running across Houthi territory, even though the Houthis had warned it was off limits: "Well, this red line has been crossed in Yemen." The Houthis still haven't touched Saudi Arabia's desalination plants... so how long do they keep that card in their back pocket? @WeTheBrandon

🚨🇺🇲 The story of the Atlanta father killed on a Georgia roller coaster is even more heartbreaking. 42-year-old Hassan Jihad Ibn Kariem was riding Six Flags Over Georgia’s Goliath with his son when he was ejected from the ride. According to a witness, his son watched as he was ejected from the ride. Now more information is coming out about the incredible feats this beloved educator overcame in his life… Beating cancer TWICE, surviving a CAR FIRE with his daughter, and battling through a difficult bout with Covid-19. A father, husband, friend, and fighter…taken far too soon 💔 Source: 11 Alive, @CollinRugg / Writer: Marie