Creepy fuzzy caterpillars are back in Florida. Here’s why they are so dangerous The caterpillars are hard to spot, measuring close to an inch and easily blending into trees The Independent UK · Oct 2, 2025
"No more beardos": Hegseth's comments stir religious, medical concerns In some religions, a beard is more than facial hair — it's a critical part of one's faith. Axios · Oct 2, 2025
Elizabeth Warren Presses Trump To Release Jobs Report Despite Shutdown Warren's push comes despite a contingency plan from the Labor Department making clear that BLS would suspend both data collection and publication during a funding lapse. International Business Times · Oct 2, 2025
OpenAI now worth $500 billion, possibly making it the world's most valuable startup OpenAI could now be the world’s most valuable startup, ahead of Elon Musk’s SpaceX and TikTok parent company ByteDance, after a secondary stock sale designed to retain employees at the ChatGPT maker The Independent UK · Oct 2, 2025
Customs and Border Protection to spend $7.5 million on night vision goggles as 750,000 federal employees go unpaid Exclusive: The no-bid contract was awarded to L3 Harris Technologies, which is also overhauling the 747-400 plane ‘gifted’ to Donald Trump by the royal family of Qatar, according to federal procurement documents reviewed by The Independent The Independent UK · Oct 2, 2025
France’s Macron and Albanian leader caught laughing at Trump’s repeated confusion over where he thinks he’s ended wars Trump has confused parties in Armenia-Azerbaijan conflict before The Independent UK · Oct 2, 2025
Republicans block new Democrat’s swearing-in. FYI, she would be the tie-breaking vote in the Epstein files Her one vote could change everything. We Got This Covered · Oct 2, 2025
Trump asks 9 colleges to commit to his political agenda and get favorable access to federal money The White House is asking nine major universities to commit to President Donald Trump’s political priorities in exchange for more favorable access to federal money The Independent UK · Oct 2, 2025
Trump embraces Project 2025 after disavowing it during 2024 campaign Trump said he's meeting with co-architect of Project 2025 Russ Vought despite denying any knowledge of it. Axios · Oct 2, 2025
Laura Loomer wastes no time politicizing antisemitic murders in UK: ‘President Trump warned you, Keir Starmer’ British prime minister has said the man who killed two people at a synagogue in Manchester targeted ‘Jews because they are Jews’ The Independent UK · Oct 2, 2025
As Trump Buys Into Lithium Americas, This 1 Under-the-Radar Lithium Stock Could Go Even Higher As the White House bought a 5% stake in Lithium Americas, the stock skyrocketed on Oct. 1. Barchart · Oct 2, 2025
TrumpRx Is Obamacare in Trump's Handwriting Pfizer wins big in Trump’s new drug discount gimmick. Reason · Oct 2, 2025
Eisenhower Library head resigns after blocking Trump from gifting King Charles one of former president’s swords Trump gifted King Charles III a replica of a sword belonging to former President Dwight D. Eisenhower The Independent UK · Oct 2, 2025
Federal agencies blaming Democrats for shutdown in potentially illegal move Departments and staff are using out-of-office emails and websites to engage in partisan political activity The Guardian - US · Oct 2, 2025
Benzinga · Oct 2, 2025 Intel Stock Rallies 50% Over The Last Month—Government's Stake Nearly Doubles To $16 Billion Intel Corp. (NASDAQ:INTC) stock continued its impressive rally, rising 3.9% on Thursday, bringing its total monthly gain to more than 50%.
Reason · Oct 2, 2025 Gavin Newsom Loves AI Satire Now! Thank goodness that judge struck down the legislation he supported.
The Independent UK · Oct 2, 2025 ACLU seeks release of Michigan immigrant held in custody despite life-threatening leukemia Lawyers say federal authorities are keeping a Michigan man in custody in a deportation case, despite his life-threatening leukemia
The Mary Sue · Oct 2, 2025 ‘I am very proud of him’: California Governor Gavin Newsom draws appreciation for standing up against Donald Trump California Governor Gavin Newsom has been quite vocal about his disdain towards U.S. President Donald Trump, since the latter returned to office this year for a second term. Time and again, both on social media and in the press, Newsom has expressed his dissatisfaction with Trump and his administration’s unlawful…
Reason · Oct 2, 2025 Trump To Cancel Biden-Era Green Energy Grants, but Only for Blue States The president would be justified in wanting to rescind all state grants. Instead, he's apparently letting states that voted for him keep the cash.
Latin Times · Oct 2, 2025 Venezuela Claims Five U.S. Jets Approached Its Coastline: 'Military Harassment' Venezuelan Defense Minister Vladimir Padrino Lopez claimed that five U.S. jets approached the country's coastline on Thursday, an action he described as "military harassment"
The Guardian - UK · Oct 2, 2025 Putin dismisses fears that Moscow plans to attack Nato as ‘nonsense’ During speech in Sochi, Russian president also strikes conciliatory note towards Donald Trump
Reason · Oct 2, 2025 Autism Research Doesn't Need Washington's Help When the state dictates both the questions science asks and the answers it offers, it converts knowledge into propaganda and health into a matter of politics.
The Conversation · Oct 2, 2025 Around the world, migrants are being deported at alarming rates – how did this become normalised? Under President Donald Trump, the United States is expanding its efforts to detain and deport non-citizens at an alarming rate. In recent months, the Trump administration made deals with a number of third states to receive deported non-citizens.
The Independent UK · Oct 2, 2025 Strictly’s Amy Dowden ‘under the weather’ days before second live show ‘Strictly’ star is set to perform a salsa with Thomas Skinner on Saturday evening
Latin Times · Oct 2, 2025 Trump Says U.S. Is Now In a 'Non-International Armed Conflict' With Cartels President Donald Trump declared cartels as unlawful combatants and said the U.S. is now in a "non-international armed conflict" with them, according to a new report