HOUR 1
- "Sidney K. Powell, a member of Donald J. Trump’s legal team after he lost the 2020 election, pleaded guilty on Thursday morning to six misdemeanor counts instead of facing a criminal trial that was to begin next week." / (NYT) https://www.nytimes.com/2023/10/19/us/sidney-powell-pleads-guilty-in-georgia-trump-case.html?
- Congressman Jim Jordan loses the second rounfd of voting the Speaker of the House / (MB) https://www.morningbrew.com/daily/stories/jim-jordan-not-the-house-speaker-after-2nd-vote?
- "The U.S. will send $100 million in aid for humanitarian assistance to civilians in Gaza and the West Bank, President Joe Biden said on Wednesday." / (Politico) https://www.politico.com/news/2023/10/18/biden-humanitarian-aid-gaza-west-bank-00122212
- President Trump is facing heavy prosecution momentum in Georgia / (MSNBC) https://www.msnbc.com/morning-joe/watch/-you-can-t-make-it-up-morning-joe-reacts-to-trump-not-remembering-his-own-lie-195955781563
- "Since the Hamas attack on Israel, Republican presidential candidates have been sniping at each other. The goal: to prove to Republican voters that they support Israel more strongly than their rivals." / (NPR) https://www.npr.org/2023/10/19/1206481356/republicans-israel-gop-middle-east-evangelicals-end-times-rapture-christians
- "Time is up" warns Iran re: Israel / (FOX News) https://www.foxnews.com/video/6339413520112
- "Iranian Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian said that a political settlement of the situation in the Gaza Strip is becoming increasingly unlikely, and Tehran warned it may take "preemptive action" against Israel." / (EuroNews) https://www.euronews.com/embed/2394382
HOUR 2
- "On Monday, the city began moving people from homeless camps to hotel rooms in both the Aviator Hotel and the Alex Hotel. By midday Tuesday, Anchorage Housing and Homeless Coordinator Alexis Johnson said about 35% of the beds available — 133 of the 374 — had already been filled." / (ANS) https://www.alaskasnewssource.com/2023/10/18/anchorages-aviator-alex-hotels-running-out-space-homeless-people/
- "Representative Jim Jordan, the hard-line Republican from Ohio, does not plan to force a third vote on Thursday on his bid to become speaker after running headlong into opposition from a bloc of mainstream G.O.P. holdouts, according to two people familiar with his decision." / (NYT) https://www.nytimes.com/2023/10/19/us/politics/house-speaker-jim-jordan.html?
- Netflix Inc. gained the most since January 2021 after posting its best quarter for subscriber growth in years. The company credited a strong programming slate and its crackdown on password sharing." (Yahoo News) https://finance.yahoo.com/news/netflix-raise-prices-best-subscriber-233002878.html
- Dalton from Mat-Su
"UAW members aren't all assembling cars. More and more are unionized grad students." / (NPR) https://www.npr.org/2023/10/19/1206209107/united-auto-workers-union-uaw-membership-grad-students-big-3-strike
