Kyle Nowak

🌏 The EU is tightening security over “golden passports, see an Israel/Hamas update, and more.

🏡 The DOJ is reportedly considering legal intervention to change the lucrative real estate commission-sharing system.

🤔💰 Q3 earnings season is fully underway this week, w/ more than 50 S&P 500 companies reporting results.

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🔥 It’s Friday, October 20th – and here’s what’s hot, hot, hot.

"Unless you try to do something beyond what you have already mastered, you will never grow."

–Ronald E. Osborn (1917-1998)

✈️ United Airlines will begin implementing a new boarding process for some economy passengers later this month, according to a recent company memo.

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"It is good to have an end to journey towards; but it is the journey that matters, in the end."

–Ursula K. Le Guin (1929-2018)

🎟️📈 Experiences > things, say US consumers: spending on tickets to movies, concerts, and live sports is on track to reach $95B this yr, up 23% from last yr and 12.5% higher compared to pre-pandemic →

This weekly section delivers the most outlandish, off-the-wall, and occasionally laugh-out-loud news stories of the week, as well as some hilarious or… curious synchronicities crowdsourced from around the world.

🌏 Around the world: Israel, the US, and independent experts say a recent hospital explosion in Gaza was likely from a local Palestinian militant group, Cambodia opened its newest and largest airport, and more.

❓ Our question to you (long-form): In your opinion, how should the US approach immigration?

🔥 It’s Thursday, October 19th – and here’s what’s hot, hot, hot.

🇺🇸 Major US cities from coast to coast are struggling to accommodate an influx of migrants who initially entered the US via the southern border, then were sent on buses across the country.

🚗🤖 The NHTSA this week opened a probe into Cruise, an autonomous driving subsidiary of GM, after reports of multiple incidents involving pedestrian injuries and the company’s driverless vehicles.

🌏 India’s Supreme Court rejected the legalization of same-sex marriage, Mexico’s Sinaloa Cartel has reportedly ordered its members to stop making fentanyl, and an Israel-Hamas update.

🌶️ Yesterday, on the YouTube show Hot Ones, Ed Currie, a chili pepper breeder and founder of the PuckerButt Pepper Company, showcased the hottest pepper in the world – Pepper X.

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“Honesty is the first chapter in the book of wisdom.”

–Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826)