Kyle Nowak

❓ Our question to you (fill in the blank): In my opinion, the impending US government shutdown represents a ___ problem for our country.

🌏 Shakira was charged with tax evasion in Spain for a second time, Antarctic ice sheets reached their lowest maximum level since records began in 1979, and more.

🏓 The Tennis Channel and the Professional Pickleball Association, which is in the process of merging with Major League Pickleball, announced a new media partnership yesterday.

🇺🇸🧑‍🚀 Later today, NASA astronaut Frank Rubio is scheduled to return from the International Space Station for the first time in 371 days – a record for the longest time an American has ever spent in space

🏛🗣️ Congress returned to Washington yesterday to resume negotiations over a package of bills aimed at avoiding a government shutdown.

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🔥 It’s Wednesday, September 27th – and here’s what’s hot, hot, hot.

“The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others.”

–Mahatma Gandhi (1869-1948)

🐖 Surgeons recently transplanted a genetically modified pig’s heart into a man with/ terminal heart disease and no other treatment options, marking the 2nd successful operation of its kind in history.

🌏 Denmark’s Lego is moving away from using recycled plastic bottles to make its bricks, China is reclaiming its pandas from the National Zoo in Washington, DC, and more.

🤝 Hollywood’s writers and studios have reached a tentative deal, all but ending a strike that’s lasted ~150 days.

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🔥 It’s Tuesday, September 26th – and here’s what’s hot, hot, hot.

❓ Trivia: In The Matrix, does Neo take the blue pill or the red pill?

🎓 True or False?... Uranus was originally named “George’s Star.”

🤔 Riddle Me This… What five-letter word sounds the same when you take away the first, third, and last letter?

"Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear – not absence of fear."

–Mark Twain (1835-1910)

❓ Our question to you: If given a choice, which of the following options would be most prudent for you and your current situation when taking a medium- or long-distance trip?

🧂🚰 A saltwater intrusion is currently flowing up the Mississippi River, threatening Louisiana’s drinking water supplies.

🌏 Ethiopia’s Tigst Assefa shattered the women’s marathon world record, Africa’s white rhino population pulled a Charles Barkley-like comeback and rebounded for the first time in a decade, and more.

🚂 After decades of losing market share to cars and planes, the US passenger train industry is attempting a resurgence.

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