Kyle Nowak

🌏 Colombia, the world’s largest cocaine manufacturer, set a new production record last yr, a small Portugal town was flooded with red wine, & more

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🔥 It’s Wednesday, September 13th – and here’s what’s hot, hot, hot.

“Short cuts make long delays.”

–J.R.R. Tolkien (1892-1973)

🤝 Disney and Charter Communications reached an agreement that’ll restore Disney-owned channels like ESPN and ABC to Charter’s Spectrum cable TV service, ending a blackout that lasted for more than a week.

🍏👀 At 1 pm ET today, Apple’s Wonderlust event kicks off in Cupertino, CA. Here’s all that the company is expected to unveil.

🔥 It’s Tuesday, September 12th – and here’s what’s hot, hot, hot.

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“You are what you do, not what you say you'll do.”

–Carl Jung (1875-1961)

🏘️🌀 Home insurance companies operating in US states where expensive natural disasters have become more common are starting to reconsider how they do business.

🌍 Around the world: North Korean leader Kim Jong Un will visit Russia in the coming days, Spanish soccer federation president Luis Rubiales resigned amid charges of sexual assault, and more.

❓ Our question to you: In your opinion, do Google’s deals with smartphone-makers to preload its search engine as the default option represent illegal monopolistic behavior?

⚖️🔍 This week, a federal judge in DC will begin considering arguments in the US government’s first monopoly trial of the modern internet era, which involves a Justice Department lawsuit against Google.

🌏 The G20’s annual heads of state summit took place in India this weekend; today is the 50-year anniversary of a US-supported coup in Chile; & more.

🍅✍️ A PR firm called Bunker 15 is manipulating the critic scores of movies on Rotten Tomatoes by paying for positive reviews and burying negative ones, per a new investigative report.

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🔥 It’s Monday, September 11th – and this is The Hot Corner.

“I attribute my success to this: I never gave or took an excuse.”

–Florence Nightingale (1820-1910)

❓ Our question to you: In your opinion, should former President Trump be disqualified from public office under Section 3 of the 14th Amendment over his actions surrounding the January 6 riot at the US Capitol?

What you can look forward to this upcoming week...