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💬 Quoted…​​ “Generally a person got as many as he or she could carry in a cardboard drink carrier. One man carried seven. Most tried to get four.”

Northwestern defeated Nebraska 31-28 in the first game of the college football season on Saturday. But the real drama happened off the field.

  • Sometime during the game, which took place in Dublin, Ireland, the credit card machines at the stadium’s concession stands were unable to function. So vendors just started giving things away for free – like beer.

The luck o’ the Irish strikes again.🍻🍀

📑 Number of the Day: 12 = the number of fully redacted pages, out of 38 total, in the newly released FBI affidavit used to convince a judge to approve a search warrant for former President Trump’s Florida home. Six pages are more than half redacted, while another five have something redacted on the page.

Per the affidavit (that we can actually read):

  • 184 classified documents were found among 15 boxes that the National Archives had obtained from Mar-a-Lago in January, including 92 labeled “SECRET,” 67 labeled “CONFIDENTIAL,” and 25 labeled “TOP SECRET” (including those gained from “clandestine sources,” aka undercover operatives).
  • Some of those documents were intermixed with other files, loose and unlabeled, NPR reports, prompting the Archives to refer the case to the DOJ.

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🌍 Around the World: Germany is cracking down on money laundering, the UK is gearing up for an expensive winter, and the US and China have reached an agreement allowing American regulators to access audits of Chinese companies traded in the US.

🤯 Did You Know?... There’s a 1 in 50,000 chance of an unverified finger match being able to unlock an iPhone or a Google Pixel with a fingerprint lock on it.

📖 Worth a Read: This Teen Was Prescribed 10 Psychiatric Drugs. She’s Not Alone. → (The NY Times)

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