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October 18th, 2023

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In Today’s Brief

Belgium: Police kill suspected shooter
Georgia: Manhunt for 4 inmates begins
Alec Baldwin: May face more charges
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Gaza hospital strike

500 people were killed in an airstrike on the al-Ahli hospital in Gaza City yesterday, according to the enclave's Ministry of Health.

Many Palestinians have taken refuge in al-Ahli and other hospitals in Gaza City in the past days to avoid bombardment after Israel ordered all residents of the city and surrounding areas to evacuate to the southern Gaza Strip. The World Health Organization condemned the attack on the Gaza City hospital saying it "was operational, with patients, health and caregivers, and internally displaced people sheltering there." Palestinian officials have alleged that the Israeli military was behind the strike, while Israel has denied involvement and blamed the Palestinian Islamic Jihad.

Following the attack, Jordan canceled a planned summit between President Biden, King Abdullah II, Egyptian President Abdel Fattah El-Sisi, and Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas. President Abbas, who was in Jordan ahead of the meeting, is returning to Ramallah to convene an emergency meeting of Palestinian leadership.

Another House speaker vote

House Judiciary Chair Jim Jordan of Ohio fell short of the 217 votes needed to become House speaker during the first roll call ballot yesterday.

200 House Republicans voted for Jordan on the first ballot, while 20 voted against him. All Democrats voted for Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries. Additional voting was postponed yesterday, with Jordan needing to secure more votes to replace the ousted Kevin McCarthy for the speaker role. Jordan received the nomination in the GOP's internal election with a 124-81 vote on Friday. A subsequent vote found that 55 members would not vote for him on the floor, but by Monday Jordan had managed to lower the number of holdouts.

Jordan was selected to be the House GOP’s candidate for speaker in an anonymous vote last week after Representative Steve Scalise dropped out of the race when he did not secure enough votes. The last Speaker, McCarthy, needed 15 rounds of voting over four days in January to earn the gavel.

The world’s hottest chili pepper

The Guinness World Records has crowned Pepper X as the hottest chili pepper in the world, dethroning the Carolina Reaper chili pepper after 10 years.

Pepper X has been in the works since PuckerButt Pepper Co. founder Ed Currie last set the hottest pepper record in 2013 with the Carolina Reaper. Pepper X is a crossbreed of the Carolina Reaper and a pepper that a friend of Currie’s sent him that he says was “brutally hot.” It took 10 years to get Pepper X from the first crossbreed experiment to the record, including five years of testing to prove it was a different and distinct pepper and documenting its average heat over different plants and generations.

Heat in peppers is measured in Scoville Heat Units. The Guinness Book of World Records lists the Carolina Reaper at 1.64M units, while Pepper X’s record is an average of 2.69M units. For comparison, zero is considered bland, and a regular jalapeno pepper registers about 5K units.

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Around the Globe

Ukraine has used U.S.-supplied long-range missiles for the first time, according to a statement from President Volodymyr Zelensky; His comments follow reports that the weapons, known as ATACMS, destroyed nine helicopters at Russian bases (More)
Belgian police have shot a man who allegedly killed two Swedish nationals in the capital, Brussels, on Monday evening; the accused, a 45-year-old Tunisian national, died in hospital after being shot in the chest, according to Belgian media (More)
India’s top court refused to codify same-sex marriages yesterday, with the chief justice of the country saying that it was up to Parliament to create such legislation; the five-judge bench has heard 20 petitions this year that sought to allow gay marriage in India (More)

On the Homefront

The Food and Drug Administration is proposing a ban on using formaldehyde as an ingredient in hair relaxers, saying that the chemical is linked to hormone-related cancers and can cause "long-term adverse health effects" (More)
U.S. House Representative Debbie Lesko will not run for office again next year; the Arizona representative announced that she has decided to spend more time with family, but will continue to serve her constituents until her term ends in January 2025 (More)
Four Georgia inmates are on the run from authorities, including a man charged with murder, after escaping a central Georgia jail through a damaged second-floor window and getting through the perimeter fences, according to officials (More)

Glitz & Games

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Special prosecutors are seeking to recharge actor Alec Baldwin in the fatal shooting of a cinematographer on the set of Rust in 2021; the New Mexico-based prosecutors said they will present their case to the grand jury within the next two months (More)
The NFL is considering eliminating the hip-drop tackle and will again discuss the decision in the offseason; According to league executive Jeff Miller. the hip-drop tackle increases the risk of injury by 25 times the rate of a standard tackle (More)
Hollywood production in Los Angeles dropped 41% overall last quarter, according to data from FilmLA; the drop was largely led by the near-total shutdown of scripted TV and film production due to the WGA and SAG-AFTRA strikes (More)

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Business & Markets

Major indexes in the stock market closed mixed yesterday, with the Nasdaq and S&P 500 ending in losses and the Dow closing with slight gains (Dow +0.04%, Nasdaq -0.25%, S&P 500 -0.01% )
General Motors is delaying the production of all-electric trucks at a Michigan plant by at least a year to “better manage capital investments” and implement improvements in an effort to make the new EVs more profitable (More)
Elon Musk’s X is testing a new program called ‘Not a Bot’ in which new users in New Zealand and the Philippines will be required to sign up for a $1 annual subscription to post and interact with other posts (More)

Tips & Tricks

Feel Good: Meet Nathan Wyburn, a Welsh-based artist who, along with the help of a chef, uses organic food to create iconic landscapes…and then donates all of the food to hungry people to help fight food insecurity
Sneak Peek: Check out the eye-popping official trailer for Monarch: Legacy of Monsters, an upcoming multi-generational story on Apple TV+ about how monsters and humans fought for the same planet starring Kurt Russell, Wyatt Russell, Anna Sawai, John Goodman, and others
Bump This: Pat Barrett proves he deserves a place in the pantheon of legendary singer-songwriters with his new spiritually-charged single “Shelter” - listen on Apple Music, Spotify, and YouTube
Chow Down: You asked for more pumpkin recipes, and we listened - if you love pumpkins, you’ll definitely want to try this recipe for homemade pumpkin bread that’s moist, warmly spiced, and filled with pumpkin flavor to make the perfect fall treat
Nerd Out: Read about how scientists used X-ray technology to uncover yet another secret about Leonardo da Vinci’s iconic Mona Lisa - the research was published in the Journal of the American Chemical Society and gives historians a slew of new insights into how da Vinci created the painting that has fascinated art admirers for centuries
Hot Goss: Country-pop singer and songwriter Marren Morris has filed for divorce from her husband Ryan Hurd after five years of marriage, according to documents filed in a Tennessee court
Life Hack: According to a celebrity fitness trainer who has worked with nearly every A-list actor under the sun to help them prepare for film roles, the key to unlocking vibrant energy as you age is to build and maintain muscle mass - here are three tips to maintain muscle mass as you age, per celebrity trainer Don Saladino

Tip-Offs

A world map of where the mega-rich spend their holidays.

…and several maps showing the world’s most humid cities.

Listing this year’s priciest basketball cards sold at auction.

One journalist’s account of driving to the edge of the earth.

Some tips on when you match with a friend on a dating app.

Take a virtual flight over Mars’ canyon, the Labyrinth of Night.

Peruse through BBC’s list (so far) of 2023’s 25 best books.

…and take a journey in search of the world’s oldest trees.

Looking Back…

On October 18th: Puerto Rico is turned over to the United States following the Spanish-American War (1898); Al Capone is convicted of federal income-tax evasion and is subsequently sentenced to 11 years in prison (1931); the musical film West Side Story, an adaptation of the Broadway play, is released in American theaters (1961); skier Lindsey Vonn is born (1984).

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