August 16th • 3h 4m
Shownotes
Every new episode of No Agenda is accompanied by a comprehensive list of shownotes curated by Adam while preparing for the show. Clips played by the hosts during the show can also be found here.
00 ⚔️ HORMUZ - NEITHER SIDE CONTROLS IT
The continuing spine. Trump moves from tolling the Strait to claiming title over it, Iran answers in kind, and the tape underneath shows a waterway neither side commands — closed by insurers and drones rather than by navies. The war is six months old and stalled, and the cost is now visible at the pump.
📰 Articles & links (read/context — above the clips)
Clips — 14
00 Trump Declares It US Territory
01 01- Declaring the Strait a US territory
📺 YouTube (clip)
Trump opens on Iran "being very badly defeated." He then announces he will soon declare the Strait of Hormuz a territory of the United States. The justification is possession by blockade — no ships get through unless he says so — and Venezuela is offered as the template: a one-day war that now ships America millions of barrels.
02 02- Bad news fellows we have to make a little journey
📺 YouTube (clip)
Trump tells the story of the morning he decided to strike. Best month any president ever had, gas at $1.95 and $1.85 a gallon. Then he tells Howard, Scott and Marco the bad news: we have to make a little journey to the Middle East to put out a fire. The button is the counterfactual — without the B-2s, Iran would have had a weapon.
03 03- Youre at four dollars its okay I will never apologize
📺 YouTube (clip)
Having made the case, Trump turns to the listener and asks them to pay for it. A tiny little bit more for your gasoline, so a very evil country cannot have a weapon. He pre-empts the complaint — you're at $4, it's okay, I will never apologize — blames California's taxes for the rest, and closes on the blockade as a wall of steel.
01 Neither Controls The Strait
01 01- Neither side controls the Strait, eight vessels crossed Tuesday
📺 YouTube (clip)
Matthew Kroenig, Atlantic Council (CBS News): the US blockade stops Iran shipping and Iran's drones deter everyone else, so "the reality is neither controls the Strait of Hormuz" — eight vessels crossed on Tuesday, against a fifth of the world's energy in normal times.
02 01- Four dollars three cents and the IEA says reopening is urgent
📺 YouTube (clip)
MS NOW anchor read: gas hits a national average of $4.03, a record for the time of year, while the IEA warns that reopening the Strait is becoming urgent as oil stockpiles deplete.
03 01- Irans strategy is to prolong the war until Trump leaves
📺 YouTube (clip)
CNN: The US and Israel launched strikes on Iran nearly six months ago. Donald Trump has repeatedly declared victory while also claiming a deal is just around the corner. But a top adviser to the commander of Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps is now indicating that Tehran is the one calling the sho
04 01- Pretty soon Ill be declaring the Hormuz Strait a US territory
📺 YouTube (clip)
Trump opens on Iran "being very badly defeated." He then announces he will soon declare the Strait of Hormuz a territory of the United States. The justification is possession by blockade — no ships get through unless he says so — and Venezuela is offered as the template: a one-day war that now ships America millions of barrels.
05 01- Tehran answers - the Strait has been is and will remain Iranian
📺 01- Tehran answers (?)
Iran's deputy foreign minister Kazem Gharibabadi (euronews): the Strait "has been Iranian, is Iranian and will remain Iranian," and will be opened or closed only under Iran's command.
06 01- Qatar sees positive signs in the Iran Oman talks
📺 YouTube (clip)
Qatar foreign ministry spokesman Dr Majed Al Ansari (euronews): Doha reports Iran-Oman talks at an advanced stage and wants freedom of navigation restored immediately — the only de-escalation tape in the cycle.
02 The War Stalled At Six Months
01 01- Hochstein - oil prices are not reflecting reality
📺 01- Hochstein (?)
CNBC: President Trump saying the U.S. has, quote, total control over the Strait of Hormuz. In the meantime, a recent CNBC analysis of data from Kipler and marine traffic show that ship traffic through the Strait is actually at a three-month low.
02 01- Yingst - Iran miscalculated Trump
📺 01- Yingst (?)
Fox News: THE U.S. IS HOPING THE U.S. BORDER IS GOING TO BE EASIER TO FIND OUT.
03 01- Cheap affordable weapons are enough to hold the Strait
📺 YouTube (clip)
CBS News: All right. President Trump is claiming the U.S. has, quote, total control over the Strait of Hormuz and says the U.S.
04 01- Are they amassing assets - when do they ever honor a deal
📺 01- Are they amassing assets (?)
Fox News: Navy SEAL. Admiral, it's great to have you with us today. I think J.D.
05 02- Are they amassing assets - when do they ever honor a deal
📺 02- Are they amassing assets (?)
Fox News: Navy SEAL. Admiral, it's great to have you with us today. I think J.D.
01 🦠 EBOLA - FASTEST OUTBREAK ON RECORD
The strongest un-burned story of the cycle. The Congo outbreak is the fastest-moving on record and the health workers holding the line have not been paid in three months. Two systemic failures underneath the numbers: diagnostics that were looking for the wrong strain, and 120 armed groups between the sick and the clinics.
📰 Articles & links (read/context — above the clips)
Clips — 8
00 Congo Death Toll Doubles In Three Weeks
01 01- On track to eclipse the West African outbreak
📺 YouTube (clip)
PBS NewsHour: WILLIAM BRANGHAM: The Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo continues to worsen, with the number of confirmed cases climbing to over 4,500. Over 2,100 people have already been killed by the virus. a death toll that was reached almost three times faster than the outbreak over a decade ag
02 02- Bundibugyo - no vaccine and the nurses walk off unpaid
📺 02- Bundibugyo (?)
PBS NewsHour: the Bundibugyo strain has no approved vaccine or therapeutic and kills a quarter to half of those infected, while frontline health workers three months unpaid walk off the job — "without the effort of nurses, doctors and hygienists, there is nothing."
03 03- Violence over minerals keeps the sick from care
📺 YouTube (clip)
PBS NewsHour: The United Nations says on top of it all, ongoing violence over Congo's lucrative minerals between Rwandan-backed groups and the Congolese military prevents those who need medical care from getting to it. The World Health Organization reports that between 60 and 70 percent of Ebola-related deaths oc
04 04- The tests were looking for the wrong Ebola for months
📺 YouTube (clip)
Epidemiologist Anne Rimoin, UCLA (PBS NewsHour): the outbreak began in February but was not declared until May because local labs were running Ebola Zaire tests against a Bundibugyo outbreak — "with Ebola you've got to get in front of it."
05 01- First thousand dead in nine weeks the second in three
📺 YouTube (clip)
CBS News: The head of the World Health Organization is warning that the Ebola outbreak in Central Africa is on track to be the deadliest ever. More than 2,000 people have been killed, with at least 4,300 cases in the current outbreak in the eastern Congo. For more on this, we're joined by CBS News foreign cor
06 02- A dozen attacks on clinics and 120 armed groups
📺 YouTube (clip)
Ramy Inocencio, CBS News: the first thousand deaths took nine weeks and the second thousand took three, driven by distrust of government, more than a dozen attacks on clinics, tactile burial customs and 120 armed groups fighting over the region.
07 01- Death toll doubled in three weeks fastest growing on record
📺 YouTube (clip)
PBS NewsHour: The Democratic Republic of the Congo says the Ebola outbreak there has now killed more than 2,000 people. More than 4,000 cases of the disease have been confirmed in the DRC. And it's taken just three weeks for the death toll to double, making it the fastest growing outbreak on record.
08 01- New study says the outbreak jumped from animals
📺 YouTube (clip)
africanews: The Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo has claimed more than 2,000 lives, making it the country's second deadliest outbreak on record and one of the fastest growing ever documented. According to Congolese health authorities, the outbreak has caused over 2,000 deaths among 4,000 confi
02 ✈️ THE PLANE SWITCH
Trump was moved off Air Force One in Turkey a day after an Iranian threat, using his own press pool and staff as decoys. Play the two readings against each other — McMaster says the system worked; Kirby says a president can always tell the Secret Service to find another way, and this one did not.
Clips — 4
00 Press And Staff As Decoys
01 01- McMaster - it seems like the system worked
📺 01- McMaster (?)
H.R. McMaster, former National Security Adviser (CBS News): on the decoy flight, "it seems like the system worked" — the counter to the MS NOW reading.
02 02- McMaster - it seems like the system worked
📺 02- McMaster (?)
H.R. McMaster, former National Security Adviser (CBS News): on the decoy flight, "it seems like the system worked" — the counter to the MS NOW reading.
03 01- Kirby - Clinton would have told them I need a different plan
📺 Retired Rear Adm. John Kirby — MSNBC (MSM)
Retired Rear Adm. John Kirby (MS NOW): the CIA doubted the Israeli intelligence, and a president can tell the Secret Service "I need a different plan" — Clinton did; this one did not.
04 01- Reporters flew the decoy plane with the shades down
📺 YouTube (clip)
NPR: New reporting contradicts what the White House told the press traveling with the president during a recent trip to Turkey. And as NPR's Tamara Keith reports, that may have left reporters vulnerable. President Trump boarded Air Force One as usual, but The Washington Post reports he was then smuggled
03 🔫 MANGIONE PLEADS GUILTY
He pleaded guilty and gave a motive. The detail that carries the segment is not the killing but the email: posing as an investor, he got a reply from UnitedHealthcare leadership within the hour. Then four of his supporters, on the record, after the plea.
Clips — 8
00 The Plea And The Motive
01 01- I shot Mr Thompson and he died
📺 YouTube (clip)
Brangham opens on the surprise: Mangione pleaded guilty today to stalking and shooting UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson. Rogin reports what he actually said in court — a short, chilling statement
02 02- Why plead guilty the double jeopardy play
📺 YouTube (clip)
Brangham asks the real question: the evidence was overwhelming — video, the weapon, the diary — so why plead? Rogin lays out the strategy. He pleaded to two counts of stalking resulting in death, not murder, because federal murder charges are rare.
03 03- They emailed him back within an hour
📺 YouTube (clip)
The last question is the one that pays. Rogin gives the motive Mangione stated — years of back pain and a health insurance system he believed was working against him — then how he found Thompson: he emailed UnitedHealthcare leadership posing as an investor to learn where the Investor Summit was.
01 The Mangionistas
01 01- Ill stand by him whether or not he did it
📺 YouTube (clip)
New York Post: I'm here because Luigi has a surprise hearing in federal court. We're not really sure what's going on, but there have been murmurs of a possible plea deal. And how do you feel about that possible plea deal?
02 02- Ill stand by him whether or not he did it
📺 YouTube (clip)
New York Post: I'm here because Luigi has a surprise hearing in federal court. We're not really sure what's going on, but there have been murmurs of a possible plea deal. And how do you feel about that possible plea deal?
03 01- A revolutionary act of protest - the end of an era
📺 YouTube (clip)
New York Post: Everyone has a different opinion and I'm not going to say it was wrong or right because I do think I exist within a gray area of the opinions around this case But I see it more as a revolutionary act of protest of the likes of which we haven't seen since the civil rights era my reactions in court I
04 01- It was weird to hear him say guilty
📺 YouTube (clip)
New York Post: It was, I would say it wasn't surreal, it was weird to hear him say it like guilty. Yes, like I plead guilty and yes I understand all these charges and kind of give his own statement. Um, ironically I did find out we're both on the same sleep medication so that's my little bonding moment there.
05 01- Was his life worth it - not necessarily worth it
📺 01- Was his life worth it (?)
New York Post: You know, I'm a human. I'm empathetic. I feel really bad that somebody had to lose their life.
04 🫧 AI - THE DEBT BOMB
The AI trade's counter-week continues, and the argument has moved to who is holding the debt. Paired here with the same logic arriving in the real world: Canada moving air traffic control off the airport and letting the system ask itself what it is looking at.
📰 Articles & links (read/context — above the clips)
Clips — 7
00 Ellison And The Circular Financing
01 01- The American consumer is too deep in debt to be the engine
📺 MS NOW — MSNBC (MSM)
MS NOW (MSNBC): Last time the banks saw those lax rules and exploited them. They pushed the unaffordable housing debt into the bubble. After that crash, billionaire Larry Ellison said that when you have that kind of debt, it does cast a long shadow.
02 02- Trillions into data centres that may never return the profit
📺 MS NOW — MSNBC (MSM)
MS NOW (MSNBC): It's now disabled. as you probably know, one of the top companies in world history. But the bears and the skeptics are warning This may not be Amazon, let alone five Amazons.
03 01- A lot of these financings look circular
📺 Nicolai Tangen, CEO of Norway's $2 trillion sovereign wealth fund — CNBC (MSM)
Nicolai Tangen, CEO of Norway's $2 trillion sovereign wealth fund (CNBC): "a lot of these financings, it does look circular. It reminds us of things that we have seen in the past."
04 01- Tuberville says the concerns are bullcrap - his words
📺 Alabama governor candidate Doug Jones — MSNBC (MSM)
Alabama governor candidate Doug Jones (MS NOW): Tuberville calls residents' data-centre concerns "bullcrap — his words, not mine," and neither he nor Trump is listening to the communities.
05 01- Credit card debt hits 1.26 trillion near the record
📺 YouTube (clip)
6abc Philadelphia: As Americans grapple with high gas prices and elevated interest rates, their credit card balances are reaching record levels. Overall, Americans face outstanding credit card balances just shy of the $1.28 trillion all-time record which was set last year. That's according to the Federal Reserve Bank
01 AI Takes The Control Tower
01 01- Replacing the window with a digital view
📺 YouTube (clip)
The reporter opens at a tower that isn't one — the controllers are somewhere else, maybe another city. Nav Canada calls it the future; the vendor describes it as taking the view out of a window and putting it on screens. Then the pitch goes further than cameras: the system learns, and asks itself what it is looking at.
02 02- I would rather people looking out a window
📺 YouTube (clip)
The other half. Travellers at Ottawa airport say plainly they don't want it. Then the cost lands on the controllers: Hamilton is first, and its controllers have been told to move to Kingston. The union's fear is that they simply leave — and the line that closes it is a staffing warning, not a technology one.
05 🛂 IMMIGRATION ENFORCEMENT
One thousand sham marriages brokered over a decade at $100,000 a green card, plus the enforcement architecture around it — shock gloves for ICE officers, and New York giving its counties thirteen days to unwind their ICE agreements.
📰 Articles & links (read/context — above the clips)
Clips — 7
00 One Thousand Sham Marriages
01 01- One thousand sham marriages largest in US history
📺 YouTube (clip)
The AG opens the announcement: 11 arrests, an unsealed SDNY indictment, more than 1,000 sham marriages brokered over a decade between Chinese nationals and US citizens. He frames the scale — one of the largest marriage fraud prosecutions in American history
02 02- A hundred thousand a green card thirty thousand a spouse
📺 YouTube (clip)
The mechanics. Facilitators advertised on social media to Chinese nationals, who paid up to $100,000; US citizens were paid up to $30,000 to marry them. After the ceremony the defendants staged restaurant photos to manufacture a wedding, walked the couples through the USCIS interview, and had them sign prenuptial agreements
03 03- Birth tourism and denaturalization 120 complaints
📺 YouTube (clip)
The AG widens out from this one case to standing policy: US Attorneys have been directed to prioritise birth tourism prosecutions, and the Civil Division to prioritise stripping citizenship from people who obtained it by fraud. The number is the payoff — a record 120-plus denaturalization complaints filed since 20 January 2025.
04 04- What happens to the thousand green cards
📺 YouTube (clip)
A reporter asks the obvious follow-up: a thousand marriages, so what happens to the people who already got green cards off them? The AG's answer is the interesting part — it depends where each one is in the pipeline, and some of them are already citizens. Thousands of marriages are still being looked at, civilly and criminally.
05 05- Being harassed doesnt give you the right to commit a crime
📺 YouTube (clip)
A reporter raises the uncomfortable case: SDNY has spent years prosecuting Chinese harassment of dissidents on US soil — were any of these thousand marriages people buying cover from that? The AG concedes the history, then refuses the excuse in one line.
01 Electric Shock Gloves For ICE
01 01- Twenty million for gloves that deliver painful shocks
📺 YouTube (clip)
6abc Philadelphia: The Department of Homeland Security is considering a controversial new purchase for its ICE agents. They are electric shock gloves. The gloves can deliver painful shocks intended to make people comply.
02 New York Gives ICE Thirteen Days
01 01- You have thirteen days to unwind your ICE agreements
📺 YouTube (clip)
New York governor (NY Post): $7.25 million for legal representation for 1,400 unaccompanied minors, and counties have thirteen days to formally unwind any agreements with ICE.
06 🎓 THE CAMBRIDGE PROFESSOR
A media story wearing a university story. 188 newspaper articles about one man in nine days, a resignation, and a death. Sky reports the facts and the hiring inquiry; Channel 4 reports the pile-on and lets the racism argument be challenged on air.
📰 Articles & links (read/context — above the clips)
Clips — 6
00 188 Articles In Nine Days
01 01- Found dead the Met statement
📺 YouTube (clip)
Sky breaks in with the news that Jason Arday, the Cambridge professor at the centre of a plagiarism inquiry, has been found dead. The anchor then reads the Met Police statement straight: the time of the ambulance call, a 41-year-old pronounced dead at the scene, next of kin informed, treated as unexpected but not suspicious.
02 02- How he was appointed the Cambridge review
📺 YouTube (clip)
The background read. Arday became Cambridge's youngest black professor in 2023 and quit this year after reports alleging he plagiarised his PhD. Liverpool John Moores cleared him. But the claims kept coming — 600 miles in six days, £5.5m raised for charity — and Cambridge is now reviewing not just him but its own hiring.
03 03- The limits of what any person should reasonably endure
📺 YouTube (clip)
Correspondent Phoebe Southworth closes on his own words. His resignation letter said it should not be read as a loss of faith in scholarship but as the decision of someone at the limits of what a person can endure. This week he cancelled the events for his book. She ends by putting the weight back on Cambridge.
04 01- A reckoning over duty of care
📺 YouTube (clip)
Channel 4 frames it as a reckoning rather than a report: duty of care, institutional failure, media scrutiny, racism. A friend describes him desperately trying to find a way to stay alive and saying his life was over — then the line that indicts the university.
05 02- 188 newspaper articles in nine days
📺 YouTube (clip)
The number. 188 newspaper articles about one man in nine days, and the question Channel 4 puts directly: you do not see that level of scrutiny on other plagiarism cases, so is it because he was a black professor? The answer given is unequivocal, followed by the 1% figure — and then the report steps back to the family.
06 03- A man was lynched yesterday
📺 YouTube (clip)
Kehinde Andrews, academic and friend of Jason Arday (Channel 4 News): describes Arday depressed and unable to leave the house days before he died, then puts the charge past Cambridge onto the press — "a man was lynched yesterday… if he was white, he would still be alive" — with the anchor challenging the word inside the clip.
07 🗑️ FARAGE v COUNT BINFACE
He resigned over an unregistered £5 million gift from a crypto billionaire, called the by-election himself, and no other major party contested it — so his opponent was a man in a wheelie bin who out-polls him nationally. The £5 million investigation is still open.
Clips — 5
00 Beaten Almost By A Man In A Bin
01 01- Count Binface explains his flow chart for winning
📺 Count Binface — MSNBC (MSM)
Count Binface (MS NOW): the candidate who nearly took Farage's seat, in costume, explaining the flow chart by which he wins the election either way.
02 02- Count Binface explains his flow chart for winning
📺 Count Binface — MSNBC (MSM)
Count Binface (MS NOW): the candidate who nearly took Farage's seat, in costume, explaining the flow chart by which he wins the election either way.
03 03- It is a humans right to vote for Nigel Farage
📺 MS NOW — MSNBC (MSM)
MS NOW (MSNBC): One other question for you. And I hope you don't have to take that phone call. One other question.
04 01- The manifesto - one affordable house and easier arcade games
📺 01- The manifesto (?)
NPR on Jon Harvey's Count Binface: a manifesto of one affordable house, cutting your taxes and raising everyone else's, and easier arcade games — and a national poll putting him ahead of Farage.
05 01- The five million pound crypto gift behind the by-election
📺 YouTube (clip)
Joe Pike, BBC via CBS News: Farage triggered the by-election himself after failing to register a £5 million gift from a crypto billionaire, and no other major party fielded a candidate.
08 🏛️ WASHINGTON
The podium, the ballroom, the indictment and the walk-back. Four short Washington beats that do not need a segment each.
Clips — 4
00 Who Replaces Leavitt
01 01- Three months from the midterms and the podium is empty
📺 YouTube (clip)
CNN: Help wanted at the White House. Caroline Leavitt heads for the exit. So who's next for the gig?
01 SCOTUS And The Ballroom
01 01- He is living in a house it is not his house
📺 YouTube (clip)
13News Now: The battle over the White House ballroom. Construction will have to stop next week unless the Supreme Court steps in. Yeah, President Trump asking the court to allow the work to move forward after a lower court blocked part of the project.
02 SPLC CFO Indicted
01 01- Fictitious company names and payments that were not accurate
📺 YouTube (clip)
New York Post: the Justice Department has unsealed the case against the former chief financial officer of the Southern Poverty Law Center. Can you please speak a little bit about what you've learned as part of that investigation and if we should expect more charges? So I'm not so yes today my understanding is toda
03 Mamdani On Woke One
01 01- Sometimes what you believe can change - on defund the police
📺 YouTube (clip)
New York Post: I want to ask you about something AOC said over the weekend that you probably heard in an interview where she quoted Councilmember Chi Osei, who once said on Twitter or X, "I Woke one was crazy and she was talking about it in response to questions about whether the left has some sort of during that
09 🪙 CLARITY ACT AND THE FED
Bitcoin has halved and crypto's market cap has gone from $4 trillion to $2 trillion since the Bullish IPO. Farley's argument is to stop kvetching and pass the Clarity Act; Siegel's is that oil near $80 takes a September hike off the table.
Clips — 3
00 Crypto Halved And The September Hike
01 01- Bitcoin halved crypto halved - stop kvetching and back the bill
📺 Tom Farley, Bullish CEO and former NYSE president — CNBC (MSM)
Tom Farley, Bullish CEO and former NYSE president (CNBC): Bitcoin has halved to about $60,000 and crypto's market cap from $4tn to $2tn since his IPO — the industry should stop kvetching and back the Clarity Act.
02 02- Bitcoin halved crypto halved - stop kvetching and back the bill
📺 Tom Farley, Bullish CEO and former NYSE president — CNBC (MSM)
Tom Farley, Bullish CEO and former NYSE president (CNBC): Bitcoin has halved to about $60,000 and crypto's market cap from $4tn to $2tn since his IPO — the industry should stop kvetching and back the Clarity Act.
03 01- If oil stays near eighty the Fed does not raise in September
📺 Jeremy Siegel, Wharton — CNBC (MSM)
Jeremy Siegel, Wharton (CNBC): if oil stays near $80 there is no way the Fed raises rates in September.
10 🚀 THE SPACE RACE
Isaacman at Kennedy: "there is absolutely a space race underway right now." Artemis 3 in 2027, a moon base, and mining lunar regolith for helium-3.
Clips — 1
00 Isaacman At Kennedy
01 01- There is absolutely a space race underway right now
📺 NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman — CNBC (MSM)
NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman (CNBC): "there is absolutely a space race underway right now" — Artemis 3 in 2027, a moon base, and mining lunar regolith for helium-3.
11 🌍 ABROAD
Four foreign beats that each stand alone: Putin threatening to seize European ships in return for the shadow-fleet interceptions, an American oil company landing drilling gear in Greenland before its permits, a Marine home after four years in a Russian psychiatric ward, and Europe's rivers too low to cool its nuclear plants.
Clips — 4
00 Putin Threatens Ship Seizures
01 01- Putin calls the shadow fleet seizures piracy
📺 YouTube (clip)
Vladimir Putin (euronews): threatens to seize European ships in retaliation for EU interceptions of the shadow fleet, calling the new sanctions regime piracy.
01 Drilling Greenland Without Approval
01 01- The rig arrived before the permits did
📺 YouTube (clip)
Global News: Texas-based Greenland Energy landed drilling equipment on Greenland before securing approval; the government issued a formal reprimand requiring all future logistics be approved first.
02 Marine Freed By Russia
01 01- Held in a psychiatric ward for four years
📺 YouTube (clip)
euronews: former US Marine Robert Gilman is home after four years in Russian custody, held in a hospital psychiatric ward, released after Putin approved it on humanitarian grounds.
03 Europe Rivers Too Low To Cool
01 01- Not enough water to cool the nuclear plants
📺 YouTube (clip)
Global News: Europe's rivers are at record lows — Hungary's largest plant has run at 10% capacity, Romania shut one down, and "there's simply not enough water there to cool down the plants."
12 🥬 FOOD AND HEALTH
3,100 new cyclospora infections in a week from recalled lettuce, after the Health Secretary said the outbreak was under control. And a $200 million bet that cottage cheese is not a TikTok fad.
Clips — 2
00 Cyclospora In The Lettuce
01 01- 3100 new cases and RFK said it was under control
📺 YouTube (clip)
6abc Philadelphia: Several health officials say they've identified more than 3100 new cases of cyclospora infections within the last week. The illness is linked with iceberg lettuce sourced from central Mexico and recalled by Taylor Farms. The infections have led to 120 hospitalizations in the last week.
01 The Cottage Cheese Boom
01 01- A 200 million dollar bet on a TikTok trend
📺 YouTube (clip)
Global News: If you bake cottage cheese with cocoa powder, cottage cheese has become a not-so-secret ingredient. Is there a cottage cheese shortage? And it seems worries like that have been heard loud and clear.
13 🐘 ODDITIES
Two that are their own thing. Elephants dying in Kenya of something nobody can name — the scavengers eating the carcasses are fine — and a Virginia Beach courtroom hearing how a game of Russian roulette killed a man.
Clips — 2
00 Kenyas Elephants Are Dying
01 01- The hyenas eat the carcasses and they do not die
📺 YouTube (clip)
euronews: - Yeah. - Some of the symptoms are difficulty to walk, breathing and restlessness. Those are the basic ones and could not stand.
01 The Russian Roulette Trial
01 01- Seven guns in the room and two families in the courtroom
📺 YouTube (clip)
13News Now: An emotional day here at the Virginia Beach Courthouse Friday morning as the families of Shane Brooks and Ember McSpadden sat on opposite sides of the courtroom and listened to the harsh details laid out by the defense and prosecution and the alleged Russian roulette game that took Shane Brooks's li