Politically Brewed

27/09/2025

ABC threatening to pull SEC games off the air in their fight with cable companies over Jimmy Kimmel is wild. 🤯

26/09/2025

26/09/2025

WTF is the US considering giving Argentina $20B bailout?

A $20 billion loan to support Argentina’s president, Javier Milei, could come with economic and political risks.

26/09/2025

Protesters who want justice in the case of 43 students who disappeared in 2014 rammed the gates of a military base in Mexico City with a truck Thursday and set the vehicle on fire.

Protesters who want justice in the case of 43 students who disappeared in 2014 have rammed the gates of a military base in Mexico City with a truck and set the vehicle on fire.

26/09/2025

Unlike the more familiar Consumer Price Index, PCE tracks a broader basket of spending from rent to health care, and it is tied directly to the Fed’s 2% inflation target.

Wall Street eyes August PCE as Fed weighs jobs, inflation tradeoff.

26/09/2025

Trump’s push for lower crude prices, higher tariffs, and the resulting uncertainty caused by his “stroke of pen” policies are hurting investment, executives at independent oil and gas producers told the Dallas Fed.

The executives' anonymous comments were published in a quarterly survey of oil and gas companies by the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas this week.

26/09/2025

Trump downplayed concerns and insisted that the newly structured TikTok platform would not become an echo chamber for his own political movement.

"If I could make it 100% MAGA, I would," Trump said, after signing an executive order setting up the deal with China and Trump allies

26/09/2025

A growing body of research suggests that several common vaccines may do more than just prevent infectious diseases—they're also linked to a lower risk of developing dementia.

Researchers highlight flu, shingles, and RSV for potential brain benefits

26/09/2025

Military law enforcement is required to report violent threats to the service’s military criminal investigative organization. The review found the Army did not consistently follow that policy in 32 of 67 violent threat investigations in 2023

Eighteen people were killed in Lewiston in October 2023 when Robert Card opened fire at a bowling alley and a bar and grill.

26/09/2025

Over $200 million spent to send Ontario patients to foreign clinics for treatment — mostly in the U.S.

An exclusive CBC data analysis has found that since 2018, Ontario has spent over $200 million sending patients to U.S. clinics for procedures unavailable in Canada. The biggest expenditure under the program last year was a specialized cancer treatment called proton beam therapy — a treatment avail...