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😤 In-House feud Democratic House leaders are being pressured by their members over the lack of Black candidates receiving top-level party support in the final weeks of the 2026 midterms, we have learned. Why it matters: With 33 days to go, Democrats are torn between triaging their resources and satisfying all corners of their party's diverse but fractious racial coalition. 🗣️ Zoom in: Some Black lawmakers have taken their concerns to Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries and DCCC Chair Suzan DelBene (D-Wash.), according to a senior aide to a House Democrat. Congressional Black Caucus Chair Yvette Clarke (D-N.Y.) spoke with DelBene about the lack of Black candidates on the DCCC's "Red to Blue" list, according to two sources familiar with the matter. 🤬 The intrigue: The dearth of Black representation was a hot topic of conversation among legislators at the Congressional Black Caucus' annual conference in D.C. last month, three people told us. "Members were openly talking about it, and they were pissed," said one Democratic operative. "Red to Blue" provides fundraising and staffing assistance to contenders in swing districts. 📣 Rep. Ayanna Pressley (D-Mass.), a CBC member, told us that "with the CBC under attack through gerrymandering and voter suppression, it's essential that the party invest in Black candidates." In particular, she urged the DCCC to help Justin Pearson, a Black candidate running in a long-shot bid for Tennessee's 9th House District. 💰 Yes, but: Other CBC members say the party must be hard-nosed about its spending in the final stretch, and that Black candidates such as Pearson and Raymond Smith in North Carolina's 3rd District are simply in territory that is too favorable to Republicans to warrant a serious investment. "Jeffries, CBC PAC, DCCC, etc. can absolutely not be poor fiduciaries and spend money on races that are not attainable," one House Democrat told us in a text. Added this lawmaker: "We need to make sure, next cycle, that we do a better job of recruiting Black candidates ... in actual Red to Blue seats. Not seats we wish were Red2Blue." Some Democrats acknowledge that Pearson and Smith are facing an uphill battle in red districts. However, they argue, the DCCC has other ambitious races on its "Red to Blue" list that Cook Political Report rates solidly Republican and likely Republican, respectively. 🎤 The big picture: Jeffries was asked at a press conference yesterday about the lack of Black candidates in the "Red to Blue" program. Jeffries said it is "largely a result of, you know, the primary process — there were in fact not a lot of candidates who stepped forward in these competitive districts." He also defended the DCCC's record of supporting frontline Black candidates, such as Reps. Emilia Sykes (D-Ohio) and Jahana Hayes (D-Conn.). "When I came into Congress, I think there were 38 members of the Congressional Black Caucus. Right now, there are 62," he said. What they're saying: "The CBC is in lockstep with Leader Jeffries," said CBC PAC spokesperson Chris Taylor in a statement. "At his direction, the DCCC has backed our shared commitment to recruiting and investing to elect Black candidates and reach Black voters with real investment. Together, we will deliver the Democratic majority and make Hakeem Jeffries Speaker." "We have enjoyed a strong partnership with the CBC PAC," said DCCC executive director Julie Merz in a statement that noted the group "began investing in talking to and organizing Black voters in key districts earlier than ever this election cycle." What's next: There have been rumblings in Democratic circles in recent weeks that some Black candidates may soon be added to the program. Jeffries said yesterday that there are "emerging opportunities in places throughout the South that we're closely monitoring." A source familiar with the DCCC's planning said it expects to expand the battlefield further. — Holly Otterbein and Andrew Solender

Judge overturns Trump's decision to fire court-appointed US attorney in Seattle A judge on Thursday overturned President Donald Trump's decision to fire the court-appointed top U.S. prosecutor in Seattle, the latest development in a legal tug-of-war over the administration’s efforts to control who occupies the powerful Justice Department posts. Read More.

Czech Prime Minister Andrej Babiš’s government survives no-confidence vote The Czech government survived a parliamentary no-confidence vote on Thursday after the opposition challeneged its widening budget deficit and raised conflict of interest concerns over populist billionaire Prime Minister Andrej Babiš. Read More.

France gripped by spreading student protests as PM calls crisis meeting France's prime minister convened a crisis meeting Thursday and canceled ministers' trips to focus on the nationwide spread of protests, some violent, by high school students venting about under-resourced schools, long hours and other complaints. Read More.

Hurricane Rachel strengthens to a Category 3 storm off Mexico's Pacific coast Hurricane Rachel has been upgraded to a Category 3 storm off Mexico’s Pacific coast, according to the National Hurricane Center, as northern Mexico and parts of the U.S. Southwest were reeling from flooding and damage from the remnants of Hurricane Polo earlier this week. Read More.

3 billionaires give Republican Tom Tiffany a big cash boost in the Wisconsin governor's race In an election year awash with billionaires' money, there are few places where their influence has been as stark as the hotly contested race for Wisconsin governor. Read More.

Concepts of a Plan (Evan Vucci / Pool / Reuters)   View in browser Pete Hegseth seems to imagine himself as a man of big ideas. Perhaps you’ve worked with someone like that: Every organization has “idea hamsters,” who spin in their wheels and toss out suggestions of wildly varying quality. Sometimes, such folks can be innovators—but more often, their scattershot enthusiasm and admiration of their own creativity result in half-baked proposals that create more work, less productivity, and distractions from the real problems. Hegseth had a lot of ideas during his State of the Force address to troops at the Marine Corps Base Quantico yesterday, and some of them, at least as a starting point for policies, had merit. Unfortunately, these few moments of sense were lost in a fog of clichés, culture-war resentments, and trademark Hegseth corniness. The secretary may have a point, for example, that the U.S. military has become top-heavy with generals and admirals. Hegseth is not the first person to notice this: Congress legislates the number of general and flag officers in the military, a cap that was set at 962 for years, until the 2017 National Defense Authorization Act, written in Barack Obama’s last year as president, mandated it be 11 percent smaller by the end of 2022. Hegseth wants to reduce that number even more, by 20 percent, ostensibly to reduce the size of the Pentagon’s bureaucracy. So far, so good. But Hegseth’s message was less about seeking a more streamlined command structure than it was, as he put it, about keeping generals who “heard the message” and firing those who didn’t. (That “message” wasn’t clarified yesterday, but it likely includes classic Hegseth tropes such as “maximum lethality, not tepid legality.”) Hegseth complained that the media—and he complained about the media a lot—called these reductions “a purge,” but he calls them “accountability.” Exactly what these fired officers did to trigger such “accountability” remains unclear. It’s one thing to get rid of an admiral because his or her office is just some bureaucratic zombie position left over from a previous program or initiative; it’s another to fire someone because the secretary thinks they’re disloyal to him. Unfortunately, Hegseth’s history—his statements, and his often-adolescent temperament—suggest that his efforts to downsize the senior ranks are about politics, not efficiency. Hegseth also announced that he intends to create a new command dedicated to autonomous warfare. He is right to want to direct more attention to these weapons; the wars in Ukraine and Iran have been bloody lessons in the power of asymmetrical warfare. But he gave no explanation for why these issues require an entire command, or how it might work. All he offered was a cool name—Autowarcom—that makes it sound like it’s meant to fight the Transformers. And for someone who has repeatedly declared himself “in a war of attrition” with the Pentagon’s bureaucracy, the secretary is more than willing to create a new command that would require more senior officers and civilians to staff it. (He also wants to establish an Office of Religious Affairs that reports directly to him; not only would this be more bureaucracy, but the last thing America needs is an office dedicated to religion that reports to a man who has made repeated efforts to imbue the military with his brand of Christian evangelicism.) Once Hegseth got rolling, the ideas got sillier. He announced Project Meridian, an effort to engage in creative thinking about the military of the future. This is not a new concept; the military regularly works on such issues with various groups, including think tanks, civilian defense firms, and academics. But then Hegseth announced the three wise men who would lead all this brainstorming about the future of warfare: Elon Musk, Newt Gingrich, and Palmer Luckey. Of the three, Luckey—who co-founded the defense firm Anduril Industries—seems a reasonable choice, but Musk has crackpot ideas on any number of issues, and Gingrich’s big plan for technological advancement when he ran for president in 2012 was to build a moon base. Fortunately, the damage this project could do will be somewhat limited because Hegseth has set a deadline of just 120 days for these men to report back. Then again, if Gingrich, Luckey, and Musk can’t redefine the future of national defense in four months, who can? It was a day for acronyms and project code names, but the best was FORTRESS America, meaning “Federal Operations for Resilience, Troop Resources, Energy, Supply, and Survivability.” The expensive idea behind this one is that every major military base should be self-sustaining, including producing its own energy—apparently, in case of attack within the United States. You can almost hear the meeting where someone said “Fortress America,” and then a committee had to figure out what the acronym would stand for. (I am reminded of the classic TV show The Man From U.N.C.L.E., whose creators thought “U.N.C.L.E.” sounded cool and then had to find words to fill the letters.) Speaking of bases, Hegseth would like every governor to come to the Pentagon and pitch him, personally—and maybe even the president!—in a competition to win a brand new military base, a state-of-the-art facility with great housing and lethal capabilities. Does America need such a base? Would this effort draw money and time away from improvements to other military installations? None of that was spelled out, but Hegseth seemed excited about choosing the location in a military version of a reality-TV competition. And on it went, with Hegseth spinning one bad idea after another, and managing to insult any number of Americans in the process. He did his usual riff of wanting “no fatties, no trannies, no beardos, no weirdos, no wimps, no radicals” in his macho military. (“The ideological clowns are out,” he said. “The patriotic cowboys are in, with testosterone testing on top.”) He also denigrated the graduates of America’s ROTC programs by implying that today’s universities are producing unreliable and unpatriotic officers. He wants to establish new military programs at six colleges, including Liberty University, Louisiana State University, and Hillsdale College—institutions, according to the secretary, that understand “the faith of Jerusalem,” and the Greco-Roman “pillars of our republic.” Hegseth could not ignore ongoing problems such as the war in Iran, but rather than presenting a sober-minded and responsible discussion of the challenges to a military at war, the secretary instead leaned into his usual culture-war gripes. He also eagerly sowed division between the U.S. military and the society it serves: He told the assembled troops, repeatedly, that the media and higher education were their enemies, at one point saying that the American media were worse than Iran’s state media. Our press, he said, “intentionally smears the troops and the historic mission that they are undertaking,” actions that are “fundamentally anti-American. It’s sick. It’s a national betrayal. It’s treason.” Hegseth’s speech proved, yet again, that he is manifestly unfit for his job. America can endure a bloated Pentagon with some generals in make-work jobs. It can stand to trim the waste in expensive programs and root out incompetent bureaucrats. What a democracy cannot—and should not—tolerate is a secretary of defense who trucks in propaganda and wants the people who serve in America’s military to be the armed instrument of his own resentments and biases. Related: Pete Hegseth, cornball in chief Hegseth’s war on America’s military

1 for the road: Wildlife bridge a "huge success" Greenland Overpass in Colorado. Photo: Robert Sanchez/Axios Pronghorn and elk are taking the high road in Colorado, Axios Douglas County's Robert Sanchez reports. The animals are crossing I-25 on the Greenland Wildlife Overpass — a promising sign that the project is helping animals find one another for breeding opportunities, as intended. 📸 The overpass opened in December, and the first elk appeared on camera in June, officials say. Pronghorn are making the trip, too — along with mule deer, black bears, mountain lions and more. Colorado DOT environmental manager Chuck Attardo says: "Based on the video feed that we're collecting, huge success." Go deeper ...

⚖️ A judge threw out the Trump administration's case against former Olympian David Hearn, two months after the DOJ revealed that "flawed installation," rather than vandalism, led to damage at the Reflecting Pool. Go deeper. ps:The only crime here is charging this guy!! 👮 Renee Good's family filed two civil lawsuits over her killing during Operation Metro Surge — one against the U.S. government and another against six current and former Trump administration officials, as well as the ICE agent who shot and killed her. Judge denies defense motion asking Lindsay Clancy be found not guilty due to a lack of evidence BOSTON (AP) — The judge in the Lindsay Clancy murder case on Thursday refused to declare her not guilty, turning down a defense motion that had argued there wasn’t enough evidence to prove she was responsible for killing her three children. https://apnews.com/article/lindsay-clancy-trial-evidence-defense-c0820645056a7e25f66853f3a91b61fa?

✈️ Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said the co-pilot involved in yesterday's attempted hijacking of a flight from Dubai to Israel underwent Islamic radicalization in recent months. More from Barak Ravid.

📰 WSJ: DOJ reviewing Nixon treatment Former President Nixon salutes during a 1968 campaign stop in El Paso. Photo: Bettmann/CORBIS/Bettmann Archive The Justice Department is "reviewing whether the special prosecutor's office that investigated the famed Watergate break-in committed misconduct," The Wall Street Journal reports. That comes after former Nixon aide Geoff Shepard "recently gave a two-hour presentation" at the DOJ on "his theory that the deep state took Nixon down," per the paper. 🧑‍⚖️ The WSJ reports: "Shepard has served as a sort of godfather for the Watergate revisionists." "His scholarship has unearthed a number of primary-source documents which he says show Nixon and his associates weren't treated fairly." A DOJ spokesperson tells Axios: "Given his expertise and scholarship on Watergate, [Shepard] was recently invited to give a presentation to [the Office of Professional Responsibility], but that presentation does not constitute an investigation." The big picture: Nixon is hot these days among some conservatives (especially "Nixonmaxxing" youth), who see parallels between his treatment and the investigations into President Trump. Gift link. ps:Just pathetic!!!!!

Hot new space experiments Illustration: Natalie Peeples/Axios Several futuristic space experiments launched into orbit aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket this afternoon, Alex Fitzpatrick reports. 🚀 Among the 130 payloads aboard the Transporter-18 "rideshare" mission: Google's MVP satellite, designed to test the concept of solar-powered data centers in space. (N.Y. Times gift link) Protostar, a satellite from startup Star Catcher meant to transmit energy to another satellite — to bear out the idea of an orbital power grid. (Go deeper.) Reason-1, a satellite from startup Cowboy Space designed to collect solar energy in space and beam it to Earth. 🔌 Cowboy Space founder and CEO Baiju Bhatt tells Axios that the idea is to provide power in places without an existing power grid — a kind of Starlink for energy — while also working toward orbital data centers. There are also potential military applications, Bhatt adds — powering high-endurance surveillance drones, for example. 🤔 Reality check: It's early days for all of these concepts, which have long existed on drawing boards and in sci-fi novels but have yet to be borne out. The big picture: It's a boom time for intriguing commercial efforts in Earth orbit, though SpaceX's plan to wind down its workhorse Falcon 9 rocket has left the space industry scrambling for launch alternatives. Go deeper.

New ICE guidance bans high-speed car chases and sets tighter rules for traffic stops, a memo shows U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers have been ordered not to engage in high-speed car chases and to make vehicle stops only if they have completed specific training, under new internal guidance issued after several drivers were shot in encounters with ICE. https://apnews.com/article/ice-officers-car-chases-vehicle-stops-training-ded50fcee99efab90e55e580250ba2ab?

Dual UK-Iranian national arrested over security incident at US-run air base in England LONDON (AP) — Police on Thursday arrested a dual U.K.-Iranian national on suspicion of plotting a terror attack following a security incident at a U.S.-run military air base in England that British authorities have linked to Tehran. https://apnews.com/article/arrest-raf-fairford-iran-uk-us-700446a74cd3107d2e16e75642431bf9? 🚔 British police have arrested a dual U.K.-Iranian national on suspicion of plotting a terror attack following a security incident at a U.S.-run air base. Go deeper.

Trump’s AI Goons Busted Committing Anti-American Blunder A new AI federal government portal is anything but American, the Daily Beast has uncovered. Donald Trump launched a new AI website on Tuesday intended to promote services provided by the federal government. America.gov boasts that it will improve “the citizen experience” at the culmination of “250 years of American progress” with a “modern interface worthy of the American people.” Americans, however, were apparently not worthy of featuring on the new website. A Daily Beast analysis of America.gov found that most of the photos on its home page actually depict families and individuals living happy lives in foreign countries. The Beast analysis found that, in the carousel of 11 photos on the chatbot’s page, at least six, and possibly more, were shot abroad, including in countries Trump has publicly railed against, and in China, which he publicly said he wants to beat in the artificial intelligence race. The America.gov site greets users with the words, “Hello, America. Whatever you need from government, start here.” It was launched by JD Vance in Washington, D.C., at an AI conference, which was overshadowed by Trump’s own AI event at the White House. Vance credited the work of Airbnb co-founder Joe Gebbia, who is now in charge of the White House’s “National Design Studio.” The vice president launched the website with a gaffe, saying that he had told Gebbia, “Don’t let it be a clusterf--- like America.gov.” He then had to explain that he actually meant the glitch-stricken Healthcare.gov, launched by President Barack Obama after the passage of Obamacare. America.gov offers artificial intelligence answers to questions about the federal government. Beneath the place to ask your questions is a sliding set of pictures which are supposed to match suggested questions, and apparently to show off the best of America. The only issue is that they show people living in Madrid, Warsaw, Beijing, Tallinn, and British Columbia. All cities with wonderful sights, no doubt. But not America. A photo of a young child in silhouette, with a case, looking plaintively at passengers boarding a plane could have been taken at one of the many airports across the United States. This one, however, is from Madrid, Spain. There is a man checking his phone as he makes his way down an escalator. The photo could have been taken in any U.S. city, but instead Trump’s lackeys opted for one in Warsaw, Poland.Another shot shows a boy jumping off rocks while his friends watch, a scene from childhoods all over America. This scene was from Salt Spring Island in British Columbia, Canada.A mother reads from a digital tablet to her daughter in a room lined with moving boxes. There’s a small chance they are moving to America, but the photo was definitely taken in Beijing.Of all the bicycle mechanics working in repair shops around the country, America.gov chose to picture one in Tallinn, Estonia.A young couple pictured inside a home could have come from anywhere. In fact, they were from Vigo, Spain.A beach scene of an elderly man with a metal detector looked remarkably like Wasaga Beach in Ontario, though we couldn’t be certain. Among those praised for the rollout of America.gov in Washington on Tuesday was Edward Coristine, 20, who was nicknamed “Big Balls” while working for Elon Musk’s DOGE during the early months of Trump’s second presidency.“The lead engineer, Ed Coristine, Ed, thank you,” the president said during the ceremony at the Mellon Auditorium. Trump added that the AI team had been “working 20-hour days in government on behalf of our country, and we salute them.” The president launched the National Design Studio, which employs Coristine and created America.gov, with an executive order in August, 2025. The Daily Beast has reached out to the White House for comment. Even the purchase of the six stock images confirmed to be non-American is hardly America First. One might have thought a U.S. company would provide the homepage photos, but they are licensed through Stocksy, based in Victoria, British Columbia, Canada. The company is hardly MAGA. Stocksy’s CEO, South African-educated Trace Cohen, has served as a board member of Phluid Project, a non-binary fashion brand grounded in community and activism, and Defy Ventures, a non-profit providing entrepreneurial training for incarcerated populations to prepare them for post-release work.The company’s team, like the photos they provide, reflects the world’s diversity, saying online that they are from countries including Canada, the U.K., South Africa, and Romania. https://www.thedailybeast.com/trump-goons-busted-flooding-americagov-with-pictures-that-arent-america/?

Trump Explodes in Foul-Mouthed Meltdown Over Telling Question The president went into full tantrum mode during an interview. President Donald Trump launched into a foul-mouthed tirade over a question about Mitch McConnell. TIME Magazine interviewed the president at the White House on Sept. 28. The topic of pardons came up before Senior Political Correspondent Eric Cortellessa and Editor-in-Chief Sam Jacobs moved on to questions about the Kentucky senator, who went AWOL for weeks before reemerging in a frail state. The 80-year-old president was asked whether he’d seen footage of McConnell on Capitol Hill, and whether he thinks the longtime lawmaker should resign because of his health issues. “It was a disappointment to a lot of Republicans,” Trump began to answer, before flipping back to the subject of pardons. “So that’s just—well, Sleepy Joe gave pardons to everybody. He gave them to [Chief Medical Adviser to the President, 2021 to 2022, Anthony] Fauci. He gave them to this. But you mean I’m not allowed to give them, but Sleepy Joe’s allowed to give them?” he said, growing clearly irate. Then his tantrum worsened, and he began to swear. According to a transcript of the interview, he said, “This ain’t gonna be much of a story. Here we are doing this. You haven’t asked me one f---ing positive question. All of this. What about this? What about that? What about that? What about this? All negative. Why are you devoting all this time to the White House?” He then made a plea for more credit. “You know how I do, I do that out of my back pocket. I pay for a lot of it, but I fix it because the White House should look like that. It shouldn’t look like—if you would have stood in that balcony and looked at that wall, half the wall was falling. It’s actually dangerous. “People are walking under, c--p was falling off it all the time. Every time it rained, it was leaking, horrible. Now it’s perfect, and I would say that I should be given credit for fixing the White House because I’m also doing very well with the war. I’m doing very well with another war that we already won, Venezuela. Do you notice you haven’t asked me a question about Venezuela?” “We did earlier,” one journalist responded. Trump snapped back, “No, no, I brought it up, and then you said—” “You beat us to it. But yeah,” the journalist responded, prompting another Trump rant. “No, but I’m just thinking to myself, fake news. But I have a lot of respect. I like the owner, good guy,” he said. The outlet is owned by billionaires Marc and Lynne Benioff. “But I don’t understand. I’m sitting here. I’ve done all this stuff. Look, this is nothing compared to what I’ve done, but I took the White House and made it beautiful again,” he continued, before turning to Chinese President Xi Jinping’s visit to the White House last week. “OK, and people look at it. People came up. President Xi looked at it two days ago. He said, ‘This is beautiful. Much better than I…’ He was here 25 years ago with [former president Barack...] Obama. Think Obama knows it? Obama would not. He doesn’t know if something’s dirty or clean.” Xi was not in D.C. with Obama 25 years ago. Obama was an Illinois state senator in 2001. The reporters changed the subject to Xi’s health, and Trump finally moved on. However, not for long. When discussing what he’ll miss about the White House when his term ends, he returned to his chagrin about the press. He said he’d miss the Oval Office, then added, “Well, I hope I get a decent story. I don’t think—you know, it’s hard to get a good story. Every question’s a hit. I don’t know what the hell’s wrong.” The easily rattled head of state has been on the warpath with the press and has lashed out at individual reporters lately, too. He took his beef with the media to new heights last month when he declared that CNN, Politico, and MS NOW would be banned from the White House. However, a judge issued a temporary order allowing the publications to return. In a post on Truth Social, Trump said that the outlets “constantly write or report fiction or lies” about his administration. Just last week, Trump snapped at a reporter for asking him about his attacks on the press. In a tense exchange outside the White House Saturday morning, Trump loomed over MS NOW’s Akayla Gardner and lashed out in response to her question. “Sir, do you only want outlets that support you to be a part of the press corps?” asked Gardner, who kept reporting from near the White House this week even after she was denied entry over Trump’s media ban. “I want real news, not fake news like you,” Trump replied, jabbing his finger at her and at one point telling her, “Quiet!” Trump has repeatedly lashed out at female reporters over questions he doesn’t like. He infamously said “quiet piggy” to Bloomberg News’ Catherine Lucey on Air Force One last year, and he has told others to be quiet and used his Truth Social platform to attack them by name. CNN’s star reporter Kaitlan Collins is a frequent punching bag for Trump. In fact, he brought her up unprompted during the TIME interview. He was asked about his White House ban on her employer, as well as Politico and MS NOW, and he moaned about being the target of their “fake news.” “So at a certain point, you say, ‘What’s the purpose of like this crazy Kaitlan Collins?’ She’s a very average person. She’s the most unhappy young person I’ve ever seen. If I did something spectacular by any standard, and they would write about it, they will only write badly.” https://www.thedailybeast.com/trump-explodes-in-foul-mouthed-meltdown-over-telling-question/? ps:What a pathetic foulmouthed criminal-in-chief!!!!!

The Health Benefits of Zinc Zinc is a trace mineral, which means you only need a very small amount of it daily. You can get this essential nutrient by eating a balanced diet, but sometimes you may need to take a zinc supplement. https://www.webmd.com/vitamins-and-supplements/what-to-know-about-benefits-of-zinc?

I fail to see why there is such opposition to W.O. in the SDA Church - this seems to be an extremely small potato type of thing compared to the SDA required belief that Christ could have sinned, lost his salvation and have become as if he never existed. It stuns me that W.O. creates such a passion within SDA people but the teaching that God is 3 separate beings that could, if it came to it, be eternally reduced to 1 or 2 beings doesn't even come up for discussion unless someone outside the organization brings it up.

A Mexican influencer, her partner and three kids were reportedly discovered shot to death in what is being investigated as a murder-suicide. Cinthia Abigail Tamez Rivera — a 34-year-old content creator known on TikTok as Cindy Tamez — and her 2-year-old son Gustavo were found dead at around 9:40 a.m. on Sept. 30 inside a Jeep in Montemorelos, Mexico, reported local outlets Reforma, Meganoticias, Milenio and El Financiero. Her two other children, Christian, 12, and Bruno, 11, as well as her partner, Leodegario Moya, were also found shot to death at their home three blocks away, the outlets also reported. Tamez maintained a following of over 71,000 on TikTok, where she was known for sharing her fashion and dispatches from her life in Mexico. According to the Attorney General’s Office of Nuevo León, prosecutors believe that Tamez killed her three children and her partner before dying by suicide, though authorities are still collecting and analyzing evidence in the case, including from a recovered firearm and security footage, per Reforma, Meganoticias, Milenio and El Financiero. Tamez shared her final post to her account on Sept. 30, the same day she was reportedly found dead. “Not everyone knows my s---- side,” she wrote in Spanish text overlaying a video of a car dashboard. “I am capable of burning down my house just to see the neighbor’s burning, even knowing that I’ll get f---ed too.”

For the last 50 or so years, the leadership has all been college educated. I have to wonder what effect this had on ministry. What if the qualification for ministry was only a H.S. diploma and 4 years missionary experience? I think we would have a different looking church.

SBC Disfellowships 2 Churches at February Executive Committee Meeting for Appointing Women as Pastors What the Disfellowship of Saddleback Church from the SBC Really Means | Christian Research Network

Renee Good’s family sues US government and immigration officials over her killing in Minneapolis MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Renee Good’s family sued the U.S. government and the architects of President Donald Trump’s immigration crackdown Thursday, saying “the time is absolutely now for accountability” for her killing in January by a federal agent in Minneapolis. https://apnews.com/article/renee-good-lawsuit-6fbc82cd33b6f9f67514b47f138e23c6? DC judge permanently dismisses case charging ex-Olympian with vandalizing Reflecting Pool WASHINGTON (AP) — A judge in the nation’s capital agreed on Thursday to permanently dismiss a criminal case charging a former Olympian with vandalizing the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool, a move that could prevent federal prosecutors from reviving the case under political pressure from President Donald Trump. https://apnews.com/article/trump-reflecting-pool-olympian-david-hearn-8404849d27c85e210cc5a895c150645a?