VOGUE MAGAZINE HAS RELEASED IT’S OCTOBER DIGITAL EDITION –

WITH VICE PRESIDENT KAMALA HARRIS FEATURED ON ITS COVER.)

THIS STORY – GENERATING OTHER HEADLINES –

OVER VOGUE’S PROFILE ON HARRIS.

VOGUE IS A LEFT-LEANING OUTLET.

AS IS THE GUARDIAN.

FOX NEWS AND THE NATIONAL REVIEW – ARE RIGHT-LEANING NEWS OUTLETS.

THE MAGAZINE’S FEATURE OF HARRIS INCLUDES MORE THAN 20 INTERVIEWS OF HARRIS ASSOCIATES –

INCLUDING FORMER HOUSE SPEAKER NANCY PELOSI.

A RANGE OF ISSUES ARE DISCUSSED – FROM REPRODUCTIVE RIGHTS – TO THE ISRAEL-HAMAS WAR.

THE ARTICLE ALSO TOOK AIM AT FORMER PRESIDENT TRUMP.

AN EXCERPT READING “It happens only rarely that individuals are summoned overnight for acts of national rescue, but in late July Kamala Harris received one of those calls. The presidential race had taken shape as one of the most consequential in history. Voters who remembered the troubles of the first Trump presidency…saw an incipient emergency.”

THE PROFILE FEATURE BY VOGUE RECEIVED CRITICISM BY BOTH LEFT AND RIGHT LEANING NEWS OUTLETS – FOR DIFFERENT REASONS.

THE GUARDIAN’S SUBHEADLINE READING “LENGTHY PROFILE OFFERS LITTLE NEW ON POLICY.”

AND REITERATED WITHIN THE ARTICLE –

“the accompanying 8,000-word profile elicited little new about Harris’s policy positions if she is elected in November.”

MEANWHILE THE CRITICISM LARGELY COMING FROM RIGHT-LEANING NEWS OUTLETS – FOCUSES ON THE PHOTOS MORE SO THAN THE WORDS.

SPECIFICALLY – WHEN THE PHOTOS WERE TAKEN.

THE NATIONAL REVIEW’S COVERAGE OF THE VOGUE FEATURE STARTS WITH THIS. 

On the anniversary of Hamas’s mass civilian slaughter, Vice President Kamala Harris spent some of her time at a glamorous photoshoot for an adoring Vogue profile.

FOX NEWS SAYS –

The magazine photographed Harris for the profile on Monday as Hurricane Milton bore down on Florida.

VOGUE ENDORSED VICE PRESIDENT HARRIS FOR PRESIDENT BACK IN JULY –

TWO DAYS AFTER PRESIDENT JOE BIDEN DROPPED OUT OF THE RACE.

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[KARAH RUCKER]

STARBUCKS IS FACING ACCUSATIONS THAT COULD COST IT TENS OF MILLIONS OF DOLLARS.

THE NATIONAL LABOR RELATIONS BOARD ACCUSED THE COFFEE CHAIN THURSDAY OF CUTTING WORKERS HOURS AT NEARLY 300 UNIONIZED STORES WITHOUT CONSULTING UNION OFFICIALS.

ONCE A BUSINESS IS UNIONIZED IT’S TYPICALLY ILLEGAL FOR EMPLOYERS TO CHANGE PAY OR SCHEDULING WITHOUT NEGOTIATING FIRST.

FEDERAL OFFICIALS REQUEST STARBUCKS PAY THE WAGES AND BENEFITS OWED TO THE EMPLOYEES IF THEIR HOURS HAD NOT BEEN SLASHED.

LAWYERS SAY SOME WORKERS LOST HEALTH CARE AND OTHER BENEFITS AS A RESULT OF THE REDUCED HOURS.

AS MANY AS EIGHT THOUSAND EMPLOYEES COULD BE COVERED IN THE COMPLAINT THAT COVERS LATE 2022 AND EARLY 2023. DAMAGES COULD REPORTEDLY BE MORE THAN 30 MILLION DOLLARS.

WHEN THE LABOR BOARD FILES A COMPLAINT IT REPORTEDLY SHOWS THE FEDS FOUND MERIT WITH WORKERS COMPLAINTS AND A TRIAL COULD ENSUE UNLESS A SETTLEMENT IS REACHED.

STARBUCKS HAS NOT RESPONDED TO THE COMPLAINT AS OF THE PUBLISHING OF THIS REPORT.

EMPLOYEES OF STARBUCKS HAVE ACCUSED THE COMPANY IN THE PAST OF BEING ANTI-UNION AND USING UNDERHANDED TACTICS TO PREVENT UNIONIZING BY EMPLOYEES.

WORKERS AT 500 STARBUCKS NATIONWIDE HAVE JOINED THE WORKERS UNITED UNION SINCE 2021.

THE COMPANY AND UNION ARE REPORTEDLY MAKING GROUND TOWARD A COLLECTIVE BARGAINING AGREEMENT.

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FOR STRAIGHT ARROW NEWS– I’M KARAH RUCKER.

[Lauren Taylor]

AUTHORITIES IN CALIFORNIA CONTINUE TO HIGHLIGHT THE PERSISTENT EFFORTS OF CRIMINALS TO DISTRIBUTE FENTANYL.

THIS WEEK WE LEARNED OF SIGNIFICANT SEIZURES ON INTERSTATE FIVE IN THE CENTRAL VALLEY.

CALIFORNIA HIGHWAY PATROL OFFICERS MADE TWO CRITICAL TRAFFIC STOPS RESULTING IN THE SEIZURE OF 120-THOUSAND FENTANYL-LACED PILLS AND 11 POUNDS OF FENTANYL VALUED AT ONE-POINT-SEVEN-MILLION-DOLLARS.

IN ONE OF THESE STOPS, ON OCTOBER 3RD IN FRESNO COUNTY, A C-H-P CANINE UNIT WAS ALERTED OF NARCOTICS HIDDEN IN A COOLER.

INSIDE THE COOLER, AUTHORITIES DISCOVERED PACKAGES OF RAW BEEF USED TO CONCEAL 11 POUNDS OF FENTANYL, WORTH ABOUT 500-THOUSAND-DOLLARS. 

THE SUSPECT, A RESIDENT OF WASHINGTON STATE, WAS ARRESTED AND BOOKED ON FELONY CHARGES.

AND JUST A DAY LATER, IN MERCED COUNTY, ANOTHER C-H-P CANINE OFFICER MADE A DISCOVERY–120-THOUSAND FENTANYL-LACED PILLS AND TWO HANDGUNS DURING A ROUTINE TRAFFIC STOP IN LOS BANOS. TWO MORE SUSPECTS, ALSO FROM WASHINGTON STATE, WERE ARRESTED ON MULTIPLE FELONY CHARGES.

THESE OPERATIONS ARE PART OF CALIFORNIA’S BROADER EFFORT TO COMBAT THE FENTANYL CRISIS, WITH GOVERNOR NEWSOM RAMPING UP ENFORCEMENT AND PREVENTION MEASURES, INCLUDING EXPANDING THE NATIONAL GUARD’S COUNTERDRUG TASK FORCE. 

SINCE JANUARY, THE TASK FORCE HAS SEIZED OVER FIVE-THOUSAND POUNDS OF FENTANYL POWDER AND NEARLY TEN-MILLION PILLS.

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[LAUREN TAYLOR]

A CLAUDE MONET PAINTING STOLEN BY THE NAZIS HAS BEEN RETURNED TO THE JEWISH FAMILY IT WAS TAKEN FROM DURING WORLD WAR 2.

THE FBI MAKING IT HAPPEN AFTER THE PASTEL WORK RESURFACED DECADES LATER. 

[FRANCOISE PARLAGI]

“WE DIDN’T, WE COULD NOT BELIEVE IT. WE WOULDN’T HAVE BELIEVED IT, BUT MORE AND MORE, AS WE IN PROGRESS, WE HAD TO SAY WELL SOMETHING MAY HAPPEN IN THE END. THERE MAY BE A HAPPY ENDING TO THE WHOLE THING AND NOW WE’RE STILL, I MEAN, CAN’T BELIEVE IT, BUT IT’S HAPPENING.”

[LAUREN TAYLOR]

THE ORIGINAL OWNERS, A JEWISH COUPLE IN AUSTRIA – WERE FORCED TO FLEE THEIR HOME TO ESCAPE THE GERMAN INVASION IN 1938. 

THE NAZIS LOOTED THE WAREHOUSE IT WAS STORED IN, EVENTUALLY SELLING OFF THE PAINTING. 

[FRANCOISE PARLAGI]

“THE NAZIS SOLD IT AT AUCTION HOUSES AT THE TIME AS THEY DID WITH MANY OTHER JEWISH PROPERTY, YEAH, BELONGING TO FAMILIES.”

[LAUREN TAYLOR]

THAT WOULD SPUR A DECADES-LONG SEARCH BY THE FAMILY.

[FRANCOISE PARLAGI]

“NOBODY KNEW WHERE IT WAS. THE GOVERNMENT, THE AUSTRIAN GOVERNMENT AFTER THE WAR DIDN’’T COLLABORATE WITH MY GRANDFATHER TRYING TO SEARCH. IT WAS ALL, IT WAS LOOTED, IT WAS SEIZED, IT WAS BELONGED TO THEM.”

[LAUREN TAYLOR]

MORE THAN 70 YEARS LATER – THE PAINTING RESURFACED AT AN EXHIBITION IN FRANCE IN 2016.

FROM THERE – A NEW ORLEANS BASED ANTIQUITIES DEALER PURCHASED IT, LATER SELLING IT TO A COUPLE IN WASHINGTON STATE.

THAT COUPLE LISTED IT FOR SALE BUT AGREED TO SURRENDER IT TO THE FBI AFTER LEARNING OF ITS LOOTED HISTORY. 

THE PIECE WAS REUNITED WITH ITS PRE-WAR OWNER’S THIS WEEK.

[HELEN LOWE]

“AND TO HAVE THE FEELING THAT GRANDFATHER’S WATCHING SOMEHOW AND THAT HE WOULD BE SO, SO PROUD OF THIS MOMENT.”

[LAUREN TAYLOR]

THE FAMILY IS STILL SEARCHING FOR SIX OTHER ARTWORKS, INCLUDING A SIGNED WATERCOLOR BY PAUL SIGNAC CALLED SEINE IN PARIS, AND THE F-B-I CONTINUES TO HELP WITH THE INVESTIGATION.

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Lauren Taylor

TORONTO-DOMINION BANK, COMMONLY KNOWN AS T-D BANK IS IN THE CROSSHAIRS OF THE U-S JUSTICE DEPARTMENT.

THE MULTI-NATIONAL COMPANY IS ON THE HOOK TO PAY 3 *BILLION* DOLLARS IN FINES AFTER PLEADING GUILTY IN A MASSIVE MONEY-LAUNDERING SCHEME. 

ONE-POINT-EIGHT BILLION WILL GO TO THE JUSTICE DEPARTMENT AND ONE-POINT-THREE BILLION WILL GO TO THE TREASURY DEPARTMENT. 

FEDERAL OFFICIALS SAY MORE THAN 670 MILLION DOLLARS WAS FUNNELED THROUGH T-D BANK ACCOUNTS BY CRIMINAL DRUG CARTELS OVER THE PAST SIX YEARS.

IN ONE INSTANCE, MONEY LAUNDERERS BRIBED BANK WORKERS WITH 57-THOUSAND DOLLARS WORTH OF GIFT CARDS TO NOT REPORT THEIR DEPOSITS. 

“TD Bank became the largest bank in U.S. history to plead guilty to Bank Secrecy Act program failures and the first bank in history to plead guilty to conspiracy to commit money laundering.”

INVESTIGATORS SAY T-D BANK FAILED TO MONITOR 90 PERCENT OF ITS TRANSACTIONS – POINTING TO A HUGE LACK OF OVERSIGHT. 

THE C-E-O OF T-D BANK ISSUED AN APOLOGY … SAYING THEY WILL MAKE THE NECESSARY CHANGES TO RAMP UP MONEY-LAUNDERING SURVEILLANCE.

FOR SAN I’M … LAUREN TAYLOR. 

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[Lauren Taylor]

FORMER PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP HAS NOT PLAYED A ROUND OF GOLF SINCE HIS LAST ASSASSINATION ATTEMPT ON SEPTEMBER 15TH. THAT’S WHEN TRUMP WAS PLAYING GOLF AT TRUMP INTERNATIONAL GOLF COURSE IN WEST PALM BEACH, FLORIDA AND A SECRET SERVICE AGENT SPOTTED THE BARREL OF A RIFLE STICKING OUT FROM THE TREE LINE.

RYAN WESLEY ROUTH IS FACING CHARGES FOR THE ATTEMPTED ASSASSINATION.

IT WAS ALSO THE SECOND ATTEMPT ON THE FORMER PRESIDENT’S LIFE IN A TWO-MONTH SPAN.

ON JULY 13^TH, TRUMP WAS SHOT IN THE EAR WHILE GIVING A SPEECH ON STAGE IN BUTLER, PENNSYLVANIA DURING A CAMPAIGN RALLY.

THE SUSPECT IN THAT CASE WAS SHOT DEAD BY A COUNTER-SNIPER TEAM.

ALTHOUGH TRUMP HAS RECEIVED HEIGHTENED PROTECTION SINCE THE ATTEMPTED ASSASSINATIONS, FEDERAL AGENTS TOLD TRUMP THEY COULD NOT ENSURE HIS SAFETY AT HIS GOLF COURSES WHICH ARE VERY CLOSE TO PUBLIC ROADS, NBC NEWS REPORTS.

IF TRUMP DOES NOT PLAY GOLF UNTIL AFTER THE ELECTION ON NOVEMBER 5^TH, IT’LL BE THE LONGEST TIME HE’S GONE WITHOUT PLAYING THE GAME SINCE THE PANDEMIC.

A NEW REPORT FROM THE WORLD WILDLIFE FUND SAYS OUR PLANET IS EXPERIENCING A CATASTROPHIC LOSS IN BIODIVERSITY.

BUT SOME EXPERTS ARE QUESTIONING THE FINDINGS , AND SAY THE CRISIS ISN’T AS SEVERE AS THE W-W-F ASSERTS.

THE ENVIRONMENTAL GROUP’S 20-24 LIVING PLANET REPORT CLAIMS THAT WILDLIFE POPULATIONS ACROSS THE GLOBE HAVE SEEN AN AVERAGE DECLINE OF 73 PERCENT OVER THE PAST 50 YEARS.

WITH THE STEEPEST LOSSES RECORDED IN LATIN AMERICA AND THE CARIBBEAN, WHERE POPULATIONS HAVE PLUMMETED BY 95 PERCENT.

THE REPORT, WHICH TRACKS NEARLY 35,000 VERTEBRATE SPECIES, WARNS THAT MANY ECOSYSTEMS ARE APPROACHING DANGEROUS TIPPING POINTS.

HOWEVER, SOME RESEARCHERS HAVE REFERRED TO THE STUDY’S FINDINGS AS MISLEADING.

THEY DON’T DISPUTE THAT THE WORLD’S WILDLIFE POPULATIONS ARE INDEED SEEING ACCELERATED EXTINCTION RATES-

JUST NOT AT THE PACE CLAIMED BY THE W-W-F.

A TEAM AT THE CENTER FOR THEORETICAL STUDY IN THE CZECH REPUBLIC BELIEVES THE REPORT RELIES ON FLAWED CALCULATIONS TO ARRIVE AT ITS CONCLUSIONS.

THEY SAY THESE FLAWS BIAS THE INDEX IN A WAY THAT MAKES THE LOSS OF MANY ANIMAL SPECIES APPEAR TO BE MUCH MORE RAPID THAN THEY TRULY ARE.

ONE EXPERT RAISED CONCERNS ABOUT LEADING ENVIRONMENTALISTS EXAGGERATING WILDLIFE DECLINES IN THIS FASHION.

SAYING TO VOX IT COULD ULTIMATELY ERODE TRUST AMONG THE PUBLIC, MAKING ACTION ON WHAT IS STILL A REAL PROBLEM EVEN HARDER TO ACHIEVE.

JACK AYLMER – STRAIGHT ARROW NEWS.

Elon Musk’s recent political tweets are NOW impacting SpaceX’s ability to launch MORE rockets from California’s central coast.

THE CALIFORNIA COASTAL COMMISSION REJECTED a proposal from the Air Force that would have allowed SpaceX to launch up to 50 rockets a year from Vandenberg Air Force Base in Santa Barbara County.

ONE OF THE REASONS BEHIND THE REJECTION?

APPARENTLY HOW MUSK BEHAVES ONLINE.

IN THE MEETING DISCUSSING THE AIR FORCE’S PROPOSAL – 

Commissioner Gretchen Newsom expressed serious concerns OVER MUSK’S SOCIAL MEDIA POSTS.

SAYING “Elon Musk is hopping about the country, spewing and tweeting political falsehoods and attacking FEMA while claiming his desire to help the hurricane victims with free Starlink access to the internet.”

WHILE THE COMMISSIONER DIDN’T HOLD BACK CRITICISM OF THE SPACE X OWNER –

Karah Rucker

THE COMMISSION CITED OTHER REASONS TO REEL IN SPACE X LAUNCHES OFF CALIFORNIA’S COAST.

PRIMARILY – CATEGORIZING SPACE-X LAUNCHES AS MILITARY ONES.

WHICH ALLOWS THE COMPANY TO BYPASS RULES FOR ENVIRONMENTAL PERMITS.

THE clash between the Coastal Commission and the Space Force isn’t new.

THE DISPUTE IS LARGELY OVER THE COMMISSION WANTING MORE TO BE DONE BY THE AGENCY TO PROTECT THE BEACHES AND NEARBY WILDLIFE.

LAST YEAR THE DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE ASKED TO INCREASE SpaceX’s launches from six to 36 per year. 

THE COMMISSION WAS RESISTANT – BUT ULTIMATELY APPROVED THE LAUNCHES WITH A LIST OF RECOMMENDATIONS FOR ENVIRONMENT SAFETY.

AHEAD OF THIS WEEK’S MEETING LOOKING TO UP THE NUMBER OF LAUNCHES TO 50 –

THE AIR FORCE SAID IT WOULD MEET THE COMMISSIONS CONDITIONS –

WHICH INCLUDES REDUCING SONIC BOOMS – AND INCREASING WILDLIFE MONITORING.

FOR THE COMMISSION – THAT WASN’T ENOUGH –

VOTING 6 TO 4 TO DENY THE REQUEST –

WITH SEVERAL MEMBERS EXPRESSING CONCERNS OVER THE MAN BEHIND THE SPACE X MISSION –

CITING MUSK’S RECENT INVOLVEMENT IN THE PRESIDENTIAL RACE IN THEIR DISSENT.

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