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Their win came with another first… during the seven-game series, neither team won a game at their home stadium.

President Trump was awarded the Bipartisan Justice Award at a forum at Benedict College for his leadership in passing the First Step Act and, no, it was not bipartisanly received well.

Microsoft won a $10 billion cloud-computing contract from the Pentagon called JEDI. The contract was expected to go to Amazon, and yes, $10 billion is a lot of money even to those companies.

Prince Harry and Duchess Meghan released a documentary about their trip to South Africa. It shows how the first year of marriage can be even more difficult when the world is watching... shocking.

In 2018, The House implemented new #MeToo rules for members of Congress, including prohibiting relationships with their staff. Over the weekend, Katie Hill, a female freshman Democrat from California resigned for violating the new rules. Safe to say, not the typical culprit.

The two fires have already destroyed tens of thousands of acres, 100+ buildings, and forced almost 200,000 people (including two hospitals) to evacuate. The fires are continuing to grow because of “unprecedented” wind. If you’re in California, take this seriously.

The rest of California has been left in the dark - literally. Power company PG&E cut the power to almost 1 million homes to prevent sparking a 3rd fire... so in addition to fearing an evacuation notice, people are being forced to quickly finish their milk and yogurt in the dark.

California’s governor declared a statewide emergency as Kincade Fire rages in the north and Tick Fire picks up steam (smoke?) in the south.

An awesome display of sportsmanship: an opposing team’s soccer players stopped play and huddled around a player to give her privacy as she fixed her hijab.

Zuckerberg promised to wait for US regulatory approval before launching Libra (cryptocurrency), after a lawmaker asked that Facebook not implement its internal strategy of “move fast and break things” with the international monetary system. A reasonable request.

President Trump announced that he was lifting sanctions from Turkey as they have reached a “permanent” ceasefire with the Syrian Kurds.

As we read about the constant unrest in the Middle East, our solution is to listen to ya boi Paul

Companies are releasing Q3 earnings: Tesla (silently, because of electricity) zoomed up 17%, Amazon dove 9%, Paypal killed it, Boeing did poorly… but no worse than expected.

Medina, Washington is home to both Jeff Bezos and Bill & Melina Gates… and yet the city is running out of money. Weird how some things happen.

God wants to give us everything that HE wants for us.

Over 2,000 people have been ordered to evacuate Northern California as a wildfire rages. It seems the planned blackouts did not protect wine country from catching fire.

The Google brainiacs claim to have a working quantum computer that completed a calculation in ~3 minutes that would take the best supercomputer 10,000 years. IBM is not so sure, saying a current computer could do the calculation in 2.5 days. . Get the lowdown in our latest email