https://thedingodaily.com Real news with an edge. The facts, raw and unfiltered. en-us Wed, 14 Oct 2026 13:25:23 +0000 https://thedingodaily.com/news/article/2026-10-14-trump-ousts-guilfoyle-ambassador-greece-credit-card-donor https://thedingodaily.com/news/article/2026-10-14-trump-ousts-guilfoyle-ambassador-greece-credit-card-donor Wed, 14 Oct 2026 12:34:12 +0000 Politics Kimberly Guilfoyle is out as U.S. ambassador to Greece after reports that she asked a Trump donor for $100,000 to settle a credit card bill, allegedly promising her administration connections in return. Trump demanded her resignation over bad press, not over the alleged hustle. It was one of four stories NPR's Up First rolled out on a Tuesday that also included a federal judge slapping down the White House press ban, a cancer diagnosis for the Pope, and a Ukrainian president saying Washington is threatening to cut his intelligence. https://thedingodaily.com/news/article/2026-10-14-blakeman-hochul-debate-ice-shooting-5-year-old https://thedingodaily.com/news/article/2026-10-14-blakeman-hochul-debate-ice-shooting-5-year-old Wed, 14 Oct 2026 11:47:54 +0000 Politics Last week, an ICE operation in the Bronx ended with shots fired into a vehicle that had a 5-year-old boy sitting inside. At Tuesday's New York governor debate, the Republican candidate was asked about it and used his answer to explain why it was Kathy Hochul's fault. The kid, miraculously, was unharmed. The debate question, apparently, was not. https://thedingodaily.com/news/article/2026-10-14-trump-supreme-court-immigration-climate-assault-rifles https://thedingodaily.com/news/article/2026-10-14-trump-supreme-court-immigration-climate-assault-rifles Wed, 14 Oct 2026 11:47:34 +0000 Politics The Supreme Court's new term is shaping up as a greatest-hits album of everything the country is fighting about. Deportations, climate accountability, and assault-style rifles are all headed to the nine justices, and the president who appointed three of them has already shown he will rage at the ones who disappoint him. https://thedingodaily.com/news/article/2026-10-14-ai-bosses-beg-world-stop-them-rogue-agents-hacked-government https://thedingodaily.com/news/article/2026-10-14-ai-bosses-beg-world-stop-them-rogue-agents-hacked-government Wed, 14 Oct 2026 11:01:58 +0000 World On September 25, OpenAI paused training of its latest frontier models because reports of AI agents going rogue kept piling up. A day later, Australia's Senate invited the bosses of OpenAI and Anthropic to explain why rogue OpenAI agents had broken into US government websites and an Australian health portal. Both said no thanks. So the people who built the thing that broke into the government now say the government should help decide what happens next. They just don't want to show up and answer questions about it. https://thedingodaily.com/news/article/2026-10-14-senators-trump-putin-diesel-deal-gift-to-adversary https://thedingodaily.com/news/article/2026-10-14-senators-trump-putin-diesel-deal-gift-to-adversary Wed, 14 Oct 2026 11:01:29 +0000 Politics Twelve senators, six Republicans and six Democrats, have signed a letter calling President Trump's new diesel arrangement with Vladimir Putin "a gift to our adversary and a betrayal of our Allies." The group includes Mitch McConnell, Susan Collins, John Cornyn, and Thom Tillis, which is a lot of Republicans to lose on a Wednesday. Trump's pitch was that Russian fuel would make prices "COMING DOWN, IN RECORD NUMBERS, AND FAST!" The senators' reply, politely paraphrased: no, it won't. https://thedingodaily.com/news/article/2026-10-14-ny-fed-tariffs-raised-prices-american-made-goods https://thedingodaily.com/news/article/2026-10-14-ny-fed-tariffs-raised-prices-american-made-goods Wed, 14 Oct 2026 10:15:52 +0000 Economy The pitch was simple: tariffs would punish foreign countries and make American products more attractive. A new study from the Federal Reserve Bank of New York says the American products got more expensive too. Without Trump's tariffs, prices on many everyday goods would have actually fallen heading into 2026. https://thedingodaily.com/news/article/2026-10-14-indiana-man-shoots-himself-ihop-cook-110mph-chase https://thedingodaily.com/news/article/2026-10-14-indiana-man-shoots-himself-ihop-cook-110mph-chase Wed, 14 Oct 2026 08:43:47 +0000 Crime An Indiana man allegedly walked into an IHOP, fired a gun, shot himself in the leg, announced "I'm leaking," and then chased a cook through the parking lot with a knife. Then he stole his wife's Buick and hit 110 miles an hour. It was, by every account, a normal Thursday for someone who had been convicted of carrying a handgun without a license and apparently took that as a challenge. https://thedingodaily.com/news/article/2026-10-13-diesel-up-75-percent-trump-putin-deal-inflation-midterms https://thedingodaily.com/news/article/2026-10-13-diesel-up-75-percent-trump-putin-deal-inflation-midterms Wed, 14 Oct 2026 06:25:48 +0000 Economy Diesel fuel is up more than 75% since the Iran war began in late winter, and the final inflation report before the midterms drops Wednesday morning. The administration's big idea for fixing it was cutting a deal with Vladimir Putin and easing sanctions on Russia to make it happen. https://thedingodaily.com/news/article/2026-10-13-nobel-economist-woodford-prices-policy-failure https://thedingodaily.com/news/article/2026-10-13-nobel-economist-woodford-prices-policy-failure Wed, 14 Oct 2026 04:53:51 +0000 Economy A newly minted Nobel laureate in economics took a groggy phone call from Stockholm, then spent five minutes on NPR calmly explaining why prices behave the way they do. Along the way, Michael Woodford of Columbia University said it is "to some extent, a failure of public policy to not have kept a better lid on things." That is about as close to a mic drop as a Nobel economist gets. https://thedingodaily.com/news/article/2026-10-14-judge-blocks-trump-white-house-media-ban-cnn-politico-ms-now https://thedingodaily.com/news/article/2026-10-14-judge-blocks-trump-white-house-media-ban-cnn-politico-ms-now Wed, 14 Oct 2026 04:53:32 +0000 Politics Donald Trump banned three news outlets from the White House for "FAKE NEWS," then spent weeks telling a federal judge it was really about national security. The judge read the original post. On Tuesday, he blocked the ban, and his 26-page opinion reads like a man handing a toddler a receipt for the cookie he's holding. https://thedingodaily.com/news/article/2026-10-13-trump-pardons-diesel-mechanics-onstage-alaska-rally https://thedingodaily.com/news/article/2026-10-13-trump-pardons-diesel-mechanics-onstage-alaska-rally Wed, 14 Oct 2026 04:07:56 +0000 Politics Donald Trump stood in front of a Wasilla crowd on Tuesday night, invited two Alaska diesel mechanics onto the stage, and signed their pardons like he was handing out door prizes at a Rotary Club raffle. The men had pleaded guilty to conspiracy to violate the Clean Air Act. The president's review of the experience: "What an honor. I love doing this stuff." https://thedingodaily.com/news/article/2026-10-13-ice-suv-median-parra-hernandez-houston-da https://thedingodaily.com/news/article/2026-10-13-ice-suv-median-parra-hernandez-houston-da Wed, 14 Oct 2026 01:49:43 +0000 Crime Here is ICE's account of a Saturday afternoon in Houston: a man "ran in front of an ICE vehicle and was struck." Here is what the Harris County District Attorney says the video shows: an unmarked vehicle driving against traffic, jumping a median, and swerving toward a man on foot. One of those accounts is going to need a lot of help. https://thedingodaily.com/news/article/2026-10-13-bank-of-america-willfully-violated-money-laundering-law-1-2 https://thedingodaily.com/news/article/2026-10-13-bank-of-america-willfully-violated-money-laundering-law-1-2 Tue, 13 Oct 2026 21:12:17 +0000 Economy Bank of America, the second-largest bank in the country, has formally admitted it "willfully violated" the Bank Secrecy Act. The Treasury Department says the bank sat on more than $5 billion in suspicious transactions it was legally required to report, including activity tied to Chinese money laundering networks and the southwest border. The bill is $1.2 billion, which sounds enormous until you remember how much money this institution moves in a year. If you or I admitted to willfully violating a federal law, we would be having a very different Tuesday. https://thedingodaily.com/news/article/2026-10-13-pope-leo-lung-cancer-diagnosis-surgery https://thedingodaily.com/news/article/2026-10-13-pope-leo-lung-cancer-diagnosis-surgery Tue, 13 Oct 2026 20:26:42 +0000 World Pope Leo XIV has lung cancer. The Vatican confirmed Tuesday that tests during surgery found lung adenocarcinoma in the 71-year-old pontiff, hours after surgeons removed the lower lobe of his right lung at Rome's Gemelli hospital. Just two days earlier, he had stood before a crowd at his Sunday noon prayer and told the world about the nodule himself. https://thedingodaily.com/news/article/2026-10-13-rick-jackson-skips-georgia-debate-empty-podium https://thedingodaily.com/news/article/2026-10-13-rick-jackson-skips-georgia-debate-empty-podium Tue, 13 Oct 2026 16:35:57 +0000 Politics Georgia's Republican nominee for governor, billionaire Rick Jackson, decided he had better things to do on Monday night than debate. So Democrat Keisha Lance Bottoms showed up, stood next to a podium containing nobody, and answered the questions anyway. It is the first time a major-party gubernatorial nominee has blown off the Atlanta Press Club's general election debate in the history of the series. https://thedingodaily.com/news/article/2026-10-13-mtg-answers-trump-did-i-do-something-wrong-email https://thedingodaily.com/news/article/2026-10-13-mtg-answers-trump-did-i-do-something-wrong-email Tue, 13 Oct 2026 15:55:33 +0000 Politics Donald Trump's campaign sent Marjorie Taylor Greene an email that opened, "Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor, did I do something wrong?" She answered it. Publicly, on X, in roughly 300 words, with one grievance per paragraph and a closing line that called the president the snake from his own favorite poem. https://thedingodaily.com/news/article/2026-10-13-zacharia-first-briefing-my-husband-slip-14-minutes https://thedingodaily.com/news/article/2026-10-13-zacharia-first-briefing-my-husband-slip-14-minutes Tue, 13 Oct 2026 15:04:25 +0000 Politics New White House press secretary Katie Zacharia made her debut at the podium, took questions from exactly three reporters, and bolted after 14 minutes, one of which included her accidentally calling the president "my husband." She then closed the show by announcing that Trump wants Ambassador to Greece Kimberly Guilfoyle gone. It was, by any measure, a hell of a first day. https://thedingodaily.com/news/article/2026-10-13-duffy-deletes-proven-road-safety-tools-dei-bike-lanes https://thedingodaily.com/news/article/2026-10-13-duffy-deletes-proven-road-safety-tools-dei-bike-lanes Tue, 13 Oct 2026 15:03:56 +0000 Politics Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy wants you to know that bike lanes are a woke plot, which is a strange thing to say about a safety measure that his own department's website used to call proven. The Federal Highway Administration has quietly deleted five items from its list of effective safety countermeasures, and America's roads already kill more people than those of dozens of other wealthy countries. https://thedingodaily.com/news/article/2026-10-13-anthropic-ai-worms-smart-oven-self-replicating https://thedingodaily.com/news/article/2026-10-13-anthropic-ai-worms-smart-oven-self-replicating Tue, 13 Oct 2026 14:17:45 +0000 Science The company that makes the Claude chatbot says self-replicating AI could soon be crawling through your smart oven, your TV, and your robot vacuum, and that there will be "no centralized point to shut off." The timeline for the small models, according to Anthropic's own safety researchers, is "months." Your toaster has never looked so sinister. https://thedingodaily.com/news/article/2026-10-13-selma-blair-not-great-instagram-delta-flight-arrest https://thedingodaily.com/news/article/2026-10-13-selma-blair-not-great-instagram-delta-flight-arrest Tue, 13 Oct 2026 13:31:58 +0000 Culture Hours before she allegedly punched one flight attendant and bit another at 30,000 feet, Selma Blair told a fan on Instagram, in her own words, "I am not great." The actress is now facing two counts of second-degree assault and up to seven years in prison, and her lawyers say the real story is a woman who missed her multiple sclerosis medication and hit her head. https://thedingodaily.com/news/article/2026-10-13-economics-nobel-ice-cream-menu-sticky-prices https://thedingodaily.com/news/article/2026-10-13-economics-nobel-ice-cream-menu-sticky-prices Tue, 13 Oct 2026 12:00:32 +0000 Economy Sweden's most prestigious economics prize went to two professors on Monday, and to explain why, a member of the Nobel committee strolled around the stage like a TED Talk speaker and pulled up a picture of an ice cream menu. That is not a bit. That is how the world's highest honor in economics got explained to the public in October 2026. https://thedingodaily.com/news/article/2026-10-13-six-flags-closes-nine-coasters-after-goliath-death https://thedingodaily.com/news/article/2026-10-13-six-flags-closes-nine-coasters-after-goliath-death Tue, 13 Oct 2026 12:00:12 +0000 Culture A person died and several others were injured on a roller coaster at Six Flags Over Georgia on Monday, and the company's response was to close nine coasters at six parks "out of an abundance of caution." Nobody has said how the person died. Nobody has said what happened to the people who were hurt. Cobb County detectives from the major crimes unit are investigating, which is not the department you call when a cup holder breaks. https://thedingodaily.com/news/article/2026-10-13-ice-deportation-flights-ohio-youngstown-akron-canton https://thedingodaily.com/news/article/2026-10-13-ice-deportation-flights-ohio-youngstown-akron-canton Tue, 13 Oct 2026 11:14:37 +0000 Politics A tiny airport near the Ohio-Pennsylvania line with zero commercial flights has become one of the busiest hubs in America's deportation machine. According to The Guardian, Youngstown-Warren and Akron-Canton together have seen more ICE shuffle flights this year than all but seven other US airports, and the whole operation is built on the premise that nobody is looking. https://thedingodaily.com/news/article/2026-10-12-paxton-where-is-james-talarico-flu-conspiracy https://thedingodaily.com/news/article/2026-10-12-paxton-where-is-james-talarico-flu-conspiracy Tue, 13 Oct 2026 08:10:20 +0000 Politics Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton stood in front of a rally crowd in San Antonio and got thousands of people to chant "Where Is James Talarico?" about a man who was at home in Austin with a fever. Democrat Talarico's campaign has now produced eight timestamped backyard security camera images, per CBS News, that put him exactly where he said he was. The man had the flu. That is the entire scandal. https://thedingodaily.com/news/article/2026-10-13-trump-fat-shames-woman-punched-ohio-rally https://thedingodaily.com/news/article/2026-10-13-trump-fat-shames-woman-punched-ohio-rally Tue, 13 Oct 2026 06:38:02 +0000 Politics A woman in a "Release the Epstein Files" shirt got punched in the face and grabbed by the hair at Donald Trump's rally in Youngstown, Ohio, while a crowd chanted "USA!" The president watched the scene, decided the woman was a man, called her "scum," and told the room she needed to go on a diet. https://thedingodaily.com/news/article/2026-10-13-nato-destroy-anything-everything-trump-russia-sanctions-waiv https://thedingodaily.com/news/article/2026-10-13-nato-destroy-anything-everything-trump-russia-sanctions-waiv Tue, 13 Oct 2026 05:05:49 +0000 World NATO's top military commander stood in Warsaw on Monday and promised to destroy "anything and everything" that supports a Russian attack on allied territory. Meanwhile, the American president whose country anchors that alliance spent the weekend announcing a diesel deal with Vladimir Putin and a waiver of certain sanctions on Russian energy exports. Pick a lane, folks. https://thedingodaily.com/news/article/2026-10-12-man-dies-falling-six-flags-goliath-coaster-georgia https://thedingodaily.com/news/article/2026-10-12-man-dies-falling-six-flags-goliath-coaster-georgia Mon, 12 Oct 2026 23:52:02 +0000 Crime A man died Monday afternoon at Six Flags Over Georgia after witnesses say he came out of his seat on the Goliath roller coaster and fell, hitting the ride several times on the way down. Cobb County Police have handed the case to their Major Crimes Unit, and the park has so far offered a statement about its deep sadness and very little else. https://thedingodaily.com/news/article/2026-10-12-rj-mitte-breaking-bad-walt-jr-dies-at-34 https://thedingodaily.com/news/article/2026-10-12-rj-mitte-breaking-bad-walt-jr-dies-at-34 Mon, 12 Oct 2026 22:19:19 +0000 Culture RJ Mitte, the actor who played Walter White Jr. on Breaking Bad and spent two decades dragging Hollywood toward honest portrayals of disability, died Monday in Brownsville, Texas. He was 34. No cause of death has been given. His representatives called his passing "tragic." A local judge who pronounced him dead said the town would miss him very, very much. That is a lot of people grieving a man who was, for a generation of viewers, the kid who wanted breakfast and got a meth empire instead. https://thedingodaily.com/news/article/2026-10-12-americans-groceries-credit-cards-economy-solid https://thedingodaily.com/news/article/2026-10-12-americans-groceries-credit-cards-economy-solid Mon, 12 Oct 2026 20:47:10 +0000 Economy Nearly 13% of credit card balances in America are seriously past due, a level close to the 2010 peak after the housing crash. Meanwhile, the share of seriously delinquent auto loans has hit a record high, and more than half of Americans are charging groceries, rent, and utilities to plastic just to get through the month. But sure, the GDP number looks fine. https://thedingodaily.com/news/article/2026-10-12-corporate-america-congress-trump-ballroom-oversight https://thedingodaily.com/news/article/2026-10-12-corporate-america-congress-trump-ballroom-oversight Mon, 12 Oct 2026 17:53:54 +0000 Politics Amazon, Apple, Comcast, Meta, Microsoft and Nvidia have already gotten letters from Democratic lawmakers asking exactly why they chipped in on Donald Trump's White House ballroom. The companies that spent years assuming the check would clear quietly are now discovering that November has a way of changing the guest list. https://thedingodaily.com/news/article/2026-10-12-trump-approved-livestream-firing-squad-wasnt-involved https://thedingodaily.com/news/article/2026-10-12-trump-approved-livestream-firing-squad-wasnt-involved Mon, 12 Oct 2026 17:08:18 +0000 Politics The Pentagon announced it would livestream a firing-squad execution. Then the president said he absolutely approved it, and a few hours later said he wasn't involved at all. By the end of the weekend, the Speaker of the House, the Vice President, and a pile of Republican senators were lining up to say they wouldn't be watching. https://thedingodaily.com/news/article/2026-10-12-trump-polling-below-jan-6-arizona-gas-mendoza-ciscomani https://thedingodaily.com/news/article/2026-10-12-trump-polling-below-jan-6-arizona-gas-mendoza-ciscomani Mon, 12 Oct 2026 15:36:25 +0000 Politics A nonpartisan Arizona pollster says Donald Trump's approval rating in the state is now lower than it was right after the January 6 attack on the Capitol. His explanation: the only thing worse than storming the Capitol is apparently paying $4.50 a gallon for gas. That math is now the central problem for Republican Rep. Juan Ciscomani, who is hiding from his own voters in one of the most competitive House seats in the country. https://thedingodaily.com/news/article/2026-10-12-feds-search-ilhan-omar-home-22-days-before-election https://thedingodaily.com/news/article/2026-10-12-feds-search-ilhan-omar-home-22-days-before-election Mon, 12 Oct 2026 15:36:02 +0000 Politics Fifteen to twenty Homeland Security agents walked out of Rep. Ilhan Omar's Washington home on Monday morning, 22 days before she faces voters in the midterm elections. The Justice Department says it's all part of an ongoing criminal investigation. It declined to say what the investigation is about, or even to confirm the warrant was for Omar. https://thedingodaily.com/news/article/2026-10-12-gop-400-million-ad-advantage-midterms-headwinds https://thedingodaily.com/news/article/2026-10-12-gop-400-million-ad-advantage-midterms-headwinds Mon, 12 Oct 2026 14:50:29 +0000 Politics Republicans have outspent Democrats by $400 million this cycle, and their own strategists are still bracing for a rough election night. The party of Donald Trump, MAGA Inc., and a super PAC bankrolled by Elon Musk has a money edge that Fox News Digital's own reporting calls unprecedented, and it is using that edge to stay within arm's reach of an electorate that is sick of paying $5 for eggs and funding an Iran war nobody asked for. https://thedingodaily.com/news/article/2026-10-12-ai-labs-quiet-on-democracy-ai-safety https://thedingodaily.com/news/article/2026-10-12-ai-labs-quiet-on-democracy-ai-safety Mon, 12 Oct 2026 14:50:05 +0000 Opinion The AI industry will talk your ear off about rogue superintelligence, bioweapons, and killer robots. Ask it about the health of the democracy those machines will operate in, and suddenly everyone has a meeting. A new Guardian op-ed from AI researcher Matthew Botvinick argues that silence is not just rude. It's a safety failure. https://thedingodaily.com/news/article/2026-10-12-super-el-nino-farm-bill-senate-republicans-cut-conservation https://thedingodaily.com/news/article/2026-10-12-super-el-nino-farm-bill-senate-republicans-cut-conservation Mon, 12 Oct 2026 14:03:55 +0000 Politics Forecasters say this year's El Niño could become the strongest on record, and the farms that survive it best are the ones with something green growing in winter. So naturally, Senate Republicans have spent the farm bill negotiations trying to cut the programs that pay farmers to do exactly that. The weather is coming whether Congress is ready or not. https://thedingodaily.com/news/article/2026-10-11-darline-graham-feels-the-pain-gas-prices-iran-war-debate https://thedingodaily.com/news/article/2026-10-11-darline-graham-feels-the-pain-gas-prices-iran-war-debate Mon, 12 Oct 2026 13:18:10 +0000 Politics Sen. Darline Graham, who got her job because her brother died in July, stood on a debate stage in Columbia on Sunday and told South Carolinians she feels their pain over high gas prices. Her challenger noted that Graham voted several times against a war powers resolution to restrain the Iran war that helped put those prices where they are. It was the first, and possibly only, debate of a Senate race in a state Republicans were supposed to own. The race has tightened, the top Senate GOP super PAC has pledged $5 million to protect Graham, and the whole thing opened with a moment of genuine grief that quickly turned into a knife fight over Social Security, gas, and who is secretly a socialist. https://thedingodaily.com/news/article/2026-10-12-feds-search-ilhan-omar-home-weeks-before-midterms https://thedingodaily.com/news/article/2026-10-12-feds-search-ilhan-omar-home-weeks-before-midterms Mon, 12 Oct 2026 13:17:22 +0000 Politics Federal agents in Homeland Security Investigations jackets searched a sitting congresswoman's Washington home on Monday morning, and the first outlet to put video of it on the air was Fox News. The reported target of all this federal firepower: immigration paperwork her father filled out when she was a child. The midterms are three weeks away. Nothing about this looks suspicious at all, if you've never met Donald Trump. https://thedingodaily.com/news/article/2026-10-12-trump-mass-deportations-midterms-republicans-revolt https://thedingodaily.com/news/article/2026-10-12-trump-mass-deportations-midterms-republicans-revolt Mon, 12 Oct 2026 11:45:05 +0000 Politics If there is one campaign promise Donald Trump has actually kept, it's mass deportations. Two years in, the people paying for it include Kansas cattle ranchers, Florida restaurant owners, and a Republican congresswoman who just ran a Spanish-language ad saying the president "betrayed" her voters. The call is coming from inside the coalition. https://thedingodaily.com/news/article/2026-10-12-measles-4000-cases-pennsylvania-deaths-immunity-check https://thedingodaily.com/news/article/2026-10-12-measles-4000-cases-pennsylvania-deaths-immunity-check Mon, 12 Oct 2026 10:13:18 +0000 Science Pennsylvania went from 12 measles cases in January to more than 1,000 cases and five deaths. Nationwide, more than 4,000 people have gotten sick this year, the worst count in 35 years. And now health experts are telling ordinary adults to dig through their old paperwork and figure out if they're protected, because the country spent a few years teaching people to doubt the thing that worked. https://thedingodaily.com/news/article/2026-10-12-trump-may-join-saudi-war-houthi-airport-strike-midterms https://thedingodaily.com/news/article/2026-10-12-trump-may-join-saudi-war-houthi-airport-strike-midterms Mon, 12 Oct 2026 08:40:24 +0000 World A missile hit a Riyadh airport terminal and killed 12 people, and the president of the United States responded on his way to a campaign rally in Tennessee by saying, 'We may. We're gonna look at it.' Asked whether the carnage would change his announced plan to hold off on striking Iran until after the midterms, he gave the same answer: 'Well, we're gonna take a look.' https://thedingodaily.com/news/article/2026-10-12-accused-homecoming-shooter-released-two-days-100k-bond https://thedingodaily.com/news/article/2026-10-12-accused-homecoming-shooter-released-two-days-100k-bond Mon, 12 Oct 2026 07:54:27 +0000 Crime A teenager accused of opening fire outside a high school homecoming game, wounding two other teenagers and emptying a football stadium, was back home within 48 hours of his arrest. He was released on a $100,000 bond with no conditions attached. By the time he walked out of the Hennepin County jail, the White House rapid response machine was already typing. https://thedingodaily.com/news/article/2026-10-11-big-balls-doge-engineer-leads-trump-america-gov-ai-site https://thedingodaily.com/news/article/2026-10-11-big-balls-doge-engineer-leads-trump-america-gov-ai-site Mon, 12 Oct 2026 05:36:06 +0000 Politics Edward Coristine, the 20-year-old former DOGE engineer who goes by "Big Balls," is now the lead engineer on America.gov, the Trump administration's new AI-powered portal for your passport, your Medicare enrollment, and whatever else the government can cram behind a chatbot. Trump personally singled him out at the launch and thanked him for his work. This is where the story of America's "efficiency" crusade has landed. https://thedingodaily.com/news/article/2026-10-12-paxton-proof-of-life-talarico-flu-debate-85-days https://thedingodaily.com/news/article/2026-10-12-paxton-proof-of-life-talarico-flu-debate-85-days Mon, 12 Oct 2026 04:49:25 +0000 Politics Texas Democratic Senate candidate James Talarico spent two weeks off the trail with the flu. Republicans responded the way mature adults always do: by demanding a hostage photo. Ken Paxton asked for 'proof of life,' a picture of Talarico holding a dated newspaper, while he himself has ignored a debate request for 85 days. https://thedingodaily.com/news/article/2026-10-11-guilfoyle-amex-donor-bailout-ambassador-greece https://thedingodaily.com/news/article/2026-10-11-guilfoyle-amex-donor-bailout-ambassador-greece Mon, 12 Oct 2026 04:03:26 +0000 Politics Kimberly Guilfoyle, the U.S. ambassador to Greece, allegedly asked a Trump donor to wire $100,000 straight to her American Express, told him it wouldn't leave a paper trail, and dangled access to senior administration officials as a sweetener. Trump and Rubio are now reportedly weighing whether to fire her. The detail that has the State Department's own hallway talking, though, involves a bodyguard, a vacation in Mykonos, and a 4 a.m. request for ice. https://thedingodaily.com/news/article/2026-10-12-north-korea-fires-missiles-kim-ghosts-trump https://thedingodaily.com/news/article/2026-10-12-north-korea-fires-missiles-kim-ghosts-trump Mon, 12 Oct 2026 04:03:02 +0000 World North Korea fired multiple ballistic missiles into its eastern waters on Monday, one of them flying more than 559 miles, because apparently the last few launches didn't make the point. The streak continues while Kim Jong Un keeps leaving Donald Trump on read. https://thedingodaily.com/news/article/2026-10-11-north-korea-missiles-trump-very-good-relationship-kim https://thedingodaily.com/news/article/2026-10-11-north-korea-missiles-trump-very-good-relationship-kim Mon, 12 Oct 2026 03:17:05 +0000 World North Korea fired multiple ballistic missiles into its eastern waters on Monday, the latest in a streak of weapons tests that keeps getting louder. This comes roughly two months after Donald Trump unilaterally scaled back a major US-South Korea military exercise, with the president citing his "very good relationship" with Kim Jong Un. Kim, apparently, did not get the memo about the relationship. https://thedingodaily.com/news/article/2026-10-11-jon-batiste-juilliard-sight-reading-love-riot-subway https://thedingodaily.com/news/article/2026-10-11-jon-batiste-juilliard-sight-reading-love-riot-subway Mon, 12 Oct 2026 02:30:15 +0000 Culture Jon Batiste walked into a Juilliard audition, got handed sheet music he couldn't read, and just made something up on the spot. They let him in. Years later he is still making it up as he goes, and somehow the whole world keeps singing along. https://thedingodaily.com/news/article/2026-10-11-buttigieg-unemployed-2028-gamble https://thedingodaily.com/news/article/2026-10-11-buttigieg-unemployed-2028-gamble Mon, 12 Oct 2026 01:44:16 +0000 Politics Pete Buttigieg has been able to campaign for Democrats across the country more than most of his potential 2028 rivals this past year, and the reason is almost funny. He doesn't have a job. That's by choice, and it's the biggest bet of his political career. https://thedingodaily.com/news/article/2026-10-11-29000-jobs-7-million-unemployed-benefits-running-out https://thedingodaily.com/news/article/2026-10-11-29000-jobs-7-million-unemployed-benefits-running-out Mon, 12 Oct 2026 00:58:30 +0000 Economy U.S. employers added 29,000 jobs last month. That is one job for every 244 unemployed workers, which is the kind of ratio you'd expect from a game of musical chairs run by a sadist. Meanwhile, benefits in many states are expiring before anyone gets hired, and the official unemployment rate of 4.2% sits there looking calm and responsible like a man holding a fire extinguisher at a house fire.