The Melissa Diaz Report

Topics: (MSN) 'He's still the best candidate': Maine voters stand by Graham Platner despite scandals (India Times) China Approves World's First Commercial Brain Implant, Beating Neuralink to Market (GRoundNews) Fewer Americans say democracy is central to country’s identity, AP-NORC poll finds

Topics: The New York Fed says that more Americans are skipping meals because food is too expensive (Yahoo News) Silicon Valley turns transhumanism into a "secular religion" promising immortality and minds uploaded to chips (the Guardian) China: An A.I. company is working to develop technology that could predict who might become critical of the government (NYTimes)

Topics - Memorial Day weekend - The new Art - Secret Service agents exchanged gunfire with a shooter who allegedly shot at officers outside the White House. The suspect was killed, and a bystander was struck by gunfire and hospitalized. - Pope Leo XIV releases warning about the risks of artificial intelligence - Tulsi Gabbard’s resignation.

TOPICS * Ted Turner, founder of CNN and 24 hour news cycle, died last wednesday * 80% of companies using AI agents are cutting staff * Sean Duffy debuts YouTube reality show funded by Boeing, Shell, Toyota, and other companies his agency regulates * Americans more worried about running out of money than death

Topics - Pete Hegseth’s first hearings in Congress since the start of Iran war (AP) - Silicon Valley Is Bracing for a Permanent Underclass” (New York Times) - Tucker Carlson on a New York Times interview

TOPICS Michael Jackson biopic, “Michael” The man who authorities say tried to storm the White House Correspondents’ Association dinner with guns and knives has been charged with the attempted assassination of President Donald Trump. The Supreme Court will hear arguments on Monday in a case about whether law enforcement’s use of geofence searches — which collect cell phone location data from a...

TOPICS Looksmaxxing in 60 Minutes Anthropic announces they will not release their latest artificial intelligence model President Trump signed an executive order Saturday directing the FDA to expedite review of psychedelic s

TOPICS The Associated Press offers buyouts to an unspecified number of US-based journalists as it shifts focus from newspaper journalism to visual journalism and artificial intelligence The world's wildest company retreat involves 120 employees meeting in Honduras for a Survivor-style experience that included eating a dead tarantula, sitting on a fire ant hill, and a rogue porcupine On Sunday, Pre...

Topics Gen Z Catholic influencers make church look cooler than ever — snapping up hundreds of thousands of social media followers Artemis II breaks Apollo 13’s distance record as humans travel farther from Earth than ever before Eight Scientists Missing or Dead: Full List of Baffling Disappearances in the U.S. AOC hit with ethics complaint over $19K in campaign cash spent on ketamine specialist

Topics Kash Patel Reveals That The FBI Purchases Americans' Location Data After Questioning By Wyden Netflix Documentary ‘Inside the Manosphere’ Exposes a Digital Pipeline to Misogyny Chuck Norris, martial artist, actor, and cultural icon, died March 19 in Hawaii. He was 86. Just nine days earlier, he posted a video sparring, captioning it: "I don't age. I level up." Larry Fink’s Warning: Invest o...

Topics - Newt Gingrich’s Nuclear ‘Detonations’ proposal in Response to Straight of Hormuz Blockade Raises Eyebrows - Protesters in Cuba attack Communist Party office amid blackout fury - Washington Square Park, once a hub for counterculture and political protests in the city, has now been overrun with social media influencers.

Topics - Today marks 150 years since Alexander Graham Bell made the first tele- phone call from his Boston lab to his assistant in a nearby room. - Harvard researchers say AI is giving workers "brain fry." - Two men who brought explosives to a protest outside New York City’s mayoral mansion said they were inspired by the Islamic State extremist group. (Gothamist) - Iran’s 88-member Assembly of Exp...

- Colombian nationals with running a sham immigration court scheme in which they allegedly duped an untold number of "vulnerable" immigrants into handing over more than $100,000 to defendants posing as lawyers, judges and other federal officials. - Trump says Iran operations likely to last 4 to 5 weeks, but he’s prepared ‘to go far longer’ - Shia LaBeouf says he's 'scared' of gay people in po...

Welcome to the dating recession: Why young Americans are giving up on love - Fox News Armed man shot and killed at Mar-a-Lago last weekend (NPR, AP) Meanwhile, in Afghanistan…

- Federal Aviation Administration to suddenly close the airspace over El Paso, Texas last Wednesday, in response to U.S. Customs and Border Protection using an anti-drone laser last week to combat drug cartel manned drones. - OpenAI executive Ryan Beiermeister fired in January for alleged sexual discrimination after opposing ChatGPT adult mode - Instagram Head Denies Social Media Is ‘Clinically Ad...

Disney names parks boss Josh D’Amaro as its next CEO to succeed Bob Iger Native American tribe that owns land under Billie Eilish’s LA mansion says singer has never contacted them. On the new A.I.-only social network Moltbook, thousands of chatbots are discussing topics such as cryptocurrency sales and the nature of consciousness. FBI concluded Jeffrey Epstein wasn’t running a sex trafficking ring...

Topics - Federal Prosecutors Open Investigation Into Fed Chair Powell (NYTimes) - 15,000 Nurses Go on Strike Against NYC’s Richest Hospitals (Indypendent) - The Department of Homeland Security has promised to send hundreds more federal agents into Minneapolis, days after one shot and killed a woman there. - US Overdose Deaths Drop as Fentanyl Supply Weakens, Study Finds (Bloomberg)

Topics - 2025's biggest business story: The rise of Artificial Intelligence. - Iranian President declares "full-scale war" with the United States, Israel, and Europe. - Say goodbye to the dining room. It’s disappearing from new home designs. - Melissa Reviews: The New Dave Chappelle special sucked.

- The Justice Department on Friday released thousands of unclassified files related to the prosecution of deceased sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, though many remain heavily redacted. - Wall Street Journal published a report on the rise of the Invitation-only stock market for the wealthy - The Metropolitan Opera wants to court a younger generation with an abridged production of Mozart’s opera “The M...

Topics - Anti-artificial intelligence activist Sam Kirchner has been missing for two weeks - Hep B vaccine controversy - Why Restaurant Quality Is Declining - AI Actress signs NDAs for multi-million dollar film projects

Topics - What this Black Friday weekend is show ing about the US economy - Le Bal des Debutantes París 2025 - Lilly Wachowski tells us what fascism does and is - Gunman fires on members of the West Virginia National Guard in Washington DC last Wednesday

Topics: - Nicki Minaj delivers speech at UN to highlight claims of Christian persecution in Nigeria - Urban Raccoons Are Showing Signs of Early Domestication, With Shorter Snouts Than Their Rural Cousins - Trump Mamdani meeting at White House - US set to label Maduro-tied Cartel de los Soles as a terror organization (AP Breakdown )

- Vance and Trump not invited to Dick Cheney's funeral service and George W. Bush's eulogy - Grindr Presents 'I Wool Survive': How We Connected Gay Sheep to the NYC Runway - Trump Welcomes Saudi Arabia’s Crown Prince

Topics - Michelle Obama says US 'Not Ready' for Woman President - The U.S.’s most advanced aircraft carrier, the USS Gerald R. Ford, arrived in the Caribbean Sea yesterday, joining nearly a dozen other naval warships there. - In a reversal, Trump says House Republicans should vote to release Epstein files - US Border Patrol arrests 81 on first day of Charlotte immigration crackdown - Tech leaders...

Topics The US Mint ended penny production Wednesday in Philadelphia after 230 years. Planned Parenthood says it’s getting harder to fulfill its mission while also prioritizing essential services. Teen Vogue closes. More than 15 years after Limelight closed, a new exhibit at Left Bank Books in the West Village offers a rare glimpse into the club's inner workings, runaway success and ultimate implos...