First, some news of the day. President Donald Trump is in the UK today . There is a preliminary deal to  divest TikTok from ByteDance. The wars in the Gaza Strip and Ukraine are not close to being settled. The  U.S. stock market slid today,  awaiting the Federal Reserve interest rate decision on Wednesday. The   S&P 500   traded 0.13% lower to close at 6606.76, after hitting a fresh record earlier in the session. The   Nasdaq Composite   lost 0.07% to finish the session at 22,333.96. The   Dow Jones Industrial Average   dropped 125.55 points, or 0.27%, to close at 45,757.90. Guns kill.  Florida finally allowed the open carrying of firearms, the LAST Republican state to do so.  Actually, only three states prohibits this:  California, Illinois and New York, plus Washington, D.C.  Hawaii is one of those states that allows, but you need to first obtain a county-issued license, which requires specific training and eligibili...

For some reason, this posting was not published on January 19.  Made an adjustment, so perhaps this will occur today. Well, that  Gaza Strip ceasefire deal began  at 8:30AM local time, and three hours later the Hamas delivered the first three hostages. They were in captivity for 471 days. By now Israel should have released 90 Palestinian prisoners. TikTok went dark Saturday night.   However this afternoon, TikTok announced that it would begin restoring service to U.S. users.  They thanked President-elect Trump for his save.   There are three with more than a hundred million followers . #1 is Khabane  Lame (right), an influencer from Italy and Senegal.  He has 162.4 million following him. Khaby Lame is incredibly popular on TikTok because he creates silent, comedic reaction videos that mock overly complicated "life hacks" by showing simple, obvious solutions with exaggerated facial expressions, making his content universally relatable and...