Yesterday's News 10/1-10/2

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Into the wild, the Caltier Panther encounters a shimmering crocodile, a lonely love bird, a breathless zebra, and a restless tiger.

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Hi there, I am Fully Charged, and here to tell you, Toy Story 5 is now on Disney Channel Let's go.

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It's been too long, Cowboy.

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Woody, Buzz and Jesse are back for a brand new adventure with some seriously cool new tech. What?

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Holy butterscotch!

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You said it, Jesse. So, save your batteries and watch the global phenomenon at home. And the best part, it's perfect for the whole family. Power up your movie night and watch Disney and Pixar's Toy Story 5, now streaming on Disney Plus, rated PG.

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Hello, everybody, welcome to Yesterday's News, where I cover Yesterday's News in 15 to 20 minutes. This one's going to be a little bit longer. I apologize, Yesterday's News couldn't get posted yesterday. I recorded it. I was on the run. I had worked super late the night before at a special event. It was great. It was wonderful.

And I was, I had to drive today and I was like, oh, perfect, I'm not driving. I can upload this using my hotspot. Oh, there was no cell service. No, there surely was not. And I was driving north about an hour from town to pick up a chair for my reading room. I got there and the van I had wasn't big enough. So it was a whole, it was a whole debacle. So it didn't happen, so I am merging yesterday's, yesterday's, yesterday's news with today's. So it's gonna be stories spanning from Wednesday and Thursday into Friday. And then of course, I'll see you again on Monday. On this day, October 2nd, 1919, the president has a stroke, nobody's told. On the morning of October 2nd, 1919, Edith Wilson found her husband on the bathroom floor of the White House residence. Woodrow Wilson had suffered a massive stroke that paralyzed his left side and left him partly blind. His physician, Kerry Grayson, and the first lady decided the country would not be informed. For the next 17 months, Edith Wilson screened every document and visitor, decided what reached the president and relayed his decisions, or what she said were his decisions to the cabinet.

The Senate rejected the League of Nations while its chief advocate lay in a darkened room. The Constitution had no mechanism or to address any of it until the 25th Amendment was ratified in 1967

Speaking of the presidency, Trump spent hours asking Elon Musk to chat bot about Venezuela before the invasion and concluded it was ingenious. Time reports that in December of 2025, about a month before the US forces entered Venezuela and captured Nicolas Maduro, the president held a private meeting with Elon Musk and spent hours questioning Grok, the chat bot built by Musk company XAI. He asked how Venezuelans would react to Maduro's capture. Grok told him that Maduro was a deeply unpopular dictator that many Venezuelans would likely celebrate his downfall. When crowds celebrated after January 3rd operation, Trump, according to the report, came away thinking Grok was ingenious. Advisors told Time he now relies on it heavily in decisions about his presidency and legacy and that it has become hard to convince him to do anything that Grok has not endorsed. Neither the White House nor XAI has responded. Follow where Grok now sits. The Pentagon's AI chief said in June that military has used it to select and strike targets in the Iran War. America.gov, the federal services chat bot the president launched Monday runs on Grok and Google's Gemini. On Tuesday, the defense secretary named Musk the co-leader of the Future of Warfare Initiative alongside a new autonomous warfare command.

And Trump has offered the most exclusive dinner in the world to 185 buyers of his meme coin. The president's meme coin operation announced a third dinner for its largest holders set for November 22nd at the Trump National Golf Course outside Washington. The top 185 buyers get dinner billed as an evening with three legends and President Donald J. Trump. And the top 29 get a VIP reception with the president. The top four get an 18 karat gold Trump watch. According to figures cited by Mediaite, the Trump family has taken in about 635 million from the token, while investors as a group are down roughly 4 billion. A contest in which people pay the president's business for a seat near the president is the transaction anti-corruption bodies exist to examine.

Democrats asked GAO and special counsel to investigate 20 million in taxpayer funded Trump as the FCC chair sees nothing unusual. Representatives Jamie Raskin and George Whitesides asked the Government Accountability Office and the Office of Special Counsel to determine whether the three ads now airing during NFL and college football broadcasts, including the 2024 campaign spot Final Battle, violate federal law. CNBC reports the White House moved 20 million in the Department of Homeland Security funds to pay for them. Public Citizen filed complaints with FCC, the FTC, GAO and OSC, sent letters to broadcasters warning that airing ads they know to be illegal puts their licenses at risk. FCC Chairman Brendan Carr and Yes Man said the ads are ordinary public service announcements that do not raise flags or merit regulatory review using taxpayer dollars for partisan ads funded by the government. Hello, state television. A year ago, Carr publicly pressured ABC's affiliates over Jimmy Kimmel's monologue and suggested their licenses were at stake. So a comedian's joke was a licensing matter, but not $20 million of DHS money spent on the president's campaign ad.