A bogus online post falsely claims that this month the federal government will issue “a $2,000 direct deposit payment for eligible U.S. citizens” in three phases from Nov. 10 through Nov. 30. There are no such direct deposits scheduled and no checks in the mail. President Donald Trump has only talked about using revenue collected from tariffs, or customs duties, on imported foreign goods to reduce the federal debt and make “rebate” or “dividend” payments to Americans. He reiterated his wishes on Nov. 9.

President Donald Trump is making a high-profile overture to Saudi Arabia and its polarizing de facto leader — even as some major MAGA figures say the White House is too focused on foreign affairs at the expense of domestic issues. When Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman arrives at the White House on Tuesday, it will mark the first such visit since he was implicated in the killing of Washington Post columnist Jamal Khashoggi in the Saudi Consulate in Istanbul in 2018. And he will be feted as one of the United States’s closest allies, expected to receive significant economic and national security wins.

Despite all the uproar surrounding the ascension of socialist star Zohran Mamdani to mayor-elect of the largest city in America, democratic socialism’s capture of city government, not just New York City’s, is years in the making. Scores of candidates backed by the country’s de facto socialist party, the Democratic Socialists of America, have wooed their way into local office with similar promises of government-run grocery stores, free child care, fareless public transportation, and rent freezes. Notably, one-third of the 12-person city council in Portland, Oregon, are active DSA members, all of whom assumed office in January. There, the “socialists are setting the agenda.”

MIT student Jacqueline Prawira’s invention, a biodegradable plastic made from fishing industry waste, tackles one of the world’s most pressing environmental challenges and was recently featured on CBS’s “The Visioneers.” Source: MIT senior turns waste from the fishing industry into biodegradable plastic Very cool.

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