StupidiNews!

• Canadian PM Justin Trudeau is apologizing for a 2001 incident in which he dressed up in blackface while a working as a teacher at a Vancouver school.
• Furious pushback from conservative groups and the NRA have all but scuttled Wednesday's White House proposal to support a bipartisan Senate firearms background check bill.
• Donald Trump is seeking options to deal with Iran short of military action including new sanctions as Secretary of State Mike Pompeo arrived in Saudi Arabia.
• After the Federal Reserve cut interest rates by a quarter-point on Wednesday, Donald Trump  blasted Fed Chairman Jerome Powell on Twitter.
• A new study finds half of US homes will still not have access to fiber broadband by 2025, and it would take $70 billion to upgrade infrastructure to get that number to 90% by then.