Wednesday, November 13

In The NEWS


Sports, Entertainment, & Culture

> Shaboozey's "A Bar Song (Tipsy)" tops Billboard Hot 100 for 17th week, the second-longest stint at No. 1 in the chart's 66-year history (More)

> Washington Spirit, NY/NJ Gotham FC, Orlando Pride, and Kansas City Current advance to National Women's Soccer League semifinals (More)

> Taylor Swift is big winner at MTV Europe Music Awards with four wins; see complete list of winners (More) | 2024 Booker Prize for fiction announced this afternoon (4:45 pm ET); see shortlist and how to watch live (More)


Science & Technology
> Amazon to develop prototype smart glasses to help give delivery drivers step-by-step instructions to the correct address (More)

> Researchers create a 3D hologram of a mouse embryo with 8 million distinct cells; approach could be extended to any species, allowing study of fetal development with unprecedented precision (More)

> Astronomers find Voyager 2's 1986 flyby of Uranus may have coincided with a dramatic solar event, skewing scientists' understanding of the planet's magnetosphere for the past four decades (More)


Business & Markets
> US stock markets close higher (S&P 500 +0.1%, Dow +0.7%, Nasdaq +0.1%); Dow closes above 44,000 for first time as postelection rally continues (More) | Bitcoin sets another record, surpasses $87K (More) | See bitcoin's price history (More)

> Chipotle Mexican Grill names interim chief Scott Boatwright as permanent CEO roughly three months after former Chipotle CEO Brian Niccol left to lead Starbucks (More)

> US highway safety regulator opens investigation into Honda and Acura on reports of possible engine failures in as many as 1.4 million vehicle models from between 2016 and 2020 (More)


Politics & World Affairs
> Haiti's international airport shuts down after gangs open fire at commercial flight landing in the country's capital of Port-au-Prince; comes day after Haitian interim prime minister was fired (More)

> Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba survives run-off vote in parliament to stay in his role; vote comes after his Liberal Democratic Party lost its parliamentary majority in last month's general election (More)

> Atmospheric rivers to bring back-to-back snow and rain to Pacific Northwest and Northern California this week (More) | Atmospheric rivers 101 (More)


SOURCE:  1440 NEWS

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