Tuesday, November 11
Headline
Activists in front of the Supreme Court in 2015.
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SCOTUS rejects bid to overturn same-sex marriage ruling. The Supreme Court refused to hear a case inviting it to revisit its landmark precedent legalizing same-sex marriage nationwide. The justices turned away a long-shot appeal from Kim Davis, a former Kentucky court clerk who made headlines for refusing to issue marriage licenses in the wake of the court’s 2015 decision Obergefell v. Hodges. Davis faced fines and was briefly jailed for contempt of court for her conduct, and she lost a reelection bid in 2018. In her appeal seeking to have the fines overturned, Davis had urged the court—which now has two more conservative justices than it did in 2015—to reconsider the constitutional right to same-sex marriage.
Trump floats $2,000 tariff rebates. Praising tariffs after the Supreme Court last week appeared poised to potentially find some of them illegal, the president said on Truth Social on Sunday, “A dividend of at least $2000 a person (not including high income people!) will be paid to everyone.” But don’t start looking in your mailbox for a check yet—and not just because of SCOTUS. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said no formal proposal had been made, and, according to CNN, Congress would likely need to sign off on any such program. And although President Trump didn’t specify who would qualify for the cash, CNN notes that $220 billion has been collected in tariffs, but a distribution to all taxpayers would cost ~$326 billion.
Warren Buffett says he’s “going quiet” as successor prepares to take over. The legendary 95-year-old investor put out a letter yesterday saying he no longer plans to write Berkshire Hathaway’s annual shareholder letter, with Greg Abel poised to take over as CEO at the end of the year—though he plans to keep his Thanksgiving letter as an annual tradition, much like green bean casserole. Buffett also said he’d hold onto a significant chunk of his Class A shares while investors got comfortable with the firm’s new leader, despite speeding up donations to his children’s foundations.—AR
SCOTUS rejects bid to overturn same-sex marriage ruling. The Supreme Court refused to hear a case inviting it to revisit its landmark precedent legalizing same-sex marriage nationwide. The justices turned away a long-shot appeal from Kim Davis, a former Kentucky court clerk who made headlines for refusing to issue marriage licenses in the wake of the court’s 2015 decision Obergefell v. Hodges. Davis faced fines and was briefly jailed for contempt of court for her conduct, and she lost a reelection bid in 2018. In her appeal seeking to have the fines overturned, Davis had urged the court—which now has two more conservative justices than it did in 2015—to reconsider the constitutional right to same-sex marriage. Trump floats $2,000 tariff rebates. Praising tariffs after the Supreme Court last week appeared poised to potentially find some of them illegal, the president said on Truth Social on Sunday, “A dividend of at least $2000 a person (not including high income people!) will be paid to everyone.” But don’t start looking in your mailbox for a check yet—and not just because of SCOTUS. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said no formal proposal had been made, and, according to CNN, Congress would likely need to sign off on any such program. And although President Trump didn’t specify who would qualify for the cash, CNN notes that $220 billion has been collected in tariffs, but a distribution to all taxpayers would cost ~$326 billion. Warren Buffett says he’s “going quiet” as successor prepares to take over. The legendary 95-year-old investor put out a letter yesterday saying he no longer plans to write Berkshire Hathaway’s annual shareholder letter, with Greg Abel poised to take over as CEO at the end of the year—though he plans to keep his Thanksgiving letter as an annual tradition, much like green bean casserole. Buffett also said he’d hold onto a significant chunk of his Class A shares while investors got comfortable with the firm’s new leader, despite speeding up donations to his children’s foundations.—AR
Robert Reich
He's showing even more signs of dementia, but the media is mum
Friends,
Over the last month, Trump’s mental decline has appeared to worsen. Consider:
On Sunday, he posted an image claiming that Barack Obama had been collecting millions in taxpayer dollars from “royalties linked to Obamacare.” (The bogus item was from a satirical website called the “Dunning-Kruger Times,” a reference to the Dunning-Kruger effect — the well-observed tendency of stupid people to vastly overestimate their abilities or intelligence.)
After last Tuesday’s elections, he called “affordability” a “new word” and said Republicans had not talked enough about it, but then blasted it as a Democratic “con job” and declared “I don’t want to hear about the affordability.”
Seemingly oblivious to the economic struggles Americans find themselves in, he has posted incessantly about the new Lincoln bathroom, remodeled in black and white marble with gold faucets and light fixtures; his new White House ballroom, to be built in marble and gilded in gold; and renovations at the Kennedy Center, which he said would be outfitted in marble and “magnificent high end carpeting.”
At A Glance
The Kansas shoe repairman responsible for Veterans Day.
Typhoon Kalmaegi exposes centuries-old shipwreck.
How your projected life span changes based on your place of birth. (via YouTube)
Freaky Caesar salads, high-end hot dogs, and more 2026 restaurant trends.
The psychology behind guilty pleasures.
A handbook on new dating trends and terms.
Italian pasta may disappear from American supermarkets.
Photo booth portraits capture 20th-century romances.
Clickbait: The Wicked Witch of the West's hat could be yours.
Historybook: Nat Turner is hanged after organizing rebellion of enslaved persons (1831); Armistice signed by Germany and Allies, ending World War I (1918); Armistice Day, now known as Veterans Day, observed for first time in the US (1919); American novelist Kurt Vonnegut born (1922); Demi Moore born (1962).
In The NEWS
Sports, Entertainment, & Culture
> McLaren's Lando Norris wins Formula 1 Grand Prix in São Paulo, Brazil, extending world championship title (More)
> Former NFL Commissioner Paul Tagliabue dies at age 84; Tagliabue led the league from 1989 to 2006 (More) | Indiana Hoosiers wide receiver Omar Cooper Jr. scores game-winning, toe-tap touchdown in final seconds, defeating Penn State (More)
> Creator behind AI actor Tilly Norwood says 40 other AI actors are in development (More)
Science & Technology
> NASA's ESCAPADE mission launches aboard a Blue Origin New Glenn rocket; twin satellites will orbit Mars, studying the effect of the solar wind on the planet (More)
> Rare footage captures behavior of suckerfish hitching a ride on a humpback whale in the open ocean; video reveals the fish can detach from—and return to—the same spot each time the whale breaches (More, w/video) | Sign up for 1440 Science & Technology (More)
> Scientists develop method to create gene-edited plant varieties from a single plant cell, cutting the process time from months to weeks (More)
Business & Market
> US stock markets close mixed Friday (S&P 500 +0.1%, Dow +0.2%, Nasdaq -0.2%); tech-heavy Nasdaq closes its worst week since April (More) | Bureau of Labor Statistics misses second straight jobs report due to government shutdown, unemployment estimated at 4.5% (More)
> Pfizer outbids Novo Nordisk to buy obesity drugmaker Metsera for $10B; deal is up from a $7.3B offer in September (More)
> Cryptocurrency bear market continues, with the total market cap of all currencies down 20% since Oct. 6 record high; fall erases almost all gains in 2025 (More)
Politics & World Affairs
> Super Typhoon Fung-wong kills two people, forces more than 1 million to evacuate as it makes landfall on the Philippines' northeastern coast (More)
> President Donald Trump meets today with Syrian President Ahmad al-Sharaa—the first leader from Syria to visit the White House since 1946 (More) | Hamas returns remains of Israeli soldier Hadar Goldin, killed in Gaza in 2014 (More)
> The UK, France, and Germany are supplying Belgium with anti-drone equipment and staff after the country's main airport was forced to temporarily close last week amid drone spotting (More)
SOURCE: 1440 NEWS
Veterans' Day
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My grandfather was a veteran, my father was a veteran, and I am a veteran. It runs in the family among the first born.
My grandfather served during WWI, my father served during WWII, and I served during the Vietnam War.
I am not sure what branch of the military my grandfather was in but my father and I were in the US Navy.
The GI Bill paid for my undergraduate and graduate education (four years) but I paid for the first two years.
While I am not a disabled veteran, I believe that it is the responsibility of this country to make sure their veterans are well taken care of, especially those who have been damaged.
The United States of America is a unique country in that we have the BILL OF RIGHTS and FREEDOMS that most people around the world do not have nor will they ever have.
Those freedoms are paid for by our veterans; those who lived as well as those who died.
They should be MORE IMPORTANT to Democrats than ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS, but they are not.
Socialism is coming to America... hell, it is already here. If Socialism takes away our freedoms, so that we can all be equal in all aspects of life, then, we have eliminated our FREEDOMS completely and once they are gone, they are not easy to get back.
A Giant Magnetic Anomaly Over 500 Million Years Ago Can Finally Be Explained
Magnetic signatures hidden inside rocks tell us a lot about Earth's magnetic field and the way continents and tectonic plates have shifted across millennia – but for some periods, the geological record doesn't make much sense.
A fresh analysis of rocks from one of these periods, the Ediacaran (about 630-540 million years ago), aims to solve a long-standing mystery: why is the magnetic record from this time showing wild and chaotic variations in the magnetic field, as if the continents were speeding unusually quickly across the planet's surface?
An international team of researchers led by Yale University has found that this glitch wasn't from the continents acting strangely. It was Earth's magnetic field.
Monday, November 10
Headlines
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“Beginning of the end” of govt shutdown may be upon us as Senate advances deal. Today is the 41st day of the shutdown, but last night, in a rare Sunday session, senators returned to Capitol Hill to advance a funding agreement that could reopen the government through at least January. Enough Democratic senators agreed to vote for the deal to clear a 60-vote threshold. It’s rumored to include a guarantee of a vote on a bill related to Affordable Care Act credits by the end of the second week of December (but not an extension of the credits themselves), a reversal of all permanent layoffs of government employees that have transpired since the shutdown, and the funding of SNAP, among other provisions. The plan still needs to pass in the House and be signed into law by President Trump, which would likely take at least a few days.
Two Cleveland Guardians pitchers indicted in alleged pitch-rigging scheme. The Eastern District of New York, the same US Attorney’s office that charged NBA figures with similar crimes last month, accused Cleveland’s Emmanuel Clase and Luis Ortiz with throwing specific pitches in an arrangement with a gambler so the person betting could win prop bets and provide the pitchers with kickbacks. Prosecutors said that the scheme began with Clase in May 2023 and Ortiz joined in June 2025, with gamblers winning at least $450,000 by wagering on the pitches. US Attorney Joseph Nocella Jr. said, “The defendants deprived the Cleveland Guardians and Major League Baseball of their honest services. They defrauded the online betting platforms where the bets were placed. And they betrayed America’s pastime.” Ortiz’s attorney denied the charges in a statement to ESPN. A message ESPN placed to Clase’s attorney was not returned.
Visa and Mastercard near settlement with merchants that might lower transaction fees. In an exclusive report, the Wall Street Journal stated that the two major credit card companies are close to settling a 20-year legal dispute with merchants that would enable them to reject certain cards and be charged lower interchange fees. Under the deal, merchants would not have to accept every type of credit card that Visa or Mastercard offers, meaning they could refuse rewards credit cards, which cost them more to process than other types because the rewards are funded in part by the higher interchange fees. Anonymous sources told the WSJ that Visa and Mastercard would lower interchange fees overall by an average of 0.1 percentage point over several years. The uptick of merchants charging customers for credit card processing fees goes back to this dispute.—HVL
Robert Reich
In opposite ways, Musk and Mamdani pose the same question
Friends,
Last week, two things happened that may shed some light on where American capitalism is heading.
First, Tesla’s board caved in to Elon Musk’s demand that he get a pay package of $1 trillion (if he meets various goals).
Musk’s trillion-dollar pay package is so grotesque as to make a mockery of the most ardent free-market capitalists. Although his board is stuffed with cronies and relatives, he still had to hold it hostage to get his trillion — threatening that if he didn’t, his attention would wander elsewhere. Other Tesla shareholders got shafted.
Second, the voters of New York City — the capital of world capitalism — elected as their mayor a Democratic Socialist who thinks billionaires shouldn’t exist.
At A Glance
See the recently discovered world's biggest spiderweb.
Exploring the health benefits of singing.
Today marks 50 years since the sinking of the Edmund Fitzgerald.
Managing credit card points is now a full-time job.
... and listen to our editor-in-chief explore the history of credit cards.
Denmark bans social media for kids under 15.
Kim Kardashian reveals she failed the California bar exam.
Meet the man with the world's longest name.
The case for "extra-illustrating" your books.
Clickbait: Should children have skincare products?
Historybook: Protestant Reformation leader Martin Luther born (1483); US Marine Corps is founded (1775); Singer and actress Jane Froman born (1907); "Sesame Street" debuts (1969); Bill Gates announces Windows 1.0 to public (1983).
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