Friday, November 21
In The NEWS
Sports, Entertainment, & Culture
> Retired Swiss tennis star Roger Federer—first man to win 20 Grand Slam singles titles—elected to International Tennis Hall of Fame in first year of eligibility (More)
> Women's Pro Baseball League inaugural draft kicks off tonight at 8 pm ET; season starts August 2026 and will be played at Illinois' Robin Roberts Stadium (More)
> At least two Miss Universe judges resign days before pageant, with one accusing organizers of rigged selection process (More) | Singer D4vd identified as suspect in death of 15-year-old girl found dead in vehicle he owned (More)
Science & Technology
> OpenAI rolls out ChatGPT built for K-12 educators, offering it to teachers and schools for free through June 2027 (More)
> Researchers identify rapidly growing supermassive black hole in galaxy that formed relatively soon after the Big Bang, suggesting black holes expanded at accelerated pace in the early universe (More)
> Scientists develop topical ointment capable of delivering insulin through skin, a potential alternative to invasive insulin injections for people with diabetes (More)
Business & Markets
> US stock markets close up (S&P 500 +0.4%, Dow +0.1%, Nasdaq +0.6%), snapping losing streak ahead of Nvidia earnings (More) | Nvidia shares rise in after-hours trading on stronger-than-expected Q3 revenue and Q4 guidance (More)
> Labor Department confirms canceled October jobs report due to government shutdown; September jobs report to be released today (More) | Federal Reserve's October meeting minutes sow doubt over December rate cut (More)
> US trade deficit drops nearly 24% month-over-month in August as Trump administration's global tariffs reduce imports by 5% month-over-month (More)
Politics & World Affairs
> Larry Summers resigns from the board of OpenAI, leaves Harvard University instructor role following the release of email exchanges between him and late sex offender Jeffrey Epstein (More) | President Donald Trump signs bill compelling the Justice Department to release unclassified Epstein records within 30 days (More)
> Justice Department charges Rep. Sheila Cherfilus-McCormick (D, FL-20) for allegedly stealing $5M in Federal Emergency Management Agency funds, funneling the money to support her congressional campaign (More)
> Japan's largest urban fire in nearly 50 years burns through the city of Oita on the southwestern island of Kyushu, damaging at least 170 buildings (More)
SOURCE: 1440 NEWS
Imagine Part II
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So...
yesterday, I imagined a guaranteed income because of all the jobs that will be lost due to advanced technology. Imagined or not, I believe IT WILL HAPPEN.
Yesterday, I also stated that I believed we would NEVER be able to imagine a world WITHOUT wars and religion.
BUT TODAY, I am going to imagine a world without DISEASE...
- like all cancers
- Heart disease
- Alzheimer's
- Diabetes
- Dementias
- Infections
This list would also include:
- hereditary
- deficiency
- psychological
Again, I believe this is possible in the next generation or perhaps two for 100% due to advanced technologies.
Consequently...
our life spans would increase and instead of looking at 80-100 years of life, we would be looking at 100-120 years of life.
Who to thank???
- Artificial Intelligence
- Humanoid Robots
- and our willingness to let them grow!!!
The solar system may be racing through space 3 times faster than expected
An illustration of our solar system (not to scale). (Image credit: buradaki/iStock/Getty Images Plus)
Astronomers have discovered that the solar system may be moving through the cosmos over three times faster than was previously theorized. The discovery could have implications for the standard model of cosmology, our current best model to explain the structure, composition and evolution of the universe.
The team behind this research reached its conclusions using the Low Frequency Array (LOFAR) radio telescope network and two other radio telescopes to map the distribution of radio galaxies, which they then used to measure the motion of the solar system. Radio galaxies are galaxies that emit unusually strong radio waves from "lobes" that extend well beyond their visible structure of stars.
Astronomers have discovered that the solar system may be moving through the cosmos over three times faster than was previously theorized. The discovery could have implications for the standard model of cosmology, our current best model to explain the structure, composition and evolution of the universe.
The team behind this research reached its conclusions using the Low Frequency Array (LOFAR) radio telescope network and two other radio telescopes to map the distribution of radio galaxies, which they then used to measure the motion of the solar system. Radio galaxies are galaxies that emit unusually strong radio waves from "lobes" that extend well beyond their visible structure of stars.
Thursday, November 20
Headlines
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The Fed is deeply divided, and it won’t have full October data. Central bankers cut interest rates last month, but they were split over whether to focus on the weak job market or inflation—and over whether more cuts will be necessary going forward, minutes from the Fed’s last meeting show. That leaves the outlook for whether they’ll opt for another cut in December murky. And Jerome Powell and co. won’t have all the data when making the decision: Yesterday, the Bureau of Labor Statistics said it won’t publish a full jobs report for October due to the government shutdown. Instead, it’ll include some information about the labor market in October with its November report, but it won’t have an unemployment tally, as the information “could not be collected.” It also delayed the November data drop until six days after the Fed’s December meeting.
President Trump signed the bill requiring the Epstein files’ release. The legislation signed by the president yesterday obliges the Department of Justice to release all files and communications related to the late sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, including information about the investigation into his death in prison, within 30 days. Trump could have released this information without Congress; however, he opposed the legislation, which divided his party. He abruptly pivoted over the weekend to say that Republicans should support it—after which the bill passed with near-unanimous bipartisan support. In announcing he had signed the bill, Trump characterized the issue as something Democrats used “to try and distract from our AMAZING Victories.”
Target still not hitting the bull’s-eye. The big-box chain’s struggles continued last quarter, with Target reporting yesterday that sales continued to slump, marking the 12th quarter in a row with weak or declining sales. The company’s stock is down nearly 35% for the year. But incoming CEO Michael Fiddelke plans to boost investment next year to $5 billion to improve stores, digital offerings, and merchandise in hopes of turning things around. “If you’re frustrated with our recent performance, we are too,” Fiddelke told analysts.—AR
Robert Reich
It is an inherent part of neofascism
Friends,
Today I want to talk to you about a difficult subject. Let me start with the Trump regime’s ongoing accusations of antisemitism to extort billions of dollars from American universities — while simultaneously disregarding antisemitism within its own ranks.
Exhibit A is Harmeet Dhillon, now Trump’s assistant attorney general for civil rights. For the last 10 months, Dhillon has condemned prestigious universities for allowing what she deems “antisemitic” protests — and withheld research funding unless they agree to explicit measures supposedly to prevent antisemitism.
I was a Dartmouth trustee in the 1980s when its president, James O. Freedman, who was Jewish, endured the antisemitic barbs of an ascendant right-wing student group that included Dhillon, along with Laura Ingraham and Dinesh D’Souza.
In 1988, as editor of The Dartmouth Review, Dhillon published a column depicting Freedman as Adolf Hitler under the headline “Ein Reich, Ein Volk, Ein Freedmann” — a play on a Nazi slogan, “One Empire, One People, One Leader,” but substituting and misspelling Freedman’s name for “Fuhrer.”
At A Glance
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Pokémon’s path from playground trades to global phenomenon.
Curaçao becomes smallest country to ever qualify for World Cup.
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Historybook: US Sen. Robert F. Kennedy born (1925); Former President Joe Biden born (1942); Nuremberg trials against 24 Nazi war criminals begin (1945); Actress Bo Derek born (1956); Microsoft Windows 1.0 released (1985).
In The NEWS
Sports, Entertainment, & Culture
> "The Joe Rogan Experience" tops Apple's year-end podcast charts by listenership; "The Telepathy Tapes" ranks No. 1 in top series and most shared categories (More)
> Alice and Ellen Kessler, German twins and entertainment duo who rose to international stardom in the 1950s and 1960s, die at 89 by assisted suicide (More)
> Sean "Diddy" Combs faces new sexual assault claims from music producer over alleged 2020 and 2021 incidents; LA County Sheriff's Department is investigating (More)
Science & Technology
> Google rolls out Gemini 3 AI model, built to better grasp nuance and user intent; release comes nearly eight months after Gemini 2.5 and almost two years after 1.0 (More) | The best resources we've found on large language models (1440 Topics)
> Engineers use ultrasonic waves to shake water molecules out of air; method is 45 times more efficient than heat-based systems and could improve access to clean drinking water in desert regions (More)
> First-ever 3D analysis of preserved Neanderthal nasal cavity challenges long-standing theory that Neanderthals developed large noses to adapt to cold climate (More)
Business & Markets
> US stock markets close lower (S&P 500 -0.8%, Dow -1.1%, Nasdaq -1.2%); S&P 500 logs longest slide since August (More)
> Meta wins FTC antitrust case after federal judge rules the tech giant did not monopolize personal social networking services when it acquired Instagram in 2012 and WhatsApp in 2014 (More)
> AI company Anthropic valued at around $350B after up to $5B investment from Microsoft and up to $10B investment from Nvidia; Anthropic to commit up to $30B to Microsoft's Azure cloud computing platform (More)
Politics & World Affairs
> Trump administration takes steps to dismantle the Education Department by transferring key programs to four other agencies, which include the departments of Labor, Health and Human Services, State, and Interior (More)
> Misplaced wire label caused cargo ship to lose power and crash into Baltimore's Francis Scott Key Bridge last year, killing six construction workers (More)
> Federal court bars Texas from using its new congressional map in 2026 midterm elections; new map would have shifted up to five districts from Democratic to Republican (More)
SOURCE: 1440 NEWS
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