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This is why I never accepted it. It is clearly different from the rest.

Where is that? I would like to study that !!!

Longtime NBC Sports announcer Dan Hicks dies at 64 https://apnews.com/article/dan-hicks-dead-nbc-b4ac5dac07202a61597ebbe363599197?

Also crushed two vertebrae in the back and injured a knee. He is looking frail.

5 people are shot in DC, including 1 killed at a gym, and then suspect kills himself WASHINGTON (AP) — A man in a long-running dispute over the conditions of his penthouse condo shot and killed the building manager in a busy gym Thursday before fleeing and shooting four more people from his patio in just minutes, shocking a popular capital neighborhood and attracting a swarm of police officers. https://apnews.com/article/dc-shooting-logan-circle-3cee6a4ada875fcc18e932e536c63dcd?

The Boyle Heights district was once a thriving Jewish community. What in now Caesar Chavez Avenue used to be Brooklyn Ave. East L.A., where the White Memorial is located, is a Hispanic community. There are more than 100,000 reaidents in East L.A. 95% are Hispanic. There are areas where White people should appear only with a Hispanic escort. In short, there are likely thousands of illegals in East Los Angeles. It is exactly the kind of place where immigration enforcement should exercise itself. A large proportion of Hispanic immigrants maintain their distinct identity, usually Mexican. They are not assimilating into American culture, nor do they want to. Parts of downtown Los Angeles, city block after city block, are essentially an extension of Mexico. You would never guess you were in America, if you woke up there one morning. Whatever ICE is doing in Los Angeles is perfectly understandable, from an immigration enforcement perspective. How they do their job is another matter. Law enforcement officers, of any stripe, can get themselves killed being "nice." Generally, Americans are very rude and disrespectful of and to law enforcement. If ICE wants to get the job done, they could forget about non lethal alternatives, i.e., drop a few bodies. As a guy who pulled a gun on me in Arizona said, "You may not respect me but you will fear me."

Death row pastor calls on Byron Donalds to halt executions for six months after he takes office No state has executed more death row inmates over the past two years than Florida, but with a change of administrations taking place in January, anti-death penalty advocates are calling on Gov.-elect Byron Donalds to pause on any further executions. https://floridaphoenix.com/2026/11/11/death-row-pastor-calls-on-byron-donalds-to-halt-executions-for-six-months-after-he-takes-office/? Agency budget includes $1 placeholder for autism care recommendations Florida’s top healthcare officials are acknowledging that, when it comes to providing applied behavior analysis to autistic children and other patients, it may take money to save money. https://floridaphoenix.com/2026/11/11/agency-budget-includes-1-placeholder-for-autism-care-recommendations/? Feds consider letting destructive shrimping into protected Florida reef So many of the things we depend on in Florida are hidden from us, out of sight and thus out of mind. https://floridaphoenix.com/2026/11/12/feds-consider-letting-destructive-shrimping-into-protected-florida-reef/?

November 12, 2026 By Sam Sifton Good morning. Lots of news today. Let’s start with the latest — then, as we head into the holiday travel season, we’ll answer a question: Is air travel getting less safe? A crisis at Nvidia Jensen Huang Sean Gallup/Getty Images Jensen Huang’s future as the chief executive of Nvidia is in question after new reports emerged that he had an affair with an executive who reports to him — Nvidia’s vice president of health care — as well as a woman U.S. intelligence has identified as a Chinese spy. Nvidia’s board met to discuss Huang but has announced no decision on his future. The company’s shares plummeted. Some of Silicon Valley is rallying around Huang, arguing that he is essential to the A.I. race. Nvidia controls an estimated 90 percent of the market for the computer chips used in the big A.I. projects that are driving the U.S. economy. Read the latest news here. For more: Huang’s wife stands out among tech titan spouses for how private she has been. Now she’s in the spotlight. Mississippi’s Democratic senator At Tougaloo College in Jackson, Miss. Rory Doyle for The New York Times Scott Colom, a Democrat, won the Mississippi Senate race in a historic upset. He’ll be the first Black senator to represent the state since Reconstruction. He won with a slim margin after more than a week of ballot tallying. “God didn’t want us to get it the easy way,” Colom said in his victory speech. “He wanted us to get it the Mississippi way.” For more: Read about Mississippi’s two previous Black senators. Photo illustration by Pelle Cass Flight risks Here’s an extraordinary statistic. Between February 2009, when a commuter plane crashed on an icy night outside of Buffalo, N.Y., killing 50 people, and January 2025, when an Army helicopter and a commuter jet collided over the Potomac River, killing 67, the major U.S. airlines handled around 10 billion journeys. Not one person died in a crash during that time. It was the longest disaster-free period in the history of American air travel. Nearly 16 years! James Fallows, who looks at what has happened to air safety in the months since the Potomac crash, likens the achievement to the government-led effort to create a polio vaccine in the 1950s. There was, he writes, “a profound commitment from the people in charge to learn from tragedies — what aviation experts call ‘lessons written in blood.’” That commitment is weakening now, Fallows reports: “The Trump administration has displayed an extraordinary unwillingness to learn new lessons, and in some cases it seems to be unlearning the old ones.” Fallows is an accomplished pilot and author of three books on aviation. Here are some of the things he’s learned about aviation safety since the Potomac collision. After the Potomac collision last year. Kenny Holston/The New York Times Unlearned lessons. The day after the crash, President Trump announced his view of why it happened: D.E.I.-focused hiring practices at the Federal Aviation Administration during the Obama and Biden administrations. The actual cause, according to the National Transportation Safety Board, an independent agency, was overcrowding of the airspace. The board made 33 recommendations for changes to equipment and procedures that would lessen the likelihood of future collisions. But the F.A.A. has not implemented a third of them, which the N.T.S.B. calls “unacceptable.” The government has fired many specialists, including all of the members of a key airline security advisory committee and some 400 probationary employees who had not yet been awarded civil-service protection. “We’ll look back on choices like these as the first step in some future accident chain,” a 30-year NASA veteran told Fallows. The F.A.A. cut its staffing targets. In August, after a shortage of air traffic controllers caused delays across the country, Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy said he had “supercharged” recruiting efforts. The F.A.A. had previously cut its staffing target by more than 2,000 on the theory that new systems, including A.I., would bridge the gap. The government performs a lot of unannounced maneuvers in the sky. The Pentagon, in particular, has delivered chaos and confusion to commercial aviation authorities with surprise military operations over the Caribbean. In one case, a JetBlue plane had to take evasive action to avoid a collision. And in February, Customs and Border Protection used a laser-powered anti-drone weapon system it borrowed from the Pentagon to shoot down a party balloon it had incorrectly identified as a Mexican cartel drone, leading to the shutdown of El Paso International Airport for roughly eight hours. Read the full story. It’s free even if you’re not (yet) a subscriber. FREE TO READ The New York Times Shipwreck: The S.S. United States was once a luxurious supership. Now it’s at the bottom of the ocean. Eagle cam: See what the livestream doesn’t show. Itchy scalps: Dandruff is common and hard to ignore. What causes it? Your pick: The most clicked link in The Morning yesterday was to a video about the ICE agent who killed a man in Maine. MORE NEWS Pete Hegseth House Democrats faced bitter criticism within their own ranks after 11 of them missed a vote on the impeachment of Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth. Some blamed traffic. Late night hosts also criticized the Democrats. A soldier reprimanded Hegseth and a group around him for talking and laughing at the Tomb of the Unknowns on Veterans Day. More on Politics A California man is about to win an election, but he died months ago. Senate Republicans have begun a push to install federal judges before they lose control of the chamber next year. Trump hinted at a bipartisan immigration deal after the midterms but then reversed himself. He’s done that before. A White House lawyer warned Democrats that aggressive congressional investigations could be a crime. Experts are skeptical. Many moderates voted for Democrats this month. Will they stay? Around the World The United States wants to tighten the blockade on Iran. But Iran’s neighbors don’t. A British court struck down Trinidad and Tobago’s laws criminalizing homosexuality. It’s a precedent that could affect other Caribbean nations. Pope Leo XIV visited Peru, which he considers his homeland. He met the president — whose father’s dictatorial rule the pope once protested. A strike by Israel on a hospital in southern Gaza killed at least six people and injured more than 20, rescuers said. The vice president of Indonesia resigned in a scandal over his academic credentials. Other Big Stories A three-story building in Brooklyn collapsed into an adjacent construction site, killing at least two people. Scientists are working to detect signs of dementia based on changing speech patterns long before people show symptoms of cognitive decline. An 8-year-old was separated from his family and taken by ICE at a check-in. “He just cried and begged to come home,” his uncle said. Judge Richard Posner, the most cited legal scholar of the latter half of the 20th century, died at 87. OPINIONS Huang’s affair hasn’t only shaken the world economy and geopolitics. It has also shattered the leather-jacket-wearing community, Anand Giridharadas writes. A.I. makes mind-reading a real possibility — the technology has gotten better at recovering higher-fidelity images from brain activity. One author explains the risks. Morning readers, don’t miss The Midterms Sale on election coverage and more. What effect will the results have on the country? And on you? Stay informed with our best offer on The Times in full. Subscribe now. TODAY’S NUMBER 98 — That is at least how many lawsuits challenging weapon restrictions have used a specific 2008 precedent. That decision, written for the majority by Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia, said that such restrictions are allowed only if a firearm is both “dangerous and unusual.” Scalia was quoting an 18th-century English jurist whose writing became the basis for much of American law. Except Scalia misquoted the guy. SPORTS N.F.L.: Rex Ryan, the former New York Jets coach and ESPN analyst, was arrested in Nashville after he hit pedestrians with his car and left the scene. Olympics: The skiing star Lindsey Vonn said her ACL repair, the ninth surgery she has undergone since a crash, “went well.” More details are here. RECIPE OF THE DAY Kerri Brewer for The New York Times This lentil tomato soup has just a few ingredients and comes together in about a half-hour. It tastes as if it has about 35 and took the better part of the day. Why? The nutty, complex taste of the brown butter at its base gets an approximately 213 percent amplification by the addition of heavy cream, which reduces into a kind of toasted cheese that brings together the legumes and the tomatoes beautifully. Serve with big hunks of crusty bread to mop the bowl with when you’re done eating. GOING ZEN Robert Greene Gabriella Angotti-Jones for The New York Times People have bought nearly 10 million copies of Robert Greene’s blockbuster self-help book “The 48 Laws of Power,” a merciless primer on self-advancement through manipulation and trickery, in the United States since its publication in 1998. Fans include Drake, Joe Rogan, Will Smith and 50 Cent. Greene was hailed as a modern-day Machiavelli. Then he had a stroke and experienced transcendence. His new manual is “The Law of the Sublime,” a 496-page road map for inner enlightenment and states of awe. “How do you fix yourself after you’ve acquired power? This book is that,” 50 Cent told The Times. More on culture Shane MacGowan of the Pogues is the subject of a huge new tribute album, out Friday. Made in close partnership with his widow and his sister, “20th Century Paddy: The Songs of Shane MacGowan” brings together artists including Bruce Springsteen, U2, Hozier, Tom Waits, the Libertines, Jessie Buckley and Glen Hansard to celebrate the work of one of Ireland’s greatest lyricists, who died in 2023. Read about its birth. Would you spend $150 on a Thanksgiving apple pie? You certainly can, if the $5.99 pumpkin pie at Costco doesn’t appeal. Read our report from the front lines of the new pie economy. THE MORNING RECOMMENDS Audrey Helen Weber Manage the seasonal depression that comes for so many of us when we’re commuting in the dark. Our Well desk has advice. (TL;DR? Go outside in the morning!) Consider using a teeny-tiny toolbox from Harbor Freight as a place to store your everyday carries at night — your watch, say, and wallet, cash, earphones, sunglasses, pocketknife, flashlight and compass. (Or is that just me?) Write with a pencil, so you can erase your mistakes. The crossword neophytes at Wirecutter have selected the very best ones. (I’m a Ticonderoga man, myself.) GAMES Here is today’s Spelling Bee. Yesterday’s pangram was deductive. And here are today’s Mini Crossword, Wordle, Connections, Crossplay and Strands. Thanks for spending part of your morning with The Times and me. See you tomorrow. — Sam Reach our team at themorning@nytimes.com. Host: Sam Sifton Editor: Adam B. Kushner News Editor: Tom Wright-Piersanti News Staff: Evan Gorelick, Brent Lewis, Lara McCoy, Karl Russell Saturday Writer: Melissa Kirsch Editorial Director, Newsletters: Jodi Rudoren Deputy Editorial Director: Lauren Jackson

Hegseth and staff reprimanded by guard at Tomb of the Unknown Soldier Video shows Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth taking photos in front of the tomb with a group of advisers and staffers following a Veterans Day ceremony at Arlington National Cemetery. As the group broke from taking photos, a loud laugh could be heard, and the soldier guarding the tomb shouted that “all visitors will maintain an atmosphere of silence and respect at all times.” Read more. What to know: Sean Parnell, the Pentagon’s top spokesman, said that “while commemorating this solemn day, a soldier correctly and respectfully reminded everyone to maintain decorum.” The tomb is considered one of the most solemn and revered war memorials in the U.S., being the final resting place of unidentified soldiers from World War I, World War II and the Korean War. It has been guarded around the clock by a soldier from the Army’s 3rd Infantry Regiment, also known as “The Old Guard," since 1948. The incident comes a day after Hegseth narrowly survived an effort to impeach him by lawmakers in Congress. RELATED COVERAGE ➤ WATCH: See the incident unfold House approves bill to boost compensation for many veterans, with some floor drama Trump says the towering arch he wants to build might be dedicated to military veterans Americans honor those who served on Veterans Day, in photos A Detroit group is using dog tags to aid homeless women veterans

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✈️ 1 for the road: United's bot ban Illustration: Shoshana Gordon/Axios United Airlines is blocking personal AI assistants like Meta's Muse and OpenAI's Dots from accessing its systems to book tickets, The Wall Street Journal reports. The airline cited concerns about sensitive customer information, unintended purchases and potential violations of federal aviation rules. AI agents can still show customers United's flight options and prices but won't be allowed to book tickets directly on its website. Keep reading (gift link).

📉 Death penalty support crumbles Data: Gallup. Chart: Avery Lotz/Axios For the first time since 1971, fewer than half of Americans support the death penalty for convicted murderers, Axios' Avery Lotz writes from a new Gallup poll. Gallup started its most recent polling on the question a day after death row inmate Christa Pike survived a botched lethal injection process in Tennessee, triggering a pause on executions in the state. Go deeper.

💰 Trump playbook tempts Dems Illustration: Brendan Lynch/Axios Newly emboldened Democrats are warming to a move from President Trump's playbook: Turning the federal government into an investor in private companies, Axios' Amy Harder writes. They're considering investments and aid for clean energy and energy infrastructure. 🎨 The big picture: The Biden administration spent billions subsidizing clean energy and semiconductor manufacturing. The Trump administration has gone further by taking ownership stakes in companies ranging from Intel to critical-mineral producers. It has announced more than $30 billion in investments across nearly 50 deals involving government ownership and related financial arrangements, according to a Council on Foreign Relations tracker. 🔬 Zoom in: Jennifer Granholm, who served as President Biden's energy secretary, said at a gathering of energy and climate experts in Berkeley last month that "the Trump administration has widened the aperture for industrial policy." Granholm, a former Michigan governor, told us the government could take small ownership stakes in companies for national security or global competitiveness reasons. Keep reading ...

Big-city crime decline Data: Major Cities Chiefs Association (MCCA). (Tulsa Police changed crime-reporting systems, which may affect year-over-year comparisons.) Chart: Russell Contreras/Axios Axios' Russell Contreras, who has closely tracked America's stunning post-pandemic crime drop, writes: Homicides fell 15.2% across major U.S. police jurisdictions through the first nine months of 2026 compared with the same period last year, a new Major Cities Chiefs Association report found. Robberies fell 9.1%, rapes 3.5% and aggravated assaults 3.4%. 51 of the 66 large law enforcement agencies in the report logged overall declines. Between the lines: Not every city followed the trend. New York City was a major outlier, with more violent crime reported in all four categories, including 24.5% more homicides. In D.C., homicides fell 29.9%, but robberies surged 41.1%. Keep reading.

Jensen's blast radius Photo illustration: Sarah Grillo/Axios. Photo: David Paul Morris/Bloomberg via Getty Images Jensen Huang's potential ouster from Nvidia leaves a blast radius far beyond the chip giant that's the backbone of the global AI economy: The scandal will consume the new Congress, could take out Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick, goes all the way up to President Trump, and undermines U.S.-China relations on the eve of Trump's trip to Shenzhen for a summit next week and Xi Jinping's visit to Florida for a summit next month. Why it matters: Nvidia's chips, investments and financial guarantees sustain an ecosystem of companies worth trillions of dollars, Axios' Zachary Basu writes. At the epicenter of the blast is Huang, who spent 33 years making himself synonymous with Nvidia — and Nvidia synonymous with the AI revolution. "This is no ordinary CEO. This is no ordinary company. This is no ordinary sector. This is no ordinary time," economist Mohamed El-Erian wrote on X, warning of contagion across the AI industry. 🔎 Zoom in: As recently as two weeks ago, the notion of Nvidia without Jensen was unthinkable. Even after his affair with a suspected Chinese spy came to light, Trump and Nvidia's board stood behind him, Silicon Valley's elite rallied to his defense and betting markets suggested he would survive. A New York Times revelation yesterday that Huang had a second affair as recently as March — this time with an Nvidia executive who reports to him — shattered that consensus of support and put his storied reign in jeopardy. Driving the news: After that second affair came to light last night, Nvidia's board reportedly met to settle Huang's fate, though there was still no decision as of early this morning. The White House was read in. The market reaction has been brutal. Nvidia had already shed more than $1 trillion in market value since the initial scandal erupted, and shares plunged further in after-hours and pre-market trading. One of Wall Street's most prominent voices on tech, analyst Dan Ives, said Nvidia was worth 25% less without Huang. Data: FactSet. Chart: Matt Phillips/Axios Zoom out: Huang's rise was the stuff of Silicon Valley legend: The Taiwanese immigrant went from cleaning toilets at a Kentucky boarding school and waiting tables at Denny's to building one of the most valuable companies in history. Huang and two fellow engineers hatched the idea for Nvidia at a Denny's booth in 1993, launching a chipmaker that would revolutionize gaming, transform modern computing and ultimately power the AI revolution. Clad in his trademark black leather jacket, Huang became a global AI rock star — with a cult of personality that drew adoring crowds, calmed markets and commanded the attention of world leaders. 🖼️ The big picture: Huang's crisis comes amid mounting anxiety over the AI industry's future, as new financial, political and regulatory risks threaten one of the largest infrastructure buildouts in history. The timing is especially fraught for Anthropic, whose historic IPO — backed by a $10 billion commitment from Nvidia — looms as a referendum on Wall Street's faith in the AI trade. Huang spent years defending the industry's soaring valuations and dismissing warnings of a speculative frenzy. Now his own scandals could help burst the bubble he insisted didn't exist. 👀 What to watch: The blast radius could extend far beyond Silicon Valley and Wall Street, threatening to engulf the Trump administration in a scandal over its handling of sensitive technology exports to China. Huang forged a close alliance with Trump and Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick, who loosened restrictions on chip sales even as other officials raised concerns about Chinese espionage and smuggling. Two top Senate Democrats, Sens. Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts and Chris Coons of Delaware, demanded yesterday that Lutnick and other top Trump officials preserve records of their dealings with Nvidia and Huang.

Russia-Ukraine Talks Wrap Russia and Ukraine agreed in principle to a large prisoner-of-war exchange yesterday after two days of US-mediated talks in Abu Dhabi ended without a major breakthrough toward ending the nearly five-year war. The exchange could occur within two to three weeks, with the number of prisoners to be finalized today (how the countries exchange POWs). The talks marked the countries' first direct negotiations in nine months, with disagreements remaining over Russian-occupied Ukrainian territory and postwar security guarantees. European officials were excluded at Moscow’s insistence but consulted with Ukraine’s delegation on the sidelines. The Kremlin opposes Europe's military and financial support for Ukraine, while Ukraine wants its European allies involved. US envoys Jared Kushner and Steve Witkoff will meet Russian President Vladimir Putin in Moscow today before meeting Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy in Dublin. The war has displaced nearly 10 million Ukrainians and become Europe's deadliest conflict since World War II. Track the conflict on an interactive map here.

Editor Bennett Cerf challenged Dr. Seuss to write a book using no more than 50 different words. The result? Green Eggs and Ham. James

Indonesia’s vice president resigns as his eligibility and academic credentials are questioned JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) — Indonesia’s vice president resigned on Thursday as questions grew over his eligibility for the office after recent court rulings disputed his educational credentials. https://apnews.com/article/indonesia-gibran-rakabuming-raka-resigns-abfe5e288fad3b8b26719eae634f2ee0?

Invidious Decisions View in browser Sometimes a news story is important because it reveals information for the first time. Other times, it’s a big deal because it confirms what many people already suspected. The latest development in the story of Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang falls into the second category. As news of Huang’s extramarital affair with a suspected Chinese spy rocks Silicon Valley, Washington, and Wall Street, President Trump has pleaded ignorance. In particular, he has said he was unaware of the relationship between Jensen Huang and Alice Huang (no relation) when he traveled to China this past May. “No, I didn’t hear about it then,” he told reporters on Monday. Almost immediately, The New York Times reported that in fact Trump had been warned by Marco Rubio, the national security adviser and secretary of state, while headed to China on Air Force One, just before Jensen Huang boarded the plane for a state visit. (In fact, Trump may have been told even before then: The paper previously reported that Trump was notified about intelligence findings on the relationship last year as well.) The new White House chief of staff, Stephen Miller, wants to crack down on leaks; he clearly has his work cut out for him. A few important features of Trump’s approach to the presidency are on display here. First, he has abandoned the pretense of being tough on China, a major talking point during his first presidential run and term. Second, he ignores any intelligence findings that contradict his instincts. Third, this is the latest evidence that, as I wrote last January, Trump does not care about U.S. national security. That doesn’t mean he’s actively hostile to it, or a saboteur; he’s just indifferent to anything but his own interests. In the nearly two years since I first laid out this argument, the president has repeatedly bolstered the case. When Trump was informed that China had infiltrated a tech company that is widely regarded as essential to the health of the global economy as well as a crucial force for maintaining American power and national security—such that the U.S. bans exports of its most powerful chips to China—Trump opted to do nothing and pretend he hadn’t heard. We can only speculate on the reasons. Trump enjoys closeness with titans like Huang and wouldn’t want to endanger that. Huang clearly relished putting Trump on speakerphone during a podcast taping in September. (A serial philanderer himself, Trump said in recent days that Huang “probably has an excuse for” the affair.) The president may have also worried about the risk to the economy of any Nvidia turmoil—both because of the midterm elections and because his own portfolio has grown enormously during the AI boom. Trump was similarly indifferent to the national-security risks of the war in Iran. (Some of his advisers reportedly understood this but did little to dissuade him.) The administration couched the war in terms of eliminating the threat of a nuclear Iran, but given that U.S. intelligence had deemed the program moribund, and given that the Trump administration had claimed to have destroyed the program in 2025, the justification made little sense. And by embarking on a war with no clear strategy or planning, the U.S. has badly depleted its stores of missiles and other munitions, which will spell danger in the event of another conflict. The war has created divisions among American allies and shown that the United States is unable to win a war or guarantee freedom of navigation in the Persian Gulf, all of which weaken its long-term strategic positioning. Not every decision is as consequential as the Iran war, but Trump has repeatedly chosen personal or short-term political gain over American security and national priorities. Accepting the gift of a 747 from Qatar was neither ethical nor a wise security choice—as became clear when Trump had to do his Turkish tarmac turnaround and board a safer plane in August. The president chose his own interests—both flattery and a splashy if minor diesel-fuel deal—in once more embracing Vladimir Putin and distancing himself from Ukraine in October. And as I argued in September, Trump’s decision to treat Venezuela as a vassal state and stifle the popularly supported María Corina Machado is likely to harm American regional interests over time while yielding limited benefits now. To paraphrase Benjamin Franklin, those who would choose some short-term personal benefit over long-term national interest may end up losing both. If Trump hoped that overlooking Huang’s liabilities would prevent turmoil, the bet didn’t pay off. The Wall Street Journal reported this evening that Nvidia’s board is preparing to oust Huang, after a report late today of another affair, this one with a subordinate. Huang’s behavior has become both a political scandal and an economic liability, after Nvidia’s stock slid over the past few days. What harm this whole incident may have done to national security may not be clear for months or years to come. Related: A scandal at the center of the economy America can’t afford an AI recession.

Microsoft's $5,899 AI Laptop Is Here, and You Should Absolutely Not Buy It The Nvidia-powered Surface Laptop Ultra crushes local AI benchmarks, but app compatibility issues and sky-high prices make it a tough sell for almost everyone. https://www.pcmag.com/news/microsofts-5899-ai-laptop-is-here-and-you-should-absolutely-not-buy-it?

Nearly $1 billion in stolen wages was recovered for workers in 2025 Affordability—or the lack thereof—has dominated the recent political debate in the U.S. Much of the affordability debate has focused narrowly on prices. But the true underlying driver of today’s affordability squeeze is suppressed pay—the result of decades of policy decisions that have weakened workers’ bargaining power. Weakened bargaining power not only suppresses workers’ wages but also makes workers more vulnerable to exploitation. Among the most pervasive forms is wage theft, which robs millions of workers of billions of dollars each year (Cooper and Kroeger 2017; Poydock and Zhang 2024). Wage theft occurs anytime an employer fails to pay a worker the amount they are legally owed for their labor. This can take many forms, including not paying overtime to eligible workers, not providing meal breaks as required by law, or paying workers less than the minimum wage. Existing laws enable workers to recoup these stolen wages through government enforcement, individual wage claims, and class action lawsuits. https://www.epi.org/publication/nearly-1-billion-in-stolen-wages-was-recovered-for-workers-in-2025/?

Does video show Hegseth's group being reprimanded for talking, laughing at Tomb of the Unknown Soldier? A guard shouted for silence after Hegseth and three other people posed for photos on the steps in front of the monument. Claim: A video authentically showed a U.S. Army sentinel guarding the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier reprimanding U.S. Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth and his group after someone talked and laughed while taking photos at the monument on Veteran’s Day. Rating: True On Veterans Day, a video (archived) circulated online that social media users claimed authentically showed a U.S. Army sentinel guarding the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier reprimanding U.S. Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth and his group after someone talked and laughed while taking photos at the monument. https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/hegseth-tomb-of-the-unknown-soldier-video/?

I'm guessing than that if there are discrepancies than the whole story needs to come out first before we can determine what's really going on here?

More getting exactly what they hoped for and voted for. Why are some sounding so upset and angry. Voters spoke and the socialists gave them just what they asked for Mayor Zohran Mamdani quietly earmarked another $6.2 million for his “mass engagement” office that critics claim is merely a taxpayer-funded political propaganda arm for City Hall. Hizzoner snuck in an additional $1.1 million in undefined spending for the Mayor’s Office of Mass Engagement in his mid-year budget modification released Thursday. That brings the total budget for the activist-packed outreach office to a whopping $6.3 million for this fiscal year, which ends June 30, the newly released documents show. The socialist mayor’s pet project originally had an approved $5.2 million budget for expenses, not including salaries for staffers, many of whom are far-left activists. The updated budget documents also added another $1.7 million to the office’s piggy bank for each of the three following years, for a total $6.2 million in extra spending. City Councilman Phil Wong, an outspoken critic of the mayor’s mass engagement arm, slammed the additional funding, saying he “doesn’t believe the office warrants any more tax dollars.” “We truly don’t understand what it is they even do other than politicking,” the Queens Democrat fumed. The office partnered with pro-rent-freeze activists to urge New Yorkers to attend Rent Guidelines Board meetings ahead of the body approving a rent freeze for stabilized apartments — one of Mamdani’s top campaign promises — even while claiming it was not pushing a political agenda. The OME also worked to get voters out to the polls during the June primaries as part of a campaign that raised concerns about whether it crossed an ethical line by subtly pushing people to back left-wing House candidates endorsed by Mamdani. The Post previously reported that OME planned to dole out cushy, six-figure salaries — totaling nearly $2 million in taxpayer cash — to more than a dozen activist-minded hires. But a detailed salary breakdown for the office — which is run by longtime organizer and Democratic Socialists of America member Tascha Van Auken — hasn’t been publicly released, with payroll being tucked into City Hall’s internal books. A previous review of job listings by The Post found the Mamdani administration was adding at least $155 million in wages alone, excluding benefits, to City Hall’s books. The mayor’s office added around $2 million in pay for additional staffers in the mid-year budget update. The revamped financial plan showed the city’s overall spending ballooning by more than $3 billion from the $126 billion budget deal adopted with the City Council in June. The new, nearly $130 billion budget was slammed by fiscal hawks who decried City Hall’s failure to curb spending. “While some spending like SNAP administration is needed, the plan amazingly baselines $1 billion in new annual spending, five times the new savings,” said Andrew Rein, of the Citizens Budget Commission think tank. “That busts the budget, it doesn’t balance it.” City Hall did not return requests for comment.