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1. Northeast on alert for freezing cold, first major snow storm  USA Today
2. Snow this week in Massachusetts? Maps show latest track for storm in Boston area.  CBS News
3. Could tri-state see first snowflakes of the season by the end of the week?  NBC New York
4. A potential nor’easter could bring rain, snow by later this week  The Weather Channel
5. Major weather flip could bring snow, rain and bitter cold to Northeast  Cleveland.com

1. Suspect in Charlie Kirk killing to stand trial for murder in July 2028  The Guardian
2. MICHAEL RUIZ: Tyler Robinson judge to give long-awaited trial date ruling in assassination of Charlie Kirk  Fox News
3. Charlie Kirk's accused killer set to stand trial for aggravated murder in June 2028  CBS News
4. Judge sets trial date for Charlie Kirk’s accused killer for summer 2028  CNN
5. Man Accused of Murdering Charlie Kirk to Go on Trial in 2028  The New York Times

1. Gotham to play NWSL semi at 5K seat Icahn Stadium due to shoddy home field  ESPN
2. Gotham FC to Host NWSL Semifinal at Icahn Stadium  GothamFC.com
3. NWSL playoffs scheduling snafu: Washington Spirit keep Audi Field; Gotham move to Icahn  The Guardian
4. Washington Spirit’s semifinal will be played at Audi Field after scheduling conflict resolved  WTOP News
5. Washington Spirit to host NWSL semifinal at Audi Field after venue scramble  The New York Times

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The data center debate rages nationwide, and it often centers on one question: How much are data centers driving up electric bills? 

But most Americans would be surprised to learn that their bills will keep climbing—even if no new hyperscaler data centers ever show up. And that raises an even more revealing question: Why is the U.S. still running its economy on a 100-year-old utility model built for the early 1900s?

Using this antiquated electricity delivery system in the modern era has large and widespread consequences. Electricity rates have risen 30% in the past five years, and the typical American household pays an extra $300 annually. Utilities in at least eight states are preemptively shutting off electricity service. And some states are responding to threats of catastrophic wildfires often sparked by their own utility equipment. Meanwhile, obsolete utility approaches to meet forecast hyperscaler data center demand threaten even higher costs for ordinary ratepayers.

As a country, we should commit to adopting and linking new technologies like solar and battery storage, giving individuals and communities more control over power production and supply, and offering the cheapest and cleanest way to meet our power needs. However, the old monopoly utility system creates powerful incentives for companies to act against the public need for clean, cheap energy and to thwart existing public oversight mechanisms. Accelerating technological improvements for local power generation and resilience further widens the gap between the outdated utility model and the opportunities of a modern electricity system.  

To be fair, our archaic system made sense at the time. Since the advent of electricity generation, political leaders believed in the public benefits of this essential resource and that a delivery monopoly—a single set of wires to each home or business—was prudent. Then, one after another, states struck bargains to grant for-profit companies a monopoly over electricity delivery in exchange for state oversight. This state-by-state regulatory model quickly fell short, as utilities speculated in unregulated industries and hid the costs. The collapse of large utility holding companies in the 1920s and 1930s contributed to the Great Depression, demanding new federal rules. In 1935, the Public Utilities Holding Company Act made several changes meant to curb utility industry excesses, including breaking up multi-utility holding companies and setting guidelines to prevent a recurrence of mergers that threatened the public interest.

This revised regulatory framework held for 50 more years, but as an economic philosophy of “bigger is better” took hold in our national politics in the 80s and 90s, the fervor of market consolidation swept up the utility industry, too. From the mid-90s to 2015, mergers shrank the number of investor-owned utilities by almost half, even as electricity use rose 20%. The death knell of market competition came in 2005, when Congress repealed key provisions of its 1935 legislation and lifted a ban on utility political contributions, sharply reducing federal oversight and dramatically increasing political influence. Fewer and larger utility companies have meant more power for shareholders and poorer service for consumers.

Utilities have only reinforced that power by crushing potential competitors. They’ve used loopholes in infrastructure planning rules to build pet projects that effectively excluded new entrants. They’ve lobbied states for "right of first refusal" laws to get first dibs on owning new poles and wires. They’ve added layers of detailed and time-consuming review and high fees to the grid connection process for new solar arrays and batteries. They’ve also aggressively lobbied to reduce the energy savings consumers earn from rooftop solar projects.

This old and expensive utility model is increasingly at odds with remarkable technological innovations underway in the production and distribution of electricity. Research by Rewiring America suggests that nearly all the forecast demand from data centers could be met with residential or business clean energy assets such as solar, batteries, and heat pumps, much faster and more affordably than utility-preferred investments like large power plants and transmission lines. Similarly, community solar projects can be built in mere months and share electricity among many “subscribers” (including renters and others typically left out of rooftop solar adoption). This is why experts like myself believe that local resources can directly lower energy costs for millions of consumers and simultaneously make grids more resilient against climate events such as wildfires or storms. 

The gigawatts of rooftop solar installed by California home and business owners, for example, saved all in-state utility customers over $2 billion in 2024 alone. Many Californians have attached batteries to their solar systems, allowing them to dispatch power into the state’s grid in periods of sky-high wholesale prices, lowering costs for everyone. But the state’s big three investor-owned utilities have only complaints, because those consumer savings from consumer investments don’t result in big shareholder profits.

We can prevent data centers—or the next big energy demand—from spiking energy bills, but it requires acknowledging two fundamental truths. 

First, the costly failures of today’s grid lie in the overbroad monopoly powers that pit for-profit grid operators against the entrepreneurs and customers who can generate and manage clean electricity for themselves and others. Utilities can only block rooftop solar, for example, because they have a publicly granted monopoly over the poles and wires to which the arrays connect. 

Second, only breaking up for-profit utilities and removing the profit motive from electricity delivery can end the perverse incentives that drive for-profit utilities to abuse their market and political power. 

If we make local electricity distribution a public service, restructured utilities will profit only when they provide a valuable service, not just build a thing. Their proposed power solutions for AI data centers (or anything else) should have to prove as cost-effective as the energy provided by independent producers or networks of customers deploying local solar, batteries, and heat pumps. Like the federal government’s breakup of AT&T fifty years ago, separating the public function of running the network from the competitive function of supplying services (telephones and modems in the AT&T case, local solar electricity in the utility case) can unleash lower costs and innovations –– such as the original fiber optic network that birthed the modern Internet.  

The electricity monopoly model has failed, unable to reconcile central planning and private profits with electricity democracy enabled by modern technology. We can restructure our utility system to tap the best resources from fair and open markets run by accountable grid operators, if we break up the monopoly corporations that stand in the way. Putting the public back in charge would allow us to build a cleaner, more efficient, and resilient grid, better able to meet the challenges of the modern economy, and make good on the promise of this public service that Americans can depend on.

1. Exclusive | U.S. Balks at China’s Demand for Tightly Scripted Trump-Xi-Putin Summit  WSJ
2. Trump thinks he will meet Xi and Putin at China APEC summit  Reuters
3. Can Xi Jinping and Vladimir Putin give Donald Trump the Iran exit he needs?  South China Morning Post
4. Ukraine war briefing: Beijing confirms historic Xi-Trump-Putin meeting under discussion  The Guardian
5. Trump to meet Russia's Putin and China's Xi next week  Euronews.com

1. NASA’s Voyager 1 to Cross Historic One Light-Day Milestone on Nov. 18  CNET
2. NASA Invites Media, Public to Join Voyager 1 One-Light Day Activities  NASA (.gov)
3. Voyager 1 is almost one light-day away from Earth  Popular Science
4. Voyager 1 Is the Farthest Human-Made Object in the Universe—and the Spacecraft Is About to Reach One Light-Day From Earth  Smithsonian Magazine
5. NASA asks Earthlings to wave as Voyager 1 reaches a light-day away  The Register

1. James Gunn and Peter Safran Are Out as Heads of DC Studios  The New York Times
2. DC Studios Shocker: James Gunn, Peter Safran Stepping Down with Marvel Alum Jeremy Latcham to Take Over  The Hollywood Reporter
3. DCU shake-up: James Gunn and Peter Safran out post-merger  Ars Technica
4. DC in Flux: What Happens to James Gunn’s Batman, Superman and Other Heroes After Shocking Exit?  Variety
5. Lanterns Season 2: DCU Fans Are Terrified for Show’s Future After James Gunn Exit  Yahoo

Chris Rock is going into detail about the end of his marriage, admitting he wasn't the best husband and took accountability for mistakes he made in the relationship.

During a recent interview with GQ, the 61-year-old comedian shared that there were many factors that caused the divorce, noting he cheated and was addicted to pornography during his marriage.

"I was not a great husband," he admitted. "I watched a lot of porn. I don’t watch porn anymore. I haven’t watched porn in five, six years."

He also admitted to cheating on his wife, noting, "It’s not anything I’m proud of, but it’s something I had to go through."

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The comedian compared himself to a character in a Marvel movie who "has to test his powers" and see how far they can push things before they eventually "crash down."

"Every Marvel movie, man or woman, they have to test their powers," he said. "They’re a- -holes. They get these powers and they’re a- -holes, and they’re racing trains and they’re lifting up ocean liners and they try to go to the sun, then they crash down because they realize they’re not God. And then they start helping people."

He explained that he "tested my powers" during his marriage by cheating on his wife, noting he "was severely humbled" when he realized he definitely "wasn't God or anywhere near him."

Rock was married to Malaak Compton-Rock for nearly 20 years. They tied the knot in 1996, separated in 2014 and finalized their divorce in 2016. They share two children together, daughters, Lola and Zahra.

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The actor recently directed the film, "Misty Green," the first movie he has directed in 12 years, the last one being 2014's "Top Five." He explained that some of the reason behind that is that he got divorced.

"Nobody has a successful divorce, so that takes time," he said. "Then once it’s done, okay, you’re not sitting on the money you had before, so now you got to really make some money. So you go on tour, or two tours. So there was a lot of stand-up. There was a lot of getting my life together. You got a pandemic, you got a bunch of nonsense going on there."

"Misty Green" follows an award-winning actress, Misty Green, who is working hard to make a comeback after years of watching her career slowly fade away, with Rock portraying a casting director who once worked with the actress.

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While promoting the movie, Rock told "The Daily" podcast in October that he wanted to make a movie about Los Angeles, calling it a "tale of two cities," noting that while there is "sunshine and palm trees," people are also "constantly walking over homeless people."

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The actor previously spoke about the message he wanted to get across when making the film, telling Variety in September that much of the movie is about Los Angeles, which he called a "complicated place" that "attracts an underbelly that people want to pretend doesn’t exist."

"A lot of it’s about L.A. L.A. has got very wonky priorities," he said. "There’s a real estate office on the same street as The Ivy on Robertson, and in the window, there are houses for $30-$40 million. In the window. But there’s a homeless guy sleeping right outside. The movie is about that crazy dichotomy."

1. iOS 27.2.1 has fixes for security issues in Messages, AirPlay, and more  9to5Mac
2. Here's What Apple Fixed in iOS 27.2.1 and macOS 27.2.1  MacRumors
3. Incremental iOS 27.2.1, iPadOS, macOS updates arrive with bug fixes  AppleInsider
4. Apple releases security updates: iOS 27.2.1, 26.7.3, and 18.7.12  Macworld
5. Apple Releases macOS Golden Gate 27.2.1, Tahoe 26.7.3, and Sequoia 15.8.3  iClarified

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Researchers continue to document benefits of GLP-1 drugs beyond weight loss and diabetes. At the American Heart Association annual meeting in November and in new studies published in scientific journals, scientists at Eli Lilly reported that Foundayo (orforglipron), its GLP-1 pill recently approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA), helped reduce the number of obstructive sleep apnea episodes people had. Another drug called retatrutide—an experimental weight-loss injection that the company is currently testing—helped ease pain caused by osteoarthritis in the knee.

Foundayo and sleep apnea

In sleep apnea, people stop breathing for brief periods of time, depriving the body and brain of oxygen, which can drive up blood pressure, contribute to atrial fibrillation, place added burden on the heart, and even sometimes lead to stroke. 

Weight is one of the strongest risk factors for sleep apnea. Excess weight can restrict airways around the neck, throat, and chest, so losing weight can reduce the number of sleep apnea episodes.

Though Foundayo is only approved for chronic weight management—not yet for obstructive sleep apnea—the data suggest it’s the third product from Lilly to address the condition. Its two GLP-1 medications—Mounjaro for diabetes and Zepbound for weight loss—are already approved to treat obstructive sleep apnea in those groups. But both of those medicines require patients to inject themselves weekly; Foundayo is a pill, which could provide patients with a more convenient option if the FDA approves it for that purpose. Ken Custer, executive vice president and president of cardiometabolic health at Lilly, says that by the end of 2026, the company plans to submit a request to the FDA for Foundayo’s approval in people who are overweight or obese who also have obstructive sleep apnea.

 

The two studies published in JAMA included more than 700 people in nine countries who were overweight or obese—with a BMI of 27 or higher—and had moderate-to-severe obstructive sleep apnea. Some used a device for positive airway pressure therapy (PAP), and some did not. 

People in the study lost an average of 28 pounds—about 11% of their starting body weight—compared to people who took a placebo. Those on the drug also showed improvements in risk factors for heart disease, including reduced levels of the inflammatory marker CRP, and lower blood pressure.

They also had about 44% fewer overnight apnea events over a year compared to those who took a placebo. By the end of a year, about 20% of those who took Foundayo either went into remission for their condition or transitioned  to a milder form of the disease. Those results put Foundayo on par with Zepbound for its effect on sleep apnea. 

 

The study also showed that people who did not use PAP devices had slightly greater reductions in sleep apnea events than those who did. Custer says that could indicate that PAP devices may be doing some of the work to manage the events. It’s also possible that those who didn’t use the devices were generally earlier in their disease.

Retatrutide and osteoarthritis

In a separate study presented at the conference and published in the New England Journal of Medicine, the company reported on an injectable compound still in development, retatrutide, and its effect on arthritis pain in the knee. Retatrutide targets three hormones related to weight, while Foundayo targets one and Zepbound two. Arthritis pain and weight are related, so weight loss can be a major contributor to reducing arthritis-associated pain in joints like the knees. 

That’s what the researchers saw in two studies involving more than 1,000 people who were overweight or obese (with a BMI of at least 27) and also had osteoarthritis in the knee. People were given varying doses of retatrutide or placebo.

Those who received the injectable drug weekly lost about 25% of their body weight, and two thirds of those who got the drug reported a 50% drop in knee pain after more than a year.

 

While weight and arthritis pain are correlated, “the mechanism of what causes the pain is poorly understood,” says Dr. Thomas Schnitzer, professor of physical medicine and rehabilitation, anesthesiology, and medicine at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine and one of the co-authors of the study. Excess weight can contribute to arthritis in the joints in several ways. One is physical: extra weight places a heavier load on joints and can lead to wearing of the joints and pain. Another is more metabolic: fat cells can produce inflammatory factors that can cause pain in joints. Some data suggest that GLP-1 drugs may have anti-inflammatory effects, which could also contribute to the reduction in pain seen in the study.

 

Schnitzer says the data should be strong enough to consider the experimental drug as a treatment for arthritis pain in the knee, and Custer says Lilly is studying the drug for chronic low back pain. Lilly is also studying Foundayo for more generalized pain that’s not related to weight. “We believe the incretins [the group of molecules to which GLP-1s belong] have analgesic effects mediated by something other than weight loss, given their involvement in inflammatory pathways and potentially impacts on neuronal function,” Custer says. 

1. Shipwreck Off Senegal Kills Dozens as Canary Islands Declare Migrant Emergency  The New York Times
2. Senegal: Footage reveals wreckage of deadly migrant boat in which 39 people died  Yahoo
3. Canary Islands: 39 dead after migrant boat sinks off Senegal en route to Europe  BBC
4. Senegal human rights group demands government action after deadly sinking  Al Jazeera
5. 21 dead after boat carrying migrants sinks off Senegal coast  AL.com

1. Supreme Court paves way for Trump to build a section of his border wall in the Big Bend area of Texas  NBC News
2. Supreme Court clears the way for border wall construction in Texas’s Big Bend to resume  The Washington Post
3. Supreme Court allows Trump to continue border wall construction in Big Bend region of Texas  CNN
4. Supreme Court allows Trump border wall at Big Bend National Park in Texas  Reuters
5. Supreme Court Allows Construction of Trump’s Border Wall in Big Bend  The New York Times

Paula Bellizia, Henrique Dias, and Athina Kanioura onstage at the TIME Impact Dinner: Leading LATAM's Next Chapter of Growth on Friday, Nov. 6.

Industry leaders in Latin America discussed the economic and technological growth occurring across the region at TIME’s Impact Dinner: Leading LATAM's Next Chapter of Growth in Brazil on Friday. 

Speaking on a panel at the dinner were Paula Bellizia, the vice president of Amazon Web Services in Latin America; Henrique Dias, co-founder and CEO of NoHarm.ai, an artificial intelligence healthcare platform; and Athina Kanioura, the CEO of Latin America for PepsiCo, which sponsored the event. 

Kanioura called Latin America “the place to be” for many businesses. 

“We see a lot of white space for big companies to invest, drive growth, drive differentiation, drive innovation,” Kanioura said. She said that PepsiCo has been growing at a faster pace in Latin America than in any other region in the world. 

Brazil, Dias noted, is full of skilled workers, especially in the engineering, computer science, and AI sectors. He said, however, that without outside investment, it’s difficult to make the most of that workforce and stoke economic growth.

“We have very talented people. What we don’t have here is money” said Dias, whose company operates in Brazil as a non-profit that provides free AI services to the public health sector. 

With funds, he contended, “we can build a Silicon Valley in Brazil." 

“But we don't have that kind of money that [is] in North America,” he added. “But we have very clever people, very clever companies.”

In addition to a talented workforce, the corporate leaders asserted that emerging technologies will be a key ingredient in Latin America’s future growth. 

“Technology is hitting us, is coming towards us in a positive way in terms of really bringing more wealth and bringing opportunity for people,” Bellizia said. 

To illustrate the vital role technology is playing in Brazil, she explained that 12 million companies in the country—which she said represents roughly half of all the businesses there—said they are using AI in their work, and that the rate of AI use is growing at a fast pace of 30% year over year. 

When asked what is required to continue Latin America’s steady pace of economic and technological growth, Bellizia said: “What this continent lacks is infrastructure. It doesn't lack talent. It doesn't lack drive. It doesn't lack resilience. But for you guys to have the technology that you need, you need data centers. For data centers to be there, you need infrastructure. You need water.” 

Dias added that there needs to be a larger investment in national technology and a movement away from “importing AI technology” from industry giants like OpenAI and Anthropic.

“We need to invest in national technology to be more independent from the rest of the world and to be independent ourselves,” he said.

TIME Impact Dinner: Leading LATAM's Next Chapter of Growth was presented by PepsiCo.

1. Vulnerability that lets hackers SSH into Linux devices is under active exploitation  Ars Technica
2. OpenSSH Issues Emergency Fix for Flaw Letting Long Passwords Bypass SSH Auth on Alpine Linux  The Hacker News
3. Alpine Linux and OpenSSH patch flaw that’s as bad as it can get  ZDNET
4. OpenSSH flaw lets attackers log into password-disabled Linux accounts  BleepingComputer
5. Hackers Exploiting ‘SSHole’ Authentication Bypass in OpenSSH  SecurityWeek

1. It’s Not About The Red Carpet. It’s About Respect  - Saving Country Music
2. ‘It really hurts me’: Louisiana native, country music star Sammy Kershaw says CMA denied red-carpet request two weeks before show  KALB | News Channel 5
3. CMA Responds to Sammy Kershaw’s Claim He Was Denied from Red Carpet  People.com
4. A Former Country Star Said the CMA Wouldn't Let Him on the Red Carpet. All Hell Broke Loose  Rolling Stone
5. Rodney Atkins Says He Was Also Denied a CMA Awards Red Carpet Spot: “Same Thing Happened to Me”  Country Living Magazine

1. Pete Hegseth impeachment articles introduced by Rep. Massie  CNBC
2. Hegseth impeachment effort begins in House, focused on Iran war  The Washington Post
3. Massie Calls Up Impeachment Charges Against Hegseth  The New York Times
4. Republican Thomas Massie moves to force vote to impeach Pete Hegseth  The Guardian
5. GOP Rep. Thomas Massie unveils impeachment articles against Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth  NBC News

1. James Gunn Speaks Out Following DC Studios Departure  Deadline
2. James Gunn and Peter Safran Out at DC Studios, Jeremy Latcham Named New President and Chief Creative Officer  IMDb
3. DC in Flux: What Happens to James Gunn’s Batman, Superman and Other Heroes After Shocking Exit?  Yahoo
4. Skydance Shakes Up DC Superhero Studio Leadership  WSJ
5. DCU shake-up: James Gunn and Peter Safran out post-merger  Ars Technica

Gypsy Rose Blanchard Avoids Family Drama at Ken Urker's Memorial Service  TMZ

1. At 87, Senfronia Thompson is Poised to Become the First Woman to Lead the Texas House  The New York Times
2. Texas’ “Big Three” set to all be women for the first time  The Texas Tribune
3. Texas could make history with women leading all 3 top offices  USA Today
4. The first Black Speaker of the House isn't dwelling on her racial background  Houston Chronicle
5. After 54 years in the Texas House, Senfronia Thompson is poised to make history  Austin American-Statesman