Politics & World
Trump Confirms Minor U.S. Strikes on Iran
President Trump confirmed the U.S. carried out “minor strikes” on Iran after Iranian media reported two missiles hit Qeshm Island near the Strait of Hormuz, CNBC reported.
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US Strikes on Iran, Measles Death, and a Pompeii Wardrobe
Trump confirms limited US strikes on Iran, Stephen Miller becomes chief of staff, and archaeologists open a Pompeii wardrobe sealed for 2,000 years.
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Politics & World
Trump Names Stephen Miller Chief of Staff
President Donald Trump said Friday that Stephen Miller will replace Susie Wiles as White House chief…
Sources: AP News, Fox News Politics, NPR News
Science & Tech
Wisconsin Reports First Measles Death in 35 Years
An infant in Wisconsin died of measles, the state’s first death from the disease since 1990, days…
Sources: Ars Technica, The Hill
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The number of U.S. air traffic control sites the FAA says will be floppy-disk-free by the end of 2028, in what the agency calls a ‘historic’ tech upgrade. The storage format has been effectively obsolete in consumer computing for roughly two decades — yet it has kept guiding American air traffic into 2026.
Source: The Register
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The Real Story Behind the 504 Sit-In for Disability Rights
The real story of the 504 sit-in — the longest peaceful occupation of a federal building in American history — and how it reshaped disability rights.
Smithsonian
Who Will Succeed Xi Jinping?
Who might succeed Xi Jinping, and why the succession question looms over China’s Communist Party ahead of its next party congress.
Foreign Policy · Deng YuwenSubscription
How Beta Technologies Is Clearing the Runway for Electric Flight
How Beta Technologies is clearing the engineering and regulatory runway to make electric aircraft a commercial reality.
IEEE Spectrum · Tom Clynes
- This weekend
‘Godzilla Minus Zero’ wraps its opening weekend, chasing a projected $30-33 million debut that would be the biggest ever domestically for a live-action foreign-language film.
- Wednesday, Nov. 11
The U.S. observes Veterans Day, the federal holiday honoring the nation’s military veterans.
Etcetera
- What Thanksgiving dinner cost in the 1970s — and why it stung more then
- September dominates American birthdays — and the rarest ones cluster around holidays
- The quiet Nova Scotia grave of the ‘Cape Breton Giant’
- Archaeologists just opened a Pompeii wardrobe sealed for nearly 2,000 years
- The viral high school touchdown that left both Kelce brothers stunned
- Meet the snakes that cartwheel away from danger
- Hundreds of Ice Age drawings found in a cave visitors walked right past
- Army cooks are now officially ‘tactical field feeding specialists’
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On this day · November 7
The Historybook- 1916Jeannette Rankin of Montana becomes the first woman elected to Congress
- 1917Bolsheviks storm the Winter Palace in Petrograd, launching the Russian Revolution
- 1940The Tacoma Narrows Bridge, ‘Galloping Gertie,’ collapses into Puget Sound
- 1944Franklin D. Roosevelt wins an unprecedented fourth term as president
- 1991Magic Johnson announces he has HIV and retires from the NBA
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Quote of the day
“Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood. Now is the time to understand more, so that we may fear less.”
— Marie Curie, pioneering physicist and chemist, born on this day in 1867
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