Politics & World
Hegseth faces House impeachment vote this week
Congress returns today with House GOP leaders bracing for enough Republican defections to impeach Hegseth in a vote expected this week, alongside a looming government shutdown deadline.
Monday, November 9, 2026 · 3-minute read
Hegseth Impeachment, NASA Lunar Rover, and a Stonehenge Mystery
Hegseth braces for a House impeachment vote, Nvidia’s board investigates its own CEO, and Stonehenge’s altar stone gets even more mysterious.
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Politics & World
Trump concedes immigration crackdown might be too tough
President Donald Trump told ‘60 Minutes’ his deportation crackdown “might be too tough,” linking the…
Sources: The Hill, DW
Business
Nvidia board investigates Huang over alleged spy affair
Nvidia’s board opened an independent investigation Sunday after CEO Jensen Huang admitted to an…
Sources: Axios, CNBC, The Guardian
No. 2
Michael Jackson’s ‘Thriller’ surged to No. 2 on the Billboard 200 this week, powered by Halloween listening. It’s the 1982 album’s highest chart rank in more than 40 years, since its original run that included 37 weeks at No. 1.
Source: Billboard
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Welcome to Weed Island
How the island of Jersey became an unlikely player in the cannabis business.
Wired · Orlando Crowcroft
Inside the card-grading empire shaping the price of Pokémon cards
Inside the card-grading empire whose verdicts set the price of Pokémon cards.
CNBC
How the New Urbanism took on sprawl and won
How the New Urbanism movement took on suburban sprawl — and won.
Fast Company · Nate Berg
- Today
Germany marks the 37th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall, with commemorations at the former border in Berlin.
- Wednesday, Nov. 11
The U.S. observes Veterans Day, with federal offices closed as the nation honors its military veterans.
Etcetera
- Geologists ruled out Scotland — so where did Stonehenge’s six-ton altar stone come from?
- Why Americans eat dinner so much earlier than the rest of the world
- A decoder ring for ‘The Gilded Age’s’ high-society slang
- A flooded Florida sanctuary delivered a chimp’s dinner by drone
- A knife went through his eye and into his brain — he’s fine now
- A 2,800-year-old Siberian tomb proves ancient Scythians got high
- The breakfast-table dare that invented hurricane hunting
- The remarkable art museum hidden inside a Queens psychiatric center
Today’s clickbait, so you don’t have toThese Moths Jam Bat Sonar — With Their Genitals
On this day · November 9
The Historybook- 1938Kristallnacht: Nazi mobs attack Jewish homes, businesses and synagogues across Germany
- 1965A massive blackout leaves some 30 million people without power across the Northeast and Ontario
- 1967The first issue of Rolling Stone magazine is published in San Francisco
- 1989The Berlin Wall falls as East Germany opens its borders to the West
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Quote of the day
“Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall!”
— Ronald Reagan, speaking at Berlin’s Brandenburg Gate in 1987, two years before the Wall fell on this date
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