Good Morning! On this day in 1936, the first issue of the pictorial magazine Lifewas published, featuring a cover photo of the Fort Peck Dam’s spillway by Margaret Bourke-White. You can see the complete first issue here.
In an earlier era of tech, Radio Shack was the go-to stop for American consumers. But in the internet age, the chain lost ground to big-box retailers and online orders, as explained in today’s “Whatever Happened To…”
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If you care about what your dog eats, you need to see the disturbing truth about what’s legally allowed in commercial pet food—and why so many owners are switching to safer options like Hartfelt Pet Food, a Flyover endorsed product.
The move to end Temporary Protected Status comes after City Journal reported that millions of dollars in taxpayer money—stolen as part of a series of massive Minnesota welfare fraud schemes—may have been funneled to Somalia-based terror group Al-Shabab.
In a social media post, Trump wrote, “Somali gangs are terrorizing the people of that great State, and BILLIONS of Dollars are missing. Send them back to where they came from. It’s OVER!”
Minnesota is home to the country’s largest Somali community, with close to 80,000 across the state. Congress reported in August that 705 Somalis across the U.S. had legal protections.
Thunderstorms could lead to delays at the busy southeastern hubs of Atlanta and Charlotte for a time on Wednesday. There is the potential for rain and snow showers along a cold front that pivots from the Ohio Valley to the Appalachians from Wednesday to Thanksgiving Day.
The weeks after Thanksgiving could be colder and snowier than normal across portions of the United States. Long-range forecasts from NOAA’s Climate Prediction Center favor below-average temperatures for the majority of America from late November into December.
The average home in Knoxville has seen its value grow nearly 86%, or roughly $190,000. The top five cities include Fayetteville, (84.5%), Charleston, (81.3%), Scranton, (78.4%), and Syracuse, (77.6%).
In the past year, 53% of all U.S. homes have lost value, the highest share since 2012. However, only 3.4% of new listings are priced below their previous sale price.
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But it’s legal for pet food makers to include diseased animal carcasses in commercial dog food.
The worst part is, they don’t even have to list it on the label. Millions of dog owners are unknowingly feeding their pets ingredients they’d never choose if they knew the truth.
➤ FCS No. 3 Montana State handed No. 2 Montana its first loss of the season, 31-28, in the 124th “Brawl of the Wild” to secure the Bobcats’ 19th Big Sky Conference title. (Recap)
➤ Noah Whittington ran for 104 yards and a touchdown as No. 7 Oregon beat No. 15 USC 42-27, with ESPN’s College GameDay in attendance. (Highlights)
➤ A UAB football player was arrested after he allegedly stabbed two teammates ahead of the Blazers’ 48-18 loss to South Florida.(More)
➤ LSU is reportedly finalizing a $90 million offer to hire Ole Miss coach Lane Kiffin as Brian Kelly’s replacement after firing Kelly earlier this season for the program’s recent mediocrity. (More)
➤ The San Francisco 49ers plan to void All-Pro receiver Brandon Aiyuk’s contract guarantees after he reportedly skipped meetings and failed to communicate during rehab for his 2024 knee injury. (More)
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➤ The Trump administration may approve sales of Nvidia’s H200 AI chips to China after President Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping negotiated a truce in their trade and tech disputes last month. (More)
➤ Kia and Hyundai are recalling 335,000 U.S. vehicles after discovering a defect that could melt fuel tanks in Kia K5 sedans from 2021–2024 and Hyundai Sonatas from 2020–2023. (More)
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➤ A Swedish engineer and musician spent six months teaching an octopus to play the piano, successfully proving the animal could mimic simple melodies. (See Octopus)
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➤ Colombian authorities say sniffer dogs helped uncover 14 tons of cocaine at the nation’s main Pacific port, marking the country’s largest drug bust in a decade. (More)
➤ A recent study finds that Massachusetts, Connecticut, and Vermont are the most expensive states to raise a child, while Mississippi and Alabama are the least costly. (See Study)
➤ Transportation officials say a rogue weather balloon was the mystery object that shattered a United Airlines jet’s windshield at 36,000 feet over Utah last month. (See Windshield)
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Whatever happened to Radio Shack?
In its heyday in the 1980s and 90s, RadioShack seemed to be in every strip mall, wedged between a dry cleaner and a video store. If you needed a weird battery, a tangle of speaker wire, or a mystery adapter five minutes before dinner, you went to RadioShack.
It was the default tech stop long before anyone thought to “just order it online.” But it didn’t begin as a corporate giant. RadioShack started in 1921 as a tiny Boston shop selling radio gear to ship operators and hobbyists who liked to tinker.
The real growth began in the 1960s, when Tandy bought the struggling chain. Tandy stocked the stores with soldering irons, CB radios, and, eventually, by the late 1970s, the TRS-80 home computer—the first “real” PC a lot of families ever saw. Here’s a Radio Shack Christmas commercial from the 1980s.
This successful period, though, led to a dead-end as the decades went by. Big-box stores like Best Buy and Walmart undercut RadioShack on price and selection. Then the World Wide Web arrived and made online ordering of obscure parts just a click away, removing the chain’s biggest advantage.
Chasing growth, RadioShack leaned hard into selling cellphones and contracts, a business already dominated by carriers and bigger retailers. The stores, still small and aging, began to feel cramped and oddly random—half phone shop, half junk drawer.
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“I think this film puts us in a different place. It sets the table for a president to step to the microphone and more comfortably tell all of humanity that we’re not alone in the universe.”
— Filmmaker Dan Farah, on his new documentary The Age of Disclosure, about the existence of extraterrestrial intelligence.
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