Thursday, December 28th, 2023

THURSDAY, DECEMBER 28, 2023

Good morning! On this date in 1832, John C. Calhoun became the first Vice President ever to resign, partly over differences with President Andrew Jackson and partly over a perceived slight to a cabinet member’s wife. (See Photos)

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Michigan High Court Rules for Trump

The Michigan Supreme Court rejected an attempt to remove Donald Trump from the state’s primary election under the insurrection clause of the 14th Amendment.

The court, controlled by Democrats, let stand a decision from a lower state court that Michigan’s secretary of state lacked legal authority to remove Trump from the ballot.

The judges noted that election laws in Michigan were different than those in Colorado, which ruled against Trump last week. Trump is appealing that decision to the U.S. Supreme Court.

Comedian Tommy Smothers dies at 86

Tommy Smothers, one-half of the musical-comedy duo The Smother Brothers, died at age 86 of cancer. The brothers won national fame as hosts of a groundbreaking network variety show in the 1960s.

Tom played the dim-witted brother to his real-life brother Dick Smothers, 85. In their musical numbers, Tommy would inevitably interrupt the song to start an absurd argument that was the highlight of the act. (See Comedy Clips)

Their “Smother Brothers Comedy Hour” on CBS was one of the first to break cultural barriers on TV and made Tommy famous for his public feuds with the CBS censors. CBS canceled the show after three tumultuous seasons.

Chart: Every State’s Income and Output

America’s $20 trillion economy breaks down into 50 state economies, and this color-coded chart shows each state’s relative size by economic output, led by California and Texas. Both are big enough to match the GDP of large countries.

Four states have GDPs over $1 trillion: California at $2.9 trillion, Texas at $1.9 trillion, then New York at $1.6 and Florida at $1.1. Those four alone account for over a third of the nation’s economy.

The chart also codes each state by per capita income. Washington, D.C., though not a state, has the highest personal income per capita at $97,000. Mississippi had the lowest at $46,000. Check your state here.

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➤ House GOP leaders have requested all White House documents related to Hunter Biden’s defiance of a congressional subpoena. The move comes after the White House stated it knew in advance of Hunter’s plans to skip the subpoena. (More)

➤ Vivek Ramaswamy has stopped all his TV ad spending ahead of the January primaries in Iowa and New Hampshire. His campaign says it will use targeted media instead, including texting, live calls, and direct mail. (More)

➤ House Democrats will spend $5.2 million on initial TV and digital advertising to try to flip former Rep. George Santos’ seat in the Feb. 13 special election in New York. (More)

➤ A 6,000-person migrant caravan is moving through Mexico on its way to the U.S. southern border, sparking negotiations between the White House and Mexico’s president. (More)

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➤ The Detroit Pistons set an NBA record by losing their 27th game in a row Tuesday night, the most consecutive losses in a single NBA season. The team hasn’t won since Oct. 28 and is now 2-28 for the season. (More)

➤ The college football transfer portal closes next Tuesday, and thousands of players have already put their names in. Here’s a look at the top 10 uncommitted quarterbacks as of this week. (See List)

➤ Sports site SBNation imagined every NFL quarterback as a Christmas movie character. Example: Buffalo Bills QB Josh Allen as Ralphie from “A Christmas Story”: “Has a gun. Constant fear he’ll shoot his eye out.” (See List)

Market Report 12/27/23

▲	NASDAQ Natl. Assoc. of Securities Dealers Automated Quotations	15,099.18	+0.16%
▲	SPX S&P 500	4,781.58	+0.14%
▲	DJI Dow Jones Industrial Average	37,656.52	+0.30%
▼	BTC Bitcoin	$43,218.0	–0.59%
▲	CYTK Cytokinetics, Incorporated	$83.44	+82.54%

➤ Big Stock Move: Cytokinetics stock soared 83% Wednesday to a 19-year high after announcing positive results from a late-stage trial of a new heart disease drug. (More)

➤ The New York Times filed a federal lawsuit against Microsoft and OpenAI over the use of its copyrighted news content in answers given by the AI. The media company says the infringement could be worth billions. (More)

➤ A federal court temporarily blocked enforcement of a patent ruling that banned Apple from selling its latest watch models in the U.S. The decision gives Apple time to have a redesigned version reviewed. (More)

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➤ Hyperloop One, a leading developer of a new high-speed tube-based transportation system, is shutting down at the end of this year after raising millions of dollars and building a test track. (See Photo)

➤ A new study shows promise for relieving tinnitus symptoms, a persistent ringing in the ears that previously had no treatment. The treatment uses a custom-programmed portable device tuned for each user. (More)

➤ Today’s Hubble Telescope photo shows a Christmas Day image of multiple galaxies in a festive array. Though the galaxies look close together in the image, they’re actually hundreds of millions of light-years apart. (See Image)

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➤ GOP voters are more skeptical than Democrats about votes being counted correctly in the primary elections. Only a third of GOP voters have high confidence in election integrity, compared to 72% of Democrats. (See Poll)

➤ A majority of Americans, 61%, have a friend of a different religion. But roughly the same percentage say most of their close friends are of the same gender and the same race. (See Survey)

➤ At year’s end, Gallup offers a snapshot of its 12 most notable national survey findings in 2023, from America’s trust in its institutions to the nation’s weight gain. (See Findings)

➤ A new study from WalletHub says Orlando has supplanted New York City as the nation’s top New Year’s Eve hotspot. New York officials disagreed, saying: “It’s comparing apples to oranges.” (More)

➤ An 1889 roll of Kodak film has finally been printed, the oldest film ever developed. The only picture recovered from the camera of Miss E.B. MacKenzie shows two shadowy figures with a Victorian-Era look. (See Photo)

➤ Before Christmas 2023 slips entirely into memory, we’d like to share this list of 160 dad-style Christmas jokes that we hope “yule” find funny. (See Jokes)