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Thursday, November 12, 2026
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Good Morning! On this day in 1954, Ellis Island, the gateway to America, closed after processing over 12 million immigrants since 1892. Today, millions of Americans trace their ancestry back to this New York Harbor landmark, named after merchant Samuel Ellis, who owned the land in the 1770s.
Every family hands down the same urban legends, the rules parents swore by and nobody ever questioned. Wait 30 minutes after eating before you swim. Cracking your knuckles causes arthritis. Turn the car off at the gas pump, or else… Now researchers have put the seven most famous rules to the test and found clear verdicts for all of them. So which rules did Grandma get right, and will your car really blow up at the pump? Ayla has the full story on today’s episode of The Flyover Podcast. Tune in here!
Later today, you’ll receive a special email from Fisher Investments featuring The 15-Minute Retirement Plan, a free guide designed to help you build or review your retirement strategy.
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 Nvidia Board Weighs Ousting Huang
Nvidia’s board was meeting Wednesday night to discuss removing CEO Jensen Huang three days after he admitted to an affair with a woman U.S. intelligence officials believe is a Chinese spy. No decision had been announced as of The Flyover’s deadline.
Earlier Wednesday, Huang was widely reported to have had a second extramarital affair with Kimberly Powell, Nvidia’s vice president of health care, who reports to him. Nvidia did not respond to requests for comment.
Huang told employees Sunday, “I was unfaithful to my wife. My actions hurt her and our children. There is no excuse for what I did.” The board has hired the law firm Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz to lead an independent investigation.
Huang holds about 70 million Nvidia shares on his own. Roughly 800 million more sit in trusts co-owned with his wife, Lori. The stock was already down 7% on the week before Wednesday’s reports.
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White House Warns Democrats Over Probes
White House counsel Will Scharf warned incoming House Oversight Chair Robert Garcia in a letter reported Wednesday that Democrat investigations of the Trump administration “may cross the line into blatant criminality.”
Scharf wrote that subpoenas “designed merely to abuse or instill fear in the recipient” could be criminal, pointing to Democrat threats to issue them indiscriminately once the party takes control of both chambers in January.
Garcia, who told administration officials to “lawyer up” on election night, responded that Congress “will not be deterred by baseless threats from a weaponized DOJ or from the President’s lawyers.”
Democrats have already opened inquiries into Jared Kushner’s business ventures and President Trump’s crypto deals, and expected Speaker Hakeem Jeffries is vetting candidates for House general counsel, the lawyer who would lead the subpoena fights in court.
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Bessent Moves to Military Base Amid Threats
Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent has moved to a military base from his Washington, D.C., home over Iranian threats against his life, the Treasury Department confirmed Tuesday.
A person familiar with the move said security concerns rose after a newspaper published an online photo that allowed his Georgetown home to be pinpointed.
Bessent leads Operation Economic Outcast, the sanctions campaign launched in August to cut Iran off from the global economy. A senior administration official said the threats had reached “more than an advanced stage,” and that White House chief of staff Stephen Miller and Secretary of State Marco Rubio have also moved to protected housing in recent weeks.
Treasury said Bessent “will not be deterred by the Iranian regime’s threats.” Separately, the Justice Department indicted three Iranian-backed operatives Tuesday on terrorism charges tied to nearly 20 attacks and attempted attacks in Europe and the U.S.
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The following stories are featured exclusively on The Flyover Podcast—a daily show that gives you the most important headlines in under 15 minutes.
➤ Those old family rules about swimming, sugar, and knuckle cracking are finally getting scientific verdicts. (See List)
➤ In his only interview before a new memoir, former President Joe Biden is downplaying the debate that ended his 2024 campaign. (Listen Now)
➤ Migraines hold a hidden connection to women’s health, and a leading neurologist is breaking down why women suffer from them more than men. (Hear Details)
  
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➤ Democrat Scott Colom was announced the winner of the Mississippi Senate race, unseating GOP Sen. Cindy Hyde-Smith to become the first Democrat the state has sent to the Senate since 1982. The win is Democrats’ eighth Senate flip this election. (More)
➤ President Trump’s $10 billion defamation lawsuit against the BBC can proceed, a federal judge in Florida ruled Tuesday. The suit says the broadcaster spliced together parts of his Jan. 6 speech that were actually delivered nearly an hour apart. (More)
➤ Russia’s ambassador to the U.S., Alexander Darchiev, died suddenly yesterday at 66, Moscow’s Foreign Ministry announced. He earlier helped negotiate the 2022 prisoner swap that freed basketball star Brittney Griner. (More)
➤ Protesters confronted former President Joe Biden and his family Tuesday night as they left an event at Trinity College in Dublin, Ireland, where Hunter Biden was being honored. Police arrested three people and charged one. (More)
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➤ Quarterback Kirk Cousins is back with the Minnesota Vikings after a trade that sent a 2027 third-round pick to the Las Vegas Raiders. His exit in Las Vegas opens the door for No. 1 pick Fernando Mendoza. (More)
➤ Milwaukee Brewers manager Pat Murphy made history as the first person to win three straight Manager of the Year awards, accepting the National League honor from a hospital bed after hip replacement surgery. (More)
➤ Manchester United is reportedly finalizing a deal with U.S. men’s national team coach Mauricio Pochettino if it fires manager Michael Carrick. Buying out Pochettino’s U.S. Soccer contract would cost about $10 million. (More)
➤ Miami (Ohio) drew an unsportsmanlike conduct flag Tuesday for flashing images of multiple sets of uprights on its video board during an Ohio University field goal attempt. (Watch Video)
➤ Yesterday’s Results: NCAAF | NHL | NBA | NCAAM | NCAAW | Soccer
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 Daily Market Report 11/11/2026
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NASDAQ
National Association of Securities Dealers Automated Quotations |
25,466.19 |
1.60%
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SPX
S&P 500 |
7,619.38 |
1.31%
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DJI
Dow Jones Industrial Average |
52,486.49 |
0.49%
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BTC
Bitcoin |
$74,588.51 |
1.18%
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GOLD
Per Ounce |
$3,990.50 |
-0.99%
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SILVER
Per Ounce |
$51.72 |
1.21%
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OIL
West Texas Intermediate Crude |
$86.35 |
0.36%
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10Y
10-Year US Treasury Yield |
5.00% |
0.34%
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CRWV
CoreWeave |
$61.69 |
+26.60%
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Bitcoin, gold, silver, and oil are traded 24 hours a day.
➤ Big Stock Move: CoreWeave stock jumped more than 26% on Wednesday for its best day since April 2025 after the AI cloud-computing provider posted quarterly earnings that beat estimates and raised its guidance for the year. (More)
➤ Gas prices fell below $4 a gallon this week for the first time since July, with AAA’s national average at $3.98. Cheaper winter-blend fuel and hopes for a U.S.-Iran deal are driving the drop. (More)
➤ Toyota is reviving its Scion brand with a tiny two-seat utility truck to be built in Indiana and sold to fleet buyers starting in the second half of 2027. It’s modeled on Japan’s mini work trucks, a vehicle type President Trump has championed. (See Photos)
➤ PepsiCo is cutting about 1,000 North American jobs. The maker of Pepsi, Lay’s, and Doritos lowered its profit outlook last month after soda sales slipped and costs climbed. (More)
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➤ More than 230 million pieces of space debris are circling Earth at speeds topping 17,000 mph, and the problem grows even without new launches. One North Carolina State researcher’s fix is a bottle-deposit system for satellites. (More)
➤ NASA’s twin ESCAPADE probes fired their engines while slingshotting around Earth, a first for the agency, after a year in a holding orbit because they missed their Mars launch window. They’ll reach Mars in September 2027. (More)
➤ A Jupiter-sized planet 1,000 light-years away has vanished from telescopes, the first “disappearing planet” ever recorded. Astronomers say an unseen neighbor’s gravity is tilting its orbit, and it should reappear in 30 to 50 years. (See Discovery)
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Throwback Thursday is brought to you by:
➤ Why do baby boomers seem so angry? A Gen Zer asked, and the generation that “had it easiest” answered with stories of three jobs, recessions, and starting work at 14. (See Answers)
➤ Jayne Mansfield’s 1960 Christmas tree, dripping in silver tinsel and jewel-toned glass balls under an angel topper, is winning over designers who say the old-school look never went out of style. (See Tree)
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➤ Stacy Keach, the Shakespearean stage actor best known as TV private eye Mike Hammer and more recently as the archbishop on Blue Bloods, died Tuesday at his home in Poland after a long battle with heart failure. He was 85. (More)
➤ Two saddled horses were led onto a Detroit city bus Saturday for a video promoting black cowboys, and transit officials say they’re looking into it. The owner’s take: “It’s not my first rodeo.” (Watch Video)
➤ Prince George’s drawing of a kingfisher appears in a 300-page special edition of Country Life guest edited by his father, Prince William. George sketched the bird at home last spring, at 12. (See Drawing)
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 Daily Quote
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“My choices have had a cost attached to it. But I’ve gotten to play Hamlet, and Richard III, and King Lear, and I would not give that up for anything.”
— Stacy Keach, in a 2012 interview on why he took such varied roles over a career that ended Tuesday with his death at 85
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