➤ In a state-election blue wave, Democrats won major victories on Tuesday in Virginia, Ohio, Pennsylvania, and New Jersey. Analysts said abortion remained the key issue driving Democrat victories. (More)

➤ The House voted to censure Rep. Rashida Tlaib over her use of pro-Hamas rhetoric, with 22 Democrats joining the Republican majority. Tlaib, the only Palestinian-American in Congress, accused President Biden of supporting genocide. (More) 

➤ Democrat Susanna Gibson, who won notoriety for appearing in sex videos with her husband for tips, lost her race for Virginia’s House of Delegates by less than 1,000 votes to Republican businessman David Owen. (More) 

➤ Facebook and Instagram will require political ads running on their platforms to disclose if they were created using artificial intelligence in an effort to battle “deep-fake” images and video in the coming election year. (More)  

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➤ The College Football Rankings are out, with the top eight spots, led by Ohio State and then Georgia, unchanged. Oklahoma dropped eight spots to 17th after losing to Oklahoma State, which jumped seven spots to No. 15. (See Rankings)

➤ World Series games were faster this year than any Series since 1996, clocking in at an average of 3 hours 1 minute for nine-inning games, nearly a half-hour speedier than the last two years. Analysts give full credit to the new pitch-clock rule. (More)

➤ Javier Baez, a former bantamweight Mixed Martial Arts fighter, was attacked in a parking lot by a knife-wielding stranger and responded by reflex as if it were an MMA match — except this fight was over in seconds.  (See Video)

Market Report   11/8/23

➤ Big Stock Move: Adyen stock jumped 34% Wednesday after the electronic payments firm adjusted its forecast to be more realistic and reported a 22% gain in net revenue year over year. (More)

➤ Warner Bros. Discovery stock dropped 19%, with the company reporting a decline in ad revenue and flat subscriber numbers. CEO David Zaslav said media was undergoing a “generational disruption.” (More)

➤ Nextdoor, the neighborhood social media platform, laid off 25% of its 700 full-time employees to cut costs by as much as $60 million. The company lost $38 million in the third quarter. (More)

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➤ The world’s largest aircraft, a prototype electric airship backed by Google co-founder Sergey Brin, is ready to start testing. The 400-foot-long blimp is the largest built since the gigantic Hindenburg airship of the 1930s. (See Photos) 

➤ Camouflauge in the animal world is a matter of survival, and birds are masters at it. Audubon has released photos of hidden birds, challenging readers to find them. (See Photos) 

➤ A controversial paper claiming the discovery of a room-temperature superconductor has been retracted from the journal Nature. Scientists challenged the results as soon as they were published. (More)  

➤ A record 70% of American adults support the legalization of marijuana, according to a new Gallup poll. A majority in both parties said they approve of legalization, including nearly 90% of Democrats and 55% of Republicans. (See Poll)

➤ Half of U.S. adolescents want shows to focus more on friendships and platonic relationships. Nearly half felt romance was overused in media and that sex was unnecessary in most TV and movie plots. (See Summary)

➤ The Pew Research Center polled Americans about their knowledge of government, and most knew how the Supreme Court and Congress worked, but fewer understood the filibuster or the length of a Senate term. (See Survey)

➤ Texas officials issued a shelter-in-place order after a chemical plant explosion in a rural area outside Houston released a huge cloud of potentially toxic black smoke. At least one worker was injured in the blast. (See Video) 

➤ Actor and race car driver Patrick Dempsey was named “Sexiest Man Alive” by People Magazine. Dempsey played the character known as McDreamy on “Gray’s Anatomy.” (See Photos)

➤ French love letters unopened for 265 years have been read for the first time after being found in a box at Britain’s National Archives. The letters were written to men captured during the Seven Years’ War. (More) 

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Who do you think won last night’s GOP debate?

1. Ron DeSantis
2. Nikki Haley
3. Vivek Ramaswamy
4. Tim Scott
5. Chris Christie

Wednesday’s Results:

Do you use your local library?

1. Yes: 39%
2. No: 61%

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