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Its GAME TIMEUpdate on Senate race in Alaska.
Democrat Mary Peltola has again expanded her lead in Alaska’s U.S. Senate race with more votes counted, now ahead of Sen. Dan Sullivan (R) by nearly 4 points, or more than 10,000 votes, according to Decision Desk HQ (DDHQ).
Peltola netted nearly 2,000 votes from the latest batch of votes added.
The Alaska Democrat now has 49.8 percent of the vote, just shy of a majority, which she would need to avoid an instant runoff using ranked choice voting. With 91 percent of votes counted, the former congresswoman now has a real chance to surpass 50 percent.
https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/6220605-peltola-leads-alaska-senate/
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Tanker hits riverboatNew Orleans is suing the tanker company.
Story here. With video taken by someone from inside the river boat as the tanker was just about to hit it.
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Nationwide ground stopThe press conference with Duffy and the FAA Administrator and Chief Technology Officer started....sort of....something happened with the microphone (you couldn't hear Duffy and there was some sort of static). There is a guy trying to swap out the mic.
Not an auspicious beginning...
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Its GAME TIMEDemocrat Jonathan Kreiss-Tomkins, a former state representative from the small island community of Sitka, won the race for Alaska governor, according to a race call by the Associated Press. At 37, he'll be the youngest governor in state history.
Kreiss-Tomkins will replace outgoing Gov. Mike Dunleavy, a term-limited Republican who has been governor since 2018. The state's last Democratic governor was Tony Knowles, who left office in 2002.
Kreiss-Tomkins, known by his initials JKT, made his "high-energy, bipartisan, problem-solving approach" a centerpiece of his campaign.
He's said he plans to build an administration of Democrats, Republicans and independents and described himself at a debate as a "man of the middle." He was endorsed by three former governors — a Democrat, a Republican and an independent — along with Republican Sen. Lisa Murkowski.
Alaskans have had enough of zero-sum partisan politics, he said in an interview just before voting at a precinct in Anchorage on Election Day.
"I strongly believe people just want things to work, and want people to work together," Kreiss-Tomkins said.
https://www.npr.org/2026/11/14/g-s1-151719/midterms-alaska-governor-kreiss-tomkins
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Back on it again@chas Sorry to hear your problems are persisting. I don't have any practical advice. Just hugs to send to you.
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Tanker hits riverboatThe NTSB is driving to NOLA to investigate the boat disaster. Something about no flights being available....
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From India to SeattleI found this to be a really fascinating interview.
I moved to Seattle from India for my husband's job. The loneliness, cost of living, and toll on my body shocked me.
https://www.yahoo.com/lifestyle/articles/moved-seattle-india-husbands-job-154016897.html
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Nationwide ground stopPress conference with Duffy (Transportation) and Mullin (DHS). Mullin said that the FAA was patching some new stuff in to the existing system and it overwhelmed the old portions of the system. Not sure what he's talking about, but that's what he said.
The President (who is a builder - Mullin's comment) says they need $50 billion to build a completely new system because this patching stuff in doesn't work.
Oy.
edit: CNN on what was actually said:
Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy urged Congress to give “emergency funding” and approve $50 billion dollars to revamp the air traffic control system, increasing a previous ask for funding of more than $30 billion.
“I’ve asked, the president’s asked for $30 billion. I want $50 billion,” Duffy said while briefing the press at the White House tonight.
“What’s more important than having an air traffic control system that actually works?” Duffy continued. “And so the president said, ‘You know what? Let’s finish this job. New hardware, new software, new telecommunication.’”
Duffy and the Department of Transportation announced a plan in 2025 to build a new air traffic control system by 2028 that would cost roughly $31.5 billion. More than $12 billion of that funding was secured through the passage of President Donald Trump’s One Big Beautiful Bill Act.
“We are building in that 12 and a half billion dollars. That portion of the bill will be done by the time President Trump leaves office. We are moving at a speed that has never been seen before with regard to the FAA,” Duffy said. “But that’s a partial funding.”
Secretary of Transportation Sean Duffy said old air traffic control technology and routers overloaded with data were to blame for the nationwide ground stop today.
“What we have is an incredibly old air traffic control system,” Duffy said at a news conference tonight. “The president, for the last year, has been asking Congress to fully fund a full build of a brand new air traffic control system.”
“Our routers actually got overloaded with data, and… they started to give us inconsistency in the data from those routers. And because of that, we shut the system down,” he added.
Duffy said some routers had been replaced during his tenure, but the old hardware went down.
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Nationwide ground stopApparently they have identified and fixed the problem. Ground stop has been lifted, as of 8:15 ET.
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Nationwide ground stopFrom CNN.
The Federal Aviation Administration told airlines the nationwide outages that prompted the ground stop were the result of a problem with network routers, according to an airline source.
The problem is believed to have started at Chicago Midway International Airport and cascaded nationwide.
Some airports are already reporting being saturated with flights on the ground that cannot take off.
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Tanker hits riverboat@Mik Didn’t know you are in NOLA. Glad you didn’t decide to take that cruise.
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Nationwide ground stopwtg said:
CNN was interviewing IL Rep. Raja Krishnamoorthi (House Intelligence Committee), who said the National Weather Service is experiencing nationwide internet service problems.
Updated info:
The National Weather Service was not experiencing a nationwide outage on Friday despite rumors saying otherwise, officials said.
On Friday, Nov. 13, a member of WBTV’s local National Weather Service office confirmed that there was a regional issue with weather radios. The issue was not widespread, the official told WBTV on Friday evening.
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Nationwide ground stopCNN was interviewing IL Rep. Raja Krishnamoorthi (House Intelligence Committee), who said the National Weather Service is experiencing nationwide internet service problems.
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AI unravels Kurt Gödel's secrets‘Ahead of his time’: AI helps unlock discoveries hidden in notebooks of man who transformed maths
Kurt Gödel left 1,009 pages of densely written text – much of it in an obsolete shorthand – which is now said to contain hundreds of proved theorems
Progress in the mathematical understanding of the text was painfully slow – about a page a week – until September, when von Plato enlisted the help of the AI model Claude. Within a couple of days, Claude had provided a comprehensive digest of the entire material, revealing Gödel had proved hundreds of theorems that no one knew about.
The most famous logician of modern times had, in fact, discovered significantly more than anyone had thought.
Which reminds me....I should dig up my copy of Gödel, Escher, Bach and re-read it. Great book.
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Fare thee well, Dolly
Link to videoThe legendary voice of Dolly Parton is back for one last rodeo, months after her death.
U2 released their 16th studio album Friday, “Carnaval de Luz” (“Carnival of Light”), which ends with the song “Torn,” a duet between the Irish rock band’s lead singer, Bono, and Parton.
https://www.cnn.com/2026/11/13/entertainment/dolly-parton-u2-torn-released-intl-scli
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Nationwide ground stopSo far they're saying it's not the result of a cyberattack. With this administration, not sure if they would tell the truth if they know it.
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Its GAME TIMEBoebert is out.
BWAHAHAHAHA
Rep. Lauren Boebert, R-Colo., a conservative firebrand who was caught up in several headline-grabbing controversies during her six years in Congress, has been defeated by Democratic challenger Eileen Laubacher, NBC News projects.
Laubacher is a retired Navy rear admiral and Afghanistan war veteran who served on the National Security Council in the Biden administration.
“Integrity matters. Character matters. Truth matters, and public service should always be about what you can do for other people, not what you do for yourself,” Laubacher told supporters on election night, according to The Colorado Sun. “Those things were worth fighting for when we started.”