Dems dominate; Feds snatch baby; no mushroom clouds; attack with a deli weapon trial; ACA hikes-"what American dream?"
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Trump rails against election results before Democrats romp to victories. The four elections that Trump targeted on social media broke handily for the Democrats, the first major political blow to the president since he reclaimed the Oval Office last year.
Election Night live updates: Democrats notch wins for governors, mayor over Trump’s picks.
Tuesday’s races were a quiet rebuke of Trump for many voters, AP Voter Poll finds.
Baby separated from man by federal agents in Los Angeles, activists say.
Texas state employee allegedly fired over support of No Kings protests. The former Texas Comptroller employee said he had received promotions and merit-based raises prior to his firing.
Trump’s plans to restart nuclear testing likely won’t produce any mushroom clouds, experts say. “These are where you barely tickle the bomb, and you get small nuclear reactions…”
Fed agent whines about “Onions and Mustard” in D.C. sandwich guy case. Attack with a deli weapon. The trial of the D.C. man charged with throwing a sandwich at federal agents is already a complete joke.
Mom of two on rising ACA premiums: ‘It feels like, what American dream?’ She currently pays about $282 a month for health insurance through ACA health care coverage for her and her two children. She said she would pay $1,003 a month for the same plan next year, when the enhanced tax credits expire.
Late Night:
Why is there a Late Night section? Because late night comedians, unfettered by institutional journalistic and corporate inhibitions, often provide observations and analysis that are more thorough and comprehensive than network or cable news. And the humor helps.
NYC Mayor Race: Mamdani hits the club, Cuomo fingers his O.J. Bronco | The Daily Show (Video)
Mamdani hits the club | Cuomo’s dubious endorsements | Pelosi: Trump is “A vile creature”-Stephen Colbert (Video)
Michelle Obama on sending a message with fashion and living in “The People’s House”-Stephen Colbert (Video)
Trump threatens to delay SNAP benefits, brags about Trumpified Kennedy Center and Mamdani vs Cuomo-Jimmy Kimmel (Video)
Trump gives Pete Hegseth orders via Truth Social-Seth Meyers (Video)
Keep scrolling down. Lots of interesting stuff in On This Day, Birthdays, and Deaths.
Quote of the Day:
The class which has the power to rob upon a large scale has also the power to control the government and legalize their robbery.
--Eugene V. Debs (Wikipedia link)
(More Eugene V. Debs quotes from the KGB Quotations Database)
Today’s holidays:
American Football Day, Bank Transfer Day, Commercial TV Broadcast Day, Eat Smart Day, International Pathology Day, International Stress Awareness Day, International Volunteer Managers Day , National Advent Calendar Day, National Chinese Take-Out Day, National Doughnut Appreciation Day, National Gunpowder Day, National Love Your Red Hair Day, Stress Awareness Day, World Day of Romani Language, and World Tsunami Awareness Day.,
Astronomy Picture of the Day from NASA.
(Not currently updating due to government shutdown.)
On This Day:
2024 – Donald Trump became the first president of the United States to be elected to a non-consecutive second term in 132 years, since Grover Cleveland won the 1892 election.
2024 – The first openly transgender member of Congress was elected.
2009 – U.S. Army Major Nidal Hasan murdered 13 and wounded 32 at Fort Hood, Texas in the deadliest mass shooting at a U.S. military installation.
2007 – The Android mobile operating system was unveiled by Google.
2006 – Saddam Hussein, the former president of Iraq, and his co-defendants Barzan Ibrahim al-Tikriti and Awad Hamed al-Bandar, were sentenced to death in the al-Dujail trial for their roles in the 1982 massacre of 148 Shia Muslims.
1996 – Bill Clinton was reelected President of the United States.
1994 – George Foreman became the oldest heavyweight champ.
1994 – Ronald Reagan announced his Alzheimer’s diagnosis.
1990 – Rabbi Meir Kahane, founder of the far-right Kach movement, is shot dead after a speech at a New York City hotel.
1968 – Richard Nixon was elected as 37th President of the United States.
1940 – Franklin D. Roosevelt was the first and only President of the United States to be elected to a third term.
1930 – American novelist Sinclair Lewis became the first U.S. writer to win the Nobel Prize in Literature, recognized for his satirical examination of American culture and institutions.
1917 – Lenin called for the October Revolution.
1912 – Woodrow Wilson was elected the 28th President of the United States, defeating incumbent William Howard Taft.
1895 – George B. Selden was granted the first U.S. patent for an automobile.
1872 – Women’s suffrage in the United States: In defiance of the law, suffragist Susan B. Anthony voted for the first time, and was later fined $100.
1862 – President Abraham Lincoln removed General George B. McClellan from Army of the Potomac.
1605 – Gunpowder Plot: Guy Fawkes was arrested in the cellars of the Houses of Parliament, where he had planted gunpowder in an attempt to blow up the building and kill King James I of England.
(For comprehensive lists of the day’s historical events, check here, here, and here.)
Some Birthdays:
1980 – Luke Hemsworth, Australian actor
1968 – Sam Rockwell, American actor
1968 – Seth Gilliam, American actor
1963 – Tatum O’Neal, American actress and author
1963 – Andrea McArdle, American actress and singer
1960 – Tilda Swinton, English actress
1959 – Bryan Adams, Canadian singer-songwriter, guitarist, producer and actor
1958 – Robert Patrick, American actor
1955 – Kris Jenner, American talent manager and businesswoman
1949 – Armin Shimerman, American actor
1947 – Peter Noone, English singer-songwriter and guitarist
1946 – Gram Parsons, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (died 1973)
1943 – Sam Shepard, American playwright and actor (died 2017)
1941 – Art Garfunkel, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
1940 – Elke Sommer, German actress
1934 – Jeb Stuart Magruder, American minister and civil servant (died 2014)
1933 – Herb Edelman, American actor (died 1996)
1931 – Ike Turner, American singer-songwriter, guitarist and producer (died 2007)
1913 – Vivien Leigh, Indian-British actress (died 1967)
1913 – John McGiver, American actor (died 1975)
1911 – Roy Rogers, American singer, guitarist and actor (died 1998)
1905 – Joel McCrea, American actor (died 1990)
1900 – Natalie Schafer, American actress (died 1991)
1892 – J. B. S. Haldane, English-Indian geneticist and biologist (died 1964)
1885 – Will Durant, American historian and philosopher (died 1981)
1857 – Ida Tarbell, American journalist, author, reformer, and educator (died 1944)
1855 – Eugene V. Debs, American union leader and politician (died 1926)
(A more complete list of today’s birthdays.)
Some Deaths:
2010 – Jill Clayburgh, American actress and singer (born 1944)
2003 – Bobby Hatfield, American singer-songwriter (born 1940)
1999 – James Goldstone, American director and screenwriter (born 1931)
1992 – Jan Oort, Dutch astronomer and academic (born 1900)
1991 – Fred MacMurray, American actor and businessman (born 1908)
1989 – Vladimir Horowitz, Ukrainian-American pianist and composer (born 1903)
1979 – Al Capp, American cartoonist (born 1909)
1977 – Guy Lombardo, Canadian-American violinist and conductor (born 1902)
1960 – Mack Sennett, Canadian-American actor, director, producer, and screenwriter (born 1880)
1960 – Ward Bond, American actor (born 1903)
1942 – George M. Cohan, American actor, singer, composer, author and theatre manager/owner (born 1878)
1933 – Texas Guinan, American actress and businesswoman (born 1884)
1879 – James Clerk Maxwell, Scottish physicist and mathematician (born 1831)
(A more complete list of today’s deaths.)
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