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The Netherlands recorded its third highest number of positive coronavirus tests in a single day on Wednesday, with 12,713 new cases, according to the public health agency RIVM. The seven-day average figure also increased to 11,470, representing a rise of 44% in the last week and just below the peak of the second wave last December.

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The record for the coldest temperature ever achieved has been broken with the cooling of rubidium gas to 38 picokelvins (3.8 * 10-11 K). The work could lead to new insights into quantum mechanics. Temperature is a measure of the energy in atoms' or molecules' vibrations. The lowest temperature theoretically possible is absolute zero – 0 K or −273.15 ºC (−459.67 ºF) – which would require a complete cessation of movement. That's probably impossible practically, but for decades physicists have shown we can get very, very close by using lasers to damp atomic motion. In Physical Review Letters German scientists...

MADISON, Wis. — A historic Republican gubernatorial win in Virginia on Tuesday could forecast a tough election for Wisconsin’s governor next fall. It’s clearly “a shot across the bow,” former longtime Wisconsin Republican strategist Brandon Scholz said. Virginia’s gubernatorial history since the early 2000s trends deeper blue then Wisconsin’s own. Four out of their last five governors dating back to 2002 (including incumbent Ralph Northam and just-defeated former governor Terry McAuliffe); Wisconsin has had two Republicans out of four governors since 2001. Like Wisconsin, Virginia voted for President Barack Obama in both 2008 and 2012. Unlike Wisconsin, Virginia remained blue...

YouTube today announced its decision to make the “dislike” count on videos private across its platform. The decision is likely to be controversial given the extent that it impacts the public’s visibility into a video’s reception. But YouTube believes the change will better protect its creators from harassment and reduce the threat of what it calls “dislike attacks” — essentially, when a group teams up to drive up the number of dislikes a video receives. The company says that while dislike counts won’t be visible to the public, it’s not removing the dislike button itself. Users can still click the...

President Joe Biden's pick for a top banking regulatory position said "we want" oil and gas companies to go bankrupt, although she acknowledged the country couldn't afford the loss of jobs. Saule Omarova, a law professor at Cornell University who graduated college in the USSR, has faced pushback over her nomination to be comptroller of the currency from business groups and Republicans, who have said that she is extreme and opposed to the industry as a whole. A video of her discussing the idea of a National Investment Authority — a new government bureaucracy that would act directly in financial...

Party doubles down on signature legislation despite anti-tax sentiments voters just expressed in this month’s elections....... The Democrats nearly lost the New Jersey governor's race last week, a close contest in which high taxes was a central issue. Despite that near-death experience, Democrats in Washington are redoubling their efforts to pass their nearly $2 trillion budget reconciliation bill, which is expected to sharply raise top average tax rates nationally, especially in historically blue states. The Tax Foundation estimates that the social spending bill is going to drive the "average top tax rate on personal income" up to 57.4%, which would...

The U.S. Department of Transportation’s Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration (PHMSA) is issuing a final rule that expands federal pipeline safety oversight to all onshore gas gathering pipelines. The rule, initiated over 10 years ago, expands the definition of a “regulated” gas gathering pipeline that is more than 50 years old. It will — for the first time — apply federal pipeline safety regulations to tens of thousands of miles of unregulated gas gathering pipelines. The final rule will require pipeline operators to report safety information for all gas gathering lines, representing more than 425,000 additional miles covered by...

The Santa Fe district attorney investigating the fatal "Rust" shooting has shut down allegations of "sabotage." DA Mary Carmack-Altwies said authorities don't have "any proof" to back up what she called "conspiracy theories." Lawyers for the film's armorer claimed without evidence that someone may have tried to "sabotage" the set by putting a live round in a box of dummy rounds. The Santa Fe district attorney investigating the fatal shooting on the set of Alec Baldwin's latest movie "Rust" has shut down the "sabotage" allegations floated by attorneys for the film's armorer. "I know that some defense attorneys have come...

Elton John admits he is in pain — so why, in just a few short weeks, will he embark on a 150-date tour around the globe? At age 74, the music legend just had a hip replacement following an injurious fall that forced him to reschedule his “Farewell Yellow Brick Road” tour. He was seen supporting using a cane Wednesday as he received a prestigious honor from Prince Charles. The musician leaned on the walking stick as he was made a member of the Order of the Companions of Honor for his music career and campaigning work on AIDS during...

A second suspected missile target in the shape of a U.S. aircraft carrier has been spotted in a rural Chinese desert, according to satellite photos obtained by USNI News.The site consists of a single aircraft carrier target, miles from the nearest town in the Xinjiang region, according to photos provided to USNI News by satellite imagery company Maxar. The carrier target is about 300 miles away from a larger suspected missile range in the Taklamakan Desert, first reported by USNI News on Sunday. The two sites share similar characteristics and are aligned on a map with the carriers facing the...

Pennsylvania’s requirement that teachers and school students and staff must wear masks to guard against COVID-19 is invalid because the official who issued it lacked authority to do so, a sharply divided Commonwealth Court ruled Wednesday. Acting Health Secretary Alison Beam issued that order in August and it has been in force since Sept. 7, causing considerable discord among parents who oppose or favor the measure. Yet Beam had no legal standing to issue such and edict because Gov. Tom Wolf did not have a disaster emergency proclamation in effect that would make the measure enforceable, Judge Christine Fizzano Cannon...

In a phone conference with reporters on Monday, U.S. Special Envoy to Afghanistan Thomas West said the Biden administration is considering a “roadmap” to normalizing relations with the Taliban regime. The vague roadmap West spoke of included some requirements the Taliban seems to have little interest in meeting.

Mike Zimmer revealed during his Wednesday press conference that the Vikings had a player — who is vaccinated — go to the emergency room on Tuesday night because of symptoms from COVID-19. That player is guard Dakota Dozier, according to ESPN's Courtney Cronin. Zimmer said the player is currently stable and still in the hospital, but that the situation was scary. "I’m not a doctor, but it was COVID pneumonia or something, he had a hard time breathing," Zimmer said. The Vikings have placed five players on the Reserve/COVID list over the past week, including Dozier. Here is the timeline...

KUALA LUMPUR – While the United Kingdom’s Carrier Strike Group 21 (CSG21) has departed the Western Pacific, there is still a significant amount of maritime activity from deployed naval groups. The main body of the Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force Indo-Pacific Deployment 2021 (IPD21) task group, which includes JMSDF helicopter destroyer JS Kaga (DDH-184) and JS Murasame (DD101), carried out joint training in the South China Sea with the Carl Vinson Carrier Strike Group from Oct. 29 through Nov. 3. The American CSG includes carrier USS Carl Vinson (CVN-70) and embarked Carrier Air Wing 2 (CVW 2), cruisers USS Lake Champlain...

New York Attorney General Letitia James (D) released pages of transcripts and exhibits Wednesday from her office's investigation into sexual harassment allegations against the state's former Gov. Andrew Cuomo (D), according to NBC New York. These transcripts follow the August release of the New York attorney general report concluding that Cuomo had sexually harassed several women, some of whom were state employees, according to The New York Times. Among the documents released Wednesday was a transcript from an 11-hour interview conducted with Cuomo about his alleged misconduct against women, reports the Times. The transcript is 515 pages long.

“They can speak to their exercises and what they’re training against. It’s been pretty fairly obvious and we just released the China military report a week ago that I think makes it very clear what our understanding of their intentions are and their capabilities are and how they’re developing those capabilities and to what ends,” Kirby told reporters today.“And clearly they have invested a lot in particularly air and maritime capabilities that are designed largely to try to prevent the United States from having access to certain areas in the Indo-Pacific. What we’re focused on is that pacing challenge and...

As I sit down to expound on this topic, I’m taking deep breaths. Are my lips pursed? Yes. Are my nostrils flared? You betcha. Is my butt clenched? Probably. Even the mere thought of people crowding the kitchen, asking me questions, standing right in front of that drawer at the precise moment I need to open it, and generally making noise while I need to focus and finish my Thanksgiving cooking assignment infuses me with ambient, imagined anxiety. While some easygoing, preternaturally social creatures may find it energizing to be surrounded by loved ones while they prepare food, some of...