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Perfect driving records mean little as auto insurers try to squeeze monthly premiums to cover terrifying hidden repair costs and illegal uninsured drivers .... If you have opened a renewal notice recently, you have probably asked yourself: why is my car insurance so high? You have not had a speeding ticket in a decade, your driveway is completely free of fender benders, and your daily commute has not changed. Yet, somehow, the monthly premium automatically pulled from your checking account looks like it belongs to a reckless teenager driving a bright red sports car. You are certainly not alone in...

@MSFT365Status Microsoft 365 Status We're returning a portion of affected servers to the service, and they remain stable so far. We're also shifting traffic to alternate routes wherever possible and observing limited recovery. In parallel, we've streamlined the process of returning the remaining affected servers to service. As capacity is restored, users may experience a gradual recovery as their clients reconnect. More info under EX1550543 and MO1550821 in the Microsoft 365 admin center, as well as status.cloud.microsoft if the admin center is not available to you. 6:04 PM · Nov 12, 2026 · 346.5K Views

Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent confronted Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick last week over his handling of a Singaporean company at the heart of revelations about Chinese spying on Nvidia, demanding to know why the United States had not already banned sales of advanced A.I. chips to the firm. The exchange, which took place at the White House on Thursday and was described by people briefed on it, highlighted growing tensions inside the Trump administration over A.I. policy in general and the Commerce Department’s posture toward Nvidia in particular. The internal debate has only intensified after Jensen Huang, Nvidia’s chief executive, acknowledged...

The commerce secretary is under pressure due to his inaction on chip-export controls and tensions with other senior officials WASHINGTON—As the fallout from Jensen Huang’s affair with a suspected Chinese intelligence source continues to consume the West Wing, some of President Trump’s top advisers have started shifting blame for the political mess toward one man: Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick.Lutnick has been a primary target of the finger-pointing within the administration because of his efforts to stall restrictions on chip exports, his longstanding relationship with the outgoing Nvidia chief executive and his pre-existing tensions with some members of the administration, according...

Heavy snow and strong winds could reduce visibility across the Sierra to near zero through Saturday morning. Conditions are expected to ease Saturday afternoon and Sunday before the next round arrives Sunday night. ... The storm heading for the mountains this weekend is now strong enough for winter storm warnings. The National Weather Service has upgraded the winter storm watches to warnings, and they take effect Friday morning. Exposed ridges could see gusts as strong as 90 mph, while the highest terrain could pick up 24 inches of heavy, wet snow. Down in the towns, the official forecast looks far...

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weeks before a sex-and-spy scandal engulfed the company and led to Jensen Huang’s ouster as CEO. The trust benefiting the Bay Area congressman’s wife, Ritu Ahuja, sold between $1,001 and $15,000 in Nvidia shares on Sept. 4 and again Oct. 7, according to disclosures tracked by Capitol Trades. SNIP A spokesperson for Khanna, who supports a congressional stock-trading ban and recently declared “DEI is back!” while celebrating Dems’ election wins, told the California Post that the transactions had nothing to do with insider knowledge. “Neither Rep. Khanna nor anyone on his staff received any briefing on Megaspeed, Jensen, or any...

U.S. — National productivity skyrocketed on Thursday after Microsoft Teams went down, affording millions of Americans the rare opportunity to actually do their jobs. Thousands of corporate meetings were canceled due to the outage, leading to an unprecedented spike in employee performance. "It's been years since I was able to come to work and actually do my job," said local man Brian Mercer. "I've had a dozen projects piling up since last spring, which all get changed every time there's another meeting. All it took was one day without any input, and they're all done." The remarkable burst of productivity...

Former Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang had an intimate relationship with a second employee at the chipmaking giant, bringing the number of women romantically linked to the married billionaire executive to three, according to a report. Reuters cited two people familiar with the previously undisclosed relationship, which emerged after Huang stepped down following revelations of his involvement with two other women. The news agency did not identify the latest employee and said its attempts to contact her were unsuccessful. Huang, 63, resigned Thursday after reports that he had affairs with Kimberly Powell, Nvidia’s vice president of health care, and Alice Huang,...

Do you know someone who can fix anything, even when everyone else has given up? Their ability may reveal a hidden kind of intelligence that traditional IQ tests were never designed to measure. People who are good at fixing things often think differently, notice details others miss, and find solutions where others see impossible problems. This video explains the psychology behind their remarkable problem-solving abilities. Most people believe intelligence comes from academic achievement, high IQ scores, and being good with words or numbers. But practical intelligence involves much more than that. You'll discover how systems thinking, functional fixedness, tolerance for...

At least 9 incoming progressive members of the House Democratic caucus are expected to support efforts to impeach President Donald Trump, continuing a push led by outgoing Rep. Al Green, D-Texas, Fox News Digital has learned. Green and representatives from the Removal Coalition and Courage for Democracy Project discussed the effort with Fox News Digital after a Capitol Hill news conference, months after the Texas Democrat introduced articles of impeachment against Trump in August. Green is counting on support from Reps.-elect Melat Kiros, D-Colo.; Dan Koh, D-Mass.; Chris Rabb, D-Pa.; Angela Gonzales-Torres, D-Calif.; and several other incoming Democrats to continue...

An illegal alien who is somehow back in our country and driving despite four prior deportations put an Utah man in critical condition in a hit-and-run. The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) shared details about the Utah crash with Border Hawk on Thursday. Mexican national Maria Del Rocio Morales Ruvalcaba is the culprit. At about 6 p.m. on November 4, an unnamed 25-year-old man was crossing a street with friends in Spanish Fork when a minivan careened into him. Border Hawk stated that the driver, who DHS has now confirmed was Morales Ruvalcaba, “continued onward without stopping.” As of Wednesday,...

Former Trump White House aide John McEntee is getting attention as a possible Republican presidential candidate in 2028. McEntee, 36, has never held elected office. However, he has a background in the White House, played college football and has built a large social media following. He also recently finished first in a college presidential straw poll and ranks fourth in a prediction market for the 2028 Republican nomination. Here are seven things to know about him. 1. John McEntee won a college presidential straw poll McEntee finished first in a recent presidential straw poll at the University of Tennessee in...

Microsoft reported issues with users' Exchange Online mailboxes and an issue with Microsoft Teams, according to posts on social media Thursday. "We're investigating reports of users experiencing issues accessing Exchange Online mailboxes through multiple connection methods in the Americas," the company wrote, after first reporting "users experiencing issues when accessing or using Microsoft Teams functionality in North America." The company initially said the issues involving Exchange Online mailboxes could be due to infrastructure "experiencing elevated load across multiple regions." Microsoft later clarified, "We determined the elevated load isn't driven by an increase in traffic, but by a number of servers...

Explanation: Not all those who wander are lost. A night sky example is that planets wander, and in fact the very word "planet" comes from "wandering star" in Greek. As planets shift relative to fixed stars, they may appear from our perspective to get closer to other astronomical objects. Such meetings are called conjunctions. They don't happen by chance, but follow the precise laws of celestial mechanics. This peaceful image, captured in Poland, shows the crescent Moon above the Tatra Mountains, and bright Venus close by, a little lower in the horizon. The bright star to the left of Venus...

NYC woman, born and lived whole life in the Boroughs, speaks truth of voting Dem all her life. Her light bulb moment was after she voted for Mamdani. She voted Republican in 2026 midterms. Lots of F word, but she has a lot to say calling out election results not just in NYC. Hope you will watch it. Link should be above and I'll put in comment below

[snip] I spent a few days in Florida for NASA's Max Power event, a combination of an air show, with NASA doing a show and tell. And I got to sit down with the Administrator and ask a few questions about NASA's current and future plans. [/snip] Talkin NASA's Plans With Jared Isaacman at MAX POWER | 33:57 Scott Manley | 1.87M subscribers | 130,110 views | November 11, 2026

War Secretary Pete Hegseth on Thursday honored a U.S. Army soldier who chastised him and members of his staff for talking too loudly at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier, awarding him a military commendation for upholding the memorial's strict standards. Hegseth presented the soldier, identified as Spc. Iglesias, a member of the Army's elite 3rd Infantry Regiment known as The Old Guard, with the Joint Service Commendation Medal following Wednesday's incident at Arlington National Cemetery, WBAL-TV reported. "We love soldiers. We love standards. Well done, Specialist," Hegseth wrote Thursday in a post on X. "Carry on Patriots." The award...

The gunman in the Washington, DC, gym shooting is a wealthy doctor who had been locked in a battle over black mold in his $1.1 million penthouse — and cited a report about it as his chilling “manifesto.” Dr. Matt Lambert, an emergency room doctor, had sued his homeowners association in March 2025, claiming that scaffolding from repairs on his trendy Logan Circle building led the dangerous fungus to spread. “My manifesto is an engineering report,” an X account linked to Lambert tweeted at 8 a.m. Thursday— minutes before he opened fire inside his building’s ground-floor gym, killing at least...

Israel’s political transition has triggered a confrontation over national security, with Prime Minister-designate Gadi Eisenkot warning outgoing Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu against launching new military operations against Iran before a new government takes office. In a letter sent Wednesday, Eisenkot, leader of the Yashar party and a former Israeli military chief, urged Netanyahu to exercise restraint in security decisions that could expose Israel to further military escalation. “Deploying security forces in the absence of a direct and immediate threat that cannot be postponed could have devastating consequences for Israeli democracy and for citizens’ trust in the institutions of government,” Eisenkot...