From Jenna Orkin Trump's plan for Social Security will help baby boomers in the short term and cut benefits for anyone younger Judy Shelton Returns with a Bold Plan to Restore Gold NYC ending controversial debit card program for migrants Police Warn Public After 40 Monkeys Escape Research Lab The controversial post-election episode of "Saturday Night Live" got a lot of people talking — including Elon Musk Donald Trump has promised a closed border and mass deportations. Those affected are taking action now Ukraine hoped to force Russia to pick between 2 fronts. Putin chose both. Meet the new Trump administration staffers who will shape key US policies The World’s Largest Unconnected Populations China Is Drilling a 10,000-Meter (32,808 ft) Hole In the Earth:

From Jenna Orkin More of the best writing from around the web on why Trump won Germany's cabinet approves draft law on voluntary military service World's most polluted cities The U.S. National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (OSHA) cautions that FSA, an inorganic fluoride compound, has dire health consequences for any worker that comes into contact with it. Breathing its fumes causes severe lung damage or death and an accidental splash on bare skin will lead to burning and excruciating pain. Fortunately, it can be contained in high-density cross-linked polyethylene storage tanks. It is in such tanks that fluorosilicic acid has for the past half century been transported from Florida fertilizer factories to water reservoirs throughout the United States. Once there, it is drip fed into drinking water. What Trump might do on Day One of his presidency New York City, an area not known for wildfires, has been under a drought watch after the driest October on record, which increases risk of fires, Mayor Eric Adams said on social media. Canvassing for Kamala Going door-to-door in Pennsylvania felt intense and hopeful, but after Trump’s victory in the state a few encounters kept floating back. Dispatches A Dark Reminder of What American Society Has Been and Could Be Again In no way did Trump win a mandate as commanding as, say, Ronald Reagan’s victories over Jimmy Carter, in 1980, and Walter Mondale, in 1984, but, according to an early analysis by the Times, more than ninety per cent of the counties in the country appear to have shifted toward him since the last election. NYC under air quality alert, grilling ban as smoke blankets tri-state

From Jenna Orkin Trump did well in deep-blue states, a sign of his broadening appeal What Trump's win means for retail giants like Walmart, Target, and Costco What a second Trump term means for Intel Trump campaign quietly distances itself from RFK Jr after new vaccine safety comments House election results The lawyer behind Senate Bill 8, Texas’s abortion-bounty law, is closely allied with Trump and recently represented him before the Supreme Court. Project 2025 outlines a plan for formal federal surveillance of pregnancy. This is what so many young men, straight men who want women to bear their children, voted for. The fight is now peer-to-peer, between men in favor of reproductive servitude and women who refuse. This year won’t just be the hottest on record—it could be the first to surpass the 1.5-degree-Celsius threshold laid out in the Paris climate accord. The computing power underlying AI tools like chatbots requires massive amounts of water for liquid cooling systems that absorb and dissipate the heat generated by computer servers. Data centers should install rainwater catchments to supply their water needs, write Justin Talbot Zorn and Bettina Warburg, a policy advisor and AI researcher, respectively. Do More Than Half of Americans Read Below 6th-Grade Level? We can all learn something from JD Vance’s Venmo, old blog

From Jenna Orkin Trump 2.0: Who would be in the running for top jobs in Trump's second administration? Donald Trump’s Revenge The former President will return to the White House older, less inhibited, and far more dangerous than ever before. What Trump’s win means for the world’s most pressing problems What Trump has promised to do on ‘day one’ as president What the election results could mean for your retirement account Will Trump enact Project 2025? Here’s what’s in it. What Trump’s win means for the world’s most pressing problems Donald Trump’s West Palm Beach Victory Celebration Trump's win could lead companies to push up prices. Here's why. Trump’s return to power raises serious questions about the media’s credibility

From Jenna Orkin Trump 2.0: Who would be in the running for top jobs in Trump's second administration? The Americans Prepping for a Second Civil War Voting technology is more secure than it’s ever been. This is the result of a shift in American voting procedures more than two decades in the making: Most people now vote by machines that efficiently scan paper ballots. Or they use touch screens and other forms of direct-recording electronic machines (“DREs”), which also generate backup paper records. Those physical paper trails are an election safeguard—ballots are verifiable, auditable and recountable, as I wrote on Saturday. In October, amateur mathematician Luke Durant discovered a new prime number, and it’s 41 million digits long. Yup, the number has 41,024,230 digits (for comparison, the approximate number of total atoms in the observable universe is only about 80 digits long). A prime number is a number that can be divided only by itself and 1; so 3, 7, 13, 17, and 19 are all primes, whereas 15 is not. How he did it: Prime number hunters use a computing trick devised by 17th-century French mathematician Marin Mersenne, who discovered that multiplying 2 by itself some number of times (2^n) and then subtracting 1, you sometimes get a prime number. Durant assembled a global supercomputer across 17 countries by buying processing time from various cloud GPU providers to crunch through larger and larger iterations of the Mersenne calculation, churning through about 12 times as many numbers as every other computer involved in the Mersenne prime search combined. Ukraine says it attacked North Korean troops for the first time Masking Returns Looking to Move Abroad From the US? Here’s How Specialists that help Americans move to places like Portugal and Spain are busier than ever. Blame election stress. A robot retrieves the first melted fuel from Fukushima nuclear reactor U.S. Trump sues CBS News over 60 Minutes interview with Harris; network says suit is "completely without merit" Betting it all on fluoride: Trump takes a risky final gamble to let RFK Jr. “go wild” on health

From Jenna Orkin Bird flu was detected in a pig, and it could be a tipping point threatening more human transmission Gun death rates in some U.S. states comparable to conflict zones, study finds China built a $50 billion military stronghold in the South China Sea Trump, Harris campaign in the West as polls show tie just 5 days out How Pro-Trump Activists Hijacked Georgia’s Election Board The Economic Philosophy of Donald Harris What Nate Silver Has Said About Donald Trump's Chances Harris takes slim lead over Trump in final Iowa Poll before 2024 election Last New York Times/Siena poll of the 7 battleground states released: See the results Disputes in South China Sea could disrupt trade lanes, lead to war, experts say

From Jenna Orkin The Trump Show Comes to Madison Square Garden The rally featured Hulk Hogan, Rudy Giuliani, “Y.M.C.A.,” and a thrum of American nativism. Hezbollah named its new leader, a long-serving deputy, after Israel killed his predecessor VW Seeks Unprecedented Plant Closings as Auto Crisis Deepens What to know about Elon Musk’s reported phone calls with Putin and why it matters Onagawa plant's No.2 reactor to resume operations Bezos Editorial Majority of swing-state voters say they fear violence if Trump loses An examination of 47,282 tree species finds that one in three tree species are at risk of extinction. Global temperatures through September point to 2024 topping 2023 as the hottest year on record. How Binyavanga Wainaina Wrote About Africa

From Jenna Orkin 10 countries join BRICS as partners Xiaomi tapes out China’s first 3nm smartphone SoC and plans to launch Xiaomi 15 series next week TD Bank pleads guilty in money laundering case, will pay $3 billion in penalties American creating deepfakes targeting Harris works with Russian intel, documents show China Enlarging Nuclear Forces With Eye on America: US Intel Supreme Court ignites wave of lawsuits against federal regulations China now has the biggest navy in the world Chinese hackers said to have collected audio of American calls A new storm may be brewing in the Caribbean. What to know. According to so-called moral framework theory, which identifies major principles that determine social behavior, people are more likely to align with more conservative ideals during the spring and fall.

From Jenna Orkin The U.S. Spies Who Sound the Alarm About Election Interference Lost Silk Road cities mapped using remote sensing Researchers screened microbe communities living in wastewater and found four strains of Acetobacterium that could digest "forever chemicals," or PFASs for perfluoroalkyl and polyfluoroalkyl substances. Central Asia Emerges as Epicenter of Rare Earth Mineral Rush Bezos faces a Washington Post revolt after he reportedly blocked the paper from endorsing Harris Dollar dominance to end? BRICS launches symbolic banknote; Putin says, ‘They used it as weapon…’ Can the tire industry be sustainable? Guayule farmers say yes. Israel limited its attack on Iran, hoping to ease tensions for now Elon Musk, enemy of ‘open borders,’ launched his career working illegally L.A. Times Editor Quits after Publication’s Owner Strikes Down Kamala Endorsement

From Jenna Orkin What Happens to Hamas and Hezbollah Now That Their Leaders Have Been Killed? Opinion: Sloan Kettering’s hardball negotiation tactics threaten to hurt its patients Pharma Paid $1.06 Billion to Reviewers at Top Medical Journals Moldova barely approves its EU referendum amid allegations of Russian interference Environmentalists long decried the impact of rubber production. This small shrub may offer an alternative. Bill Gates privately said he donated $50 million to a pro-Harris super PAC, report says TRUMP: ‘I NEED THE KIND OF GENERALS THAT HITLER HAD’ Wyoming has found a way to mitigate forest fires: Stop blowing up dead horses Cow-dung Powered Ships Long-extinct animals could be resurrected as robots to shed light on evolution