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White House Changes Chairs, Not Immigration Playbook

Stephen Miller replaces Susie Wiles, while European regulators challenge TikTok's personalized feed.

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Trump's New Gatekeeper Arrives With His Own Agenda

President Trump has named Stephen Miller to replace Susie Wiles as White House chief of staff after sweeping Republican midterm losses. Miller, a top adviser who has driven controversial immigration policies in both Trump administrations, is set to take the job Monday. The appointment puts a familiar advocate in charge of a role that controls access to the president and coordinates the work of the White House. Wiles is leaving after a midterm defeat that cost Republicans control of Congress. The change gives Trump a chief of staff whose policy preferences are already well known, rather than a newcomer who needs an orientation packet and a map of the building. It also sets up potential clashes with the incoming Democratic majorities. A chief of staff can help decide which arguments reach the Oval Office, which meetings happen and which demands wait outside. Miller's history makes the choice more than a routine reshuffling of desks. Immigration critics have long objected to the policies he championed, while the president has chosen to elevate the adviser associated with them. In a town where a staffing change is often sold as a fresh start, this one comes with an unusually extensive back catalog. The new office may have a different nameplate, but the policy manual is already on the shelf.

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EU Tells TikTok Its Infinite Feed Has Found a Limit

The European Commission says TikTok broke the bloc's online platform rules through a recommendation system that can create a harmful rabbit hole for users. Regulators allege the app exposes people endlessly and repeatedly to content related to sadness, isolation or body image. The finding puts TikTok's For You feed, the central mechanism for choosing what users see next, under pressure from European regulators. The issue matters beyond a single screen: TikTok is a major global platform, and its approach to recommendations is central to how it distributes videos and keeps an audience engaged. The Commission's allegation concerns the risks of repeated exposure, not simply the existence of personalized suggestions. That is an uncomfortable distinction for a service built on anticipating what a viewer might watch next. Discovery sounds exciting when the next video is new; it sounds rather different when the same sensitive subject keeps returning like a guest who has misunderstood the phrase good night. The regulators' position puts the design of the feed itself in focus, rather than treating every video as an isolated decision. TikTok's challenge is that the feature meant to make its service feel personally attentive is also the one European officials say can keep users circling the same difficult material. Apparently the algorithm's idea of a helpful follow-up has limits, even if its scroll does not.

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Celebrity Fans Face Scrutiny as Cardboard Gets a Corporate Appraisal

Knicks players question Taylor Swift's fandom, while PSA's grading business shapes Pokémon card prices.

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Knicks Discover Courtside Fandom Also Comes With Reviews

New York Knicks guards Tyler Kolek and Miles McBride called Taylor Swift's NBA appearances a little performative, prompting the team to defend the pop star. The exchange turns a familiar arena spectacle, the celebrity in a prominent seat, into a debate over who counts as a sufficiently authentic fan. Swift is among the world's most recognizable performers, and her appearances at games draw attention from cameras as well as the crowd. The players' comments add an unusual twist: in a business built around attracting viewers, the viewing habits of one famous spectator became a topic of their own. The team defended Swift after its players named her the fakest celebrity fan. That puts the franchise in the awkward position of mediating between the people on the court and a person in the stands, with the whole disagreement taking place under the gaze of an entertainment industry that benefits from both. There is no reliable test for what a spectator feels while watching a game, however much confidence a panel of teammates may bring to the subject. And the camera's interest in a celebrity is not the same thing as evidence of that celebrity's motives. Still, the arena has found a new way to rate performance: not points, assists or rebounds, but whether the customer looks sufficiently sincere while sitting down.

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Pokémon Cards Enter the Age of the Official Plastic Pedestal

PSA's card-grading business helps shape what collectors pay for Pokémon cards, with its resale premium, backlog and market dominance giving its assessments considerable influence. A grade offers buyers a standardized assessment of condition, turning the state of a small piece of cardboard into a number that can travel with it through the resale market. For a collector, the difference between enjoying a card and selling it can therefore involve more than finding a buyer. The card may also enter a queue for an outside judgment that buyers recognize. PSA's position makes that judgment especially important: the market's trust in its labels can affect how much a card may fetch. The backlog is part of the story too, because a service that helps make cards easier to compare must first process the cards people send in. The result is a hobby in which nostalgia, condition and an outside company's assessment all meet inside a plastic case. A collector can still love a card for the creature on its front, but the resale market may spend just as much time studying the number above it. The monster may be rare, powerful and beloved. The label has the quieter superpower: persuading strangers to agree what condition the monster is in.

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Atlanta Gets Pandas That Know When to Stop, Congress Keeps Counting

Ping Ping and Fu Shuang debut at Zoo Atlanta as the final margins of Democratic congressional majorities remain unresolved.

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Atlanta's New Headliners Let Everyone Else Do the Publicity

Giant pandas Ping Ping and Fu Shuang made their long-awaited public debut at Zoo Atlanta on Friday, delighting visitors who got their first look at the pair. The pandas are on loan from China, and their arrival gave Atlanta a new attraction whose stars are not required to deliver a speech, answer questions or promise a busy season ahead. Their first public appearance was the moment fans had been waiting for. A panda debut is an unusually direct bargain between institution and audience: the zoo offers a chance to see the animals, and visitors supply the excitement. There is no need for the stars to explain their strategy or describe their journey in a branded video. The loan arrangement also places the pair within a longer tradition of international cooperation around giant pandas. For the Atlanta audience, though, the immediate appeal is much simpler: two animals have appeared in person after a long wait. The event shows how little a celebrity must do when the public has already decided the appearance is worth attending. A public figure might spend weeks arranging interviews to announce a debut. Ping Ping and Fu Shuang only had to be pandas, a qualification that turns out to be remarkably difficult for the rest of the entertainment business to match.

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Democrats Win Congress, Then Wait for the Spreadsheet to Finish

Democrats won sizable majorities in the House and Senate in the 2026 midterm elections, but the exact margins remain unclear because some races have not yet been projected. Control of the chambers and the final number of seats are separate questions, and the latter depends on the remaining contests. For the incoming majority, those margins will help determine how much room its leaders have to manage votes. A larger majority provides more flexibility when members disagree; a smaller one gives each absence or dissenting vote more weight. For Republicans, the outstanding races still matter even after the overall result has taken shape. Election-night graphics are designed to make every number look final, but the actual count and the calls that follow do not necessarily keep the same schedule as a television broadcast. Some contests take longer to resolve, leaving the two parties with a map that is clear in broad outline and incomplete in detail. That is a frustrating arrangement for anyone who ordered a neat ending with the victory speeches. The majority has arrived, the celebrations can proceed, and the remaining boxes on the chart are still asking for a little more time. In Washington, even a decisive result can come with an attachment labeled final numbers pending.

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Justice Department Files for an Exit as a Maryland Community Stops a Giant Project

The department moves to dismiss its California ballot case, and residents block a $5 billion data center.

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DOJ Asks to Drop the Ballot Case It Brought

The Justice Department moved to dismiss its own lawsuit seeking to stop California from counting roughly 20,000 ballots that it alleged went to noncitizens. The department's claim was an allegation, and its move to dismiss the case is not a court finding that the ballots were improperly issued or counted. The case had put a large number into the public debate over voting. The subsequent motion changes the legal course: rather than continuing to pursue the requested halt through that lawsuit, the department has asked to drop its own case. A filing and a dismissal request make for very different government announcements, even when they concern the same underlying claim. For California voters, the practical issue was whether the department would succeed in stopping those ballots from being counted. For the department, the immediate change is that it is no longer pressing ahead with that particular lawsuit. The episode is a reminder that the life of a legal claim can be considerably shorter than the headlines generated by its arrival. A government office can make a forceful entrance with a precise number and later return with a motion seeking the exit. The paperwork has not settled the truth of the original allegation; it has given the department's own case a notably abrupt second act.

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Maryland Neighbors Give a $5 Billion Data Center a Local Veto

A Maryland woman who had been evicted after a pay cut became a leader of a community effort that blocked a proposed $5 billion data center. Her campaign is part of a wider pattern: thousands of people across the United States have become involved in opposing data centers. The facilities are a prominent part of the infrastructure behind the growth of digital services and artificial intelligence. They are also large physical projects that must be placed somewhere, making decisions about development a local matter as well as a corporate one. In Maryland, the community effort stopped a vast proposal, demonstrating that a large price tag does not settle the argument over whether a project should proceed. The activist's path into the campaign was unexpected, beginning after a personal financial setback rather than a career in technology or development. That is an awkward fact for anyone who imagines infrastructure debates as conversations only among executives and specialists. A company can put billions beside a project name, but the number does not make the neighbors disappear. They still get to organize, ask questions and make their views known. In this case, the proposed center met a local group with enough resolve to stop it. The biggest figure in the presentation was not the only number that counted.

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Trillion-Dollar Expectations Meet a Market That Has Started Checking Prices

Investors question a potential Anthropic valuation as the Nasdaq enters correction territory.

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Anthropic's $1.5 Trillion Benchmark Learns the Word Maybe

Investors are bracing for Anthropic to list below a $1.5 trillion valuation, with some calling that figure a stretch as enthusiasm for AI trades cools on Wall Street. The possible valuation is an expectation about a potential listing, not a settled price or a guarantee that the company will list at a particular amount. It nevertheless illustrates how much depends on what future buyers are willing to pay for AI growth. A valuation condenses a host of judgments about a company's prospects into one number, which can look authoritative until market sentiment changes. In Anthropic's case, the earlier expectation now faces investors who are reassessing the sector. A lower listing valuation would still be an enormous figure, but the comparison matters to people who had been using $1.5 trillion as a benchmark. The tension is familiar: a seller has reason to emphasize future potential, while a buyer must decide how much of that future to pay for now. Wall Street's description of the number as a stretch is especially polite given its size. Most of us call a price ambitious when a dinner bill exceeds the estimate. In AI finance, the same conversation can take place several orders of magnitude higher, with the word stretch doing the work of a very large measuring tape.

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Nasdaq Enters Correction, a Term That Never Offers an Apology

The Nasdaq has fallen into correction territory, bringing its history of recoveries after past declines into focus. A correction generally means an index has dropped at least 10 percent from a recent high, a threshold that gives a familiar name to a painful move. Historical recoveries offer a way to examine what happened after earlier declines, but they do not establish what the index will do next. The latest fall has put technology shares and the assumptions supporting their valuations under renewed attention. For investors, the index is both a measure of market performance and a collection of companies whose prospects can change. For headline writers, it is also a provider of unusually tidy labels for untidy days. The word correction suggests that someone found an error, fixed it and returned the document with a helpful note. Markets provide no such service. They move first, while analysts compare charts and debate the explanation afterward. The historical record can show how prior episodes unfolded, including the time it took to recover, without turning those episodes into a schedule for this one. A chart can tell you where the index has been; it cannot promise the date it will return. The market has supplied the red ink, but it has declined to include the answer key.

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Freezers Join the Security Briefing and a Disclosure Page Finds Its Way Home

Federal agencies warn of possible attacks on refrigeration, while a White House financial disclosure page returns after an inquiry.

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The Freezer Is Now on the Cybersecurity Meeting Agenda

Government agencies are warning that hackers could soon target refrigeration units across the agriculture and healthcare sectors in the United States. The warning concerns equipment that can play an important role in keeping food and healthcare supplies cold. It also expands the list of systems that organizations must consider when thinking about digital security. A refrigeration unit is easy to picture as a box with a door and a temperature setting. In a connected workplace, however, the equipment can also be part of a larger system, making its operation relevant to the people responsible for security as well as the people responsible for storage. The agencies' warning is about a possible threat, not a report that every freezer has already been compromised. For farms and healthcare organizations, the concern is that an attack on an ordinary-looking piece of equipment could affect something far more important than the appliance itself. The warning gives a humdrum object an unwanted promotion into the world of cybersecurity briefings. Office discussions that once centered on email accounts and computer systems may now have to make room for the equipment keeping supplies at the right temperature. The freezer was built to stay cold and quiet. It has somehow become a subject for the people who worry about network access, which is a difficult way to earn a place on the agenda.

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White House Disclosure Page Returns After Someone Asks Where It Went

A White House page listing dozens of financial disclosure forms went offline without explanation and returned after CBS News asked about its removal. The page provides access to public disclosures, making its disappearance significant for anyone trying to examine the financial interests officials are required to report. Its return restored that route to the forms, but the disappearance itself was not explained in the reporting. Public disclosure depends on more than a rule requiring documents to exist. People must also be able to find and examine the records, especially when a government website serves as the obvious place to look. A missing page can therefore turn a routine search into a question for the office responsible for making the material available. Here, the sequence was straightforward: the page went offline, CBS News made an inquiry, and the page returned. That timing makes a neat little story about transparency, though it does not establish why the page disappeared or why it was restored. The official promise of public access sounds grander than the practical task of keeping a link working. Yet the link is where the promise meets the person trying to use it. For a brief period, the disclosure page offered an unintended lesson in accessibility: the quickest way to find it was apparently to ask where it had gone.

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Two Governors-Elect Add New Chapters to the Statehouse Biography

Gina Hinojosa makes Texas history, while Rob Sand's modeling past reappears after his Iowa win.

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Texas Elects a Historic First With School Funding on the Syllabus

Gina Hinojosa will become the first Latina governor of Texas, adding a historic milestone to a career in which boosting public education has been a legislative priority. The state representative from the Rio Grande Valley now moves from the state House toward the governor's office, where her priorities will meet the demands of governing a large state. Her election is significant both for the barrier it breaks and for the policy background she brings to the job. Public education has been central to her legislative work, giving schools a prominent place in the story of her rise. A campaign can introduce a candidate through speeches and promises; governing will require turning priorities into proposals and working through the state's political institutions. That makes the transition from representative to governor a change in scale as well as title. Hinojosa's victory supplies a milestone that can be written in a history book, while the education work associated with her career points toward the less ceremonial business of budgets and decisions. The first day in a new office is likely to bring the usual attention reserved for a historic first. After that comes the much longer assignment of governing, with no guarantee that every problem will fit neatly into a classroom timetable. Texas has elected a governor with an education priority; the statehouse now has some homework of its own.

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Iowa's Governor-Elect Finds His Old Runway on the Public Record

Iowa governor-elect Rob Sand's past work modeling for Prada resurfaced after Vogue asked its Instagram followers whether they knew about it. A verified account for Sand replied affirmatively in the comments, adding a fashion footnote to the biography of the former elected state auditor. The rediscovery came after his gubernatorial win, when the incoming governor was already receiving attention for his move to the state's top office. His earlier public-service role and the modeling work make an unusual pairing, but both belong to the same résumé. Political biographies tend to sort a candidate's life into useful campaign categories: offices held, policies favored and qualifications for the next job. An old fashion appearance can escape those headings until a social media post brings it back into circulation. In this case, the answer did not require an elaborate search through archives. The verified account supplied a simple confirmation in the comments. Sand's governing record will be made in the office he is about to hold, not on a runway. Still, the episode gives Iowa a governor-elect whose past includes two rather different forms of public presentation. One involves examining public finances; the other involves wearing designer clothes before an audience. Both, apparently, can end up being discussed online long after the event.

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AI Spending Keeps Its Calendar as a Conference Room Case Goes to Court

OpenAI's finance chief says data center investment will continue, and a man charged over a recording device pleads not guilty.

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OpenAI's Data Center Budget Declines to Pause for Election Night

OpenAI will continue investing in AI data centers despite election results in which voters supported candidates who pledged restrictions on data center development, its chief financial officer told CNBC. The company's position puts a corporate spending plan alongside a political movement that wants more limits on the facilities. Data centers provide computing capacity for AI, so the question is not merely where to put a building. It also concerns the infrastructure companies expect to need as they expand their services. The election results did not themselves establish the details of any future restrictions, and OpenAI's statement does not mean that local rules can simply be ignored. They do show that a vote for candidates promising limits and a company's decision to continue investing can exist at the same time. The next stage will depend on what those candidates actually pursue and how individual projects are handled. It is a contrast between two kinds of schedule: campaign promises move toward policy through government, while corporate budgets move through planning and investment decisions. Each can affect the other, but neither automatically stops when the other makes an announcement. OpenAI has made clear that its checkbook is not waiting for a complete political settlement. Candidates who promised limits, meanwhile, have won the chance to turn their promises into something more durable than a campaign slogan.

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OpenAI Conference Room Case Puts Privacy on the Court Calendar

Abdulrahman Alfozan, a Saudi national charged with planting a recording device in an OpenAI conference room, has pleaded not guilty. The charge concerns an alleged device in a meeting room at the artificial intelligence company. His plea disputes the accusation, and the case remains a matter for the courts. The alleged conduct places an ordinary corporate space at the center of an extraordinary technology company's legal story. Conference rooms are where organizations expect people to gather and discuss work, often with the assumption that those outside the room are not listening. A criminal charge over a recording device challenges that assumption, but an allegation is not a finding that the accused committed the act. The case also illustrates how physical spaces remain important even at a company associated with sophisticated software. A meeting may involve advanced research or ordinary business, but either way it requires a room and people who expect to speak to one another. The irony is not that an accusation proves a particular security failure; the court will assess the case. It is that a company devoted to developing new computing systems now has a legal dispute centered on one of the oldest workplace expectations: a private meeting should stay private. Even the most advanced office still needs a door, a table and some confidence about who can hear the conversation.

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Fusion Promises Tomorrow's Power While Washington Loses Another Official Today

Europe looks to Japan in the commercial fusion race, a federal prosecutor resigns, and economists weigh data center backlash.

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Fusion's Global Race Begins With an Especially Patient Finish Line

Europe is looking to Japan for help as companies race to develop the world's first commercial fusion power plant. Fusion combines atoms to release energy and has the potential to provide abundant, clean power, making the effort relevant to energy markets and technology suppliers worldwide. That potential is not the same as an operating commercial plant: the first one remains a goal. Cooperation across borders reflects the scale of the engineering and supply-chain challenge. It also gives the field another occasion to practice its signature skill, describing an exciting future while being careful about the calendar. Fusion's promise is large enough to keep governments and businesses interested after decades of research. For now, the first commercial facility remains the prize at the end of the race, not a grid connection already delivering the rewards.

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Justice Department Inquiry Adds Another Departure to Its File

Jason Reding Quiñones, the U.S. attorney for the Southern District of Florida, abruptly resigned amid questions about a Justice Department inquiry described as a grand conspiracy probe. His departure is another high-profile exit from an inquiry marked by internal disputes. The resignation adds personnel turnover to the public story of an investigation whose internal workings are not fully visible. It does not by itself establish what the inquiry will ultimately find or why any particular dispute arose. Still, changes in senior positions can matter to the management of a major federal investigation, even when the legal work continues. A probe is supposed to collect evidence, but this one has also accumulated a conspicuous list of departures. The staff directory is becoming an increasingly active part of the public record, whether or not it supplies answers to the questions that prompted the inquiry.

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Data Centers Win Investment Praise and a Frostier Local Reception

Economists say a growing political backlash against data centers threatens a major source of U.S. investment. The facilities have become an important destination for spending as companies build the computing infrastructure behind AI and other services. That economic role does not guarantee a warm welcome for every project. A facility praised in a national investment assessment still has to be located in a particular community, where residents and officials may have their own views about development. The conflict creates an awkward split between the large figures in an economic forecast and the local decisions that determine what gets built. Economists are warning about a possible threat to investment, not declaring that all proposed centers have stopped. The industry's challenge is that a growth engine looks impressive on a spreadsheet, but the spreadsheet does not get a vote at the community meeting.

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Meteor Shower Refuses a Ticket Fee as Sunday Politics Books Its Guests

The Leonids arrive, two Michigan singles marry, and election analysts find a reason for civic optimism.

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Leonids Offer a Night Show Without a Subscription Tier

The Leonid meteor shower, known for bright, fast meteors, begins this weekend and continues through the end of November. It is one of the year's most prolific meteor showers, offering a celestial show without a ticket office or a premium seating chart. The sky does not promise a meteor on demand, so patience remains part of the arrangement. That may be the least fashionable feature of an entertainment service in which the audience cannot skip ahead. The Leonids provide the spectacle; viewers supply the time and a view of the sky.

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Two Lifelong Singles Discover Their Plans Had an Unlisted Chapter

Al Sager, 65, and Susan Guc, 76, of Bay City, Michigan, met while both were undergoing cardiac rehabilitation and have since married. Both had been happily single for decades before finding an unexpected connection. Their story gives the idea of a carefully maintained routine a gentle surprise ending. Neither needed a national matchmaking campaign to meet someone from the same town; their paths crossed in a setting neither had apparently designed as a romantic venue. After years of independence, the couple found room in the schedule for a new partnership.

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Sunday's Guest List Prepares to Turn Election Results Into Conversation

Face the Nation with Margaret Brennan will feature Democratic Sen. Elizabeth Warren, Republican Rep. French Hill and Democratic Rep.-elect Nancy Lacore on its Nov. 8 broadcast. The lineup brings together lawmakers and an incoming member of Congress shortly after the midterms. Their appearances offer the program a chance to hear from politicians approaching the next session from different positions. Sunday television has a talent for turning a week's events into a carefully timed sequence of questions and answers. The election may have produced a new Congress, but the guest chairs are already getting to work.

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Political Scientists Give Democracy Credit While the Count Continues

Political scientists say American democracy was a big winner in the midterms, even as results in some House and Senate races remain outstanding. Their assessment offers a broader view of the election than the contest for any single seat. The unfinished races still matter for the final makeup of Congress, while the scholars' judgment concerns the democratic process itself. It is an unusual victory announcement: the system gets some praise even though its scoreboard is not complete. Democracy, it turns out, can earn a compliment without delivering every result on election night.

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