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November 3rd, 2023

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In Today’s Brief

Gaza Strip: 74 Americans evacuated
Ford: First factory votes on contract
CBS: Super Bowl LVIII ads sold out
Six Flags: To merge with Cedar Fair

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Adm. Lisa Franchetti to lead the Navy

The Senate bypassed Senator Tommy Tuberville's blockade of senior military promotions yesterday to confirm Admiral Lisa Franchetti to be the highest-ranking officer of the U.S. Navy.

Franchetti is now the first woman to serve as the chief of naval operations and the first female member of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. She previously headed the U.S. 6th Fleet and U.S. Naval Forces Korea. The Senate confirmed her 95-1. Franchetti was one of three senior military leaders confirmed yesterday. The Senate also approved General David Allvin as chief of staff of the U.S. Air Force and promoted Lieutenant General Christopher Mahoney to serve as assistant commandant for the U.S. Marine Corps.

The confirmations come less than 24 hours after several of Tuberville's colleagues took to the Senate floor for five hours to urge him to lift his months-long hold on military promotions. The Alabama senator is protesting a Pentagon abortion policy that pays troops for travel to obtain abortions.

Sam Bankman-Fried found guilty

Sam Bankman-Fried, who once ran the world's second largest cryptocurrency exchange, has been found guilty of fraud.

Bankman-Fried, a co-founder of the digital currency exchange FTX, was charged with seven counts of wire fraud, securities fraud and money laundering that swindled customers of FTX and lenders to its affiliated hedge fund, Alameda Research. He is accused of stealing at least $10B from customer and investors. Last December, Bankman-Fried was arrested in the Bahamas and extradited to the United States, where he was freed on a $250M personal recognizance bond. He has pleaded not guilty to all the charges, maintaining that, while he had made mistakes, he had acted in good faith.

Judge Lewis Kaplan set Bankman-Fried's sentencing for March 28, 2024. He faces up to 110 years in prison, although he is likely to recieve less time. Bankman-Fried has a second trial on four additional charges slated for earlier that month.

Beatles release final song

More than 50 years after the Beatles broke up, John, Paul, George, and Ringo are back together, reunited for one final track that was released yesterday.

“Now and Then” comes from the same batch of unreleased demos written by Lennon in the 1970s, which were given to his former bandmates by Yoko Ono. They used the tape to construct the songs “Free As a Bird” and “Real Love,” released in the mid-1990s, but there were technical limitations to finishing “Now and Then.” It was only using machine learning technology, that the band was able to isolate Lennon’s voice from the original cassette and complete the song.

The song's release comes more than four decades since Lennon’s murder and two since George Harrison’s death. "Now and Then" is being released as a double A-side single along with the band's first single "Love Me Do," which debuted to an unsuspecting British public in 1962.

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Around the Globe

Militant group Boko Haram killed 20 mourners returning from the burial of victims of an earlier attack by the group in north-eastern Nigeria, according to police; the mourners died after their vehicle drove over a planted explosive device in Yobe state (More)
President Biden said that the U.S. has helped 74 Americans leave the Gaza Strip in the first wave of evacuations from the enclave; these evacuations are in addition to five Americans who exited the Gaza Strip on Wednesday (More)
Australian police have brought murder charges against a woman who served a lunch earlier this year that led to the deaths of three people from suspected death cap mushroom poisoning (More)

On the Homefront

The House yesterday voted to pass legislation providing $14.3B in military assistance to Israel while cutting funding to the IRS that was approved through Biden’s 2022 sweeping climate, health, and tax law (More)
Autoworkers at the first Ford factory to go on strike have voted in favor of a tentative contract agreement reached with the company; members of the Michigan Assembly Plant union voted 81% in favor of the deal (More)
A former Memphis police officer pleaded guilty yesterday in the death of Tyre Nichols in exchange for prosecutors recommending a 15-year sentence, becoming the first of five officers charged in the case to admit guilt (More)

Glitz & Games

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The final episodes of Paramount Network’s ‘Yellowstone’ are now slated to air in November 2024; in addition, Paramount has greenlit two new spinoff series in the Yellowstone Universe, 1944 and a contemporary series currently titled 2024 (More)
CBS is “virtually sold out” of all its Super Bowl advertising inventory, according to a company spokesperson, completing a process that often isn’t completed until the final hours before the game kicks off in February (More)
German tennis player Alexander Zverev has been given a penalty order and fined $478K by a Berlin court after being accused of physical abuse against a woman, according to a court statement (More)

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Business & Markets

Major indexes in the stock market closed higher for the second consecutive day, with the S&P 500 leading the gains (Dow +1.70%, Nasdaq +1.78%, S&P 500 +1.89%)
Uber and Lyft will pay a combined $328M to settle allegations that the ride-sharing companies unlawfully withheld wages and mandatory sick leave from drivers in New York; over 100K drivers in the state could be eligible to receive funds under the settlement (More)
Six Flags Entertainment and Cedar Fair have announced a merger that would establish one of the largest theme park operators in North America; combined, they would have 27 amusement parks, 15 water parks, and nine resorts in 17 states, Canada, and Mexico (More)

Tips & Tricks

Feel Good: Meet Lizzi Larbalestier, a volunteer for British Divers Marine Life Rescue who spent nine months caring for injured seals after she turned her Airbnb into a makeshift animal hospital - Larbalestier has saved 1K seals and was recently named the recipient of the Animal Action Award for her heroic work
Sneak Peek: Ryan Gosling is at it again in the official trailer for The Fall Guy, a new action rom-com from the director of Deadpool 2 and Bullet Train about a stuntman falling in love with his director, played by Emily Blunt
Bump This: The new AI-assisted Beatles song “Then And Now” has finally dropped, giving us the familiar sound of John Lennon and George Harrison’s voices…and they both sound eerily real - listen on Apple Music, Spotify, and YouTube
Chow Down: The holidays are right around the corner, and peanut butter cookies are one of our favorite baked goods to ring in the last two months of the year - try out this recipe for the best peanut butter cookies with soft and chewy middles, lightly crisped edges, and of course, a delicious peanut butter flavor
Go Deep: Literally, go deep, by reading about how a team of aquatic engineers and researchers plan to launch an initiative to establish a permanent underwater human presence 200 meters below the ocean surface by 2027…and what challenges they might face along the way
Hot Goss: Jamie Foxx, 55, was photographed on a dinner outing in Santa Monica looking alive and well this week six months after his medical emergency that left the entertainer hospitalized for weeks
Life Hack: Sedentary lifestyles, while not great for our health, have become the norm for most of us, and it’s important to offset sitting with regular exercise - see how much daily exercise you need to combat the impact of sedentary activity and some tips for quick workouts that offset mortality risks

Tip-Offs

Based on total square miles, a chart of history’s biggest empires.

Retail workers & thieves speak on America’s shoplifting problem.

See how the Covid pandemic birthed a new running generation.

…meanwhile, examine whether it’s actually worth it to run uphill.

Watch a new Walmart commercial hilariously parody Mean Girls.

Understanding why insects & bugs are so crucial for life on Earth.

Go inside NASA’s project to build 3D-printed houses on the moon.

…and read about how plants are sprouting on the first lunar farm.

Looking Back…

On November 3rd: One World Trade Center opens in New York City on the site of the former World Trade Center complex (2014); a previously unknown 15.5-mile segment of the Great Wall of China is discovered (1998); the Chicago Cubs defeat the Cleveland Indians to capture the franchise’s first World Series title in 108 years (2016); artist Henri Matisse dies (1954).

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