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Your Daily BriefNovember 14th, 2022 |
Good morning, and happy Monday! Did you know that rats have rhythm, just like us? Apparently, researchers at the University of Tokyo played songs by Lady Gaga, Mozart, Queen, Michael Jackson, and Maroon 5, and found that the rats were able to perceive the beat of the music and bop their heads along to the rhythm. We bet the late Freddie Mercury would get a real kick out of that!
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In Today’s Brief
- Turkey: Explosion kills six in Istanbul
- Georgia: Pit bull breeding arrest
- Black Panther 2: Box office record
- Dolly Parton: Receives $100M gift
- Fitness: Benefits of Zone 2 cardio
- Top Tips: Democrats win Senate control, Wings Over Dallas plane crash, man who inspired The Terminal dies in airport
Democrats keep majority control of Senate with Nevada win
Senator Catherine Cortez Masto won her bid for re-election in Nevada, defeating former Nevada Attorney General Adam Laxalt and ensuring the Democratic Party’s majority control of the Senate.
Called five days after election day on November 8th, Cortez Masto’s victory comes after Arizona went to Democratic Senator Mark Kelly and Democrat John Fetterman defeated Republican Dr. Mehmet Oz to flip a Senate seat in Pennsylvania. Cortez Mastro is the first-ever LatinX woman elected to the U.S. Senate, and her win gives Democrats the 50 seats they required to maintain control.
With the results in Nevada decided, Georgia is the only state where both parties are still vying for a Senate seat. There, the Democratic incumbent Senator Raphael Warnock will face Republican challenger Herschel Walker in a December 6th runoff. Should Walker win, Democrats would still have majority control of the Senate with Vice President Kamala Harris' tie-breaking vote.
Two planes collide and crash at Wings Over Dallas air show
Six people lost their lives when two World War II-era military planes collided mid-flight on Saturday during the Wings Over Dallas air show in Texas, according to local officials.
The crash occurred at the Dallas Executive Airport around 1:20 PM local time, per the Federal Aviation Administration. Citing the Dallas County Medical Examiner in a tweet, Dallas County Judge Clay Jenkins said that “there are a total of 6 fatalities from [Saturday’s] Wings over Dallas air show incident,” and added that authorities are continuing to work to identify the victims. According to Dallas Fire-Rescue, no injuries were reported among people on the ground.
Advertising itself as “America's Premier World War II Airshow” on its website, Wings Over Dallas was scheduled for Veterans Day weekend. The two aircraft that collided were a Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress and a Bell P-63 Kingcobra. Both were owned by the Commemorative Air Force, the organization which put on the show.
Iranian man who inspired Spielberg film dies in airport where he lived
An Iranian man who lived in Paris’ Charles de Gaulle Airport for 18 years and whose story inspired Steven Spielberg’s film The Terminal died of a heart attack at age 76 in the same airport over the weekend, according to a Paris airport authority official.
Mehran Karimi Nasseri–an Iranian refugee–was traveling to England via Belgium and France in 1988 when he lost his residency papers. Without them, Nasseri was detained upon arrival in the UK and sent back to France, where he eventually settled at Charles de Gaulle Airport in August 1988. In 1992, a French court ruled that Nasseri had entered the airport legally as a refugee and could not be expelled from it, and he remained there until 2006.
Per airport officials, Nasseri went back to living at Charles de Gaulle in recent weeks after spending time at a hospital for an operation, then a hotel near the airport, and then a shelter for homeless people.
Around the Globe
- The global population is projected to reach 8B people tomorrow, according to the 2022 United Nations report World Population Prospects - see the report’s summary of results here
- At least six people have died and at least 81 were wounded in an explosion on a shopping street in the Taksim Square area of central Istanbul, according to Turkish authorities
- Two Syrian soldiers were left dead and three were wounded after Israel carried out air strikes at an airbase near the city of Homs, according to reports from Syrian state media
On the Homefront
- U.S. prosecutors recommended that Theranos founder Elizabeth Holmes spend 15 years in prison and pay $800M in restitution to investors defrauded in the blood testing start-up; Holmes, 38, was convicted in January on four counts of wire fraud and conspiracy
- Police in Georgia arrested a man named Vincent Lemark Burrell for allegedly breeding and training 106 pit bulls for dog fighting, according to a news release that the Paulding County Sheriff’s Office posted to Facebook - see the news release here
- President Biden accepted the resignation of U.S. Customs and Border Protection Commissioner Chris Magnus after Magnus tendered his resignation in a letter sent to the President, according to a statement from the White House - see the letter from Magnus here
Glitz & Games
- Black Panther: Wakanda Forever from Disney and Marvel Studios earned an estimated $180M in box office ticket sales during its opening weekend in the U.S., setting a record for the biggest November domestic opening of all time and the second-highest opening weekend of 2022
- A baseball glove that Babe Ruth donated to St. Louis Browns third baseman Jimmy Austin sold for $1.53M at the 19th annual Louisville Slugger Museum & Factory auction, setting a new record paid for a baseball glove; the previous record is believed to be $387.5K for a Lou Gehrig glove sold with Sotheby’s in 1999
- Budd Friedman, the producer and actor who founded The Improv comedy club franchise, passed away from heart failure at age 90 in Los Angeles - see the Improv’s tribute tweet to Friedman here
Business & Markets
- Stocks rallied for the second day in a row to end Friday’s trading session in the green, with the tech-heavy Nasdaq leading the gains (Dow +0.10%, Nasdaq +1.88%, S&P 500 +0.92%)
- Amazon founder Jeff Bezos and his partner Lauren Sanchez awarded singer and songwriter Dolly Parton with a $100M prize as part of the Bezos Courage and Civility award for “what she’s done for kids, literacy, and so many other things” - see Bezos’ tweet announcing the award here
- Cryptocurrency exchange Binance stopped accepting deposits of FTX’s FTT token on its platform, according to a statement that CEO Changpeng Zhao (CZ) posted in a since-deleted tweet
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Tip & Tricks
- Bump This: Get your blood pumping and start this week off with a bang with pop singer Ava Max’s high-octane new track “Weapons” - listen on Apple Music and Spotify
- Feel Good: Take three minutes to watch a hand-drawn, animated short focused on Grogu (aka Baby Yoda) called Zen - Grogu and Dust Bunnies that Disney released to commemorate the third anniversary of The Mandalorian - check it out on Disney+
- Chow Down: If you’re debating swapping out turkey for a more affordable alternative that doesn’t require hours of work this Thanksgiving, read up on Stanley Tucci’s five rules for cooking perfect pasta the Italian way (what’s the Italian word for “Chef’s kiss?”)
- Go Deep: Check out these results from a ZipRecruiter survey of over 1,500 college graduates actively seeking employment that show the 10 most-regretted college majors in the United States and the degrees that graduates wish they would have pursued instead
- Say What: “As many of us observe and reflect on Remembrance Sunday, I wanted to write to you and let you know you are all in my thoughts and heart today. We share a bond even without ever meeting one another, because we share in having lost a parent,” Prince Harry wrote in an open letter to Scotty’s Little Soldiers, a British nonprofit that supports children of deceased military veterans
- Hot Goss: Tiffany Trump, the only daughter of former President Donald Trump and actress Marla Maples, wed fiancé Michael Boulos at her family’s Mar-a-Lago resort in Palm Beach, Florida over the weekend
- Life Hack: Not all cardio exercise has to be pedal-to-the-medal effort until you’re totally winded (or on the verge of vomiting, like us) - learn about Zone 2 cardio and how working out with a slower heart rate can benefit your long-term health
Looking Back…
On November 14th: Apollo 12 is launched, carrying three astronauts on the second mission that would land on the Moon (1969); Harper & Brothers publishes Herman Melville’s novel Moby Dick (1851); the Dow Jones Industrial Average closes above 1,000 for the first time (1972); French painter Claude Monet is born (1840).
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