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Friday, November 13, 2026

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🏠 Everyday Stuff

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Brooklyn collapse death toll rises to 8

The death toll from Wednesday’s building collapse on Flatbush Avenue in Brooklyn has risen to eight, with at least 18 hurt. The search is over, and the cause is still under investigation.

Source: The 0400 Report

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Microsoft 365 outage hits Outlook, Teams and more

Outlook, Teams, Copilot and OneDrive went down for many users on Thursday afternoon, and the outage was still not fully fixed overnight.

Source: The 0400 Report

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📈 Stocks

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Thursday ends lower as Nvidia slides

The Dow fell 0.4% to 52,297, the S&P 500 fell 0.4% to 7,592, and the Nasdaq fell 0.4% to 25,366. Nvidia dropped 4.3% after CEO Jensen Huang resigned, with CFO Colette Kress named interim chief.

Source: Zacks

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Futures rise on softer inflation data

Dow futures rose about 0.6% this morning after October wholesale inflation came in at 0.3%, below the 0.4% expected, and Nvidia bounced back in premarket trading. The 10-year Treasury yield is around 5.13%.

Source: World Money Roadmap

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🏛️ Politics

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Ukraine talks: Europe to join the next round

After meeting Putin in Moscow, US envoys say Europe will join the next round of Ukraine talks, and Putin and the president are set to talk at APEC on November 18-19.

Source: The 0400 Report

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House Democrats hit early stumbles

Fresh off their midterm wins, House Democrats stumbled twice this week: an impeachment vote against Pentagon chief Pete Hegseth failed 211-204 after about a dozen Democrats missed a key procedural vote, some citing traffic delays, and a day later no Democrat objected to a Republican veterans bill that critics say could hurt veterans with disabilities, letting it pass by voice vote.

Source: USA Today

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🇰🇷 South Korea

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Google removes Korean coordinates from Maps

South Korea’s government said Friday that Google has removed latitude and longitude coordinates for South Korean territory from Google Maps and Google Earth, one of the security conditions attached to a permit granted in February to export high-precision map data.

Source: Reuters

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South Korea’s economy upgraded to solid growth, exports near $1 trillion

The government raised its economic assessment to a “solid growth trajectory” in its November Green Book. October exports hit $115.28 billion, up 93.7% from a year earlier, and total exports are expected to pass $1 trillion for the first time ever.

Source: Ministry of Economy and Finance

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Everyday Stuff: The Brooklyn collapse death toll rose to 8; Microsoft 365 went down worldwide on Thursday afternoon and was still not fully fixed overnight.
Stocks: Thursday closed lower on Nvidia’s slide, then futures rose this morning on softer inflation data.
Politics: Europe will join the next round of Ukraine talks after the Moscow meeting; House Democrats stumbled over a missed impeachment vote and a veterans bill.
South Korea: Google removed Korean coordinates from Maps under its export permit; the economy was upgraded to solid growth, with exports set to pass $1 trillion for the first time.

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