Sarah Huckabee Sanders is the governor of Arkansas. The governor's office identifies her as the state's 47th governor, and her official biography says she was inaugurated on January 10, 2023.

The 2026 election

Arkansas held its general election on November 3, 2026, the date set in the Secretary of State's 2026 election calendar. The Arkansas Secretary of State's election results page links to the vote counts under the label "2026 General Election & Judicial Runoff".

Key facts about the governor

All three details come from the governor's official biography.

Who Sarah Huckabee Sanders is

Sanders is the first woman to serve as governor of Arkansas, according to her official biography. Her father, Mike Huckabee, is a former governor of the state.

The biography lists her earlier work in politics and government:

• She was White House press secretary for President Donald Trump from 2017 to 2019.
• She joined the Trump campaign as a senior advisor in February 2016.
• She was a senior advisor to Sen. Tom Cotton's 2014 campaign and the campaign manager for Sen. John Boozman's 2010 campaign.
• She worked in the Department of Education under President George W. Bush.

The same page says she grew up in Pine Bluff and Texarkana and graduated from Little Rock Central High and Ouachita Baptist University. She lives in Little Rock with her husband, Bryan, and their three children.

Mike Dunleavy is the governor of Alaska. The governor's office describes him as "Alaska’s 12th Governor". His official biography says he was first elected governor in 2018 and then again in 2022.

When the governor's term begins and ends

The Alaska Constitution sets the schedule in Article III, Section 4: "The term of office of the governor is four years, beginning at noon on the first Monday in December following his election and ending at noon on the first Monday in December four years later."

Dunleavy's biography says his second election was in 2022. Under the constitution's rule, a term that follows a 2022 election ends at noon on the first Monday in December 2026.

The same article limits how long one person can hold the office. Section 5 says, "No person who has been elected governor for two full successive terms shall be again eligible to hold that office until one full term has intervened."

How the governor is chosen

Article III of the constitution says the governor is chosen by the qualified voters of the state at a general election, and that the candidate who receives the greatest number of votes becomes governor. The governor and the lieutenant governor are elected together, because votes cast for a candidate for governor also count for the candidate for lieutenant governor who runs jointly with that candidate.

A governor must be at least 30 years old and a qualified voter of the state. The constitution also requires at least seven years as a resident of Alaska immediately before filing for office and at least seven years as a citizen of the United States.

If the office becomes vacant for any reason, the lieutenant governor succeeds to it for the remainder of the term.

What Dunleavy did before he was governor

The biography says Dunleavy arrived in Alaska in 1983 and that his first job was in a logging camp in Southeast Alaska. He earned a teacher's certificate and a Master of Education degree from the University of Alaska Fairbanks, and he spent nearly two decades in northwest Arctic communities as a teacher, principal and superintendent.

The biography says he and his family moved to Wasilla in 2004. He served on the Mat-Su Borough School Board, including two years as board president, and then as a state senator for five years.

No winner has been certified in the 2026 Alaska race for U.S. Senator. The Alaska Division of Elections lists the status of the November 3, 2026 general election results as unofficial, and it said ranked choice voting results will not be available until November 18, 2026.

In the division's unofficial summary report, Mary Peltola (DEM) has 121,487 first-choice votes, or 48.73 percent, and Dan S. Sullivan (REP) has 117,512, or 47.13 percent. That is a difference of 3,975 votes, and neither candidate has a majority of the first-choice votes counted so far.

The unofficial first-choice count

The summary report is headed "UNOFFICIAL RESULTS" and carries a report time of 5:47:54 p.m. on November 11, 2026. It shows 401 of 401 precincts reported and 249,325 total votes in the race for U.S. Senator. The party labels below are the ones printed in the report, which lists no party for Daniel J. Sullivan Jr.

The division's results page said the summary report "only shows first choice results from Round 1." The page was last updated on November 11, 2026, at 6:34 p.m.

What happens next

Alaska uses ranked choice voting in its general election. The division's results page said: "Ranked Choice Voting results will not be available until 15 days after the election (November 18, 2026) once all eligible ballots are reviewed and counted."

The same page said Alaska law requires tabulation to continue until two candidates remain, unless a candidate achieves a majority in the first round.

The division said election night results stay posted on that page until the results are certified, and certified results are then published in its official results search.

Related questions

For the overall count of seats in each chamber, see which party controls Congress, and for the date the winners take office, see when the new Congress starts.

Kay Ivey is the governor of Alabama. The governor's office says she became the 54th Governor of Alabama in 2017. The office was on the ballot in the general election that Alabama held on November 3, 2026, and the unofficial results show Republican Tommy Tuberville ahead of Democrat Doug Jones.

What the 2026 election results for governor show

The Alabama Secretary of State's unofficial election night results for the 2026 general election show Tommy Tuberville with the most votes for governor. The page showed 67 of 67 counties reporting and was last updated on November 4, 2026, at 11:16 a.m.

These numbers are not final. The same page says the election results it presents are unofficial.

How long Kay Ivey has been governor

Ivey was sworn in as the 54th governor on April 10, 2017, according to her official biography. The biography says voters elected her to a full term in November 2018 and that she was sworn in for that term on January 14, 2019. She was reelected to a second full term in November 2022 and was sworn in on January 16, 2023.

What Ivey did before she was governor

The biography says Ivey grew up in Camden, in Wilcox County, Alabama. It says she was elected State Treasurer in 2002 and Lieutenant Governor in 2010. Earlier, she served as Reading Clerk of the Alabama House of Representatives and as Assistant Director of the Alabama Development Office.

Katie Hobbs is the governor of Arizona. The state's official site is titled the Office of the Arizona Governor Katie Hobbs, and her official biography lists her as "Arizona's 24th Governor" and says she was sworn in on January 2, 2023.

Katie Hobbs at a glance

All of the facts in this table come from the biography published by the governor's office.

What she did before becoming governor

The biography says Hobbs began her career as a social worker working with homeless youth and later helped run a domestic violence shelter. It lists her as a former chief compliance officer for Sojourner Center and as the first social worker governor.

She was elected to the Arizona House in 2010 and served in the Legislature for four terms, including two as Senate minority leader, according to the same page. In 2018 she was elected secretary of state, and in 2022 she was elected governor. The biography describes her as the fifth woman and the fifth Arizona native to lead the state.

How long a governor's term lasts

The governor's term is four years. Article 5, Section 1 of the Arizona Constitution says the executive department consists of "the governor, lieutenant governor, secretary of state, attorney general, state treasurer and superintendent of public instruction, each of whom shall hold office for four years beginning on the first Monday of January, 1971 next after the regular general election in 1970."

The same section says the person with the highest number of votes cast for the office is elected. It also says each nominee for governor names a nominee for lieutenant governor, and the two run on one ticket as joint candidates in the general election, so a single vote for a nominee for governor counts as a vote for that ticket.

Where the governor's office is

The governor's office lists its address as 1700 W. Washington St., Phoenix, AZ 85007. The constitution says the officers of the executive department "shall reside at the seat of government where they shall keep their offices and the public records, books and papers" during their terms, as stated in Article 5, Section 1.

Election results are certified state by state. The U.S. Election Assistance Commission says that "State and local election officials are the authorities on election certification dates." For the general election held on November 3, 2026, California's Secretary of State certifies the statewide result on December 11, 2026, and Washington's Secretary of State has until December 3, 2026.

Certification dates for the November 3, 2026 election

These dates come from the official calendars of the California Secretary of State and the Washington Secretary of State.

California's calendar also lists certificates of election on December 11, 2026, the same day as the statewide certification.

Why election night results are not final

The totals shown on election night are unofficial. The Election Assistance Commission says that results reported on election night are never the final, certified results, and that they are still unofficial even when they show 100 percent of precincts reporting. The commission also says that results reported on election night are not final even though the media may call a projected winner, because only election officials provide official results.

How certification works

Certification follows a review called the canvass. According to the Election Assistance Commission, the canvass aggregates and confirms every valid ballot cast and counted, including mail ballots, ballots from military and overseas voters, early votes, Election Day votes and provisional ballots. During the canvass, officials reconcile the number of ballots cast with the number of voters, so that every valid vote is included in the final results.

Certification is the last step. The commission describes it as election officials attesting that the results are a true and accurate accounting of all votes cast in the election. Depending on the state, the certifying authority can be a single elected official such as the secretary of state or the governor, the state legislature, an appointed election director or a board with several members.

In both California and Washington, the calendars above show counties certifying first and the state certifying afterward.

What can move the date

A recount may affect the timeline for final certification, depending on state law. The Election Assistance Commission gives two examples: New Hampshire law places state certification after the deadline for a recount has expired, and West Virginia counties must certify within 30 days of the election or, if there is a recount, within 30 days of completing it.

For what the results mean in Washington, D.C., see when the new Congress starts and which party controls Congress.

Louisiana's runoff election is on Saturday, December 12, 2026, according to the Louisiana Secretary of State's election dates page. The state does not label it a runoff on its calendar. Louisiana calls the first round of an open election the primary and the run-off between the top two candidates the general election, as the Secretary of State's types of elections page explains.

Dates and deadlines for the December 12 election

Every date below is from the Secretary of State's election dates page, and the dates match the office's 2026 elections calendar.

There is no early voting on Sunday, November 29. The two absentee deadlines do not apply to military and overseas voters, who are listed as exceptions on the same page.

What the state calls this election

The 2026 elections calendar, which is marked as revised in July 2026, lists the December 12 election as an "Open U.S. Representative General/Open General/Special Primary". The special primary is for the 14th State Senatorial District in East Baton Rouge Parish only.

The first round was scheduled for November 3, 2026, which the same calendar lists as a "U.S. Senate General/Open U.S. Representative Primary/Open Primary". On that calendar, December 12 is the general election for U.S. Representative and other open primary offices, while November 3 was already the general election for the U.S. Senate.

How a Louisiana run-off works

In an open primary, any qualified elector may qualify as a candidate regardless of party, according to the Secretary of State's types of elections page. If no candidate wins a majority in the primary, the top two candidates go to a run-off, which the state calls a general election.

The U.S. House races followed that open system in 2026. The calendar notes that under Act 7 of the 2026 Regular Session, U.S. Representative is no longer treated as a closed party office for the November and December election cycle. For the wider picture in Washington, see when the new Congress starts and which party controls Congress.

The calendar also carries a notice that dates are subject to change by the Legislature.

No winner is official yet in the 2026 race for Colorado's 4th Congressional District. The Colorado Secretary of State's results page, which is labeled "Unofficial Results" and marks no winner, shows Democrat Eileen Laubacher with 186,218 votes and Republican Lauren Boebert with 182,856 votes, a gap of 3,362 votes. Those figures were last updated on November 10, 2026, at 8:17 p.m. Mountain time.

The unofficial count

The state results page lists three candidates in the contest for Representative to the 120th United States Congress, District 4, from the general election held on November 3, 2026. The party labels below are the ones the page uses.

The page counts 381,689 votes in the contest. The totals can still change, because counties upload updated results after election night.

Why there is no official winner yet

The Secretary of State's election night reporting FAQ states that election results in ENR are unofficial. The reporting site does not count votes itself. It displays the results that counties upload after they tabulate ballots.

Results become official county by county. The same FAQ says a county's results are marked official after its canvass board certifies them, which happens on or before the 22nd day after election day. The state's list of county statuses adds that all counties must provide substantially complete results by the 9th day after election day, and that a county which has finished counting is still not official until its canvass board certifies.

Who holds the seat now

Lauren Boebert is the current representative for the district. The Clerk of the House lists her as a Republican representing Colorado's 4th Congressional District in the 119th Congress, sworn in on January 3, 2025. The contest on the ballot is for a seat in the 120th Congress, and separate pages cover when the new Congress starts and which party controls Congress.

Georgia's general election runoff, if one is needed, is on Tuesday, December 1, 2026, and polls are open from 7 a.m. to 7 p.m. The state's election guide lists the same date as the runoff for the general election held on November 3, 2026.

Runoff dates and deadlines

The registration deadline has passed, so a person who was not registered by November 2 cannot register in time for this runoff.

When a runoff is held

The state's runoff page says a runoff is held when no candidate receives a majority of the vote in the general election. In that case the top two finishers advance to the runoff. The page does not name the contests that will be decided on December 1.

How to vote in the runoff

• Early, in person. The state's early voting page describes November 23 to November 25 as "a very short early voting window, abbreviated due to the Thanksgiving holiday." A voter can use any early voting location in the county where the voter lives.
• By mail. An absentee ballot must be requested from the county registrar by November 20, and the completed and signed ballot must be received by 7 p.m. on December 1 to be counted.
• On election day. Registered voters cast a ballot at their assigned precinct on December 1 and need a valid photo ID. A voter who is in line by 7 p.m. is allowed to vote.

COP31 is in Antalya, Türkiye, where the 31st United Nations Climate Change Conference runs from November 9 to 20, 2026. The conference is under way: it opened on Monday, November 9, and UN News reported that it is set to close on Friday, November 20.

Place and dates

The place and the dates are stated on the United Nations page for COP31. Antalya is a city on Türkiye's Mediterranean coast, and UN News reported that nearly 200 countries are attending and that more than 90,000 people are expected there.

Who presides over COP31

Two countries hold the leading roles.

• Türkiye holds the presidency. Its environment minister, Murat Kurum, took the gavel as COP31 President on the opening morning, according to UN News.
• Australia leads the negotiations. Its climate change and energy minister, Chris Bowen, oversees them under what the same UN News report called a co-presidency arrangement agreed during COP30.

What the arrangement says

The Australian government set out the terms on November 23, 2025, after the agreement was reached at COP30 in Belem, Brazil. Under those terms, Türkiye physically hosts the COP31 conference and the World Leaders Summit in Antalya and was to be nominated for election as COP President. Australia is President of Negotiations from the end of COP30 until the end of COP31, a role the statement said carries "exclusive authority in relation to the negotiations", and it said Mr. Bowen would fill that role.

The same statement said Australia selects ministerial and other co-facilitators for the negotiations and identifies additional champions with Türkiye for the action agenda. It also said Australia, in partnership with the Pacific, would set the agenda for and preside over a special meeting before the conference, called a Pre-COP, to be held in the Pacific in 2026.

Australia's climate department describes the role as presiding over the COP31 negotiations at the summit.

What COP31 is

COP31 is the 31st Conference of the Parties to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change, as the United Nations page describes it. COP30, the meeting before it, was held in Belem, Brazil, where the hosting arrangement for COP31 was agreed.

The 2026 Nobel Prize award ceremonies take place on December 10, 2026, in Stockholm and in Oslo, according to the Nobel Week 2026 programme on NobelPrize.org. The date is the same every year: the prizes have been presented on December 10, the anniversary of Alfred Nobel's death, since 1901, the site's page on the award ceremonies says.

Dates, times and places

The Stockholm times come from the press programme for Nobel Week 2026, which says all of its times are in Central European Time (CET). The Oslo time comes from the Norwegian Nobel Institute's event page for the peace prize ceremony, which gives the day as Thursday, December 10.

What happens in Stockholm

The prizes in physics, chemistry, physiology or medicine and literature, and the prize in economic sciences, are awarded at the Stockholm Concert Hall, the page for the 2026 ceremony says. During the ceremony the laureates receive a diploma and a medal from the king, and representatives of the prize-awarding institutions give speeches, according to the press programme. The award ceremonies page names him as King Carl XVI Gustaf of Sweden. The banquet follows at Stockholm City Hall, where one laureate from each award category gives a speech of thanks.

What happens in Oslo

The Nobel Peace Prize is awarded in Oslo, Norway, as Alfred Nobel's will stipulated, while the other prizes are awarded in Stockholm, Sweden, the award ceremonies page says. The Norwegian Nobel Institute's event page says the 2026 ceremony includes artistic performances, a speech by Jørgen Watne Frydnes, the chair of the Norwegian Nobel Committee, and the Nobel lecture by the 2026 peace laureate, Navi Pillay. The institute's press calendar also lists a torchlight procession at 5:45 p.m. and the Nobel Banquet at 7:00 p.m. at the Grand Hotel on December 10.

The rest of Nobel Week

Nobel Week 2026 takes place at the beginning of December in Stockholm and Oslo, and many of its events will be streamed online, the Nobel Week programme says. It lists the Nobel Prize lectures for December 7 to 10 in Stockholm and Oslo, the Nobel Prize Concert for December 8 in Stockholm and the Nobel Week Dialogue for December 9 in Stockholm.

In Stockholm, the press programme puts the lectures in physiology or medicine at 14:00 CET and the lecture in literature at 17:00 CET on December 7. The lectures in physics, chemistry and economic sciences are on December 8 between 10:00 and 15:15 CET, with exact times still to be decided.

This page will be updated at this address if the organizers change the programme.

The Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade starts at 8:30 a.m. on Thursday, November 26, 2026. Macy's said audiences can watch the 100th parade on NBC, Peacock and Telemundo starting at 8:30 a.m. in all time zones. A separate page covers when Thanksgiving is in 2026.

Time and channel

The parade row comes from the Macy's announcement of August 18, 2026, which gives the start as 8:30 a.m. in all time zones. NBC's November schedule, updated October 28, 2026, lists the parade for Thursday, November 26 at 8:30 a.m. ET on NBC with a simulcast on Peacock. The same NBC schedule lists the preview special for Wednesday, November 25 at 8 p.m. ET on NBC and Peacock.

The Macy's announcement gives 8:30 a.m. for every time zone, and the NBC schedule states the time in Eastern.

What is different about the 2026 parade

The 2026 parade is the 100th. Macy's said it will feature a record lineup of 100 inflatable elements. The same announcement names several of them:

• A reimagined Underdog, in what Macy's called his first flight since 1984.
• A new Disney's Sorcerer's Apprentice Mickey.
• Two newcomers, Billie Brightpaw and Tom Jr., whom Macy's described as the son of Tom Turkey.
• The Blue Hippopotamus, which Macy's said will return in 2026.

Macy's also said Tony Sarg's Amazing Marionettes will bring the spirit of the parade's early years to the 100th march.

Who holds the broadcast rights

NBCUniversal and Macy's agreed in February 2025 to a 10-year programming rights deal through 2034, which keeps the parade on NBC, Peacock and Telemundo. The same release said 2026 would mark the 100th march of the parade.

Xbox Game Pass adds 15 games from November 3 to November 17, 2026, including Football Manager 27, Warhammer Survivors, Thronefall and Escape Academy 2: Back 2 School, according to the lineup Xbox Wire published on November 3. That post is its only Game Pass lineup for the month so far. Which games a member gets depends on the plan, so the tables below give the plans the post lists for each game.

Games added in November 2026

The dates and plans in this table are the ones in the November 3 lineup. The post listed Football Manager 27 and Pit of Goblin as available the day it was published.

The same post lists Football Manager 27 for PC only. Every other game in the table is listed for cloud, console and PC.

Two later Xbox Wire posts confirmed releases from the list. A November 10 post said Football Manager 27 was out on PC and Football Manager 27 Console was out on Xbox Series X|S, both with Game Pass. A second post that day said Warhammer Survivors was out on Xbox Series X|S and on Game Pass.

The November 3 post also notes that Gravhounds, a Game Preview title, was already available with Game Pass Ultimate and PC Game Pass. Separately, Xbox Wire's list of new games for November 9 to 13 marks 9 Kings, another Game Preview title dated November 12, as a Game Pass game.

Games joining Game Pass Essential on November 15

Game Pass Essential has its own library. The November 3 post lists eight games joining it on November 15:

• Banjo-Kazooie
• Banjo-Tooie
• Banjo-Kazooie: Nuts & Bolts
• Gears of War: Judgment
• Halo: Spartan Assault
• Perfect Dark
• Viva Piñata
• Viva Piñata: TIP

Games leaving Game Pass on November 15

Thirteen games leave the Game Pass library on November 15, according to the same post.

• 1000xResist
• Barbie Horse Trails
• Dragon Ball Xenoverse 2
• Firefighting Simulator - The Squad
• GoldenEye 007
• Great God Grove
• Moonlighter
• Pigeon Simulator
• Police Simulator: Patrol Officers
• Relic Hunters Legend
• Total Chaos
• Winter Burrow
• Wreckfest

When the rest of the month is announced

The November 3 post does not give a date for a further lineup. It tells readers to "stay tuned to @XboxGamePass for what’s coming up next." As of November 12, the Xbox Wire front page showed no second Game Pass lineup post for November.

NOAA's U.S. Winter Outlook for December 2026 through February 2027 favors a warmer-than-average North and a wetter-than-average South and East, according to the release the agency published on October 15, 2026. NOAA said in the same release that El Nino will likely influence the winter months.

The outlook gives the likelihood that temperature and precipitation over the whole season will be above, near or below average.

Temperature

NOAA's release lists three temperature findings for December through February.

"Equal chances" means the odds of below-average, near-average and above-average conditions are similar to climatological probabilities, according to the Climate Prediction Center's seasonal discussion.

Precipitation

The release lists three precipitation findings for the same months.

Drought

NOAA said in the release that drought conditions are forecast to improve or end in the Southwest, the Southern Great Plains, the Southeast and parts of the East Coast. Drought is favored to develop or worsen across parts of the northern Rockies, along with northeastern Oregon and eastern Washington.

The role of El Nino

The Climate Prediction Center, the NOAA office that issues the seasonal outlooks, said in its discussion dated October 15, 2026, that an El Nino advisory remains in effect, that the event continues to strengthen and that the outlooks for the winter and spring are heavily influenced by it.

• The center's ENSO outlook gives an 80 percent probability that at least a strong El Nino continues through the January to March 2027 season, and it favors an El Nino of any strength continuing through the March to May 2027 season.
• The latest weekly value of the Nino3.4 sea surface temperature index was +2.4 degrees Celsius.
• The center said the Pacific jet stream shifts southward and eastward during El Nino events, which is the reason it gives for favoring above-normal precipitation along much of the West Coast and below-normal precipitation for much of mainland Alaska.
• The center said above-normal precipitation in the Southeast is one of the most reliable signals from El Nino events. Its odds for above-normal precipitation exceed 70 percent for some areas in the extreme Southeast and northern Florida through the January to March 2027 season.

What the outlook does not cover

The outlook does not project seasonal snowfall. NOAA said in the release that snow forecasts are generally not predictable more than a week in advance.

The Climate Prediction Center said in its discussion that the outlooks are meant to be used before the start of the period they cover, and that observations and short-range and medium-range forecasts should be consulted once that period is under way.

When the outlook is updated

The three-month outlook is updated monthly, and NOAA said in the release that the next update will be available on November 19. The Climate Prediction Center's discussion gives the same date, November 19, 2026, for the set of outlooks that will supersede the current one.

This page will be updated at this address when that update is published.

The next Martin Luther King Jr. Day is Monday, January 18, 2027, according to the federal holiday schedule of the U.S. Office of Personnel Management. The schedule and the law both list the holiday under the name Birthday of Martin Luther King, Jr.

Martin Luther King Jr. Day dates by year

The Office of Personnel Management schedule gives these dates for the holiday. The 2026 date has passed.

Why the date changes each year

Federal law does not give the holiday a fixed calendar date. The list of legal public holidays in 5 U.S.C. 6103 reads, "Birthday of Martin Luther King, Jr., the third Monday in January." The holiday is always on a Monday for that reason, and the day of the month moves from one year to the next.

When the law added the holiday

The notes to the same section of the law say that Public Law 98-144, dated November 2, 1983, inserted the item for the birthday of Martin Luther King, Jr. into the list of legal public holidays.

A federal holiday for federal employees

The Office of Personnel Management says the law establishes the public holidays on its schedule for federal employees. The holiday is one of the 11 on the full list of federal holidays. Separate pages cover which holidays banks are closed and which holidays the post office is closed.

This page will be updated at this address with the next date after January 18, 2027.

Hanukkah 2026 starts at nightfall on December 4, 2026, and ends with nightfall on December 12, 2026, according to Chabad.org. The Union for Reform Judaism lists December 4 to December 12 for 2026 and says the holiday starts on Friday, December 4.

Hanukkah dates for the next five years

These are the dates published by Chabad.org. The Union for Reform Judaism lists the same dates for 2026, 2027 and 2028.

In 2027 the holiday begins on December 24, the day before Christmas Day. In 2026 the holiday starts eight days after Thanksgiving.

Why the date changes every year

Hanukkah lasts for eight days and begins on the Hebrew calendar date of 25 Kislev, and that date lands on a different day of the civil calendar from one year to the next, as the table above shows.

What Hanukkah marks

The Union for Reform Judaism describes Hanukkah, also spelled Chanukah, as an eight-day festival often called the Festival of Lights. The name means "dedication" in Hebrew, and the holiday commemorates the victory of the Maccabees over the Syrian army in 165 B.C.E. Celebrations today center on lighting the Hanukkah menorah.

This page will be updated at this address each year with the new dates.

No. The Climate Prediction Center's latest ENSO diagnostic discussion, issued on October 8, 2026, lists the ENSO alert status as El Niño Advisory, not La Niña, and said a strong to very strong El Niño is likely through January to March 2027. ENSO stands for El Niño/Southern Oscillation, and the center publishes its diagnostic discussion monthly.

What the latest discussion says

The discussion said El Niño strengthened further in the month before it was issued and that the center's official outlook indicates it will continue to strengthen through the end of the year. It gave these details:

• A strong to very strong El Niño is likely through January to March 2027, with the chance remaining greater than 83 percent.
• Sea surface temperature anomalies exceeded +4.0°C in portions of the eastern equatorial Pacific.
• The Niño indices reached +2.1°C in the Niño-3.4 region, +3.0°C in Niño-3 and +3.9°C in Niño-1+2.

The stated chance of a historic El Niño

The discussion said chances remain high for a historic event, one that would exceed the strength of previous El Niño events dating back to 1950. It defined that as a 3-month value of +2.5°C or more on the Relative Oceanic Niño Index and gave the chance for three overlapping periods.

The center added that with an event of this size the chances of experiencing impacts consistent with El Niño are larger, though not guaranteed.

What an advisory means

An El Niño or La Niña Advisory is issued when El Niño or La Niña conditions are observed and expected to continue, according to the center's description of its alert system. A Watch is issued when conditions are favorable for El Niño or La Niña to develop within the next six months, and a Final Advisory is issued after the conditions have ended.

The same page says La Niña conditions exist when a one-month negative relative sea surface temperature anomaly of -0.5°C or less is observed in the Niño-3.4 region of the equatorial Pacific Ocean, the 3-month index threshold is expected to be met, and an atmospheric response typically associated with La Niña is observed over the equatorial Pacific. El Niño conditions use the mirror image of that test, with a positive anomaly of 0.5°C or greater.

When the next update is due

The October discussion said the next one is scheduled for November 12, 2026. When this page was last checked, early on November 12, the center's page still showed the October 8 discussion. This page will be updated at this address when the new discussion is published.

Giving Tuesday 2026 is Tuesday, December 1, 2026. The organization that runs it, which writes its name as one word, answers the question in its list of common questions this way: "Every day, though our annual celebration event will take place on December 1, 2026." The GivingTuesday home page lists the same date, December 1, 2026.

A separate Factsdesk page covers when Thanksgiving is in 2026.

What Giving Tuesday is

The organization's own account says that "GivingTuesday was created in 2012 as a simple idea: a day that encourages people to do good." The same page says it was born and incubated at the 92nd Street Y and its Belfer Center for Innovation & Social Impact in New York City, and that it is now an independent nonprofit.

The organization says in its common questions that GivingTuesday is hosted in 110 countries by leaders who rally nonprofits, businesses and individuals in their countries.

Who can take part and what it costs

The same page answers the question of who can participate with "Everyone!" and names individuals, families, nonprofits, schools, religious organizations, small businesses and corporations. It says an organization is welcome to participate whether it is a registered charity or not.

It also says, "There is no cost to participating in GivingTuesday." The organization says it keeps no list of participating nonprofits, so a donor can give to any nonprofit, community organization or cause.

What people do on the day

The ideas the organization lists include these:

• Share kindness with neighbors.
• Volunteer virtually or share talents.
• Give to a favorite cause or a fundraiser.
• Talk about giving and generosity using the hashtag #GivingTuesday.

This page will be updated at this address when the organization posts the date of the next annual event.

The PlayStation Plus Monthly Games for November 2026 are Dead Island 2, Tomb Raider IV-VI Remastered and Monster Train 2, and PlayStation said all three are available to play from Tuesday, November 3, to Monday, November 30. A separate Game Catalog lineup for PlayStation Plus Extra and Premium members includes Death Stranding 2: On the Beach, and PlayStation said that lineup will be available from November 17 unless otherwise noted.

Monthly Games for November 2026

The Monthly Games post lists three games, available from November 3 to November 30.

Tomb Raider IV-VI Remastered is a collection of three games: Tomb Raider: The Last Revelation, Tomb Raider: Chronicles and Tomb Raider: The Angel of Darkness. Dead Island 2 supports online co-op for three players, and Monster Train 2 is a single player deckbuilding game.

The same post said members had until Monday, November 2, to add the October Monthly Games, which were F1 25, Hunt: Showdown 1896 and Earth Defense Force: World Brothers 2, to their library.

Game Catalog for Extra and Premium

The Game Catalog post lists eight games for PlayStation Plus Extra and Premium. The lineup is available from November 17 unless the post gives a different date for a game, and those dates are in the table.

Added to PlayStation Plus Premium

Two more games join PlayStation Plus Premium, according to the same post, which gives no separate date for either, so the November 17 date applies.

Lineups can differ by region

PlayStation said in the Game Catalog post that the Game Catalog and the Premium and Deluxe lineups may differ by region, and it asked members to check PlayStation Store on release day.

The PlayStation Plus app on PC will be retired from December 10

The same post said PlayStation will retire the PlayStation Plus app on PC from December 10, and that the cloud streaming app on PC will no longer be available. PlayStation said fewer than 0.4 percent of eligible PlayStation Plus Premium members use the app, and that the change does not affect memberships or benefits on PS5 and PS4 consoles.

This page is updated at this address each month when PlayStation announces a new lineup.

NFL inactives are required 90 minutes before kickoff, the league's website said in its report on the game-day rules. The time is tied to each game's own start, so a game that kicks off at 1:00 p.m. Eastern has its inactive lists due at 11:30 a.m. Eastern.

Inactives times for this week's games

The table subtracts 90 minutes from each kickoff time on the NFL's Week 10 schedule for the 2026 season. All times are Eastern.

The same subtraction works in any week: take the kickoff time on the schedule and count back one hour and 30 minutes.

How the list is handed in

The inactive list reaches the game officials at a fixed point in the pregame schedule. NFL Football Operations describes a meeting held one hour and 30 minutes before kickoff, where the referee and the other game officials meet in their locker room with both teams' public relations directors, league representatives and the television network. At that meeting, club public relations representatives deliver the Game Day Administration Report to the referee.

The report includes, according to the same page:

• the club's inactive list
• the players designated to have coach-to-player communication components in their helmets
• any players or coaches wearing microphones

The official team warm-up period begins 60 minutes before kickoff, the page says, which is 30 minutes after the lists are due.

What it means for fantasy lineups

The deadline falls 90 minutes before each kickoff, so the lists for the late Sunday games and the night game are due after the early games have started. In Week 10, the lists for the 4:05 p.m. games are due at 2:35 p.m. Eastern, more than an hour and a half after the 1:00 p.m. kickoffs. The injury report labels are covered in what questionable, doubtful and out mean.

A late change the league has allowed

A player can still be lost after the deadline. In December 2020 the league adjusted its game-day rules so that a club could activate a new player up to 30 minutes before kickoff when a positive COVID-19 test or a high-risk close contact designation came after the deadline for submitting inactives. The league's website said the change followed a Week 13 game in which the Baltimore Ravens' Dez Bryant was ruled out right before kickoff, after inactives had been announced.

Fantasy basketball scoring works in one of two ways: a league either assigns a point value to each statistic and adds the points up, or it compares teams statistic by statistic, according to the scoring formats ESPN lists for fantasy basketball. Either method can run as head-to-head matchups against one opponent per scoring period or as season-long standings across the whole league. The platform and the league's own settings decide which one applies.

The formats each platform lists

The ESPN row comes from its Scoring Formats and Scoring Settings pages. The Yahoo row comes from its default league settings and Head-to-Head scoring pages. The Sleeper row comes from its League Formats & Game Modes page.

How ESPN defines its five formats

ESPN's Scoring Formats page, updated November 9, 2026, says League Manager leagues can be created with one of five formats and that the league creator can customize them by changing individual categories and points. The page sits in ESPN's Fantasy Basketball help section, and its examples use baseball statistics.

ESPN's Scoring Settings page says its default settings are pre-selected when a League Manager league is created and that every available stat category and point value can be edited. The same page says a League Manager can change categories and point values at any time during the season, and that the system then changes all previous game results to match the new settings.

Yahoo's default point values

Yahoo's default league settings page says the default scoring setting for all league types in Fantasy Basketball is Head-to-Head Points. The default point values on that page are the same for public leagues and public prize leagues.

In Head-to-Head Points, a team plays a different opponent each week, and Yahoo's Head-to-Head scoring page says the manager with the most total points gets one win added to the win-loss-tie record. The page says the commissioner defines how many points each tracked stat is worth and that points reset at the start of each new game week.

Yahoo's default categories

The default league settings page lists the same nine stat categories for Yahoo's default Head-to-Head Categories leagues and its default Rotisserie leagues:

• Points scored
• Total rebounds
• Assists
• Steals
• Turnovers
• Blocked shots
• 3-point shots made
• Field goal percentage
• Free throw percentage

Yahoo's Head-to-Head scoring page says each stat in Head-to-Head Categories counts as one game per game week, and the weekly wins, losses and ties accumulate in the team's record. Head-to-Head One Win is identical, the page says, except that only one result is added to the record per week, a win for the manager who took the most categories.

Rotisserie has no weekly opponent. Yahoo's overview of scoring describes it as "Season-long accumulated stats against your entire league." The overview also says that when percentage stats are tied after rounding, Yahoo uses the actual figures to identify the winner and marks that stat with an asterisk.

How Sleeper scores fantasy basketball

Sleeper's League Formats & Game Modes page, dated September 29, 2026, says Lock-In Mode is the default format for new Sleeper fantasy basketball leagues. In Lock-In Mode, one game per week, per player, counts toward the matchup score. A manager can lock in a player's performance after the game ends and must do so before that player's next game begins. Weekly matchups run from Monday through Sunday.

The same page says formats such as Rotisserie, Head-to-Head Categories and 9-Cat "may be considered in the future," and that Sleeper has no plans to offer them at this time. It also says Game Pick Mode is open only to leagues renewed to the 2026-27 season and can no longer be chosen for a new league.

Sleeper's scoring settings page says the platform offers 22 scoring settings and marks 11 of them as Sleeper default scoring settings:

• Points scored
• Rebound
• Assist
• Steal
• Block
• Turnover
• 3-point shots made
• Double-double
• Triple-double
• Technical foul
• Flagrant foul

PPR means points per reception: in a PPR fantasy football league, a player earns points for every catch, on top of the points for yards and touchdowns. ESPN's Scoring Formats page said "In a PPR league, players who catch a reception will earn a point."

PPR, half PPR and standard scoring

Sleeper's blog names three core scoring systems: PPR, half-PPR and standard scoring.

The PPR and standard rows come from ESPN's Scoring Formats page, which said a PPR league adds 1 point for every catch a player makes and that standard (non-PPR) leagues do not award a point for a catch. The half PPR row comes from Sleeper's article on PPR, which said catches are worth .5 points in half-PPR leagues and that in standard scoring "all that matters are yards and scoring plays."

A worked example

ESPN's Scoring Formats page gives a running back with 50 rushing yards, 6 catches for 30 receiving yards and one touchdown.

The 6 points between the two totals are the 6 catches. Sleeper's article gives a second case: 10 catches for 55 yards is worth 5.5 points in standard scoring, 10.5 points in half PPR and 15.5 points in full PPR.

What each platform's page says

ESPN. ESPN offers two types of public leagues, PPR and standard (non-PPR). Its league scoring types page labels PPR "ESPN Standard" and said each reception is worth 1 point in ESPN Standard leagues and can be customized in custom leagues. The same page said the points go to the running back, wide receiver or tight end who catches the pass, and that a league manager cannot limit the setting to one position.

Yahoo. Yahoo's default league settings list 0.5 points for each reception, along with 1 point for every 10 receiving yards and 6 points for each receiving touchdown. Yahoo said those defaults apply when a manager joins a public league or creates a private league, and that commissioners of private leagues can adjust the settings.

Sleeper. Sleeper's support page for its picks game said NFL fantasy points there are scored using "Sleeper's default PPR scoring rules" and lists 1 point per reception, 0.10 points per rushing or receiving yard and 6 points per rushing or receiving touchdown.

NFL.com. In an article published on May 21, 2019, NFL.com said it was switching from standard to PPR, one fantasy point per reception, as its preferred league scoring system. The article said commissioners could change a league to standard or to a half point per reception under "scoring" in the league settings menu.

How to check a league's setting

ESPN said a league's settings page shows how that league scores each category, that league managers of custom leagues can edit the categories and point values, and that decimal values are allowed. ESPN also said a change made after the season has begun updates all previous game results to the new settings.

Scoring is one of several league settings a commissioner chooses. For another, see What is FAAB in fantasy football?

The 2026 American League and National League MVP winners have not been named yet. The Baseball Writers' Association of America, which votes on the awards, said the MVP winners will be announced on Thursday, November 12, 2026, in a show that begins at 7 p.m. ET on MLB Network. Until then, the most recent winners are from the 2025 season: Aaron Judge of the New York Yankees in the American League and Shohei Ohtani of the Los Angeles Dodgers in the National League.

When the 2026 MVP winners are announced

The association's awards index lists "Nov. 12" in the MVP column for both leagues in 2026. MLB.com's awards calendar lists the MVP announcement for November 12 at 7 p.m. ET on MLB Network and MLB+.

The 2026 MVP finalists

The association listed the top three finishers for each award in alphabetical order, so the order below says nothing about who finished first.

The same page said that voting took place before the start of the postseason.

Who won the 2025 AL MVP

Aaron Judge won the 2025 American League MVP, the association reported on November 13, 2025. It was his third MVP award and his second in a row. Judge received 17 first-place votes and 355 points. Cal Raleigh of the Seattle Mariners received 13 first-place votes and 335 points, and José Ramírez of the Cleveland Guardians was third with 224 points. The association said it was the closest MVP race since 2019.

Who won the 2025 NL MVP

Shohei Ohtani won the 2025 National League MVP by a unanimous vote, the association reported on November 13, 2025. He received all 30 first-place votes and 420 points. Kyle Schwarber of the Philadelphia Phillies was second with 260 points and Juan Soto of the New York Mets was third with 231 points.

It was Ohtani's fourth MVP award and his second straight in the National League. He won in the American League in 2021 and 2023, and the association said all four of his wins were unanimous.

How MVP voting works

Two writers in each league city cast ballots, according to the association's 2025 results. A first-place vote is worth 14 points, second place is worth nine, third place is worth eight, and the values step down to one point for 10th place.

This page will be updated at this address when the 2026 winners are announced.

Cam Schlittler of the New York Yankees won the 2026 American League Cy Young Award and Jacob Misiorowski of the Milwaukee Brewers won the 2026 National League Cy Young Award, in results the Baseball Writers' Association of America posted on Wednesday, November 11, 2026. Both right-handers were unanimous choices, each receiving all 30 first-place votes and 210 points.

The association said this is only the third time the Cy Young winners in both leagues were unanimous. The other years were 2022, when Justin Verlander won in the American League and Sandy Alcantara in the National League, and 1968, when Denny McLain and Bob Gibson won.

2026 American League voting

The American League results list nine pitchers who received votes. MLB.com published the same point totals.

Schlittler, Cease, Messick and Rasmussen were named on every ballot. Cease received 22 second-place votes, and the association said it was his second runner-up finish, after he placed second in 2022 with the Chicago White Sox. Schlittler's win was the seventh by a Yankees pitcher.

2026 National League voting

The National League results list seven pitchers who received votes.

Misiorowski, Sanchez and Sale were listed on every ballot. Sanchez was the runner-up for the second year in a row. Misiorowski is the second Brewers pitcher to win the award in the National League, after Corbin Burnes in 2021. Rollie Fingers in 1981 and Pete Vuckovich in 1982 won it for the Brewers when the team played in the American League.

Who won the Cy Young Award in 2025?

Tarik Skubal of the Detroit Tigers won the 2025 American League award, his second in a row, with 26 of 30 first-place votes and 198 points. Paul Skenes of the Pittsburgh Pirates won the 2025 National League award unanimously with 210 points.

How the Cy Young voting works

Members of the Baseball Writers' Association of America vote, with two writers representing each city in a league, which makes 30 ballots for each league's award. The association has used a five-player ballot for the Cy Young Award since 2010. MLB.com describes the point system as seven points for first place, four for second, three for third, two for fourth and one for fifth, so 210 points is the maximum. Ballots were submitted before the start of the postseason.

Fantasy football scoring turns the real game statistics of the players in a team's lineup into fantasy points, and in a head-to-head league the team with the most points in its weekly matchup wins, according to ESPN Fan Support. Each platform sets its own default point values, and the person who runs a league can change them.

How points turn into wins

ESPN describes the system on its scoring formats page: "The winner of each matchup is the team that accumulates the most fantasy points, determined by the weekly statistics of the players in each team's lineup and the scoring settings of your league." Weekly results are compiled into an overall record that appears on the league's standings page. A separate page covers when the fantasy football playoffs are.

Yahoo's scoring overview says head-to-head points is the default scoring type in its fantasy football game. The same page says only active players, meaning those not on the bench at the time of their game, earn stats for a team, and a player added during the season does not bring the stats earned before joining the team. A separate page covers how waivers work for adding players.

Default points for offense

Yahoo lists its values on its default league settings page, which says they are used when a manager joins a public league or creates a private league. ESPN lists its standard values on its scoring formats page.

Reception scoring differs by platform and format. Yahoo's default gives 0.5 points for each catch, while ESPN offers public leagues in two formats, one that adds 1 point for every catch (PPR) and one that awards none.

Yahoo's page explains the minus signs this way: "When you see a negative number in the points list, it means that points are removed from a player’s total for that play." Its default settings also have fractional yardage points switched on.

Default points for kickers

The two platforms group field goals by distance in different ways, as their pages show (Yahoo, ESPN).

Default points for team defenses

A team defense scores for the plays it makes and for how few points it allows. The values below come from the same Yahoo and ESPN pages.

Leagues can change the values

The defaults apply only until a league changes them. Yahoo's default settings page says commissioners of private leagues have the option to adjust the settings their league uses. ESPN's scoring formats page says the league manager of a custom league can edit the categories and their point values, that decimal values are allowed, and that a change made after the season has begun automatically updates all previous game results to the new settings. ESPN directs managers to the League Settings page to see how their own league scores each category.

Sleeper's scoring options page says a league can set the point values "to your liking" across its stat categories, which include passing, rushing and receiving first downs. On Sleeper the Pass Intercepted, Incomplete Pass and Pick 6 Thrown options stack, so a quarterback who throws an interception returned for a touchdown loses points in all three categories when a league uses them.

Kevin McGonigle of the Detroit Tigers won the 2026 American League Jackie Robinson Rookie of the Year award, and Sal Stewart of the Cincinnati Reds won the National League award. The Baseball Writers' Association of America, whose members vote on the award, published both results on November 9, 2026.

How the 2026 vote came out

McGonigle received 28 of the 30 first-place votes in the American League balloting, and Parker Messick of the Guardians received the other two. The association said McGonigle and Messick were the only players named on every American League ballot.

Stewart received 20 of the 30 first-place votes in the National League balloting. Carson Benge of the Mets received seven and JJ Wetherholt of the Cardinals received three. The association said Stewart was the only player listed on every National League ballot.

Who the winners are

McGonigle is an infielder who split his season between two positions. The association's report said he played 96 games at shortstop and 94 games at third base, and was a designated hitter in five games. He is the sixth Tigers player to win the award. MLB.com reported that Detroit selected him 37th overall in the 2023 Draft.

Stewart is a first baseman who hit 32 home runs and drove in 112 runs, according to the association's report. He is the ninth Reds player to win the award, and the most recent before him was Jonathan India in 2021. MLB.com reported that Stewart played in all 162 games and that the Reds selected him with the 32nd overall pick in the 2022 Draft.

How the voting works

Each league's award is decided by 30 ballots, submitted by two writers representing each city in that league, and the association publishes every writer's ballot with the result. Ballots were cast before postseason play. A first-place vote is worth seven points, second place four, third place three, fourth place two and fifth place one.

The association scheduled the announcement for November 9 in a show starting at 7 p.m. Eastern time on MLB Network. The same schedule lists the Most Valuable Player awards for November 12.

Recent winners

The association's award history lists these winners for the last three seasons.

The award is named for Jackie Robinson, whom the association lists as the very first winner, in 1947.

Fantasy football lineups do not lock at one clock time on ESPN's default setting: each player locks at the scheduled kickoff of his own NFL game, according to ESPN's lineup lock page. The kickoff times that set those locks are in the NFL schedule for this week.

Lock rules by platform

ESPN

ESPN defines the lineup lock time as the point when team lineups lock each week, and says it applies to moving players between active slots, or between active slots and bench slots. League Manager leagues have two options:

• Lock Individually at Scheduled Gametime. ESPN calls this the default setting and says it is used by the majority of leagues. Managers can make moves until the scheduled kickoff time of each player's game.
• Lock at First Game of the Week. ESPN's page says: "All roster moves will lock at the first game of the week, even if the first game falls on a Thursday."

The League Manager may change the setting up until one hour prior to the draft, according to the same page.

A separate ESPN page on locked players says player slots lock individually as each NFL game kicks off. It gives the practical consequence: a manager who left an injured player in an active slot cannot swap him out for that week once his game has started. After a slot locks, only the League Manager can make roster changes on the manager's behalf. The injury designations are explained in what questionable, doubtful and out mean in the NFL.

Yahoo

Yahoo's help page on early week games says players involved in those games "will be locked in place at the scheduled start time." Yahoo says this affects moves between active and bench positions, and that lineup decisions need to be made before that deadline.

The same page lists what follows for the rest of the week:

• A manager who adds a player who was involved in an early week game cannot move that player into the starting lineup until the following week.
• Players who are in an active roster spot for an early week game cannot be dropped until the following week.
• Players who are in a bench roster spot for an early week game can be dropped at any time, subject to the league's weekly waiver rules and roster move deadlines.
• A player acquired by trade who has already played for the week is locked on the bench until the following week.

The waiver side of those rules is covered in when fantasy football waivers clear and how waivers work in fantasy football.

Sleeper

Sleeper's help pages describe the lock through two cases. In a page on dropped starters, dated September 21, 2026, Sleeper gives an example of a player whose game kicks off at 1:00 p.m. Eastern on a Sunday and who is by then locked into the starting lineup. It says a newly acquired player can be started that same week only if his own game has not yet begun and the manager has an open, eligible slot.

In its page on Player AutoSubs, dated September 15, 2026, Sleeper answers the question "When do players lock?" for that feature: "As soon as one player in the AutoSub pairing kicks off, both players lock." An AutoSub is a bench player a manager assigns to move into the lineup automatically if a starter is inactive.

Jordan Love leads the NFL in passing yards this season with 2,618, according to the league's player stats page for the 2026 regular season. Bijan Robinson leads in rushing yards with 880, and Jaxon Smith-Njigba leads in receiving yards with 1,036.

Which games the figures run through

The stats pages do not print a week or a date. The figures here were read early on Thursday, November 12, 2026. At that time the league's Week 9 schedule listed all 15 Week 9 games as final, from Jaguars 33, Ravens 10 on Thursday, November 5, to Bills 23, Vikings 6 on Monday, November 9. No Week 10 game had been played: the Week 10 schedule opens with Commanders at Giants on Thursday, November 12. The full list of games is in the NFL schedule this week.

Passing leaders

The top five in passing yards are below, with each player's touchdown passes from the same table.

Sorted by touchdown passes, Joe Burrow is first with 23, followed by Kirk Cousins with 20 and Jordan Love with 19. Burrow's passer rating on that table is 114.8 and his completion rate is 74 percent.

Rushing leaders

The top five in rushing yards are separated by 66 yards.

D'Andre Swift leads in rushing touchdowns with 10.

Receiving leaders

Jaxon Smith-Njigba is the only player listed above 1,000 receiving yards.

Trey McBride leads in receptions with 73.

Defense and kicking leaders

Each leader below is the top row of the league's table for that category: combined tackles, sacks, interceptions and field goals made.

Cisco reports next on Thursday, November 12, 2026. The company said in a release dated November 3, 2026 that it will hold a conference call that day at 1:30 p.m. Pacific time, which is 4:30 p.m. Eastern, to announce its results for the first quarter of fiscal year 2027.

The schedule for the day

Cisco's scheduling release said the results will be released after the market closes on November 12, 2026, and that the earnings press release will be posted at newsroom.cisco.com. It gives the call time in both Pacific and Eastern time.

A telephone replay begins at 4:00 p.m. Pacific time on November 12, 2026, and runs through 11:59 p.m. Pacific time on November 18, 2026, according to the same release.

How to listen

The release said the call can be heard by telephone at 888-848-6507, or at 212-519-0847 for international callers, and that a live webcast and a replay with slides will be on Cisco's investor site. Cisco's page for the event, titled "Cisco Q1FY27 Earnings Results", lists it for November 12, 2026, at 4:30 p.m. Eastern time and carries the link to the webcast. The release said the call will also be streamed live on YouTube, LinkedIn and X.

Which quarter this is

The report covers the first quarter of Cisco's fiscal year 2027, which ended on Saturday, October 24, 2026, according to the scheduling release.

What Cisco said to expect

When Cisco reported its fourth quarter on August 12, 2026, it gave its own guidance for the quarter it reports now.

For the full fiscal year 2027, the same release gave guidance of $72.2 billion to $73.4 billion in revenue and non-GAAP earnings per share of $5.05 to $5.11.

What it reported last quarter

In its report of August 12, 2026, for the quarter that ended July 25, 2026, Cisco said revenue was $17.3 billion, up 18 percent from a year earlier. Earnings per share were $0.97 under GAAP, up 52 percent, and $1.22 on a non-GAAP basis, up 23 percent. For the full fiscal year 2026, Cisco said revenue was $63.3 billion, up 12 percent.

Separate pages cover when Nvidia reports earnings and when Walmart reports earnings.

This page reports what the company has published and is not investment advice. It will be updated on this address when the results are released.

VA disability compensation for a veteran with no dependents runs from $180.42 a month at a 10% disability rating to $3,938.58 a month at a 100% rating. The Department of Veterans Affairs lists the amounts on its current rates page, which says they have been in effect since December 1, 2025, and which was last updated on November 2, 2026.

Monthly rates by disability rating

The amounts below come from the VA rate tables effective December 1, 2025. The second column is a veteran alone with no dependents. The third is a veteran with a spouse and no parents or children.

The VA page says a veteran with a 10% to 20% rating "won’t receive a higher rate even if you have a dependent spouse, child, or parent."

How dependents change the amount

For ratings from 30% to 100%, the VA tables set a basic monthly rate for each combination of spouse, children and dependent parents, and then list added amounts for each further child and for a spouse who receives Aid and Attendance benefits. The table below shows three of those rows.

The VA page works through one case. A veteran with a 70% rating, a spouse and three dependent children under 18 starts at the basic rate of $2,074.45 for a spouse and one child, and adds $76 for each of the two further children. If the spouse receives Aid and Attendance, another $141 is added, and the VA gives the total as $2,367.45 a month.

What the rates were before

The rates rose on December 1, 2025. Under the previous tables, effective December 1, 2024, a veteran with no dependents was paid $175.51 a month at 10% and $3,831.30 at 100%.

How the rates are set

A VA notice in the Federal Register published February 17, 2026 said the current rates were required by the Veterans' Compensation Cost-of-Living Adjustment Act of 2025, Public Law 119-42, and took effect on December 1, 2025, the date that law provided. The notice said the Social Security Administration had announced a 2.8% cost-of-living increase in Social Security benefits for 2026, and that the VA applied the same percentage.

The VA rates page says the department is "required by law to match the percentage of cost-of-living adjustments made to Social Security benefits." The page lists no rates with an effective date later than December 1, 2025. A separate page answers What is the Social Security COLA for 2027?.

This page reports the published rates and is not personal financial advice. An individual payment depends on that veteran's own rating and dependents.

Dell Technologies reports next on Tuesday, November 24, 2026. The company said in a press release dated November 10, 2026 that it will hold a conference call that day at 3:30 p.m. CST "to discuss its fiscal 2027 third quarter financial results."

The schedule for the day

Dell gave one clock time, for the call, in Central time. Eastern time is one hour ahead. The press release said the results will be issued "before the conference call broadcast" and did not give a clock time for them.

How to listen

The call will be open to the public as a live, audio-only webcast on Dell's investor site, and an archived version will be posted at the same address, according to the press release. Dell's page for the event, titled "Dell Technologies Fiscal Year 2027 Third Quarter Results," carries the webcast audio link.

Dell said that when the results are issued, the release, prepared remarks and a presentation with additional financial and operating information and financial guidance can be downloaded from the investor site.

Which quarter this is

The report covers the third quarter of Dell's fiscal year 2027. The company trades on the New York Stock Exchange under the ticker DELL.

What it reported last quarter

When Dell reported its second quarter on September 1, 2026, it gave these figures for the three months ended July 31, 2026.

In the same release, Dell gave full-year fiscal 2027 revenue guidance of $192.0 billion.

Separate pages cover when Nvidia reports earnings and when Walmart reports earnings.

This page reports what the company has published and is not investment advice. It will be updated on this address when the results are released.

Michigan, Washington, New Jersey, Vermont, South Dakota and Minnesota each have a higher minimum wage that takes effect on January 1, 2027, according to official pages. The U.S. Department of Labor's table of state minimum wage laws, updated November 5, 2026, names one January 1, 2027 increase, Michigan's rise to $15.00 per hour, and the other five rates come from each state's own labor department.

This list is as of November 12, 2026, and it is not a complete count. It covers only the states whose January 1, 2027 rate is stated on an official page cited here.

New rates on January 1, 2027

All rates are per hour.

• Michigan. The federal table lists Michigan's basic minimum rate at $13.73 and says it is scheduled to increase to $15.00 per hour on January 1, 2027, and then be adjusted each year by a set formula.
• Washington. The state's Department of Labor and Industries says the 2027 minimum wage will be $17.73 an hour for most workers, up from $17.13 in 2026, and $15.07 an hour for workers who are 14 and 15 years old. The changes take effect January 1, 2027.
• New Jersey. The state's labor department says the minimum wage is $16.48 an hour for most workers effective January 1, 2027, compared with $15.92 effective January 1, 2026.
• Vermont. The Vermont Department of Labor announced on November 9, 2026, that the minimum wage will increase from $14.42 to $14.91 per hour beginning January 1, 2027, an increase of $0.49. The tipped minimum wage will go from $7.21 to $7.46 per hour.
• South Dakota. The state's Department of Labor and Regulation says the minimum wage for non-tipped employees will be $12.30 an hour effective January 1, 2027, up from $11.85. The rate for tipped employees will be $6.15 an hour, up from $5.925.
• Minnesota. The state's Department of Labor and Industry says the minimum wage will be adjusted for inflation to $11.87 an hour for all employers effective January 1, 2027, up from $11.41. The 90-day training wage for workers under age 20 will increase from $9.31 to $9.68.

New York's general rate does not change

The New York State Department of Labor says the state's minimum wage will stay the same on January 1, 2027: $17.00 per hour in New York City, Long Island and Westchester County, and $16.00 per hour in the rest of the state. The minimum wage for home care aides will increase on that date to $20.00 per hour in New York City, Long Island and Westchester County and $19.00 per hour in the rest of the state.

Why the list is not complete

The federal table says several other states adjust their minimum wage each year by a set formula, including California, Maine, Montana, Ohio and Virginia, but it does not give their 2027 rates. Their rates are left out of this article for that reason.

Not every state changes its rate in January. The same table says Oregon and the District of Columbia adjust their minimum wages each year on July 1, and that Florida's minimum wage, now $15.00, is scheduled to be updated each year by formula beginning January 1, 2028.

The federal minimum wage is covered on a separate page.

Flu and COVID-19 cannot be told apart by their symptoms alone, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, which says testing is needed to confirm a diagnosis. The agency says the two share many of their symptoms. The differences it describes are that a change in or loss of taste or smell is more frequent with COVID-19, and that COVID-19 symptoms can take longer to appear after infection. This page reports what the CDC states and is not personal medical advice.

The symptoms the two illnesses share

The CDC's page on the similarities and differences between flu and COVID-19 says both are contagious respiratory illnesses caused by different viruses. Flu is caused by infection with an influenza virus, and COVID-19 is caused by infection with a coronavirus, SARS-CoV-2, the page says. It lists these as common symptoms that the two share:

• Fever or feeling feverish and having chills, with a note that not everyone with flu will have a fever
• Cough
• Shortness of breath or difficulty breathing
• Fatigue (tiredness)
• Sore throat
• Runny or stuffy nose
• Muscle pain or body aches
• Headache
• Vomiting
• Diarrhea
• Change in or loss of taste or smell

Where the CDC says they differ

The differences the CDC describes are in how often a symptom occurs and when symptoms start, and it does not name a symptom that only one of the two illnesses causes.

Every row comes from the CDC's flu and COVID-19 comparison page. The same page says that a person with COVID-19 could take longer from the time of infection to experience symptoms than a person with flu.

The CDC's separate symptom pages describe the start of each illness. Its page on the signs and symptoms of flu says flu symptoms usually come on suddenly. Its page on the symptoms of COVID-19 says symptoms may appear 2 to 14 days after exposure to the virus, and that they may start as mild, with some people progressing to more severe symptoms.

How each symptom list reads

The CDC keeps one symptom page for each illness, and the lists are worded slightly differently.

The left column comes from the CDC's flu symptoms page, which says vomiting and diarrhea are more common in children than adults, and the right column comes from its COVID-19 symptoms page. For more on the flu list, see What are the symptoms of the flu?

Testing and having both at once

The CDC's comparison page says testing can also show whether someone has both flu and COVID-19 at the same time, which it describes as uncommon. The page says people with both at the same time can have more severe illness than people with either one alone.

How long each one spreads

The CDC says a person with COVID-19 could be contagious for a longer time than a person with flu.

The page says young children and people with weakened immune systems may be contagious with flu for longer periods of time. For how long flu illness lasts, see How long does the flu last?

Emergency warning signs the CDC lists for COVID-19

The CDC's COVID-19 symptoms page lists these as emergency warning signs for COVID-19:

• Trouble breathing
• Persistent pain or pressure in the chest
• New confusion
• Inability to wake or stay awake
• Lips, nail beds and skin that may appear pale, gray or blue, depending on skin tone

The CDC's emergency warning signs for flu in children and adults are listed on What are the symptoms of the flu?

For how much flu and other respiratory illness is circulating now, see Is flu and respiratory illness high in my state? For the months when flu spreads most, see When is flu season?

Target reports next on Wednesday, November 18, 2026. The company lists the date on its investor events page as "Q3 2026 Target Corporation Earnings Conference Call" from 8 to 9 a.m. Eastern time.

The schedule for the day

Target's investor events page gives the call time in Eastern time. Central time is one hour behind.

The listing carries a "Register now" link for the call.

Which quarter this is

The report covers the quarter Target calls the third quarter of 2026. The second quarter ended on August 1, 2026, according to the second-quarter earnings release.

The Target earnings dates on the calendar

The investor events page lists one upcoming earnings call and shows when the earlier ones this year took place. It does not yet list a date for the fourth quarter of 2026.

The March 3 date was a Tuesday, when Target reported the fourth quarter as part of its 2026 Financial Community Meeting. The other three dates are Wednesdays.

What it reported last quarter

When Target reported its second quarter on August 19, 2026, it said net sales of $26.5 billion were 5.3 percent higher than a year earlier. Comparable sales grew 3.8 percent, store comparable sales grew 2.7 percent and digital comparable sales grew 8.7 percent.

The same release put second-quarter earnings per share at $4.11 on both a GAAP and an adjusted basis, compared with $2.05 a year earlier. Target said the 2026 figure included tariff refund benefits of $1.65 per share.

Separate pages cover when Walmart reports earnings, when Home Depot reports earnings and when Nvidia reports earnings.

This page reports what the company has published and is not investment advice. It will be updated on this address when the results are released.

Flu is in general worse than the common cold, with symptoms that are typically more intense and begin more abruptly, while cold symptoms are usually milder, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The agency says the two illnesses have similar symptoms, so it can be difficult to tell the difference between them based on symptoms alone. This page reports what the CDC states and is not personal medical advice.

How the CDC compares the symptoms

The CDC's page on the signs and symptoms of flu carries this comparison of a cold and flu:

The agency's Cold Versus Flu page says people with colds are more likely to have a runny or stuffy nose than people who have flu. For the full list of flu symptoms and the emergency warning signs the CDC names, see What are the symptoms of the flu?

Different viruses cause them

The CDC says flu and the common cold are both contagious respiratory illnesses, but they are caused by different viruses. Flu is caused by influenza viruses only. The common cold can be caused by a number of different viruses, including rhinoviruses, parainfluenza and seasonal coronaviruses.

The agency's About Common Cold page says more than 200 respiratory viruses can cause colds, and that rhinoviruses are the most frequent cause of colds in the United States. The same page says the viruses that cause COVID-19, flu and RSV can also cause cold-like symptoms but do not cause colds, and that those viruses are more likely to cause severe illness.

What the CDC says about a cold

The CDC's About Common Cold page says colds usually last less than a week. It says the signs and symptoms of a cold usually peak within 2 to 3 days of infection and can include:

• Runny nose
• Nasal congestion
• Cough
• Sneezing
• Sore throat
• Headache
• Mild body aches
• Fever, which the page says is usually low grade in older children and adults

The same page says adults in the United States have an average of two to three colds every year, and children often have more.

How serious each one can be

The CDC's Cold Versus Flu page says colds generally do not result in serious health problems, such as pneumonia, bacterial infections or hospitalizations. It says flu can have serious associated complications.

For how long flu illness runs, see How long does the flu last? For when flu circulates, see When is flu season?

How flu is diagnosed

The CDC says special tests can tell if a person is sick with flu. Its page on flu diagnosis says testing is the only way to know if a person has flu, though a health care provider may diagnose flu based on symptoms.

That page says a number of tests are available to detect influenza viruses in respiratory specimens. It says rapid influenza diagnostic tests can provide results within approximately 10 to 15 minutes but may not be as accurate as other flu tests.

The CDC's About Common Cold page tells people who have cold-like symptoms and suspect they have COVID-19 or flu to get tested. For how much flu is circulating now, see Is flu and respiratory illness high in my state?

Lowe's reports next on Wednesday, November 18, 2026, when it holds its third-quarter 2026 earnings conference call at 9 a.m. Eastern time. The company set the date in an announcement on November 11.

How to listen

The call will be webcast in the Quarterly Earnings section of the Lowe's investor relations site, ir.lowes.com. The same announcement said supplemental materials will be available 15 minutes before the call starts, and that a replay can be accessed from noon Eastern time on November 18, 2026, through November 17, 2027, under Events and Presentations on that site.

The next two report dates

The Lowe's investor calendar lists both of its upcoming earnings calls. The company marks the second date as tentative, so it can still change, and the calendar does not give a time for it.

The same calendar lists an analyst and investor conference in New York City on December 9, 2026, and shows the earlier earnings calls of the year on May 20, 2026, and August 19, 2026.

The date of the next Home Depot earnings report is on a separate page.

What it reported last quarter

When Lowe's reported its second quarter on August 19, 2026, it said total sales for the quarter ended July 31 were $26.0 billion, compared with $24.0 billion in the same quarter a year earlier. Comparable sales rose 0.2 percent, and online sales rose 15.7 percent.

Net earnings were $2.4 billion, and diluted earnings per share were $4.27, the same as a year earlier. On the company's adjusted basis, diluted earnings per share rose 1.6 percent to $4.40. Lowe's said both per-share figures include a benefit of $0.11 from tariff refunds.

What the company has said about the full year

In the same release Lowe's updated its outlook for fiscal 2026, moving several measures to the low end of their earlier ranges. The figures below are the company's own.

This page reports what the company has published and is not investment advice. It will be updated on this address when the results are released.

The Walt Disney Company reports next on Tuesday, November 17, 2026. The company set the date in a press release issued October 12, 2026, which said the results will be released before the opening of regular trading that day.

The schedule for the day

Disney's page for the event gives the webcast time in both Eastern and Pacific time.

The press release said the earnings materials and the webcast will be available on Disney's investor site, and that the webcast will be archived. The event page asks viewers to return to it five minutes before the scheduled start.

Which quarter this is

The report covers the fourth quarter of Disney's fiscal year 2026 and the full fiscal year, according to the press release. Disney's shares trade on the New York Stock Exchange under the ticker DIS.

What it reported last quarter

In its earnings release dated August 5, 2026, filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission, Disney said revenues for the third quarter of fiscal 2026 increased 7 percent to $25.2 billion, from $23.7 billion in the same quarter of fiscal 2025. Income before income taxes increased 14 percent to $3.6 billion, from $3.2 billion. Diluted earnings per share decreased to $1.51 from $2.92.

Separate pages cover when Walmart reports earnings, when Home Depot reports earnings and when Nvidia reports earnings.

This page reports what the company has published and is not investment advice. It will be updated on this address when the results are released.

Department of Homeland Security v. D. V. D., No. 26-426, is a Supreme Court case about whether the federal government's guidance on third-country removals is lawful, and the Court's docket shows it is set for argument on Wednesday, December 9, 2026. The court of appeals opinion under review uses "third-country removals" for removals of noncitizens with final removal orders to countries that were neither designated in those orders nor identified in writing during their earlier removal proceedings.

What the Court will decide

The Court's question presented document reproduces the order of September 29, 2026, which directed the parties to brief and argue:

1. "Whether the district court had jurisdiction over Respondents’ claims."
2. "Whether the district court had authority to enter classwide declaratory relief and APA vacatur under 8 U. S. C. §1252(f)(1)."
3. "Whether the Government’s Guidance on third-country removals is unlawful under 8 U. S. C. §1231(b), the Due Process Clause, or FARRA/CAT and its implementing regulations."
4. "Such other questions that the Government determines are appropriate for the proper disposition of the case."

The government said in its opening brief that it had determined that no additional questions warrant briefing, which leaves the first three.

Key dates

The dates below are from the docket.

The Court's calendar for the session beginning November 30, 2026 lists the case first on Wednesday, December 9, and says the Court convenes at 10 a.m. The other arguments scheduled so far are in What cases is the Supreme Court hearing this term?

How the case reached the Court

The First Circuit opinion of September 18, 2026, which begins at page 99a of the appendix to the stay application, says the Department of Homeland Security appealed a final judgment in favor of a class of noncitizens with final removal orders who face third-country removals under department policy documents issued in March and July of 2025. The opinion calls those documents "the Guidance."

According to that opinion, the district court's judgment contained five declarations and also vacated and set aside the Guidance as unlawful under the Administrative Procedure Act. The declarations construed the law to require the department to seek first to remove class members to countries they had designated or of which they are subjects, nationals or citizens, to give class members effective notice of the third country, and to give them a meaningful opportunity to contest removal there on the ground of a reasonable fear of persecution or torture.

The court of appeals held that the representative plaintiffs lacked standing for the first of those requirements and vacated the two declarations about it. "Otherwise, we affirm the judgment," the opinion says.

The government then applied to the Supreme Court for a stay. The docket shows that on September 29, 2026, the Court granted the application, stayed the February 25, 2026 order and judgment of the U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts, treated the application as a petition for a writ of certiorari and granted it. The order directed the Clerk to set a briefing schedule that would allow argument in the December 2026 session, and it says the stay ends when the Court sends down its judgment. The docket entry records that Justice Sotomayor, Justice Kagan and Justice Jackson would have denied the application for a stay.

What each side says

The government's opening brief, filed October 23, 2026, makes three arguments in the order of the Court's questions. It says the district court lacked jurisdiction over the respondents' claims under 8 U.S.C. 1252(g), 8 U.S.C. 1252(b)(9) and provisions that limit review of claims under the Convention Against Torture. It says 8 U.S.C. 1252(f)(1) bars the classwide declaratory relief and the vacatur. And it says the Guidance is lawful because neither Section 1231 nor FARRA sets out specific procedures for third-country removals, and that the Guidance comports with due process.

The respondents' merits brief is not due until November 16, so their position on the record so far is in their September 28 response to the stay application. There they said the final judgment did not include injunctive relief, so Section 1252(f)(1) does not apply, and that the jurisdictional provisions the government cites do not bar review because the plaintiffs do not challenge their removal orders or any discretionary decision to execute them. They said the policy cannot be reconciled with 8 U.S.C. 1231(b), FARRA and their implementing regulations, and that it permits removal to a newly selected third country "without meaningful notice of the destination or a meaningful opportunity to raise a country-specific fear claim."

This page will be updated at this address when the respondents' brief is filed and after the argument on December 9.

Republican National Committee v. Mi Familia Vota, No. 25-1017, is a Supreme Court case that asks whether the National Voter Registration Act bars two Arizona voter registration rules, according to the Court's question presented document. One rule requires people who register with the state form to show proof of U.S. citizenship. The other cancels the registrations of people found not to be citizens, including in the 90 days before a federal election. The Court's docket shows the petition was granted on June 29, 2026, and the case was set for argument on Tuesday, December 8, 2026.

The two questions before the Court

The question presented document lists two questions, in these words:

1. "Does the National Voter Registration Act or a federal consent decree prohibit Arizona from requiring voter-registration applicants to produce "satisfactory evidence" of U.S. citizenship when registering with a state registration form?"
2. "Does the National Voter Registration Act prohibit Arizona from implementing a program within 90 days of a federal election to cancel the registrations of voters who are not U.S. citizens?"

The same document says the Ninth Circuit held that the act preempts the Arizona provisions at issue, and that Arizona cannot require proof of citizenship from registration applicants because a previous Arizona Secretary of State entered a consent decree with private litigants in 2018. It also says the Supreme Court has granted an emergency stay on each issue, one in this case and one in a Fourth Circuit case.

What the Ninth Circuit decided

The case reached the Supreme Court from the Ninth Circuit, where it was titled Mi Familia Vota v. Petersen. The opinion was filed on February 25, 2025, by a panel of Judges Wardlaw, Gould and Bumatay. Judge Gould wrote the opinion and Judge Bumatay dissented.

The summary that court staff prepared for that opinion, which states that it is not part of the opinion, describes a challenge to two Arizona laws, H.B. 2492 and H.B. 2243. It says the challenge was brought by the United States, several nonprofits, the Democratic National Committee, the Arizona Democratic Party and three federally recognized Tribes. On the points now before the Supreme Court, the summary says the panel held:

• The requirement that county recorders reject state-form applications that lack documentary proof of citizenship violates the consent decree in League of United Latin American Citizens of Arizona v. Reagan.
• In the alternative, the National Voter Registration Act does not let states require documentary proof of citizenship from state-form applicants registering for only federal elections.
• The periodic cancellation of registrations violates the act's 90-day provision to the extent that H.B. 2243 authorizes systematic cancellation of registrations within 90 days before a federal election.

The summary says Judge Bumatay, in dissent, stated that most of the voter-verification laws are consistent with the Constitution and federal law, and that the panel should have vacated and substantially narrowed the injunction.

What each side argues

The positions below come from the summary of argument in each party's own brief.

Republican National Committee. The petitioner's brief argues that the act does not bar Arizona from requiring proof of citizenship, because state officials may gather information "necessary to enable" them to assess an applicant's eligibility and the word "necessary" can mean useful or helpful. It argues that Arizona's state form is "equivalent" to the federal form, and that a consent decree not based on a finding of a federal violation cannot limit the legislature's authority. On the second question, it argues that removing noncitizens does not trigger the 90-day provision because noncitizens are not "ineligible voters" under the act.

United States. The government's brief argues that the proof-of-citizenship requirement for state-form registrants complies with the act, and that a federal consent decree typically must yield to a significant change in law. On the second question, it argues that the act's limits on removing names from the official lists of eligible voters apply only to people who were properly listed in the first place.

State of Arizona and its Attorney General. The state's brief argues that the act does not prohibit Arizona from requiring proof of citizenship from state-form applicants. It also argues that the 2018 consent decree does limit the ability of Arizona election officials to require that proof, and that the decree binds the defendants in that case until it is vacated or modified.

Mi Familia Vota and the other respondents on its brief. The respondents' brief argues that Arizona may require documentary proof of citizenship for state and local elections, but that for federal elections the act lets the state form require only information that is "necessary," which it reads as essential. It argues that the consent decree is a binding federal judgment that the petitioners never asked the issuing court to modify or set aside. On the second question, it argues that the act contains no exception for removals that target potential noncitizens, and that the purpose of the 90-day provision is to protect eligible voters from being removed by mistake shortly before an election.

This page will be updated at this address after the argument on December 8 and again when the Court issues its decision.

Stephen Miller is the White House chief of staff. President Donald Trump announced his appointment as the 33rd White House chief of staff on November 6, 2026, and the White House said he succeeds Susie Wiles.

When Miller was named

The White House release is dated Friday, November 6, 2026, and does not give a start date. The White House has referred to Miller by the new title since the day of the announcement: a video it posted on November 6 is titled "White House Chief of Staff, Stephen Miller".

What the White House said about Miller and Wiles

The White House release said Miller "has served alongside President Trump since the very beginning". It described the time Wiles spent in the job as a "highly successful tenure".

The release also carried statements from administration officials. Vice President JD Vance said in it: "Stephen Miller is an amazing patriot and will do great things."

Where the White House lists the job

The chief of staff post does not appear on the White House's Cabinet page, which listed department secretaries and other Cabinet-level officials but no chief of staff when it was checked on November 12, 2026. For the people that page does list, see who is in the president's Cabinet.

For the leaders of Congress, see who is the Speaker of the House, who is the Senate majority leader and which party controls Congress.

FISA Section 702 has already expired. The Congressional Research Service said the provision "was automatically repealed on June 12, 2026" under the FISA Amendments Act of 2008, as amended by Public Law 119-87. June 12, 2026, was a Friday. The repeal covered all of Title VII of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, which the research service said includes Sections 702 through 705.

When checked on November 12, 2026, the Government Publishing Office's collection of public laws for the 119th Congress ran through Public Law 119-138, approved November 3, 2026, and no law after Public Law 119-87 in that collection changes the repeal date or restores Title VII.

How the date was set

Congress moved the date twice in April 2026, each time by amending section 403(b) of the FISA Amendments Act of 2008, the provision that repeals Title VII on a fixed date.

The first law replaced an earlier deadline, which had been written as two years after the enactment of the Reforming Intelligence and Securing America Act, with the fixed date of April 30, 2026. Its legislative history shows that the House passed it on April 16 and the Senate passed it on April 17. The second law struck "April 30, 2026" and inserted "June 12, 2026", and both chambers passed it on April 30, the day it was approved.

What still operates after the repeal

The repeal did not end every activity under Section 702 on that day. The transition procedures in the FISA Amendments Act of 2008 say that any order, authorization or directive issued under Title VII "shall continue in effect until the date of the expiration of such order, authorization, or directive."

The Congressional Research Service said in a June 22, 2026, legal analysis that lawmakers and congressional aides have stated that the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court authorized Section 702 surveillance for one year in March 2026. It said the executive branch is authorized by statute to continue operating under such court orders for up to one year after they are issued. The research service also said the court's orders are classified and that no such order appeared to have been published as of June 22.

After any such authorization expires, the research service said the government will generally have to seek an individual court order for each target under Title I of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act.

What Section 702 allowed

Section 702 was enacted in 2008 as part of the FISA Amendments Act. The Congressional Research Service describes it as authority for intelligence agencies to target people who are not U.S. persons and who are reasonably believed to be outside the United States, in order to acquire foreign intelligence information. The research service said the section was distinct because it allowed programmatic surveillance, meaning surveillance without an individual court order for each target and acquisition.

What Congress can do now

The research service described options for Congress. It said Congress could pass a law that reinstates Section 702 unchanged, reinstate it with amendments, or "take no action, leave Section 702 repealed, and allow any existing surveillance authority to expire." It said a reinstated Section 702 could carry a new expiration date, as earlier versions did, or be made permanent.

The Spanish general election is on Sunday, November 29, 2026, the date set by Royal Decree 806/2026, which was published in Spain's official state gazette on October 6, 2026. The decree dissolved the Congress of Deputies and the Senate that were elected on July 23, 2023, and called an election for both chambers.

Key dates

The decree sets the election day, the campaign and the first meeting of the new parliament. The other dates come from the election calendar published by the Junta Electoral Central.

How the election was called

The decree is signed by King Felipe VI and countersigned by Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez, and it took effect on the day it was published, October 6. The Junta Electoral Central lists the vote as its election in progress and cites the same decree.

What voters elect

Voters choose both chambers of the Cortes Generales, the Spanish parliament. The decree gives the number of deputies for each constituency in an annex; Madrid elects 38 and Barcelona elects 32, the two largest totals, while Ceuta and Melilla elect 1 each.

For the Senate, the same decree says each provincial constituency elects four senators. Among the island constituencies, Gran Canaria, Mallorca and Tenerife elect three each, and Ibiza, Formentera, Menorca, Fuerteventura, La Gomera, El Hierro, Lanzarote and La Palma elect one each. Ceuta and Melilla elect two each.

When the campaign runs

The campaign lasts 15 days. The decree starts it at midnight as Friday, November 13, begins and ends it at midnight at the close of Friday, November 27, two days before the vote on Sunday, November 29.

What happens after the vote

The provincial electoral boards hold the official count from December 4 to December 7, according to the election calendar. The decree then calls the new Congress and Senate to their opening sessions on December 23, 2026, at 10 a.m.

This page will be updated at this address with the official result after the vote on November 29.

No. Pete Hegseth has not been impeached. The House has not adopted any impeachment resolution against him, and on November 10, 2026, it voted 211 to 204 to refer the most recent one, H.Res. 1655, to committee instead of voting on the resolution itself.

Three impeachment resolutions naming Hegseth have been filed in the 119th Congress. A search of the House resolution status records published by the Government Publishing Office, read on November 12, 2026, found no others, and none of the three has passed the House.

What happened on November 10, 2026

The status record for H.Res. 1655, titled "Impeaching Peter Brian Hegseth, Secretary of Defense, for high crimes and misdemeanors", lists these floor actions, all on November 10, 2026:

• Rep. Thomas Massie, Republican of Kentucky, rose to a question of the privileges of the House and offered the resolution. The Chair determined that it did constitute a question of the privileges of the House.
• Rep. Issa, Republican of California, moved to refer the resolution to the Judiciary Committee.
• The House agreed to the motion to refer by the yeas and nays, 211 to 204, in Roll Call 317. A motion to reconsider was then laid on the table without objection.

A vote to refer sends a resolution to a committee. It is not a vote on whether to impeach.

How the House voted

The Clerk of the House recorded Roll Call 317 at 6:02 p.m. Eastern time on November 10, 2026, on the question "On Motion to Refer". A yea was a vote to send the resolution to committee.

Eighteen members did not vote: 7 Republicans and 11 Democrats. The Clerk's record lists Massie, the resolution's sponsor, as the one Republican who voted nay. Which party holds the majority is covered in Which party controls Congress?

The three impeachment resolutions

The status record for H.Res. 935 lists 1 cosponsor, the record for H.Res. 1177 lists 18, and the record for H.Res. 1655 lists none. The full texts of H.Res. 935 and H.Res. 1177 are published by the Government Publishing Office. The articles in them are allegations made by the members who submitted them. The House has not voted on any of the articles.

What it would take to impeach him

The Senate's page on impeachment quotes the Constitution: the House of Representatives "shall have the sole Power of Impeachment", and the Senate has the sole power to try all impeachments. H.Res. 1177 would, if the House agreed to it, declare him impeached and send its articles to the Senate, as the text of H.Res. 1177 shows. Because the House has agreed to none of the three resolutions, no articles have gone to the Senate and no trial has been held.

This page will be updated at this address if the House or the Judiciary Committee acts on any of the resolutions.

The 2026 G20 summit has not happened yet. The U.S. Treasury Department said in a February 19, 2026, release that the United States' G20 host year will culminate with President Trump's Leaders' Summit on December 14 to 15, at Trump National Doral in Miami, Florida. Those dates fall on a Monday and a Tuesday.

The Office of the U.S. Trade Representative repeated the same dates and venue in a May 19, 2026, release, which said President Trump will host the summit as the United States marks its 250th anniversary.

G20 summit dates

The 2026 row comes from the Treasury release and the 2027 row from the UK government announcement.

Where the 2026 summit is held

The venue is Trump National Doral, which the federal releases place in Miami, Florida. The City of Doral lists the summit for December 14 to 15, 2026, at Trump National Doral Miami in Doral, Florida.

The city's page, last updated on October 29, 2026, said the leaders' summit itself is a closed diplomatic event. The city said it expects road closures, detours, security checkpoints and access restrictions, with significant traffic effects near the venue, particularly along NW 87th Avenue and NW 36th Street. It said some security activity and traffic effects may begin as early as December 10, and that Doral Central Park will be closed to the public from December 11 to 16.

Meetings scheduled before the summit

The Treasury release listed four in-person finance meetings for 2026.

The trade office's release set the G20 Trade Ministerial for September 30 to October 1 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.

When the 2027 G20 summit is

The United Kingdom hosts next. The UK government said on September 23, 2026, that the G20 Leaders' Summit will take place on November 27 and 28, 2027, at the Manchester Central Convention Centre in Manchester city centre. Those dates fall on a Saturday and a Sunday.

See also when the APEC summit is.

This page will be updated at this address when the 2026 summit ends.

The International Maritime Organization says seafarers remain "stranded on vessels unable to exit the Strait of Hormuz", and it describes its evacuation plan for those ships as "currently paused". The agency's list of confirmed incidents showed 134 confirmed incidents and 25 confirmed seafarer fatalities as of November 11, 2026.

The most recent confirmed incidents

The agency says its data on attacks on commercial ships in the Persian Gulf, the Strait of Hormuz and the Gulf of Oman are compiled after validation with flag states, coastal states and verified third-party sources. Its list, as of November 11, 2026, carries eight entries dated in November. Each of the eight is described as damaged, and the list does not say who carried out any of them.

The list records one seafarer fatality on the Velos Sapphire. In a statement on the Council session published on November 6, 2026, the agency said its secretary-general highlighted that death as bringing "the number of confirmed casualties to 25 since the conflict in the Middle East began", and that it had verified at least 130 attacks against commercial vessels in the region.

What the agency's Council said in November

The Council of the International Maritime Organization met for its 138th session in London from November 2 to 6, 2026. According to the agency's summary, the Council "reiterated that vital shipping lanes should remain open, safe and secure" and called on member states to refrain from unlawful measures that would jeopardize the safety of seafarers and international shipping.

The same summary says thousands of seafarers are at risk, "including those on ships that have been unable to leave the Persian Gulf".

Ships that have not been able to leave

The agency dates the start of the current conflict in the Middle East to February 28, 2026. In a statement on August 28, 2026, Secretary-General Arsenio Dominguez said: "While some ships and their crews have been able to leave the Persian Gulf, up to 400 ships carrying around 6,000 seafarers have been unable to depart safely since the conflict began."

The agency built a voluntary evacuation plan for merchant ships confined in the Gulf region. On June 25, 2026, after an attack in the Gulf of Oman on a vessel that had passed through the strait, Dominguez said that "the evacuation plan will be paused until further clarity is obtained". The agency's Middle East page still describes the plan as "currently paused".

How many ships are passing through

There is no current daily count from the agency. Its transit data page says: "IMO no longer compiles data on daily ship transits through the Strait of Hormuz." The page shows average daily transits per month from March to September 2026 and says the figures are provided for general awareness only.

Where the official warnings are posted

The agency's Middle East page links to the warnings and advisories of United Kingdom Maritime Trade Operations, the Joint Maritime Information Center and the Maritime Security Center Indian Ocean, and to the NAVAREA IX warnings. It also notes that the traffic separation scheme in the strait, which sets the shipping lanes, was proposed by Iran and Oman and adopted by the agency in 1968.

This page will be updated at this address when the agency's incident list or its statements change.

The Supreme Court has published argument calendars for four sessions of October Term 2026, and together they list 27 arguments from October 5, 2026, through January 20, 2027. The next session begins on Monday, November 30, 2026, and lists eight arguments through December 9. Each calendar says the Court convenes at 10 a.m.

The tables below give the case names and docket numbers as the Court's calendars print them. The calendars list when each case is argued and do not describe the legal questions in it.

Session beginning November 30, 2026

The calendar for this session is marked as amended on October 1, 2026. It lists eight arguments over six days. Viramontes v. Cook County and Grant v. Higgins are consolidated and share one hour of argument.

Session beginning January 11, 2027

The calendar for this session is dated November 2, 2026. It lists six arguments and marks Monday, January 18, as a legal holiday.

Session that began November 2, 2026

The calendar for this session is dated August 11, 2026. It scheduled seven arguments and marks Wednesday, November 11, as a legal holiday.

Session that began October 5, 2026

The calendar for the term's first session is marked as amended on September 14, 2026. It scheduled six arguments and marks Monday, October 12, as a legal holiday.

When the rest of the term's cases will be listed

The Court's calendar for October Term 2026 marks further argument days after January: February 22 to 24, March 1 to 3, March 22 to 24, March 29 to 31, April 19 to 21 and April 26 to 28, 2027. The Court's Calendars and Lists page carries argument calendars only for the four sessions above, so the cases for those later days are not yet listed there. The same page links to the argument transcripts and argument audio the Court posts.

This page will be updated at this address when the Court posts a new or amended argument calendar.

The president's Cabinet has 21 members on the White House's Cabinet page as of November 12, 2026, including Secretary of State Marco Rubio, Secretary of the Treasury Scott Bessent, Secretary of War Pete Hegseth and Attorney General Todd Blanche. The table below gives every name and title as that page shows them, so a reader can check who holds each office today.

The 21 Cabinet members

The White House page lists the members in alphabetical order by last name, and this table keeps that order. Each name and title is copied from the Cabinet page.

Fifteen of the 21 hold the title of Secretary or Attorney General. The other six are the Director of National Intelligence, the United States Trade Representative, the Administrator of the Small Business Administration, the Director of the Central Intelligence Agency, the Director of the Office of Management and Budget and the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency.

The Cabinet page does not list the vice president among the 21. The White House's administration page names President Donald J. Trump and Vice President JD Vance separately, above its Cabinet section.

What the page says about recent arrivals

The Cabinet page carries a short biography of each member. Three examples describe a move into the current office.

• Todd Blanche is listed as Attorney General. His biography says he previously served as the 40th Deputy Attorney General and that the president appointed him to work alongside Attorney General Pam Bondi.
• Jay Clayton was sworn in as the ninth Director of National Intelligence on August 3, 2026, and previously served as the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York.
• Keith Sonderling is listed as Secretary of Labor. His biography says he served as Acting Secretary of Labor and Deputy Secretary of Labor before becoming Secretary.

What the Cabinet does

The White House describes the Cabinet's role as advising the president "on any subject he may require relating to the duties of each member’s respective office." Article II, Section 2 of the Constitution says the president "may require the Opinion, in writing, of the principal Officer in each of the executive Departments, upon any Subject relating to the Duties of their respective Offices".

The same section of the Constitution says the president nominates officers of the United States and appoints them "by and with the Advice and Consent of the Senate". For the Senate, see which party controls Congress and who is the Senate majority leader.

This page will be updated at this address when the White House changes its list.

The 2026 Atlantic hurricane season has had 1 hurricane so far, according to the National Hurricane Center's 2026 Atlantic season summary, which is dated 03 UTC on November 12, 2026. The eastern Pacific has had 10 hurricanes over the same period, the center's 2026 eastern Pacific summary shows.

The 2026 count by basin

The National Hurricane Center keeps a separate count for each basin. These are the totals on its Atlantic, eastern Pacific and central Pacific pages, each dated 03 UTC on November 12, 2026.

The three rows cannot be added into one total, because a storm that crosses from the eastern Pacific into the central Pacific appears in both tables. The central Pacific table lists Fausto, Karina, Lowell, Norbert and Nolo with their eastern Pacific storm numbers.

The same pages count 10 named storms in the Atlantic, 20 in the eastern Pacific and 8 in the central Pacific.

The one Atlantic hurricane

Isaias is the only Atlantic storm of 2026 to reach hurricane strength, according to the Atlantic summary table. The table classes it as a major hurricane, with dates from October 6 to October 10, maximum winds of 105 knots and a minimum pressure of 959 millibars.

The other 9 named storms in the Atlantic stayed below hurricane strength. Arthur, Bertha, Cristobal, Dolly, Edouard, Fay, Gonzalo and Hanna were tropical storms, and Josephine was a subtropical storm, the same table shows. The strongest of them was Fay, at 60 knots.

The Atlantic summary puts the season at 5 hurricanes below the 1991 to 2020 normal and 3 named storms below it, as of its November 12 date. It also gives the season's accumulated cyclone energy, a measure of total storm strength and duration, as 19.9, which it says is 83% below normal.

The eastern Pacific hurricanes

The eastern Pacific summary counts 10 hurricanes and 8 major hurricanes, which it puts at 2 hurricanes and 4 major hurricanes above the 1991 to 2020 normal. These are the storms its table classes as a hurricane or major hurricane with a peak inside the basin.

Fausto and Marie are classed as hurricanes and the other 8 as major hurricanes. Polo was the strongest, with a minimum pressure of 892 millibars.

The table also lists Lowell and Nolo as major hurricanes, with a mark that means their peak intensity was reached outside the eastern Pacific. Both appear in the central Pacific count below.

The central Pacific hurricanes

The central Pacific summary counts 8 named storms, 5 hurricanes and 3 major hurricanes, which it puts at 4 hurricanes above the 1991 to 2020 normal. Its table classes Lala at 115 knots, Lowell at 140 knots and Nolo at 135 knots as major hurricanes that peaked in the basin.

Fausto and Karina are listed there as hurricanes whose peak intensity was reached outside the central Pacific. The table numbers four storms as central Pacific storms, Lala, Moke, Olana and Pena, and Lala is the only one of the four it classes as a hurricane.

What counts as a hurricane

A hurricane is a tropical cyclone with maximum sustained winds of 74 mph, or 64 knots, or higher, according to the National Hurricane Center's climatology page. A major hurricane has winds of 111 mph, or 96 knots, or higher, which is Category 3, 4 or 5 on the Saffir-Simpson Hurricane Wind Scale.

An average Atlantic season has 14 named storms, 7 hurricanes and 3 major hurricanes, based on the years 1991 to 2020, the same page says. An average eastern Pacific season has 15 named storms, 8 hurricanes and 4 major hurricanes.

Can the count still change?

Yes. The Atlantic and eastern Pacific seasons both run to November 30, according to the climatology page, so a storm could still form or strengthen. When does hurricane season end? covers the season dates for each basin, and Are there any hurricanes right now? lists the storms being tracked at the moment.

The figures for most storms are also not final. Each season page carries a report status column, and the Atlantic page marks only Arthur, Bertha and Cristobal as "Final". The center's Tropical Cyclone Reports contain the post-analysis record of each storm's positions and intensities, the page says, and the reports for the other storms were not yet marked final.

New Year's Day this year was Thursday, January 1, 2026, and the next New Year's Day is Friday, January 1, 2027, according to the federal holiday schedule published by the U.S. Office of Personnel Management.

What day of the week New Year's Day falls on

The section of federal law that lists the legal public holidays, 5 U.S.C. 6103, names "New Year's Day, January 1." The date never changes, so the day of the week moves each year. The Office of Personnel Management schedule gives these days for the federal holiday.

Why the 2028 holiday is on December 31, 2027

January 1, 2028, is a Saturday. The Office of Personnel Management says that when a holiday falls on a Saturday, the Friday before is treated as a holiday for pay and leave purposes for most federal employees, and that a holiday on a Sunday moves to the following Monday. That is why its 2028 schedule lists New Year's Day on Friday, December 31, 2027. The full list is in What are the federal holidays?

Mail on New Year's Day

The U.S. Postal Service lists Friday, January 1, New Year's Day, among its 2027 holidays. The other postal holidays are in What holidays is the post office closed? The bank schedule is in What holidays are banks closed?

The stock market on New Year's Day

The New York Stock Exchange holiday calendar lists New Year's Day on Thursday, January 1, 2026, and on Friday, January 1, 2027. For 2028 the calendar lists no holiday and says, "Because the holiday falls on Saturday, January 1, 2028, no New Year's Day holiday is observed." That differs from the federal schedule, which moves the 2028 holiday to the Friday before. The rest of the calendar is in What are the stock market holidays?

The holidays around New Year's Day

The federal holiday before New Year's Day on the Office of Personnel Management schedule is Christmas Day, on Friday, December 25, 2026, covered in What day is Christmas this year? The next one after New Year's Day is the Birthday of Martin Luther King, Jr., on Monday, January 18, 2027.

Christmas Day this year is Friday, December 25, 2026, according to the federal holiday schedule published by the U.S. Office of Personnel Management.

What day of the week Christmas falls on

The section of federal law that lists the legal public holidays, 5 U.S.C. 6103, names "Christmas Day, December 25." The date never changes, so the day of the week moves each year. The Office of Personnel Management schedule gives these days for the federal holiday.

Why the 2027 holiday is on December 24

December 25, 2027, is a Saturday. The Office of Personnel Management says that when a holiday falls on a Saturday, the Friday before is treated as a holiday for pay and leave purposes for most federal employees, and that a holiday on a Sunday moves to the following Monday. That is why its 2027 schedule lists Christmas Day on Friday, December 24. The rule changes the day treated as the holiday for pay and leave purposes, not the date of Christmas, which stays December 25. The full list is in What are the federal holidays?

Mail on Christmas

The U.S. Postal Service lists Friday, December 25, Christmas Day, among its 2026 holidays. For 2027 the same page lists Christmas Day on Saturday, December 25, and says Post Offices will be open and deliveries will occur as normal on Friday, December 24. The other postal holidays are in What holidays is the post office closed?

The stock market on Christmas

The New York Stock Exchange says all of its markets observe the holidays on its holiday calendar, and the calendar lists Christmas Day on Friday, December 25, 2026. On Thursday, December 24, 2026, each market closes early at 1:00 p.m. Eastern Time, and eligible options close at 1:15 p.m. The calendar lists the 2027 holiday as observed on Friday, December 24, 2027, and the 2028 holiday on Monday, December 25, 2028. The rest of the calendar is in What are the stock market holidays?

The holidays around Christmas

The federal holiday before Christmas on the Office of Personnel Management schedule is Thanksgiving Day, on Thursday, November 26, 2026, covered in When is Thanksgiving 2026? The next one after Christmas is New Year's Day, on Friday, January 1, 2027. The football schedule for the holiday is in What NFL games are on Christmas?