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November 9, 2026 – From My Inbox

A digest of today’s newsletters, Substacks and email briefings, grouped by theme. The word cloud below shows the terms that came up most often across the items collected.

Trump Canada President White House Leader Senator News Media Coach Homelessness Winnipeg Immigration Miller Russia Republicans Democrats Midterms Huang Nvidia Board Ukraine Eisenkot

Canadian News

  • Prime Minister Mark Carney’s federal budget pledges to end homelessness within ten years. Winnipeg is the first city in Canada chosen for support toward that goal, with close to one billion dollars for more than two thousand supportive homes and a new Centre for Mental Health and Addictions. Experts quoted in the coverage note that past promises on similarly ambitious timelines, including a 2019 pledge to halve homelessness, fell short. (Toronto Star’s First Up)
  • Ontario’s government has held a year old report on mistreatment of children in Children’s Aid Society care without releasing it. (Winnipeg Digest)
  • A Via Rail service cut east of Toronto has commuters discussing chartering buses of their own. (Winnipeg Digest)
  • Manitoba has started construction on a twenty million dollar neonatal intensive care unit in Brandon, expected to open in 2028. (Winnipeg Digest)
  • Canada will not allow Russian players to compete at next month’s World Juniors hockey championship, Carney has said, despite Norway being bumped to make room. (Winnipeg Digest)

US News

  • President Trump replaced chief of staff Susie Wiles with immigration hardliner Stephen Miller on Friday, a move read widely as signaling a more combative posture toward the incoming Democratic Congress. (NYT The Morning and Punchbowl News AM)
  • Trump offered, then walked back as a joke, the vacant White House press secretary job to UFC president Dana White, who demurred. (Tara Palmeri’s The Red Letter)
  • In a wide ranging 60 Minutes interview, Trump acknowledged his immigration crackdown might have been too harsh and said it likely cost Republicans in the midterms. He also called further strikes on Iran unlikely for now. (NYT The World)
  • Democrats are pressing their advantage after a historic midterm sweep. Representative Thomas Massie is expected to force a floor vote this week on impeaching Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, with incoming Speaker in waiting Hakeem Jeffries saying he will back it. (Punchbowl News AM and Tara Palmeri’s The Red Letter)
  • House Republicans choose between Steve Scalise and Jim Jordan for minority leader on Tuesday. (Punchbowl News AM)
  • Senator Elizabeth Warren is expected to take the Senate Banking Committee gavel and plans to pursue credit card rate caps and AI export controls. (NYT DealBook)
  • A wave of religious Matthew 25 Democrats, including Senator elect James Talarico and Adam Hamilton, ran faith forward campaigns that may point toward a 2028 strategy. (NYT Opinion Today)

Finance and Markets

  • Nvidia’s board has opened an independent investigation after chief executive Jensen Huang admitted to an affair with a woman American officials believe was recruited as a Chinese intelligence asset. Nvidia shares fell sharply in premarket trading, erasing tens of billions in market value. The company says it has no reason to believe national security or trade secrets were compromised, and Huang has pledged full cooperation with the board. (Prof G Markets, NYT DealBook and WSJ CEO Brief)
  • The Nasdaq suffered its worst single day loss on record last Thursday after voters in dozens of local referendums rejected new AI data centers, and Microsoft is reportedly stepping back from several neocloud contracts. (Prof G Markets)
  • Anthropic’s prospective IPO valuation has reportedly slipped toward one point one to one point three trillion dollars from an earlier two trillion dollar target. (NYT DealBook)
  • A stronger than expected October jobs report has traders pricing in nearly an eighty percent chance of a Federal Reserve rate hike in December. (WSJ The 10-Point)
  • Moderna shares jumped after a surprise quarterly profit driven by COVID vaccine sales, while Zillow reported slowing user growth amid a deepening housing affordability freeze. (WSJ Daily Digest)

International News

  • Israeli opposition leader Gadi Eisenkot has been tasked with forming the next government, starting a ninety one day coalition clock that could stretch through overlapping mandates for Eisenkot, Benjamin Netanyahu and the rest of the Knesset. (Amit Segal’s newsletter)
  • Russia and Ukraine are restarting peace talks after a nine month pause, and the Trump administration is negotiating a phased drawdown of American security aid to Israel, cutting the current annual arms financing in half over five years before ending it. (The Economist’s World in Brief)
  • China extended its tariff truce with the United States for two more months. (The Economist’s World in Brief)
  • Bangladesh’s ousted leader Sheikh Hasina asked to return home to face justice. (The Economist’s World in Brief)
  • Belarusian and Ukrainian hackers claim leaked data shows four hundred thousand Russian deaths in the war in Ukraine. (NYT The World)
  • Pope Leo, visiting Argentina, offered veiled criticism of President Javier Milei’s austerity program. (NYT The World)
  • A gunman killed six people, plus his own parents and sister, in a rare mass shooting in Krakow, Poland. (The Economist’s World in Brief)
  • A pattern is emerging across the United States, Hungary and Serbia this year: leaders with authoritarian tendencies conceded power only when their opponents’ margins were too large to contest. (NYT The World)

Media News

  • The Columbia Journalism Review argued that news organizations which capitulated to Trump over the past two years, including CBS News under Bari Weiss and the Washington Post under Jeff Bezos, misjudged a mandate the midterms show never existed. (Columbia Journalism Review)
  • Salon has closed after thirty one years, and Trump Media’s stock price has dropped sharply since the election. (Columbia Journalism Review and Semafor Media)
  • Semafor’s media newsletter detailed the Democratic National Committee’s faster, more combative viral clip strategy, and reported that several anti Waymo opinion pieces were written with significant AI assistance without disclosure. (Semafor Media)
  • Status reported that Karen Attiah has settled with the Washington Post and will not return as a columnist despite winning her reinstatement arbitration, and that the Free Press retracted a false claim that Senator elect Abdul El Sayed gave his victory speech in Arabic. (Status)
  • Local News International offered a satirical read on the Miller appointment and the Dana White episode as evidence of a Celebrity Apprentice phase of the Trump presidency. (Local News International)

Sports News

  • The Athletic’s Pulse newsletter ran its NFL hot seat rankings, with Chargers coach Jim Harbaugh and Jets coach Aaron Glenn facing the most pressure. (The Athletic’s Pulse)
  • NC State has hired program legend Philip Rivers as head coach. (The Athletic’s Pulse)
  • Nineteen year old Blades Brown became the youngest player to win a PGA Tour event in ninety five years. (The Athletic’s Pulse)
  • The Winnipeg Jets host the Devils Monday night at Canada Life Centre, the only professional game in the city this week. (Winnipeg Digest)

Health and Wellness

  • Christy Harrison’s newsletter fact checked menopause influencer Doctor Mary Claire Haver’s widely shared recommendations on exercise and saturated fat intake, arguing that Haver’s advice selectively cites research tied to the supplements she sells. (Christy Harrison’s Rethinking Wellness)

Other

  • Jack Clark’s Import AI newsletter covered a trio of AI research developments. An AI science startup says it used a non public Anthropic model to prove a longstanding open quantum computing conjecture. (Import AI)
  • Meta Reality Labs published details of Tactus, a sensor laden glove for recording fine grained hand movements. (Import AI)
  • A 2016 NASA paper on bootstrapping lunar manufacturing is circulating again amid renewed interest in distributed AI training, including a cross Pacific experiment by the startup Core Automation. (Import AI)

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