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Circana: Xbox Series console sales fell 70% YoY to an all-time low in November, compared to the PS5's 40% YoY drop and Switch 1 and 2's combined 10% YoY fall (Rebekah Valentine/IGN)
https://www.ign.com/articles/xbox-us-console-unit-sales-…

Xbox U.S. Console Unit Sales Just Reached an All-Time November Low - IGN
This morning, we learned that November was a surprisingly bad month for video game spending across the board. But one console in particular is really struggling, and that's the Xbox.

This interview https://www.rnz.co.nz/national/programmes/morningreport/audio/2019013452/emergency-departments-to-use-ai-consultations-with-patients suggests a fait accompli of 'AI' saturating ou…

Kristi Noem, the homeland security secretary, said officers had not used pepper spray and similar measures limited by a judge’s order
-- then was confronted with a video that showed chemical agents were indeed deployed.
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/18/us/po…

Noem Denies Use of Chemical Agents in Minnesota Protests, Then Backtracks
Kristi Noem, the homeland security secretary, said officers had not used pepper spray and similar measures limited by a judge’s order, then was confronted with a video that showed chemical agents deployed.

MAHA Leaders Back Chemical Industry Exec for Position at EPA | Civil Eats
https://civileats.com/2025/12/19/maha-leaders-back-chemical-industry-exec-for-position-at-epa/

Labor Department confirms cancellation of October jobs report (Nick Niedzwiadek/Politico)
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/11/19/labor-department-bls-cancelled-october-jobs-report-00659574
http://www.memeorandum.com/251119/p121#a251119p121

The UK launches a consultation on whether to ban under-16s from using social media, alongside restrictions on addictive app features like infinite scrolling (Kiran Stacey/The Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026/j

When I took my post as secretary general of the Council of Europe just over a year ago,
I did not think that I would ever have to write about the possibility of the United States taking military action against a member state.
Yet here we are.
Donald Trump has vowed to make Greenland
— a semiautonomous territory of Denmark, which is a member of the Council of Europe and a founding member of NATO
— part of the United States, and that he will do so “the easy way” o…

Opinion | I’m the Secretary General of the Council of Europe. This Is Something I Thought I’d Never Have to Write.
International law is either universal or meaningless. Greenland will show which one we choose.

Noem Denies Use of Chemical Agents in Minnesota Protests, Then Backtracks - The New York Times
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/18/us/politics/noem-chemical-agents-minnesota.html

Q&A with former Xbox boss Peter Moore on the Xbox 360 launch, his new book Game Changer, competition with Sony, the origins of the modern console war, and more (Robert Purchese/Eurogamer.net)
https://www.eurogamer.net/microsoft-was-af

"Microsoft was afraid Sony was going to own the living room" - Xbox 360 boss Peter Moore sheds new light on its fierce battle with PlayStation and the origins of the modern console war
To celebrate the Xbox 360's 20th anniversary, Eurogamer sits down with former Xbox boss Peter Moore to reflect on the console's creation and puglistic launch.

Circana: US game console spending fell 27% in November to $695M, the lowest in the pivotal month for holiday shopping since 2005, after a tough year for makers (Vlad Savov/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025…

US Game Console Sales Crater in Worst November in Two Decades
US spending on video game consoles fell 27% last month, marking the worst November in two decades as tariffs and rising component costs pushed prices to record highs.