News Headlines 11/12/25

Here's what is going on in the news today.

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
All right, eight to two on this hump day, and
Christine has all your headlines.

Speaker 2 (00:03):
Good morning Christine, and good morning Covey. A vote expected
today on a bill that would end the longest government
shut down in US history. So the House Rules Committee
voted early this morning advancing a government funding bill's already
passed in the Senate. House lawmakers return to DC today
after their long recess, and then that final vote could
happen later today. We do need that to happen in

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order for airport delays to be cut down, but they
said it's going to get worse before it gets better. Unfortunately,
airport delays and cancelations expected throughout the country again today.
Roughly four thousand flights were delayed, more than twelve hundred
canceled yesterday. Staff reductions expected to increase to ten percent
by Friday. So we're definitely keeping a coast watch. And

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you want to call ahead if you plan to travel.

Speaker 1 (00:49):
And I really hope everything's fine next week, like the biggest.

Speaker 2 (00:52):
Travel week exactly exactly.

Speaker 1 (00:55):
Thanks Giving coming up? Is it next week? Yeah?

Speaker 2 (00:58):
Yeah? Wait, no, the week after.

Speaker 1 (00:59):
We've got two weeks. Okay, we've got two weeks.

Speaker 2 (01:01):
We've got two weeks, so Jimmy Kimmel's band leader has
passed away. This was his best friend, he said. Cleito
and the Kletones have been the house band for Jimmy
Kimmel Liive since the show premiered in two thousand and three,
and Jimmy Kimmel said they've been friends since he was
nine years old, and he was just fifty nine years old.
Three paintings by the late TV artist Bob Ross have
sold a auction for over six hundred thousand dollars. Paintings

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that were done by the iconic art instructor being auctioned
off to raise money for public TV stations that have
been hard hit by federal funding costs. In sports basketball,
the nixtbeat the Grizzlies one thirty three one twenty nets
lost to the Raptors one nineteen one oh nine. And
all right, guys, we'll give it up to you. Men
really do have a better sense of direction than women. Well,

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it's because of a men's man's level of testosterone, according
to the research suggesting that men's advantage of navigation is
more than a stereotype. You have a biological basis. We
will give you that better with direction.

Speaker 1 (02:01):
This would have meant more to me if I heard
about this twenty five years ago before, Like GPS and navigation.
Now we all have GPS navigation. It's hard to get
lost now. But the old map days and pulling over
to ask people, those days are over, you know.

Speaker 2 (02:17):
I just we still need you. There's still like jars
that are really hard to open, and I got you.
There's there's some bugs crawling through, there's garbage that has
to be taken to the curve. It's okay, we need
you guys.

Speaker 1 (02:29):
Aikia furniture needs to be.

Speaker 2 (02:31):
Oh my goodness.

Speaker 1 (02:32):
Yeah, I mean you're probably wrong, guy there.

Speaker 2 (02:34):
Sorry, Carpenter wrote a whole song about a guy who
can put together an Ikea chair. Huh yeah, these are
very good things. Guys, take notes.

Speaker 1 (02:41):
That's a great song too,