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In 1979, CBS adapted the successful 1976 theatrical film *The Bad News Bears* into a network sitcom, betting that the property's established audience recognition would translate into television ratings. The original film starred Walter Matthau as Morris Buttermaker, a washed-up former minor league pitcher coerced into coaching a hapless youth baseball team.

State capacity refers to the institutional ability of a government to raise revenue, enforce laws and contracts, administer policy, and deliver public goods such as education and healthcare.

On November 11, 2026, the UN General Assembly's Second Committee (the Economic and Financial Committee) adopted a resolution titled "Permanent sovereignty of the Palestinian people in the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including East Jerusalem, and of the Arab population in the occupied Syrian Golan over their natural resources." The vote was 151 in favor, 7 against, and 11 abstentions.

As of November 14, 2026, Russia and China's UN ambassadors have publicly urged an end to US and Israeli military operations against Iran, calling for political and diplomatic means to establish peace. This comes amid an 8-month-old conflict that the US launched in February 2026 with Israel.

On November 13, 2026, the White House officially confirmed that U.S. President Donald Trump, Chinese President Xi Jinping, and Russian President Vladimir Putin will hold a trilateral meeting on November 19, 2026, on the sidelines of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) Economic Leaders' Meeting in Shenzhen, China. The APEC summit itself is scheduled for November 18–19.

Market microstructure is the academic and practical study of how financial transactions are mechanically executed — encompassing the rules, technologies, and participant behaviors that govern how orders meet, how liquidity is supplied, and how information is incorporated into prices.

As of November 2026, U.S. inflation remains above the Federal Reserve's 2% target. The October consumer price index rose 0.4% on a seasonally adjusted basis, coming in higher than economists had predicted. The Fed held its policy rate at 3.75%–4.00% in October, but officials are actively discussing further increases.

New York Federal Reserve President John Williams delivered hawkish remarks at a UC Berkeley Alumni Salon event in New York on November 12–13, 2026, stating that inflation remains "far too high" and that the Fed "still has work to do" to bring price pressures back to its 2% target.

As of November 14, 2026, the 30-year fixed mortgage rate reached approximately 7.50%, with Zillow Home Loans citing 7.49% and Bankrate reporting a national average of 7.45%. The rate capped a roughly 32-basis-point climb over just three trading days, nearly erasing five weeks of prior improvement.

U.S. inflation data released in early November 2026 came in hotter than expected, reinforcing market expectations of a Federal Reserve rate hike at its December 8–9 FOMC meeting. The Bureau of Labor Statistics reported on November 10, 2026 that the Consumer Price Index rose 0.4% month-over-month in October, above the 0.3% consensus forecast.