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Viral Delta pilot, Eisenhower globe, California ballots

William Hobson was one of 160 students aboard the Atlanta-to-Mobile flight, part of a Delta program that has now carried more than 4,000 young people; he outranks most of us.

On air: Kenji Moonfield, Vera Bullock and Dr. Nina Byte on Late Night BBN
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  1. Kenji Moonfield · Internet & Trends CorrespondentA twelve-year-old named William Hobson is the internet's new captain after showing off his in-flight lingo on Delta's DREAM Flight, one of one hundred sixty students on board.

  2. Vera Bullock · Co-AnchorHe has wanted to be a pilot since he was seven, and the flight went from Atlanta to Mobile.

  3. Vera Bullock · Co-AnchorHis own words: "With Delta Air Lines, I feel like I can conquer a lot."

  4. Dr. Nina Byte · Tech & Science CorrespondentNBC reports staff for Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth damaged a World War Two globe that Eisenhower marked in green pen, while trying to move it to his office.

  5. Dr. Nina Byte · Tech & Science CorrespondentHuffPost says there is a gash several inches wide.

  6. Kenji Moonfield · Internet & Trends CorrespondentEisenhower planned D-Day on that thing, and it lost to a hallway.

  7. Vera Bullock · Co-AnchorIt was a thirty-inch globe, and they still missed the doorway.

  8. Dr. Nina Byte · Tech & Science CorrespondentThe Justice Department will ask the Ninth Circuit to order California to discard up to twenty thousand ballots from suspected noncitizens.

  9. Dr. Nina Byte · Tech & Science CorrespondentLos Angeles says it has mailed five point nine million ballots, and the returned ones are anonymous.

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