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Good Morning. Ukraine peace talks open in Abu Dhabi, the Dow bounces back 1,104 points, and a lost O’Keeffe turns up under fur coats. Plus, a 100-mile race in Antarctica, Wild West posters that caught a looted painting, and the advent calendar Skims is refunding.

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The U.S., Russia and Ukraine opened two days of peace talks in Abu Dhabi on Tuesday, their first three-way round since February. Postwar security tops the agenda, with Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner representing the U.S.

Donetsk is the sticking point. Moscow wants Ukraine out of the part it still holds, and Kyiv wants to freeze the front line. Russia’s push has stalled: it gained just 45 square miles this year, versus about 2,048 in 2025.

U.S. officials say both sides have privately shown some flexibility, and France says it, Britain and Germany will be in the room. Land waits on a security deal. See the front line (see map).

The Dow jumped 1,104 points Monday, a 2.15% gain, while the S&P 500 rose 2.35% and the Nasdaq 2.74%. It comes after all three lost ground last week, including Thursday’s AI-driven selloff.

The odd part: Nvidia, the AI trade’s biggest name, fell 4.3% after its board opened a probe into CEO Jensen Huang. Other chipmakers did the lifting, led by a 12% jump in AMD after an analyst upgrade.

Cheaper oil helped too, with Brent near $91 a barrel after President Trump called more U.S. strikes on Iran highly unlikely. Next test: Nvidia’s earnings on Nov. 17. See the Dow’s rebound (see chart).

A woman cleaning out her aunt’s Manhattan apartment found a lost Georgia O’Keeffe behind a row of fur coats, still in its original box. The 1930 landscape had sat in that closet for about 40 years.

Her aunt, a Foreign Service officer and ranked bridge player, got it as a 1963 graduation gift for $3,800. In the mid-1980s, a bridge guest eyed it a little too closely, so she hid it.

Until now, the art world knew it only from a 1931 photo by O’Keeffe’s husband, Alfred Stieglitz. It heads to auction Nov. 17, expected to bring $3 million or more.

See its sister painting in the Met’s collection →

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“It’s really about how I want to feel when I’m 80 years old. Not right now.”

That’s David Beckham, now 51, on a podcast with Mayo Clinic’s Dr. Don Muxlow. When careers in his era ended at 32 to 34, he played to 38 by never letting the off-season slide.

See the 4 habits Beckham still keeps at 51 →

Luke Charske built 2 million Instagram followers on one idea: pick something he’s never done, lock in and film until he can. His latest started with a bedsheet that read “Sleep here until 100K.” He says he walked out weeks later 20 pounds lighter and $100,000 richer.

His best proof so far:

It matches Josh Kaufman’s 20-hour rule: break a skill into parts, practice the most important part first, learn just enough to catch your own mistakes and cut every distraction. About 20 focused hours takes most people from zero to pretty good.

Try it: pick one skill and give it 45 focused minutes today, phone in another room.

Watch him learn chess in 24 hours →

*Stock prices as of Monday’s close. Bitcoin as of 4:58 a.m. ET; change is over the past 24 hours.

▲ Mortgage rates fell a third straight week, to 7.18% on a 30-year fixed loan
See this week’s rate survey →

▲ Boeing will cut about 5% of its commercial airplane workforce, with layoff notices starting in December
The new 737 line it opened in July →

▲ Anthropic reportedly agreed to pay $3.4 billion for gas generators, the biggest known AI power buy
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▲ France blamed Iran’s Revolutionary Guard for October hacks that warmed fridges in 700 grocery stores
How the hack sparked about 20 fires →

▲ Congress is back for five lame-duck weeks, with a Dec. 11 shutdown deadline first
House Republicans pick a new leader →

▲ Wild West “wanted” posters helped a French museum recover a painting looted in 1940, just before auction
See the 424 works still missing →

▲ Stephanie Case, 43, became the first woman to finish a 100-mile race in Antarctica
She won a 100K while nursing last year →

▲ Kim Kardashian’s Skims will refund buyers of its $148 advent calendar after its hair clips drew mockery
The unboxing videos behind the backlash →

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A THOUGHT FOR TODAY

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