November 12, 2026

Tatyana Ali survived elimination on "Dancing with the Stars" Grammy Night, which aired November 10, 2026, as the show's ninth week of Season 35. Ali and professional partner Jan Ravnik performed a tango to the Black Eyed Peas' "Boom Boom Pow," with group member will.i.am in the audience, and the pair landed in the bottom two alongside actress Jenna Dewan and pro Val Chmerkovskiy. After a cha-cha dance-off, combined judges' and audience votes eliminated Dewan and Chmerkovskiy, who had entered the night as one of the season's frontrunners after earlier posting a perfect 80-out-of-80 two-week scoring run. Ali and Ravnik advanced instead.

The result moved Ali into the show's semifinal round along with five other remaining couples: Harry Shum Jr., Connor Wood, Amber Glenn, Maura Higgins and Ezra Frech. It was a notable result because Ali had entered Grammy Night ranked last of the seven remaining couples on cumulative score, making her survival over a higher-scoring pairing one of the more unexpected eliminations of the season to that point. No Predict Six community votes were recorded on this question ahead of resolution, so there is no forecasting-accuracy comparison to report.

Russia and Ukraine agreed in principle to a major prisoner exchange as two days of U.S.-mediated talks in Abu Dhabi concluded on November 11, 2026. The talks, the first such session since February, also addressed de-escalation measures, energy infrastructure and Black Sea shipping, though negotiators did not reach a breakthrough on the core issues dividing Moscow and Kyiv. President Volodymyr Zelensky called the swap commitment a real result and said it would be the largest prisoner exchange since Russia's full-scale invasion began, though neither government released a final count of how many people would be exchanged or a firm date.

U.S. envoys Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner traveled to Moscow to brief Vladimir Putin after the Abu Dhabi round, then met Zelensky in Dublin on November 12 to discuss next steps, including a possible expanded European role in future negotiating sessions. The agreement fits into a broader pattern this year of periodic, incremental prisoner swaps accompanying stalled wider peace talks between the two countries. The Predict Six community correctly anticipated this result, with 60 percent of voters forecasting a new exchange announcement in the November 8-12 window before the talks concluded.

The Oklahoma City Thunder did not sweep the Portland Trail Blazers in their back-to-back meetings on November 10 and 11, 2026; Portland won both games. On November 10, the Trail Blazers beat the Thunder 123-103 in Portland, and on November 11 they won again, 118-108, completing the sweep. Portland's offense was led by Deni Avdija, who had 28 points in the series finale, with Damian Lillard adding 18. Oklahoma City, which entered the season as a conference favorite, played the back-to-back without Chet Holmgren, Jalen Williams and Cason Wallace, all sidelined by injury, thinning the rotation the Thunder could call on across two games in as many nights. Shai Gilgeous-Alexander remained Oklahoma City's lead scorer in both losses but could not offset the absences on his own.

The result snapped a lopsided recent trend between the two teams: Oklahoma City had won 19 of its previous 20 meetings with Portland before this series. The Predict Six community largely anticipated Portland pulling off the upset, with only 20 percent of voters forecasting an Oklahoma City sweep heading into the two games, matching the eventual outcome.