NPR News Now covers heavy ad spending in 70 House districts, the federal government's appeal against California's ballot counting, and Maria Corrina Machado's return to Venezuela challenging interim President Delcy Rodriguez. The episode also reports on the death of actor Patrick Stewart, a legal challenge to New York AG Letitia James's role in a Cornell investigation, and the revival of Life magazine. Additionally, it features oceanographer Sylvia Earle's call to end krill fishing near Antarctica.