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Nov 13, 2026
Attorneys for Alex Murdaugh asked a judge Friday to throw out the original murder indictments for killing his wife and son, saying the chief investigator in the case lied to the grand jury.
Murdaugh is facing a retrial on the murder charges after the South Carolina Supreme Court threw out his convictions and life sentence, ruling that a court clerk improperly influenced jurors against him during his 2023 trial.
Even if the request to dismiss the indictments is granted, it may not stop or even postpone an April retrial for the disgraced lawyer. Prosecutors can seek another set of grand jury indictments, and defense attorneys said they won't stop them.
Judge ends hearing with interesting questionJudge Debra McCaslin did not immediately decide on the defense request, promising a written ruling next week. But one of her last comments at the hearing may have indicated where she is going.
"If you had to go back to the grand jury, could you have it all done and ready to go by April 5th?" she asked prosecutor Creighton Waters.
"Your honor, I'm always working ahead," Waters responded.
Throwing out indictments could be another rebuke of agent on caseA ruling throwing out the indictments would be another rebuke of the chief investigator in Murdaugh's case, State Law Enforcement Division agent David Owen.
A judge last year threw out a different murder case Owen was involved in because the dead woman's mother told the agent about a suicide threat her daughter made days before she died that Owen never relayed to prosecutors o
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Nov 13, 2026
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court agreed Friday to consider President Donald Trump's ban on asylum at the southern border, a pillar of the Republican president's far-reaching crackdown on immigration.
The Trump administration is asking the justices to overturn lower court decisions that found the executive order banning asylum applications illegal. It's the latest in a series of immigration cases before the high court.
Federal law gives people the right to seek asylum if they fear persecution in their home countries, no matter how they arrived in the U.S.
At the same time, it also allows the executive branch to decide whether people are granted asylum. The Trump administration argues it can categorically deny asylum to migrants covered by the order and should not have to accept applications destined to be rejected.
Federal attorneys say yearslong processing times had previously contributed to a major influx of migrants at the southern border as many were released into the country while awaiting a decision.
But immigration attorneys at the American Civil Liberties Union and National Immigrant Justice Center counter that border crossings were already falling before Trump took office.
They say his executive order is an unlawful attempt to unilaterally "eviscerate" legal protections aimed at protecting people fleeing danger in their home countries.
The executive branch does decide whether to grant asylum, which allows people to live and work legally in the U.S. But those decisions are supposed to be made on an individual basis and the law doesn't allow the president to unilaterally stop people from e
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Nov 13, 2026
Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick has reportedly agreed to testify before lawmakers next month as the spotlight on him grows harsher amid Nvidia's (NVDA) turmoil.
Both Democrats and Republicans alike are raising questions about whether Lutnick went too far in protecting Nvidia's push to sell its chips overseas even as the US government was warning about a possible security breach.
Lutnick is reportedly set to appear on Dec. 10 before the Senate Banking Committee, in news first reported by Fox News. Spokespersons for the Commerce Department and the Senate panel did not immediately provide additional details.
The appearance would set up what could be a major moment for the suddenly embattled Commerce secretary after days in which he and the White House had largely stayed silent as even some of Trump's closest allies grew more vocal.
Lutnick will appear before Republican Sen. Tim Scott of South Carolina, the chairman of the Senate panel until the end of the year and a regular on President Trump's campaign stops last month. Scott released a letter Thursday evening requesting that Lutnick and ousted Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang appear before Congress early next month.
"Recent reports raise se
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Nov 13, 2026
Treasury Secretary Secretary Scott Bessent, picutred left alongside Secretary of State Marco Rubio, when Chinese President Xi Jinping visited the White House on September 24, 2026 (Brendan SMIALOWSKI)US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent on Friday blamed the Commerce Department for failing to blacklist Megaspeed, the Singapore company at the center of a scandal that prompted Nvidia chief executive Jensen Huang to resign.
Speaking on CNBC, Bessent said Treasury, the Defense Department, the US Trade Representative's office and the State Department had backed adding Megaspeed to the Washington's trade blacklist, "for months."
"But Commerce has the pen," Bessent said. "You will have to ask them about their internal processes."
— CNBC (@CNBC) November 13, 2026
He said he was "frustrated" because President Donald Trump "made it very clear that China should not receive any Nvidia chips above H100s."
"Any leakage is very frustrating because it hurts our great companies, and in the AI race gives the Chinese an advantage," he said.
The remarks are a ra
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Nov 13, 2026
Microsoft was still investigating a global outage Friday that left users unable to access Outlook email and other products.
Businesses and governments were also affected by the massive outage. Outlook has more than an estimated 400 million active users worldwide. Teams is used by a reported 320 million people.
The company said it had not yet found a fix for the issue, which affects multiple Microsoft 365 services that rely on Exchange Online, its email platform.
In an update Friday at 7:09 a.m. ET, the company indicated it was making progress but still unable to resolve the issue.
"We're seeing encouraging recovery progress, with service availability and email delivery performance improving across a growing portion of affected Microsoft 365 infrastructure," Microsoft posted on X. "Some users may still experience intermittent issues as recovery actions continue."
Microsoft did not provide a specific cause for the outage, but said the issue related to a number of servers being "unexpectedly unavailable." Microsoft executive vice president Charles Lamanna said on X there was "no indication this is the result of malicious or cyber activity."
Government agencies in Japan, Singapore and Australia were among those affected, while the US House of Representatives was also impacted by the outage. Politico reported one House staffer saying, "There goes a day of legislative work."
AI companies OpenAI and Anthropic also reported facing issues.
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Nov 13, 2026
Emergency personnel work at the scene of a partial building collapse where, according to local reports, people are trapped in the Brooklyn borough of New York, on Wednesday, November 11. - Angelina Katsanis/Reuters
Leonor Yupa dropped to her knees Thursday when a Spanish-language media reporter said her 22-year-old son was among eight people whose lives were claimed by the Brooklyn building collapse the day before.
"I want my son! I want my son!" the Ecuadorian mother cried in Spanish as family members tried to hold Yupa up and others who gathered at Bethesda Church of God in Christ assured her the reports were unconfirmed.
The agonizing cries of another woman who just lost her husband reverberated through the Brooklyn sanctuary across the street from the collapse. When the woman learned her husband's body was pulled from the debris Thursday morning, she collapsed and wailed her husband's name.
"Tomás! Tomasito!" she cried.
Family members gathered around the widow and formed a prayer circle.
Just outside the church, a nervous father also prayed. He was anxiously waiting to learn the fate of his son, a construction worker who has not been reachable since the collapse.
In the Flatbush neighborhood - home to a mix of immigrant communities - six adults and two children had died and over a dozen were injured after the three-story mixed-use building collapsed on Veterans Day, a day on which many families staye
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Nov 13, 2026
WASHINGTON - President Donald Trump told "60 Minutes" this week he knew "nothing" about the World Liberty Financial crypto company that helped him take in more than $2 billion last year alone.
Democrats who'll take control of Congress in January have big plans to find out more.
The incoming heads of various oversight committees are already naming a broad array of investigative targets regarding Trump's personal and administrative actions. They're demanding records, promising subpoenas - and warning people and companies not to destroy any documents.
"If you are a member of the Trump crime family and you're grifting off the American public, you should lawyer up," Rep. Robert Garcia, D-California, who is poised to chair the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee in January, told MS NOW's Lawrence O'Donnell two days after the Democrats' Nov. 3 blowout win in the midterms.
In response, White House spokesperson Lauren Bis told USA TODAY: "If Democrats choose to pursue sham investigations and radical left policies, they are choosing to work against the American people."
This week, White House Counsel Will Scharf warned Garcia that aggressive oversight of the Trump administration and threats against administration officials "may cross the line into blatant criminality," especially if their investigations are used to "harass and aggrandize" as opposed to advancing legitimate legislative policies.
Garcia wasted no time in replying, saying in a statement posted to X: "It appears Donald Trump has something to hide. Let's be clear: Congress' authority comes from Article I of the Constituti
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Nov 13, 2026
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Justice Department has functioned for nearly two years as an extension of the White House, unchecked by a Republican-controlled Congress as it pursued investigations into President Donald Trump's enemies, fired waves of career employees and defended administration stances that judges across the country repeatedly deemed legally dubious.
Now, sweeping Democratic gains in Congress have shifted the balance of power in Washington, teeing up an onslaught of expected investigations into those actions and others as well as scrutiny from the majority party that the current Justice Department had until now managed to skirt.
The department has, at least publicly, appeared unbowed by the altered landscape.
Attorney General Todd Blanche says the department will cooperate with Congress but has also insisted that "we will not back down" from the Republican president's agenda. Meanwhile, a top aide told prosecutors on a call to prepare to be on a "wartime" footing, and a U.S. attorney publicly warned a top Democrat about planned congressional investigations.
It sets the stage for a pugilistic dynamic as Democrats promise to join already ske
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Nov 12, 2026
SpaceX's Starship Flight 14 launches at Starbase in Texas on September 28, 2026 (RONALDO SCHEMIDT)Elon Musk's SpaceX was poised Friday to carry out its latest test of the world's biggest and most powerful rocket, the Starship, with plans for a groundbreaking "catch" of the spaceship following a day in orbit.
A successful capture of the Starship upper stage would mark a significant milestone in the space industry's decades-long pursuit of fully reusable spacecraft that can drastically reduce mission costs and make frequent travel possible.
"If successful, this will mark the first full recovery of an orbital launch system and a breakthrough moment in making Starship a reliable, rapidly reusable rocket," SpaceX said.
For the 15th Starship test flight Friday, SpaceX aims to recover both stages of the massive 124-meter (407-foot) launch vehicle.
The company has caught the booster, dubbed Super Heavy, on three previous occasions, with the first stage descending vertically back to the launch site shortly after blastoff and nestling into mechanical "chopstick" arms.
It will now attempt to do the same with the spaceship. Some versions of the vessel are designed to launch internet satellites and data centers into orbit, while others will be made to ferry people to the Moon and Mars.
A spacecraft that can be fully reused is the "Holy Grail" of the space industry, said Clayton Swope, an aerospace expert at the Center for Strategic and International Studies.
"No one's really been able to do that so far," he said. "People have been trying to do that since the (NASA) space shuttle. But the space shuttle ended up being kind of a compromise because a lot of the vehicle wasn't reusable."
Reusing the Starship spacecraft would require the vessel to withstand the e
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Nov 12, 2026
Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito, speaking to the Federalist Society on Thursday, warned against any potential congressional action to defund the Supreme Court as he defended the importance of an independent judiciary.
"Congress can turn off the lights at the Supreme Court and stop everything from happening if they want to defund their activities. And there are many, many, many other things that they can do, or at least try to do," Alito said.
"So, it is important to preserve the independence of the judiciary," he added. "If that is eliminated, then the Constitution as adopted in 1789 will no longer be the same."
Alito made the comments in his return to the Federalist Society's annual Antonin Scalia Memorial Dinner, named after the late conservative justice and held as part of the group's annual convention each November.
This year, the convention comes a week after Democrats swept control of both houses of Congress. Alito made no reference to the midterm elections or the pending change in power during his remarks, but Democrats have eyed using Congress's power of the purse as leverage against the conservative-majority court before.
Two of Alito's colleagues — Justices Elena Kagan and Amy Coney Barrett — made a rare
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Nov 12, 2026
What we know about the New York City building collapse
Over the loud noise of her radio, Ann Marie did not hear the sound of the Brooklyn building behind her home collapse on Wednesday night, but she soon saw the flashing lights of fire department trucks rushing to the scene.
When she made her way out to the wreckage, workers were still searching for bodies. One of the building's walls had torn off, exposing the inside of several apartment homes, and the rubble had collapsed into a construction site next door.
At least eight of her neighbours died in the accident - six adults and two children, New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani said. Five of the victims were residents, CBS reported.
"Right now, I'm really scared," Marie told the BBC. "Now that I'm seeing exactly this side of the building, you can imagine the fright of those people, what happened to them."
On Thursday afternoon, Mamdani said he had visited survivors in hospital. Eighteen people were injured, including four firefighters. One person is in critical condition.
"I want to take a moment to remember those we have so senselessly lost," Mamdani added. "These were our friends and our neighbours, parents and children, young families building their lives in our city, immigrants from Mexico, Colombia, Trinidad and beyond."
What we know about Brooklyn building collapse that killed eight people
Later on Thursday, a senior official with the New York Police Department identified the victims as Nicole Daniela Salvada Rodriguez, 9, Juan Daniel Salvada Guzman, 31, Kevin Santiago Reyes Gonzalez, 10, Barry Mamadou, 23, and Ndiaye Mamadou, 31, according to CBS. They
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Nov 12, 2026
SINGAPORE — A Singapore-based company at the center of the emerging scandal engulfing AI chipmaker Nvidia said Thursday that it has hired a U.S. law firm for what is likely to be a wave of intense legal and congressional scrutiny.
Megaspeed, a cloud provider that employed a Chinese executive who had an affair with ousted Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang, said in a statement that the law firm would help to "independently verify its export control compliance practices."
Megaspeed did not identify the law firm and did not immediately respond to requests for further comment.
The company has been thrust into the global spotlight in recent weeks after revelations that the executive, Alice Huang, had an affair with the then-CEO of Nvidia and was suspected of being a Chinese spy.
Jensen Huang resigned Thursday as members of Congress call for investigations into whether his relationship with the Megaspeed executive damaged U.S. national security.
Megaspeed has been a major purchaser of advanced Nvidia chips that are covered by U.S. export controls. U.S. officials suspect the company smuggled Nvidia chips into China in violation of U.S. law, according to reports.
The Megaspeed website, which is replete with references to Nvidia, lists three data centers vaguely located in "East South Asia." Southeast Asia is a major hub for chip smuggling.
"Megaspeed has cooperated with inspections by the U.S. Department of Commerce's Bureau of Indu
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Nov 12, 2026
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Former Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang and Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick have been called to testify before a Senate committee next month as lawmakers investigate national security concerns surrounding Huang's relationship with a woman suspected of spying for China.
Sen. Tim Scott, R-S.C., chairman of the Senate Banking Committee, sent letters Thursday requesting that both men appear before the panel, according to The New York Times.
"Recent reports raise serious concerns about our national security and the protection of sensitive U.S. technology," Scott wrote on social media.
"The American people deserve answers," he added.
Scott asked Huang to testify voluntarily Dec. 3 but warned that the committee could issue a subpoena if necessary.
The congressional scrutiny follows revelations that Huang had an affair with Alice Huang, a Chinese businesswoman whom U.S. officials determined had been recruited by China's principal intelligence agency, according to the Times.
Huang resigned Thursday as chief executive of Nvidia, the American semiconductor giant whose advanced artificial intelligence chips have become a central concern in Washington's technological competition with Beijing.
His departure has not diminished bipartisan demands for an investigation into whether his relationship exposed sensitive American technology or national security information to Chinese intelligence.
Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., said Congress must "demand answers" from Huang and called on the Trump administration to explain how it responded after learning about the relationship.
Schumer questioned
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Nov 12, 2026
Microsoft said it was working to restore service as a widespread outage of Outlook email and other products stretched on for hours Thursday.
"We're seeing positive results with our efforts to restart affected infrastructure and recover server availability in an isolated manner. We're actively monitoring the performance of these portions of infrastructure to verify stability, which we suspect will support improved availability as these actions are subsequently expanded more broadly," the company wrote in an update on X.
Los Angeles International Airport tower hit by power outageDowndetector, which monitors outages, reported issues with Outlook, Teams and other products on Thursday, as Microsoft attempted to deploy several fixes.
Amid the Outlook outage, the company said that some infrastructure was "experiencing elevated load across multiple regions" due to strain from a "number of servers being unexpectedly unavailable."
"We're aggressively pursuing all pathways to reduce impact," the company said. "We've paused all deployments, we're moving additional traffic off the affected infrastructure, and we're restarting affected servers to return them to service."
Adobe Stock - PHOTO: Microsoft 365 apps.In the ensuing hours, Microsoft has detailed actions it has taken to try to bring servers back to service, some of which it said did not provide the "anticipated relief."
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Nov 12, 2026
WASHINGTON (AP) — Democratic Sen. Chris Van Hollen of Maryland said Thursday that he will run for Senate Majority Leader in the next Congress, setting up a challenge to Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer after the party swept to power in the midterm elections.
Van Hollen said in a statement that "the American people called for change" and that is why he is running.
"It's now on us to meet this moment, and to do that we need new leadership," Van Hollen said. "This is not about any one person — it's about answering the call of the American people. That is why I'm running for Senate Majority Leader."
Schumer has said he has the necessary support to win the race. The closed-door, secret-ballot election will be held in early December.
It will be the first contested election for Democratic leader in decades. The question of whether to reelect Schumer has already divided the caucus and many senators will not say publicly how they will vote. They have privately deliberated about what message to take from the election, and Schumer recruited many of the party's winning candidates and raised money for them.
Schumer has been talking to Democratic senators since the election and forming an agenda for 2027. In private caucus meetings this week, Schumer laid out a broad plan for their first 100 days in power.
"I'm going to win it," Schumer told The Associated Press in an interview last week.
In a statement after Van Hollen's announcement, Schumer said he welcomes any discussion about the future of the ca
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Nov 12, 2026
The crash on Oct. 17 in Wichita killed a 6-year-old boy and a 35-year-old man and injured 10 others. (Wyatt Glosson/KAKE / AP)A woman who killed two people, including a 6-year-old boy, when she drove through a Kansas soccer game last month had taken a nap in her parked vehicle before it accelerated and won't be criminally charged, officials said Thursday.
The Oct. 17 crash at the Stryker Sports Complex in Wichita killed the boy and a 35-year-old man, and injured 10 others when the vehicle drove through a soccer field at around 3:30 p.m.
"I can not only find no evidence of an intentional crime, I can find affirmative evidence that there was not an intentional crime," Sedgwick County District Attorney Marc Bennett said at a news conference.
An off-duty police officer and others went to the truck after it had crashed and found the 34-year-old driver crying, Bennett said. Officials have not publicly identified the woman.
"What they found was a sobbing — at turns described as frantic, hysterical — saying ‘I'm sorry, I'm sorry, what have I done,' words to that effect," Bennett said.
He said the accounts of the people who were there that day said "she was sleepy, looked like she had just woken up, these are comments from witnesses who arrived there at the door and interacted with her."
The woman got up around 6 a.m. and drove her husband's truck from Garden City, around 200 miles away, to the sports complex where her children had game
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By David Shepardson
WASHINGTON, Nov 12 - US Senate Banking Committee Chairman Tim Scott sent letters on Thursday to Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick and Nvidia's former ?CEO Jensen Huang asking them to testify over recent developments at the company.
Huang ?stepped down from Nvidia, one of the major engines behind the AI boom, after reports of a romantic relationship ?with a businesswoman named Alice Huang whom US authorities suspect of spying for the Chinese government.
In addition, a growing number of lawmakers have criticized Lutnick for the administration's refusal to add dozens of Chinese companies to a key US trade blacklist, and over whether the government ?was properly overseeing Nvidia's exports ?to China.
"Recent reports raise serious concerns about our national security and the protection of sensitive US technology," Scott wrote on X. "I am ?requesting that Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang and Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick testify before the Senate Banking Committee."
Spokespeople for Huang and Lutnick could not immediately be reached.
Scott said he would consider subpoenaing Huang ?if he ?does not voluntarily appear. "The American people deserve answers," ?Scott said.
Senior White House officials were ?separately discussing whether Lutnick should be pushed out, two people familiar with the situation said, as the desire to take action rose across Washington.
Separately, the chairs of three House committees, including the head of the Foreign Affairs panel, Brian Mast, wrote to Huang and Nvidia General Counsel Tim Teter, requiring them to appear for closed-door transcribed interviews on December 1 and December 2, ?respectively, or face subpoenas to compel their appearances.
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Nov 12, 2026
(Bloomberg) -- At the end, Jensen Huang looked broken and shattered, his legendary energy depleted. After weeks spent denying the allegations of infidelity and fighting to remain in his job as Nvidia Corp.'s chief executive officer, his surrender late Wednesday night was unconditional. Huang's usual take-charge demeanor had evaporated, according to a person familiar with the situation, and he'd started using phrases like "whatever" and "I don't care."
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Nov 12, 2026
WASHINGTON - As police investigate why a board-certified emergency physician might have opened fire in a Washington, DC, neighborhood Nov. 12, they pointed to a lawsuit against his homeowners association as potentially playing a role.
Police said Matt Wade Lambert, a 55-year-old healthcare professional, shot and killed his building manager, James Stuart, in a DC gym before barricading himself inside his apartment and shooting four additional people from his patio early in the morning on Nov. 12. Lambert also shot and killed himself, police said.
One of the shooting victims remains in critical condition, while the other three do not have life threatening injuries, police said.
Those who knew Lambert said they were shocked. His professional acquaintances described Lambert as a "genuine" and "good" person in conversations with USA TODAY. His attorney, Joel Braithwaite, said during a news conference that life appeared to be looking up for Lambert before the shooting, noting that he was scheduled to begin a new job Nov. 16.
Braithwaite said Lambert gave no indication that he was at a breaking point during a phone conversation they had Nov. 10.
Lambert, who worked as a con
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Nov 12, 2026
At least four people were wounded and one was killed during a shooting at a condo building in the Logan Circle neighborhood of Washington, D.C., early Thursday, police said. The gunman was identified as 55-year-old emergency room physician Matt Lambert.
Officers responded to reports of an active shooting at a gym inside the building just before 8 a.m. ET, Metropolitan Police Department interim chief Jeffery Carroll said at a press briefing.
Once inside, police located one victim — building manager James Stuart, 46 — who died at the scene, Carroll said. Four others were wounded after Lambert went back up to his apartment, where he barricaded himself inside, and shot them from his balcony. They were transported to local hospitals. One was in critical condition, Carroll said. Three had non-life-threatening injuries.
Much of the block was cordoned off, and nearby schools were placed on temporary lockdown.
SWAT officers walk behind police tape at the scene of Thursday's shooting.AP Photo/Tom BrennerWhile police attempted to negotiate with Lambert, he fatally shot himself, Carroll said.
While inside his apartment, Lambert also cut a natural gas line to the fireplace, starting a fire, Carroll said. The building's sprinkler system was activated and the fire was extinguished.
Lambert's long-running disputes with his bui
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Nov 12, 2026
The New York City Fire Department said Thursday afternoon that rescue operations had concluded at the scene of the three-story building that collapsed in the Flatbush neighborhood of Brooklyn, N.Y., and that there were no more victims.
Six adults and two children died as a result of the collapse, Mayor Zohran Mamdani said at a press conference Thursday. The four-unit apartment building crumpled into the construction site next to it at about 4 p.m. ET on Wednesday.
Multiple news outlets identified seven of the eight people who died, citing law enforcement officials and the victims' family members and friends.
Those identified are:
Mamadou Barry, 23
José Luis Caguana Cosquillo, 26
Kevin Santiago Reyes Gonzalez, 10
Edgar Santiago Sapón Gutierrez, 26
Juan Daniel Salvada Guzman, 31
Nicole Daniela Rodriguez, 9
Gabriel Siguencia, 22
The eighth victim, a 35-year-old man, has not been publicly identified.
"This has been a devastating ev
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Nov 12, 2026
With Jensen Huang out as CEO at Nvidia (NVDA) and CFO Colette Kress taking on the role of interim CEO, Wall Street, the company's partners, and its customers are waiting to find out who the next permanent CEO will be.
There are a number of candidates inside and outside of the company who could fill the position. But prediction markets Kalshi and Polymarket have zeroed in on Nvidia VP of hyperscale and high-performance computing Ian Buck as the company's next leader.
Both sites rank the odds of Buck taking over at roughly 40%.
Buck has worked at Nvidia for the last 22 years, rising from a systems engineer to his current role as the head of the company's biggest businesses.
The executive also has the kind of engineering chops that Nvidia's board may find compelling for the CEO role.
Buck has a Ph.D. from Stanford University in computer science and, more importantly, developed Nvidia's CUDA technology.
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Nov 12, 2026
Microsoft said it was investigating an outage Thursday that left people unable to access Outlook email and other products.
In a message posted at 12:54 p.m. ET on the official Microsoft 365 Status account on X, the company said it was "investigating reports of users experiencing issues accessing Exchange Online mailboxes through multiple connection methods in the Americas." In an update at 1:07 p.m. ET, the company said it had "confirmed the issue may affect Microsoft 365 service connectivity for users in any region."
Outage tracking site Downdetector showed an increase in reports that hit a peak just before 1 p.m. ET. Thousands of users reported problems with its Outlook, Copilot, Teams and Sharepoint services, and some even reported problems accessing Microsoft Word and Excel.
Microsoft did not provide a cause for the outage, but said on X that it was offering updates in its admin center, which also appeared to be down Thursday afternoon. In its X posts, Microsoft said its systems were experiencing an "elevated load" and that it was "redistributing connection traffic" across its infrastructure.
The company said in another update at 2:12 p.m. ET
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Nov 12, 2026
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang has resigned from his top post at the chipmaker he co-founded, after reports of the tech titan's extramarital affairs came into the spotlight this week.
One of those relationships has raised national security concerns. The New York Times reported that Huang had an affair with a businesswoman U.S. intelligence suspects to be a Chinese spy, which Beijing denies. Separately, the outlet and later others reported that Nvidia employees said Huang had another affair with an executive who reported to him directly — compounding calls for him to step down.
Nvidia announced Huang's resignation on Thursday, effective immediately. The California-based company said that Colette Kress — who has been Nvidia's chief financial officer and executive vice president since 2013 — will step into the role of interim CEO.
The scandal marks the most tumultuous chapter yet for Nvidia, whose high-end chips have emerged as the leading building blocks for artificial intelligence. Huang himself has become a key face in the AI race, both across the industry and often on U.S. President
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Nov 12, 2026
At a press conference on Thursday afternoon, New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani provided updates on the Brooklyn building collapse, saying that six adults and two children were among the eight people who died on Wednesday. Two of the adults who died were construction workers.
"This has been a devastating evening and morning for our city," Mamdani said.
Mamdani also confirmed that 18 other people were injured, including 14 civilians and four firefighters. The vast majority of those injured and being treated at hospitals are in stable condition, with one person in critical condition.
"I want to take a moment to remember those we have so senselessly lost. These were our friends and our neighbors, parents and children," the mayor said. "Young families building their lives in our city and immigrants from Mexico, Colombia, Ecuador, Trinidad and beyond. Let us continue to hold close those who have been plunged into unimaginable grief and pray for a full and rapid recovery for every New Yorker injured."
Mamdani also thanked the first responders and construction workers who helped dig through the rubble to find survivors. "People are alive today because of their heroism yesterday," he said.
"Firefighters arrived on the scene in less than one minute after the 911 call first came in," Mamdani added.
The American Red Cross has opened a reception center at the Flatbush YMCA for residents who were affected and displaced by the building collapse. Mamdani said the city and American Red Cross will continue to provide "expanded services" from the Flatbush YMCA for residents displaced by the building collapse, including temporary housing, assistance with social services and mental health support.
"Conditions will grow more challenging today wi
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Nov 12, 2026
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth on Thursday honored the Army sentinel who forcefully scolded members of his entourage for laughing and talking near Arlington National Cemetery's Tomb of the Unknown Soldier on Veterans Day.
Hegseth posted a photo of himself on social media pinning a Joint Service Commendation Medal on the unidentified soldier's chest.
"We love soldiers. We love standards. Well done, Specialist," Hegseth wrote. "Carry on Patriots."
On Veterans Day, Hegseth, his wife Jennifer, and three of his top deputies were seen posing for photographs on the steps overlooking the tomb, which has provided a final resting place for several of America's unidentified service members — and a site of reflection and mourning — since 1921. Members of the group could be heard chuckling and chatting as they ascended the steps.
We love standards.
Well done, Specialist.
Carry on Patriots. pic.twitter.com/Uk6ek6oOso
— Secretary of War Pete Hegseth (@SecWar) November 12, 2026
The sentinel — a member of the Army's 3rd Infantry Regiment, known as The Old Guard — stepped forward and shouted in their direction: "All visitors will maintain an atmosphere of silence and respect at all times!"
Video of the encounter, which followed the annual Veterans Day wreath-laying ceremony, spread quickly online.
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Nov 12, 2026
Reddit (RDDT) is one of the most frequently cited sources in AI-generated answers. Yet its most recent earnings report showed that Google's AI Overviews have undermined its search traffic.
At Yahoo Finance Invest, Reddit co-founder and CEO Steve Huffman described this dynamic as the "paradox" of AI for the company.
"AI does not exist as we know it without Reddit, " Huffman said on Thursday. "Every model you've heard of trained with or without our permission using Reddit. It's this paradox which is the more AI there is, the more the human nature of Reddit stands out."
In a quarterly letter to investors in October, Huffman noted that Reddit's search traffic "dropped by more than 1 million referrals on average per week" during the month. "Web search is evolving from a gateway to the web to becoming an AI-powered destination itself," Huffman said.
Huffman added in the company's third quarter earnings call that "Google is not sending [users] to Reddit the way they used to."
According to Similarweb, a web analytics platform, Reddit's traffic is down 13% year over year. Reddit's $60 million-a-year data deal with Google is up for renewal next year.
The company's Q3 report showed total daily active unique users increased 12% year over year to 130.3 million (slightly below analyst expectations of 133.7
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Nov 12, 2026
NEW YORK (AP) — Two Democratic senators are launching an investigation into whether Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. lied to Congress about his reason for a 2019 trip to Samoa after The Associated Press and The Guardian published documents in August refuting his testimony.
The new inquiry is one of a vast array of investigations planned into the Trump administration after Democrats regained control of the House and Senate from Republicans in the midterm elections.
Sens. Ron Wyden, D-Ore., and Angela Alsobrooks, D-Md., said in a letter Wednesday to Children's Health Defense, a nonprofit group known for anti-vaccine activism that was formerly chaired by Kennedy, that they were starting an investigation.
The lawmakers asked the group for a broad range of documents related to Kennedy's Samoa travel, his 2024 presidential campaign and his Senate confirmation process. The letter also requested all communications between the group and federal government officials since President Donald Trump's second term began in January 2025. The senators gave the group a deadline of Dec. 4 to comply.
AP and Guardian reporting in August showed that while Kennedy repeatedly told lawmakers who held the key to his confirmation last year that his
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Nov 12, 2026
MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum said Thursday that no migrant caravans have reached the U.S. border since U.S. President Donald Trump returned to office in 2025, responding to his threat to double tariffs on Mexican goods unless Mexico stops migrants from traveling through its territory.
"Not a single migrant caravan has reached the north" since January 2025, Sheinbaum said at her daily news briefing.
Sheinbaum said a caravan of about 600 migrants traveling through the southern state of Chiapas had largely dispersed after its members were told that reaching the United States would be "very difficult."
She said Mexican authorities were also in talks with another group of several hundred Honduran migrants, encouraging them to return to their home country.
Asked whether Mexico would use force to break up the caravans, Sheinbaum ruled out such measures, saying authorities have "extensive experience" accompanying migrants and explaining that they have little chance of crossing into the United States.
Earlier Thursday, Trump claimed on Truth Social that the United States faced an "invasion" following midterm elections in which Democrats won control of Congress.
"Huge caravans are forming and beginning their illegal march through Mexico. Many of the people in these Caravans are those that various countries don't want," he wrote. "MEXICO MUST STOP THEM, NOW, and if they do not do so, the Tariffs on Mexico will be IMMEDIATELY DOUBLED."
Following the election, Trump named Stephen Miller, an architect of his hard-line immigration policies, as White Ho
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Nov 12, 2026
At least five people were shot in Washington, D.C.'s Logan Circle neighborhood early Thursday, and police said the suspected shooter was barricaded inside a building.
Police responded to reports of an active shooting inside a gym just before 8 a.m. ET.
At 9.21 a.m. ET, police said that the suspect had been barricaded in the 1500 block of 15th Street, Northwest.
D.C. council member Brooke Pinto posted to her X account that the shootings happened "at and outside Vida fitness," adding. "Shooting in the area of 15th and P Streets NW this morning. Please avoid the Logan Circle area as MPD responds."
The Associated Press reported five people had been shot.
People have been told to avoid the area at 15th St. NW and P St. NW, while authorities attend the incident. Much of the block was cordoned off and schools near the scene were placed on lockdown.
Witness Ryan Dubicki said he was in his apartment around 8 a.m. when he "heard about five bangs."
"They were really spread out so I thought it was construction," he said. His apartment building managers sent a notice that there was a possible active shooter.
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Nov 12, 2026
President Trump on Thursday reacted to reports that more than 1,000 migrants are heading toward the U.S. from Mexico, which he connected to sweeping Republican losses in the midterms.
A Chiapas state government source told Reuters that around 1,500 people, including several families with small children and strollers, left the Mexican city of Tapachula by Guatemala's border on Tuesday.
"Here we go again! With the perceived loss by the Republicans in the Midterms — I WAS NOT ON THE BALLOT — the INVASION of our Country is taking place again," Trump wrote on Truth Social. "Huge CARAVANS are forming and beginning their illegal march through Mexico."
He directed a warning toward Mexico, saying the country's government must stop the caravan or the "Tariffs on Mexico will be IMMEDIATELY DOUBLED."
"MEXICO, THE GOVERNOR OF TEXAS, THE VERY LIBERAL NEW GOVERNOR OF TEXAS, OUR GREAT BORDER PATROL, & ICE, HAVE BEEN SO INFORMED," the president's post concluded. "There will be no leniency!"
Many of the migrants, coming from Central America, told Reuters and other outlets that the Democratic victories last week could open new opportunities for them in the U.S.
"There might
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Nov 12, 2026
Nvidia (NVDA) CFO Colette Kress has been named interim CEO after Jensen Huang stepped down amid allegations of an affair with a Chinese spy and a company executive.
Kress, one of Nvidia's more prominent executives, joined the company in 2013 and helped guide its financial success, transforming it from a video game company into the AI juggernaut it is today.
In a statement, Kress said she is committed to building on the work Jensen has done to turn Nvidia into the company it has become.
"We will continue advancing the work that has made Nvidia a leader in accelerated computing and AI, and execute on the opportunities ahead. Our focus remains on serving our customers, partners, developers and shareholders," she said.
Kress regularly provides financial updates during Nvidia's quarterly earnings call, making her well-known among analysts and investors.
Prior to joining the company, Kress served as senior vice president and CFO for Cisco's (CSCO) Business Technology and Operations Finance group,
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Nov 12, 2026
Democratic Sens. Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts and Chris Coons of Delaware have formally asked the Trump administration to "preserve all records" related to the administration's dealings with Nvidia (NVDA) as Democrats prepare to take power on Capitol Hill in 2027 and promise to probe the issues surrounding CEO Jensen Huang's departure.
The request came in a letter Wednesday evening targeting any administration materials related to the chipmaker's exports to China, as well as the ousted CEO's affair with a suspected Chinese intelligence asset.
Huang's resignation "does not absolve him, other executives, or the company as a whole of responsibility for putting our national security at risk or for any potential violations of our laws," Warren said in a statement Thursday morning adding that Trump officials must still "explain why they have not closed export control loopholes."
The letter was directed to Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick, Secretary of State Marco Rubio, and White House chief of staff Stephen Miller and noted reports that Trump officials were aware of concerns about Nvidia, "yet did not move to block the continued flow of advanced AI chips to Megaspeed or other companies affiliated with the suspected operative."
The White House didn't offer an immediate response Thursday morning. The letter asked the officials to confirm by next Tuesday that they will comply and have begun the document preservation process.
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Nov 12, 2026
THE TAKEAWAY:
NOAA announced that the 2026 El Niño has reached Super El Niño status.Water temperatures in the Niño 3.4 region of the equatorial Pacific have climbed to 2.0°C above average for three consecutive months.A Super El Niño will have a major impact on the 2026-2027 winter, causing more storms in the southern tier of the U.S. and above-average temperatures in the northern tier.NOAA's Climate Prediction Center (CPC) announced Thursday that the 2026 El Niño has officially reached Super El Niño status, also known as a Very Strong El Niño.
Pena Becomes First November Tropical Storm To Form In Central Pacific Since 1982 Amid Intensifying El Niño
Water temperatures in the Niño 3.4 region of the equatorial Pacific, where forecasters monitor the strength of El Niño, have climbed to 2.0°C above average, meeting the threshold for the designation.
To determine the strength of the climate pattern, forecasters use a three-month average of ocean temperatures rather than daily readings. This approach helps account for short-term fluctuations and provides a more consistent picture of changing ocean conditions.
The latest evaluation found that the three-month period from August through October reached the 2°C threshold. An earlier assessment covering July through September did not record temperatures high enough to qualify as a Super El Niño.
Nasa Satellites Reveal Striking Ocean Color Change As Super El Niño Strengthens
El Niño has been in effec
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Nov 12, 2026
Nvidia (NVDA) stock tanked in premarket trading after Jensen Huang resigned as CEO. The company's CFO, Colette Kress, will serve as the interim head of the business until a permanent successor is named.
Nvidia stock dropped 10% on the news.
The leadership shakeup followed a report from The New York Times on Wednesday that embattled Nvidia (NVDA) CEO Jensen Huang was allegedly involved in a second extramarital affair. The company's board was reportedly meeting on Wednesday night to determine if it will oust Huang as chief executive, the Wall Street Journal reports.
According to the report, Huang, whose relationship with a woman alleged to be a Chinese spy has embroiled the company in scandal this week, also had a relationship with Nvidia executive Kimberly Powell. The Times report says that Huang and Powell were seen being affectionate at a hotel during a company conference in March.
Huang was already
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Nov 12, 2026
What to know about the Iran war today:A senior Iranian security official insisted Thursday that Tehran would "decide on the manner and agenda of any negotiations" with the U.S. only after its "seven conditions are fulfilled and accepted." Secretary of State Marco Rubio has called those conditions "unacceptable."During a Veterans Day address Wednesday, President Trump again declared victory in the war with Iran, but he also acknowledged the conflict wasn't over. "Just a question of when we want to end it," he said.The head of Iran's Supreme National Security Council vowed Wednesday that Tehran would not allow the removal of "even a single particle of enriched nuclear material" from the country, casting doubt on diplomatic efforts as the U.S. has long sought a peace deal that would see Iran give up its enriched uranium.
Trump says "we don't need a deal with Iran"
President Trump said Thursday that the United States doesn't need a peace deal with Iran, claiming the U.S. holds Tehran's money, possibly referring to frozen financial assets, and that the U.S. has control over the Strait of Hormuz.
"Those days have long since passed," the president wrote on Truth Social of the prospects for a peace deal. "We've got their money, Hundreds of Billions of Dollars, and we've got their Strait!"
His remarks, offered without furt
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Nov 12, 2026
WASHINGTON, Nov 12 (Reuters) - President Donald Trump said on Thursday he wanted Vice President ?JD Vance to focus "his complete and total ?attention" on any crime and corruption in Democratic-run US cities, ?saying that effort could save more money than a deal with Iran.
"Our Budget could be quickly BALANCED with the correction of this large scale criminal ?activity. CORRUPTION is ?in the Democrat Leadership's blood!" Trump wrote on social media. "We don't need a ?deal with Iran. Those days have long since passed. We've got their money, Hundreds of Billions ?of Dollars, ?and we've got their ?Strait!"
Vance, who had taken ?on a role in trying to resolve the conflict with Iran, distanced himself from Trump's war on Wednesday after Republicans' midterm election rout by Democrats.
He questioned whether it was worth the cost ?and blamed the Iran war ?for Republicans' election losses.
Vance, ?who is seen ?as a leading 2028 presidential contender, ?also said an earlier recommendation ?to end ?the war was "sound advice."
Trump has repeatedly targeted Democratic-run cities over immigration policies and alleged corruption ?since taking office ?in January 2025 for his second White ?House term.
(Reporting by Doina Chiacu and Susan ?HeaveyEditing by Tomasz Janowski)
This article originally appeared on Reuters at https://www.yahoo.com/news/politics/articles/trump-says-vance-focus-domestic-133908907.html
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Nov 12, 2026
WASHINGTON (AP) — Four people were shot in a trendy Washington, D.C., neighborhood within walking distance of the White House early Thursday, said police, who were responding to multiple locations.
The shootings were reported in Logan Circle, about 1 mile north of the White House. No other details are immediately available, including the exact location of the shooting, police Officer Nathan Clarke said.
Police urged people to avoid the area of the 1500 block of 15th Street, which includes a VIDA fitness center, St. Luke's Episcopal Church and residences and is around the corner from a Whole Foods supermarket. Much of the block was cordoned off. Schools near the scene were placed on lockdown.
Streets around the area also were blocked off during a massive police response to the scene. The federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives said it sent agents to the scene to help.
In early August 2025, a onetime member of President Donald Trump's Department of Government Efficiency was assaulted early on a Sunday morning in the Logan Circle neighborhood by a group of teenagers attempting to carjack him and a woman, authorities said.
Days later, Trump fulfilled his threat to bypass local authority and imposed direct federal control over the city, sending in hundreds of National Guard members to reduce crime. That deployment continues today.
This article originally appeared on Associated Press at https://www.yahoo.com/news/us/articles/police-4-people-shot-trendy-133044524.html
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Nov 12, 2026
At least five people were killed and 17 others injured Wednesday, when a three-story building collapsed in the Flatbush neighborhood of Brooklyn in New York City.
The four-unit apartment building crumpled into a construction site next to it at about 4 p.m. ET.
Seven of the casualties were children, Reuters reported, with at least 17 people taken to a hospital. Four were in a critical condition. Authorities did not confirm if any of the children were among those killed.
Two deaths were announced on Wednesday. Firefighters removed three more bodies on Thursday morning, the Associated Press reported.
Rescuers searched for survivors into the night with about 250 first responders at the scene. "We'll continue to look until we find everybody," FDNY Commissioner Lillian Bonsignore said.
A pregnant woman was among those trapped in the rubble. Footage broadcast by CBS News New York showed her being pulled out by rescuers more than two hours after the building collapsed, while her husband waited in anguish.
"She is alive. She is still alive. I'm very happy. I'm very happy. I'm very happy. I thank all of you guys," he told CBS News New York after she was rescued. "She's pregnant, six months."
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Nov 12, 2026
Nvidia (NVDA) stock tanked in after-hours trading following a report from the New York Times that embattled Nvidia (NVDA) CEO Jensen Huang was allegedly involved in a second extramarital affair.
The company's board is reportedly meeting to determine if it will oust Huang as chief executive, the Wall Street Journal reports.
According to the report, Huang, whose relationship with a woman alleged to be a Chinese spy has embroiled the company in scandal this week, also had a relationship with Nvidia executive Kimberly Powell.
Nvidia stock fell in after-hours trading following the report.
The Times report says that Huang and Powell were seen being affectionate at a hotel during a company conference in March.
Huang is already under investigation for an affair with Alice Huang, an alleged Chinese spy. The CEO admitted the affair in a memo to employees.
"I was unfaithful to my wife. My actions hurt her and our children. There is no excuse for what I did. I am deeply so
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Nov 12, 2026
Russia has intensified its strikes on Kyiv ahead of winter (Serhii Okunev)US envoys arrived at the Kremlin on Thursday to meet with President Vladimir Putin after talks in Abu Dhabi on the war in Ukraine, with both Washington and Kyiv suggesting there was a window of opportunity for progress on ending Europe's worst conflict since World War II.
The envoys -- US President Donald Trump's son-in-law Jared Kushner and businessman Steve Witkoff -- will fly to Dublin after meeting Putin to brief his Ukrainian counterpart, Volodymyr Zelensky, who was in the Irish capital to meet with European leaders.
An AFP journalist saw the pair's motorcade arrive at the Kremlin shortly after 1:00 pm (1000 GMT).
Kushner said the meeting with Putin would "go over what was discussed" during two days of talks this week in Abu Dhabi, and to seek progress "because we see some openings and some opportunities".
Arriving in Ireland late Wednesday, Zelensky also said there could be a "window of opportunity" to end the war with Russia before 2027.
"What's important is that the Americans flew to Putin with specifics. I would very much like them to return to Dublin with specifics," he said, adding that while he was still sceptical "there is hope".
European countries have been rattled by Russia pushing a review of the entire continent's security architecture, with the US also floating a new framework.
- 'Biggest' prisoner exchange -
Some 50 European leaders are due to gather in the Irish capital Thursday, with the Abu Dhabi talks set to dominate the summit.
EU officials say there appears to have been little genuine progress towards peace and are adamant that Europe sees no need to discuss its broader security arrangement with Moscow before fighting
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Nov 12, 2026
After a primary season that featured a string of wins for the Democratic Party's progressive wing, the moderates are striking back by claiming credit for a landslide midterm takeover of Congress.
The party will return to Capitol Hill in 2027 with at least 54 Senate seats and 255 House seats, thanks to wins in deep-red districts and states such as Kansas and Iowa. And many of the candidates, such as megachurch pastor and Kansas Sen.-elect Adam Hamilton, avoided staking out controversial progressive policy proposals.
"It is incredibly striking and profound that Democratic moderates were able to hand Trumpism some of its biggest defeats this cycle," Kate DeGruyter, a spokeswoman for Third Way, a centrist Democratic group, told USA TODAY.
The debate over how and why Democrats won will influence what measures the new majority caucuses will take up first and how far those actions should go.
Third Way struck early, with a Nov. 4 memo that claimed "
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Nov 12, 2026
The NewsSome Democrats say they won't vote for Chuck Schumer to be Democrat leader. Others are declining to endorse him publicly as Sen. Chris Van Hollen, D-Md., weighs a challenge and dials up colleagues.
But a confident Schumer is acting like he's staying put. And many of his colleagues are itching to skip the Democratic infighting altogether and reach the moment when Schumer is reelected Democratic leader on Dec. 1.
"Schumer has been an unpopular figure among people who don't understand the role of the Senate party leader. And I think it probably helped them on the trail," Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse, D-R.I., told Semafor. "It's not the first time that a Senate leader has helped elected members who have opposed his leadership."
He said he was confident when all is said and done, Schumer will emerge as the victor. Schumer is, too.
The New York senator has asserted repeatedly he'll be the majority leader again next year. And in a sign of that confidence, he's already plotting out a unified Democratic agenda with House Democratic Leader Hakeem Jeffries. He spent his Wednesday doing things that only a returning leader would: meeting with incoming newly-elected senators like Rep. Chris Pappas, D-N.H., and Sen.-elect Adam Hamilton, D-Kan., to discuss their priorities and what committees they'd like to serve on.
Schumer is not acting like a guy who is short of the votes. Hamilton has called for new party leadership and told Semafor that Schumer didn't ask him to reconsider that demand during their sitdown on Wednesday: "No, he didn't at all, actually."
"We talked about being overwhelmed when you're first getting into this and talked about stories, things that matter, committees," Hamilton said.
Path to victory
Schumer recruited a number of strong Democratic candidates, including former Sen. Sherrod Brown of Ohio, former Gov. Roy Cooper of North Carolina, and former Rep. Mary Peltola of Ala
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Nov 12, 2026
The House Freedom Caucus is staring down an unfamiliar new reality in 2027: questionable relevance.
That's partly because the ultra-conservative group achieved an indubitable triumph this week, when its co-founder and first chair, Ohio Rep. Jim Jordan, was elected Tuesday to serve as the next top House Republican leader.
It's also because the group has traditionally wielded its power by acting as a holdout bloc in thin Republican majorities. Now the GOP is on track to hold the smallest House minority any party has had in more than 30 years.
"It's completely variant from being the most powerful faction within a legislative body that has legislative authority through majority control," said Rep. Clay Higgins of Louisiana, a caucus member. "Well, that's off the table now."
Founded in 2015, the Freedom Caucus persisted through a prior stretch in the minority, under then-Leader Kevin McCarthy, from 2019 to 2023. But Jordan's ascendance is prompting big questions about the role of a group that was established to prod party leaders rightward now that the GOP's top man is one of their own.
Higgins said, for example, "our principles are the same" but the group would now be more focused on "strategic alignment to protect the gains that we have indeed made over the last few years." Another member, Rep. Marlin Stutzman of Indiana, said it would move to a "think tank model where we're pulling good information together … to really inform the rest of the conference."
At a Wednesday news conference where members of the group blamed the GOP's huge election losses on current party leaders' timidity, several rejected the notion that there would be any diminishment of its influence — including several who are expected to vie to be elected caucus chair in the next Congress.
Asked what the point of the Freedom Cau
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Nov 12, 2026
At least two people were killed and 17 others injured Wednesday, when a three-story building collapsed in the Flatbush neighborhood of Brooklyn in New York City.
The four-unit apartment building crumpled into a construction site next to it at about 4 p.m. ET in the Flatbush area.
Seven of the casualties were children, Reuters reported, with at least 10 people taken to a hospital. Authorities did not confirm if any of the children were among those killed.
Rescuers searched for survivors into the night with about 250 first responders at the scene. "We'll continue to look until we find everybody," FDNY Commissioner Lillian Bonsignore said.
One resident, Anderson Velez, told the New York Post he was at work in the Bronx when his wife called him and said their children, ages 7 and 2, were trapped.
"She called me when the building collapsed while she was inside with rubble on top of her. She was screaming for someone to help get my son out and then the call cut off," he said, confirming his family was now safe.
Crews worked throughout the night to rescue those still trapped inside the collapsed building. New York television station WABC-TV reported that a pregnant woman was pulled from the rubble hours after the coll
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Nov 12, 2026
Nvidia (NVDA) stock tanked in after-hours trading following a report from the New York Times that embattled Nvidia (NVDA) CEO Jensen Huang was allegedly involved in a second extramarital affair.
The company's board is reportedly meeting to determine if it will oust Huang as chief executive, the Wall Street Journal reports.
According to the report, Huang, whose relationship with a woman alleged to be a Chinese spy has embroiled the company in scandal this week, also had a relationship with Nvidia executive Kimberly Powell.
Nvidia stock fell in after-hours trading following the report.
The Times report says that Huang and Powell were seen being affectionate at a hotel during a company conference in March.
Huang is already under investigation for an affair with Alice Huang, an alleged Chinese spy. The CEO admitted the affair in a memo to employees.
"I was unfaithful to my wife. My actions hurt her and our children. There is no excuse for what I did. I am deeply so
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Nov 12, 2026
Mississippi Democrat Scott Colom narrowly defeated Republican Sen. Cindy Hyde-Smith on Wednesday to flip another Senate seat for Democrats and become the first Black candidate elected to the U.S. Senate from Mississippi in more than 140 years.
According to figures from the Associated Press, Colom — who will also be Mississippi's first Black senator since 1989 — won 49.2% of the vote. Hyde-Smith finished with 48.7%.
"There were times that I couldn't get donors to answer the phone," Colom told supporters as they celebrated his historic upset late Wednesday night. "They did not believe a moment like this was possible, but I kept the faith."
Mississippi — one of the reddest states in the country — wasn't really on the national radar prior to Nov. 3. President Trump won the state by 23 percentage points in 2024 — his third straight win there. Looking ahead to the 2026 Senate race, analysts said it was a "likely Republican" hold. Barely anyone bothered to poll it.
But by the end of Election Night, Colom and Hyde-Smith were separated by just 65 votes, shocking the nation.
Colom's win expands Democrats' total number of Senate seats to 55 and cements the party's best overall midterm performance since 1974 — a
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Nov 11, 2026
At least two people are dead and over a dozen others injured after a building collapsed in Brooklyn, according to New York City authorities.
A "dangerous" search and rescue operation is ongoing and there could be more victims, fire officials warned.
A three-story building at the intersection of Flatbush and Bedford Avenues in the Flatbush neighborhood collapsed into an adjacent excavation site, where workers were on scene, according fire officials. The wall of another three-story building that now stands next to the site was also shorn off, exposing apartments.
"This was a major technical response," FDNY Commissioner Lillian Bonsignore said at a press briefing. "Multiple people from the building and a construction site were trapped."
Angelina Katsanis/Reuters - PHOTO: Emergency personnel work at the scene of a partial building collapse where, according to local reports, people are trapped in Brooklyn, Nov. 11, 2026. Two people have died, according to New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani. Another 17 people were injured, including four in critical condition, 12 in stable and a firefighter with minor injuries, Bonsignore said.
The victims include seven children, Bonsignore said, without specifying if they were among the deceased.
It is unclear how many people may still be missing in the collapse, Bonsignore said, saying it will be a "prolonged operation" and that they expect there to be more victims.
"This was a devastating collapse," Mamdani said at the press briefing.
Angelina Katsanis/Reuters - PHOTO: Emergency personnel work at the scene of a partial b
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Nov 11, 2026
At least two people are dead and over a dozen others injured after a building collapsed in Brooklyn, according to New York City authorities.
A "dangerous" search and rescue operation is ongoing and there could be more victims, fire officials warned.
A three-story building at the intersection of Flatbush and Bedford Avenues in the Flatbush neighborhood collapsed into an adjacent excavation site, where workers were on scene, according fire officials. The wall of another three-story building that now stands next to the site was also shorn off, exposing apartments.
"This was a major technical response," FDNY Commissioner Lillian Bonsignore said at a press briefing. "Multiple people from the building and a construction site were trapped."
Angelina Katsanis/Reuters - PHOTO: Emergency personnel work at the scene of a partial building collapse where, according to local reports, people are trapped in Brooklyn, Nov. 11, 2026. Two people have died, according to New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani. Another 17 people were injured, including four in critical condition, 12 in stable and a firefighter with minor injuries, Bonsignore said.
The victims include seven children, Bonsignore said, without specifying if they were among the deceased.
It is unclear how many people may still be missing in the collapse, Bonsignore said, saying it will be a "prolonged operation" and that they expect there to be more victims.
"This was a devastating collapse," Mamdani said at the press briefing.
Angelina Katsanis/Reuters - PHOTO: Emergency personnel work at the scene of a partial b
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Nov 11, 2026
By Steve Gorman
Nov 11 (Reuters) - Famed ocean liner SS United States, the largest passenger ship ever built in America and the world's fastest, headed for the sea floor near Florida on Wednesday in a deliberate sinking designed to transform the ?vessel into the world's biggest artificial reef.
The finale to a year-long process preparing the ship to meet its destiny, 75 years ?after it was first launched at sea, was presented in a livestream showing aerial views of the once-grand vessel's rusted hulk, stripped of its two smokestacks, afloat but quietly, slowly ?settling into calm waters of the Gulf of Mexico.
The ship, measuring nearly 1,000 feet from stem to stern, was surrounded by onlookers and safety crews aboard dozens of tugboats and recreational vessels that accompanied the ocean liner as it was towed out to sea for its final voyage.
By then, work crews had spent months removing all environmentally unsafe materials from the ship, including residual fuel, wiring, glass, ductwork and other non-metal items, as well as ?any objects that could pose entanglement hazards for scuba ?divers.
The crews then cut holes strategically throughout the ship's hull and its decks to ensure that it would sink in a gradual, level and uniform manner, according to a fact sheet posted online by project organizers. No ?explosives were being used.
Passageways also were cut through the interior to allow for marine life to thrive in and around the ship on the sea floor.
If all goes as planned, the aging 20th-century vessel will come to rest upright on the gulf floor at a depth of 180 feet off the coast of ?Destin, ?Florida, a resort town and recreational fishing haven known for its white sand ?beaches and emerald green waters. The upper deck is expected ?to end up about 50 feet beneath the surface, organizers said.
The sinking process began at about 1 p.m. CST but was so imperceptibly slow that the majori
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Nov 11, 2026
JUNEAU, Alaska (AP) — An Alaska judge ruled Wednesday that a request by Democratic U.S. Senate candidate Mary Peltola's campaign for a list of absentee voters whose ballots have been rejected is "not reasonable," particularly given the time crunch election officials face as they continue counting ballots from last week's election.
Ballots are still being tallied in the ranked vote election, in which Peltola and two-term Republican Sen. Dan Sullivan are the main contenders. Alaska's is the only Senate race in the country that remained too early to call.
The state accepts ballots up to 15 days after general elections from overseas voters, making Nov. 18 the final day to receive them. That date is also the Division of Elections' target for conducting ranked vote tabulations if no candidate wins more than 50% of the first-choice votes.
Attorneys for Peltola's campaign last Friday sued state elections officials, seeking a list of voters whose absentee ballots have been rejected and the reasons for the rejections. They said their intent was to ensure that all qualified voters have their ballots counted.
But attorneys for the state said the information requested would violate voter privacy. They also said producing such a list from a voter database would constitute an "electronic service or product" that under state law may not take priority over an agency's main responsibilities.
Superior Court Judge Thomas Matthews, in a written ruling, said that "in theory" records from the voter database could be redacted and produced in a way that would allow their release. But he said the division is not required to disclose the records requested b
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Nov 11, 2026
Nvidia (NVDA) stock tanked in after-hours trading following a report from the New York Times that embattled Nvidia (NVDA) CEO Jensen Huang was allegedly involved in a second extramarital affair.
The company's board is reportedly meeting to determine if it will oust Huang as chief executive, the Wall Street Journal reports.
According to the report, Huang, whose relationship with a woman alleged to be a Chinese spy has embroiled the company in scandal this week, also had a relationship with Nvidia executive Kimberly Powell.
Nvidia stock fell in after-hours trading following the report.
The Times report says that Huang and Powell were seen being affectionate at a hotel during a company conference in March.
Huang is already under investigation for an affair with Alice Huang, an alleged Chinese spy. The CEO admitted the affair in a memo to employees.
"I was unfaithful to my wife. My actions hurt her and our children. There is no excuse for what I did. I am deeply so
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Nov 11, 2026
At least one person is dead and multiple others injured, including an individual who is trapped, after a building collapsed in Brooklyn, according to New York City authorities.
The FDNY said rescue operations are underway after responding to reports of people trapped following a building collapse in the Flatbush neighborhood.
Angelina Katsanis/Reuters - PHOTO: Emergency personnel work at the scene of a partial building collapse where, according to local reports, people are trapped in Brooklyn, Nov. 11, 2026. A three-story building collapsed into an open excavation site, where workers were on scene, according to an FDNY dispatch. The wall of another three-story building that now stands next to the site was also shorn off, exposing apartments.
One person was pronounced dead at the scene, according to the New York Police Department.
Ten people were injured, including two critically, according to the FDNY. The injured include one person who remains trapped, the department said.
Earlier, the FDNY said several construction workers were being transported to the hospital for treatment, and firefighters were trying to get a count of all the workers on the job site.
The site under construction is being developed into a nine-story, mixed-use building, with plans for a grocery store and medical center on the ground floor and apartments on the upper floors, permit records show.
Angelina Katsanis/Reuters - PHOTO: Emergency personnel work at the scene of a partial building collapse in Brooklyn, Nov. 11, 2026.
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Nov 11, 2026
Mississippi Democrat Scott Colom has narrowly defeated Republican Sen. Cindy Hyde-Smith to flip another Senate seat for Democrats.
According to figures from the Associated Press, Colom won 49.2% of the vote in the closely contested race, which was called more than a week after Election Day. Hyde-Smith trailed on 48.7%.
Mississippi — one of the reddest states in the country — wasn't really on the national radar prior to the elections. However, early results showed the two candidates separated by as few as 43 votes, indicating a shock was brewing.
The outcome expands Democrats' total number of Senate seats to 55, following a midterms rout that has seen the GOP lose control of the U.S. Senate and U.S. House.
Colom becomes the first elected Black U.S. senator in Mississippi in more than 140 years.
Prior to the result being declared, Colom had repeatedly expressed confidence that his campaign would prevail, flooding the airwaves and attending at least eight events. "It's very clear the direction of this," he told reporters on Friday. In contrast, Hyde-Smith had "not been seen publicly since she left her election night watch party just outside of Jackson," CNN reported Monday.
Alaska is now the only remaining Senate race to be called. Democrat Mary Peltola holds the lead on 49%, with 84% of the vote counted. Republican incumbent Sen. Dan Sullivan is on 47.2%, according
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Nov 11, 2026
Embattled Nvidia (NVDA) CEO Jensen Huang was allegedly involved in a second extramarital affair.
The company's board is reportedly meeting to determine if it will oust Huang as chief executive, the Wall Street Journal reports. Nvidia stock fell in after-hours trading following the report.
According to The New York Times, Huang, whose relationship with a woman alleged to be a Chinese spy has embroiled the company in scandal this week, also had a relationship with Nvidia executive Kimberly Powell.
She joined Nvidia in 2008 and heads up the company's healthcare business.
The Times report says that Huang and Powell were seen being affectionate at a hotel during a company conference in March, and that when a bystander took a photo of the interaction, a security guard "sequestered them" and made them an offer to sign a nondisclosure agreement.
Last month, The Times reported that US intelligence services believed a woman, Alice Huang, a former
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Nov 11, 2026
The Black college students who were harassed by two White students at the University of Mississippi making monkey gestures and sounds outside their apartment are speaking out after the incident went viral.
The women said they were familiar with the stories of racism some faced at Ole Miss over the years — the school didn't allow its first Black student, James Meredith, until 1962, for instance — but they were not prepared for what they experienced last Friday.
Jakirya Metcalf, a freshman at Ole Miss, said she was in her apartment last Friday night when she saw the video on her Ring camera.
"We actually went outside and tried to, like, approach them and get them to explain why they did that," Metcalf told "CBS Mornings."
"One girl was like, 'I'm sorry we did that to four doors,'" Victoria Johnson, one of the roommates, said. "And mind you, we didn't see any one of those doors. It was just ours that was targeted. And she was like, 'We didn't mean any harm.'"
Metcalf and Johnson said the first person seen on the video, Aliana Kunes, apologized. But the second person, who made monkey sounds toward the camera, doubled down off-camera.
"She continued to make the gestures after the girl was apologizing," Johnson said. "It was like a slap in the face."
"I had said that I don't think they should go around because even if they go to other people's door and do that,
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Nov 11, 2026
WASHINGTON (AP) — A soldier guarding the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier issued a verbal reprimand to a group of advisers and staffers with Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth following a Veterans Day ceremony at Arlington National Cemetery.
Video shows Hegseth taking photos on the empty steps in front of the tomb with his wife, Jennifer, chief of staff Ricky Buria, deputy chief of staff Patrick Weaver and senior adviser Tami Radabaugh.
As the group broke from taking photos, a loud laugh could be heard, and the soldier guarding the tomb shouted that "all visitors will maintain an atmosphere of silence and respect at all times."
Sean Parnell, the Pentagon's top spokesman, said that "while commemorating this solemn day, a soldier correctly and respectfully reminded everyone to maintain decorum."
"The Secretary and the entire Department have always honored — and will always honor — the sacrifices our military men and women have made to keep America safe," he added.
The tomb is considered to be one of the most solemn and revered war memorials in the U.S., being the final resting place of unidentified soldiers from World War I, World War II and the Korean War. It has been guarded around the clock — rain or shine — by a soldier from the Army's 3rd Infantry Regiment, also known as "The Old Guard," since 1948.
Hegseth and his staff were at the tomb as part of a larger ceremony commemorating Veterans Day that also was attended by President Donald Trump and Vice President JD Vance.
The incident comes a day after Hegseth
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Nov 11, 2026
Democrat Scott Colom on Wednesday was on the brink of wrapping up a historic win in the Mississippi Senate race after he extended his lead by gaining ground in a new batch of votes.
Colom increased his edge over Republican incumbent Sen. Cindy Hyde-Smith to nearly 4,000 votes, or more than .3%, after he was expected to overwhelmingly win 817 approved provisional ballots from deep-blue Hinds County, which includes the city of Jackson.
Hinds County voters cast about 2,400 provisional ballots but officials rejected about two-thirds of them, a share that is much higher than in other Mississippi counties. There was no immediate explanation for the discrepancy.
Mississippi has no statewide count of outstanding ballots but it appears there are only handfuls of votes still to be counted by county officials, meaning Hyde-Smith has no realistic path to taking the lead.
Mississippi is expected to certify its final results by Friday. After that, a losing candidate would have to sue to seek a recount, which most analysts believe would be highly unlikely to change the result.
Democrats had already wrapped up 54 Senate seats and are heavily favored in Alaska as well as Mississippi. That sets the party up for a likely total of 56 seats in the incoming Congress, an eye-popping gain of nine compared to the current tally.
Colom, who would become the first Black senator from Mississippi since Reconstruction, is perhaps the most unlikely winner of any 2026 Senate race.
Mississippi hasn't elected a Democratic senator in four decades and President Trump carried the state by 23% in 2024.
Colom's win was powered by extremely high Black turnout across the Deep South after the conservative Supreme Court gutted the Voting Rights Act.
He also won a far larger share of white voters as Trump's MAGA base splinters over rising costs and the unpopular war in Iran.
Colom captured the attention of national pundits with an extreme
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Nov 11, 2026
US President Donald Trump takes part in a wreath-laying ceremony at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier during Veterans Day observances at Arlington National Cemetery (MANDEL NGAN)President Donald Trump used a US Veterans Day commemoration Wednesday to defend the war against Iran -- an increasingly unpopular conflict that helped trigger a Democratic takeover of Congress in last week's midterm elections.
"The bravery and skill of our amazing American warriors has absolutely been incredible," Trump said in an address at Arlington National Cemetery just outside Washington.
"When this conflict is over, and it will be soon, the entire world will be a much safer and better place, more peaceful place, and a place without the kind of danger that we had to suffer."
The war, which began on February 28 with US and Israeli strikes against Iran, has so far cost the lives of 23 US service members and wounded several hundred more, according to the latest Pentagon figures.
Trump said in his remarks that the conflict was started not by Washington but by Tehran, which "has been waging war on America since 1979." He stressed that US forces were acting in order to halt Iran's capacity to build a nuclear weapon.
During his speech before troops, veterans and top officials in his administration, Trump namechecked Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, who was in attendance, saying he had "done a fantastic job."
Republicans in the US House of Representatives on Tuesday blocked an effort -- launched by an outgoing Republican lawmaker -- to impeach Hegseth for allegedly waging war without congressional authorization and abusing his powers as Pentagon chief.
Trump, 80, attended a wreath-laying ceremony at the cemetery's Tomb of the Unknown Soldier, a sacred symbol for America's lost ser
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Nov 11, 2026
From left: Nancy Pelosi, Steven Horsford and Haley Stevens missed the vote on Tuesday evening.Composite: Getty Images, Bloomberg
Democratic lawmakers expressed outrage at nearly a dozen of their colleagues for missing a vote Tuesday evening to impeach the defense secretary, Pete Hegseth, allowing Republicans to defeat the effort.
Eleven Democrats missed the key procedural vote on the impeachment effort, which failed by just seven votes. Some blamed traffic and conflicting events and others accused Speaker Mike Johnson of closing the vote early. Many of those not in the Capitol said they support the effort to impeach Hegseth.
"You should show up and do your job," Abdul El-Sayed, the senator-elect of Michigan, said on CNN to the Democratic lawmakers Tuesday.
Richard Ojeda, the representative-elect of North Carolina, told CNN that the Democratic representatives "failed" by not voting.
"Shame on them for not showing up," Ojeda said on Tuesday. "I mean, this is important … they had an opportunity to finally get rid of this buffoonery we had."
The missing Democrats gave House Republicans the numbers to shelve the impeachment effort by voting 211 - 204 to refer eight articles of impeachment against
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Nov 11, 2026
The first widespread cold snap of the season will remind the eastern half of the country that winter is coming - and some will even see their first snowflakes of the year.
"For nearly every state along and east of the Mississippi River, the upcoming pattern this weekend will bring the lowest temperatures of the season so far," said AccuWeather meteorologist Alex Sosnowski in an online forecast.
Snow will also make news at higher elevations of the eastern U.S. and in some of the Great Lakes snow belts, forecasters said.
But El Nin~o is starting to take over U.S. weather, and unusually mild temperatures will soon return to the forecast for many by next week. A forecast map from NOAA's Climate Prediction Center shows warmer-than-average temperatures are expected later next week for most of the nation east of the Rockies.
How much snow will fall?
The snow accumulation over the next few days will depend heavily on elevation, temperatures and snowfall rates, according to AccuWeather.
"Many
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Nov 11, 2026
The White House counsel's office is warning Rep. Robert Garcia, the future head of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, that Democrats' threats to engage in oversight against the Trump administration could cross the line into criminal behavior.
— Alayna Treene (@alaynatreene) November 11, 2026
The warning came in a Monday letter from White House counsel Will Scharf to Rep. Garcia that was obtained by ABC News.
This is a developing story. Please check back for updates.
This article originally appeared on Good Morning America at https://www.yahoo.com/news/politics/articles/top-wh-lawyer-warns-democrats-140924079.html
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Nov 11, 2026
The job market is brutal for recent college graduates trying to break into fields such as technology and finance.
The flip side: It's a good time to be a more seasoned white-collar worker, with employment by some measures climbing for people who are over 35.
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There's little agreement on what's driving the trend, but it dents the assumption that experienced workers can be at risk of being cast aside for fresher faces. Some evidence suggests that artificial intelligence is helping turn experience into an advantage, because it may supercharge workers' existing skills.
Since ChatGPT debuted in late 2022, employment for Americans 30 or younger has dropped in a collection of office jobs such as software development, sales and accounting that are considered highly exposed to AI because tasks can be done more efficiently with the technology, according to a Washington Post analysis of data from Stanford University and the payroll firm ADP. For people 35 and older, employment has climbed more than 7 percent in those same occupations.
Census Bureau data for an array of technology sectors shows employment holding up for workers 35 to 54 from early 2023 to the most recently available figures in late 2025. For workers under 35, employment in those tech industries tanked over that period.
Employers appear to be explicitly seeking more experience when hiring. Job postings for tech, business and legal jobs have been gravitating toward those with six or more years of experience and away from those with fewer than three, according to the labor research nonprofit Burning Glass Institute.
It may be that experienced white-collar employees are t
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Nov 11, 2026
A police force in the U.K. said Tuesday it has been contacted by "several people" about possible criminal allegations against disgraced comedian and actor Russell Brand, who was sentenced Monday to more than 10 years in prison for rape and sexual assaults.
In a statement, London's Metropolitan Police said that "several people have contacted the investigation team during and since the trial to provide information or report a potential criminal allegation."
"Detectives are assessing this information as part of their ongoing enquiries," the police force added.
Last week, Met Police commissioner Mark Rowley said that two further rape allegations were being investigated. On Monday, Metropolitan Police Detective Superintendent Andy Furphy appealed outside the court after Brand's sentencing for other potential accusers to come forward. Brand has not been charged regarding these new allegations.
"I want to make a direct appeal to anyone who has been a victim of rape or any other sexual offense. We know it can take enormous courage to speak about what has happened to you, no matter how long ago it occurred or who was responsible," Furphy said outside of Southwark Crown Court. "If you come forward, you will be listened to, supported and treated with care and compassion."
The developments come amid new allegations from Brand's former girlfriend Jemima Goldsmith on Monday, who accused him of "violence, coercive control and abuse" while the two were together.
In a statement shared on X, the TV producer, who dated Brand for a year, wrote that she had to call the police to have him removed from her house in 2014 "during a violent incident." S
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Nov 11, 2026
What to know about the Iran war today:The head of Iran's Supreme National Security Council Secretary vowed Wednesday that Tehran would not allow the removal of "even a single particle of enriched nuclear material" from the country, casting doubt on diplomatic efforts as the U.S. has long sought a peace deal that would see Iran give up its enriched uranium.President Trump has argued that he needed to launch the war with Iran to prevent the Islamic Republic from obtaining a nuclear weapon, which the regime has always denied any intention of doing. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth told reporters Tuesday that "crazy Islamists in Tehran will never ever have a nuclear weapon."The war with Iran will cost Persian Gulf nations, most of which are close U.S. allies, more than $200 billion in damages, insurer Allianz Trade said Wednesday. Economic losses could reach nearly four times that amount by 2030, the insurer added.
Iranian officials says Europe and the U.S. have "heard the repercussions" of war
An adviser to Iran's supreme leader said Wednesday that the U.S. and Europe "have heard the repercussions" of the war launched jointly more than eight months ago by the U.S. and Israel.
In a post on X, Mohammad Mokhber said other nations' participation in the U.S. blockade of Iranian ports constituted an act of war that would be recorded "in the nation's historical memory."
"Responsibility and the consequences of such actions will extend to all participants, regardless of geographical boundaries," Mokhber said.
He did not mention any specific repercussions, but France has blamed Iran for
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Nov 11, 2026
THE TAKEAWAY:
Storm system to race through the eastern U.S. and move off the coast and develop into a nor'easter by Friday.Nor'easter to lash the Interstate 95 corridor with rain and wind, while delivering the first significant snow to northern Pennsylvania, Upstate New York and northern New England.Up to a foot of snow is possible across the White and Green mountains and in the Great Lakes.System to threaten Ohio and Tennessee valleys with severe weather Wednesday.A developing nor'easter threatens to lash the I-95 corridor with heavy rain and gusty winds beginning Thursday, while dumping the season's first significant snow across higher elevations of upstate New York and northern New England into the weekend.
What Is A Nor'easter?
The storm system is forecast to bring periods of rain, gusty winds and snow to parts of the Northeast after threatening the Great Lakes and Ohio Valley with severe weather Wednesday.
Polar Vortex Disrupted At The Earliest Point In Calendar Year On Record - What Happens Next?
A strong ridge of high pressure building over the western U.S. will help colder Canadian air push south into the Northeast
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Nov 11, 2026
Washington — After seeing success in reshaping the federal judiciary in his first term and the initial two years of his second administration, President Trump and Republicans' campaign to shift the courts to the right could be coming to an end with Democrats poised to take control of the Senate next year.
During his first term in office, Mr. Trump successfully put more than 230 judges on the federal bench, including three justices on the Supreme Court, remaking the judicial branch for decades. So far during his second term, the Senate has confirmed 57 of the president's judicial picks. In total, Trump nominees make up about one-third of active federal judges.
But Democrats are now poised to control at least 54 Senate seats, and as many as 56 depending on the outcome of races in Mississippi and Alaska, making it unlikely that Mr. Trump will fill many more vacancies on the U.S. district and appeals courts.
"No one, or nearly no one, is going to get confirmed, so what he does in terms of nominating people, we'll see," Ed Whelan, a distinguished senior fellow at the Ethics and Public Policy Center and former law clerk to the late Justice Antonin Scalia, told CBS News.
There are currently 28 vacancies on the federal courts and another
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Nov 11, 2026
House Republicans on Tuesday tapped Rep. Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) to lead their diminished conference in the next Congress, betting that a conservative spitfire — and onetime leadership nemesis — can restore the fight to a party battered by the midterms and scrambling for a path back to power.
In brief comments right out of the gate, Jordan set the tenor of the coming clash, vowing to fight the ascendant Democrats on the size and scope of federal power — an issue that's taken on fresh significance with the arrival of a new crop of democratic socialist members.
"When Democrats offer more government, we'll offer more freedom," Jordan told reporters in the Capitol shortly after his victory at a press conference where new leaders declined to take questions. "And we will bring that fight in committee, on the floor and on the stump every single day."
He has a steep climb ahead.
Jordan's task is not only to bring together the warring factions of a restive party demoralized by their election rout and sniping over who's to blame but also to craft a message that will resonate with alienated voters ahead of the 2028 elections — all while defending President Trump from the myriad investigations
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Nov 11, 2026
NEED TO KNOWJoe Biden gets candid about his stage 4 prostate cancer as he releases his new memoir, Promise Me, AmericaThe former president reflects on life, withdrawing from the 2024 race and the legacy he hopes to leave Dr. Jill Biden describes the daily realities of caring for her husband with support from their familyTwo days after the Democrats swept the midterm elections, former President Joe Biden has that signature twinkle in his blue eyes.
"Look at the people we got elected: first women governors, first Black governors," he tells PEOPLE with a quiet rasp.
At 83, and living with stage 4 prostate cancer — for which he completed radiation and is undergoing hormone therapy — Biden is slower than when he suddenly withdrew from the presidential race in 2024 following a disastrous debate against Donald Trump and amid concerns about his health. Still, his perennial optimism remains.
"I'm not saying I'll live forever," says the one-term president, seated in the dining room of his Wilmington, Del., lake house, "but the point is that I have all my faculties, I have access to all the things I had before and I feel good."
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Nov 11, 2026
The incoming chairwoman of the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee is warning former Department of Homeland Security adviser Corey Lewandowski to preserve records, indicating she will probe his time at the agency.
"As incoming HSGAC Chair, I intend to use the Committee's full authorities—including where necessary compulsory process—to expose corruption and waste. I therefore renew my request that you preserve all relevant records," Senator Maggie Hassan, D-N.H., wrote in a letter to Lewandowski obtained by ABC News. "Should any such records prove unavailable when the Committee requests them, the Committee will want to understand how, and when, that came to be."
Lewandowski has been a target for oversight for Democrats after he left his role earlier this year at DHS, where he served as what sources described as the de-facto chief of staff for former DHS Secretary Kristi Noem.
Valerie Plesch/Bloomberg via Getty Images - PHOTO: Corey Lewandowski, chief advisor to Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Kristi Noem, following a news conference at the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) headquarters in Washington, D.C,, Jan. 24, 2026. DOJ probing Trump ally Corey Lewandowski's actions at DHS after inspector general referral: SourcesJustice Department prosecutors are also investigating the agency's contracting activities in the first year of the second Trump administration and scrutinizing Lewandowski, two sources familiar with th
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Nov 11, 2026
The NewsSenate Republicans spent this week wrestling through divisions, reelecting John Thune as their leader, and pledging to confirm conservative judges while avoiding a government shutdown during their last two months in the majority.
They still haven't figured out how to use their greatest power in the lame duck: another big party-line bill that would send billions to the Pentagon. Such a proposal could contain other GOP priorities; Sen. Bernie Moreno, R-Ohio, dubbed it the "last supper" for the party's reign.
Republicans have just a few more weeks to use the blunt power of budget reconciliation, which allows them to evade a filibuster to send President Donald Trump funding viewed as crucial by many in the Republican Party for depleted military reserves and ammunition after nine months of war. Using the tool, which Republicans wielded last year to pass a party line tax bill and this year for immigration enforcement funding, represents a crucial calculation for Thune to make as Democrats weigh blocking a government funding bill if it includes money for the Iran conflict.
But passing a party-line bill is not going to be easy: It requires 50 Senate votes, a majority in the House, and two unlimited Senate vote-a-ramas that defeated or retiring members may have little interest in enduring. And Senate Budget Chair Ron Johnson, R-Wis., who would set the stage for another big party-line bill, said he's worried the party isn't moving quickly enough.
"Right now, I'm not getting engagement from the White House, from either Senate or House leadership. So if that's going to happen, it's going to come from the pressure from members here," Johnson told Semafor on Tuesday.
Republicans are divided over whether they should shovel more money towards the Pentagon with the Iran war is ongoing, particularly since many in the GOP cite the conflict as one of the main reasons for the party's brutal losses in this month's midterm electio
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Nov 11, 2026
Progressive lawmakers and activists are hoping to harness momentum from last week's sweeping Democratic victories to install inspiring new congressional leaders.
Many have looked at the Senate and found their guy: a 67-year-old father of three from an affluent Washington suburb who has held public office continuously since 1991.
Sen. Chris Van Hollen of Maryland has emerged as the alternative of choice for a swath of Democrats who believe Chuck Schumer, the longtime Senate Democratic leader, should step aside despite presiding over massive midterm gains.
It's the culmination of a remarkable resurgence for Van Hollen, who spent years inching up the Democratic leadership ladder in the House only to ditch his seniority there for the back benches of the Senate in 2017.
Over the past two years, he has emerged as an increasingly strident critic of the Democratic party establishment and its approach to President Donald Trump, as well as its positions on populist economic policies and the U.S. relationship with Israel — and members of the party's left flank have noticed.
A wave of House Democrats, outside activists and even at least one newly elected senator are effectively trying to draft him into what could be an uphill race to unseat the 75-year-old Schumer as majority leader.
"I have been very impressed by Senator Van Hollen's leadership," said Sen.-elect Peggy Flanagan of Minnesota, who beat a more centrist Democrat in her state's primary and has said she will not back Schumer.
Van Hollen has wavered on whether he is pursuing a role in Senate leadership or perhaps instead a 2028 run for the presidency. He said Tuesday he is "actively listening" as he keeps the door open to a majority leader bid ahead of the early December caucus elections.
"I'm trying to talk to our members, and I think it's important to reach out to everybody," he said in the Capitol halls.
Flanagan said she had not had "formal conversations" wi
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Nov 11, 2026
It may be the most important decision Hakeem Jeffries makes when, as expected, he takes the speaker's gavel in January and ignites a long-awaited constitutional clash with President Donald Trump: the selection of the House's top lawyer.
The House general counsel will be the muscle behind the chamber's legal strategy to shatter Trump's anticipated stonewalling, its gatekeeper to ensure only winnable fights end up in court, and its shield against a Justice Department that has already tried and failed to indict several Democratic members. And if the House pursues a third impeachment against Trump, its lawyer will be tasked with leading the chamber into the rarely litigated breach.
That daunting job description comes with an even more ambitious goal: reasserting Congress' power to check the president and reversing what Democrats see as the executive branch's slow march toward autocracy under one-party rule.
Democrats have been huddling for weeks to chart this approach — even before recapturing the House majority — meeting with lawyers steeped in the precepts of congressional power so they're ready come Jan. 3.
Jeffries and his top allies have not yet settled on a final candidate but view the choice as a crucial priority, according to a person familiar with the caucus deliberations, granted anonymity to share private conversations. The Democratic leader is also invested in restructuring and beefing up the House counsel's office after years of Republican leadership uninterested in probing Trump administration excesses, the person said.
Typically, speakers have appointed House counsels within several weeks of the start of a new session. Discussions about the next Congress' oversight, including the role of House counsel, are well underway, said Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-Md.), who is slated to chair the Judiciary Committee.
"There are some impressive and road-tested lawyers for the people who have surfaced over the last couple of years," Ras
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Nov 11, 2026
ABU DHABI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Russia and Ukraine agreed a large exchange of prisoners of war, envoys said Wednesday as two days of U.S. mediated talks concluded, but they announced no major breakthrough on ending the conflict that began after Moscow's full-scale invasion nearly five years ago.
Hopes had been low for any significant development in the first meeting in nine months between the delegations. Russia and Ukraine have from time to time swapped POWs but have remained far apart in their demands for accepting a peace settlement.
U.S. officials say they are determined to revive Washington's peace efforts that so far have failed to deliver significant results.
As well as postwar security guarantees for both countries, other key hurdles for negotiators are the fate of Russian-occupied Ukrainian territory and what role European countries will play in an eventual settlement.
US envoys to meet with Putin and Zelenskyy
The session was the first such meeting since February on Russia's invasion, which analysts and humanitarian organizations say has killed hundreds of thousands of soldiers and thousands of civilians.
"One of the positives is we agreed that we're going to have the biggest humanitarian release of prisoners, which we're going to finalize the numbers tomorrow," said Jared Kushner, U.S. President Donald Trump's son-in-law, afte
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Nov 11, 2026
By Eduardo Baptista
BEIJING, Nov 11 (Reuters) - A Chinese university with deep ties to the People's Liberation Army bought Nvidia's powerful H200 AI chips last month despite being on a US export blacklist, procurement records show, highlighting gaps in Washington's efforts to curb China's access to advanced technology.
The findings come as Nvidia and its CEO Jensen Huang face mounting scrutiny in Washington over his lobbying for looser restrictions on sales ?of AI chips to China, following reports alleging he was targeted by a Chinese spying operation.
Huang has argued that continued US sales to China would preserve American technological leadership and keep Chinese customers reliant on US technology. ?But some US lawmakers say access to Nvidia's most powerful AI chips can speed China's development of AI systems for weapons design, intelligence analysis and military modernisation.
Both Democrats and Republicans in Congress have urged stronger controls on China's access to advanced AI chips, such as chip-tracking requirements and greater congressional oversight ?of exports. Three Republican congressional committee chairmen have requested a briefing with Huang on November 18 over his reported contacts with an alleged Chinese intelligence operative.
Northwestern Polytechnical University bought two H200 chips last month for 874,700 yuan ($123,000), according to an October 21 procurement record on its website.
Northwestern is a member of the "Seven Sons of National Defense" group of Chinese universities under U.S. sanctions and with a history of conducting defence-related research for Beijing.
The chips were purchased for its management school from Shaanxi Bosuan Network Technology rather than directly from Nvidia, the record shows.
The H200 is among Nvidia's most capable chips for training and running advanced AI systems and is subject to US export licence approvals, which are normally de
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Nov 11, 2026
WASHINGTON (AP) — Extramarital affairs are usually private matters. Jensen Huang's has global implications.
The 63-year-old is the leading face of the artificial intelligence revolution with his black leather jackets and fluff of gray hair. He runs the company Nvidia, which produces highly coveted computer chips. That's landed him on a late-night-phone-call basis with President Donald Trump, a promoter of the industry.
But Huang was also liaising with a Chinese businessperson who has allegedly fed intelligence — as well as advanced chips — to China. Alice Huang is a former executive at the Singapore-based cloud computing company Megaspeed.
It's a saga of personal betrayal, corporate espionage and high-tech development, and the fallout is spreading across Washington. There are bipartisan calls for investigations on Capitol Hill. The Department of Justice has opened its own investigation. Nvidia, one of the most valuable companies in the world, is conducting an internal review.
Some expect the technology to reshape human civilization by imbuing computers with the vast powers of creation and analysis, and Trump has repeated that "whoever wins AI, wins." Nvidia is the backbone of America's plans for dominating the field.
When asked about Jensen Huang's affair, Trump said this week that he had spoken to the tech executive as the scandal grew.
"I think he'll be in good shape," Trump said, adding that "he said he had absolutely no idea that the person in question was a spy."
As for when th
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Nov 10, 2026
By David Lawder and Kanishka Singh
WASHINGTON, Nov 10 (Reuters) - US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent has recently moved from his Washington, DC residence to a US military base ?after Iranian threats against his life, two people familiar with the matter said ?on Tuesday.
The New York Times first reported the move. A senior intelligence official in the Trump administration warned in a ?memo seen by Reuters late last month that Iranian plots against US personnel and American citizens had reached an advanced stage.
Bessent has led the US sanctions and economic pressure campaign against Iran, dubbed Operation Economic Outcast, since August to try to push Tehran to end attacks on shipping and ?reopen the Strait of Hormuz. The ?crucial waterway has been largely closed since the US and Israel attacked Iran on February 28.
The economic pressure campaign, which coincides with a US ?naval blockade of Iranian ports, has included sanctions on Middle Eastern bank branches and other financial services firms facilitating transactions with Iran.
"The secretary will not be deterred by the Iranian regime's threats and remains ?committed to ?executing Operation Economic Outcast and maintaining the blockade, ?which together are collapsing Iran's economy," a ?US Treasury spokesperson said in an emailed statement.
The Times reported the severity of the threats to Bessent was not immediately clear.
A source familiar with the matter said security concerns surrounding Bessent increased when the Wall Street Journal published an aerial view of the Georgetown mansion that Bessent bought for $12.5 million shortly after his confirmation as Treasury secretary in January 2025.
The photo allowed Bessent's ?home to be geolocated, and Bessent was relocated to a ?military base for his safety, the source said, adding: "The ?news media has an obligation to act ?responsibly amid growing threats against public officials."
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Nov 10, 2026
The Republican-controlled U.S. House of Representatives voted on Tuesday to effectively kill the articles of impeachment against Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth — for now — by blocking their consideration on the House floor and sending them back to the Judiciary Committee, where GOP leaders can hold them up until the next Congress is seated in January 2027.
Democrats — who voted unanimously against shelving the impeachment charges — will have a large House majority next year after winning at least 255 seats in last week's midterm elections. They have already vowed to try to remove Hegseth from office when they take control of Congress.
"In the majority, one of the first things we're gonna do is run Pete Hegseth out of town," Democratic Rep. Hakeem Jeffries of New York, the minority leader who is poised to become House speaker, said at a rally last month.
Eleven Democrats missed Tuesday's vote, which succeeded in blocking the charges by a 211 to 204 margin.
Rep. Thomas Massie, a Republican from Kentucky, reintroduced articles of impeachment against Hegseth on Monday, alleging that the embattled Pentagon chief had committed "high crimes and misdemeanors" and abused the power of his office by violating the War Powers Resolution, conducting military operations without congressional authorization and ordering unlawful military actions in several countries.
On Tuesday, Massie was the only Republican who broke with his party and voted to keep the articles
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Nov 10, 2026
Three people were killed and at least three others critically injured after a vehicle reportedly struck pedestrians in North Hollywood Tuesday evening, according to the Los Angeles Fire Department.
The collision was reported around 5:55 p.m. on Nov. 10 in the 5300 block of North Lankershim Boulevard, near Weddington Street.
LAFD officials said three victims were pronounced dead at the scene, while paramedics transported at least three additional patients to local hospitals in critical condition.
Aerial footage of the scene captured by Sky5 showed the driver, who was alert and speaking to firefighters while he was put into a wheelchair after. Crews were forced to extricate the man from the vehicle.
It appeared that the involved vehicle was a light-colored SUV that was driven into a food vendor's tent when it struck the six pedestrians. Debris from the crash was spread across the sidewalk and the busy Lankershim Boulevard corridor where Metro riders are always boarding and debarking buses and trains.
A large emergency response was dispatched to a possibly deadly traffic collision in North Hollywood on NOv. 10, 2026. (K
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Nov 10, 2026
Alina Habba Mildon, a former attorney for President Donald Trump, has been terminated from her multi-million-dollar role at Florida-registered Concord Partners following months of intense public scrutiny, according to reports.
In a November 4 termination letter obtained by The New York Times, Concord Partners — a firm established by the family of Venezuelan billionaire banker Julio Herrera Velutini — cited a "failure to perform duties" as the reason for releasing Mildon. A source close to the family told the publication that Mildon's attention shifted away from her role after she began dating Turkish investor Turhan Mildon earlier this year.
The departure follows public criticism from Trump, who denounced the lucrative arrangement after details of the contract were disclosed.
"I thought it was terrible," Trump told reporters last month, according to The New York Times. "I told her, and I said, I don't want her paid.' I thought we had somebody speak to the people that did it, and she used her relationship to do that. And it was far too much."
Mediaite also reported Trump saying of the arrangement: "You know, it's one thing for a
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Nov 10, 2026
Several members of the Kennedy family have sued President Donald Trump, aiming to stop the building of the triumphal arch he hopes to build near Washington, D.C., new court filings show.
The proposed 250-foot monument in the style of Paris' Arc de Triomphe would be built on the Virginia side of the Potomac River between the Lincoln Memorial and Arlington National Cemetery, where American veterans have been laid to rest since the Civil War. According to Kennedy family members behind the lawsuit, the 25-story arch would "cast a shadow" over memorials to their family members laid to rest in the historic burial site.
"President Donald J. Trump is attempting to unlawfully erect a massive arch," says the Kennedy family members' lawsuit, "that will permanently cast shadows over and damage historically significant sightlines to the existing gravesites and memorials established in the Kennedy family's honor at Arlington National Cemetery, as well as to the memorials of hundreds of thousands of fallen American heroes."
According to the lawsuit, the arch would block sightlines onto the John F. Kennedy Eternal Flame, a memorial to the former president who was
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Nov 10, 2026
A group of Democratic lawmakers is seeking information from the Trump administration after an 8-year-old Haitian boy was taken into government custody last week.
In a letter to DHS Secretary Markwayne Mullin and HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. on Tuesday, six Democratic lawmakers asked what steps are being taken to reunite the child with his family.
"Video footage appears to show the use of restraints on a child who seemed to pose no threat to those around him, raising serious questions about the handling of this incident," the lawmakers wrote. "We express concerns about the basis for this action and the harm it may cause a young child who appeared for his required hearing."
Trump says 'too tough' deportation policies hurt him in the midtermsThe 8-year-old, who lost Temporary Protected Status earlier this year as part of the Trump administration's immigration crackdown, was taken into federal custody during an immigration check-in last week, according to local advocates and school officials.
The third grader, who attends Fay Elementary School in San Diego, was detained alone after attending an Immigration and Customs Enforcement appointment with his uncle on Thursday.
Advocates and school officials previously said the boy had been living with his uncle and cousins after his father was deported to Mexico last year.
"They did not give the father the opportunity or chance to actually put in place legal guardianship for the kid," said Guerline Jozef, the executive director of the nonprofit Haitian Bridge Alliance.
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Nov 10, 2026
The Republican-controlled U.S. House of Representatives voted on Tuesday to effectively kill the articles of impeachment against Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth — for now — by blocking their consideration on the House floor and sending them back to the Judiciary Committee, where GOP leaders can hold them up until the next Congress is seated in January 2027.
Democrats — who voted unanimously against shelving the impeachment effort — will have a large House majority next year after winning at least 255 seats in last week's midterm elections. They have already vowed to try to remove Hegseth from office when they take control of Congress.
"In the majority, one of the first things we're gonna do is run Pete Hegseth out of town," Democratic Rep. Hakeem Jeffries of New York, the minority leader who is poised to become House speaker, said at a rally last month.
Rep. Thomas Massie, a Republican from Kentucky, reintroduced the articles of impeachment against Hegseth on Monday, alleging that the embattled Pentagon chief had committed "high crimes and misdemeanors" and abused the power of his office by violating the War Powers Resolution, conducting military operations without congressional authorization and ordering unlawful military actions in several countries.
On Tuesday, Massie was the only Republican who broke with his party and voted to keep the articles of impeachment alive.
Before Tuesday's vote, Hegseth struck a defiant tone in a Pentagon news briefing.
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Nov 10, 2026
Democrat Scott Colom's lead over Republican incumbent Cindy Hyde-Smith in the uncalled Mississippi Senate race grew to 2,604 votes on Tuesday, according to the Associated Press, ahead of key deadlines this week to finalize the results.
Outstanding ballots are due by Tuesday, Nov. 10. County clerks have until Nov. 13 to certify the election. And Colom's lead has widened almost every day since Election Day, when it stood at just 65 votes.
Even though 97% of the vote is in, the AP has yet to call the race because the gap between Colom and Hyde-Smith remains narrow — just 0.28% of all ballots cast.
Colom has continually expressed confidence that his campaign will prevail, flooding the airwaves and attending at least eight events over the last few days. "It's very clear the direction of this," he told reporters on Friday. "[Cindy Hyde-Smith] needs to answer questions. What is her path to victory? She doesn't have one."
In contrast, Hyde-Smith had "not been seen publicly since she left her election night watch party just outside of Jackson," according to CNN. She returned to Washington, D.C. on Tuesday and told CBS that she was "feeling very optimistic."
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Nov 10, 2026
The NFL trade deadline had plenty of action.
There were multiple teams who traded for a new starting quarterback. Stars at all three levels of the defense were dealt. There were well-known offensive linemen and receivers moved. Strangely, after weeks of chatter, the only position that didn't see a trade was running back. But there were enough deals to keep everyone busy.
Here are the five most impactful trades made since the start of this season:
1. DT Jeffery Simmons, BearsSimmons showed in his first game at Seattle how much he will impact the Bears this season. Chicago's defense looked much different with Simmons in the middle, taking up attention from blockers and still making plays. He was a first-team All-Pro last season and could be on a similar path this season. Everyone saw Simmons' dominance, yet the Bears were the team that acted on it. Chicago sent two first-round draft picks to Tennessee for Simmons, who is 29 years old, but the Bears and their fans won't mind if he helps break a Super Bowl drought that dates back to the 1985 season. Given how good Chicago's offense is and how the defense has improved already with Simmons in the middle, it's realistic to think Chicago could find itself in the Super Bowl.
"I think he's just — I don't know — you can feel his presence," linebacker T.J. Edwards said after Simmons' Week 8 Bears debut, according to the tea
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Nov 10, 2026
Washington — Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders said Tuesday he won't support New York Sen. Chuck Schumer as Democratic leader when the party takes control of the Senate, becoming the most prominent progressive to oppose his candidacy to date.
Sanders made the announcement at a press conference at the Capitol, saying last week's midterm elections were "about change." Democrats will control at least 54 seats when the 120th Congress convenes in January.
"It was an election across the country, in red states and blue states, where people were looking around them and saying, 'What is going on in America, when I am struggling to put food on the table, pay for healthcare, pay for housing, and I'm worried not only that my life economically is going nowhere, everything being equal, my kid in the richest country in the history of the world is going to have the lowest standard of living than I do?' And while all of this is going on, the billionaire class has never ever had it so good," Sanders said.
He added: "I personally have known Chuck Schumer for over 30 years, and I like Chuck. Nobody who works harder than Chuck Schumer. But in my view, the time is now for change, and I will not be supporting Chuck to be reelected as the Democratic leader."
Sanders, an independent who caucuses with the Democrats, called for "a vigorous debate about the direction of the Democratic Party."
"We need to have that out in the open to show the American people that a new day has come and that their votes meant a new direction in Washington," he said.
Sanders appeared alongside Michigan Democratic Sen. Elissa Slotkin, who said that "whoever wants to run this caucus should come forward with a plan on how they're going to govern differently, what they're going to do in the first 100 days to put money in people's pockets, and then in particular how they're going to communicate differently."
Slotkin said she is "not actively seeking this job"
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Nov 10, 2026
A SNAP sign is seen at the entrance to a Big Lots store in Portland, Oregon. - iStock Editorial/Getty Images
Roughly 6.3 million low-income Americans could lose their food stamp benefits in fiscal year 2029 under a US Department of Agriculture proposed rule released Tuesday. That's nearly one in five enrollees in the safety net program.
The proposal would end a policy that gives states flexibility in approving applicants for food stamps if they are receiving other public aid, which could have higher gross income limits. The policy, known as "broad-based categorical eligibility," has long been a target of Republicans.
The affected food stamp recipients would no longer qualify because their income or resources exceed federal limits for the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, or SNAP, the formal name for food stamps, according to the proposed rule.
The move would also have ripple effects across other key nutrition assistance programs, particularly those for children.
About 1.8 million children would no longer be automatically eligible for free school meals if the proposal is finalized, though the USDA said nearly all would still qualify for free or reduced-price meals if they apply separately. Similarly, 16,500 pregnant women, mothers, infants and children would have to apply for the WIC nutrition program, while another 5,500 participants would no longer be eligible for it.
The proposed rule would increase the paperwork burden on enrollees and on state age
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Nov 10, 2026
A nor'easter could be on the way later this week, bringing rain, gusty winds and a chance of the season's first snow to parts of the Northeast and Great Lakes.
The National Weather Service's Weather Prediction Center (WPC) said it is highly likely that a storm will develop over the Ohio Valley on Wednesday, and could bring thunderstorms and gusty winds from the Midwest to the Ohio and Tennessee Valleys as it moves east. Later, it will shift off the Mid-Atlantic coast and is projected to strengthen Friday.
"Drastically colder air" is also forecast to surge into the eastern half of the country by Wednesday night, the WPC said, with increasing winds by Thursday morning and wet snow possible in the upper Great Lakes. Nearly 200 million people across the eastern half of the country will experience their coldest temperatures since spring, CNN reported.
The WPC said much colder air will rush south across the Great Lakes, bringing snow showers, while the storm itself is forecast to bring "a cold rain and potential inland snow for the Central Appalachians."
While forecasters are confident a storm will form, the WPC said its exact track and impacts are not yet known.
Is snow likely?The first snow of the season looks most likely for those in the mountains, according to the WP
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Nov 10, 2026
Transit officials in Detroit said they are looking into a recent incident in which two horses were captured on video briefly boarding a public bus.
The Detroit Department of Transportation (DDOT) said in a statement Tuesday that it is "aware of a recent incident where two horses were allowed to walk through a bus as it was pulled over at a bus stop."
Ellessia Drew via Storyful - PHOTO: A still from video showing two horses boarding a public bus in Detroit on Nov. 7, 2026. Transit officials said they are looking into the recent incident.Video of the incident shows two people leading two saddled horses onto the bus while it was pulled over at the stop, then exiting from the rear doors several seconds later.
"We are taking appropriate steps to address this incident as it is not consistent with DDOT policy and potentially creates an unsafe and uncomfortable ride for our passengers," DDOT said.
Ellessia Drew via Storyful - PHOTO: A still from video showing two horses getting off a public bus in Detroit on Nov. 7, 2026. Transit officials said they are looking into the recent incident.
The incident occurred Saturday along 7 Mile East near Strasburg Street. It is unclear how many passengers were on the bus at the time.
DDOT noted that only service animals are allowed on buses and "must be under control by the person with disabilities at all times, must not occupy a seat, and must either sit on the floor, or on the person's lap."
This article originally appeared on ABC News at https://abcnews.com/US/detroit-transit-officials-unsafe-incident-2-h
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Nov 10, 2026
Meghan Markle's estranged father, Thomas Markle, cut off his ankle monitor while on house arrest after being charged with having child sexual abuse material, federal authorities said on Tuesday.
"Four days ago, a federal judge allowed Mr. Markle to remain out of custody pending trial," Bill Essayli, first assistant U.S. attorney for the Central District of California, said in a statement posted to X. "He was ordered to wear a location monitoring device. He allegedly cut the bracelet off at 1:45 a.m. last night. Release conditions are court orders, not suggestions. We are asking the court to revoke his release and detain him pending trial, and we will continue to prosecute this case to the fullest extent of the law."
A Justice Department spokesperson told the BBC that Markle, 82, appeared in court in Tampa, Fla., on Tuesday after he allegedly removed his ankle monitor. He was reportedly ordered jailed without bond and remains in federal custody.
Last Friday, Markle appeared in federal court in Tampa, hours after FBI agents arrested him at his care home. He was charged with one count of possession of child pornography. He arrived at court in a wheelchair and did not enter a plea.
A magistrate judge released him on his own recognizance to home detention with electronic monitoring and barred him from traveling outside Florida's Middle District and California's Central District
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Nov 10, 2026
A soldier in the US Army has been arrested on suspicion of spying for Russia, British counter-terror police have said.
The 41-year-old senior serviceman was arrested near Gloucester on Tuesday.
Counter Terrorism Policing London said the man had been arrested under section one and section three of the National Security Act 2023.
Section one of the Act relates to obtaining or disclosing protected information, while section three relates to assisting a foreign intelligence service.
As part of the investigation, officers are carrying out searches at two locations in Gloucestershire.
The BBC understands the soldier was based at Imjin Barracks in Innsworth, Gloucestershire. The barracks serve as the headquarters of Nato's Allied Rapid Reaction Corps (ARRC), a strategic operational base for the alliance.
Counter Terrorism Policing said it was not linked to any other ongoing investigations.
FBI director Kash Patel said in a statement: "This important arrest involves allegations of espionage, which is of the utmost concern to the United States and our allies."
He added: "While this investigation is continuing, I want to send a clear message - this FBI has no tolerance for anyone who breaks their oath to the United States and whose actions endanger our national security and that of our partners."
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Deputy Assistant Commissioner Vicki Evans, from Counter Terrorism Policing London, described the arrest as "significant".
"The allegations are serious and our investigation is very much ongoing," she said.
The unnamed soldier is currentl
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Nov 10, 2026
NEW YORK (AP) — Three men, including one already jailed in the United States, were accused by U.S. authorities Tuesday of being Iran-supported operatives who plotted nearly 20 attacks on Jewish communities in Europe and the U.S. as well as a planned assault on a British airbase used by the U.S. Air Force.
Charges against Mohammad Baqer Saad Dawood al-Saadi, a dual Iranian-Iraqi national; Mohsen Mohajeri, an Iranian national; and Mohammad Ali al-Hassani, an Iraqi national, were outlined in a superseding indictment unsealed in Manhattan federal court. Only al-Saadi is in custody.
U.S. Attorney Jamie McDonald in New York said in a news release that al-Saadi, who was arrested in the spring, continued to coordinate with his co-defendants in the days leading up to the attempted September terrorist plot at a British Royal Air Force Base in Fairford, United Kingdom, where U.S. bombers and troops had been stationed.
"These defendants helped orchestrate a campaign of terror on behalf of terrorist organizations affiliated with Iran that targeted Jewish communities in Europe and the United States, and the British military base, RAF Fairford, housing American service members," McDonald said. "The threat presented by Iran and Iran-backed terrorist groups to America and our allies is not hypothetical — it is very real."
Attorney General Todd Blanche said: "Anyone who plans a terrorist plot on a military base housing American servicemembers will be prosecuted by the United States government."
The new indictment offers fresh insight into an episode that has been shrouded in mystery for more than a month after five men were detained after midnight on Sept. 27 on suspected explosives and terrorism offenses after three suspicious vans were spotted traveling toward the base in western England.
A sixth suspect, a British-Iranian dual national, was arrested seve
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Nov 10, 2026
Nvidia (NVDA) stock continued to face pressure on Tuesday after the chipmaker's board launched an investigation into CEO Jensen Huang's extramarital affair, which is believed to have been with alleged Chinese spy Alice Huang.
"I was unfaithful to my wife. My actions hurt her and our children. There is no excuse for what I did. I am deeply sorry," Huang wrote in a memo to employees.
The Information reported on Tuesday that Alice Huang is believed to be involved in a network of Chinese companies that facilitated the shipment of $7.5 billion ?in chip sales to China.
Given the size and importance of Nvidia in the stock market today, the revelation marks one of the biggest CEO-personal conduct scandals in history. It also highlights Nvidia's key-person risk and uncertain succession plan as questions swirl about whether the board will ask Huang to step down.
The news has drawn immediate and varied reactions from le
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Nov 10, 2026
By David Morgan
WASHINGTON, Nov 10 (Reuters) - Republicans in the US House of Representatives elected conservative Jim Jordan on Tuesday ?to lead the chamber's incoming Republican minority during the ?final two years of President Donald Trump's presidency, US media said.
A secret ballot ?held behind closed doors elevated the Ohio Republican and House Judiciary Committee chairman to the minority leadership post a week after Democrats swept to victory in last Tuesday's midterm elections, winning sizable majorities ?in both the House ?and Senate.
Both Punchbowl News and Fox News reported Jordan's victory.
House Speaker Mike Johnson opted not to stand ?for the leadership position.
Across the Capitol, Senate Republicans met behind closed doors to decide whether to push forward with internal elections that were ?expected ?to retain US Senator John Thune, ?a South Dakota Republican, ?as the party leader or opt for a delay that could allow a challenger to emerge.
The House and Senate leadership elections will help determine what role Republicans intend to play as the minority party in Congress during the final two years of Trump's presidency.
Democrats ?will need Republican support to move major ?initiatives in the 100-member Senate, where ?the filibuster rule requires ?60 votes for most legislation. Their majorities in ?both chambers also fall well short ?of the two-thirds ?votes needed to override presidential vetoes.
After the midterm elections, Thune vowed that Republicans would work with Trump to block "Democrat extremism" ?and work against ?any attempt by Democrats to unwind Republican achievements including ?border security and judicial appointments.
(Reporting by David Morgan; Editing by ?Michael Learmonth and Alistair Bell)
This article originally appeared on Reuters at https://uk.news.yahoo.com/week-huge-election-losses-republicans-110711778.html
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Nov 10, 2026
WASHINGTON (AP) — Rep.-elect LaKesha Womack, a community organizer who stunned her own Democratic Party by defeating a well-known North Carolina Republican on her shoestring $56,000 campaign budget, said she's excited to arrive in Washington and show what's possible.
Rep.-elect Brian Poindexter said his win over incumbent GOP Rep. Max Miller ensures Ohio remains a very competitive swing state.
And Rebecca Bennett, a former Navy helicopter pilot in New Jersey who said she's spent her whole life "trying to find the biggest, hardest problem to throw myself at," was ready to give Congress a try. "There's always the unknown."
They were among more than 100 newly elected members of Congress arriving in Washington this week for the start of freshmen orientation — the crush of new Democrats, many bringing a new sense of urgency after the party's sweep of the midterm elections, and the slim new class of freshmen Republicans.
"People were just looking for somebody who's going to listen to them," said Womack, who said she won by simply showing up and talking with voters.
"I'm a single mom and so I know what it's like to have to live on a budget and figure out how am I going to feed my family," she said. "And that's what people want to fight for them in Washington right now."
New-member orientation creates an unusual mash-up on Capitol Hil
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Nov 10, 2026
One of the female University of Mississippi students caught in camera footage outside of a Black student's apartment Friday evening allegedly making racist noises and gestures apologized for her behavior on Tuesday.
"To the women I offended and to the Ole Miss community, I sincerely apologize," the student said in a statement released by a representative on her behalf. "Before the incident on November 6, I never met the women involved and was unaware of their race, however, I recognize my actions were insensitive, inappropriate, and deeply harmful."
Courtesy Jakiyra Metcalf - PHOTO: Ole Miss University is investigating video appearing to show students making monkey sounds and gestures, allegedly targeting Black students with racist tropes.Two of the three women in the video, which was posted to TikTok, are seen briefly stepping toward the door camera, beating their chests while grunting and cooing like monkeys. The video had been viewed over 12.5 million times as of early Tuesday afternoon.
"I would have never intentionally made those noises or gestures toward a person of color," the student said in her statement. "I have apologized to the women and I pray they will forgive me. I can never truly understand the pain I have caused them and it was never my intention. These girls deserve to feel seen and understood and what I did is not a reflection of who I am trying to become."
University of Mississippi officials condemn alleged racist taunts in vira
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Nov 10, 2026
US Secretary of State Marco Rubio said after a G7 meeting that the economic campaign against Iran meant bombing was unnecessary (Brendan SMIALOWSKI)Top US diplomat Marco Rubio said Tuesday that he saw no need to attack Iran again, as diplomatic efforts to end the war gathered steam and Tehran urged Washington to accept its demands for reopening the Strait of Hormuz.
Hours after President Donald Trump said he saw "positive momentum" towards resolving the eight-month war, Rubio said the United States' squeezing of Iran's economy made further attacks unnecessary.
"The economic campaign (against Iran) is so devastating that right now there is no need for major combat operations," the secretary of state said after a meeting of G7 foreign ministers in Paris. "That's what I told our allies here today."
Iran's efforts to blockade Hormuz, the major exit route for Gulf energy shipments, have sent oil prices soaring -- a major factor in the humbling of Trump's Republicans in last week's midterm elections.
Washington has imposed a counter-blockade on Iranian ports and in August announced what it called an "economic asphyxiation" campaign aimed at financially strangling Iran, already battered by years of sanctions.
Britain's Foreign Secretary Ed Miliband called for greater efforts to end the conflict, while warning of the economic damage of an ongoing impasse.
"We need to move beyond the 'no war, no peace' stalemate, which is causing deep economic pain for our countries," he said in Paris.
"We must see an all-out diplomatic effort to end this conflict, prevent a nuclear Iran and the threats it poses around the world, and get the Strait of Hormuz properly reopened."
Washington has appeared to taper down its threats of renewed strikes after the Republicans'
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Nov 10, 2026
Vice President JD Vance (Oliver Contreras / AFP via Getty Images)
Vice President JD Vance blasted the effort to impeach War Secretary Pete Hegseth as "absurd," accusing lawmakers of engaging in political theater instead of legislating and targeting the Pentagon chief for challenging the military bureaucracy.
"Has Pete Hegseth committed impeachable crimes? The question is absurd and the answer is: obviously not," Vance wrote Tuesday on X.
"Like so much of Congress, impeachment has become a ridiculous show that stands in for actual policymaking."
Vance's defense came as Rep. Thomas Massie, R-Ky., moved to force a House vote on eight articles of impeachment against Hegseth, most of which focus on the Trump administration's military campaign against Iran.
The resolution also challenges Hegseth's involvement in military operations in Yemen and Venezuela.
Vance argued that lawmakers have other ways to challenge administration policies without resorting to impeachment.
"Congress has so many tools for registering its policy disagreements," Vance wrote. "Rather than use them, they're going to try to impeach Pete Hegseth. They did the same to Donald Trump."
"Legislation is hard. Impeachments are easy (and ultimately, inconsequential)."
The vice president suggested that the impeachment push was driven less by the Iran war than by Hegseth's attempts to reform the Pentagon and shift U.S. military priorities.
"The irony is that legislators are most angry at Pete on the iss
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Nov 10, 2026
Winter will make its first cameo in the eastern United States later this week as a storm ushers in the coldest temperatures in six months for tens of millions of people and the first snow for some.
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The storm will become a nor'easter when it reaches the Northeast coast, shaking up a period of relative tranquility in the region and becoming the first notable storm since September's early season nor'easter.
Nearly 200 million people east of the Mississippi will experience their coldest temperatures since spring as a tease of winter plunges south from Canada in the storm's wake.
The storm will develop across the Midwest Wednesday and slowly strengthen as it pushes east. With it, blustery and sloppy conditions are expected from the Midwest to the Mid-Atlantic and into coastal parts of the Northeast later in the week.
High elevations in the Interior Northeast are likely to see their first snowfall of fall, and the lake-effect snow machine will also power on for the first time since spring in the Great Lakes.
Not every impact is locked in. How much snow and rain will impact the Northeast and New England remains in question with forecast models still disagreeing on the storm's intensity and speed.
Impacts hinge on storm's speed
Wet snow is possible in the mountains of the Interior Northeast southward through the central and southern Appalachians, especially by Thursday night and Friday.
Most lower elevations, including the Interstate 95 corridor from Philadelphia to Boston, will just experience a cold rain. Some snow could
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Nov 10, 2026
Annie Farmer, an abuse survivor, talks to reporters at the Donald J. Trump and Jeffrey Epstein Memorial Reading Room in Addison, Texas. Photo by Ian Halperin/UPI
Nov. 10 (UPI) -- The House Oversight Committee accused federal authorities Tuesday of repeatedly failing victims of Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell, calling on the Justice Department to further investigate allegations involving Epstein's associates.
The committee released a 137-page report alleging decades of failures by law enforcement, prosecutors and financial institutions that allowed Epstein to continue sexually abusing and trafficking young women and girls.
"The federal government has failed the survivors of Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell's horrific crimes for decades," committee Chairman James Comer, R-Ky., said in a statement.
The report urged the Justice Department to interview or reinterview witnesses who may have undisclosed information about Epstein's trafficking operation.
Investigators should also examine allegations of criminal activity involving Epstein's associates and provide survivors with unredacted access to their personal investigative records, the committee said.
The report criticized a 2007
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