Start your week smart: Iranian assassination plot, Ukraine drone attack, setback in Gaza talks, markets soar, Tuskegee shooting
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Need a little inspiration to get off the couch this Sunday? Look no further than this octogenarian who recently completed her 21st marathon! Here’s what else you need to know to Start Your Week Smart. • The Justice Department announced federal charges in a thwarted Iranian plot to kill Donald Trump before the presidential election. According to court documents, Farhad Shakeri is still at large in Iran. Meanwhile the final presidential projection showed that Trump will win Arizona, completing a sweep of the battleground states and bringing his total number of projected Electoral College votes to 312, compared with 226 for Kamala Harris. Follow live updates.• Russia and Ukraine have exchanged record numbers of drone strikes, with Moscow launching a total of 145 drones – the most ever in a single nighttime attack of the war. Ukraine, meanwhile, fired an unprecedented number of drones toward Russia’s capital.• Qatar is suspending its role as a mediator in talks between Israel and Hamas after concluding that the two sides are no longer negotiating in good faith, its foreign ministry said. Qatar, alongside Egypt, served as an intermediary for the two sides, which do not officially maintain direct contact.• US stocks closed at record highs, notching their best week all year after Trump’s election victory. The S&P 500 briefly crossed 6,000 points for the first time ever before closing at about 5,996. The Dow rose about 260 points.• One person was killed and several others were injured in a shooting on the last day of homecoming week at Alabama’s Tuskegee University. Social media video shows people ducking for cover at a parking lot as gunshots rang out. MondayNovember 11 is Veterans Day, a holiday honoring men and women who have served in the US armed forces. TuesdayThe judge who presided over Donald Trump’s hush money trial earlier this year is expected to decide whether to wipe away Trump’s conviction on 34 counts of falsifying business records to cover up a payment to an adult film star, or to proceed with sentencing the president-elect later this month. Judge Juan Merchan’s self-imposed deadline follows the Supreme Court’s decision this summer granting a president partial presidential immunity. If Merchan decides to wipe away the conviction, the charges will be dismissed. WednesdaySenate Republicans will choose a successor to Mitch McConnell, who announced in February that he would not run for leader in the next Congress, ending what will be an 18-year tenure. Texas Sen. John Cornyn and Senate GOP Whip John Thune, the two top candidates to succeed McConnell, poured millions into GOP candidates’ campaign accounts and stumped for them on the trail as part of an effort to lock up support. A third leadership candidate, Florida Sen. Rick Scott, is seen as a long shot, even though he has been in regular contact with Trump in their home state.
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Rep. Jerry Nadler, the long-serving dean of the New York congressional delegation and the top Democrat on the House Judiciary Committee, is getting a primary challenger for next year — and it’s not from the Democratic Socialists of America.
The grief for New York Police Department Officer Didarul Islam stretched from Midtown Manhattan all the way up to the 47th Precinct in the Bronx Monday night.
Two of Joe Biden’s top White House aides are set to appear before the House Oversight Committee in the Republican-led panel’s intensifying investigation into the former president’s cognitive decline.
Senior citizens soon won’t be able to simply call the Social Security Administration to change their address or check the status of their benefit claim.
Emil Bove, a top Justice Department official who also defended Donald Trump in his criminal indictments, has been confirmed to a lifetime appointment as a federal appellate judge, despite accusations from a handful of whistleblowers accusing him of improperly overseeing cases for the administration.
Federal criminal cases in New Jersey remain in chaos with judges postponing sentencings, plea hearings and status conferences this week as questions swirl about the authority of former Donald Trump lawyer Alina Habba to serve as the acting US attorney.
Senate Republicans are weighing a number of options to expedite the confirmation of President Donald Trump’s nominees on the floor of the Senate in order to overcome Democratic filibusters, members warn.
A gunman opened fire early Monday morning at a resort and casino in Reno, leaving three people dead and several injured as guests were startled by a spray of gunfire that could be heard from their rooms, according to police.
President Donald Trump wants to move on from his administration’s fiasco over the Jeffrey Epstein files, but he keeps hampering that effort by opening his mouth.
The Trump administration has frozen $108 million in federal funding for Duke Health, a senior administration official confirmed, amid allegations of “systemic racial discrimination.”