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The HMS Prince of Wales Oslo security talks bring 500 defence and political leaders aboard a carrier this week — with the Northern Navies pact and NATO's northern flank underneath the summit staging.
The Japan food consumption tax cut to 1 percent clears the lower house on 6 November — every opposition party against, four ruling-party members walking out, a ¥10 trillion funding gap, and an upper house the government does not control.
The Eisenkot mandate to form government in Israel, announced by President Herzog on 7 November, rests on 67 recommendations against Netanyahu's 46 — but recommendations are not a coalition, and Liberman's veto, Arab-party support and the draft-exemption fight decide the next 28 days.
Stephen Miller replaces Susie Wiles as chief of staff from 9 November, days after Republicans lost both chambers — a promotion for the architect of Trump's immigration crackdown that signals a White House girding for a fight, not a compromise.
A man in his 60s sold his business, and the buyer says the man's Verizon account carries six lines instead of three, an unwanted phone on a three-year contract, and 'free' devices that bill monthly. Unproven against Verizon — and matching a pattern regulators have fined before.
A Florida jury found Rep. Fabian Basabe liable for sexual harassment, battery and defamation — then the voters, not his institution, removed him. An investigation into the hidden currency of sexual access, the closet as governance, and why the law barely sees the men it happens to.
The lame-duck Congress funding deadline December 11 leaves the outgoing Republican-led Congress to fund the government, with the lame-duck session 2026 agenda also carrying the NDAA and the expired farm bill.
The Republicans were crushed for documented reasons: prices, an unpopular war, and a message that never reached Black voters in specifics. The Democrats' morning-after celebration is historic representation. Their announced agenda, however, contains nothing with Black Americans' name on it.
An unemployment claim selected for audit becomes a second trial: prove your identity again, re-litigate your firing, rebuild one week of job searching in a chart — all due within days, while the state grades only the claimant.
Democrats seize control of Congress after the 2026 midterm election results flipped seven Senate seats and broke Republican strongholds from Kansas to Texas — a rebuke to President Trump that brings divided government to Washington in January.
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