President Trump has elevated deputy chief of staff Stephen Miller to replace Susie Wiles, effective Monday, November 9 — three days after Republicans lost both chambers of Congress. Multiple House Republicans said Miller should have been fired instead, with retiring Rep. Don Bacon arguing Miller "over-reached" on immigration and "cost us many seats on Tuesday." JD Vance and immigration hawks cheered the move; Hakeem Jeffries called for Miller's removal from the administration entirely.
In a Truth Social post this afternoon, Trump said he has directed the Justice Department to investigate Democratic lawmakers over what he described as threats against administration officials, including talk of impeaching Attorney General Todd Blanche. The directive lands as the incoming Democratic majorities prepare their own oversight agenda. Trump separately blasted Senate Republicans for "getting nothing passed."
Employers added 165,000 jobs last month against expectations of just 62,000, and the jobless rate fell from 4.2 percent to 4.1 percent. August and September were revised up by a combined 84,000, putting three-month average growth at roughly 137,000 — the best pace since May. The catch: consumer inflation ran 3.7 percent annually in September, outpacing wage gains.
The first lady unveiled a $7.2 million scholarship endowment at Louisiana State University today, earmarked for young Americans who came up through the foster care system. She delivered the announcement ahead of the LSU-Alabama matchup, framing it as a message of hope for kids who age out of the system without a safety net.
A gunman in military-style fatigues opened fire from a moving car near Main Market Square in Kraków just after 3 p.m. local time, killing six and wounding at least fifteen. Authorities identified the suspect as a 24-year-old Polish national armed with an AR-15 rifle, with additional weapons and ammunition found in his vehicle. Police shot and detained him; he underwent surgery at a local hospital.
Trump said American forces hit an Iranian "anti-aircraft device" and "knocked it out in about 15 minutes, maybe five," after Iranian state media reported two missiles striking the Suza area of Qeshm Island in the Strait of Hormuz. He characterized the action as "minor strikes" and noted no US service members have been lost in roughly six months. Tehran, meanwhile, routed a nuclear proposal to Washington through Qatar that demands the US accept seven conditions before talks begin.
Israeli President Isaac Herzog announced today that opposition leader Gadi Eisenkot gets the first crack at building a coalition, giving him 28 days. Eisenkot was recommended by parties holding 67 Knesset seats versus 46 for Netanyahu's bloc, though his path runs through Arab-led parties that made historic gains — a dependency right-leaning members of his own alliance resist. Netanyahu's bloc finished with 53 of the 120 seats, short of the 61 needed.
The Vera C. Rubin Observatory has turned up a dwarf planet candidate designated 2026 ED138, estimated at somewhere between 370 and 930 miles across — potentially among the largest ever found. It currently sits about 4.3 billion miles from the sun, well beyond Pluto. Astronomers need follow-up observations to pin down its true size and orbit.
Trump laid out a NASA agenda that includes launching America's first nuclear-powered spacecraft toward Mars within two years, returning astronauts to the lunar surface, and standing up a permanent outpost officials are calling "Moon Base." NASA has three new Moon missions targeted for launch by the end of this year and is opening applications for a fresh astronaut class to feed the Artemis program.
A former FBI employee sorting through boxes bought at an Austin, Texas estate sale found what looked like World War II-era grenades. The city bomb squad confirmed all five were still live. Officials are warning collectors that decades-old military souvenirs can remain fully functional.
