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In a secret-ballot vote Tuesday, Ohio Rep. Jim Jordan beat Steve Scalise 106-73 to become House Republican minority leader, with Tom Emmer taking the whip slot 103-76 over August Pfluger. The shakeup follows historic GOP midterm losses that pushed Speaker Mike Johnson out of leadership. Jordan pitched himself as a unifier who'd let members "vote their districts."
Senate Republicans reelected John Thune of South Dakota as conference leader Tuesday after a tense day of recriminations over the midterm wipeout that cost them the majority. A rebellion against him fizzled before it ever reached a serious challenge. Thune now leads a minority conference staring down a December 11 funding deadline.
Consumer prices climbed 0.4 percent in October, beating the 0.3 percent consensus, with shelter alone driving more than 30 percent of the increase. Core inflation rose 0.3 percent against a 0.2 percent estimate. Stocks pulled back as a top Fed official floated a half-point rate hike at next month's meeting, even as pump prices slid under four dollars a gallon for the first time since July.
The committee's final report, out Tuesday, concludes the federal government failed Epstein's accusers for decades, singling out the 2007 non-prosecution agreement and a prosecutor who never recused despite a prior romantic tie to Epstein's later attorney. It also faults banks for flagging suspicious transactions and doing nothing. Investigators found no wrongdoing by President Trump and are urging DOJ to reopen parts of the probe.
Jared Kushner and Steve Witkoff are in Abu Dhabi Tuesday and Wednesday alongside Ukraine's intelligence chief Rustem Umerov and Putin aide Vladimir Medinsky. Washington is pushing for an Article Five-style security guarantee "effectively very similar to NATO," while territory remains the sticking point. Nobody expects a signed deal this week, only a narrowing of the gaps.
Nine months into the conflict, Trump says the US posture is status quo: a second carrier "loaded up to the gills," a continuing naval blockade, and Operation Iron Gate squeezing by land and sea. Tehran will reopen the Strait of Hormuz only if Washington lifts its port blockade and accepts seven conditions, which Secretary Rubio called outrageous. Trump says fresh strikes are "highly unlikely" so long as talks keep moving.
Exxon inked a memorandum with state oil company PDVSA at a ceremony presided over by acting President Delcy Rodríguez. It's the clearest sign yet of the administration's push to rebuild Venezuela's battered oil sector after Maduro's arrest in January. Two decades after being expropriated, the supermajor is eyeing a comeback.
SpaceX, Blue Origin and six other aerospace firms can now compete for up to ten billion dollars in contracts hauling cargo and infrastructure to the Moon. The goal is a permanent base at the lunar south pole. Blue Origin already landed a ninety-four million dollar deal to deliver NASA's nuclear-powered PROMISE rover.
The Vera Rubin Observatory in Chile spotted 2026 ED138, a candidate dwarf planet that could run up to 930 miles across. It evaded detection because it sat in a star-crowded patch of sky toward the Milky Way. Continuous all-sky monitoring plus new algorithms finally pulled it out of the clutter.
Harrison Butker's Upright PAC, launched in 2024, has raised under seven thousand dollars since January 2025 and donated exactly nothing to any candidate. Its web domain now redirects visitors to an online gambling operation based in Thailand. Somebody let the registration lapse, and the internet did what the internet does.
