Democrats flipped attorney general offices in five Republican-leaning states — Texas, Ohio, Georgia, Iowa and Kansas — in Tuesday's midterms, a result that threatens the conservative legal movement's state-level machinery. The incoming AGs are expected to pull back cooperation with federal immigration operations, shore up abortion access, and launch multistate challenges to administration environmental and gun policy. It compounds a night that handed Democrats both chambers of Congress.
President Trump named deputy chief of staff Stephen Miller to replace Susie Wiles, effective Monday, November 9, calling him one of his most trusted advisors. Wiles — Trump's longest-serving chief of staff at 21 months — resigned Thursday night and is moving to his political operation. The shake-up landed three days after the GOP lost both the House and Senate, and Democrats including Hakeem Jeffries reacted with open fury.
Cranbury Township, New Jersey disclosed on November 6 that roughly $26 million was stolen in a fraudulent wire transfer back on September 28 — money earmarked for property purchases tied to the township's affordable housing obligations. That's more than five weeks of silence, and three days after voters went to the polls. Investigators have frozen about $17.3 million, leaving roughly $8.7 million unaccounted for, and residents are demanding to know why nobody told them.
Crude prices rebounded late in the week after sliding in the wake of the midterms, keeping the national average for regular gas around $4.10 a gallon — up from roughly $3.08 a year ago. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent has predicted oil could fall toward $40 a barrel once the Iran conflict winds down and supply floods back in. Nearly four in five voters told exit pollsters inflation had caused them severe or moderate hardship this year.
The administration has stood up a new CENTCOM task force, "Iron Gate," to push the existing naval blockade of Iranian ports onto Iran's ground transit corridors and the Caspian. Based in Tampa, it will coordinate with U.S. agencies to choke off advanced weapons, dual-use tech, sanctioned materials and illicit revenue. CENTCOM says the sea blockade has already blocked $25 billion in Iranian crude exports, while Iran-backed Houthis claim Saudi air strikes killed dozens in Yemen's Sanaa province Sunday.
A 24-year-old Polish man in military-style fatigues opened fire from a moving car into Kraków's Main Square on Saturday, killing at least six and wounding more than a dozen, including police. Officers shot and wounded him before taking him into custody, and found additional weapons and ammunition in his vehicle. Police later discovered three bodies at his home — his father, mother and 21-year-old sister.
Ukraine says Russian guided bombs hit a former school and underground shelter in Komyshuvakha, Zaporizhzhia, where villagers had gathered for humanitarian aid, then struck again to catch the emergency responders. At least 55 people were killed and roughly 50 remain missing, with DNA analysis still underway to identify bodies. Ukraine's military intelligence says it has identified the Russian service members behind the coordinated strikes.
Astronomers using the new Vera C. Rubin Observatory in Chile found an object designated 2026 ED138 that may measure up to 930 miles across — potentially among the largest dwarf planet candidates ever found in the outer solar system. It currently sits about 4.3 billion miles from the sun, well beyond Pluto's average distance. It went undetected for so long because it was camouflaged against a dense star field near the Milky Way.
A UCLA team reported in Frontiers in Immunology that temporarily boosting the p53 protein using the drug navtemadlin kept engineered T cells stronger for longer, letting them kill more melanoma cells in lab experiments. The core problem in immunotherapy is T-cell exhaustion — the immune cells quit before the tumor does. This is early, lab-stage work, but it points at a genuinely different lever to pull.
A hunter in the woods near St. Maries, Idaho filed a report with the Bigfoot Field Researchers Organization describing loud tree knocking, a deep voice, and an overpowering smell of death near a creek bed. He says the knocking came first, then the stench hit immediately after. No photos, no prints — just one very motivated guy and a sincere write-up.
