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Stephen Miller stepped into the chief of staff role this week, replacing Susie Wiles, who moves over to the Trump political operation. The shuffle is the first major West Wing shake-up since Democrats flipped both chambers in the midterms, and it signals a pivot toward governing by executive action on immigration and tariffs. Several House Republicans publicly blasted the promotion.
House Republicans picked Ohio's Jim Jordan over Steve Scalise in a closed-door vote Tuesday, 106 to 73, to serve as minority leader in the next Congress. Speaker Mike Johnson had already announced he was stepping aside after the election losses. Jordan, currently Judiciary Committee chairman, campaigned as the conference's most aggressive fighter.
The Consumer Price Index rose 0.4 percent in October against a 0.3 percent consensus, with shelter costs driving more than 30 percent of the monthly gain. Core CPI came in at 0.3 percent versus 0.2 percent expected. Treasury yields jumped across the curve, with the 10-year pushing above 4.9 percent and the 30-year back over 5.3 percent.
The House voted 211 to 204 Tuesday night to shunt Rep. Thomas Massie's eight articles of impeachment against War Secretary Pete Hegseth into the Judiciary Committee, effectively burying them. Every Republican except Massie voted to kill it; every Democrat present voted to advance it. Hegseth called the effort "a farce" and "a stunt."
The three delegations began a two-day session in the UAE on Tuesday, the first trilateral format of its kind and the first talks in months. Territory and security guarantees dominate the agenda, with the future of the Donbas the central sticking point. Zelensky called the US mediators' revised approach constructive after day one.
After two days of meetings with G7 foreign ministers in Paris, Secretary of State Marco Rubio said the economic campaign is achieving the same objectives as military action. It follows Trump's assessment that the Iran conflict is effectively over militarily, though US forces remain "locked and loaded." Rubio dismissed Tehran's current negotiating demands as "absurd."
Paris summoned Iran's ambassador after prosecutors and the cybersecurity agency ANSSI attributed the October 12 attack to Shahid Kaveh, an IRGC-linked cyber unit. Hackers forced refrigeration controllers at roughly 700 food sites into continuous defrost, pushing temperatures to 122 degrees Fahrenheit, sparking at least 15 fires and tens of millions of euros in spoilage. France is seeking EU sanctions and international arrest warrants; Tehran calls the claims baseless.
Physicists on the LHCb experiment reported evidence of an ultra-rare decay of a beauty particle expected to occur roughly once in 10 billion events. The search has been running for about four decades. Precise measurements of the rate could expose hidden particles and forces beyond the reach of current accelerators.
Super Heavy Booster 22 rolled to the launch pad Tuesday for stacking ahead of Starship Flight 15, now targeting Friday, November 13 at 5:45 p.m. Eastern. SpaceX will try to recover both the booster and the upper stage on the same flight, which would be a first for an orbital-class rocket and spacecraft. The mission also carries 26 Starlink V3 satellites.
British author M. John Harrison took the 2026 Booker Prize for "The End of Everything," a dystopian novel set on the near-future Kent coast. At 81 he surpasses Margaret Atwood, who was 79 when she won in 2019. He is also the first bona fide science-fiction writer ever to take the prize.
