NEW: BROOKLYN D.A. OPENS CRIMINAL PROBE INTO DEADLY BUILDING COLLAPSE: Brooklyn District Attorney Eric Gonzalez has launched a criminal investigation into Wednesday’s Flatbush building collapse that killed eight people, including two children, and injured 18 others. Gonzalez stated that his office is working closely with the NYC Department of Buildings, the Department of Investigation, and other law enforcement partners "to determine whether any criminal conduct contributed to this tragedy." The probe is examining the nearby excavation and construction work, potential negligence, prior violations at the sites, and related factors.
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The Supreme Court agreed Friday to consider President Donald Trump’s ban on asylum at the southern border, a pillar of the Republican president’s far-reaching crackdown on immigration.The Trump administration is asking the justices to overturn lower court decisions that found the executive order banning asylum applications illegal. It's the latest in a series of immigration cases before the high court.
UPDATE: MICROSOFT APOLOGIZES AS SERVICES RECOVER FROM MAJOR OUTAGE: Microsoft issued an apology Friday following widespread service disruptions, saying it is seeing broad recovery and stability across its services. The company apologized to customers and partners, emphasizing that it takes their trust seriously and is working to restore reliable service.
*AMBASSADOR DANON:* After an emotional and meaningful visit to Poland with a delegation of UN ambassadors, we are on our way to Israel to show the ambassadors firsthand the challenges we face.
🇺🇸 TREASURY SECRETARY BESSENT DEFIES IRANIAN DEATH THREATS AFTER MOVING TO MILITARY BASE: Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent confirmed Friday that he and his family relocated from their Washington home to a military base following reported Iranian assassination threats. Speaking on CNBC, Bessent said he would not be intimidated and described Iran’s leadership as a dangerous, cornered animal. Security concerns reportedly intensified after a published aerial photo exposed the location of his residence. Bessent said the threats demonstrate that the Trump administration’s economic pressure campaign against Iran, known as Operation Economic Outcast, is working.
🇮🇱🔴 IDF ELIMINATES OVER 10 TERRORISTS IN GAZA: The IDF and Shin Bet announced that more than 10 terrorists were eliminated in strikes across Gaza over the past week, including Hamas Nukhba terrorist Muhammad Ata Zaki Kishawi and Hamas commander Hani Ibrahim Said Khudri, both of whom infiltrated Israel during the October 7 massacre. The military also dismantled a Hamas-linked weapons manufacturing workshop and eliminated a terrorist involved in producing weapons.
🇺🇸🇯🇵 REPORT: U.S. SEEKS TO NEARLY TRIPLE JAPAN'S PAYMENTS FOR HOSTING U.S. TROOPS: The Trump administration is reportedly asking Japan to pay about 3 trillion yen (roughly $19 billion) over five years starting in fiscal 2027 to support U.S. forces in Japan, Jiji Press reports, citing unnamed sources. The current five-year agreement totals about 1.06 trillion yen. Tokyo is reportedly considering around 1.5 trillion yen. Both governments aim to reach a deal by year's end, but talks are expected to be difficult.
Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick is facing mounting pressure over the Trump administration's handling of sensitive artificial intelligence chip exports to China, with senior White House officials reportedly discussing whether to remove him from his post. According to Reuters, two people familiar with the matter said senior administration officials are weighing Lutnick's future amid growing criticism of his department's handling of Nvidia chip shipments and concerns about potential Chinese espionage.
HOUSE REPUBLICANS THREATEN TO SUBPOENA FORMER NVIDIA CEO JENSEN HUANG: The chairmen of three House committees have given former Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang and the company’s general counsel, Tim Teter, until 8 p.m. ET today, November 13, to confirm in writing that they will appear for closed-door, transcribed interviews or face possible subpoenas. Huang is scheduled for December 1 and Teter for December 2. The demands, signed by Reps. Brian Mast, John Moolenaar and Rick Crawford, come amid national security concerns involving alleged Chinese espionage and Nvidia’s operations.
🇹🇷🇶🇦 NEW: TURKEY AND QATAR SIGN MUTUAL DEFENSE AGREEMENT: Turkey and Qatar signed a new mutual defense agreement Friday following talks between Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and Qatari Emir Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani in Istanbul. According to the Turkish presidency, the agreement aims to strengthen security cooperation and prevent renewed conflict in the Gulf region. Further details of the defense pact have not yet been disclosed.
Brad Lander, the Democratic representative-elect for New York’s 10th Congressional District, has tapped Jesse Myerson, a self-described communist with a history of anti-Zionist statements, to serve as his communications director as he prepares to take office in January. Myerson’s views on national borders and Israel date back more than a decade. In a 2013 article for the socialist publication Jacobin, he argued that the political left should seek to eliminate national borders by uniting workers across the world. In articles for Salon in 2014 and 2015, he referred to himself as “this communist” and a “publicly self-identified communist.”
LEBANESE ARMY SEIZES LARGE WEAPONS CACHE IN HEZBOLLAH STRONGHOLD: Lebanese Army Intelligence reportedly raided a weapons depot in Mashrafiya, in Beirut’s Hezbollah-dominated southern suburbs, after tracking weapons transfers. The army said large quantities of weapons and ammunition were seized and one Lebanese citizen was arrested. Authorities did not disclose who owned the depot or whether it was linked to Hezbollah.
A New Jersey Jewish community organizer has filed a federal civil rights lawsuit accusing West Orange police of failing to protect a synagogue from anti-Israel protesters and then pursuing criminal charges against him after he intervened to stop an alleged assault on a congregant. Dr. Moshe Glick, a dentist and volunteer emergency medical technician with Hatzalah, filed the lawsuit Nov. 10 in U.S. District Court in New Jersey against West Orange Township, its police department and the Essex County Prosecutor’s Office.
Hamas held dozens of hostages, including women, children, elderly people and foreign nationals, at Nasser Hospital in Khan Yunis during the war and used the medical complex as a military headquarters, the Israel Defense Forces said Friday. The disclosure came a day after the IDF and Israel Security Agency said an Israeli airstrike on the hospital compound had targeted Muhammad Abu Ismail, a senior commander in Hamas’s Khan Yunis Brigade, along with other operatives.
🔴 🇬🇧🇩🇪 HAMAS TERROR LEADER’S FORMER BODYGUARD ACCUSED OF PLOTTING MASSACRE OF JEWS IN EUROPE: Mohammed Alfatih, 40, a former bodyguard of Hamas terror leader Ismail Haniyeh and son of senior Hamas official Basem Naim, allegedly helped plan attacks against Jewish and Israeli targets in Germany and Austria after receiving asylum and British citizenship in 2020. According to Sky News, he allegedly transported pistols and ammunition from Berlin to Vienna for attacks planned around the second anniversary of October 7. The plot was disrupted by authorities, and Alfatih now faces extradition to Germany. He was separately convicted in Britain of wounding a bailiff and weapons offenses.
🇮🇱🇺🇸 NEW: MOSSAD CHIEF HOLDS HIGH-LEVEL TALKS IN U.S.: Mossad Director Roman Gofman is meeting CIA Director John Ratcliffe in Washington and is expected to meet White House envoy Steve Witkoff in Miami, according to Axios.
A car bombing on Friday in Moscow injured an adviser to Ukraine's former prime minister in the second such attack in as many days and part of a series linked to the conflict with Russia's neighbor.
The explosion struck a car driven by Sergei Zavorotnyi, who previously worked as an adviser to former Prime Minister Mykola Azarov, according to Russia's Investigative Committee. Zavorotnyi was hospitalized with injuries, the committee added.
🇮🇱🚨 IDF ARRESTS FOUR TERRORISTS, INCLUDING TWO ISIS OPERATIVES: IDF soldiers, acting on intelligence from the Israel Security Agency (Shin Bet), arrested four terrorists overnight Friday during counterterrorism operations in the Menashe Brigade area of Judea and Samaria. According to the IDF and Shin Bet, the four were involved in advancing attacks against Israeli civilians and security forces, including two affiliated with ISIS. All four were transferred for further interrogation.
High airfares could become the new norm as airlines contend with soaring jet fuel prices and mounting operating costs, the Association of Asia Pacific Airlines' chief said Friday. Wong Hong, director-general of the association grouping 18 airlines in the region, said carriers were trying to contain ticket prices while protecting their finances and avoiding fare increases that could drive passengers away.
🇺🇦🇷🇺 UKRAINIAN DRONES STRIKE MAJOR RUSSIAN OIL REFINERY AND INDUSTRIAL FACILITY: Ukrainian drones reportedly struck a major Lukoil oil refinery in Volgograd and a production facility in Rostov-on-Don overnight, triggering fires and explosions at both locations.
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