Morning Brief: Iran drops missile-range cap; Eisenkot gets Israel mandate; Miller named chief of staff; Court hears Bivens case
Plus the Krakow gunman's death, a DOJ probe order and Congress's lame-duck funding fight.
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I'm Nora Vale with your 6 AM World Brief for Monday, November 9. IRGC says missile-range cap lifted after Task Force Iron Gate. Herzog taps Eisenkot to form Israel's government; 67 recommended him. Krakow gunman dies; 6 killed Saturday; Poland to review gun permits. Stephen Miller named White House chief of staff. Congress returns; funding expires Dec. 11; debt passed $40T. Today: Nielsen v. Watanabe, Bivens damages suits. In national weather, from the National Weather Service: Tropical Storm Pena, with top winds near 45 mph, may bring impacts to parts of Hawaii. Heavy rainfall and flash flood threat across southern Texas today before diminishing by evening. Our opinion. Keep the squeeze on Iran, rein in spending, and protect the rights of law-abiding gun owners. Full stories and sources at WorldBriefNow.com. I'm Nora Vale.
Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps spokesman Brig. Gen. Hossein Mohebbi said Iran is abandoning its self-imposed 2,000-kilometer (about 1,240-mile) ballistic missile-range limit, telling reporters in Tehran Saturday that "that restriction has been lifted for us," according to The Associated Press as cited by Fox News. He also warned of "surprises" that would "astonish the entire world" if a third wave of confrontation erupts. The statements came hours after U.S. Central Command announced Task Force Iron Gate, aimed at Iran's weapons shipments and illicit revenue across its land borders and the Caspian Sea; the IRGC dismissed it as "wordplay." Fox News also reported, citing Reuters, that the U.S. Treasury pressed Iraq to close all but two border crossings with Iran.
Israeli President Isaac Herzog chose opposition leader Gadi Eisenkot to form the next government after factions representing 67 of the Knesset's 120 members recommended him; Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu got 46 and seven United Torah Judaism lawmakers backed neither, Fox News reported. Eisenkot has 28 days, with a possible 14-day extension, but his four-party bloc holds 48 seats, and some of the 67 endorsements came from Arab-led parties that his prospective partners have ruled out relying on. Netanyahu remains caretaker prime minister, and Israel's Central Elections Committee said the integrity of the Oct. 27 vote was not compromised, according to Reuters as cited by Fox News.
The 24-year-old man who opened fire from a car in Krakow's Main Market Square on Saturday, killing six people and wounding about 15, died in the hospital early Monday after police shot him, Polish police said, according to NBC News and DW. Authorities say he is also suspected of killing his parents and sister at their home, and prosecutors are treating the attack as a terrorist offense; Poland's interior minister said he was fascinated by far-right ideologies. ABC (Australia) reported that both the shooter and his father had gun permits and that the justice minister said the government will review permit requirements.
President Donald Trump named Stephen Miller to replace Susie Wiles as White House chief of staff, calling him one of his "most trusted advisors," Fox News reported Nov. 7. Several House Republicans, including Rep. Marlin Stutzman and retiring Rep. Don Bacon, criticized the move, blaming his immigration enforcement approach for hurting the party in Tuesday's midterms, in which Democrats won both chambers. White House spokeswoman Lauren Bis said Miller helped deliver the crime crackdown, deregulation, energy and border security, and Vice President JD Vance and House Freedom Caucus Chairman Andy Harris praised the pick.
President Trump said on Truth Social Saturday that he has ordered the Justice Department to investigate Democratic lawmakers "threatening" to impeach Attorney General Todd Blanche and others, Fox News reported. Reps. Hank Johnson and Deborah Ross have said they would support impeaching Blanche, and Trump singled out Sen. Elissa Slotkin over Oct. 13 remarks about pursuing "signature cases" against people who "enabled" him. Fox reported Rep. Thomas Massie is expected to reintroduce impeachment articles against Secretary of War Pete Hegseth Monday, and Reuters reported Democrats plan to investigate major Republican donors once they control Congress.
Congress returns Monday for the final weeks of the 119th Congress, with federal funding expiring Dec. 11, CNBC and Fox News reported. Lawmakers must also pass the National Defense Authorization Act, and Fox listed the SAVE America Act, a bipartisan tax package and the farm bill among other items. CNBC reported the federal debt hit $40 trillion in September against a $41.1 trillion ceiling, and that Democrats take control in January; a House Republican told Fox they expect another short-term extension through February or March.
The Supreme Court's Monday, Nov. 9 argument calendar lists Nielsen v. Watanabe (No. 25-417), with Hoffmann v. WBI Energy Transmission (No. 25-159) to follow. Federal prisoner Kekai Watanabe says a prison paramedic, Francis Nielsen, denied him adequate care for a fractured tailbone; the Trump administration supports Nielsen, and SCOTUSblog reports Nielsen asks the Court to limit or overrule Bivens. No ruling is expected from today's argument; a decision will come later in the term.
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