Evening Brief: GOP moves to preserve Mississippi affidavit ballots as Colom leads by 2,574; Trump confirms 'minor strikes' on Iran; Kyiv in the dark
Alaska still Peltola by 637; Miller starts as chief of staff Monday; Abu Dhabi talks Tuesday; Court hears Nielsen v. Watanabe Monday.
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I'm Nora Vale with your 5 PM World Brief for Saturday, November 7. Mississippi: Colom +2,574; GOP asks counties to set aside affidavit ballots. Alaska: Peltola +637. Stephen Miller starts as chief of staff Monday. Trump confirms 'minor strikes' on Iran; $20M reward for nuclear tips. Kyiv outages after Russian barrage; Abu Dhabi talks Tuesday. Monday: Court hears Nielsen v. Watanabe. In national weather, from the National Weather Service: Tropical Storm Pena, with top winds near 50 mph, may bring impacts to parts of Hawaii. Heavy rainfall threat across much of southern/western Texas continues this weekend. Our opinion. Follow the law on every ballot; strength with Iran; Congress writes the lawsuits. Full stories and sources at WorldBriefNow.com. I'm Nora Vale.
President Trump told reporters in West Palm Beach on Friday that U.S. forces carried out "minor strikes" that knocked out an Iranian anti-aircraft device "in about 15 minutes, maybe five," after Iranian state media reported two missile strikes on Qeshm Island in the Strait of Hormuz, Al Jazeera and Fox News reported. U.S. Central Command said late Friday the U.S. is offering up to $20 million and possible relocation for information on Iran's nuclear program, and Trump said "we've made a lot of progress with Iran." On Saturday, Qatar's foreign ministry spokesman dismissed reports that U.S.-Iran talks had failed, Al Jazeera reported.
Russia hit a Kyiv-region substation linking the Rivne and Khmelnytskyi nuclear plants to central Ukraine with 172 drones and 36 ballistic missiles overnight, President Zelensky said, and the Kyiv Independent reported two people killed and 37 injured across Ukraine over the past day. Zelensky said the capital faces "serious difficulties with its electricity, water, and heat supplies," with homes and the Northern Bridge damaged. Negotiators from Russia, Ukraine and the U.S. are due to meet Tuesday in Abu Dhabi, the AP reported.
Democrat Scott Colom led Republican Sen. Cindy Hyde-Smith 467,930 to 465,356 with about 97% of expected votes counted, MS NOW reported Saturday citing the Associated Press, which has not called the race. USA Today reported that Hyde-Smith's campaign and the National Republican Senatorial Committee asked officials in all 82 counties to set aside and preserve affidavit ballots, while Colom's campaign urged counties to refuse; absentee ballots postmarked by Election Day count if received by Tuesday, Nov. 10. In Alaska, former Rep. Mary Peltola leads Sen. Dan Sullivan by 637 votes with roughly three-quarters counted, and the state expects its ranked-choice tabulation on Nov. 18, USA Today reported.
Stephen Miller, the architect of President Trump's immigration enforcement agenda, is set to take over as White House chief of staff on Monday, CBS News reported Saturday, replacing Susie Wiles. Trump called Miller "a great fighter" and "very loyal" at the airport in West Palm Beach on Friday, AFP reported, and Miller said in a video posted to Trump's Truth Social account that "it is the honor of my life" to serve. CBS noted the move comes as Democrats, who won both chambers, plan investigations into the administration, including its immigration enforcement.
The Supreme Court will hear argument Monday, Nov. 9, in Nielsen v. Watanabe, on whether a Hawaii federal inmate can sue a prison paramedic for money damages under the 1971 Bivens decision over allegedly denied care for a fractured coccyx, SCOTUSblog reported. The paramedic asks the justices to throw out the claim and even overrule Bivens; Solicitor General D. John Sauer backs dismissing the claim but says the Court should not reconsider Bivens in this case. The Court also hears Hoffmann v. WBI Energy Transmission, on pipeline eminent-domain compensation, Monday and releases orders at 9:30 a.m. ET, per the SCOTUSblog calendar.
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