“Attorney General Pam Bondi announced Thursday that an individual attempted to confront Acting U.S. Attorney for the District of New Jersey Alina Habba on Wednesday night, ‘destroyed property in her office’ and then ‘fled the scene.’ ‘Thankfully, Alina is ok,’ Bondi added. ‘Any violence or threats of violence against any federal officer will not be tolerated. Period. This is unfortunately becoming a trend as radicals continue to attack law enforcement agents around the country.'” (11/13/25)
“Classes and transportation in Bangladesh were seriously disrupted Thursday as ousted Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina and her former ruling Awami League party called for a nationwide “lockdown” in protest against her trial over last year’s protests that left hundreds dead. Hasina faces charges of crimes against humanity involving a crackdown on the student-led uprising that ended her 15-year rule in August 2024. She has been in exile in India since then and has not been seen in public or online. A special tribunal in Bangladesh’s capital, Dhaka, is expected to announce a verdict against Hasina on Monday, chief prosecutor Tajul Islam said during a news conference Thursday.” (11/13/25)
“U.S. Catholic bishops voted Wednesday to make official a ban on gender-affirming care for transgender patients at Catholic hospitals. The step formalizes a yearslong process for the U.S. church to address transgender health care. From a Baltimore hotel ballroom, the bishops overwhelmingly approved revisions to their ethical and religious directives that guide the nation’s thousands of Catholic health care institutions and providers.” (11/12/25)
“President Donald Trump’s administration on Thursday designated four European left-wing groups as terrorist organizations, following through on his vow to crack down on leftists after the assassination of conservative activist Charlie Kirk. The networks targeted by Trump’s Republican administration all appear to be based in Europe, with no operations in the United States. They are an Italian anarchist front that sent explosive packages to the then-president of the European Commission in 2003, two Greek networks believed to have planted bombs outside riot police and labor department buildings in Athens, and an anti-fascist group whose members were prosecuted by German authorities for a hammer attack against neo-Nazis in Dresden.” (11/13/25)
“Tuberculosis deaths have fallen by 3 percent to 1.23 million people in 2024, the World Health Organization (WHO) says. In its annual TB report published on Wednesday, the United Nations health agency also revealed that overall cases of the disease had dropped by almost 2 percent since 2023. It marked the first time since the COVID-19 pandemic that TB cases and deaths had declined.” (11/13/25)
“Nearly a month before President Donald Trump met Russian leader Vladimir Putin in Helsinki in 2018, Jeffrey Epstein attempted to pass a message to Russia’s top diplomat: If you want to understand Trump, talk to me. ‘I think you might suggest to putin that lavrov can get insight on talking to me,’ Epstein wrote in a June 24, 2018, email to Thorbjorn Jagland, a former prime minister of Norway who was leading the Council of Europe at the time of the exchange. Lavrov was an apparent reference to Sergei Lavrov, Russia’s longtime foreign minister. In the email exchange, one of hundreds released Wednesday by congressional investigators, Epstein indicated he had previously talked about Trump with Vitaly Churkin, Russia’s forceful ambassador to the United Nations, before Churkin died in 2017.” (11/12/25)
“Emails released by Democrats show deceased sex offender Jeffrey Epstein telling associates that ‘of course’ President Trump knew about his relationships with underaged girls. The three emails, released Wednesday by Democrats on the House Oversight Committee, show Epstein’s correspondence with his associate Ghislaine Maxwell as well as columnist and author Michael Wolff. In the short exchanges, Epstein says Trump ‘spent hours at my house’ while another says the president ‘knew about the girls.’ … In a[n] April 2, 2011 email to Maxwell, who was later convicted on charges of trafficking young girls to Epstein, the disgraced financier wrote: ‘i want you to realize that that dog that hasn’t barked is trump … [VICTIM] spent hours at my house with him ,, he has never once been mentioned.'” (11/12/25)
“Ukraine has suspended Justice Minister German Galushchenko for his alleged involvement in a corruption scandal involving the state-run nuclear power company, Energoatom, during his tenure as the country’s energy minister. Prime Minister Yulia Svyrydenko announced on Wednesday that Galushchenko had been suspended from his duties, which will be carried out by Deputy Justice Minister for European Integration Lyudmyla Sugak. Galushchenko, who served as energy minister for four years before taking over the justice portfolio in July, is accused of profiting from a scheme that laundered money from Energoatom. Ukraine’s Pravda news outlet reported that anticorruption authorities raided Galushchenko’s offices on Monday.” (11/12/25)
“President Donald Trump signed legislation to end the longest government shutdown in US history, bringing to a close a 43-day standoff that disrupted public services, halted federal aid programs, and sidelined federal workers. The interim spending bill funds most of the government through Jan. 30, leaving open the possibility of another confrontation early next year. Federal operations are set to resume immediately, though agencies may take days or weeks to clear the backlog created since the shutdown began on Oct. 1.” (11/13/25)
“A federal judge has ordered the release of hundreds of people who were [abducted] over the last few months in the Chicago area amid the Trump administration’s aggressive immigration raids across the city. On Wednesday, US district judge Jeffrey Cummings ordered the justice department to produce a list showing which of the 615 possible class members are still in custody by 19 November, the Chicago Tribune reports. According to Cummings, he would allow the members’ release on a $1,500 bond as long as they have no criminal history or prior removal order. The ACLU of Illinois said that the order will mean the immediate release of 13 people who have been [abducted] by federal officials. As part of Wednesday’s order, Cummings also prohibited the government from pressuring [abductees] to agree to voluntary deportation while their cases are pending, the Chicago Tribune added.” (11/12/25)
