“The SpaceX launch of 29 Starlink satellites into low-Earth orbit Monday night from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station broke an annual launch record for Florida’s spaceport. Monday’s liftoff was the 94th launch of an orbital class rocket in the state, breaking the previous record set at the end of last year. … Florida’s spaceport — which covers NASA’s Kennedy Space Center and Cape Canaveral Space Force Station — has seen a significant increase in the number of launches over the last five years, especially with the frequency of flights by SpaceX. The only other rockets to launch from Florida this year were Blue Origin’s New Glenn rocket, a United Launch Alliance Vulcan rocket and three ULA Atlas V rockets.” (11/11/25)
“The USS Gerald R. Ford aircraft carrier moved into Latin American waters Tuesday as the US ramped up its military presence in the region while targeting drug traffickers operating out of Venezuela. The Navy’s 4th Fleet did not specify the Ford’s location Tuesday, but did confirm the vessel was inside the US Southern Command’s (SOUTHCOM) area of responsibility — which includes the waters off Central and South America and the Caribbean Sea. The Ford and its escort of three guided-missile destroyers join eight warships, a nuclear submarine and F-35 aircraft already in the SOUTHCOM region. Pentagon spokesman Sean Parnell said the vessels’ presence would ‘bolster US capacity to detect, monitor, and disrupt illicit actors and activities that compromise the safety and prosperity of the United States homeland and our security in the Western Hemisphere.'” (11/11/25)
“A suicide bomber has set off a blast outside a court building in Islamabad that has killed at least 12 people, according to Pakistan’s interior minister. At least 27 others were injured in the explosion on Tuesday near the entrance of the district court in the Pakistani capital, which is typically crowded with large numbers of people. … As officials investigated the scene in the immediate aftermath, no group had claimed responsibility. However, similar blasts have been carried out by armed groups, including the Pakistan Taliban, also known by the acronym TTP.” (11/11/25)
“A Virginia transportation security officer is accusing the U.S. Department of Homeland Security of sex discrimination over a policy that bars transgender officers from performing security screening pat-downs, according to a federal lawsuit. The Transportation Security Administration, which operates under DHS, enacted the policy in February to comply with President Donald Trump’s executive order declaring two unchangeable sexes: male and female. According to internal documents explaining the policy change that The Associated Press obtained from four independent sources, including one current and two former TSA workers, ‘transgender officers will no longer engage in pat-down duties, which are conducted based on both the traveler’s and officer’s biological sex. In addition, transgender officers will no longer serve as a TSA-required witness when a traveler elects to have a pat-down conducted in a private screening area.'” (11/11/25)
“President Trump asked the Supreme Court on Monday to toss a jury’s verdict finding him liable for sexually abusing writer E. Jean Carroll in the mid-1990s, according to the president’s personal legal team. Carroll has taken Trump to trial twice and won a total of $88.3 million in damages, and the petition marks the first time the long-running litigation has reached the justices.” (11/10/25)
“The shutdown stalemate that has dragged on in the Senate officially ended late Monday night, and it places Congress on a path to reopen the government later this week. Senators advanced a bipartisan funding package to end the government shutdown after a group of Senate Democrats broke from their colleagues and joined Republicans in their bid to reopen the government. … Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., earlier Monday told Fox News Digital that he would bring the House back into session ‘immediately’ upon Senate passage of the legislation. He later told House Republicans on a lawmaker-only call that he anticipated a vote in their chamber midweek at the earliest, Fox News Digital was told.” (11/10/25)
“A Russian drone attack on Ukraine’s southern Odesa region damaged energy and transport infrastructure, injuring one person and sparking fires at multiple energy facilities, the regional governor said on Tuesday. The attack injured one person, sparked fires at various energy facilities and damaged a depot of the state-owned Ukrainian Railways.” (11/11/25)
“A Utah judge on Monday rejected a Republican-passed redistricting plan that created two more-competitive districts in the state — a win for Democrats who thought the map did not go far enough. In denying the new map, the judge put in place one of two options offered by plaintiffs that creates a solidly-Democratic district that covers Salt Lake City, giving the party its second win in the redistricting wars that have swept the nation ahead of the midterms. In her ruling, issued minutes before a midnight deadline, Judge Dianna Gibson said the Republican map ‘fails to abide by and conform with the requirements’ of a 2018 voter-approved ballot measure that created nonpartisan redistricting standards for the state Legislature.” (11/11/25)
“At least two people including a child have been killed in an Israeli drone strike east of Khan Younis in southern Gaza, according to Al Jazeera reporters in the besieged Palestinian territory. Hamas condemned Israel’s ‘daily and continuous violations’ since a truce came into effect last month, accusing it of maintaining a campaign of bombardments and demolitions across the besieged enclave. In a statement published on Telegram on Monday, the group said Israeli attacks had killed 271 people, over 90 percent of them civilians, and wounded 622 more since the ceasefire took effect on October 10.” (11/10/25)
“President Trump has granted pre-emptive pardons to Rudolph W. Giuliani and others accused of trying to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election, according to an official familiar with the matter. The official, who requested anonymity because of the sensitivity of the issue, said on Monday that those pardoned include John Eastman, a lawyer who advised Mr. Trump’s 2020 campaign, and Sidney Powell, a conservative pundit who was briefly a public face of his campaign. The presidential pardons, which would only apply in federal court, are largely symbolic. None of those named are currently facing federal charges, and the pardons cannot shield them from ongoing state-level prosecutions.” (11/10/25)
