From Reuters Daily Briefing
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By Robert MacMillan, Reuters.com Weekend Editor
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It’s time for another edition of the Weekend Briefing. You might be feeling midterm fatigue, but we have some good coverage below that’s worth your time. But first, Donald Trump named Stephen Miller as his new chief of staff even as he said he was willing to work with Congress. How do you think that’ll go?
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- Differences: The vice president and his advisers see his top issues – economic nationalism, foreign-policy restraint and public safety – as vital to his efforts to escape the public’s association of him as Trump’s man. Should he run for president, Democrats almost certainly will keep that association alive.
- Disputes: The midterms aren’t quite over. In Alaska, Senate candidate Mary Peltola’s campaign sued election officials to demand the release of records identifying absentee ballots that were rejected. She and incumbent Dan S. Sullivan remain locked in a close contest. Mississippi’s Senate race also remains undecided.
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- Divided we brawl: Democrats are framing their midterm victory as a call for big changes, but they disagree over how far voters want them to go on pursuing Trump and embracing progressive priorities. One of their hotter potatoes? Transgender rights.
- Can you hear me now? The Democrats’ strategy of investing everywhere rather than shoving money at battleground states paid off. In fact, they considered some so improbable that party leaders didn’t have phone numbers to reach some of the winners.
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- Europe: Bomb threats were sent to TV stations across Europe, prompting evacuations and suspending broadcasts for as long as three hours. They come after hoax bomb threats disrupted passenger flights across the continent and cyberattacks struck supermarkets.
- Ukraine: Volodymyr Zelenskiy and Kyiv’s mayor Vitali Klitschko traded fresh accusations of failing to prepare the capital for Russian strikes that cut power and water. Russia sent two signals. First: It struck military-industrial and energy and transport targets overnight. Second: It’s sending officials to talk with the US and Ukraine in Abu Dhabi next week.
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- Kenya: Paul Mackenzie, who led an apocalyptic Christian church, told his followers to starve themselves along with their children to reach heaven before the end of the world. Authorities found 448 bodies buried in a forest in 2023.
- DRC: Islamic State-linked militants raided a village in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, killing at least 33 civilians and forcing patients with confirmed Ebola infections to flee.
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- Means and ends: Environmental groups are using artificial intelligence to analyze climate data, track forest fires and count endangered wildlife even as they warn that it is eating and drinking its way through electricity and water while fueling greenhouse-gas emissions. Related: Our Sustainable Switch newsletter looks ahead to this year’s COP31 agenda.
- Just kidding: Wall Street equities rallied on Friday, reversing course after fears about how Democrats would regulate AI wiped trillions of dollars of value off stocks worldwide. Inflation data and technology companies’ earnings reports herald another week of potentially nauseating swings.
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- Premium: Singapore Airlines is upgrading its long-haul seats and adding double-bed suites in the biggest cabin overhaul in its history. Compare with the Air France first-class service that I recently told you about.
- Steerage: Ryanair said an expected sharp rise in airfares next year would likely not be enough to cover its fuel bills so it might freeze staff pay. Delta Air Lines lost its bid to dismiss a lawsuit that says passengers who paid extra to sit in window seats ended up seated next to windowless walls.
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