Thursday Briefing: House censures Republican Gosar for posting violent video

The Reuters Daily Briefing Thursday, November 18, 2021 by Hani Richter Sponsored by   Hello Here's what you need to know. U.S. House censures Republican Gosar for posting violent video, jury in Rittenhouse murder trial to deliberate for third day and Oklahoma set to execute Julius Jones amid calls for clemency. Today's biggest stories U.S. Representative Paul Gosar (R-AZ) leaves his office as the House of Representatives moved towards a vote on a resolution to censure him and strip him of two congressional committee assignments over an anime video that depicted him killing progressive Democrat Alexandra Ocasio-Cortez and swinging two swords at President Joe Biden, on Capitol Hill in Washington, U.S., November 17, 2021. REUTERS/Elizabeth Frantz U.S. The U.S. House of Representatives censured one of its members for the first time in over a decade, rebuking Republican Paul Gosar over an anime video that depicted him killing progressive Democrat Alexandra Ocasio-Cortez and swinging two swords at President Joe Biden. Jurors in the Wisconsin murder trial of Kyle Rittenhouse will deliberate for a third day, picking up after they reviewed a series of videos of the teenager killing two men and wounding a third during racial justice protests last year. Oklahoma is set to deploy a contested three-drug cocktail to execute Julius Jones, who has maintained his innocence in the 22-year-old murder he was convicted of and whose case has attracted the support of celebrities and anti-death penalty activists. Leaders of the United States, Canada and Mexico are set to agree to new methane curbs and COVID-19 vaccine donations when they meet for the first time in five years, according to senior Biden administration officials. Two men convicted of killing Black activist and civil rights advocate Malcolm X in 1965 will be exonerated, the Manhattan district attorney's office said, saying it will move to "vacate the wrongful convictions." It would be an official acknowledgement of errors made in the case. Protesters hold flags and chant slogans as they march against the Sudanese military's recent seizure of power and ousting of the civilian government, in the streets of the capital Khartoum, Sudan October 30, 2021. REUTERS/Mohamed Nureldin WORLD Activists in Sudan called for an escalation of protests against last month's military coup, a day after the deadliest security crack-down to date on demonstrators demanding the restoration of a civilian government. Hundreds of Iraqis who had camped for weeks at Belarus's freezing borders with the EU checked in for a flight back to Iraq, the first such flight in months amid a stand-off between the West and Minsk over the fate of migrants. The Philippines condemned "in strongest terms" the actions of three Chinese coast guard vessels that it said blocked and used water cannon on resupply boats headed towards a Philippine-occupied atoll in the South China Sea. In a major shift for a country long closed to immigrants, Japan is looking to allow foreigners in certain blue-collar jobs to stay indefinitely starting as early as the 2022 fiscal year, a justice ministry official said. Israel has charged a member of Defence Minister Benny Gantz's housekeeping staff with espionage, saying he offered to spy on him on behalf of "a person identified with Iran," the country's arch-enemy. A crude oil tanker is seen at Qingdao Port, Shandong province, China, April 21, 2019. REUTERS/Jason Lee/File Photo BUSINESS The Biden administration has asked some of the world's largest oil consuming nations - including China, India and Japan - to consider releasing crude stockpiles in a coordinated effort to lower global energy prices, according to several people familiar with the matter. The U.S. Federal Reserve for the past 20 months has put its monetary policy arsenal behind the single-minded goal of restoring U.S. employment particularly for the less well off whose prospects suffered most during the pandemic. Volkswagen (VOWG_p.DE) should have gone public in 2008 with the engine plan that sparked its diesel emissions scandal, a German court said on Thursday, as it set out its views on a test case brought by investors against the automaker. China's Alibaba missed market expectations for second-quarter revenue, as consumption in the country slowed and its e-commerce business took a hit from supply chain constraints. Daimler will produce the first in-house electric motor at its oldest plant in Berlin, the carmaker said on Thursday, providing relief to workers worried that the diesel motor production site was on the brink of deep job cuts. Quote of the day "I believe that as long as we adhere to the values of democracy and freedom, there will be more like-minded countries standing on the same front with us" Tsai Ing-wen Taiwan President Taiwan commissions advanced new F-16s as China threat grows Video of the day Baldwin wasn't scripted to fire gun: lawsuit A crew member working on the Western movie "Rust" said in a lawsuit on Wednesday that the script never called for a gun to be fired during a scene that Alec Baldwin was rehearsing when he killed a cinematographer last month. 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