Don't Touch the Dome Light - Andrew Schiavone

Plans for a UN-mandated international stabilisation force charged with disarming Hamas inside Gaza face growing opposition after the United Arab Emirates said it would not participate because it did not yet see a clear legal framework for the force. Israel has already ruled out Turkey joining the force, and King Abdullah of Jordan has said Jordanian troops will not join. Azerbaijan, once mooted as a contributor, did not attend a planning meeting in Turkey last week and said it would not contribute unless a full ceasefire was in place...

President Donald Trump’s pardon of political allies for crimes related to the 2020 election raises a host questions, one of them being: Why did Trump go out of his way to exclude himself? After listing dozens of allies and supporters, including Rudy Giuliani, John Eastman and others, who have faced legal exposure in various venues, the order said that it “does not apply to the President of the United States, Donald J. Trump.” Ed Martin, Trump’s failed U.S. attorney nominee-turned-pardon attorney and “weaponization czar,” posted the order on social media on Sunday night from his personal account and then again on Monday morning from his official account.

A 17-year-old boy has been arrested for allegedly stabbing another teenager to death during a house party in New York, police announced on Monday. The incident occurred a week ago at a house in West Babylon on Long Island, police said. Approximately 90 to 100 teenagers were at a party outside the home on Nov. 3 when a fight broke out at approximately 10:25 p.m., Suffolk County police said.

The economic data tap might soon reopen if Congress is successful in passing a funding deal. Why it matters: Among the disruptions from the longest government shutdown on record — an interruption in the flow of indicators, including two monthly jobs reports, third-quarter GDP, the Consumer Price Index and more. The intrigue: After more than a month of a data drought, there will be a flood of information as government agencies release their reports that had been delayed by the shutdown, including at least five weeks of jobless claims data...

President Donald Trump on Monday welcomed Syrian President Ahmad al-Sharaa to the White House as the administration moved to formally lift decades of U.S. sanctions on Damascus. The Treasury Department announced new rules that will end most trade restrictions and suspend key provisions of the Caesar Act, clearing the way for United States and foreign investment in Syria’s reconstruction. The policy shift, outlined in an Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) advisory released Monday, keeps sanctions in place against former President Bashar al-Assad, human rights abusers, and drug traffickers but opens broad civilian and commercial channels...

U.S. President Donald Trump ordered all air traffic controllers to "get back to work" and threatened that those who did not would have their pay "substantially" docked. Thousands of flights have been canceled as a result of the federal government shutdown, due to a shortage of air traffic control (ATC) staff needed to maintain air safety. "All Air Traffic Controllers must get back to work, NOW!!!" Trump wrote in a Monday morning post on Truth Social...