While You Were Sleeping: 5 stories you might have missed, Nov 12, 2024
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Donald Trump on Nov 7 announced that Susie Wiles, one of his two campaign managers, will be his White House chief of staff.
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Trump 2.0: Who’s gotten a top job in his administration, and who’s in the running for one?
Donald Trump has begun the process of choosing a cabinet and selecting other high-ranking administration officials following his presidential election victory.
Here are the early picks and top contenders for some of the key posts overseeing defense, intelligence, diplomacy, trade, immigration and economic policymaking.
Some are in contention for a range of posts.
Saudi crown prince condemns Israel’s attacks on Palestinians as ‘genocide’
Saudi Arabia’s crown prince and de facto ruler condemned what he called the “genocide” committed by Israel against Palestinians during a speech at a summit of leaders of Muslim and Arab countries in Riyadh on Nov 11.
“The Kingdom renews its condemnation and categorical rejection of the genocide committed by Israel against the brotherly Palestinian people,” Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman said at an Arab Islamic summit, echoing comments by Saudi Foreign Minister Faisal bin Farhan Al Saud late last month.
He urged the international community to stop Israel from attacking Iran and to respect Iran’s sovereignty.
Election fraud claims go silent after Trump win
Right up to Election Day, Donald Trump and his backers were issuing unfounded warnings of voter fraud. But once his decisive victory took shape, the flood of misinformation slowed to a trickle.
Experts said the shift points to what opponents have long argued was Trump’s preemptive deployment of fraud claims in case he lost, setting the stage for him to challenge the results as he did in the 2020 election.
A sharp example came toward the end of voting on Nov 12, when officials in the largest city of must-win Pennsylvania had to quickly deny Trump’s unfounded claim that police were responding to “massive cheating” in Philadelphia.
China’s Huawei Technologies seeks dismissal of US criminal charges
Huawei Technologies asked a US judge to dismiss much of a federal indictment accusing the Chinese telecommunications company of trying to steal technology secrets from US rivals and misleading banks about its business in Iran.
In a Friday night filing in federal court in Brooklyn, Huawei said there was no proof of a conspiracy, calling the charge part of the Department of Justice’s “ill-founded” China Initiative to prosecute people and companies with ties to China.
Huawei said several charges concerned activities outside the United States, while the bank fraud counts rested on a “right to control” theory of fraud that the US Supreme Court rejected last year in an unrelated case.
PGMOL suspend referee Coote after video shows him allegedly abusing Liverpool and Klopp
Premier League referee David Coote was suspended by the PGMOL referees’ body on Nov 11 pending a full investigation after a video circulated on social media showing the official allegedly abusing Liverpool and former manager Juergen Klopp.
The video allegedly shows Coote making derogatory comments about Liverpool and German Klopp, who left Anfield in May.
The video has not been verified by Reuters, it is unclear when it was filmed or its authenticity.
