11/6

• The COP27 global climate summit has begun. 
• New protests arose in Iranian universities and the Kurdish northwest.
• Thousands of people in Seoul gather to protest justice for the young victims of the deadly Halloween crush (see 10/29).

11/7

• The United Nations Secretary General, Antólogo Guterre, warned that the world is on a “highway to climate hell” at the COP27 summit.
• Putin ally Yevgeniy Prigozhin boasted that he interfered in U.S. midterm elections.
• U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson issued her first opinion with dissent, regarding the Supreme Court’s denial to hear a death row inmate’s appeal.
• Democrats sued to count the undated or incorrectly dated mail-in ballots in the Pennsylvania election, which could determine which political party controls the Senate.

11/8

• The winning ticket for the $2.04 billion Powerball jackpot was sold at an Altadena gas station.
• Ukrainian President Zelenskyy said he was open to “genuine peace talks” with Russia, following the concerns regarding the rising costs of the war from Western support.
• Brittney Griner began her transfer to a Russian penal colony (see 11/3).

11/9

• CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced Meta will lay off 11,000 employees.
• Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu ordered Russian troops to withdraw from Kherson (see 10/24).
• Hurricane Nicole passed through Florida, making its way to the interior southeastern United States with strong winds and rainstorms.

11/10

• Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, General Mark A. Milley, said that over 100,000 Russian soldiers have been killed or injured in the Russo-Ukrainian war and “probably” an equivalent number of Ukrainian soldiers.
• Alex Jones was ordered to pay another $473 million in the Sandy Hook lawsuits, bringing the total to $1.4 billion (see 10/12).
• Several top Twitter executives resigned, some stating fears over the risks of Elon Musk’s leadership (see 10/28, 11/4).

11/11

• A Texas federal judge struck down President Biden’s student loan relief plan (see 10/17).
• Brazil’s Defense Ministry showed no fraud in its presidential election (see 10/30-11/1).
• At least 5 people have been killed in Florida due to Hurricane Nicole (see 11/9).

11/12

• Ukraine’s assistant environment minister, Svitlana Grynchuk, discussed the environmental toll the Russo-Ukrainian war has taken on the territory, including air, water, and land pollution, at the COP27 climate summit.
• Two World War II-era planes collided in midair during a Dallas airshow.

Election Results *

• John Fetterman won the Pennsylvania race for Senator against Dr. Oz.
• Kathy Hochul won the New York race for Governor against Lee Zeldin.
• Greg Abbott won the Texas race for Governor against Beto O’Rourke.
• The Georgia Senate race of Raphael Warnock versus Herschel Walker is set for runoff in December after neither candidate reached 50% of the vote.
• Ron DeSantis and Marco Rubio won their races for governor and senator, respectively.
• Democrats maintain control of the U.S. Senate, following the reelection of Nevada Senator Catherine Cortez Masto. The win prevented the highly predicted “red wave.”
• George Santos won the New York District 3 congressional race against Robert Zimmerman.

* Not all results have been listed, but these are some of the most influential and prominent ones 🙂