Vance reportedly wrote to Iran’s Mohsen Rezaei through Qatari mediators. Trump denies restarting talks, and US and Iranian accounts conflict.
FHFA’s inspector general told Congress the agency withheld Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac records for months, then cut its FY2027 budget about 64%. FHFA says it is matching peer offices.
AP and a Geneva firm found Russian satellites over 40 attacks on Saudi Arabia. Evidence of a targeting handover remains unproven.
Bellingcat says EU Sentinel satellite images of Gaza and the West Bank have arrived 24 hours late since March. The EU cites security, not Gaza.
A March drafting error deleted Britain’s Transit Without Visa rules. The Home Office restored them by concession, with no vote in Parliament. A Lords committee calls Parliament’s position unsatisfactory.
The US Embassy warned of a credible mass-casualty threat at Moscow’s Tsaritsyno park. The FSB says the US tipped it off. No attack or suspect is public.
DOJ says Liren Lai and Yuance Chen worked for China’s MSS, photographing a Navy base and moving cash. Each pleaded guilty and got 30 months.
A divided Ninth Circuit refused to make California sequester ballots tied to a federal list of 20,000 suspected noncitizens. The majority faulted the list and the timing; the dissent faulted California’s reliance on attestation. Both point to Congress.
Russian officials say Ukrainian drones hit refineries on October 30, days after a Wall Street Journal report of a US-pressured pause. Kyiv never announced one.
Russia’s Novaya Gazeta says authorities forced its newsroom to close on November 9. What is documented, what is the editors’ account, and what no one has confirmed.
GSA’s inspector general found 116 sensitive files, including federal building security plans, open to all staff on Google Drive despite a $7.8M scan tool.
Taiwan’s national security chief posted a map of 53 Chinese vessels from southern Japan to the Philippines. China has not responded, and the count’s method is undisclosed.