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Youngkin stoked culture wars on education while walking political tightrope over Donald Trump Joe Biden suffered a bitter political blow early on Wednesday when Democrats went down in a shock defeat in the election for governor of Virginia. The Democratic candidate, Terry McAuliffe, had campaigned with Biden and Barack Obama but it was not enough to prevent the Republican Glenn Youngkin pulling off an upset. The AP called the race for Youngkin in the early hours of Wednesday morning. The Republican took an early lead after polls closed that he maintained throughout the evening, while McAuliffe lagged in key counties that Biden swept in 2020.

Glenn Youngkin’s victory in Virginia undermined the idea that Trump, and only Trump, knows the secret to Republican success. Tuesday was a boffo night for the Republican Party, and not such a great night for Donald Trump. It’s not as though the interests of the two are diametrically opposed, but they are in tension. To the extent that the GOP shows that it can thrive without former President Trump being on the ballot or even at the center of attention, it undermines the idea that he, and only he, knows the secret to Republican success.

(CNN)In Tuesday's elections, Republican candidates surged in blue states, cities rejected major police reform and suburban voters showed their independence. The major takeaways? This is a more moderate and centrist country than activists on either the right or left let on, and Donald Trump fever may be breaking. The system is working. Here's one thing everybody can be happy about: The election results, for the most part, are not being questioned. That may have a lot to do with Republicans doing well. But the results should prove to them that Trump's voter fraud myth is in fact a myth. From there, things get more situational. Here's what Republicans and Democrats should take away from the results

Western countries and especially US are keen for sessions beginning on 29 November to reach quick result Iran has agreed to resume talks with world powers on reviving a nuclear deal on 29 November after a five-month gap, with the US urging a quick resolution. The announcement of indirect negotiations in Vienna comes as pressure mounts on Iran, with western nations warning that Tehran’s nuclear work is advancing to dangerous levels and Israel threatening to attack.

(CNN)President Joe Biden said Wednesday that families separated at the border under the Trump administration's so-called zero-tolerance policy will not receive payments of $450,000, but he did not go into detail about any possible monetary settlements for them. Biden, following remarks about Covid-19 vaccine authorization for children ages 5 to 11, was asked if payments of that size might incentivize people to try and enter the country illegally. The President responded by calling the report "garbage." "It's not true," he said. In 2018, the Trump administration announced its "zero tolerance" policy, in which the Justice Department initiated criminal prosecutions of every adult illegally crossing the border, and was ended after widespread opposition.

US President Joe Biden blasted China's leader Xi Jinping and Russian President Vladimir Putin for skipping the COP26 climate summit in Glasgow and walking away from a "gigantic issue". Glasgow: US President Joe Biden on Tuesday accused China and Russia of failing to show leadership on climate change in blistering criticism of their leaders for not attending the COP26 summit in Glasgow. Speaking at the UN summit aimed at forging an ambitious new climate agreement, Biden called his own presence and promises proof that "America is back" after the go-it-alone approach of his predecessor Donald Trump.

Georgia secretary of state Brad Raffensperger confirms the ex-president threatened him over the 2020 election results while demanding he magically come up with enough votes to beat Biden. One of the most infuriating qualities about former president Donald J. Trump is his habit of lying about everything all the time. Another is his total disregard for human life. But probably the number one most enraging thing about him is his lifelong habit of escaping any and all consequences for being what the U.S. penal code section 219(a)(5)(a) defines as “a corrupt motherfucker.”

The voice of House battleground Democrats isn't afraid to openly criticize her party leaders if she thinks it will help them keep the House in 2022. Rep. Stephanie Murphy wasn’t always the kind of centrist Democrat willing to publicly take on the leaders of her own party. That’s changed in the narrowest House majority in decades. Murphy has emerged as one of the most vocal critics of President Joe Biden’s chaotic attempts to clear both his infrastructure and social spending plans through Congress, embracing a blunt manner that’s made her a spokesperson of sorts for her party’s small but feisty moderate wing.

Donald Trump's lawyers are defending his ability to assert executive privilege, even as an ex-President, in a reply brief in his lawsuit against the National Archives and the House select committee over January 6-related documents. This is the last written argument scheduled to come in before a key court hearing Thursday on Trump's request to block the House January 6 committee from obtaining more than 700 pages of records from his presidency. "Members of the Committee have already concluded that the former President is responsible, no matter what the evidence says. They can legislate accordingly, or they must explain why each item requested would be material to any decision they intend to make," Trump's legal team wrote Tuesday night.

Edinburgh, Scotland (CNN)President Joe Biden said Tuesday that he is not concerned with the possibility of an armed conflict with China, adding that he's made clear to Chinese President Xi Jinping that this is "competition" not "conflict." "Am I worried about an armed conflict or something happening accidentally with China? No, I'm not," Biden told CNN's Phil Mattingly while speaking at his closing press conference at the COP26 Summit. Biden said that at his upcoming -- but not yet set--- virtual summit with Xi that he would continue to make clear, "This is competition. It does not have to be conflict."

Donald Trump Junior, the son of former US President Donald Trump, on Wednesday mocked his father's successor, US president Joe Biden, as exit polls projected victories for Trump's Republicans over Biden's Democrats in gubernatorial elections for Virginia and New Jersey. Taking to Twitter, Trump Jr. said that the Democrats had collapsed under President Biden. “When Biden wakes up tomorrow afternoon, somebody's gonna have to tell him he is officially presiding over the collapse of the Democrat Party,” the 43-year-old businessman tweeted, as exit polls projected victory for Glenn Youngkin in Virginia and Jack Ciattarelli in New Jersey over Terry McAuliffe and Phil Murphy, respectively.

Two people were killed and four were hospitalized with life-threatening injuries after gunfire erupted at a Halloween party in Illinois early Sunday morning, police said. At least a dozen people were shot at the party on Jackson Street in Joliet Township, the Will County Illinois Sheriff’s Office said. The incident took place around 12:39 a.m. at the backyard of a house where 200 people had gathered to celebrate Halloween. The deadly shooting took place outside the residence, near a DJ booth that was set up in the backyard, according to police.

SINGAPORE — Subhas Nair, the brother of social media personality Preetipls, was charged in the State Courts on Monday (1 November) with four counts of attempting to promote feelings of ill-will between different groups on grounds of religion and race. The charges relate to incidents that took place between 2019 and 2020. Subhas, 28, appeared in court with sister Preeti Nair. He donned a shirt with the face of Nagaenthran a/l K Dharmalingam, a convicted drug mule on death row for 10 November.

Sen. Joe Manchin, D-W.Va., says he cannot yet support the Build Back Better budget deal containing much of President Biden’s domestic agenda and told House progressives to stop holding up a bipartisan infrastructure deal. Speaking on Capitol Hill Monday, Manchin said he could not fully endorse the framework of the Build Back Better plan released by the White House last week until its potential effects on the deficit, inflation and the tax code are studied further. Manchin and Sen. KyrstenSinema, D-Ariz., have been at odds with the rest of their party — including the White House, Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi — over the size, scale and process of the deal.

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Biden says _I guess I shouldn_t apologize, but I do apologize_ for the Trump administration_s withdrawal from the Paris climate accord

President Joe Biden apologized to other world leaders on Monday for the Trump administration's decision to exit the Paris climate agreement, saying during the United Nations' climate summit that the US' exit put the country behind in its climate goals. "I guess I shouldn't apologize, but I do apologize for the fact that the United States -- the last administration pulled out of the Paris accord. It put us sort of behind the eight ball a little bit," the President said during a session on "action and solidarity" at the summit in Glasgow. The President announced the US would rejoin the Paris accords hours after he was sworn into office in January. During the session, Biden also said "the American people, four or five years ago, weren't at all sure about climate change, whether it was real."