Jordan’s former foreign minister says two-state solution is over

Jordan’s former foreign minister says two-state solution is over

  Middle East Eye reports: Jordan’s former foreign minister has told Middle East Eye that Arab countries need to abandon the two-state solution for Israel and Palestine. “Practically, that is not going to take place,” Marwan Muasher, who also served as Jordan’s deputy prime minister and opened the kingdom’s first embassy in Israel in 1995, said of the two-state solution in a video interview with Middle East Eye. The ex-diplomat, who is now vice president for studies at the Carnegie…

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Democrats rage against Biden’s ‘arrogance’ after Harris loss

Democrats rage against Biden’s ‘arrogance’ after Harris loss

Politico reports: Democrats are directing their rage over losing the presidential race at Joe Biden, who they blame for setting up Kamala Harris for failure by not dropping out sooner. They say his advancing age, questions over his mental acuity and deep unpopularity put Democrats at a sharp disadvantage. They are livid that they were forced to embrace a candidate who voters had made clear they did not want — and then stayed in the race long after it was…

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Trump’s victory adds record $64bn to wealth of richest top ten

Trump’s victory adds record $64bn to wealth of richest top ten

The Guardian reports: The wealth of the 10 richest people in the world – a list dominated by US tech billionaires – increased by a record amount after Donald Trump’s victory in the presidential election, according to a widely cited index. The Bloomberg Billionaires Index estimated that the world’s 10 wealthiest people gained nearly $64bn (about £49.5bn) on Wednesday, the largest daily increase since the index began in 2012. Elon Musk, the world’s richest person, registered the largest increase with…

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Trump got away with it — because of the Biden administration’s massive missteps

Trump got away with it — because of the Biden administration’s massive missteps

Ankush Khardori writes: We have just witnessed the greatest failure of federal law enforcement in American history. The reasons for Donald Trump’s reelection are numerous and will be hotly debated in the weeks ahead. But the story of his comeback cannot be told without seriously grappling with how he managed to outrun four criminal cases, including — most notably — the Justice Department’s prosecution over Trump’s alleged effort to overturn the 2020 election. At the root of it all are…

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Trump’s biggest courtroom nemesis is looking for an exit strategy

Trump’s biggest courtroom nemesis is looking for an exit strategy

Politico reports: Seventy-five days. That’s how long special counsel Jack Smith has to figure out how to unwind his unprecedented efforts to put former and future President Donald Trump in prison. Smith’s two cases against Trump — one for conspiring to overturn the 2020 election; the other for hoarding classified documents and obstructing justice — were doomed the moment the 2024 race was called. That’s because longstanding Justice Department policy forbids prosecuting a sitting president, and even if it didn’t,…

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Trump allies, private sector quietly prepare for mass detention of immigrants

Trump allies, private sector quietly prepare for mass detention of immigrants

CNN reports: Donald Trump’s allies and some in the private sector have been quietly preparing to detain and deport migrants residing in the United States on a large scale, according to four sources familiar with the discussions. And with the former president becoming the president-elect, those preparations are now expected to ramp up. Immigration was a cornerstone of Trump’s 2024 campaign, and while he repeatedly touted promises of mass deportation on the trail – putting increased emphasis on interior enforcement…

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The U.S. is about to make a sharp turn on climate policy

The U.S. is about to make a sharp turn on climate policy

Casey Crownhart writes: Voters have elected Donald Trump to a second term in the White House. In the days leading up to the election, I kept thinking about what four years means for climate change right now. We’re at a critical moment that requires decisive action to rapidly slash greenhouse-gas emissions from power plants, transportation, industry, and the rest of the economy if we’re going to achieve our climate goals. The past four years have seen the US take climate…

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‘We need to be ready for a new world’: scientists globally react to Trump election win

‘We need to be ready for a new world’: scientists globally react to Trump election win

Nature reports: Scientists around the world expressed disappointment and alarm as Republican Donald Trump won the final votes needed to secure the US presidency in the early hours of 6 November. Owing to Trump’s anti-science rhetoric and actions during his last term in office, many are now bracing for four years of attacks on scientists inside and outside the government. “In my long life of 82 years … there has hardly been a day when I felt more sad,” says…

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Why Kamala Harris lost the election: Joe Biden

Why Kamala Harris lost the election: Joe Biden

Politico reports: In the final sprint to the election, Kamala Harris’ campaign — at her insistence, aides and allies said — started playing Donald Trump’s most incendiary comments on the jumbotrons at her rallies, displaying in technicolor his meandering, racist and, sometimes, violent rhetoric. It was an emphatic reminder of the stakes of the election. And it hardly seemed to help her at all. The result Wednesday was brutal for Harris, a bloodbath for Democrats across the map. Harris inherited…

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Netanyahu first world leader to hail Trump’s election victory

Netanyahu first world leader to hail Trump’s election victory

The Times of Israel reports: As the results of the 2024 United States presidential election indicated on Wednesday morning that former president Donald Trump had defeated Vice President Kamala Harris, Israeli leaders and politicians began congratulating the Republican on a decisive victory. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was the first world leader to congratulate Trump, even before news outlets began to call the election in his favor. “Congratulations on history’s greatest comeback!” he said in an English-language statement written in Trump’s…

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Trump wins Dearborn amid anger over Gaza and Lebanon; Jill Stein receives 18% of vote

Trump wins Dearborn amid anger over Gaza and Lebanon; Jill Stein receives 18% of vote

Detroit Free Press reports: Donald Trump won Dearborn and made significant gains in Hamtramck compared to 2020 amid anger in Arab American and Muslim communities about deaths in Gaza, Lebanon and Yemen. The two cities, which have the highest percentage of Arab Americans among all cities in the United States, were courted by Trump and his campaign as the former president visited both places in recent weeks. In Dearborn, where 55% of the residents are of Middle Eastern descent, Trump…

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In Dearborn, Rashida Tlaib did nearly twice as well as Kamala Harris

In Dearborn, Rashida Tlaib did nearly twice as well as Kamala Harris

The Intercept reports: Democratic Rep. Rashida Tlaib, a progressive Palestinian American, won 62 percent of the vote in Dearborn compared to Republican candidate James Hooper’s 30 percent. She was easily reelected to a fourth term. For observers, the contrast between Tlaib’s strong performance and Harris’s weakness is striking. “Working class voters across this country no longer see the Democratic Party as a Party that fights for their interests,” said Usamah Andrabi, the communications director of Justice Democrats, “and they saw…

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Ilhan Omar secures reelection, defeating pro-Israel Republican challenger

Ilhan Omar secures reelection, defeating pro-Israel Republican challenger

The New Arab reports: Democrat Congresswoman Ilhan Omar of Minnesota secured re-election to the US House of Representatives, overcoming a pro-Israel Republican opponent and reinforcing her role as a prominent progressive voice in the US legislature. Omar claimed her third term representing the 5th District, which covers Minneapolis and surrounding suburbs, with a decisive 76.4 percent of the vote over Republican challenger Dalia Al-Aqidi’s 23.6 percent, according to the Associated Press. “Tonight, Minnesota’s Fifth District showed the country what we…

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The diminishing path to a Democratic House majority runs through California

The diminishing path to a Democratic House majority runs through California

Politico reports: Democrats’ dream of blocking a Republican governing trifecta is dwindling down to a handful of West Coast races, as California’s large cache of still-untallied ballots and its notoriously slow count now take center stage in the national political drama. The party had long seen the nation’s two blue bulwarks — New York and California — as the decisive staging ground for their quest to retake the House majority. In the Empire State, it flipped two GOP-held seats, a…

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