Evening Brief: Colom's Mississippi lead grows past 2,400; Trump calls Qatar's emir as Iran decision looms; DOJ ramps up Dobbs leak probe
Alaska still Peltola by 637; Hegseth faces a next-week impeachment vote; Russia launched 227 drones overnight; Court conference today, Nielsen Monday.
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I'm Nora Vale with your 5 PM World Brief for Friday, November 6. Mississippi: Colom ~+2,500. Alaska: Peltola +637. Trump calls Qatar's emir. Iran: seven demands. Strike decision pending. Massie: Hegseth impeachment vote next week. Trump still backs him. Russia: 227 drones overnight; Rivne death; outages in 7 regions. DOJ ramps up Dobbs leak probe. Monday: Nielsen v. Watanabe. In national weather, from the National Weather Service: Tropical Storm Pena, with top winds near 45 mph, may bring impacts to parts of Hawaii. There is a Slight Risk of excessive rainfall over parts of New England. Our opinion. Count every lawful vote. Real Iran limits. Clear endgame. Real leak probe. Full stories and sources at WorldBriefNow.com. I'm Nora Vale.
Ukraine's Air Force said Russia launched 227 long-range attack drones overnight into Friday, including 86 jet-powered drones, and that air defenses intercepted or suppressed 196 by about 8 a.m. local time, the Kyiv Independent reported; strikes were recorded at 14 locations. A man was killed in Rivne Oblast's Sarny district in a morning attack, and local authorities reported dozens injured across multiple oblasts over Nov. 5-6, the Kyiv Independent said. Ukraine's Energy Ministry said emergency power outages were introduced in seven regions — Vinnytsia, Dnipropetrovsk, Zhytomyr, Zaporizhzhia, Kyiv, Kharkiv and Chernihiv — with the capital region remaining most difficult.
Al Jazeera reported that Iran's Supreme National Security Council secretary Mohsen Rezaei met Russian President Vladimir Putin at the Kremlin on Thursday to deliver a message from Supreme Leader Mojtaba Khamenei, with Iranian state media not detailing the contents. Rezaei said Iran will neither reopen the Strait of Hormuz nor negotiate until Washington meets Tehran's seven conditions, Al Jazeera reported, citing his remarks; those demands include lifting sanctions, unfreezing assets and ending the U.S. naval blockade. The Financial Times, as cited by Al Jazeera, previously reported Russia agreed to supply Iran with helicopter-mounted launchers for precision-guided missiles, citing a Russian defense manufacturer's production schedule.
Fox News, citing the Associated Press and updated Friday evening, showed Democrat Scott Colom leading Sen. Cindy Hyde-Smith 467,846 to 465,348, a 2,498-vote margin, with about 96.9% of Mississippi ballots counted — wider than the roughly 1,800-vote lead reported early Friday. In Alaska, Democrat Mary Peltola still led Sen. Dan Sullivan 102,962 to 102,325, a 637-vote margin, with about 74.1% reporting, Fox said, citing the AP; neither candidate has cleared 50%, so ranked-choice tabulation remains scheduled for Nov. 18 if that holds. USA TODAY, citing the AP earlier Friday, likewise had Colom ahead by about 2,000 with roughly 96% counted and noted Mississippi can still count mail ballots postmarked by Election Day for several more days, with county certification due within 10 days.
Qatar's Emiri Diwan said Friday that Emir Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani spoke by phone with President Donald Trump about diplomatic efforts to ease regional tensions and pursue a comprehensive agreement ending the crisis, Al Jazeera reported. The call came a day after Trump told Oval Office reporters Washington would 'make a decision' on further Iran strikes and said, 'You'll know soon enough,' while senior officials confirmed to Fox News that he had met his national security team on whether to resume operations. Al Jazeera, citing Iranian and Gulf statements, said Iran's foreign minister held Thursday calls with UAE, Saudi, Kuwait, Turkish, Qatari and Omani counterparts on stability and Hormuz navigation, and that Iran's IRGC said two more oil tankers caught fire Friday after hitting mines while trying unauthorized routes near Oman.
Rep. Thomas Massie (R-Ky.) told Bloomberg he will 'definitely' reintroduce articles of impeachment against War Secretary Pete Hegseth when the House returns next week, the Honolulu Star-Advertiser reported Friday in a Bloomberg-based dispatch; Massie has said he will not pursue the privileged resolution if Hegseth resigns first. Fox News reported Thursday that several House Republicans believe an impeachment resolution could pass as early as next week, while Hegseth posted a defiant video calling the effort 'sham articles' from a 'disgruntled, defeated congressman.' Trump told reporters Hegseth has done a 'fantastic job,' Fox and NBC News reported, and White House spokeswoman Lauren Bis criticized 'sham investigations.'
The Federalist, citing the New York Times and Fox News, reported Friday that the Justice Department is pursuing a criminal investigation into who leaked the May 2022 draft Dobbs opinion to Politico, with U.S. Attorney Jeanine Pirro's D.C. office sending grand jury subpoenas and seeking information from people who worked at the Court at the time. SCOTUSblog said Friday the justices were meeting in private conference, with orders expected Monday at 9:30 a.m. EST, and that oral argument is set Monday in Nielsen v. Watanabe on when federal officials can be sued for constitutional violations. The Court's own 2023 marshal inquiry did not identify a leaker by a preponderance of the evidence, The Federalist noted.
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