Evening Brief: Court clears Big Bend border wall; AR-15 case set for Dec. 2; Iran talks stall; Trump eyes Xi-Putin meeting
Plus the Court's Nov. 9 order list and the latest from the Strait of Hormuz.
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I'm Nora Vale with your 5 PM World Brief for Monday, November 9. Court lets Big Bend border wall resume. AR-15 ban case: argument Dec. 2. Rubio: no breakthrough with Iran; Qeshm struck again. Trump eyes Xi-Putin meeting at APEC. In national weather, from the National Weather Service: Tropical Storm Pena, with top winds near 40 mph, may bring impacts to parts of Hawaii. Heavy rainfall and flash flood threat across southern Texas through evening. Our opinion. Secure the border, protect the Second Amendment, and demand verifiable terms in any deal. Full stories and sources at WorldBriefNow.com. I'm Nora Vale.
Secretary of State Marco Rubio said Sunday the U.S. and Iran are not "at the verge of a breakthrough," calling some Iranian demands "outrageous and ridiculous." Iranian officials said the U.S. struck Qeshm Island overnight with no damage to residential areas or vital infrastructure, and Iran's foreign ministry said sanctions and the naval blockade must end before negotiations; its two-day proposal to restore security in the Strait of Hormuz stays on the table. Trump told CNN renewed large-scale strikes are "highly unlikely" if talks produce a strong agreement, and was set to meet Qatar's prime minister at the White House Monday.
Trump told reporters Sunday that one of his meetings at the Nov. 18-19 APEC summit in Shenzhen, China, will likely be with Vladimir Putin and Xi Jinping, saying talks include denuclearization and efforts to end the Iran war. China's foreign ministry said it is "in communication with relevant parties" about a three-leader meeting, but nothing is set. AP notes that if it happens the gathering would be historic.
In a four-page unsigned opinion on Monday, the Supreme Court paused a federal judge's order that had halted border wall construction in the Big Bend region of southwestern Texas; only Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson would have denied the request. The justices said the government is "exceedingly likely to prevail" on its argument that the district judge could not hear the challengers' major-questions claim, and noted the delay costs nearly half a million dollars per day. The Court denied the administration's separate request for summary reversal.
The Supreme Court on Monday denied review in more than 200 cases from its Nov. 6 conference, and granted the solicitor general's request to take part in three December arguments. One is Viramontes v. Cook County (consolidated with Grant v. Higgins) on Dec. 2, over whether bans on AR-15s and other semiautomatic rifles violate the Second Amendment. The Court also asked the solicitor general for the government's views in AstraZeneca UK Ltd. v. Atchley, a terrorism-victims suit, and returned Roybal v. Griffith to the lower court in light of West Virginia v. B.P.J. and United States v. Skrmetti.
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