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• Trump nominates Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to head Health and Human Services.
• Gazans struggle with banking system collapse amid cash shortages and rising inflation.
• House Oversight Committee reviews pandemic lessons and future preparedness.
• San Mateo County supervisors vote in favor of a resolution calling for the immediate resignation of Sheriff Christina Corpus and her chief of staff after misconduct report.
• Progressive Supervisor Dean Preston concedes San Francisco’s District 5 race to Bilal Mahmood amid surge of outside funding.

(Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. speaking with attendees at an Arizona for Trump rally at Desert Diamond Arena in Glendale, Arizona / Gage Skidmore, flickr)

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• South Dakota’s John Thune elected next Republican Senate leader.
• President-elect Donald Trump meets with President Joe Biden at White House, pledging a smooth transition.
• Senate Judiciary Committee debates gun legislation on bump stocks and conversion devices, with Chair Durbin calling the Supreme Court’s overturn of bump stock bans “wrong-headed.”
• San Jose health advocates rally at city hall, urge HCA Healthcare to prioritize community needs over profit in Good Samaritan expansion.
• Ahead of planned strike, UCSF healthcare and technical workers hold picket sign party, citing unfair labor practices.

(U.S. Senator John Thune speaking with attendees at the Republican Jewish Coalition’s 2023 Annual Leadership Summit at the Venetian Convention & Expo Center in Las Vegas, Nevada. / Gage Skidmore, flikr)

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Marco Rubio poised to become top diplomat in the Trump Administration.

Congressional Progressive Caucus welcomes seven new members to the capitol.

Dozens killed throughout Gaza in Israeli onslaught Tuesday.

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• UN relief chief urged global support this week as Israeli legislation threatens aid to Palestinian refugees.
• California education chief vows to seek state solutions amid concerns over potential federal funding cuts.
• Immigrant rights groups rally in Fresno, vowing resistance to Trump’s mass deportation plans.
• San Francisco mayor-elect Daniel Lurie pledges unity, prioritizes public safety, and vows government accountability after defeating London Breed.
• Santa Clara County leaders pledge commitment to community interests amid GOP threats of deportation and civil rights rollbacks.

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• UN climate group reports 2024 as warmest year on record, surpassing 1.5 degrees celsius threshold.
• President-elect Donald Trump names campaign manager Susie Wiles as first female White House chief of staff.
• Key San Joaquin Valley congressional races may decide House control in 119th Congress.
• Activists prepare to resist President-elect Trump’s conservative agenda, says Bay Rising Action’s Kimi Lee.
• Immigrant rights advocates rally at Los Angeles City Hall to address 2024 election, anti-immigrant sentiment.

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• Donald Trump makes historic win to the White House as first convicted felon elected as U.S. president, Vice President Kamala Harris concedes.
• Political psychologist, Stephen Ducat, breaks down the allure of Trump’s authoritarian, xenophobic rhetoric that woo’d voters.
• Immigrant rights groups warn dangers of a second Trump presidency on immigrant communities and asylum seekers. KPFA speaks with Melissa Crow from the Center for Gender and Refugee Studies.
• Bay Area voters appoint new congress members in the East and South Bay and a new state senator for the East Bay.
• Voters oust Oakland Mayor Sheng Thao and Alameda County D.A. Pamela Price in billionaire backed recall.
• Supreme Court hears lawsuit against Facebook for data breach of millions of users by Cambridge Analytica that was used to target potential Trump supporters ahead of the 2016 election.
• United Nations General Assembly condemns Israel’s new laws barring U.N. relief agency, U.N.W.R.A. from operating in Gaza.

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• Oakland mayor, supporters, and faith leaders celebrate city’s first month without homicide in over a decade amid declining crime rate.
• Israel cuts ties with UN agency providing critical aid to Palestinians in Gaza and the West Bank.
• North Korean missile test sparks debate in UN Security Council as U.S. criticizes China and Russia for blocking action.
• Vice president Kamala Harris and former president Donald Trump make final pitches to voters in crucial Pennsylvania swing state
• Berkeley voters to decide on competing ballot measures for tenant and landlord protections.

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• Former president Donald Trump suggests Liz Cheney should have rifles “shooting at her” to understand sending troops to fight.
• Three days after historic flash floods swept through several towns in southern Valencia, eastern Spain, initial shock is giving way to anger, frustration, and a wave of solidarity.
• Speakers from the environmental advocacy coalition “Hands Off Mother Earth” speak out about the dangers of geoengineering on the final day of the United Nations’ two-week Conference on Biodiversity, COP16.
• America’s employers added just 12,000 jobs in October, a total that economists say was held down by strikes and hurricanes that left many workers temporarily off payrolls.
• Just four days before the presidential election, Latino and Indigenous community members from around the Bay Area gathered on Day 1 of Día de los Muertos to demonstrate against Trump’s anti-immigrant rhetoric and to send a message to Democratic presidential candidate Vice President Kamala Harris.

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• California voters to decide on Prop. 4 bond measure for climate initiatives amid debate on sustainability and debt.
• North Korea’s troop support for Russia and missile test spark UN discussions, US-South Korea response.
• Beverly Hills to train employees on abortion clinic protections after settlement with California Attorney General Bonta over alleged obstruction.
• Sonoma County’s Measure J could make it the first in the nation to ban factory farms, facing opposition from local farmers over economic impact.
• Oakland Mayor Sheng Thao fights recall as supporters claim wealthy elites seek to influence city politics.

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