Trump-appointed judge Jeffrey T Kuntz partially denies British broadcaster’s motion to dismiss over edit

Federal judge Jeffrey T Kuntz ruled on Tuesday that Donald Trump’s lawsuit against the BBC can proceed, denying in part the British broadcaster’s motion to dismiss the case. The president’s $10bn defamation lawsuit stems from the BBC’s splicing together of disparate comments he made before the 6 January US Capitol insurrection, as rendered in a Panorama documentary called Trump: A Second Chance.

“Accepting the allegations in the complaint as true, the Court finds Trump plausibly pled damages where Trump alleges a defamatory documentary released toward the election caused reputational harm,” the Trump-appointed Florida district court judge wrote. “It would be difficult for the Court to accept a different framing without completely negating the significance and fragility of political elections.”

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250ft arch risks ‘permanently diminishing’ memorials to ex-president and relatives at Arlington cemetery, lawsuit says

Nine members of the Kennedy family political dynasty have sued the Trump administration, asking a federal judge to block the president’s plan to build a towering, gilded arch they say would cast a shadow over their relatives’ graves in Arlington national cemetery.

The family’s complaint states that the 25oft triumphal arch, topped with a Lady Liberty-like winged figure, would “obstruct the clear sightline of the Kennedy Gravesites” and “fundamentally alter the experience of visiting” their family’s memorial at Arlington national cemetery. The project, they argued in a statement, risks “permanently diminishing these memorials”.

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Fireworks AI says its October breach was broader than initially disclosed, with attackers gaining access to customer account and billing information as well as some datasets, incomplete model weights and secrets. Notion, the popular productivity and note-taking app, disclosed that it was impacted in the breach but "fewer than 1% of Notion workspaces" were involved. "Upon analysis of the new data, we discovered that it included Notion AI chat transcripts used for the Insights feature, which for the vast majority of impacted workspaces were unattributable," it said. "'Unattributable' means the chats weren't labeled with who wrote them or which workspace they came from, and the transcripts did not contain tool call results." The Hacker News reports: In a notice published on October 10, 2026, [Fireworks AI] said it detected unauthorized use of internal Fireworks credentials that allowed an unauthorized third-party to access environment variables used in evaluation jobs in a limited number of customer accounts. The activity was detected on October 6, 2026, at 9 a.m. PDT. [...] The latest bulletin from the company reveals that the scope of the breach may have been broader than previously thought. The company said attackers reached its development environment via an unnamed third-party cloud provider that hosted Fireworks research and development (R&D) machines on October 23, 2026.

"On October 24, the unauthorized third party used it to reach Fireworks development machines and then run an unauthorized workload that led to additional customer data impact," it added. "As of October 25, we have not detected further evidence of successful unauthorized access by the threat actor on the Fireworks platform customers use." The breach is said to have provided access to the following types of information: [Resource metadata; Billing information; and Model weights and datasets]. Fireworks AI said payment card numbers are not stored by the company and were not impacted by the security incident. It also said it's alerting customers whose data was impacted.

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PARIJS (ANP/AFP/RTR) - De rechtse politicus Éric Zemmour heeft dinsdag zijn deelname aan de presidentsverkiezingen van Frankrijk bekendgemaakt. Zemmour is de leider van de radicaal-rechtse partij Reconquête. Hij staat bekend om zijn anti-islam- en anti-immigratiestandpunten.

"Ik stel me kandidaat om te proberen een Frankrijk te behouden dat Frans is, en om ervoor te zorgen dat de toekomst van ons land Frans blijft", zei de 68-jarige Zemmour, die meermaals veroordeeld is voor racistische uitspraken.

Voordat hij de politiek inging, was Zemmour journalist en televisiecommentator. In 2022 deed hij ook mee aan de presidentsverkiezingen. Hij beloofde om Frankrijk te redden van problemen die volgens hem waren veroorzaakt door immigratie en de islam. Zemmour viel in de eerste ronde af.

De Franse presidentsverkiezingen vinden in april plaats.

WASHINGTON (ANP/RTR) - De Republikeinen in het Amerikaanse Huis van Afgevaardigden hebben een ​​poging tot een afzettingsprocedure tegen minister van Defensie Pete Hegseth tegengehouden. Mogelijk wagen de Democraten in januari, wanneer ze de meerderheid in zowel het Huis als de Senaat overnemen, een nieuwe poging om Hegseth af te zetten.

Met 211 tegen 204 stemmen nam het Huis een motie aan om de aanklachten voor een afzettingsprocedure door te verwijzen naar de door Republikeinen geleide juridische commissie van het Huis. Hiermee werd het initiatief van de Republikeinse afgevaardigde Thomas Massie om Hegseth af te zetten effectief gestopt.

Massie had gesteld dat Hegseth ter verantwoording moest worden geroepen voor het uitvoeren van onrechtmatige militaire operaties. Onder meer de oorlog tegen Iran en de gevangenneming van de Venezolaanse president Nicolás Maduro hadden niet zonder toestemming van het Congres mogen worden uitgevoerd.

Massie was de enige Republikein die tegen de motie stemde. Enkele uren voor de stemming had Hegseth de afzettingspoging nog bestempeld als een "klucht". Hij verdedigde zijn beleid aan het hoofd van het Pentagon fel, onder meer door erop te wijzen dat hij slechts de bevelen van president Donald Trump had opgevolgd.

Hegseth zou de eerste Amerikaanse minister van Defensie zijn geweest tegen wie een afzettingsprocedure werd gestart. De laatste keer dat een burgerlijk leider van het Amerikaanse leger werd onderworpen aan een dergelijke procedure was in 1876, toen William Belknap de titel 'minister van Oorlog' droeg.

Hegseth noemt zichzelf 'minister van Oorlog'. Hij hoopt zo het imago van het leger, dat volgens hem bij zijn aantreden vorig jaar te zwak en te 'woke' was, te veranderen. De naam van het ministerie van Defensie kan echter niet worden gewijzigd zonder goedkeuring van het Congres.

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Weer voor Rotterdam ☁️ - 11-11-2026 01:15 CET

In één oogopslag:
• 4.1°C · Bewolkt ☁️ | Min 4.1°C / Max 5.6°C | Kans op neerslag 35%

Verwachting voor vandaag:
• Min 4.1°C, Max 5.6°C (Lichte regen) 🌧️, Neerslag 2.7 mm, Kans op neerslag 35%, 🧭 1003.5 hPa ↘️ -1.8 hPa/24h, Windsnelheid: 14.0 km/u (3.9 m/s), richting: ↙ 49°

Uurlijkse voorspelling voor de komende 12 uur:

• 02:00: 4.2°C (Bewolkt) ☁️, Kans op neerslag 58%, 🧭 1005.3 hPa ➡️ 0.0 hPa/1h, Windsnelheid: 13.7 km/u (3.8 m/s), richting: ← 76°
• 03:00: 4.2°C (Bewolkt) ☁️, Kans op neerslag 75%, 🧭 1004.8 hPa ↘️ -0.5 hPa/1h, Windsnelheid: 13.3 km/u (3.7 m/s), richting: ← 86°
• 04:00: 4.3°C (Lichte motregen) 🌦️, Neerslag 0.4 mm, Kans op neerslag 86%, 🧭 1004.3 hPa ↘️ -0.5 hPa/1h, Windsnelheid: 14.0 km/u (3.9 m/s), richting: ← 69°
• 05:00: 4.4°C (Lichte regen) 🌧️, Neerslag 1.3 mm, Kans op neerslag 87%, 🧭 1003.7 hPa ↘️ -0.6 hPa/1h, Windsnelheid: 11.5 km/u (3.2 m/s), richting: ↙ 62°
• 06:00: 4.4°C (Matige motregen) 🌦️, Neerslag 0.7 mm, Kans op neerslag 83%, 🧭 1003.7 hPa ➡️ 0.0 hPa/1h, Windsnelheid: 11.9 km/u (3.3 m/s), richting: ↙ 52°
• 07:00: 4.7°C (Lichte motregen) 🌦️, Neerslag 0.1 mm, Kans op neerslag 75%, 🧭 1003.8 hPa ➡️ 0.0 hPa/1h, Windsnelheid: 12.6 km/u (3.5 m/s), richting: ↙ 58°
• 08:00: 4.9°C (Bewolkt) ☁️, Kans op neerslag 63%, 🧭 1003.6 hPa ➡️ 0.0 hPa/1h, Windsnelheid: 11.5 km/u (3.2 m/s), richting: ↙ 58°
• 09:00: 5.2°C (Bewolkt) ☁️, Kans op neerslag 49%, 🧭 1003.6 hPa ➡️ 0.0 hPa/1h, Windsnelheid: 9.4 km/u (2.6 m/s), richting: ↙ 55°
• 10:00: 5.3°C (Bewolkt) ☁️, Kans op neerslag 37%, 🧭 1003.6 hPa ➡️ 0.0 hPa/1h, Windsnelheid: 9.0 km/u (2.5 m/s), richting: ↙ 52°
• 11:00: 5.1°C (Bewolkt) ☁️, Kans op neerslag 32%, 🧭 1003.8 hPa ➡️ 0.0 hPa/1h, Windsnelheid: 8.6 km/u (2.4 m/s), richting: ↙ 36°
• 12:00: 5.0°C (Bewolkt) ☁️, Kans op neerslag 29%, 🧭 1003.9 hPa ➡️ 0.0 hPa/1h, Windsnelheid: 11.2 km/u (3.1 m/s), richting: ↙ 32°
• 13:00: 5.1°C (Bewolkt) ☁️, Kans op neerslag 27%, 🧭 1003.5 hPa ➡️ 0.0 hPa/1h, Windsnelheid: 10.8 km/u (3.0 m/s), richting: ↙ 46°

Voorspelling voor de komende dagen:

• donderdag 12 november: Min 4.0°C, Max 10.5°C (Matige motregen) 🌦️, Neerslag 0.9 mm, Kans op neerslag 4%, 🧭 1002.2 hPa ↘️ -1.3 hPa/24h, Windsnelheid: 19.1 km/u (5.3 m/s), richting: ↘ 328°
• vrijdag 13 november: Min 5.1°C, Max 10.0°C (Lichte motregen) 🌦️, Neerslag 0.3 mm, Kans op neerslag 4%, 🧭 1012.4 hPa ↗️ +10.2 hPa/24h, Windsnelheid: 20.2 km/u (5.6 m/s), richting: ↘ 316°
• zaterdag 14 november: Min 2.8°C, Max 8.3°C (Bewolkt) ☁️, 🧭 1018.0 hPa ↗️ +5.6 hPa/24h, Windsnelheid: 8.3 km/u (2.3 m/s), richting: ↑ 193°
• zondag 15 november: Min 1.4°C, Max 7.2°C (Bewolkt) ☁️, Kans op neerslag 15%, 🧭 1007.3 hPa ↘️ -10.7 hPa/24h, Windsnelheid: 9.8 km/u (2.7 m/s), richting: ↑ 176°
• maandag 16 november: Min 4.5°C, Max 9.5°C (Lichte motregen) 🌦️, Neerslag 2.7 mm, Kans op neerslag 52%, 🧭 1003.5 hPa ↘️ -3.8 hPa/24h, Windsnelheid: 21.8 km/u (6.1 m/s), richting: → 253°
• dinsdag 17 november: Min 4.5°C, Max 12.4°C (Zware motregen) 🌦️, Neerslag 11.8 mm, Kans op neerslag 48%, 🧭 994.4 hPa ↘️ -9.1 hPa/24h, Windsnelheid: 23.9 km/u (6.6 m/s), richting: ↑ 191°

Details:
• 🌡️ Huidige temperatuur (om 01:15): 4.1°C (Bewolkt)
• 🤚 Gevoelstemperatuur: 0.5°C (-3.6°C)
• 💨 Windsnelheid: 13.7 km/u (3.8 m/s), richting: ← 81°
• 🌬️ Windstoten: 25.6 km/h (7.1 m/s)
• 💧 Luchtvochtigheid: 91%
• 🧭 Luchtdruk: 1005.3 hPa ↘️ -1.0 hPa/3h
• 👁️ Zichtbaarheid: 50.0 km
• ☀️ UV-index: 0.0
• 🌅 Zonsopgang: 07:54 · 🌇 Zonsondergang: 16:57

Luchtkwaliteit:
• AQI: 91 🟡 (Matig)
• PM2.5: 26.7 μg/m³
• PM10: 30.1 μg/m³

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Olive-backed Oriole
Scientific Name: Oriolus sagittatus
Description: The Olive-backed Oriole is part of a worldwide family, of which Australia has two other members (the Yellow Oriole and the Figbird). Males and females have an olive-green head and back, grey wings and tail, and cream underparts, streaked with brown. They both have a bright red eye and reddish beak. Females can be distinguished from males by a paler bill, duller-green back, and an extension of the streaked underparts up to the chin.
Similar species: Olive-backed Orioles have a reddish bill, which easily distinguishes the species from the similar Figbird Sphecotheres viridis, which has a blackish bill. It also lacks the Figbird's bare eye skin and has red rather than dark eyes. The Yellow Oriole O. flavocinctus is generally more yellow overall.
Distribution: The Olive-backed Oriole occurs across coastal regions of northern and eastern Australia from the Kimberley region in Western Australia, right around the east coast to Adelaide in South Australia.
Habitat: The Olive-backed Oriole lives in forests, woodlands and rainforests, as well as well-treed urban areas, particularly parks and golf courses.
Seasonal movements: Sedentary in the north of its range, but appears to be a summer migrant to the more southern part of its range. Small groups undertake nomadic movements, following fruiting trees during the autumn and winter.
Feeding: Olive-backed Orioles are less gregarious than Figbirds, with which they are often seen foraging. Although they are sometimes seen in small groups, particularly in autumn and winter, they more often occur alone or in pairs, feeding on insects and fruit in canopy trees.
Breeding: The female Olive-backed Oriole builds a cup-shaped nest which is attached by its rim to a horizontal fork on the outer-edge of the foliage of a tree or tall shrub. Nests are usually around 10 m above the ground, and built of strips of bark and grass, bound with spider web. The male does not build the nest, or incubate the eggs, but he feeds the young after the eggs hatch.
Calls: Repeated, rolling 'ori-ori-oriole'. Olive-backed Orioles are excellent mimics of other birds, and are also 'ventriloquists', meaning they can 'throw' their voices to sound like they are calling from somewhere else.
Minimum Size: 26cm
Maximum Size: 28cm
Average size: 27cm
Average weight: 96g
Breeding season: September to January
Clutch Size: 2 to 3
Incubation: 18 days
Nestling Period: 17 days
(Source: www.birdsinbackyards.net)

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