California and the Pacific Northwest are facing severe weather, power outages, and falling trees amid a “bomb cyclone” which began to bear down on the region on Tuesday and is expected to last until Friday, the Associated Press reports.

The United States vetoed a UN Security Council resolution calling for an immediate ceasefire in Gaza on Wednesday, proposed by ten non-permanent council members. The resolution sought a “permanent ceasefire” and the release of hostages in the ongoing Israel-Hamas conflict. The veto sparked criticism from other members, with a senior U.S. official accusing them of rejecting compromise efforts.

A detailed report by the US Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) published this month states that the Biden-Harris administration has been aware of a recent “dramatic” increase in illegal child labor among migrant children but has taken no meaningful action to prevent it. Moreover, the report asserts the Biden-Harris administration has failed to cooperate with state and local investigations into the exploitation and trafficking of unaccompanied migrant children (UCs) and has even obstructed congressional oversight of the issue.

The Texas Land Commissioner has contacted President-elect Donald Trump’s incoming administration to say that the state will make available more than 1,400 acres of land to serve as a landing stage on which detention centers could be built to facilitate what Trump promised would be the largest mass deportation of undocumented people in US history.

President-elect Donald Trump’s choice for border czar, Tom Homan, emphasized the urgency for the Trump administration to focus on locating and rescuing 300,000 children who are currently missing in the United States due to the border crisis, citing concerns about their risk of exploitation.

In an address delivered to the Knesset on Monday, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu remarked that the guidance from outgoing U.S. President Joe Biden on dealing with Iran and its terrorist proxies in the region was often misguided. Despite pressure from the Biden administration, Netanyahu asserted that Israel had decided to “follow our own view.”

Turkey has cut off access to electricity and water for more than a million people in north-east Syria through airstrikes against the separatist Kurdish-held Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria (AANES), BBC News reported on Tuesday, November 19. The situation is all the more critical as the region has been struck by a drought.

Police in Punjab Province, Pakistan, have refused to arrest an Islamic man who is accused of raping a young Christian woman at gunpoint earlier this month, Morning Star News (MSN) reports. 

Billionaire Elon Musk has unveiled an Artificial Intelligence (AI) training center with the world’s fastest supercomputer “to understand the universe”.

Israeli soldiers in southern Lebanon have discovered troves of Russian weapons that were in the possession of Hezbollah, the Islamic terror group Israel is fighting, the Wall Street Journal reported exclusively on Tuesday.