Ukraine fired a dozen British Storm Shadow cruise missiles deep into Russia on Wednesday after launching it is U.S. ATACMS missiles, prompting Moscow to warn that it is lowering its threshold for the use of atomic weapons.

President-elect Donald J. Trump has selected Mike Huckabee, the former governor of Arkansas, to serve as his U.S. ambassador to Israel during mounting tensions in the Middle East.

Tehran has condemned three European nations for pursuing a new censure resolution against Iran at the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) after a leaked report showed the country is expanding its stockpile of uranium enriched to near-weapons-grade levels.

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 on Wednesday vetoed a United Nations Security Council resolution demanding an immediate cease-fire in Israel’s war against Hamas in Gaza because it was not linked to the immediate release of hostages.

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.