Nine stories to know today, US first: a rout in AI stocks, a judge's order against Trump's planned arch, California's death row, a new Los Angeles mayor, a Justice Department exit, Trump's meeting with a Putin envoy, then Paraguay's president on trial, mass protests in France and a decision looming in Israel.
File photoA rout in AI and data-center stocks sent the S&P 500 down 4.4% on Thursday, its worst day since April 2025, as investors worried that Democratic election wins could slow data-center construction.
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File photoA federal judge temporarily barred any construction of President Trump's planned 250-foot arch in Washington, just hours after a federal planning commission approved it 8-4.
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File photoCalifornia Gov. Gavin Newsom said he will commute every death sentence in the state to life without parole, a move that needs state Supreme Court approval in many cases and has drawn objections from prosecutors.
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File photoCity Council member Nithya Raman beat incumbent Mayor Karen Bass in the Los Angeles mayoral election, and Bass conceded on Thursday as later counts widened Raman's lead.
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File photoHarmeet Dhillon, who led the Justice Department's Civil Rights Division through a sweeping remake of its priorities, resigned on Thursday after the midterm elections.
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File photoPresident Trump met Russian envoy Kirill Dmitriev at the White House and said a big agreement is coming, but he did not meet the Ukrainian officials who were also in Washington.
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File photoParaguayan President Santiago Peña offered to resign over the collapse of Ueno Bank, but Congress declined it, and the lower house impeached him with the Senate trial continuing Friday.
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File photoUnions led nationwide strikes and marches in France on Thursday over wages and the cost of living, with the interior ministry counting about 575,000 marchers and police reporting 448 arrests.
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File photoFormer military chief Gadi Eisenkot was recommended by 67 of Israel's 120 lawmakers to form the next government, versus 46 for Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, and President Isaac Herzog will decide on Sunday.
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