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The most powerful staff job in the White House just went to the architect of the administration’s immigration agenda. Three senior Justice Department officials walked out within two days, a Georgia mountain town was buried in mud for the second time in three months, and a South American president fell over a single failed bank. Plus: the TV network that just bought a major streaming platform.

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President Trump named Stephen Miller his new chief on Friday, replacing Susie Wiles three days after Republicans lost both chambers of Congress in this week's midterm elections. Miller has been the architect of many of Trump's most controversial policies, especially on immigration, and Trump told reporters later that afternoon, "Stephen's been with me since the beginning."

The shake-up follows an election in which data show voters backed Democrats partly because of the administration's aggressive immigration enforcement, the policy area Miller has shaped most closely.

The top federal prosecutor in Miami, Jason Reding Quiñones, who oversaw the "grand conspiracy" probe into President Trump's foes, resigned Friday amid a wave of post-midterm departures. National security chief John Eisenberg also resigned Friday, a day after Harmeet Dhillon, who led an overhaul of the department's Civil Rights Division, announced her exit.

People familiar with the matter said the probe has shown signs of faltering, with investigators recently postponing scheduled grand jury testimony from several witnesses amid staff turnover.

The storm behind a 1,000-year flood along the Tennessee-Georgia line moved up the East Coast on Friday, prompting flood advisories in coastal areas from North Carolina to Massachusetts. The surrounding mountain watershed took 10.28 inches of rain in just six hours, and swift-water teams from both states rescued dozens before the water receded.

The flood, linked to at least one death, was McCaysville, Georgia's second disaster in three months, and its police department "lost virtually everything" a week after reopening its renovated building.

Paraguay's Senate unanimously ousted President Santiago Peña over the collapse of Ueno Bank, whose seizure froze nearly 3 million customers' savings and triggered the country's deepest political crisis in years.

Another wave of bomb threats hit European flights to Lisbon, Rome, Prague and Sofia on Friday, with Hungarian fighter jets escorting three planes and Ireland's public broadcaster evacuated.

Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado renewed her call to free all political prisoners outside a prison Friday, less than two weeks after returning to Venezuela from exile.

Former West Virginia senator Jay Rockefeller has died at 89, ending a career that took the Standard Oil founder's great-grandson from anti-poverty volunteer to governor and senator.

A postal worker in Des Moines made her first court appearance on attempted murder charges as police investigate whether she targeted one of the two coworkers she wounded.

Mississippi's razor-thin Senate race remains uncalled, and no one can say how many ballots are left as Republican Cindy Hyde-Smith and Democrat Scott Colom await a slow, decentralized count.

The Nasdaq rallied 1.1% Friday as tech stocks recovered some of this week's losses, while the S&P 500 rose 0.3% and the Dow slipped 0.5% after a strong jobs report.

Employers added 165,000 jobs in October, nearly triple the Dow Jones estimate, as the unemployment rate edged down to 4.1% in a report that beat Wall Street expectations.

Longtime Google executive Donald Harrison resigned from SpaceX's board of directors, with the rocket maker saying in a regulatory filing that his exit was not due to any disagreement.

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A previously unseen baby right whale, spotted off Quebec's Anticosti Island in September, brings this season's calf count to 24, the best year for the roughly 380 whales since 2009.

An insurance-funded destruction lab in South Carolina builds decks, sheds and single-family homes, then hits them with fire, hail and hurricane-force wind to find materials that make disasters less costly.

Climate scientist Lonnie Thompson has died at 78, after more than 60 treks into icy highlands to collect melting mountain ice that helped document global warming in real time.

The College Football Playoff and ESPN entered final review on a 24-team expansion Friday, a deal doubling the field next year for a reported extra $345 million annually.

Portugal coach Jorge Jesus said Friday he doesn't feel guilty about Cristiano Ronaldo's international retirement, announced Thursday after a record 234 appearances and 146 goals for his country.

Warriors center Kristaps Porzingis is stepping away, citing his physical inability to play at his usual level, though Golden State can still use his $20 million salary in trades.

The Browns will start Shedeur Sanders at quarterback Sunday against the New Orleans Saints, coach Todd Monken said Friday, with Deshaun Watson still in the concussion protocol.

Sebastián Lelio, the Chilean director behind Oscar winner "A Fantastic Woman," died Friday at his Santiago home at 52, with his partner, actress Amalia Kassai, citing health reasons.

Netflix announced a 1950s "Stranger Things" prequel, "Other Worlds: A Stranger Things Adventure," a live-action series from the Duffer Brothers set in fictional Marion, Nevada, arriving in 2028.

Bradley Cooper's "G.I. Joe" movie, directed by Danny McBride, will hit theaters on Oct. 20, 2028, Paramount said Friday, while a new "Paranormal Activity" moves to Halloween 2027.

What it is: Fox Corp. completed its $22 billion Roku acquisition on Friday after the Justice Department closed its antitrust review, finding the deal "is not likely to result in harm to competition." Roku founder Anthony Wood becomes co-chair of a new Fox division housing Roku, Tubi and Fox One, while Tubi CEO Anjali Sud and Roku Media president Charlie Collier are departing.

The detail: To clear the deal, Fox committed to carrying non-Fox content on Roku for at least three years and promised not to discriminate against rivals' content in search results. Users can still rearrange apps on their home screens, and Fox must keep firewalls around rivals' click, search, view and voice data for at least three years.

Why it matters: A major TV network now owns a streaming platform that depends on other companies' shows, which is why regulators examined whether Fox might use Roku to disadvantage its content rivals. The Justice Department concluded that degrading Roku would cost Fox money and reputation, noting that unhappy viewers could simply switch to other connected TV platforms.

What to watch: The key protections expire after three years, and the Justice Department said it will keep evaluating competition and "may take appropriate action" if facts or circumstances change. Roku's revenue grew 23% to $4.1 billion in the first nine months of 2026, handing Fox a fast-growing business it has promised to run as an "open ecosystem."

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Two runaway piglets dubbed the "Bacon Bits" led South Carolina officers on a hoof chase caught on video before being detained for "fleeing and squealing" and returned to their owner.

A North Carolina farmer working on his fence spotted what looked like a misplaced post which turned out to be a boa constrictor missing for a month.

A British runner solved four Rubik's cubes while running a mile in 5:09.25, claiming the Guinness World Record for the fastest puzzle cube mile, his latest of several cube-solving titles.

William McKinley wins reelection with Theodore Roosevelt as his running mate (1900) · "Meet the Press" debuts on NBC (1947) · Britain announces a Suez Crisis ceasefire under US pressure (1956) · The US tests its largest underground hydrogen bomb, Cannikin, in Alaska's Aleutian Islands (1971) · Tammy Baldwin becomes the first openly gay person elected to the US Senate (2012)

"I didn't run to make history. I ran to make a difference." — Tammy Baldwin, after winning Wisconsin's Senate race (2012)

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