Employers added 165,000 jobs in October, and the unemployment rate changed little at 4.1 percent, the Bureau of Labor Statistics said. The report was embargoed until 8:30 a.m. ET on Friday, November 6, 2026.1
President Donald J. Trump named Stephen Miller the 33rd White House chief of staff on Friday, November 6, 2026, succeeding Susie Wiles. The White House posted the announcement at 4:56 p.m. ET.1
NASA on Saturday, November 7, 2026, named eight companies that can compete to deliver cargo to the Moon, under a contract whose combined maximum is $10 billion, and said it will build a nuclear-powered rover called PROMISE.1
Google said on November 5, 2026, that Gemini Omni 1.2 Flash brings native 15-second video generation and editing, stronger consistency, and 30 percent lower pricing.1
The Justice Department's Antitrust Division said on November 6, 2026, that it is closing its investigation of FOX's plan to buy Roku. FOX announced on June 15 an intent to acquire Roku for approximately $22 billion. The Division said it issued second requests, its formal ask for more information before a merger review ends, and then concluded that entry by free, ad-supported streaming providers would be timely, likely, and sufficient. FOX committed to carry non-FOX content on Roku for at least 3 years.1
Unofficial Senate files opened this morning still have the same leaders, and none marks a winner. Iowa version 385624 lists Josh Turek at 686,486, Ashley Hinson at 630,615, Thomas Laehn at 42,052, and write-in at 1,686. Georgia, as of 3:05 p.m. ET on November 7, 2026, with 159 of 159 counties, lists Jon Ossoff at 2,466,695 and Mike Collins at 1,712,587. North Carolina lists Roy Cooper at 2,467,972 and Michael Whatley at 1,643,114, with 2,626 of 2,626 precincts.123
On November 6, 2026, Anthropic published an engineering post, "The components of agent memory." It says agent memory is knowledge Claude gains from experience and retains between sessions, saved as context it can read later, and not a change to the weights set in training. It says a process often called dreaming can organize that memory, correct mistakes, and create notes.1
Ukraine's Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant lost its last outside power line early Sunday and is relying on emergency diesel generators for reactor cooling and other essential safety functions, the International Atomic Energy Agency said. The cause and location of the break are not yet known.1
Most people dying in Congo's Ebola outbreak are dying in their communities, not in treatment centers, the World Health Organization said Friday. Of 512 deaths reported since Oct. 21, 335 happened in communities, especially among young children, which WHO said shows how hard it still is to find cases early and get people to care in time.1
Copperhill, Tenn., has lifted its evacuation order after Thursday's record flood, but its tap water must be boiled, and the state is asking people to stay out of all surface water in the Ocoee watershed for now, Tennessee's emergency management agency said Friday.1