Portal:Current events/2018 November 13
November 13, 2018 (Tuesday)
Business and economy
- Amazon HQ2
- Amazon announces it will split their second headquarters in New York City and National Landing in northern Virginia (outside Washington D.C.) (CNN)
Disasters and accidents
- 2018 California wildfires
- The death toll of the Camp Fire in Butte County, the deadliest wildfire in Californian history, rises to 48 people while dozens are missing. (BBC)
Law and crime
- CNN v. Trump
- CNN files a lawsuit against the Trump administration, claiming its revocation of White House correspondent Jim Acosta's press pass on November 7 violated their First and Fifth Amendment rights. (The Washington Post)
- Several media organizations file amicus briefs in support of CNN. (Vox)
- One America News Network files an amicus brief in support of the Trump administration. (CNBC)
- Pike County, Ohio shootings
- Four suspects have been arrested for the murders of eight members of a family in 2016. Police believe custody of a child plays a role in this case. One of the suspects has a child with one of the victims. (CNN)
- Bishop International Airport incident
- Amor Ftouhi is found guilty of three federal charges in the stabbing of an airport police officer last year in Flint, Michigan. (NBC News)
Politics and elections
- 2018 Sri Lankan constitutional crisis
- The Supreme Court of Sri Lanka reverses President Maithripala Sirisena's decisions to dissolve Parliament and to hold snap elections. (Al Jazeera)
- Brexit
- The Government of the United Kingdom says that UK and EU negotiators reached a draft agreement and that it will be discussed by Cabinet tomorrow. (AP via ABC News)
- 2026 Winter Olympics
- Residents of the city of Calgary head to the polls to vote on a non-binding plebiscite to determine if the city should make a bid to host the 2026 Winter Olympic Games. (CTV News)
- The unofficial results suggest the No vote is in the lead, and only a 40% voter turnout. Official results will be released Friday, November 16. (City of Calgary)
- First Lady of the United States Melania Trump calls for the ousting of Deputy National Security Advisor Mira Ricardel. (Toronto Star) (Reuters)
- The Islamic City Council of Tehran appoints Pirouz Hanachi as the new mayor of Tehran, the third in 18 months. (RFE/RL)
Science and technology
- Timeline of nuclear fusion
- China's Hefei Institutes of Physical Science announces that its Experimental Advanced Superconducting Tokamak (EAST) reactor in Hefei has reached a milestone of 100 million degrees celsius. (CGTN)