WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Tech mega-billionaire Elon Musk and U.S. President Donald Trump’s newly appointed White House Chief of Staff, Stephen Miller, and some large companies will likely be targets of congressional probes when Democrats take control of Congress in January, senior lawmakers said. In television appearances, U.S. Representative Robert Garcia of California and U.S. Senator Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts, set to lead the House Oversight and Senate Banking committees, vowed aggressive oversight after their party’s sweeping midterm election victory. 

 

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NEW YORK (Xinhua) -- One person was killed and three others were wounded after two separate shootings on the campus of Winston-Salem State University in the U.S. state of North Carolina, police said. During a press conference on Sunday, Assistant Police Chief Jason Swaim of the Winston-Salem Police Department said it remained unclear whether the shootings were connected. The campus was placed under lockdown shortly after the incidents, which was lifted early Sunday morning. Police said extra officers wound be on and around campus in the coming days. No arrests have been announced. Swaim said the investigation was in its early stages.

 

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JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - South Africans’ sweeping rebuke of the African National Congress in local elections was a vote for performance over loyalty, analysts said, marking a political shift in which the former liberation movement can no longer call the shots. The ANC, widely criticized for corruption scandals and failing to deliver core public services, won less than a third of votes in the November 4 poll. It was by far the worst result in history for the party that led the country out of apartheid under Nelson Mandela three decades ago. The election has deepened South Africa’s political fragmentation and shifted power towards rivals of the long-dominant ANC, with consequences beyond local government. Coalition deals in the coming weeks could influence the ANC’s 2027 leadership contest, when President Cyril Ramaphosa is expected to step aside as party leader, by strengthening whichever faction can claim the most viable path back to electoral competitiveness. 

 

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WARSAW (Reuters) – A gunman who killed six people in central Krakow on Nov 7 in an unprecedented Polish mass shooting died in hospital on Nov 9 as shock and grief at the loss of life mixed with an increasingly bitter political dispute over his motives. Very little information has come out about the shooter, who was shot by police officers and arrested minutes after he opened fire at people from his car in Krakow’s historic main square. The government had said the assailant, identified as Michal O., a 24-year-old from the town of Ostrowiec Swietokrzyski in south-eastern Poland, may have been inspired by far-right ideology, without providing further details.

 

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DHAKA (Reuters) - Bangladesh’s ousted prime minister Sheikh Hasina has formally requested a new passport and identity card to facilitate her return from India next month, despite facing a death sentence at home. Her lawyers at the London-based Matrix Chambers wrote to the acting high commissioner at Bangladesh’s mission in New Delhi, Preeti Rahman, seeking replacement documents after her existing passport and identity card were reportedly revoked by the previous interim government in Dhaka. Hasina was ousted following protests in August, 2024, ending her 15-year rule and forcing her to flee to India. Her continued stay in India has strained relations between New Delhi and Dhaka. Bangladesh has insisted that Hasina should be extradited. Bangladeshi Deputy Foreign Minister Humaiun Kobir, however, dismissed the idea of providing her a passport last Thursday.