What changed this week

001 RULES U.S. House passes SPEED Act: a hard turn toward faster permits—and a new fight over who gets to build SOURCED 002 RULES U.S. Justice Department moves to erase Bannon's conviction with no party opposing it SOURCED 003 RULES U.S. U.S. becomes first country to skip U.N. rights review twice SOURCED 004 RULES WORLD ANC loses its outright majorities in South Africa's metros SOURCED 005 RULES WORLD Antarctic ozone hole grows to seventh-largest on record as the layer keeps healing SOURCED 006 RULES WORLD Eswatini parliament backs 12-month exit for non-compliant foreign shops SOURCED 007 RULES WORLD FDA orders GLP-1 makers to warn of rare vision-loss condition SOURCED 008 RULES WORLD FTC wins court order freezing assets of phantom debt collection operation SOURCED 009 RULES WORLD Family Dollar settles federal pricing case for $63 million SOURCED 010 RULES WORLD Finland and Norway bar Russian athletes from winter sports World Cups SOURCED 011 RULES WORLD Germany gives spy agencies powers to act, not just gather intelligence SOURCED 012 RULES WORLD Hungary recovers millions in cash buried in forests during Orbán-era graft probe SOURCED 013 RULES WORLD Indonesia's vice president resigns as Prabowo-Jokowi alliance frays SOURCED 014 RULES WORLD Italy fines Meta over Android gallery access SOURCED 015 RULES WORLD Massie forces House vote on impeaching Hegseth over Iran war SOURCED 016 RULES WORLD Mississippi elects Scott Colom, its first Black senator since Reconstruction SOURCED 017 RULES WORLD Privy Council rules Trinidad and Tobago's gay sex ban unconstitutional SOURCED 018 RULES WORLD Trump takes his media-lawsuit playbook global with a $10B shot at the BBC SOURCED 019 NEW U.S. All regions near Paris warming limits, study finds SOURCED 020 NEW U.S. Durvalumab and enfortumab vedotin before bladder surgery improve survival in cisplatin-ineligible patients SOURCED 021 NEW U.S. Molybdenum recrystallizes at room temperature under a diamond tip SOURCED 022 NEW WORLD A physics model of the telescope pulls a hidden planet out of Webb data SOURCED 023 NEW WORLD Astronomers trace eight-minute radio pulses to a white dwarf and a Sun-like star SOURCED 024 NEW WORLD CERN's LHCb experiment finds evidence of a one-in-10-billion particle decay SOURCED 025 NEW WORLD Canada launches real-time payments system without its biggest banks SOURCED 026 NEW WORLD Five new horned frog species found in Arunachal Pradesh SOURCED 027 NEW WORLD Helsinki team uses Claude to surface 663 candidate theorems in Gödel's notebooks SOURCED 028 NEW WORLD Lovable apps leak passport data through default database settings SOURCED 029 NEW WORLD Medieval parchment yields ancient sheeppox virus genomes SOURCED 030 NEW WORLD NASA rover confirms organic carbon in ancient Mars mudstones SOURCED 031 NEW WORLD Parker Solar Probe finds paired magnetic twists in the solar wind SOURCED 032 NEW WORLD Researchers confirm zero-click spyware delivered through targeted ads SOURCED 033 NEW WORLD Room-temperature supersolid made from light and matter SOURCED 034 NEW WORLD Rubin Observatory spots a possible sixth dwarf planet beyond Pluto SOURCED 035 NEW WORLD UK regulator clears Amazon drones to fly over more of Darlington SOURCED 036 MONEY U.S. Federal budget deficit hits $2 trillion, largest since COVID SOURCED 037 MONEY WORLD Average new car price sets another record as the market splits in two SOURCED 038 MONEY WORLD Electric cars take a record share of European sales in October SOURCED 039 MONEY WORLD FTC and 13 states sue to block Covetrus's purchase of MWI SOURCED 040 MONEY WORLD Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang resigns amid espionage and conduct investigation SOURCED 041 MONEY WORLD Tate brothers' forfeited cash funds violence against women groups SOURCED 042 BUILT WORLD China's carbon emissions fall 3.1% as clean power outpaces demand SOURCED 043 BUILT WORLD DOE authorizes full construction of Savannah River plutonium pit plant SOURCED 044 BUILT WORLD Energy Department backs Gulf of America oil production with first offshore loan SOURCED 045 BUILT WORLD Fossil fuel emissions set to dip in 2026 as Iran war cuts oil demand SOURCED 046 BUILT WORLD NRC approves construction permit for Dow and X-energy's Texas nuclear plant SOURCED 047 BUILT WORLD Third major US offshore wind farm reaches full commercial operation SOURCED 048 FORCE U.S. A solar-funded super PAC defeats clean energy opponents and sets sights on 2028 SOURCED 049 FORCE WORLD Brazil's Caixa insurer breach exposes customer tax IDs SOURCED 050 FORCE WORLD Eastern Congo's cycle of rebel seizure, atrocity, and fragile peace talks SOURCED 051 FORCE WORLD Migrant boat capsizes off Senegal as Canary Islands arrivals surge SOURCED 052 FORCE WORLD Novaya Gazeta announces closure after years of state pressure SOURCED 053 FORCE WORLD Ukraine's long-range drones reach Russia's northern coast SOURCED