Date: November13, 2026
Host: Jim Schneider
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The News Round Up & Comment program takes you around the nation and around the world each Friday. Here’s a brief selection of stories from the broadcast:
–At least 8 people were confirmed dead early Thursday after a building in Brooklyn collapsed.
–Microsoft said progress is being made in making it’s popular workplace software back online as a global outage enters its second day disrupting business communications, police emergency calls, court operations, and AI tools.
–Bill Gates has declared that the general public will have to suffer the consequences of a major catastrophe in order for globalists to usher in the control of artificial intelligence that he’s been pushing for.
–Britain’s Prince Harry is demanding that governments around the world introduce digital ID mandates to lock down the Internet, forcing all users to prove who they are before accessing online platforms.
–Google is warning that sweeping “online safety” laws being advanced by governments around the world will unleash a mass surveillance regime that forces tech companies to scan private emails, messages and cloud storage to verify users’ ages.
–The U.S. and Britain are separately preparing for disruptions that could leave military installations and households without essential services as Western governments respond to potential wartime threats and risk to critical infrastructure.
–House Republicans sharply condemned the U.N. after Iran secured another three-year term on a key U.N. committee responsible for reviewing international programs, including initiatives involving armament, counter-terrorism, and women’s rights.
–Representative Jim Jordan of Ohio will be the next House minority leader after a conference-wide election Tuesday afternoon, beating out Steve Scalise.
–Senator John Thune was re-elected as the top GOP senator for the 120th Congress.
–House Republicans successfully blocked Representative Thomas Massie’s effort to impeach Secretary of War Pete Hegseth.
–President Trump says he’s ordering the Justice Department to investigate Democratic political leaders that he says have threatened the U.S. attorney general with impeachment and Republican donors with imprisonment.
–President Trump is pressing Senate Republicans to confirm 161 outstanding presidential nominees including 25 federal judges before Democrats assume control of the chamber in January following their sweeping victory in the recent mid-term election.
–The House Freedom Caucus Chair, Andy Harris, is calling on Senate Republicans to take a ten day recess during the lame duck period in order to give President Trump time to make recess appointments ahead of the Democrats taking control of Congress.
–With just 20 scheduled legislative days remaining in the House and 22 in the Senate before the new Congress takes office January 3rd, the House Freedom Caucus has delivered an explosive, last minute America first agenda to House Speaker Mike Johnson and Senate Majority Leader John Thune.
–Senator Chris Van Hollen of Maryland is answering the calls of his Democratic colleagues who want new leadership when they take back control of Congress and is offering himself as an alternative to Chuck Schumer.
–Frightening quotes from Islamic leaders around America expressing their belief in the future dominance of Islam over American society.
