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| President Joe Biden and other G7 and NATO leaders met in Bali, Indonesia, Wednesday amid questions involving a missile strike in Poland. Also in the news: Amid legal woes, Donald Trump has announced his intent to run for president in 2024. Michelle Obama has launched her new book. |
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| Let's go with Wednesday's headlines. |
Missile strike in Poland wasn't on purpose, president says |
| Poland's president says there is no evidence a missile that hit Poland near its border with Ukraine was an intentional attack. President Andrzej Duda said Wednesday that the landing of the Russian-made missile in a rural area, killing two people, was mostly likely an accident. He said "it was not an attack on Poland," adding that Tuesday's incident involved "most probably a Russian-made missile." Duda said there was no proof to suggest the missile was fired by the Russian side. He added: "There is high probability that it was a missile used for anti-missile defense, meaning it was used by Ukraine's defense forces." Read more |
| • | Poland's president: The ultimate responsibility lies with Russia, which launched a barrage of missile attacks on Ukraine Tuesday. | |
 | | From left, President of the European Commission Ursula von der Leyen, Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni, German Chancellor Olaf Scholz, French President Emmanuel Macron, Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, U.S. President Joe Biden, British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak, Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez, Netherlands Prime Minister Mark Rutte, Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida and European Council President Charles Michel during a meeting of G7 and NATO leaders in Bali, Indonesia, Wednesday, Nov. 16, 2022. | | Doug Mills, AP | |
NASA's mightiest rocket lifts |
| NASA launched its massive Artemis I moon rocket early Wednesday, bringing the United States a step closer to landing on the lunar surface for the first time in 50 years since the end of the Apollo program. The launch has been scrubbed and delayed four times this year — twice due to technical issues, once for a hurricane and once for a tropical storm. The Artemis I launch will send a new, empty capsule around the moon. This first test flight is expected to last for four- to six weeks and will end with a splashdown in the Pacific Ocean. Read more |
| • | Graphic explainer: After 50 years, U.S. takes its first step back to moon with launch of Artemis I. | |
 | | Spectators watch as the Artemis I unmanned lunar rocket lifts off from launch pad 39B at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Florida, on November 16, 2022. | | JIM WATSON, AFP via Getty Images | |
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Trump seeks return to White House amid legal probes |
| Former President Donald Trump on Tuesday announced his bid for the 2024 presidential election, after losing the 2020 race for the White House to President Joe Biden. Ahead of his announcement from his Mar-a-Lago estate, Trump filed paperwork with the Federal Election Commission saying he is running for president and setting up an account for fundraising. Read more |
| One thing to know: Trump's move comes as some supporters have called on Republican Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis to seek the GOP's nomination in 2024, and Biden has not formally announced if he will seek a second term. |
| • | Former Trump financial lieutenant Allen Weisselberg testified against two Trump companies. Prosecutors hope that Weisselberg's testimony will provide evidence for a conviction under New York law. | | • | ''Not above the law'': Trump begins a new presidential bid facing substantial legal threats from federal prosecutors and in Georgia. The protections for a sitting president aren't available to candidates, experts said. | | • | Exclusive: "I think there's a real desire for new leadership in the Republican Party," former Vice President Mike Pence said. Pence also declined to commit to voting for Trump if the GOP does choose him again as its standard-bearer. | |
 | | The 45th President Donald J. Trump speaks at his media event in the ballroom at Mar-a-Lago in Palm Beach, Fla., on November 15, 2022. | | Thomas Cordy, THOMAS CORDY/THE PALM BEACH POST | |
Judge overturns Georgia 'heartbeat' law banning most abortions |
| A judge overturned Georgia's ban on abortion starting around six weeks into a pregnancy, ruling Tuesday that it violated the U.S. Constitution and U.S. Supreme Court precedent when it was enacted three years ago and was therefore void. Fulton County Superior Court Judge Robert McBurney wrote that according to precedent, a law that was unconstitutional when it was passed remains unconstitutional. McBurney's ruling took effect immediately statewide. The ruling would not prevent the state legislature from passing a similar or even more restrictive ban under the new constitutional framework of Dobbs v. Jackson, the ruling earlier this year that overturned the constitutional right to an abortion. Read more |
| • | Opinion: Voters supported abortion rights. Here's what anti-abortion leaders should learn from it. | | • | Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp appears before Atlanta grand jury in election probe. | |
 | | Fulton County Superior Court Judge Robert McBurney overturned Georgia's ban on abortion starting around six weeks into a pregnancy, ruling Tuesday that it violated the U.S. Constitution and U.S. Supreme Court precedent when it was enacted and was therefore void. | | Ben Gray, AP | |
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Beyoncé leads 2023 Grammy nominations |
| It looks like 2017 all over again. Beyoncé and Adele are once again going head to head in this year's Grammy Awards nominations, where they are nominated for album of the year for "Renaissance" and "30," respectively. The music superstars are also both vying for record and song of the year prizes. Beyoncé leads the 2023 Grammys lineup with nine nominations. Adele, meanwhile, earned seven nominations, tying with Americana singer Brandi Carlile, whose seventh studio effort "In These Silent Days" is also up for album of the year. Puerto Rican rapper Bad Bunny also became the first artist to score an album of the year nomination for an album completely in Spanish. Read more |
| • | Snubbed! Nicki Minaj, Kanye West, Megan Thee Stallion ignored in 2023 Grammy nominations. | |
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 | | John Legend speaks during the 65th Annual GRAMMY Awards Nominations at The GRAMMY Museum on November 15, 2022 in Los Angeles, California. | | Amy Sussman, Getty Images for The Recording A | |
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 | | Michelle Obama launches her new book "The Light We Carry: Overcoming in Uncertain Times." at Warner Theater in Washington, Tuesday, Nov. 15, 2022. | | Jose Luis Magana, AP | |
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