Hi there. It's Wednesday, November 9 and you're reading The Loop, a quick wrap-up of today's news.
Let's start here
Vote counting is underway as Democrats and Republicans vie for control of Congress in midterm elections in the US.
Some of the key results so far include:
- Greg Abbott securing his third term as governor of Texas
- Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez retaining her seat as representative for New York's 14th district
- JD Vance winning a seat in the Senate in Ohio
- Former White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders becoming the first woman elected as the Governor of Arkansas
- Controversial Republican Marjorie Taylor Greene winning re-election in Georgia
- Democratic Senate majority leader Chuck Schumer retaining his seat
- Former Massachusetts attorney-general Maura Healey becoming the nation's first openly lesbian governor
- Ron DeSantis winning re-election as governor of Florida
- Maxwell Alejandro Frost becoming the first member of Generation Z to win a seat in Congress
All the details and more results are here.
What else is going on
- Medibank has confirmed the criminals responsible for stealing customer data have released some of that information on a dark web forum
- Climate change protesters have glued themselves to Andy Warhol’s Campbell’s Soup Cans and vandalised the artwork at the National Gallery of Australia in Canberra. A police spokesperson says no one has been arrested at this stage but anyone with info should come forward
- The court case of the man accused of killing teenager Cassius Turvey has been adjourned until mid-January. The 21-year-old was remanded in custody
- Virginia Giuffre, who recently settled a lawsuit in which she had claimed to have been sexually trafficked to Britain's Prince Andrew by Jeffrey Epstein has dropped a similar claim involving noted American attorney Alan Dershowitz
What Australia has been searching for online
- Leslie Phillips. The British actor best known for his roles in the Carry On comedies and as the voice of the Sorting Hat in the Harry Potter movies has died aged 98.
- REDcycle. The soft plastics recycling scheme operating at major Aussie supermarkets has been suspended after the company running it said it could no longer offload the material to recyclers.
You're up to date
See you tomorrow.
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