1. Two senior Justice Department officials resign on Friday
Jason Reding Quiñones, the U.S. attorney for the Southern District of Florida, resigned on Friday, Attorney General Todd Blanche announced on X. His office ran the "grand conspiracy" investigation, begun in August 2025, into former officials involved in earlier investigations of Donald Trump; no charges have been filed in it. John Eisenberg, the assistant attorney general who led the National Security Division, also resigned Friday, Blanche announced. Per CBS News, Eisenberg is the second assistant attorney general to leave this week, after Harmeet Dhillon of the Civil Rights Division on Thursday.
Sources: New York Post · NBC News · CBS News
2. Wisconsin reports an infant's measles death, the state's first since 1990
Wisconsin health officials reported on Thursday that a baby died of measles, the state's first measles death since 1990. The state's outbreak has reached more than 430 cases in 13 counties this year. It is the third U.S. measles death reported this week, after deaths in New York and Pennsylvania, and the ninth reported nationally this year, per Ars Technica's count. The CDC reports 5,182 cases in 47 states and jurisdictions as of Nov. 5.
Sources: Ars Technica
3. EU says TikTok's For You feed breaches the Digital Services Act
The European Commission issued preliminary findings on Friday that TikTok broke the Digital Services Act by not properly assessing or reducing the risk that its For You feed draws users into "rabbit holes" of harmful content. The Commission says TikTok should rely more on users' stated preferences and stop using viewing time to recommend videos. If the findings are confirmed, parent company ByteDance could be fined up to 6% of its annual global revenue. TikTok told Reuters the Commission's statements are inaccurate.
Sources: Engadget
4. Jay Rockefeller, former West Virginia governor and senator, dies at 89
Jay Rockefeller, a Democrat who served two terms as West Virginia's governor and then 30 years in the U.S. Senate, died Thursday night at his home in Washington, the AP reported. He was 89. He first came to West Virginia in 1964 as an anti-poverty program worker and retired from the Senate in 2015.
Sources: PBS NewsHour (AP)
5. Study links a few minutes a day of vigorous activity to lower dementia risk
Researchers led from the University of Sydney analyzed 22,618 adults in the UK Biobank study who wore activity trackers for a week between 2013 and 2015 and were followed for about eight years. About 3.7 minutes a day of vigorous everyday movement, such as climbing stairs or carrying heavy shopping, was associated with a 48% lower risk of dementia, per New Scientist. The study is observational, so it does not show that the activity itself lowers the risk.
Sources: New Scientist
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