The Duchess of Sussex said she was "deeply distressed" by reports that her father, Thomas Markle, had child abuse images. She said a 2018 letter to royal protection officers informed her decision to keep her children away from him, and she had cut contact between him and her children over previous similar claims. Markle has been estranged from her father since 2018, when he was caught staging paparazzi photos before her wedding to Prince Harry.
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NYTimes – US Democratic Sen. Chris Van Hollen of Maryland said Thursday that he will run for Senate Majority Leader in the next Congress, setting up a challenge to Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer after the party swept to power in the midterm elections.
NPR – World In Dublin, President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine said Europeans would join the next round of talks. Russia has not confirmed that.
BBC News – World Democrat Scott Colom has won Mississippi's US Senate race, defeating Republican incumbent Cindy Hyde-Smith. His victory makes him the first Black senator from Mississippi since the Reconstruction era, with reports placing the last such senator between 1874 and 1881. The race was called more than a week after the US midterms, in a state described as deeply conservative and traditionally deep-red.
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