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Listen to the Daily Global #News from Grecian Echoes and WNTN 1550 AM. Russia's invasion of Ukraine is progressing as missiles struck the capital city of Kyiv this morning.  Putin says he will commence dialogue once Ukraine surrenders. Moscow is feeling financial repercussions as Russian stocks crashed and the ruble hit a record low against the US dollar.  President Volodymyr Zelensky said that he was “target No. 1.” He also said that at least 137 Ukrainians, military and civilian, have been killed.  Thousands of Russians protested the invasion. More than 1,300 people were arrested.  Biden expected to nominate Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson to the Supreme Court.

Listen to the Daily Global #News from Grecian Echoes and WNTN 1550 AM.  The U.S. will release 50 million barrels of crude from the Strategic Petroleum Reserve, the White House said.  With just a few days to go before Thanksgiving, Covid-19 cases are on the rise across the US.  The Biden administration is weighing sending military advisers and new equipment including weaponry to Ukraine.

Listen to the Daily Global #News from Grecian Echoes and WNTN 1550 AM.  Millions of American drivers have acutely felt the recent surge in gas prices, which last month hit their highest level since 2014.  In Austria, which is averaging 10,000 cases a day, a lockdown begins tomorrow.  The House approved the sweeping social policy bill after weeks of negotiating. Elizabeth Holmes returns to the stand in the Theranos trial.The 37-year-old founder of the failed blood testing start-up spent only an hour on the stand before the court closed on Friday. Where is Peng Shuai? questions about the whereabouts of the tennis player, after accusing of sexual assault a former vice premier.

Listen to the Daily Global #News from Grecian Echoes and WNTN 1550 AM.  "Respectful and straightforward." A "healthy debate." That’s how officials described the virtual summit between President Biden and Chinese President Xi Jinping.  The US intelligence community is struggling with an intelligence blind spot as it continues to monitor irregular Russian military movements near the border with Ukraine.  WalMart and Home Depot top earnings estimates

Listen to the Daily Global #News from Grecian Echoes and WNTN 1550 AM.  A $1 trillion infrastructure bill is heading to President Biden’s desk to be signed into law.  Tens of thousands of demonstrators marched in Glasgow to call for urgent climate action. A federal appeals court in Louisiana temporarily blocked the Biden administration’s Covid vaccine mandate for large companies.

Listen to the Daily Global #News from Grecian Echoes and WNTN 1550 AM.  Nonfarm payrolls increased by 531,000 in October, beating the estimate of 450,000.  The unemployment rate fell to 4.6%, a new pandemic low and better than expectations.  Global warming could be kept to 1.8 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels if all the pledges and promises made at the COP26 summit in Glasgow are kept.  Pfizer says its Covid pill with HIV drug cuts the risk of hospitalization or death by 89%.

Listen to the Daily Global #News from Grecian Echoes and WNTN 1550 AM.  After more than a year and a half of intense economic stimulus measures, the Federal Reserve is finally -- gently -- applying the brakes on bond buying and other economic supports.  At least 20 countries have agreed to end financing for fossil fuel projects abroad in a deal that’s expected to be announced today as part of the COP26 summit in Glasgow.  Democrats are trying to glean lessons from this week's big races to take into the midterm elections next year.

Listen to the Daily Global #News from Grecian Echoes and WNTN 1550 AM. World leaders exchanged promises and deadlines at the first full day of COP26 talks in Glasgow.  US voters will head to the polls today to decide a series of races and policies that will test the national political landscape a year into President Joe Biden’s administration, and a year before the all-important midterm elections.  West Virginia Democratic Sen. Joe Manchin, has said he is not ready to vote on the Democrats’ $1.75 trillion spending bill.