|  | | | | | | | | | Highlights | | Congress returns on Tuesday for a post-election “lame-duck” session, facing a funding deadline to prevent a partial government shutdown, as well as demands for protections for Special Counsel Robert Mueller and money for a proposed U.S.-Mexico border wall. | | | | Commentary: Aggressive monitoring by social media companies seems to have blunted some of the disinformation campaigns aimed at U.S. voters ahead of the Nov. 6 congressional midterm election. But as we look beyond the midterms, there will be a far more dangerous interference tool, one that will be available not only to malign governments, but individual actors as well: deepfake video, write Michael Chertoff, former U.S Secretary of Homeland Security, and Eileen Donahoe, Executive Director at the Global Digital Policy Incubator, Stanford Centre for Democracy, Development and the Rule of Law. | | | | | | Democrat Sinema wins Senate seat in Arizona, a state that had not elected a Democratic U.S. senator for 30 years https://reut.rs/2DCNmU1 03:02 AM - Nov 13, 2018 | | | Brexit | | UK Prime Minister Theresa May and the European Union are stage managing a Brexit deal that will doom the United Kingdom to the status of a colony, former British Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson said. | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Business | | European shares recovered after feeling the strain of a tech rout on Wall Street, while the dollar lost momentum as hopes mounted for a de-escalation in the Sino-U.S. tariff war. 4 min read | | | | Nucor Corp, America’s largest steelmaker, planned a new plant in Sedalia, Missouri, long before Trump imposed tariffs to protect the industry – and it does not need them to make money. 9 Min Read | | | | The Chief Executive and co-founder of Walmart’s Indian venture Flipkart Group, Binny Bansal, has resigned following a probe into serious personal misconduct, Walmart said in a regulatory filing. 2 min read | | | | | | | | | | | Top Stories on Reuters TV | | | | | | | |
