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UNITED STATES | November 12, 2026 · Pastor John Piper's answers

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  Speaker 1: Top Story, Brooklyn Building Collapse Kills 2, Injures 19 A three-story,
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  Speaker 1: four-unit apartment building built in 1930 collapsed Wednesday afternoon at
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  Speaker 1: 1321 Flatbush Avenue in Flatbush, Brooklyn, falling into an adjacent
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  Speaker 1: excavation site where construction work was underway. At least two
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  Speaker 1: people are dead and 19 injured, including seven children, according
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  Speaker 1: to FDNY Commissioner Lillian Bonesignore. Four victims are in critical condition,
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  Speaker 1: 12 are stable, and one firefighter suffered minor injuries. A
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  Speaker 1: pregnant woman was pulled alive from the rubble. More than
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  Speaker 1: 250 firefighters and EMS personnel responded. Rescue operations continued overnight
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  Speaker 1: as a prolonged operation. The cause is under investigation. Mayor
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  Speaker 1: Zoran Memdani asked New Yorkers to avoid the area around
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  Speaker 1: Bedford Avenue and Flatbush Avenue. Politics, midterms aftermath. Democrats won
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  Speaker 1: control of both chambers in the November 3 midterms. Two
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  Speaker 1: Senate races remain uncalled ahead of certification. Mississippi, Democrat Scott
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  Speaker 1: Colum's lead over Senator Cindy Hyde-Smith grew to 4,585 votes,
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  Speaker 1: about 0.5 points, after Hines County counted affidavit ballots. Certification
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  Speaker 1: is due November 13. Alaska. Democrat Mary Peltola leads Senator
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  Speaker 1: Dan Sullivan by 4,250 first-choice votes. House Republicans elected Trump
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  Speaker 1: ally Jim Jordan as their new minority leader. President Trump
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  Speaker 1: defended the Iran war at Arlington National Cemetery on Veterans Day,
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  Speaker 1: saying it was started by Tehran to stop its nuclear program.
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  Speaker 1: The Pentagon says 23 U.S. service members have been killed
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  Speaker 1: in the war so far. The White House warned incoming
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  Speaker 1: House Oversight Chair Robert Garcia that investigating the Trump administration
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  Speaker 1: could be considered criminal, after Democrats won both chambers. Economy,
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  Speaker 1: hot inflation, markets rebound. October CPI rose 0.4% month-over-month, above expectations,
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  Speaker 1: with core CPI up 0.3%. Chicago Fed President Austin Goolsbee
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  Speaker 1: called the report borderline disturbing. Markets now fully expect a
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  Speaker 1: Fed rate hike in December, with growing odds of a
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  Speaker 1: 50-BPS move. Fed Governor Christopher Waller said a hot report
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  Speaker 1: could justify a half-point hike. Wall Street rebounded Wednesday after
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  Speaker 1: the CPI shock. S & P 500, 7,619.38, plus 1.31%. NASDAQ, 25,466.19.
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  Speaker 1: plus 1.60%. The rebound was led by CoreWeave and AI stocks.
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  Speaker 1: Mortgage rates jumped after four weeks of easing, and retail
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  Speaker 1: sales grew at their slowest pace in nearly a year.
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  Speaker 1: Foreign Policy, Ukraine Talks, Iran Stalemate US envoys Steve Witkoff
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  Speaker 1: and Jared Kushner ended two days of trilateral talks in
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  Speaker 1: Abu Dhabi with Russia and Ukraine with no clear breakthrough,
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  Speaker 1: but agreement in principle on a large prisoner swap. Kushner
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  Speaker 1: said he and Witkoff would travel to Moscow to meet
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  Speaker 1: President Putin, then to Dublin to meet President Zelensky. On Iran,
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  Speaker 1: US-Iran talks mediated by Qatar remain stalled. Iran says it
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  Speaker 1: sent a seven-condition reply via Qatar and awaits Washington's answer,
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  Speaker 1: adding the Strait of Hormuz will never return to its
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  Speaker 1: pre-war status. Treasury Secretary Scott Besant has moved to a
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  Speaker 1: US military base following death threats linked to Iran, officials confirmed.
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  Speaker 1: Secretary of State Marco Rubio and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth
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  Speaker 1: are also living on a military base in Washington, D.C.
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  Speaker 1: The DOJ indicted three Iranian-backed operatives suspected of being behind
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  Speaker 1: nearly 20 plots across the U.S. and Europe. Tech, NVIDIA
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  Speaker 1: and Anthropic The Wall Street Journal reported NVIDIA's board is
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  Speaker 1: preparing to oust CEO Jensen Huang and could meet as
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  Speaker 1: soon as November 11. The company has not confirmed it.
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  Speaker 1: NVIDIA is probing whether Huang was the target of a
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  Speaker 1: foreign intelligence effort. Anthropix IPO is reported multiple times oversubscribed,
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  Speaker 1: with pricing above the $ 70- 78 range possible ahead of November
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  Speaker 1: 18 pricing and November 19 debut. Weather, nor'easter coming, cold
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  Speaker 1: snap follows. A strengthening coastal storm will bring soaking rain,
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  Speaker 1: gusty winds, and higher-elevation snow to the northeast Thursday into Friday.
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  Speaker 1: The National Weather Service says accumulating snow is likely in
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  Speaker 1: higher elevations of New York and northern New England, while
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  Speaker 1: NYC and the I-95 corridor will see mostly rain. Behind
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  Speaker 1: the storm, much colder air spreads across the eastern U.S.,
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  Speaker 1: with lake-effect snow in the Great Lakes. Michigan's Upper Peninsula
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  Speaker 1: could see 4-plus inches. Snow is expected in at least
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  Speaker 1: one spot in 28 states over the next three days,
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  Speaker 1: with 10 to 18 inches possible in the Sierra Nevada. Today,
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  Speaker 1: marginal risk of severe storms in Delaware and New Jersey.
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  Speaker 1: Thunder showers possible in South Florida and San Diego-slash-Los Angeles area. Also,
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  Speaker 1: NOAA issued a G4 severe geomagnetic storm watch for today
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  Speaker 1: after an X5. 1 solar flare. Aurora Borealis could be visible
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  Speaker 1: as far south as Iowa. with possible disruptions to communications
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  Speaker 1: and power grids. What to watch today. Weekly jobless claims
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  Speaker 1: at 8.30am ET. Producer Price Index, PPI, on Friday, last
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  Speaker 1: inflation read before December Fed meeting. Kushner-Witkoff meetings in Moscow
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  Speaker 1: on Ukraine. Updates from Brooklyn Collapse Rescue.