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• Indian Assassination Plot in US
  An Indian government employee conspired to assassinate...
  An Indian government employee conspired to assassinate a US citizen in June, US prosecutors charged yesterday. The foiled plot allegedly targeted a New York City-based Sikh separatist leader, a faction of the Indian religious minority group who seeks an independent state in northern India (see 101).
  
  Charging documents detail the unnamed senior officer's recruitment of 52-year-old Indian national Nikhil Gupta to hire a hitman in May. Gupta's efforts led him unwittingly to an FBI source, who referred Gupta to an agent undercover as an assassin. The target, Gurpatwant Singh Pannun, is an attorney for the separatist group Sikhs for Justice and was designated as a terrorist in 2020 by New Delhi. Gupta was arrested upon traveling to the Czech Republic in late June.
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• Stock-market futures point to 200-point Dow gain capping November rally
  Stocks stayed pretty ...
  Stocks stayed pretty flat yesterday. But things are looking up: New government data shows the economy grew even more last quarter than was previously thought and, if things go well today, all three major averages could report their biggest monthly gains of the year. Meanwhile, Cigna and Humana fell after the Wall Street Journal reported that the two insurance behemoths were in talks to merge.
  
  🔔 Before the opening bell Thursday: US stock futures rise early Thursday as investors watch for data on personal consumption expenditures and weekly jobless claims.
  
   If I were president... the Jamie Dimon edition. Billionaire hedge-fund manager Bill Ackman asked the JPMorgan CEO what he’d do if he were president. One of his ideas: raise taxes for people like Ackman.
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• ☕️What Else is Brewing Thursday Morning
  Israel and Hamas extended their pause in fighting. Negotiations continued down to the...
  Israel and Hamas extended their pause in fighting. Negotiations continued down to the last moments but, minutes before their truce was set to expire, Israel and Hamas agreed to add one more day to their cease-fire. Yesterday, on the cease-fire’s sixth day, Hamas released 16 people who had been held hostage in Gaza, including an Israeli-American dual citizen, and in return Israel released 30 Palestinians from prison, including prominent activist Ahed Tamimi. Hamas also said that 10-month-old Kfir Bibas, the youngest Israeli hostage, and his family had died, a claim Israel’s military said it was assessing.
  
  The UAW hit the gas yesterday on a campaign to organize 13 nonunionized car companies, including Tesla and Toyota.
  
  London’s black cabs will soon be available for hailing via Uber as the company continues to make deals to bring traditional taxis into its fold.
  
  The US saw a record number of deaths by suicide in 2022, although the suicide rates among children and teens went down.
  
  Jezebel might need to change its name to Lazarus because the feminist blog, which was shuttered by G/O Media earlier this month, has been acquired by Paste Magazine to be brought back to life.
  
  Rockefeller Center lit its tree yesterday. Let’s hope this one is hardier than the National Tree at the White House, which briefly fell over on Tuesday.
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• Henry Kissinger Is Dead at 100; Shaped Nation’s Cold War History
  Henry A. Kissinger, the scholar-turned-diplomat who engineered the United...

  Henry A. Kissinger, the scholar-turned-diplomat who engineered the United States’ opening to China, negotiated its exit from Vietnam, and used cunning, ambition, and intellect to remake American power relationships with the Soviet Union at the height of the Cold War, sometimes trampling on democratic values to do so, died on Wednesday, according to a statement that was released by his consulting firm. He was 100.

  
  

  He died at his home in Connecticut.

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• Closing Oil & Gas Prices
  Benchmark U.S. crude oil for January delivery...
  Benchmark U.S. crude oil for January delivery rose $1.45 to $77.86 per barrel Wednesday. Brent crude for January delivery rose $1.42 to $83.10 per barrel.
  
  Wholesale gasoline for December delivery rose 5 cents to $2.28 a gallon. December heating oil fell 2 cents to $2.89 a gallon. January natural gas fell 4 cents to $2.80 per 1,000 cubic feet.
  
  
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