Qnotables 4 am Talking Points Thursday Evening 11/13/2025

Foster kids, foreign policy, censorship, and corruption all collide in this rapid-fire news rundown. President Trump and First Lady Melania sign a “Fostering the Future” executive order to overhaul support for foster youth, framed as a biblical duty to protect vulnerable children. At the same time, China steps deeper into Venezuela, the EU wobbles on more Ukraine loans, border clashes flare between Cambodia and Thailand, and the U.S. gears up counter-drone defenses ahead of the 2026 World Cup.

Inside the U.S., Catholic bishops move to ban transgender medical procedures in Catholic hospitals, Verizon prepares to axe 15,000 jobs, Congress faces a new stock-trading scandal focused on Pelosi’s gains, and a Democratic congresswoman in New Jersey still faces federal assault charges. The State Department targets Antifa-linked groups in Europe as foreign terrorist organizations, while Sudan’s RSF is accused of drone strikes on civilians and the African Union pushes back on “genocide” claims in Nigeria.

We also hit archaeology and space: a 3,300-year-old ritual shrine at Tel Megiddo, a new interstellar object called 3I/ATLAS, and the economic fallout from a 43-day U.S. government shutdown that distorted key data. Plus: Cheney’s funeral at the National Cathedral, leaked New Jersey “wave” drone footage, Scottish policing controversies over sex data, and more signs of an engineered economic and political reset at home and abroad.