Portal:Current events/2014 November 4
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November 4, 2014 (Tuesday)
International relations
- The United States circulates a draft resolution proposing a sanctions regime for conflict-torn South Sudan. (Reuters)
- In Johannesburg, Angolan journalist and human rights campaigner Rafael Marques says the African Union should move its headquarters out of Ethiopia because of concerns about freedom of expression there. (Fox News)
Law and crime
- Mexican Federal Police arrest a mayor and his wife, the alleged masterminds of the kidnapping of 43 students in Iguala, Guerrero. (Los Angeles Times)
Politics and elections
- United States elections, 2014
- Voters in the United States go to the polls for House of Representatives, Senate and local elections. (Bloomberg)
- The Republican Party retains control of the United States House of Representatives and regains control of the United States Senate. Mitch McConnell of Kentucky is expected to become Senate Majority Leader. (NBC News), (Washington Post)
- Tim Scott, a Republican from South Carolina, becomes the first African American senator to be elected in the South since Reconstruction. (AP via Weekly Standard)
- Mia Love, a 38-year-old Brooklyn-born daughter of Haitian immigrants and a convert to Mormonism, wins election to the House of Representatives in Utah's 4th congressional district. She will become the first black female Republican to ever serve in Congress. (FOXNews)
- Voters in Alaska, Oregon and the District of Columbia vote to legalize marijuana for recreational purposes. (Chicago Tribune)
- Voters in Alaska, Arkansas, Nebraska and South Dakota approve of a minimum wage raise in their states. (NBC News)
Sports
- In horse racing, German horse Protectionist wins the 2014 Melbourne Cup ahead of Red Cadeaux and Who Shot Thebarman. (Melbourne Age)
- In baseball, the 2014 Korean Series begins with the Nexen Heroes defeating the Samsung Lions 4–2 in Samsung's Daegu Stadium. (Yonhap)