Daily Briefing: A not-so-small world

The global population is projected to reach 8 billion people Tuesday, the United Nations says. Also in the news: The University of Virginia mourned the loss of three students in a shooting rampage. Arizona has flipped for the Democrats with Katie Hobbs' win for governor.

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Earth is about to be 8 billion strong

The global population is projected to reach 8 billion people Tuesday, the United Nations says, in a historic milestone for humanity as the organization gives a look into what the future could look like. Lower-middle income and low-income countries contributed the most to the population growth, officials said. Current projections believe the life expectancy could be 77.2 years by 2050. Asia and Africa contributed the most to the growth, while Europe's population will soon decline. It took just a little more than a decade for the planet to add its latest billion in the population after it reached 7 billion in 2011. Read more

Suspect apprehended in UVA shooting

The University of Virginia lifted a campuswide lockdown Monday, hours after three students were killed and two injured in a shooting rampage on a charter bus that had returned from a field trip, authorities said. D’Sean Perry, Lavel Davis Jr. and Devin Chandler were killed, all of whom played football at the school, university president Jim Ryan said. The suspected shooter, Christopher Darnell Jones Jr., a former UVA football player, was arrested just before 11 a.m. Monday about 75 miles southeast of Charlottesville, Henrico Police said in a statement. The names of the two people who were wounded have not been released. Read more

• ''Senseless acts of violence'': Authorities identify bodies of four University of Idaho students.

📷 Photo of the day: UVA mourns three slain students 📷

Students at the University of Virginia are now grappling with the emotional trauma of an attack that killed three members of the school’s football team late Sunday. Click here to see photos as students gather to heal and remember the victims.

More news to know now

• 🟡 ''The war continues'': Ukraine's foreign minister sought to temper the excitement over Kherson.

• 💲 Recently experience a flight delay? DOT enforces six airlines to pay $600 million in refunds to travelers.

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• ✈ Six victims of a deadly Dallas air show collision were experienced aviators, officials say.

• ❄ 20 states are in the path of a snowstorm with frigid temperatures.

• 👩‍🏫 48K University of California academic employees are on strike.

• 🏈 Philadelphia Eagles, NFL's last remaining unbeaten team, were upset by the Washington Commanders.

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From Bali: Biden pushes fence-sitting nations to step up against Russia

President Joe Biden will push the leaders of the world's largest economies to enforce a price cap on Russian oil and gas when he sees them at a summit on Tuesday in Bali. Biden will tell nations taking part in the Group of 20 Summit that the price cap will benefit their economies, and help to stabilize the global energy market, a U.S. official said on a call with reporters. Fence-sitting nations including Indonesia and India that have declined to implement sanctions against Russia for its war on Ukraine are some of the biggest hold outs on the price cap that the United States, United Kingdom, Canada, Japan and European nations are working to put in place by early December. Read more

• ''The U.S. is ready to play'': President Biden presses China's Xi to find ''ways to work together.''

Arizona Democrat Katie Hobbs wins governor's race, flips state

Democratic candidate Katie Hobbs won the race for Arizona governor, flipping the state for the Democrats and beating out Republican nominee Kari Lake, whose embrace of false claims that the 2020 election was stolen helped her win the endorsement of former President Donald Trump and the votes of many of his hardline supporters. Read more

One thing to know: The GOP is on the cusp of retaking House control with a slim majority.

• The GOP is just one win away from the 218 seats the party needs to secure a majority. Control of the House would give conservatives leverage to blunt President Joe Biden’s agenda and spur a flurry of investigations.

• With so many House races uncalled, Democrats are jockeying to push through whatever they can in the upcoming weeks of the lame-duck session before the new Congress is seated.

• How did the GOP increase its edge in Florida? As of Tuesday's results, Republicans will hold 20 Florida congressional seats to the Democrats' eight. That's a pickup of four seats. And that's where the governor had a role.

• How many election deniers won? Where ''the big lie'' paid off (and didn't) in the midterms.

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Student debt relief blocked, potentially hurting Black and Latino families the most

A decision from the 8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals on Monday to block President Joe Biden’s student debt relief program and another from a U.S. District Court in Texas last week could mean millions of Americans will not see their student loans forgiven. The Biden administration will likely appeal the 8th Circuit case to the Supreme Court, and some expect the court's conservative majority to ban the program from moving forward. And experts say loan forgiveness would especially benefit people of color, who don’t have the levels of generational wealth of many of their white counterparts. Read more

• U.S. judge in Texas blocks Biden's student debt forgiveness plan; appeal filed.

• Amazon plans to lay off about 10,000 employees, the largest in company history.

• Billionaire and Amazon founder Jeff Bezos says he plans to give most of his fortune to charity.

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