On the updated version of Hot off the Wire (posted Nov. 17 at 6:48 a.m. CT):

• Congress will be split next year as Republicans will take control of the House of Representatives and Democrats retaining control of the Senate.
• Russian airstrikes have targeted Ukraine’s energy facilities again, as the first snow of the season fell in Kyiv. 
• Police in the college town of Moscow, Idaho, say they have not identified a suspect or found a weapon in the weekend slayings of four University of Idaho students in a rental house near campus. 
• Alabama and Oklahoma have executions scheduled for today.
• Authorities say 25 Los Angeles County sheriff’s academy recruits on a training run were hit by a vehicle that veered onto the wrong side of the road Wednesday morning. The sheriff says a field sobriety test on the driver was negative.
• Starbucks workers at more than 100 U.S. stores say they're going on strike Thursday. It's largest labor action since a campaign to unionize Starbucks' stores began late last year.
• International climate talks in Egypt are winding down.
• In sports, the Celtics won again, the Timberwolves beat the Magic, the Raptors outlasted the Heat and unanimous Cy Young winners.

On the original version of Hot off the Wire (posted Nov. 16 at 4 p.m. CT):

• Christopher Darnell Jones Jr., accused of killing three University of Virginia football players, was ordered held without bond. His attorney did not address the substance of the charges against him. The school also announced Wednesday it was canceling its final home game of the season scheduled for the weekend against Coastal Carolina.
• Sen. Mitch McConnell of Kentucky has been reelected as Republican leader, quashing a challenge from Sen. Rick Scott of Florida.
• Arizona's Murray Hooper, convicted of murdering two people in 1980, was put to death Wednesday in the state’s third execution since officials started carrying out the death penalty in May after a nearly eight-year hiatus.
• Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin said it does not look like Russia was responsible for the deadly missile strike in Poland.
• Pilots of hot air balloons carrying paying passengers will need medical certificates, just like pilots of other kinds of commercial aircraft.
• Legislation to protect same-sex and interracial marriages is moving forward in the Senate.
• In two volatile spots in the occupied West Bank, Israel has installed robotic weapons that can fire tear gas, stun grenades and sponge-tipped bullets at Palestinian protesters.
• Americans are bracing for a costly Thanksgiving this year, with double-digit percent increases in the price of turkey, potatoes, stuffing, canned pumpkin and other staples.
• Americans stepped up their spending at retailers, restaurants and auto dealers last month, a sign of consumer resilience as the holiday shopping season begins amid painfully high inflation and rising interest rates.
• Elon Musk sent an email to Twitter employees earlier telling them that they must be "extremely hardcore" to build "a breakthrough Twitter 2.0." He said anyone who cannot keep up can resign.
• Britain's Crown Prosecution Service says actor Kevin Spacey will be charged with seven further sex offenses, all relating to the same alleged victim.

—The Associated Press