Monday, Nov. 4

· The New York Times reported on the over 200 investigations by the National Institutes of Health and the F.B.I. rooting out scientists who take biomedical research from United States institutions and give it to other countries, in particular scientists allegedly stealing for China.

· A federal appeals court unanimously ruled that President Donald Trump must turn over eight years worth of personal and corporate tax returns to the Manhattan grand jury that subpoenaed them. Attorney for the president Jay Sekulow said Trump now plans to appeal to the Supreme Court.

· The Trump administration formally notified the United Nations that the U.S. would leave the Paris Agreement on climate change.

Tuesday, Nov. 5

· The House impeachment inquiry released a four-page sworn statement by U.S. ambassador to the European Union Gordon Sondland that confirmed his role in Trump’s quid pro quo deal with Ukraine, in which Trump said he would withhold military aid to the country unless it provided information on his political rivals. This contradicted Sondland’s testimony to the impeachment investigators last month when he said Trump put forth no such precondition on military aid.

· Federal Judge John A. Kronstadt ruled that the government must provide mental health services to migrant parents and children affected by the Trump administration’s practice of separating families at the U.S. border.

Wednesday, Nov. 6

· The Justice Department charged Twitter employees Ali Alzabarah and Ahmad Abouammo of acting as agents of a foreign power inside the United States by allegedly gathering information on American citizens and Saudi dissidents through Twitter’s internal systems and providing it to Saudi Arabia.

· The Department of Health and Human Services sued pharmaceutical company Gilead Sciences for infringing upon patents owned by the department that are crucial to ending the AIDS epidemic, effectively allowing the company to earn billions in revenue from taxpayer-funded research without paying taxpayers back.

Thursday, Nov. 7

· After intense legal and media scrutiny since the 2016 presidential election, Trump admitted to misusing money raised by the Donald J. Trump Foundation to “promote his presidential bid, pay off business debts and purchase a portrait of himself for one of his hotels,” according to the New York Times. A state judge ordered the president to pay $2 million in damages to nonprofit groups in a plea deal.

· The State Department announced a bounty of up to $4 million for information on the location of Ibrahim al-Qosi, a Sudanese man who pleaded guilty at Guantánamo Bay in 2010 to providing support for Al Qaeda terrorism.

Friday, Nov. 8

· The Trump administration proposed charging application fees to refugees seeking U.S. sanctuary for the first time and to hike application fees by 60% for legal immigration and citizenship.

· White House Chief of Staff Mick Mulvaney sent his lawyers to court to ask if he should obey Trump’s orders not to cooperate with the impeachment investigation. To receive such a ruling, Mulvaney’s lawyers asked to join a lawsuit against the president filed by former national security advisor Charles M. Kupperman that seeks the same clarification on compliance with impeachment proceedings.

· Charles Cooper, lawyer for former national security advisor John Bolton, hinted to impeachment investigators in a letter that Bolton knows of “many relevant meetings and conversations” connected to the Ukraine pressure campaign, but that Bolton won’t testify unless compelled to by a subpoena.

Saturday, Nov. 9

· House Republicans pushed back against the impeachment inquiry by demanding testimony from a list of witnesses, such as Hunter Biden, who are at the center of Trump’s debunked theory that Ukraine interfered in the 2016 U.S. presidential election in the Democrats’ favor.

Sunday, Nov. 10

· The New York Times reported on community relations efforts by federal law enforcement officials to curb “racist and hate-fueled attacks during the 2020 race” by opening up about 850 domestic terrorism investigations, rewriting domestic terrorism laws and “speaking more forthrightly about fighting domestic terrorism from the front lines.”