November 4, 2021: Phil Murphy, Critical Race Theory, Kyle Rittenhouse, Merck pill, Abducted girl

November 4, 2021: Phil Murphy, Critical Race Theory, Kyle Rittenhouse, Merck COVID pill, Abducted girl

1. Democratic New Jersey Governor Phil Murphy narrowly fended off an election challenge from Republican former state lawmaker Jack Ciattarelli, returns showed on Wednesday, a day after voting ended in an unexpected nail-biter for the incumbent.

2. Hoping to retake both houses of Congress in elections a year from now, Republicans plan to follow a strategy Glenn Youngkin used to win Virginia's governor's race, making schools the front line in U.S. culture wars, several lawmakers said.

3. Jurors saw a series of graphic videos showing the chaotic moments after teenager Kyle Rittenhouse shot three protesters in Wisconsin, including one man who lay motionless and bleeding and another screaming as blood gushed from his arm.

4. Britain became the first country in the world to approve a potentially game-changing COVID-19 antiviral pill jointly developed by U.S.-based Merck and Ridgeback Biotherapeutics, in a boost to the fight against the pandemic.

5. Australian police charged a 36-year-old man with abducting a four-year-old girl from an outback campsite 18 days before she was found safe in a locked house.

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