Iowa State's Matt Campbell's revamped coaching staff now includes a special teams coordinator

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Fresh off prison release, former Trump adviser Bannon due back in court
Steve Bannon, a former adviser to President-elect Donald Trump, is due in court on Tuesday ahead of his trial on criminal fraud charges over a push to fund Trump's signature border wall, weeks after he was released from prison on a separate conviction. Bannon, 70, is scheduled to stand trial starting on Dec. 9 in New York state court in Manhattan. He is set to appear for a final pretrial conference before Acting Justice April Newbauer at 2:15 p.m. EST (1915 GMT).
Reuters
Visa teams up with Affirm to launch card for flexible payments in US
Visa is partnering with fintech company Affirm to roll out a card in the U.S. that customers can use for both debit transactions and buy now, pay later purchases, reflecting the growing demand for flexibility in payment options. The company is also launching the feature in the United Arab Emirates via a partnership with Liv Bank and plans to expand into Europe in the coming months, it said on Tuesday. A Visa study found that 51% of card users want the ability to access multiple accounts and funding sources through a single credential.
AFP
Spain PM accused of 'blackmail' by tying budget to flood aid
Spain's minority left-wing government wants to galvanise its deadlocked 2025 draft budget by linking it to urgent reconstruction funds following devastating floods, sparking "blackmail" accusations from the conservative opposition.- Aid 'cannot wait' - Montero urged "unity" from Spain's polarised political class, but the main opposition conservative party swiftly dashed any hopes the catastrophe would lay the ground for a new budget.
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The FOMO market is back: Morning Brief
The recent surge in stocks is absolutely explained by the Trump trade. But it's not the only thing going on: There are other reasons why the FOMO trade is back.
TODAY
What happened with the missing father who allegedly faked a kayaking accident and fled to Europe?
Ryan Borgwardt, a Wisconsin father and husband missing since August, was believed to have drowned. Now investigators say he might have staged his disappearance and could be in Europe.
Reuters
Musk's Starlink gets Chad go-ahead to improve internet access
N'DJAMENA (Reuters) - Chad said on Tuesday it had approved the licensing of Elon Musk's satellite internet provider Starlink to improve access to internet services in the central African country. Starlink, the satellite unit of SpaceX, operates in several African countries but has faced regulatory challenges in others and resistance from state telecoms monopolies. "We have been talking to Starlink since 2021 and we have managed to agree on the essentials," Chad's Communications Minister Boukar Michel told Reuters by telephone.
AFP
Fifth storm in under a month bears down on Philippines
The Philippines prepared Tuesday to evacuate potentially tens of thousands of people as the fifth major storm in three weeks bore down on the archipelago shortly after the onslaught of Typhoon Toraji.About 20 big storms and typhoons hit the archipelago nation or its surrounding waters each year, killing scores of people and keeping millions in enduring poverty.
CNN
Marble bust bought for $6 and used as doorstop could sell for more than $3 million
A sculpture bought for just £5 ($6) and used as a doorstop could sell for more than £2.5 million ($3.2 million) after a Scottish court gave the green light for its sale.
Reuters
German interior minister warns of cyber threat ahead of elections
Germany must bolster its defences against cyber-attacks and disinformation campaigns, particularly out of Russia, as it prepares for snap elections in the coming months, the interior minister warned on Tuesday. "We must also protect our democracy in the digital world," Nancy Faeser said in a statement upon publication of the Federal Office for Information Security's annual report.
AFP
South Korea prosecutors indict controversial American streamer
Controversial YouTuber and Twitch streamer Johnny Somali has been indicted for "causing a commotion" at a convenience store in South Korea, prosecutors said on Tuesday."He was indicted on Monday without detention for creating a commotion at a convenience store in October," a spokesman for the Seoul Southern District Prosecutors' Office told AFP. A convenience store employee reported Somali to the police on October 17 when he confronted her after being told not to drink alcohol inside the store.
Reuters
Loss-making EV firm VinFast to get $3.4 billion more funding from founder, parent company
VinFast began operations in 2019 and has been expanding aggressively into global markets, but the firm continues to report increasing losses as it grapples with softer demand and challenges in the sector. Approximately 50 trillion dong ($1.97 billion) of the new funding is expected to come from VinFast's founder, tycoon Pham Nhat Vuong, according to a company statement.
CNN
Archaeologists identify centuries-old battle site in Iraq using declassified spy satellite images
Archaeologists say they have found the site of an ancient battle in what is now Iraq by comparing historical accounts with declassified images from US spy satellites.
USA TODAY
Michigan soldier’s daughter finally took a long look at his 250 WWII letters
In letters to his wife, a World War II veteran from Michigan shared love, fear and hope. Their daughter has preserved 250 correspondences.
USA TODAY
How the 'diploma divide' helped steer Trump back to the White House
Democrats have long struggled to reach voters without a college education. That growing blind spot played an important role in Harris' loss.
USA TODAY
What is ballot curing? Some voters can still ensure their 2024 election votes are counted
Election officials are processing provisional ballots and absentee ballots. You may have time to cure your ballot if there was a problem with it.
Associated Press
Biden EPA to charge first-ever ‘methane fee’ for drilling waste by oil and gas companies
Oil and natural gas companies for the first time will have to pay a federal fee if they emit dangerous methane above certain levels under a rule being made final by the Biden administration. The Environmental Protection Agency rule follows through on a directive from Congress included in the 2022 climate law. The new fee is intended to encourage industry to adopt best practices that reduce emissions of methane — the primary component of natural gas — and thereby avoid paying. Methane is a climate “super pollutant” that is far more potent in the short term than carbon dioxide and is responsible for about one-third of greenhouse gas emissions.
CNN
Trump looms large as Congress faces shutdown threat and ‘dizzying’ to-do list
Donald Trump won’t arrive back in the White House until January. But he’ll have fingerprints over every piece of the lame duck Congress.
CNN
Biden just finalized a major climate rule. This one could be tricky for Trump to dismantle
The Environmental Protection Agency just finalized one of the Biden administration’s only outstanding climate rules, aimed at cracking down on leaks of methane — a potent planet-warming gas with an outsized impact on the climate.
AFP
New EU chief diplomat backs Ukraine as bloc's top team faces grilling
The European Union's designated foreign policy chief said Tuesday that the bloc must back Ukraine "for as long as it takes", as she and other EU heavyweights faced scrutiny by parliament."Today, tomorrow and for as long as it takes and with as much military, financial and humanitarian help as needed."
Associated Press
A suspected attack by Yemen's Houthi rebels sees explosions near ship in Red Sea
A suspected attack by Yemen's Houthi rebels saw multiple explosions strike near a vessel traveling through the Red Sea on Tuesday, though no damage was immediately reported by the ship, authorities said. The attack comes as the rebels continue their monthslong assault targeting shipping through a waterway that typically sees $1 trillion in goods pass through it a year over the Israel-Hamas war in the Gaza Strip and Israel's ground offensive in Lebanon. The Houthis have insisted that the attacks will continue as long as the wars go on, and the assaults already have halved shipping through the region.

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