News Wrap: Schumer warns against letting criticism of Israel fuel anti-semitism

Amna Nawaz:

Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer warned against letting criticism of Israel's actions in Gaza fuel antisemitism.

Schumer is the highest-ranking Jewish elected official in U.S. history. He gave an impassioned speech on the Senate floor, saying he felt a responsibility to use his platform, citing centuries of hate and violence against Jews.

Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-NY):

All Jewish Americans carry in them the scar tissue of this generational trauma, and that directly informs how we are experiencing and processing the rhetoric of today. The vitriol against Israel in the wake of October 7 is all too often crossing a line into brazen and widespread antisemitism.

Amna Nawaz:

Schumer also published an opinion piece in The New York Times in which he called the rise of antisemitism — quote — "a five-alarm fire."

A U.S. military Osprey aircraft crashed into the sea off Japan today, killing at least one of the eight people on board. Video showed a helicopter searching the crash site. A life raft believed to be from the plane floated in the water. The tilt-rotor Osprey can take off and land like a helicopter. It's had a troubled safety record, including a crash in Australia that killed three U.S. Marines in August.

Former first lady Rosalynn Carter has been laid to rest after a funeral service in the Carters' hometown of Plains, Georgia. Maranatha Baptist church was filled with close friends and family, including former President Carter, now 99 and in frail condition.

Grandson Josh Carter praised Mrs. Carter's lifelong focus on improving people's lives.

Josh Carter, Grandson of Rosalynn Carter: She worked with everybody, from world leaders, to people living on less than $1 a day. And when she would tell us stories about the work that she would do, she would only ever focus on the people, on humanity. Everywhere she went, she would tell us that the people were just as smart and just as capable as she was.

Amna Nawaz:

Mrs. Carter's burial site is in view of the home where the former president still lives, now in hospice care.

The CDC reports that life expectancy in the U.S. has jumped by more than a year as the pandemic wanes. A child born in 2022 could expect to live 77 years and six months, about the same as two decades ago. That is still well short of the nearly 79 years projected for those born in 2019 before the pandemic.

A new forecast sees the global economy slowing next year. The Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development in Paris says that wars, inflation and interest rates will affect growth. For now, though, the U.S. economy is expanding faster than expected. The government's revised number shows an annual rate of 5.2 percent growth from July through September. That is up from the initial estimate of 4.9 percent.

And on Wall Street, stocks mostly drifted. The Dow Jones industrial average gained 13 points to close at 35430, the Nasdaq fell 23 points, and the S&P 500 was down four.