10 things you need to know today: November 6, 2015

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1. Russia and Egypt call ISIS plane-bomb theory irresponsible speculation
2. New York looks into whether Exxon Mobil hid climate change risks
3. Aid group report denies armed fighters were in bombed Afghanistan hospital
4. Christie and Huckabee bumped from next primetime GOP debate
5. 15 feared dead after dam bursts at mine in Brazil
6. Jobs report to show whether hiring slowdown continued in October
7. Four men with Ohio ties accused of supporting terrorists
8. Illinois cop who committed suicide suspected of planning hit job
9. Mormons in same-sex marriages labeled apostates
10. Adidas offers support for schools that drop Native American mascots

last updated 7 December 2015

1. Russia and Egypt call ISIS plane-bomb theory irresponsible speculation

Russia and Egypt on Thursday dismissed suggestions by British and U.S. officials that a bomb planted by Islamic State terrorists was responsible for the crash of a Metrojet charter plane in Egypt's Sinai Peninsula. All 224 people on board died. "The investigation team does not have any evidence or data confirming this hypothesis," Egypt's Civil Aviation Minister Hossam Kamal said. President Obama said Thursday evening that it was "certainly possible" a bomb caused the disaster.

The New York attorney general has launched an investigation into whether Exxon Mobil covered up risks of climate change. An Exxon Mobil spokesman confirmed Thursday that the company had received a subpoena. "We unequivocally reject the allegations that Exxon Mobil has suppressed climate-change research," Kenneth P. Cohen, vice president for public affairs, said. A focus of the investigation is whether the company gave investors adequate warning of the risks it faced due to climate change.

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A Doctors Without Borders report released Thursday said there were no armed men in a hospital the aid agency ran in Afghanistan that was bombed by U.S. forces last month. The report said there were, however, some wounded Taliban fighters receiving treatment. The group also repeated its assertion that U.S. forces had the exact coordinates of the hospital in Kunduz, a city that had been seized by the Taliban, before the bombing. The U.S. has apologized for the bombing. The military and the Afghan government have launched investigations.

Fox Business Network announced the lineup for the Nov. 10 Republican primetime debate, and New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie and former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee did not make the cut, due to their low polling numbers. The candidates who earned spots on the stage were frontrunners Ben Carson and Donald Trump; Sens. Marco Rubio, Ted Cruz, and Rand Paul; Jeb Bush; Carly Fiorina; and Ohio Gov. John Kasich. Christie and Huckabee will join Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal and former Pennsylvania Sen. Rick Santorum in an undercard debate.

A dam burst at an open-pit iron ore mine in Brazil on Thursday, sending water and sludge gushing into a nearby town of about 400 people. Authorities feared that at least 15 people were killed. Another 45 were missing. Rescuers descended from helicopters to search for survivors. The dam was operated by Samarco, a joint venture involving Australian commodities giant BHP Billiton and Brazilian mining company Vale. It held residue from the mine.

Economists expect the federal jobs report being released Friday morning to show that the U.S. economy added 185,000 jobs in October. The monthly gains averaged more than 200,000 early in the year, signaling a robust employment market, but hiring slowed to 136,000 in August and 142,000 in September. Any figure above 150,000 for October will probably be strong enough for the Federal Reserve to raise interest rates from historic lows at its mid-December meeting.

Four men with Ohio ties have been charged with conspiring to provide material support to al Qaeda terrorists, the Justice Department said Thursday. Two of the suspects are former Ohio State University students. The men — two pairs of brothers — allegedly raised money through credit card fraud. One is suspected of traveling to Yemen in 2009 to give $22,000 to a person linked to Anwar al-Awlaki, an al Qaeda leader killed by a U.S. unmanned drone in Yemen in 2011.

Illinois police lieutenant Joseph Gliniewicz allegedly tried to have a hit man kill his village administrator before taking his own life in what authorities have called a "carefully staged suicide," an investigator said Thursday. Gliniewicz allegedly had been embezzling money from the police Explorers program, and feared that Fox Lake Village Administrator Anne Marrin would discover his crimes in an audit. Gliniewicz's personnel records included complaints of sexual harassment and intimidating behavior.

The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints is labeling married same-sex church members as apostates and barring their children from baptism and blessing rituals until age 18, according to a handbook for lay leaders leaked online Thursday. Church spokesman Eric Hawkins confirmed the change, saying that the Mormon church has a longstanding policy against gay marriage even though it is now legal nationwide. The old policy was that Mormons in same-sex marriages could face discipline.

Adidas on Thursday offered financial support to any high school that changes its logo or mascot from one considered offensive to Native Americans. President Obama praised the apparel company for taking a "smart, creative approach" to getting schools to drop controversial names and symbols, and suggested making "the same offer to a certain NFL team," a reference to the Washington Redskins. Critics noted that Adidas sponsors Redskins quarterback Robert Griffin III and produces gear for teams referencing Native Americans.

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Harold Maass is a contributing editor at The Week. He has been writing for The Week since the 2001 debut of the U.S. print edition and served as editor of TheWeek.com when it launched in 2008. Harold started his career as a newspaper reporter in South Florida and Haiti. He has previously worked for a variety of news outlets, including The Miami Herald, ABC News and Fox News, and for several years wrote a daily roundup of financial news for The Week and Yahoo Finance.