News you should know

Regional:

Late Sunday night, the Denver Broncos defeated the New England Patriots 30-24 to improve to 9-2 on the season. This win for the Broncos was an unplanned turn for the Patriots, who prior to the game had been undefeated this season.  They are now 10-1. Patriots’ tight end Rob Gronkowski dropped to the ground with a knee injury during the game. The pass fell incomplete as safety Darian Stewart went low and made contact with Gronkowski’s right knee. Gronkowski was visibly in pain before he was placed on a cart and driven into the locker room. The game went into overtime, and the Broncos came out on top. “It was a tough game,” Tom Brady said. “Especially on the road with a lead. Just didn’t make enough plays in the fourth quarter. It’s tough to win. When you lose good players, it hurts. It always hurts to lose.”

National:

Congress needs to pass a $1.1 trillion spending bill before Dec. 11 to avoid a government shutdown. When John Boehner resigned from his position as speaker of the house, he set the spending levels for his successor Paul Ryan, but didn’t quite pass legislation to direct Congress how to spend the money. There has been a constant back and forth between the House of Representatives and the Senate, with legislation trying to move parties forward in order to allocate funds in an agreeable fashion. In other words, both sides are trying to form a consensus on what to spend their $1.1 trillion on, to avoid a government shutdown this December. With recent debates surrounding issues such as Planned Parenthood and Syrian refugees, as well as degrees of national security, both parties are attempting to prevent a holiday government shutdown by agreeing how to spend the $1.1 trillion.

International:

Pope Francis suggested to environmental negotiators that they should strike a climate change deal to save our world “at the limits of suicide” at the start of a United Nations-sponsored environmental summit in Paris on Monday. He told a group of reporters aboard the papal plane, heading home from Africa, “I am not sure, but I can say to you ‘now or never’… Every year the problems are getting worse. We are at the limits.” There were 150 world leaders expected to attend the environmental summit this week, and though politicians have generally not acted very aggressively towards this issue, Francis prays that they “have the good will to do this.”