Protested

Google employees across the world walked out of their jobs on Nov. 1 to protest the company’s handling of sexual harassment and discrimination. Employees planned the protests after a New York Times report told of years of accusations, huge severance packages for accused executives, and a lack of transparency over the handling of cases at Google. Protest organizers wrote an op-ed in New York magazine demanding the company take steps to end forced arbitration in harassment cases and to make public data on the gender compensation gap.

Arrested

The FBI arrested a man in Arizona on charges of building bombs and teaching others to do so. Ahmad Suhad Ahmad met with FBI associates in Nevada to show them how to build a bomb he was told they wanted to detonate in Mexico. In 2016, Ahmad told the FBI source he had learned how to make cell phone bombs during the Iraq War. A year later, the source approached him again, asking him to build a car bomb. Ahmad met the source and two undercover FBI agents in a Las Vegas condo where Ahmad built a bomb in a couple of hours and taught the others how to finish a second.

Died

James “Whitey” Bulger, a notorious gangster and murderer, was killed while serving two life sentences in a West Virginia prison. Bulger became the head of Boston’s Irish-American Winter Hill Gang in the early 1970s after spending time in Alcatraz for bank robbery. He murdered 11 people as a gangster, including two women he strangled and a man he tortured for hours before killing him. In the mid-1990s, an FBI agent in his pay tipped Bulger off to his imminent arrest and he fled. He spent 12 years on the FBI’s Most Wanted list, before a former beauty queen from Iceland recognized him from the news and Bulger was arrested and imprisoned. Another inmate allegedly murdered Bulger.

Surrendered

Japan’s Princess Ayako has surrendered her royal title so she can marry her love, commoner Kei Moriya. According to imperial law, any female members of the royal family lose their titles, allowances, and rights if they marry someone who is not within the imperial family or a close aristocratic tie. Her husband, a 32-year-old employee of a shipping company, told reporters that he and Ayako, 28, plan to “build a happy family with lots of laughter.” Japan’s officials recently passed a law allowing the current emperor to abdicate in favor of his son but dropped from the bill a proposed resolution that would have protected the rights of royal women who make the same choice as Ayako.

Announced

President Trump announced plans to issue an executive order ending birthright citizenship for the children of illegal immigrants. Many legal scholars challenged his authority to do so, arguing the 14th Amendment—which grants citizenship to all “persons born or naturalized in the United States and subject to the jurisdiction thereof”—confers citizenship even to children born of persons in the country illegally. But other scholars, such as Hans von Spakovsky of the Heritage Foundation, argue that the legislative history of the amendment shows that “subject to the jurisdiction thereof” was not meant to grant automatic citizenship to the children of citizens of foreign countries. The executive order, if issued, would be sure to spark legal challenges, leaving the courts to decide the issue.