Concerns over privacy have arisen as UK firms are considering fitting their employees with microchips. One Swedish company says it is in talks with several British legal and financial firms to fit the subdermal chips, about the size of a grain of rice. Both trade unions and the organization representing employers have warned about companies using tech to control and micromanage employees’ lives.

Australia deploys 1500 soldiers and naval vessels, including the amphibious assault ship HMAS Canberra to Port Moresby to provide security as well as counter the growing influence of China in the region. Australia recently struck a deal with Papua New Guinea to refurbish and utilise a naval base on Manus Island. Multiple experts see the move as a counter to Chinese expansion in the Pacific.

Former British foreign minister Boris Johnson called on PM Theresa May Sunday to change her course on Brexit. Johnson called for May to drop her Chequers plans in favor of negotiating a clean break with the EU and secure a free trade deal similar to the one recently sealed with Canada. His comments came days after his brother, lawmaker Jo Johnson, resigned as a transport minister over Brexit.

Cardinal Daniel DiNardo, president of the US Conference of Catholic Bishops announced Monday it will delay for at least several months any votes on proposed new steps to address the clergy sex abuse crisis that is rocking the church. The cardinal said the delay was requested by the Vatican, which will hold a global meeting on sex abuse in February.

60 year old Gary J. Willis of Anne Arundel, Maryland, was shot and killed by two as yet unnamed police officers after a brief struggle which broke out while the officers were attempting to serve a ’red flag’ protective order to remove guns from the man’s home Monday morning.

On this weekend’s ’Saturday Night Live’ cast member Pete Davidson apologized for saying that new Republican congressman for Texas, Dan Crenshaw, looked like a ’hitman in a porno movie’. Crenshaw, who lost his eye in active service, was sitting next to Davidson on the show during the apology. Crenshaw took the apology well and urged remembrance for the fallen on Veterans Day.

The ExoMars rover, due to land on Mars in 2021, has been designated a landing site that was selected after more than four years of discussion. The robot will drill into the surface of the red planet to search for evidence of ancient life. The European-Russian project has selected a spot called Oxia Planum, which scientists think was the site of a large body of water billions of years ago.

President Trump called for the gubernatorial and Senate elections in Florida to be called in favor of Republican candidates Ron DeSantis and Gov. Rick Scott. He said ’an honest vote count is no longer possible’, even though recounts mandated by law are taking place in both races given the tight vote counts. Trump repeated his assertion that ’many ballots are missing or forged’.

Democratic candidate in Georgia Stacey Abrams filed a lawsuit Sunday asking for rejected absentee ballots and provisional ballots to be counted in the recently concluded governor’s race. The lawsuit challenges the rejection of more than 1,000 absentee ballots for missing information. If Republican candidate Brian Kemp’s vote share dips below 50%, the race goes into a run-off on December 4.

Democrat Richard Ojeda, a former Army paratrooper who lost his attempt to represent a West Virginian district in Congress, is to bid to become president in 2020. Ojeda, who led the state’s teachers’ strike earlier this year, has filed his paperwork with the Federal Election Commission and even released his first campaign ad.

SoftBank has received an approval to conduct a $21.04 billion IPO of its domestic telecoms business. The IPO, one of the biggest ever worldwide, will provide the group with funds to pay down debt and continue placing big bets on innovations to drive future tech trends.

Great Lakes Science Center, an engineering and technology museum in Cleveland, Ohio, has announced that it will begin accepting cryptocurrency payments from Nov. 13. The educational center is integrating Bitpay into its payments system for ticket sales ahead of a blockchain conference that will be held at the facility in December.