5 Things To Know For Your New Day — Monday, November 2
World Series
A thrilling finish: It may have taken two days, but the Kansas City Royals beat the New York Mets in Game 5 of the World Series to clinch the title. Fans collectively screamed when Eric Hosmer made a gutsy dash home to tie the game in the ninth inning. The victory marks Kansas City’s first championship in 30 years
Fred Thompson dies
From Senate to ‘Law & Order’: Famed actor and former Sen. Fred Thompson has died, his family said Sunday. He was 73. As a Tennessee Republican, Thompson won a special election in 1994 to fill Al Gore’s vacate U.S. Senate seat. As an actor, he appeared in “Law & Order,” “Die Hard 2” and “In the Line of Fire.
Russian plane crash
A highly unusual crash: A Russian passenger jet broke into pieces in midair before crashing in Egypt’s Sinai Peninsula on Saturday, killing all 224 people on board. It’s still not clear why the plane disintegrated mid-flight; ISIS-affiliated militants apparently made a claim of responsibility for bringing down the jet, but Egyptian and Russian officials dismissed it.
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source: CNN.com
