The U.S. Army soldier arrested on allegations of spying for Russia was assigned to a NATO rapid reaction command structure in the U.K., according to a What’s News newsletter from The Wall Street Journal published Nov. 10, 2026. The newsletter said British police made the arrest and identified the soldier only as a 41-year-old man; its published account does not name him, date the arrest or describe the charges.

FBI Director Kash Patel said the arrest was connected to allegations of espionage. British counterterrorism police said the arrest wasn’t linked to any other active investigation — a statement the newsletter suggested points away from an incident at England’s RAF Fairford air base in September.

The same edition also reported that the U.S. indicted three Iran-backed operatives for plotting an attack against Fairford; the published account gives no further detail about the indictment. As the newsletter presents them, the two matters are separate. The indictment concerns Iranian-backed operatives plotting an attack against the base, and the arrest concerns allegations of spying for Russia. The newsletter drew no connection between the two, and its published account reports no evidence linking them.

The account leaves the charges and the evidentiary basis unstated. What it does establish is a sequence: a 41-year-old U.S. Army soldier assigned to a NATO rapid reaction command structure in the U.K., arrested on allegations of spying for Russia; British counterterrorism police saying the arrest wasn’t linked to any other active investigation; and, in the same edition, a U.S. indictment of three Iran-backed operatives over a plot against the same base.

The newsletter’s remaining items covered the day’s other developments.

In markets, Fed governor Christopher Waller said early in the morning that he could support a larger-than-normal 0.5 percentage point rate increase in December if the day’s consumer-price index report showed core prices rising 0.3% from the previous month, according to the newsletter. The CPI report laid out that scenario, and by the afternoon falling bond prices had carried the yield on the 2-year Treasury note to its biggest one-day jump in 19 months. Ten-year Treasury yields surged back above 5%. Stock indexes staged a late-afternoon rally but remained down on the day.

In corporate news, Dario Amodei, Daniela Amodei and the other five founders of Anthropic plan to cash out about $250 million apiece in the AI company’s initial public offering, a figure the newsletter said underscores the scale of the listing and the speed of the company’s growth since its 2021 founding. The maker of Claude is aiming to go public next week at a valuation of around $1.3 trillion and raise $80 billion or more through a combination of share sales and a private placement to big investors including Google.

In Congress, Jordan, whom the newsletter described as a conservative firebrand turned leadership ally, defeated Majority Leader Steve Scalise by secret ballot, people familiar with the matter said. Jordan’s allies hailed him as a proven fighter who can help the party navigate what they predict will be an onslaught of Democratic investigations into the Trump administration. Senate Majority Leader John Thune won re-election as the head of the GOP conference next year, the newsletter reported.

A new analysis from a consortium of climate scientists said more than half the emissions reduction was due to increased renewable generation. The rest of the drop was largely due to a sharp increase in oil and fuel prices sparked by the blockage of the Strait of Hormuz, which depressed consumption of petroleum products, according to the newsletter. Global economic growth has remained resilient despite the surge in energy prices, surprising many companies and economists.

On the arts, the cosmetics billionaire who amassed an estimated $1.5 billion collection of German and Austrian modern art and installed it in Manhattan’s Neue Galerie a quarter-century ago has decided, with his family’s nudging, to give it all to the Metropolitan Museum of Art. The merger takes effect in 2028, when the Met will take ownership of the building and the Neue’s roughly 600-piece collection. At 82, Lauder is still grappling with how to let it go, the newsletter reported.

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth gave what the newsletter described as a full-throated endorsement of the Iran war at his first Pentagon press conference in six months, where he addressed his impeachment fight in Congress. “I agree with what the president said when he said, ‘Hey, if I had to do this all over again, would we do it again?’ Absolutely,” Hegseth said, according to the newsletter.

Last week, the newsletter asked readers how AI companies should respond to the pushback against data centers; the responses it published were condensed and edited. Mark Bruderick of Michigan wrote: “Build in space. Continuous unlimited solar, free cooling, and the only NIMBY’s are satellites.” Kirk McElwain of California said that, given the potential profits generated by AI companies, they should offer to address homelessness in the United States, a step he suggested would likely be very attractive to residents. Craig Wilson of Canada said there is no reason data centers have to be located in cities, towns or next to people anywhere, urging that they be put in empty remote locations where generator and cooling noise isn’t heard, with room for cheaper solar and wind generation and conventional, or gravity batteries. Mike Scudiero of Florida said the companies should simply go build some in other countries and take the jobs with them; a year or two of that, he predicted, would leave even the Democrats scrambling to figure out how to court them back here and unscrew the mess they’re about to create.

The edition also carried a WSJ Buy Side item saying it researched nearly 60 artificial Christmas trees and tested seven to find the best options that look as good as the real thing.

In politics, Iowa’s next governor, Rob Sand, posed for Italian Vogue and walked Prada’s runway while a student at Brown University, the newsletter reported. Sand’s Republican opponent hoped that chapter of his past would turn off voters, spending $1.9 million on an attack ad featuring his modeling photos. Now that he’s won, Sand’s supporters are embracing his high-fashion turn, and his campaign website is selling $32 “My Model Governor” T-shirts.

The newsletter was curated by Bharbi Hazarika, Liz Webber and Sara Bosworth.