TODAY'S TALKING POINTS 11-18-15

TODAY'S TALKING POINTS

Seven people were just arrested in connection with the Paris attacks.French police conducted a raid early this morning in Saint-Denis targeting Abdelhamid Abaaoud, the alleged mastermind behind last week's deadly assault. Two suspects reportedly died during the blitz — one was a woman who exploded a suicide vest. Police have carried out more than 100 anti-terrorism sweeps over the past few days.

Mic asked a policy director at the New America Foundation what the Paris attacks mean for Europe and the U.S., and here’s what she had to say.

A soccer stadium in Hannover, Germany, was evacuated after a bomb threat. About 90 minutes before a Germany-Netherlands match was scheduled to begin, the local police chief said authorities learned of “a device intended to be detonated inside” HDI Arena, but German officials later said they didn’t find anything. German Chancellor Angela Merkel and other government officials had planned to attend the game.

Two flights headed from the U.S. to Paris were diverted Tuesday because of bomb threats, but no explosives were found.

Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal dropped out of the presidential race. Jindal became the third in his party to pull his hat out of the ring, leaving 14 GOP candidates in the running. Just 146 days after he announced his candidacy, Jindal said "I've come to the realization that this is not my time."

Salt Lake City elected its first openly gay mayor. Jackie Biskupski will lead the capital of Utah, where the Mormon church recently delivered some setbacksto the LGBT community.

Meanwhile, in Ireland, Cormac Gollogly and Richard Dowling became the first same-sex couple to officially tie the knot, six months after voters decided to legalize same-sex marriage.

Charlie Sheen confirmed that he’s HIV-positive. The 50-year-old actor told Matt Lauer on the Today Show that he’s been diagnosed for four years, and he was speaking out to “put a stop to this onslaught, this barrage of attacks." Sheen said he’d been paying a handful of people he thought he could trust more than $10 million to keep information about his illness a secret, but he has a “responsibility to better [himself] and help a lot of other people.”