Nov 15 (Reuters) - The following are the top stories in the Wall Street Journal. Reuters has not verified these stories and does not vouch for their accuracy.
- Israeli forces carried out a targeted operation against Hamas “in a specified area” of Gaza’s largest hospital, hours after the White House backed Israeli assertions that Palestinian militants are running military operations from the enclave’s hospitals.
- Nelson Peltz’s Trian Fund Management reported a new Allstate position of 3.64 million shares in its quarterly 13F filing. Last month, Reuters reported that Trian had an Allstate stake.
- A bill approved by Texas lawmakers Tuesday will allow the state to begin arresting, jailing and in some cases deporting migrants who cross the U.S.-Mexico border illegally - an unprecedented escalation of the state’s challenge of federal immigration authority.
- A Texas bankruptcy judge on Tuesday appointed a new mediator for Tehum Care Services, a bankrupt affiliate of prison health provider YesCare, to revisit its $37 million settlement facilitated in August by former judge David R. Jones, who resigned from the bench last month following an ethics controversy.
- Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway eliminated its stake in a handful of American blue chips, including General Motors GM and Johnson & Johnson , while the stock market’s rally sputtered in the third quarter.
- Nike said it has named former company executive Nicole Hubbard Graham to be its next chief marketing officer, succeeding Dirk-Jan “DJ” van Hameren, who will retire. (Compiled by Bengaluru newsroom)