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America finds out: Why the first CFP rankings of the season drop on election night

This is the night America finds out. Who controls the balance of power in the House and Senate? Of course. But also, who the winners and losers are in the first College Football Playoff rankings of the season. Whether it's a brilliant ESPN attempt at counterprogramming is up for debate. What's known is that this schedule has been locked in for some time. Just as U.S. elections are held on the Tuesday after the first Monday in November, the CFP puts out six sets of rankings every season on a strict schedule. The final set co

Marathon beats quarterly estimates, to sell two refineries to CVR Energy

Russia trying to foment 'instability' in Poland, PM Tusk says

Trump says US is cutting off aid to Israel at year’s end because ‘they don’t need it’

President Donald Trump said Tuesday that the United States is cutting off $4 billion in aid to Israel at the end of the year because “they don’t need it.”Trump, speaking to Fox News on the morning of Election Day, suggested that US aid to Israel has become a powerful political talking point for Democrats and questioned why Republicans should “suffer the slings” from candidates like Michigan Democratic Senate nominee Abdul El-Sayed when Israel isn’t in need of assistance.“It’s a bad talking point because when you say, ‘Why don’t we give everybody $4 billion?’ Israel’s ou

Melania Trump to bring Russian and Ukrainian representatives to White House this week

S&P 500, Nasdaq open higher as oil prices extend declines, midterms on tap

Vigil held for Javits Frimpong, 15-year-old who was gunned down in the Bronx

New York (WCBS, WLNY) -- Tributes continue to grow for Javits Frimpong, the 15-year-old who was shot and killed on his way to school in the Bronx last week. His peers at Dreamyard Prep School held a silent vigil for the teen Monday morning. Hearts remained heavy as students remembered him. The shooting has rocked the neighborhood in Claremont. The students walked in grief as they held their vigil, holding signs calling for "Justice for Javits," "Forever 15," and "Protect kids, not guns." Police have not yet revealed a motive in the shooting, but they are looking for th

US job postings jumped sharply in September, potentially a good sign for anyone seeking employment

Trump says US is close to making a trade deal with Canada

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Investigators say Learjet may have broken up before crashing in Florida

The National Transportation Safety Board said on Monday a Learjet 60 that crashed on Sunday in a residential area in Palm Beach County, Florida, ‌killing all nine people on board, may have broken up before hitting the ground at high speed.The private Bombardier-made jet had taken off from Austin, Texas, and was headed to the Bahamas. Heavy rainfall and thunderstorms were occurring in the area where it went down.NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman, posting on X, highlighted the harrowing experience of those on the aircraft, including the 20-year-old copilot."She was doing her job, communicatin

Six things to watch as US voters decide control of Congress

Americans head to the polls on Tuesday in midterm elections that will decide control of Congress for the final two years of President Donald Trump's term.The results will serve as the first nationwide verdict on Trump's presidency, revealing whether voters want to check the Republican president's power by giving Democrats control of one or both chambers of Congress or are willing to accept the status quo despite frustrations over the cost of living and the US-led war with Iran.The outcome could also reshape debates within both parties over which messages and policies resonate most with voters

US carries out 'defensive' strikes on Iran's Qeshm Island, officials say

Trump details Reflecting Pool renovations in speech the day before midterm votes are counted

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Reflecting Pool vs. the state of the economy: Trump and Dems clash in closing messages

As midterm campaigns careened toward their conclusion, Democrats pushed through intraparty divisions Monday to stay focused on voters’ economic frustrations, while Republicans cast their opponents as dangerous radicals. President Donald Trump, the GOP's most powerful voice, seemed more interested in his plans for beautifying Washington, D.C. The dueling closing messages came as the nation's two major parties battled for control of Congress and key governors' offices. The outcome could fundamentally reshape Trump's final two years in the White House — and the level of power t

Supreme Court rejects Trump’s attempt to segregate ballots in California

The Supreme Court on Monday quickly shut down President Donald Trump’s effort to force California to sideline potentially thousands of ballots that the Justice Department claims may have been cast by noncitizens, rejecting the administration’s emergency request hours after it was filed.The unusually fast decision underscored that the administration’s case, which was based on an uncertain methodology, was a reach that has been rejected by every court to consider it. The appeal also came to the high court on an exceedingly tight timeline — on the eve of the midterm election — with an u

US Supreme Court rejects Trump, lets California count all ballots

Supreme Court rejects Trump administration push to set aside thousands of California ballots

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At least 33 dead after Russia drops nine bombs on a Ukrainian school building

Dozens of people were killed when Russia dropped at least nine bombs on a school building in southeastern Ukraine where they had taken shelter, President Volodymyr Zelensky said Tuesday, describing it as “one of the deadliest attacks of this war.”At least 33 people have been confirmed dead and another 50 are still unaccounted for after the attack on the building in Komyshuvakha in the Zaporizhzhia region, which local governor Mykhailo Semikin said was being used as a shelter and a humanitarian aid distribution center.Semikin said they were in a newly-built, EU-funded reinforced basement de

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Crypto scammers are capitalizing on anti-Muslim bigotry

In September, as election season entered its stretch run, researchers from the Center for the Study of Organized Hate, a DC-based think tank, began noticing a bizarre and disturbing variant of AI slop on X.One post depicted a Muslim family at an airport, overlaid with a floating sign that read, “We are leaving America due to lack of respect for our culture.” Another, showing a smiling Arab man and a dog side by side, asked: “Would you give your dog away to make a Muslim happy?” Yet another featured a woman wearing a niqab, surrounded by a throng of other women in niqabs, holding a sign

Spanish soccer player Jesús de Miguel dies after on-pitch collision

Italian taxpayers are paying millions to keep Russian yachts afloat

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On Day of the Dead, tourists bump shoulders with celebrating families in San Andrés Mixquic

As night falls over the cemetery in San Andrés Mixquic, a historic village on the outskirts of Mexico City, the family of Ángel Jiménez del Águila huddles around his grave.“Salucita for our dead,” says Jesús, one of Ángel’s sons, raising a toast to his father, who died in 2010.Only a few hours remain before the door between the world of the living and the dead opens: the family has gathered to honor Ángel during the Day of the Dead, a traditional Mexican celebration of departed loved ones held November 1 and 2.After days of cleaning graves and decorating headstones with marigolds,

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Notorious hacker says stolen crypto is like ‘holding a hot potato’

On Thursday, Binance, the world’s largest crypto exchange, saw more than $6 billion hacked from its system. Evidence pointed to North Korean hackers, who drained the accounts in a matter of minutes.But what does a hacker do with billions of dollars in stolen crypto?Perhaps no one on the planet is more qualified to discuss the hack than Ilya Lichtenstein, the notorious hacker who in 2023, alongside his wife, Heather Morgan, pleaded guilty to orchestrating a $4.5 billion money-laundering scheme linked to the 2016 hack of crypto exchange Bitfinex. In 2024, Lichtenstein was sentenced to five yea

Starved residents of Russian-occupied Oleshky return to Ukraine during a rare local ceasefire

Polish PM Tusk vows support for tribunal amid court crisis

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Election night agenda: When polls close and when to expect results

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Judge blocks Trump administration from pressuring states over noncitizen voting

A US judge on Monday temporarily barred the Trump administration from moving ahead with a plan it says would prevent noncitizen voting, but that critics say risks

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US voters head to polls to deliver midterm verdict on Trump

Americans headed to the polls in Tuesday's midterm elections to deliver a verdict on the first two years of President Donald Trump's second

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Trump Justice Dept breaks with tradition to intervene in midterms

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Voting begins on last day to cast ballots in US midterms with observers keeping close watch at polls

Americans have begun casting ballots across much of the country on the final day of voting in the U.S. midterms

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‘He would wind her up’: Democratic anger at Haley Stevens’ fiancé boils over after her endorsement reversal

Parts of a Learjet may have broken off midair before Florida crash that killed 9, investigators say

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US judge orders Trump admin to stop demands California remove suspected noncitizen voters

A US judge ordered the Trump administration on Monday to stop demanding that California election officials segregate ballots cast by people on its lists of suspected

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What polls do and don’t tell us about the 2026 midterms

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Dollar falls ahead of US midterms as oil plummets

The dollar eased on Monday as oil prices plunged and Treasury yields retreated ahead of a week full of catalysts, including the US midterm elections, a

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From LA to Scottsdale: The Founder Behind AdDynamix Is Building the Bridge Between AI and Business Tools

An LA digital advertising veteran of 28 years has moved to Scottsdale and is building what he calls the missing piece between business software and the AI assistants people now use every day. SCOTTSDALE, AZ. When Benoit Pecqueur talks about his latest company, he sounds less like a founder pitching a product and more like an operator who got tired of watching the same problem repeat itself. “Most small business owners are watching the AI revolution from the sidelines,” he says. “Not because they don’t want it. Because their tools don’t talk to ChatGPT or Claude. Their accountant still pulls