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• Ballot counting issues reported in key New York swing district

  03-11-2026 16:56 via Yahoo.com/news Top Stories
  Election Day is here. Today, voters across the United States are heading to the polls to cast their ballots in the 2026 midterms. And with control of Congress up for grabs, the stakes are high for both parties as President Trump heads into his final two years in office.Democrats are seeking to regain control of both the House and Senate, while Republicans, who have held narrow majorities in both chambers since January 2025, are seeking to retain control.In the House, there are 435 seats. And whi
  
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• Newsom reveals when he'll decide on 2028 White House bid amid growing speculation

  13-11-2026 08:08 via Latest & Breaking News on Fox News
  
  Democratic California Gov. Gavin Newsom said Thursday that he will decide within the next two months whether to seek the presidency, revealing that he plans to make up his mind by early January about a potential 2028 bid.Newsom, who will leave office in January, was asked about his presidential aspirations while attending the 31st United Nations Climate Change Conference in Antalya, Turkey."As it relates to 2028, we'll make that decision in the next few months," Newsom told Turkey's Anadolu news
  
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• Highly contagious bird flu detected in Wisconsin as officials euthanize infected flock

  13-11-2026 06:20 via Latest & Breaking News on Fox News
  
  A highly contagious strain of bird flu has struck a backyard poultry flock in Wisconsin, prompting officials to euthanize the birds amid ongoing concerns about the spread of the potentially deadly disease.The Wisconsin Department of Agriculture, Trade and Consumer Protection (DATCP) confirmed Thursday a case of highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI) in a backyard poultry flock in Rusk County.Officials did not specify how the flock became infected.DATCP said all birds on the property were eutha
  
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• Jayden Daniels throws three touchdowns as Commanders rally past Giants Thursday night

  13-11-2026 06:08 via Latest & Breaking News on Fox News
  
  Taking a cue from coach John Harbaugh’s stated goal of going 1-0 each week, Giants wide receiver Malik Nabers viewed Thursday night’s rematch with Washington as carrying extra weight after the teams tied last month in Week 5.The Week 10 matchup was never tied, and Washington ultimately won 24-21, giving the Commanders a much-needed victory over their NFC East rival.J.J. McCarthy made his first home start since joining the Giants in a late-September trade from Minnesota. The young quarterback
  
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• SpaceX is trying to solve a decades-old challenge: Making rockets fully reusable

  13-11-2026 05:34 via Yahoo.com/news Top Stories
  
  SpaceX's Starship Flight 14 launches at Starbase in Texas on September 28, 2026 (RONALDO SCHEMIDT)Elon Musk's SpaceX was poised Friday to carry out its latest test of the world's biggest and most powerful rocket, the Starship, with plans for a groundbreaking "catch" of the spaceship following a day in orbit.A successful capture of the Starship upper stage would mark a significant milestone in the space industry's decades-long pursuit of fully reusable spacecraft that can drastically reduce missi
  
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• Stephen A Smith debriefs interview with President Trump, warns Democrats face steep challenge

  13-11-2026 04:50 via Latest & Breaking News on Fox News
  
  ESPN commentator Stephen A. Smith debriefed his White House interview with President Donald Trump during an appearance Thursday on "Hannity" and cautioned Democrats over the influence of the party's far-left flank.Smith said the pair discussed "devastating" GOP midterm losses during a 40-minute, wide-ranging interview and criticized Trump for refusing to take blame, saying he was "immovable" on that point."We talked about the devastating losses in the midterms and how the GOP essentially got sla
  
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• 'How does a building just fall?' Neighbors grieve after Brooklyn building collapse.

  13-11-2026 04:26 via Yahoo.com/news Top Stories
  
  What we know about the New York City building collapse
  Over the loud noise of her radio, Ann Marie did not hear the sound of the Brooklyn building behind her home collapse on Wednesday night, but she soon saw the flashing lights of fire department trucks rushing to the scene. When she made her way out to the wreckage, workers were still searching for bodies. One of the building's walls had torn off, exposing the inside of several apartment homes, and the rubble had collapsed into a construction
  
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• Singapore's Megaspeed lawyers up with U.S. firm as Nvidia scandal broadens

  13-11-2026 04:15 via Yahoo.com/news Top Stories
  SINGAPORE — A Singapore-based company at the center of the emerging scandal engulfing AI chipmaker Nvidia said Thursday that it has hired a U.S. law firm for what is likely to be a wave of intense legal and congressional scrutiny.Megaspeed, a cloud provider that employed a Chinese executive who had an affair with ousted Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang, said in a statement that the law firm would help to "independently verify its export control compliance practices."Megaspeed did not identify the law f
  
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• WWE star Brie Bella talks challenges of wine business, describes perfect Las Vegas day

  13-11-2026 04:12 via Latest & Breaking News on Fox News
  
  Brie Bella has proven herself to be more than just a WWE Hall of Famer. She’s a successful businesswoman and entrepreneur who has built up a successful wine brand with her twin sister.Bella is set to make an appearance Friday at JP Brasserie and Sports Den in Las Vegas to celebrate the restaurant’s opening and help usher in the moment with Bonita Bonita wine. Fans of the former WWE Divas champion will be able to connect with her and enjoy sipping on a drink.CLICK HERE FOR MORE OUTKICK PRO WR
  
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• Pete Crow-Armstrong unanimously ends Shohei Ohtani's run as NL MVP, Yordan Alvarez takes AL MVP for Astros

  13-11-2026 04:06 via Latest & Breaking News on Fox News
  
  Pretty much every season that Shohei Ohtani plays in Major League Baseball, he starts as the overwhelming favorite to win his league's Most Valuable Player award.Ohtani in 2024 turned in one of the greatest individual years in baseball history, becoming the first player ever to hit 50 home runs and steal 50 bases in a single season. He won the MVP award. In 2025, he followed it up by hitting 55 home runs, stealing 20 bases, scoring 146 runs and, oh yeah, putting up a 2.87 ERA with 62 strikeouts
  
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• DHS touts highest ICE deportations in history, as Mullin says agency has been ‘unleashed’

  13-11-2026 03:54 via Latest & Breaking News on Fox News
  
  Immigration officials on Thursday announced a historic milestone, saying arrests and deportations this year reached the highest levels in the agency’s history, with arrests surpassing the combined totals of the Biden administration’s final three years and deportations nearly matching them."Fiscal Year 2026 saw the highest number of ICE deportations and arrests for any year in ICE’s history," Secretary Markwayne Mullin, Department of Homeland Security (DHS), said."The total number of ICE ar
  
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• Dan Patrick concedes Texas ‘turned purple’ after Democrats’ historic blue wave

  13-11-2026 03:49 via Latest & Breaking News on Fox News
  
  Outgoing Texas Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick, a Republican, acknowledged Thursday that the Lone Star State "turned purple" after Democrats' so-called blue wave swept statewide races and flipped the governor’s office, a U.S. Senate seat and Texas House.During his latest episode of the "Lt. Dan Podcast," Patrick acknowledged that Texas’ political makeup is shifting left but stopped short of saying the state had turned blue after many others had described it as now a blue state."Right now, I’d say it�
  
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• Van Hollen challenges Schumer for Senate leadership after Democratic election sweep

  13-11-2026 03:45 via Latest & Breaking News on Fox News
  
  Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., officially has a challenger for the mantle of Democratic leader, and incoming majority leader, in the Senate.Sen. Chris Van Hollen, D-Md., who has become a progressive darling and outlet for those against Schumer’s bid for another term as top Democrat, officially announced that he was jumping in to challenge the longtime figurehead of the Senate Democratic Caucus."In this election, the American people called for change," Van Hollen said in a statem
  
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• Howard Lutnick agrees to testify as bipartisan pressure grows over Nvidia scandal

  13-11-2026 03:45 via NBC News Top Stories
  
  Former Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang had previously praised the commerce secretary for his support and involvement in the industry.
  
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• Toronto Blue Jays apologize after Muslim community outcry over Anthony Santander's Instagram posts

  13-11-2026 03:40 via Latest & Breaking News on Fox News
  
  The Toronto Blue Jays issued a corporate apology Thursday after activist groups targeted outfielder Anthony Santander over political Instagram posts he shared last week.Caving to activist pressure, the team met with local Muslim leaders before president and CEO Mark Shapiro issued the following statement."We met with leaders in Toronto's Muslim communities today, who shared the harm caused by Anthony Santander's Islamophobic social media posts. The opportunity to listen and learn was important a
  
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• Donald Trump calls Barack Obama 'highly overrated' and claims he'd win a third-term matchup

  13-11-2026 03:24 via Latest & Breaking News on Fox News
  
  President Donald Trump told "Straight Shooter" host Stephen A. Smith Thursday he believes he could defeat former President Barack Obama in an election for a third term, calling the former president "overrated."Smith released an interview with the president recorded at the White House in which the two discussed several issues after the Republican Party's losses in the midterm elections.During the interview, however, Smith floated a hypothetical matchup between Trump and Obama if they could both r
  
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• Cowboys' key in-season acquisition Joey Porter Jr. insists two-week absence is unrelated to contract future

  13-11-2026 03:23 via Latest & Breaking News on Fox News
  
  Joey Porter Jr. has appeared in four games since the Dallas Cowboys acquired him in a late-September trade.But the cornerback has missed the majority of the past two weeks, prompting speculation that his absence was related to his contract situation rather than an ankle injury. Porter made clear he is focused on playing, not securing his next contract, and dismissed any suggestion otherwise as noise."I don't even know where that narrative come from," Porter said. "I get it. It's the internet, bu
  
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• Microsoft Outlook outage drags on for hours as attempts to restore service fail

  13-11-2026 03:16 via Yahoo.com/news Top Stories
  
  Microsoft said it was working to restore service as a widespread outage of Outlook email and other products stretched on for hours Thursday."We’re seeing positive results with our efforts to restart affected infrastructure and recover server availability in an isolated manner. We’re actively monitoring the performance of these portions of infrastructure to verify stability, which we suspect will support improved availability as these actions are subsequently expanded more broadly," the compa
  
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• Texas man executed for beheading 3 children: 'Going to be with my kids'

  13-11-2026 03:04 via Latest & Breaking News on Fox News
  
  A South Texas man convicted of murdering three young children he helped raise was executed Thursday evening, nearly 23 years after the killings.John Allen Rubio, 46, of Brownsville, received a lethal injection at a state prison in Huntsville, according to The Associated Press (AP).Rubio was convicted of stabbing and beheading his children, Julissa Quezada, 3, John Esteban Rubio, 1, and Mary Jane Rubio, 2 months old. He was prosecuted alongside his common-law wife, Angela Camacho.Rubio was pronou
  
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• Van Hollen takes on Schumer for majority leader after Democrats flip Senate

  13-11-2026 03:03 via Yahoo.com/news Top Stories
  WASHINGTON (AP) — Democratic Sen. Chris Van Hollen of Maryland said Thursday that he will run for Senate Majority Leader in the next Congress, setting up a challenge to Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer after the party swept to power in the midterm elections.Van Hollen said in a statement that “the American people called for change” and that is why he is running.“It’s now on us to meet this moment, and to do that we need new leadership,” Van Hollen said. “This is not about any one pe
  
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• Sen. Chris Van Hollen says he will challenge Sen. Chuck Schumer for majority leader

  13-11-2026 03:03 via NBC News Top Stories
  
  Sen. Chris Van Hollen, D-Md., announced Thursday he will run for Senate majority leader, becoming the first to challenge Sen. Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y.
  
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• Kirk Cousins expected a 'mature conversation' to get old Vikings No 8 back but got a big surprise instead

  13-11-2026 02:59 via Latest & Breaking News on Fox News
  
  After Kirk Cousins was traded back to the Minnesota Vikings on Tuesday, the biggest question that needed an immediate answer was not whether he'd be the team's starter because that's the reason he was there, but whether he'd get his old No. 8 jersey back.Cousins wore No. 8 during his previous six years with the Vikings before he left in 2025.And this was a big deal for Cousins. He wanted the number and told reporters on Wednesday he would talk to safety Jakobe Thomas about getting it back since
  
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• Dejounte Murray accuses New Orleans Pelicans of inside 'sabotage' in deleted social media posts

  13-11-2026 02:47 via Latest & Breaking News on Fox News
  
  New Orleans Pelicans guard Dejounte Murray accused his own team of "sabotage" in a pair of X posts late Wednesday night, deleting them shortly after a 145-111 home loss to the Brooklyn Nets.Murray reacted after the X account 'NBACentral' noted that New Orleans is 1-8 this season when he plays and 3-0 when he sits, having missed three games earlier this month for the birth of his son."From what's going on INSIDE, this sounds like someone hit you to say this!! THE 'SABOTAGE' IS REAL!!" Murray resp
  
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• ‘COPS’ camera crew captures deadly police shooting during New Mexico ride-along

  13-11-2026 02:34 via NBC News Top Stories
  Video shows a foot chase and struggle after an officer stopped a man for jaywalking in Albuquerque. The crew ran for cover as gunfire erupted. The deadly shooting remains under investigation. NBC News’ Andres Gutierrez reports.
  
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• Democrats can’t wait until after Trump to produce results, James Talarico says

  13-11-2026 02:28 via NBC News Top Stories
  
  DENVER — Texas Sen.-elect James Talarico told a gathering of Democrats Thursday that voters are expecting them to immediately deliver, and that means making President Donald Trump’s last two years in office the “most productive of any presidency in American history.”
  
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• No charges for woman who drove onto Kansas soccer field, killing 2, officials say

  13-11-2026 02:22 via NBC News Top Stories
  
  A woman who killed two people, including a 6-year-old boy, when she drove through a Kansas soccer game last month had taken a nap in her parked vehicle before it accelerated and won’t be criminally charged, officials said Thursday.
  
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• No charges for driver in Kansas soccer field incident that killed 2 people

  13-11-2026 02:22 via Yahoo.com/news Top Stories
  The crash on Oct. 17 in Wichita killed a 6-year-old boy and a 35-year-old man and injured 10 others. (Wyatt Glosson/KAKE / AP)A woman who killed two people, including a 6-year-old boy, when she drove through a Kansas soccer game last month had taken a nap in her parked vehicle before it accelerated and won’t be criminally charged, officials said Thursday.The crash on Oct. 17 at the Stryker Sports Complex in Wichita killed a 6-year-old boy and a 35-year-old man, and injured 10 others when the v
  
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• 49ers executive John Lynch has alarming comment about rampant fighting with Raiders fans

  13-11-2026 02:04 via Latest & Breaking News on Fox News
  
  John Lynch was talking about the San Francisco 49ers' win, right?Lynch, the team's president of football operations and general manager, addressed the brawls that took place in the parking lot and inside Levi's Stadium during the 49ers' 38-17 win over the Las Vegas Raiders."I was kind of pleased this is going pretty well throughout the game and then the fourth quarter broke out," Lynch said, according to the New York Post.CLICK HERE FOR MORE OUTKICK SPORTS COVERAGE"You see videos after … it’
  
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• Protecting failing schools and supporting teachers unions is not a winnable strategy, CEO warns

  13-11-2026 02:02 via Latest & Breaking News on Fox News
  
  Democrats’ reliance on teachers union support and allegiance to underperforming public school systems is a losing political strategy, according to Tommy Schultz, CEO of the conservative advocacy group American Federation for Children (AFC)."At the end of the day, when you look at the long-term trends here for the teachers unions, they're in a pickle because more and more folks are listening to the politicians that have a vibrant education agenda," Schultz told Fox News Digital."And they aren't
  
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• Houston Rockets guard Marcus Smart handed 3-game ban after swinging at Warriors center Charles Bassey

  13-11-2026 01:56 via Latest & Breaking News on Fox News
  
  A late-game punch just cost Marcus Smart three games. The NBA suspended the Houston Rockets guard without pay on Thursday after swinging at, then grazing, Golden State Warriors center Charles Bassey.Doing the exact opposite of his last name, the 32-year-old former Defensive Player of the Year melted down in the third quarter of Houston's 115-108 win.Smart and Bassey got tied up fighting for position under the glass, barked at each other trailing the play, and Smart uncorked a right hook that gra
  
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