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• Classified material missing from Epstein files, documents suggest

  28-10-2026 11:00 via Yahoo.com/news Top Stories
  
  Attorney General Todd Blanche has long maintained that the so-called Epstein files, even those kept from the public, contain no secret information related to national security.When the document releases began last winter, Blanche noted that the Epstein Files Transparency Act authorized withholding information in the interest of national security or foreign policy, but said, "no files are being withheld or redacted on that basis.""There's not some tranche of super-secret documents about Jeffrey E
  
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• Trump and Obama trade personal jabs as their midterm rivalry heats up

  29-10-2026 04:09 via Yahoo.com/news Top Stories
  By Bo Erickson and Nandita BoseCHILLICOTHE, Ohio/MORROW, Georgia, Oct 28 (Reuters) - Neither man is on the ballot but Republican President Donald Trump and Democratic former President Barack Obama took prominent roles on the campaign trail on Wednesday, with less than a week to go before congressional races that could shift the balance of power in Washington.While Trump has been on a weeks-long campaign blitz that ‌has underlined Republican concerns about losing control of Congress for the fin
  
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• Trump and Obama aren't on the ballot, but they're taking center stage on the campaign trail

  29-10-2026 04:09 via Yahoo.com/news Top Stories
  By Bo Erickson and Nandita BoseCHILLICOTHE, Ohio/MORROW, Georgia, Oct 28 (Reuters) - Neither man is on the ballot but Republican President Donald Trump and Democratic former President Barack Obama took prominent roles on the campaign trail on Wednesday, with less than a week to go before congressional races that could shift the balance of power in Washington.While Trump has been on a weeks-long campaign blitz that ‌has underlined Republican concerns about losing control of Congress for the fin
  
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• Hegseth fires Pentagon's top military planner as Trump weighs new strikes on Iran

  29-10-2026 03:45 via Yahoo.com/news Top Stories
  WASHINGTON (AP) — Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has fired the Pentagon’s top military planner, a defense official said Wednesday, the latest in a series of generals to be ousted and one that comes even as President Donald Trump is weighing renewed strikes on Iran in the eight-month-long war.Army Lt. Gen. Brett Sylvia was removed as head of strategy, plans and policy on the Joint Chiefs of Staff. He is the second general to be ousted from the post, known in military circles as the “J5,”
  
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• Manhunt grows for escaped killer who may have left area where truck was ditched

  29-10-2026 02:32 via Yahoo.com/news Top Stories
  Jacob Morley, a convicted killer on the loose since Sunday, has no known connection to the small Illinois town where the truck he is accused of stealing was found, the police chief said Wednesday. “What we have seen kind of leads us in the direction that he’s not still here. But that doesn’t mean that we’ve stopped looking,” Marion Police Chief David Fitts said.Morley, 28, convicted of killing a co-worker in 2022, was serving a life sentence when he escaped from Northwest Correctional
  
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• Judge denies feds' request to block 20,000 California ballots in blistering opinion

  29-10-2026 01:53 via Yahoo.com/news Top Stories
  A sign points toward voting stations inside the Arroyo Seco Regional Branch Library in Los Angeles. (Ronaldo Bolanos/Los Angeles Times)A federal judge in Los Angeles denied a Trump administration request Wednesday to immediately block California elections officials from counting the ballots of 20,000 voters whose citizenship the administration questions in a blistering opinion.U.S. District Judge David O. Carter ruled that the administration’s allegations were “not credible” and that the
  
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• Details of thousands of U.S. immigration agents leaked in a massive hack

  29-10-2026 00:11 via Yahoo.com/news Top Stories
  
  US immigration agents often work with their faces covered and do not wear identification. [Reuters]
  Details of more than 41,000 personnel working for the US Department of Homeland Security (DHS), including thousands involved in immigration enforcement, have been leaked to the public.The leak includes names, work addresses and phone numbers of DHS staff, including agents working with Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and Customs and Border Protection, along with descriptions of the work t
  
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• 'Didn't hear an utterance about politics': Fed chair bats away midterm talk after rate decision

  28-10-2026 22:17 via Yahoo.com/news Top Stories
  
  Federal Reserve Chairman Kevin Warsh pushed back Wednesday on any suggestion that next week's midterm elections had a role in the Fed's decision to keep interest rates steady. He also dodged multiple questions on political topics and pressure coming his way from the Oval Office.But it wasn't for a lack of trying from the assembled reporters."I appreciate the question, but I'm not going to be responding to quotes from public officials," Warsh said during a press conference when presented with cri
  
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• Report links Alaska Dems to secret effort to recruit would-be spoilers in Senate race

  28-10-2026 21:06 via Yahoo.com/news Top Stories
  It was, for a while, considered one of those colorful quirks that crop up in the course of an election: the fact that not one but two candidates named Dan Sullivan will appear on the Nov. 3 ballot for U.S. senator from Alaska. One Dan Sullivan — Dan S. Sullivan — is the state's incumbent Republican senator. He is trying to fend off a fierce challenge from former Democratic Rep. Mary Peltola and secure a third term. The other Dan Sullivan — Dan J. Sullivan — is a retired teacher from a t
  
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• Hayden Panettiere's death ruled accidental by South Carolina police

  28-10-2026 20:43 via Yahoo.com/news Top Stories
  
  The death of Hayden Panettiere has been ruled accidental, South Caroline police announced Wednesday.Greenville Police Department said the investigation into Panettiere's death has been concluded "based on the Medical Examiner's determination and the findings of the investigation," and the actor's death was officially ruled accidental.Last month, a South Carolina coroner confirmed Panettiere died from an accidental drug overdose that included fentanyl. There were no signs of trauma, the coroner
  
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• The Fed will make fewer rate decisions in 2027, giving markets more to sweat over

  28-10-2026 20:41 via Yahoo.com/news Top Stories
  
  The Warsh Fed's taciturn nature has already raised the stakes for each FOMC meeting. With fewer hints or forward guidance about what the Fed is thinking and planning comes more suspense. And next year, those stakes will be even higher as the Fed removes a rate decision from its calendar, making each meeting even more important and potentially adding another layer of uncertainty and volatility to markets.At the October policy meeting on Wednesday, Fed Chairman Kevin Warsh announced this major ch
  
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• Trump praises Bolsonaro after he fled Brazil despite court order and criminal probe

  28-10-2026 19:37 via Yahoo.com/news Top Stories
  As defeated right-wing Brazilian presidential candidate Flávio Bolsonaro landed in Miami after fleeing his home country on Wednesday, Oct. 28, President Donald Trump said he approved of the move.
  "I think they’re fine people. The election was very strange, and I thought it was terrible. It got bad reviews, and look what happened to their market," Trump told reporters outside Air Force One at Joint Base Andrews on Wednesday.
  Trump’s comments came only hours before Bolsonaro landed in Miami
  
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• At least 68 people killed in high-speed train collision in central Spain

  28-10-2026 19:22 via Yahoo.com/news Top Stories
  
  By David Latona, Guillermo Martinez and Michael Francis GoreURDA, Spain, Oct 28 (Reuters) - At least 68 people died when a Spanish high-speed express slammed into a stationary train on Wednesday, with rescuers scouring mangled carriages for more bodies after Spain's second fatal rail crash this year and Europe's deadliest since 2013.Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez said "all of Spain" was in mourning after the ‌collision, which the transport minister said happened after a Renfe service was authori
  
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• 2 right-wing provocateurs face election-related charges in Minnesota

  28-10-2026 19:07 via Yahoo.com/news Top Stories
  
  Two right-wing provocateurs, James O'Keefe and Cam Higby, are facing election-related charges in Minnesota after posting videos of an undercover stunt intended to expose alleged deficiencies in election security. Hennepin County Attorney Mary Moriarty said each man faces a count of unlawful voting and identity theft. "Elections are the bedrock of democracy and their protection is one of our highest priorities," Moriarty said in a statement. "Individuals engaging in unlawful conduct related t
  
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• Federal Reserve holds interest rates steady in split vote ahead of midterm elections

  28-10-2026 19:00 via Yahoo.com/news Top Stories
  
  Federal Reserve officials voted 10-2 to keep interest rates unchanged, as elevated inflation continues to pose a problem for central bankers. Fed Governor Lisa Cook and Cleveland Fed President Beth Hammack dissented, preferring a quarter-point rate hike.The Fed’s benchmark rates remained in the 3.75% to 4% range, as widely expected. A rate hike in December, however, appears far more likely, according to the Fed's dot plot and fed funds futures.Although recent inflation data came in hotter than
  
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• Federal judge who oversaw Trump, Maduro and 9/11 cases dies at 92

  28-10-2026 17:54 via Yahoo.com/news Top Stories
  NEW YORK (AP) — Alvin K. Hellerstein, a Manhattan federal judge who presided over cases involving President Donald Trump, former Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro and the 9/11 attacks during nearly three decades on the bench, has died. He was 92.Chief Judge Laura Taylor Swain announced Hellerstein's death in a statement Wednesday, saying his “energetic and dedicated service to this Court continued until his death.”“He is greatly appreciated and will be sorely missed,” she added.Appo
  
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• Operatives linked to Mary Peltola's campaign sought GOP spoilers, report shows

  28-10-2026 17:04 via Yahoo.com/news Top Stories
  Mary Peltola (AP)Operatives working with Democrat Mary Peltola's Senate campaign sought to recruit candidates who could draw votes from Republican Sen. Dan Sullivan in Alaska, according to an investigation published Wednesday.
  The effort included finding another Alaskan named Dan Sullivan to run against the incumbent, recruiting other potential candidates, and discussing the creation of a conservative political party, The New York Times reports, citing interviews, text messages, and documents pr
  
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• Dolores Huerta, influential labor leader, feminist and civil rights icon, dies at 96

  28-10-2026 16:52 via Yahoo.com/news Top Stories
  Dolores Huerta, who co-founded the United Farm Workers union to improve working conditions in the nation's fruit and vegetable fields and coined the phrase “Sí, se puede!” that became a widespread rallying cry, has died. She was 96. Huerta's family said in a statement through her foundation that she died Wednesday at home.Huerta was born in New Mexico and raised by a single mother in California's San Joaquin Valley, where she worked as a school teacher and then helped found a local chapter
  
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• A record Arab vote brings a new dilemma for Israel's opposition

  28-10-2026 15:30 via Yahoo.com/news Top Stories
  
  Israel’s Arab-led parties are projected to win a record number of seats in the Israeli parliament, exit polls indicate, making them increasingly hard to ignore by the leading blocs.
  “Probably the most important phenomenon of this election is the rise and the revival of the Arab vote,” Daniel Shek, a former Israeli ambassador, said. “The statement is clear: You cannot disregard such a large portion of the electorate in the calculations for Israeli politics.”
  The latest projections from
  
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• 4 investigations Democrats could launch if they win control of Congress

  28-10-2026 14:07 via Yahoo.com/news Top Stories
  
  Democrats have signalled a willingness to launch probes into both Donald Trump and Pete Hegseth's handling of the Iran war [Getty Images]
  Democrats in the US Congress are already planning how they would use their power if they win a majority in the House or Senate in next week's midterm elections.Success is by no means guaranteed, even if midterms can sometimes be brutal for the incumbent party that holds the White House. Control of the chamber, however, would give the party power to issue subpo
  
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• At least 64 people killed in high-speed train collision in central Spain

  28-10-2026 14:03 via Yahoo.com/news Top Stories
  By David Latona, Guillermo Martinez and Michael Francis GoreURDA, Spain Oct 28 (Reuters) - Rescue workers in Spain on Wednesday were scouring the wreckage for more ‌bodies at the crash scene where at least 64 people were killed when ‌two high-speed trains collided, in the second deadly railway accident in the country this year.Evacuated passengers streamed along ​a road near the scene, some splattered with blood or with their wounds bandaged, others wheeling suitcases and being given water
  
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• Trump floats Ted Cruz for Supreme Court and jokes about why he'd get every vote

  28-10-2026 14:00 via Yahoo.com/news Top Stories
  WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump floated nominating Ted Cruz to the Supreme Court for a future vacancy on the nation's high court, joking that the Texas Republican senator's confirmation would earn unanimous Senate support because senators from both parties would like to see him gone.
  Trump, who has mentioned Cruz previously for the Supreme Court, suggested the third-term senator again at an Oct. 27 midterm campaign rally in Lubbock, Texas as the president discussed what he might do if he
  
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• Hollywood could get a major lifeline from Congress. California may still lose out.

  28-10-2026 14:00 via Yahoo.com/news Top Stories
  
  Credit: Chris Smith/TheWrapIn front of the recently refurbished Alex Theatre in Glendale, Calif., flanked by Sen. Adam Schiff and a half-dozen fellow California House Democrats, Rep. Laura Friedman spoke of the urgent need to pass a federal film tax credit to provide a lifeline to hundreds of thousands of film and TV crew members who have struggled as Hollywood production has fled the country.
  “Sixty-five countries offer incentives we don’t match, and no single state can outbid a foreign gov
  
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• Billionaire investor Nelson Peltz makes move to buy struggling Wendy's

  28-10-2026 13:55 via Yahoo.com/news Top Stories
  
  Wendy's (WEN) may be cooking up burgers for a billionaire soon. Longtime Wendy's investor and former chairman Nelson Peltz of Trian Partners has reportedly offered $1.4 billion to buy the struggling fast food giant, according to an SEC filing.Wendy's shares rose 15% in premarket trading. The company's market cap was $1.17 billion prior to the deal.A Wendy's spokesperson didn't return a request for comment. A spokesperson for Trian Partners didn't return a request for comment. Billionaire Peltz �
  
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• Flávio Bolsonaro's location a mystery as Argentina says he flew to Ecuador

  28-10-2026 13:34 via Yahoo.com/news Top Stories
  
  Flávio Bolsonaro has not conceded defeat and has called for the election to be annulled [Getty Images]
  There is confusion about the whereabouts of defeated Brazilian presidential candidate Flávio Bolsonaro, after Brazil cancelled his passports and Argentine officials say he boarded a flight to Ecuador.Sources had told the BBC earlier on Tuesday that Bolsonaro had arrived in the US.But Argentine migration authorities later said he had crossed Brazil's land border with Argentina late on Tuesday
  
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• GOP Sen. Lisa Murkowski backs Democrat in Alaska governor's race

  28-10-2026 12:48 via Yahoo.com/news Top Stories
  Sen. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska (Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images)Sen. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, endorsed Democrat Jonathan Kreiss-Tomkins for governor Tuesday, passing over three Republican candidates, including President Donald Trump's pick, Bernadette Wilson.
  Murkowski told Anchorage NBC affiliate KTUU that Alaska needs a governor who can work across party lines, according to NBC News.
  Her endorsement came one week before Election Day in the race to succeed term-limited Republican Gov. Mike Dunleav
  
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• At least 30 people killed in high-speed train collision in central Spain

  28-10-2026 11:43 via Yahoo.com/news Top Stories
  By Emma Pinedo and Victoria WalderseeMADRID, Oct 28 (Reuters) - At least 30 people were killed when two high-speed trains ‌collided in Spain on Wednesday, the second deadly accident ‌in less than a year on the line connecting Madrid to the southern ​Andalusia region, regional authorities said.Footage from regional Castilla-La Mancha Television showed a derailed train with at least one carriage remaining on an elevated section of track while twisted metal, broken panels and wreckage could �
  
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• The stock market's best 6 months start Monday, with a 76-year streak on the line

  28-10-2026 11:00 via Yahoo.com/news Top Stories
  
  The stock market's favorite season starts Monday. For decades, November through April has beaten the rest of the year by a mile.That's the Halloween indicator, also called the “best six months” or "sell in May." Buy stocks at the end of October, hold them through April, then step aside for the summer.Yale Hirsch found the pattern in 1986. "You can divide the year into two sections and have practically all the gains in one six-month section and very little in the other," his son Jeffrey Hirsc
  
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• Jeffries weighs political risks as he tiptoes around Hegseth impeachment

  28-10-2026 11:00 via Yahoo.com/news Top Stories
  House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.) is tiptoeing around the impeachment of Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, denouncing the Pentagon chief in the sharpest terms but without taking the further step of endorsing Hegseth’s forced removal. 
  Jeffries’s careful approach highlights the delicate dance Democratic leaders are attempting as they seek to balance the various interests in their diverse caucus, especially ahead of next week’s elections when the House is theirs to lose. 
  On on
  
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• Multiple deaths reported in high-speed train collision in Spain

  28-10-2026 10:43 via Yahoo.com/news Top Stories
  
  MADRID, Oct 28 (Reuters) - Two high-speed trains have collided in Spain on the line connecting Madrid to Spain's southern Andalusia region, rail ‌operator Adif said on Wednesday, killing at least 10 people.The ‌collision comes nine months after an accident between high-speed trains belonging to the same operators on ​the same line that killed 46 people.That crash in January, which occurred after a train derailed and smashed into an oncoming train near Adamuz, in Cordoba province, triggered
  
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