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• Exhausted Djokovic wins Davis Cup epic

  06-03-2016 21:35 via CNN.com - RSS Channel - App International Edition
  
  Novak Djokovic and Andy Murray had to survive marathon five-set encounters to lead their countries into a Davis Cup quarterfinal match up Sunday.
  
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• GOP courts Black voters in Michigan senate race

  01-11-2026 14:48 via Yahoo.com/news Top Stories
  Michigan Republican Mike Rogers and Democrat Abdul El-Sayed (AP)Republicans are appealing to Black voters in the Michigan U.S. Senate race to vote for Mike Rogers instead of Democrat Abdul El-Sayed.
  The aggressive outreach campaign, backed by millions of dollars in advertising, could prove decisive in a closely contested race that will help determine control of the Senate, The Washington Post reported.
  Rogers, a former Republican congressman and FBI agent endorsed by President Donald Trump, has
  
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• Pete Hegseth is facing a new threat — and it's not just from Democrats

  01-11-2026 13:24 via Yahoo.com/news Top Stories
  Earlier this year, Senate Republicans decided to tighten the screws on Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth.The Pentagon had, for months, stonewalled lawmakers' request for materials related to the military's deadly targeting of alleged drug traffickers in Latin America. So this spring, the GOP-led Senate Armed Services Committee made a threat: grant access to the documents or it would block one of the Trump administration's political nominees.Subscribe to The Post Most newsletter for the most importa
  
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• 1 person killed and 8 others injured in Alabama shooting after football game

  01-11-2026 08:13 via Yahoo.com/news Top Stories
  
  At least one person was killed and at least eight others were injured in a shooting after a football game at Birmingham, Alabama, law enforcement said.At least one person was detained in connection with the shooting, the Birmingham Police Department said."Shortly after 7:50 p.m., multiple shots rang out in the 400 block of Grayman Avenue West, officers responded and located multiple gunshot victims," Officer Darrell Freeman said during a press conference.Freeman said nine people had been hit by
  
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• ICE officer charged with hitting fleeing man with car expected to surrender

  01-11-2026 04:25 via Yahoo.com/news Top Stories
  
  The Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer accused of intentionally striking a man in Houston earlier this month is expected to surrender on Monday morning, his attorney, David Lindenmuth told ABC News. Mario Alberto Morales was indicted by a grand jury in Houston on a charge of second-degree aggravated assault with a deadly weapon, according to the Harris County District Attorney's Office.Lindenmuth said Morales did not intend to strike Miguel Parra Hernandez when he was pursuing him and
  
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• Trump calls $50 million contract for ex-lawyer Habba Mildon 'not acceptable'

  01-11-2026 03:21 via Yahoo.com/news Top Stories
  By Gram Slattery and Jasper WardPALM BEACH, Oct 31 (Reuters) - President Donald Trump said on Saturday it was "unacceptable" for one of his ‌former lawyers, Alina Habba Mildon, to secure a $50 million contract for ‌herself while working at the US Department of Justice."I thought it was totally obnoxious and outrageous, ​and it's not acceptable," Trump told reporters at his Mar-a-Lago club in Palm Beach, Florida. "Not acceptable at all."The New York Times reported last week that the family
  
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• Alaska Republicans push back on Trump's bid to block Senate election results

  01-11-2026 03:00 via Yahoo.com/news Top Stories
  Alaska officials criticized the legal basis on which the Trump administration has argued it has standing to intervene in the election. (Becky Bohrer / AP)The Republican-led state government in Alaska implored a federal judge on Saturday to permanently dismiss the Trump administration’s lawsuit that seeks to block the certification of the Alaska Senate race if GOP Sen. Dan S. Sullivan loses. “The United States’ opposition provides no reason for this Court to entertain this meritless lawsuit
  
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• FBI says North Korea was behind $6 billion crypto theft from Binance

  01-11-2026 02:08 via Yahoo.com/news Top Stories
  Investing.com -- The FBI has accused North Korea of orchestrating the $6.3 billion cryptocurrency hack targeting Binance, identifying a state-linked hacking group responsible for previous major crypto thefts as the perpetrators.Still guessing which stocks will beat the market? Our AI portfolio updates monthly and is outperforming the S&P 500 by 118%. See this month’s list »The agency said Saturday that the North Korean hacking unit known as TraderTraitor was responsible for the attack, wh
  
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• Election workers describe toll of DOJ threats in court filings

  31-10-2026 23:38 via Yahoo.com/news Top Stories
  
  Election officials in California described the Trump administration's legal threats as having profound consequences on their mental health and their ability to do their jobs, according to court papers filed on Friday.The Justice Department issued grand jury subpoenas to local election officials in California this week as part of its criminal investigation into the state's voter rolls.Matt Morales, the top election official in Santa Clara County, said in the court documents that "the federal gove
  
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• Which party has a better chance of winning the midterms? What the latest polls say.

  31-10-2026 22:35 via Yahoo.com/news Top Stories
  The 2026 midterm elections are just three days away. So where do things stand — nationwide — in the race to control Congress? Which party has a better chance of, you know, winning? To get a sense of that, it helps to geek out over some cold, hard data.The usual caveats apply, of course. Polls aren't predictions; they're momentary snapshots of public opinion. And they have been wrong before.Yet time is running out — and the stakes in November couldn't be higher, especially for President Tru
  
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• Looting erupts in Frankfurt as Gen Z protests draw crowds across Germany

  31-10-2026 22:31 via Yahoo.com/news Top Stories
  
  By Kai Pfaffenbach, Tilman Blasshofer and Miranda MurrayFRANKFURT/BERLIN, Oct 31 (Reuters) - Hooded rioters looted stores in Frankfurt late on Saturday after tens of thousands of demonstrators took to the streets across Germany's biggest cities to demand better education and lower living costs.The protests followed a wave ‌of Gen Z-led demonstrations across Europe this year. In Serbia, student-led activism helped unseat the country's longtime leader at the ballot box, while protests in ‌Fran
  
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• McDonald's must face lawsuit alleging McRib contains no rib meat

  31-10-2026 22:17 via Yahoo.com/news Top Stories
  A federal judge on Friday allowed a lawsuit against McDonald's to move forward, alleging the fast food chain misleads customers into believing its popular McRib sandwich contains actual pork rib meat. File Photo by Stephen Shaver/UPI
  Oct. 31 (UPI) -- A federal judge on Friday allowed a lawsuit against McDonald's to move forward, alleging the fast food chain misleads customers into believing its popular McRib sandwich contains actual pork rib meat.
  McDonald's had asked the court to dismiss a laws
  
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• Trump's lawsuit against Wall Street Journal over Epstein letter is dismissed again

  31-10-2026 21:31 via Yahoo.com/news Top Stories
  Jeffrey Epstein and Donald Trump at Mar-a-Lago in Palm Beach, Florida, on 22 February 1997.Photograph: Davidoff Studios Photography/Getty Images
  A US judge dismissed Donald Trump’s lawsuit against the Wall Street Journal with prejudice on Saturday, according to a court filing, bringing an end to his legal challenge over the newspaper’s reporting on his alleged birthday letter to Jeffrey Epstein.
  The decision follows an earlier dismissal in April that had allowed Trump to revise his complain
  
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• What changes when the clocks fall back this weekend

  31-10-2026 20:00 via Yahoo.com/news Top Stories
  
  Millions of Americans will gain an hour of sleep this weekend when the twice-a-year time change commonly known as daylight savings ends for 2026. Most of the U.S. will "fall back" an hour when the clocks change at 2 a.m. on Sunday.Here's what to know about what's formally known as daylight saving time as it ends for the year:What is daylight saving time, and why do we have it?Daylight saving time is the period during the year, from March to early November, when the majority of the U.S. operates
  
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• Trump's midterm deadline has the Middle East bracing for another round of war

  31-10-2026 18:49 via Yahoo.com/news Top Stories
  
  Black smoke and flames rise from an oil facility in an industrial area in southern Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, which has found itself under attack from the Iran-allied Houthis. - STR/AP
  With little transparency from Washington and warmongering from Tehran, people across the Middle East have been left anxious and confused, scanning for signals on whether the conflict between Iran and the United States will reignite.
  “The mood has definitely shifted,” a 36-year-old American national living in Saudi
  
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• El-Sayed drops former primary rival from Michigan event days before election

  31-10-2026 18:30 via Yahoo.com/news Top Stories
  Michigan Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed (D) told Rep. Haley Stevens (D-Mich.), his once primary opponent, to stay away from his campaign events and disinvited her from a planned appearance on Sunday, a source familiar confirmed to NewsNation, The Hill’s broadcasting partner.
  The source said El-Sayed does not want the ongoing fight with Stevens to distract from the issues in the final days of his hard-fought Senate campaign.
  A spokesperson for Stevens did not immediately respond to The Hill�
  
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• Russia says it's responding to U.S. report of planned attack on Moscow

  31-10-2026 17:07 via Yahoo.com/news Top Stories
  The Tsaritsyno museum is an imperial palace and park complex in southern Moscow (Mladen ANTONOV)Russia's FSB security service said on Saturday it was carrying out "appropriate" measures after the US embassy in Moscow warned of a planned "terrorist" attack in the capital.The US embassy said earlier it was "aware of a credible threat of a mass casualty event TODAY October 31, at the Tsaritsyno Museum Reserve in Moscow".The US government was "coordinating with appropriate Russian authorities on a r
  
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• Kamala Harris urges a 'too big to rig' turnout for the midterms and tees off on Trump

  31-10-2026 16:14 via Yahoo.com/news Top Stories
  ATLANTA (AP) — Two years after Kamala Harris lost the presidential election to Donald Trump, she still delights Democratic donors and activists with jabs against him, saying the Republican is “callous, corrupt and incompetent” and calling him the “decorator in chief” for his White House renovations and gold adornments.But the former vice president also has plenty to say about what her party, the electorate and the country should do next as she also considers whether to run again.“Thi
  
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• Rubio and Brazil's foreign minister to meet after tensions over Brazilian election

  31-10-2026 16:12 via Yahoo.com/news Top Stories
  ATLANTA, Oct 30 (Reuters) - US Secretary of State Marco Rubio and Brazilian Foreign Minister Mauro Vieira spoke briefly ‌at a Group of 20 foreign ministers meeting and ‌agreed to meet in coming weeks before a G20 leaders summit, a ​source familiar with the plans said.A Brazilian official downplayed tensions over Brazil’s failure to approve Trump’s pick as ambassador and the re-election of Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva.Vieira took part ‌in the G20 meeting, ⁠which was
  
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• New satellite images of damage on U.S. bases offer fresh insight into Iran's strategy

  31-10-2026 15:13 via Yahoo.com/news Top Stories
  WASHINGTON (AP) — Iran's strikes on more than two dozen U.S. bases in the Middle East focused on early-warning systems before hitting aircraft and buildings, causing billions of dollars in equipment damage, according to an Associated Press analysis.The AP independently verified damage to American targets using satellite imagery from multiple providers and spoke to four regional officials who were briefed or have firsthand knowledge of what was hit. The AP found that, through August, more than
  
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• D.C. and Virginia sue to stop Trump's massive arch days before construction

  31-10-2026 14:32 via Yahoo.com/news Top Stories
  The D.C. government and the state of Virginia sued Saturday to block construction of President Donald Trump's planned triumphal arch, calling it a "flagrantly unlawful" project that will forever change the landscape of the nation's capital.The lawsuit is the latest attempt to stop the 250-foot-tall arch, which Trump hopes to build near Arlington National Cemetery and says will commemorate the nation's 250th birthday. The administration would like to begin construction as soon as next week.Subscr
  
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• The AI sell-off is exposing the risks of betting on Wall Street’s favorite stocks

  31-10-2026 14:12 via Yahoo.com/news Top Stories
  
  Wall Street analysts spent 2026 piling Buy ratings onto the AI build-out. The stocks they ignored have done better.The S&P 500 (^GSPC) stocks with the biggest share of analyst Buy ratings have trailed those with the smallest share for most of the year, according to Piper Sandler chief investment strategist Michael Kantrowitz. Measured year over year, it's the third-worst stretch in Piper's data going back to 1995."The Sell Side's MOST favored stocks have underperformed their LEAST favored st
  
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• Gov. Abbott's political machine faces a major test as Democrats gain ground in Texas

  31-10-2026 12:00 via Yahoo.com/news Top Stories
  HOUSTON, Texas — On the first day of early voting in Texas, two weeks before the most consequential election Texas Republicans have faced in a generation, Greg Abbott addressed a sweaty crowd of hundreds of supporters packed inside an imitation saloon. The Texas governor pulled out a piece of paper from his pocket.“Steve Radack Community Center, 18650 Clay Road, Houston, 1.2 miles away,” he read, identifying the precinct’s nearest polling location. “Listen, I can roll over there in fiv
  
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• GOP Rep. Salazar defends her Miami seat as immigration strains her voter coalition

  31-10-2026 12:00 via Yahoo.com/news Top Stories
  MIAMI — For nearly an hour, dozens of the local Republican Party’s most loyal Colombian voters bided their time, piled into a conference room in a small hotel right off the airport near Miami Springs, surrounded by tables full of empanadas, tequeños and small Colombian flags. The event’s emcee, Weston City Commissioner Fabio Andrade, in town for the event, hyped up the crowd and warned of a “Machiavellian plan” by Democratic socialists to take over the U.S. He moved about the room, tu
  
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• Gulf nations scramble to prevent Iran war from again hitting their doorstep

  31-10-2026 10:02 via Yahoo.com/news Top Stories
  MANAMA, Bahrain - The looming possibility of U.S. strikes on Iran has been met with weary nervousness in the Persian Gulf, as Gulf officials double down on efforts to break through a U.S.-Iran impasse that they know will leave their region vulnerable.Publicly and privately, leaders in Persian Gulf nations, which bore the brunt of Iranian retaliation because they are home to U.S. bases, are calling for de-escalation as concerns about President Donald Trump's war plans grow. Mediators from Qatar a
  
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• Democratic candidates criticize Biden's border record in push to win swing voters

  31-10-2026 10:00 via Yahoo.com/news Top Stories
  James Talarico; Adam Hamilton; Paige Cognetti. (USA Today Network; Reuters; Getty)WASHINGTON — Democratic candidates in 2026 battleground races are directly criticizing Joe Biden’s handling of border security when he was president, seeking to neutralize a political vulnerability and signaling a new path for the party on the thorny issue.Candidates are throwing the ex-president under the bus on border policy in key states that will decide control of the Senate and some battleground House race
  
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• U.S. approves sale of 500 Patriot missiles to Ukraine

  31-10-2026 09:12 via Yahoo.com/news Top Stories
  
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  The United States has approved the sale of 500 Patriot missiles to Ukraine, a critically needed munition for defence against escalating Russian aerial attacks.However, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has warned it could take "several years" for the deliveries to arrive.The US State Department said the advanced PAC-3 interceptor missiles would cost $2.1bn (£1.6bn) and would be "funded entirely" by Kyiv's allies in Europe and Canada.On Friday night Zelensky repeated his calls for
  
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• 1 dead and 6 injured in shooting at California Spirit Halloween store

  31-10-2026 08:14 via Yahoo.com/news Top Stories
  
  One person was killed and six others were injured in a shooting at a Spirit Halloween store in California packed with last-minute Halloween shoppers on Friday night.Gunfire rang out inside the seasonal retail store at the Solano Town Center mall in Fairfield, Calif., at around 8:30 p.m., Fairfield Police Chief Dan Marshall said during a press conference.
  One person was pronounced dead at the scene, while six others were rushed to a hospital, where three are listed in critical condition.Police a
  
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• FBI questions donors as 2 Dan Sullivans compete in Alaska Senate race

  31-10-2026 05:18 via Yahoo.com/news Top Stories
  ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — The FBI on Friday began reaching out to donors of Dan J. Sullivan asking about potential deception, as federal authorities ramped up their investigation over the U.S. Senate candidate in Alaska who shares a name with the Republican incumbent.An Anchorage-based FBI agent visited a boat dealership in Petersburg, a small fishing community accessible only by air or water where the candidate lives. The agent left a business card for Charles Flint, who told The Associated Pr
  
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• Trump administration steps up Alaska election probe over alleged spoiler effort

  31-10-2026 03:06 via Yahoo.com/news Top Stories
  By Andrew Goudsward and Nathan FrandinoWASHINGTON/ANCHORAGE, Oct 30 (Reuters) - President Donald Trump's administration stepped up criminal and civil investigations into allegations that Democrats conspired to recruit a spoiler candidate in a critical Senate race in Alaska, officials said on Friday, injecting fresh uncertainty into Tuesday's midterm elections.The top federal prosecutor in Alaska, US Attorney Michael Heyman, said ‌at a press conference that a Wednesday New York Times article a
  
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