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• US: Russia apologizes after jet barrel rolls over US plane

  25-05-2017 16:06 via CNN.com - RSS Channel - App International Edition
  
  A Russian fighter jet recently conducted an "unprofessional" intercept of a US KC-10 tanker aircraft in the skies over Syria, prompting Russian officers to apologize, Lt. Gen. Jeffrey Harrigian told reporters at the Pentagon Wednesday.
  
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• Trump heads to Iowa and Kansas with Senate control in balance

  01-11-2026 21:52 via Yahoo.com/news Top Stories
  By Andrew Goudsward, David Morgan and Doina ChiacuWASHINGTON/ANCHORAGE, Alaska, Nov 1 (Reuters) - Two days before Tuesday's midterm elections, President Donald Trump's Republicans got an unexpected boost in Michigan with an endorsement from a prominent Democrat, while suffering a setback in Alaska when a federal judge dismissed a legal challenge.US Representative Haley Stevens, who lost Michigan Democrats' Senate primary to Abdul El-Sayed in ‌a bitterly contested race, on Sunday publicly backe
  
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• Officials say plane that crashed in Florida was headed to Bahamas with 9 passengers

  01-11-2026 20:35 via Yahoo.com/news Top Stories
  Federal authorities said that the plane crash Sunday near Greenacres was a Learjet with nine people aboard and had departed Austin, Texas and was headed to the Bahamas.
  The plane crashed into a mobile home neighborhood around 12:50 p.m. in the area of Military Trail and 10th Avenue North, causing major destruction, including fires and scattered debris.
  As of 3:30 p.m. Sunday, Nov. 1, there was no confirmation of fatalities either from the plane or people on the ground.The FAA said the Learjet 60
  
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• Judge dismisses DOJ lawsuit seeking to block Alaska Senate certification if GOP loses

  01-11-2026 19:40 via Yahoo.com/news Top Stories
  A federal judge on Sunday dismissed the Justice Department’s lawsuit seeking to block certification of Alaska’s U.S. Senate race if Republican Sen. Dan S. Sullivan loses, two days before Election Day.U.S. District Judge Sharon Gleason wrote that the relief the government sought was “infeasible” because many ballots have already been cast and mixed together, the AP reported. She also wrote that the government “provides no workable plan” for separating ballots ranking Dan J. Sullivan a
  
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• Democratic Senator Chris Murphy hospitalized after stroke, chief of staff says

  01-11-2026 18:46 via Yahoo.com/news Top Stories
  WASHINGTON, Nov 1 (Reuters) - Democratic US Senator Chris Murphy ‌was hospitalized after suffering ‌a stroke, the senator's chief ​of staff said on Sunday.Murphy began experienceing numbness in his arm whileattending his son's ‌hockey game ⁠on Saturday afternoon, said Allison Herwitt, chief ⁠of staff to the Connecticut senator."He was taken to ​a local ​hospital, ​where it was ‌discovered he had experienced a stroke. He was transferred to Johns Hopkins for further monitoring
  
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• Judge dismisses lawsuit requesting certification block of Alaska Senate race if GOP loses

  01-11-2026 17:23 via Yahoo.com/news Top Stories
  JUNEAU, Alaska (AP) — A federal judge on Sunday dismissed a Justice Department lawsuit seeking to block certification of Alaska’s U.S. Senate race if Republican incumbent Dan Sullivan loses.Sullivan, an ally of President Donald Trump, faces Democratic former U.S. Rep. Mary Peltola in one of the country’s most closely watched races, with Senate control at stake. Tuesday’s ranked-choice election also includes two candidates who have done little campaigning, one of whom shares the incumbent
  
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• Turmoil in Michigan's Senate race as Democrat Haley Stevens endorses Republican Mike Rogers

  01-11-2026 17:07 via Yahoo.com/news Top Stories
  DETROIT (AP) — Michigan Democrat Abdul El-Sayed’s former opponent in the U.S. Senate primary, Haley Stevens, stunned party officials Sunday by endorsing Republican Mike Rogers after Democratic tensions boiled over days before the election that could determine the balance of power on Capitol Hill.Stevens endorsed Rogers after attending a Detroit church service with him. The remarkable show of support for President Donald Trump's backed candidate in the tightly contested race comes after she w
  
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• Turmoil in Michigan's Senate race as Democrat Haley Stevens appears with Mike Rogers

  01-11-2026 17:07 via Yahoo.com/news Top Stories
  DETROIT (AP) — Democrat Abdul El-Sayed’s primary opponent, Haley Stevens, endorses Republican Mike Rogers in the Michigan Senate race.This article originally appeared on Associated Press at https://www.yahoo.com/news/politics/articles/michigan-democrats-unity-push-falters-160726549.html
  
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• Turmoil in Michigan Senate race as Democrat Haley Stevens endorses Republican Mike Rogers

  01-11-2026 17:07 via Yahoo.com/news Top Stories
  DETROIT (AP) — Michigan Democrat Abdul El-Sayed’s former opponent in the U.S. Senate primary, Haley Stevens, stunned party officials Sunday by endorsing Republican Mike Rogers after Democratic tensions boiled over days before the election that could determine the balance of power on Capitol Hill.Stevens endorsed Rogers after attending a Detroit church service with him. The remarkable show of support for the President Donald Trump-backed candidate in the tightly contested race comes after she
  
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• Turmoil in Michigan race as Democrat Haley Stevens endorses Republican Mike Rogers

  01-11-2026 17:07 via Yahoo.com/news Top Stories
  DETROIT (AP) — Michigan Democrat Abdul El-Sayed’s former opponent in the U.S. Senate primary, Haley Stevens, stunned party officials Sunday by endorsing Republican Mike Rogers after Democratic tensions boiled over days before the election that could determine the balance of power on Capitol Hill.Stevens endorsed Rogers after attending a Detroit church service with him. The remarkable show of support for the President Donald Trump-backed candidate in the tightly contested race comes after she
  
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• Turmoil in Mich. race as Dem Haley Stevens endorses Republican Mike Rogers

  01-11-2026 17:07 via Yahoo.com/news Top Stories
  DETROIT (AP) — Michigan Democrat Abdul El-Sayed’s former opponent in the U.S. Senate primary, Haley Stevens, stunned party officials Sunday by endorsing Republican Mike Rogers after Democratic tensions boiled over days before the election that could determine the balance of power on Capitol Hill.Stevens endorsed Rogers after attending a Detroit church service with him. The remarkable show of support for the President Donald Trump-backed candidate in the tightly contested race comes after she
  
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• At 11th hour, Dem Haley Stevens endorses Republican Mike Rogers in Mich. Senate race

  01-11-2026 17:07 via Yahoo.com/news Top Stories
  DETROIT (AP) — Michigan Democrat Abdul El-Sayed’s former opponent in the U.S. Senate primary, Haley Stevens, stunned party officials Sunday by endorsing Republican Mike Rogers after Democratic tensions boiled over days before the election that could determine the balance of power on Capitol Hill.Stevens endorsed Rogers after attending a Detroit church service with him. The remarkable show of support for the President Donald Trump-backed candidate in the tightly contested race comes after she
  
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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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• Pineapple express brings potentially historic flooding to Southwest

  01-11-2026 13:31 via Yahoo.com/news Top Stories
  
  An atmospheric river referred to as the "pineapple express" is bringing heavy rain to parts of the Desert Southwest and Southern California over Halloween weekend, just over a week after destructive flooding plagued parts of Arizona, Nevada, New Mexico and Utah.These atmospheric rivers often fuel heavy rain events in the West, especially in a stronger El Niño winter. We'll discuss more about this pattern after laying out the important forecast details through this weekend.New: Mandatory evacuat
  
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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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• Shootings across 5 states leave 6 dead and at least 36 injured over Halloween weekend

  01-11-2026 12:34 via Yahoo.com/news Top Stories
  Police in Dallas say four people are dead and 15 are injured following separate shootings in a Dallas neighborhood. It was among several violent incidents nationwide on Halloween weekend.Police Chief Daniel Comeaux said police are still trying to determine if the shootings in the Deep Ellum neighborhood were related. Comeaux said three separate shootings occurred and it wasn't immediately known why they started. Comeaux said some arrests were made but he didn’t specify how many or what charges
  
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• AI stocks just lost $5 trillion — but the stock market's sweetest stretch might be now

  01-11-2026 12:00 via Yahoo.com/news Top Stories
  
  The AI trade just had its scariest October in years. The rest of the stock market barely noticed.The biggest AI and chip stocks have shed about $5 trillion in market value since Oct. 6, by Yahoo Finance calculations. Nvidia (NVDA) and Alphabet (GOOGL) have each given up roughly $835 billion in market cap, and Intel (INTC) lost nearly half its value in October.Everything else? The other 625 large US stocks in that tally added about $1.3 trillion. And while the S&P 500 (^GSPC) slipped this wee
  
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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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