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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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• Passengers in Florida crash identified as family of 4, their caretaker and another couple

  02-11-2026 23:55 via Yahoo.com/news Top Stories
  Authorities said on Monday that weather conditions are a major factor in the federal investigation into the fatal crash of a private jet that was bound for the Bahamas and crashed in Palm Beach County, Fla., on Sunday afternoon.The National Transportation Safety Board told reporters on Monday that ice was forming on the jet as it experienced moderate turbulence. Miami air traffic control granted the pilot permission to climb from 35,000 feet to 37,000 feet to avoid precipitation, but shortly aft
  
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• Trump put himself on the midterms ballot without running. Now his legacy is at stake.

  02-11-2026 23:23 via Yahoo.com/news Top Stories
  President Trump’s political capital is on the line ahead of the midterm elections as a potential blue wave threatens his final two years in office. 
  Trump has crisscrossed the country, holding 28 in-person campaign rallies in addition to a series of tele-rallies. The president has made stops in Republican strongholds like Ohio, Texas, Iowa, Kansas and even Alaska in an effort to keep the states firmly in the red column. He’s also visited a number of deep-red states like Mississippi and Sou
  
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• Trump touts Washington makeover in final pitch ahead of midterms

  02-11-2026 22:58 via Yahoo.com/news Top Stories
  By Jacob Bogage and Nandita BoseWASHINGTON, Nov 2 (Reuters) - Facing elections that could cost his party control of Congress, President Donald Trump spent his last major speech before the midterms talking about pipes and paint on Monday.Trump ruminated on his Washington renovations, new ‌sod, the White House's helipad, a grand new arch and the recently reopened Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool during a 54-minute speech that the ‌White House billed as part of the president's closing argumen
  
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• Trump brushes aside tough midterm prospects with visit to Reflecting Pool

  02-11-2026 22:58 via Yahoo.com/news Top Stories
  By Jacob Bogage and Nandita BoseWASHINGTON, Nov 2 (Reuters) - Facing elections that could cost his party control of Congress, President Donald Trump spent his last major speech before the midterms talking about pipes and paint on Monday.Trump ruminated on his Washington renovations, new ‌sod, the White House's helipad, a grand new arch and the recently reopened Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool during a 54-minute speech that the ‌White House billed as part of the president's closing argumen
  
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• Mother identifies 20-year-old pilot killed in Florida plane crash

  02-11-2026 18:54 via Yahoo.com/news Top Stories
  A private jet bound for the Bahamas crashed in Palm Beach County, Fla., Sunday afternoon, killing all nine people on board. The Learjet 60, which had taken off from Austin-Bergstrom International Airport in Texas, went down at about 12:50 p.m. ET near Cresthaven, Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy said. Dashcam footage posted to social media by an eyewitness showed the aircraft falling toward the ground beside a road and exploding into a fireball, narrowly missing cars and homes. Duffy calle
  
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• Prosecutors announce intention to retry Lindsay Clancy for deaths of her 3 children

  02-11-2026 18:24 via Yahoo.com/news Top Stories
  Prosecutors announced in court on Nov. 2 that they intend to retry Lindsay Clancy, the Massachusetts mother who killed her three young children.
  Clancy, 36, was charged with murder for killing her children Cora, 5, Dawson, 3, and Callan, 8 months, on Jan. 24, 2023, by strangling them with exercise bands in the basement of their Duxbury home. Clancy's attorney Kevin Reddington argued she can't be held criminally responsible, Massachusetts' version of the insanity defense, because she was sufferi
  
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• Trump admin. appeals to Supreme Court to sideline 20,000 mail ballots in California

  02-11-2026 17:29 via Yahoo.com/news Top Stories
  WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump's administration appealed to the Supreme Court on Monday in its push to sideline thousands of disputed California mail ballots the day before the pivotal midterm elections. The emergency appeal came after an appeals court rejected the request to set aside some 20,000 ballots from people the federal government suspects may not be citizens.The federal government says those ballots should not be counted until the voters’ status can be verified. Californi
  
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• Supreme Court rejects Trump admin's bid to set aside thousands of California ballots

  02-11-2026 17:29 via Yahoo.com/news Top Stories
  WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court on Monday rejected a push for California to set aside thousands of mail ballots from people President Donald Trump’s administration claims are noncitizens, a decision that comes on the eve of the final day of voting in the pivotal midterm elections.The high court refused to intervene in a case involving 20,000 people the Republican administration flagged as likely noncitizens on the largely Democratic state’s voter rolls.The swift rejection was the lates
  
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• Elon Musk is tightening Grok limits as the cost of AI catches up with demand

  02-11-2026 17:29 via Yahoo.com/news Top Stories
  
  Elon Musk said on Sunday that Grok (SPCX) users would run up against usage limits more quickly than normal because servicing Grok Bot has become too expensive. "The cost of serving Grok Bot was unsustainably high relative to revenue," Musk wrote on his social media platform, X.The sudden throttling highlights one of the biggest questions swirling around the AI revolution: whether demand from users will be enough to sustain a business. It turns out, at least in Musk's case, that demand isn't the
  
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• 'A despicable betrayal': Dems incensed by Haley Stevens’s endorsement of Mike Rogers

  02-11-2026 17:21 via Yahoo.com/news Top Stories
  On Election Day, Democrat Abdul El-Sayed and Republican Mike Rogers will face off in what may be the marquee battle of the 2026 midterms: the race to succeed retiring Democratic Sen. Gary Peters in Michigan. It's a contest that could decide which party controls the U.S. Senate. Democrats currently hold 47 Senate seats, including two independents who caucus with them. They need 51 to win back the chamber. (A 50-50 split would give Vice President JD Vance the tiebreaking vote.) Polls suggest tha
  
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• ‘A despicable betrayal’: Democrats incensed by Haley Stevens’ endorsement of Mike Rogers

  02-11-2026 17:21 via Yahoo.com/news Top Stories
  On Election Day, Democrat Abdul El-Sayed and Republican Mike Rogers will face off in what may be the marquee battle of the 2026 midterms: the race to succeed retiring Democratic Sen. Gary Peters in Michigan. It's a contest that could decide which party controls the U.S. Senate. Democrats currently hold 47 Senate seats, including two independents who caucus with them. They need 51 to win back the chamber. (A 50-50 split would give Vice President JD Vance the tiebreaking vote.) Polls suggest tha
  
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• 5 questions that will determine how the midterms shake out

  02-11-2026 17:01 via Yahoo.com/news Top Stories
  Here are the five questions that probably will determine how Tuesday's midterm elections turn out.1. What do disaffected voters do?By all accounts, many Democratic voters across the country are excited to vote. But Democrats' path to a successful election requires Republican-leaning and independent voters, who will be needed if Democrats are to secure the Senate majority, a significant House majority and a majority of governor's mansions.Subscribe to The Post Most newsletter for the most importa
  
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• Judge dismisses complaint against ex-FBI officials accused of lying about Hunter Biden

  02-11-2026 16:34 via Yahoo.com/news Top Stories
  WASHINGTON (AP) — A federal judge on Monday dismissed a criminal complaint against two former FBI officials accused of making false statements to Congress about Hunter Biden, saying the investigation that produced the charges was rushed, overtly political and dogged by “critical mistakes.”“What has transpired here cannot be described as anything other than weaponization,” U.S. Magistrate Judge Zia Faruqui said in a scathing ruling from the bench that dismissed the case against former o
  
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• Which party has a better chance of winning the midterms? What the final polls say.

  02-11-2026 16:03 via Yahoo.com/news Top Stories
  The 2026 midterm elections are tomorrow. 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 almost up — and the stakes on Nov. 3 couldn't be higher, especially for President Trump, who has enjo
  
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• Iran says 'ball is in the U.S. court' on any deal to end the war

  02-11-2026 14:58 via Yahoo.com/news Top Stories
  
  What to know about the Iran war today:Mediators continue pushing for a deal between the U.S. and Iran to end the eight-month war sparked by U.S. and Israeli strikes on the Islamic Republic. Three consecutive days of indirect, closed-door negotiations led by Qatar have yielded no apparent breakthrough, with Iran saying Monday that "the ball is in the U.S. court."President Trump has kept his intentions on Iran ambiguous, saying Saturday that the U.S. still has targets to "take care of," and then t
  
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• Haley Stevens' Democratic allies turn on her after surprise GOP endorsement

  02-11-2026 14:22 via Yahoo.com/news Top Stories
  
  Rep. Haley Stevens, D-Michigan, speaks alongside Michigan Republican Senate candidate Mike Rogers after a church service at Perfecting Church, in Detroit on Sunday, November 1, 2026. - Jose Juarez/AP
  As recently as Saturday night, the prospect of Democrat Haley Stevens endorsing Republican Mike Rogers in Michigan’s Senate race had seemed implausible.
  Stevens issued a statement praising Democratic candidate Abdul El-Sayed for saying he disagreed with a controversial advertisement that blamed th
  
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• Man completes 31,000-mile walk around the world and returns to mom’s house

  02-11-2026 13:58 via Yahoo.com/news Top Stories
  HULL, England (AP) — Karl Bushby completed his 28-year odyssey to walk around the world Monday by returning to his mother’s home in northern England. Bushby embraced his emotional mother, Angela, outside her row house in Hull, England, which he left in 1998.They were surrounded by journalists, a documentary film crew and a large crowd outside the home that had a banner saying “Welcome Home Son.”Bushby was a 29-year-old ex-paratrooper when he walked away from the home to a Royal Air Force
  
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• Iran official says 'the ball is now in the U.S.' court' regarding peace talks

  02-11-2026 13:15 via Yahoo.com/news Top Stories
  
  Talks between the U.S. and Iran remain stalled despite the two countries signing a memorandum of understanding in June, aimed at ending the war that began with joint American-Israeli strikes on the country in February. The opening strikes killed a host of top Iranian officials and commanders, among them Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.The two sides have continued to exchange strikes, though have not returned to the intense fighting seen in the early stages of the conflict. The U.S. says it
  
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• Wall Street is bracing for a major shift in how the U.S. borrows money

  02-11-2026 12:52 via Yahoo.com/news Top Stories
  
  (Bloomberg) -- After Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent surprised dealers with his willingness to intervene in the bond market to drive down yields in recent months, Wall Street is now girding for the biggest revamp in guidance for US Treasuries issuance since early 2024.Most Read from BloombergRay-Ban Heir Rejects $3.9 Billion Offer for Stake in Family FirmWSJ Wins Dismissal of Trump's $10 Billion Defamation SuitValero to Buy, Restart Idled Texas Refinery as Fuel RalliesApple Overtakes Nvidia to
  
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• Investigators probe Florida jet crash that killed 9 people as cockpit audio emerges

  02-11-2026 12:33 via Yahoo.com/news Top Stories
  A private jet bound for the Bahamas crashed in Palm Beach County, Fla., Sunday afternoon, killing all nine people on board. The Learjet 60, which had taken off from Austin-Bergstrom International Airport in Texas, went down at about 12:50 p.m. ET near Cresthaven, Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy said. Dashcam footage posted to social media by an eyewitness showed the aircraft falling toward the ground beside a road and exploding into a fireball, narrowly missing cars and homes. Duffy calle
  
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• Democrats eye a return to power. Division over how to handle Trump is already brewing.

  02-11-2026 12:00 via Yahoo.com/news Top Stories
  Democrats are expecting to win big on Election Day, but disagreements are already erupting among them over how aggressively to target President Trump for what they say are abuses of power and corruption.
  Democratic lawmakers and strategists are divided over whether to push another impeachment against Trump.
  Senators and leaders in the House are generally opposed to advancing a third impeachment of Trump that has virtually no chance of picking up 67 votes in the Senate — the number of votes ne
  
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• Republicans privately criticize Trump amid fears of major midterm election losses

  02-11-2026 11:00 via Yahoo.com/news Top Stories
  Republicans are already privately blaming President Donald Trump as they brace for losses on Tuesday.Even as they race to distance themselves from his actions on tariffs, the unpopular Iran war and his mass deportation agenda, few have been willing to criticize him publicly — a clear sign of just how powerful Trump's grip remains on the GOP. But interviews with roughly a dozen candidates, campaign officials and lawmakers reveal they're acutely aware of who, exactly, put them on the back foot t
  
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• A final check-in on Trump's economic approval ratings before the midterms

  02-11-2026 11:00 via Yahoo.com/news Top Stories
  
  President Trump's economic approval ratings are hovering at second-term lows, with inflation worries the central headwind for the president and his party as the midterm elections loom.A raft of recent polls underscores this reality: Trump's low overall approval ratings are being dragged down by economic sentiment that is even lower.A new national poll released on Sunday by NBC News found that a majority of Republicans — 53% — say they are dissatisfied with the state of the economy.And inflat
  
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• U.S. strikes Iranian targets in the Strait of Hormuz on eve of midterms

  02-11-2026 09:55 via Yahoo.com/news Top Stories
  WASHINGTON (AP) — The United States has conducted defensive strikes on some Iranian targets in the Strait of Hormuz, a U.S. official said Monday, on the eve of crucial midterm elections.Iranian state television reported that explosions were heard on Qeshm Island. The official, who wasn’t authorized to comment publicly and spoke on condition of anonymity, said “Iranians using surface to air missiles against U.S. assets” had been targeted.The strikes appeared to be limited as opposed to a
  
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• Haley Stevens endorses GOP's Mike Rogers, adding uncertainty to Michigan Senate race

  02-11-2026 09:46 via Yahoo.com/news Top Stories
  On Election Day, Democrat Abdul El-Sayed and Republican Mike Rogers will face off in what may be the marquee battle of the 2026 midterms: the race to succeed retiring Democratic Sen. Gary Peters in Michigan. It's a contest that could decide which party controls the U.S. Senate. Democrats currently hold 47 Senate seats, including two independents who caucus with them. They need 51 to win back the chamber. (A 50-50 split would give Vice President JD Vance the tiebreaking vote.) Polls suggest tha
  
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• Halloween weekend shootings leave at least 13 people dead and 92 injured

  02-11-2026 09:00 via Yahoo.com/news Top Stories
  
  Police and fire units respond near Legion Field, Birmingham, Alabama, after a shooting following the 85th Magic City Classic on Saturday. - WVTM
  More than a dozen people were killed and over 90 others injured over a Halloween weekend marred by gun violence, with multiple shootings across the country upending celebrations.
  One mass shooting in California occurred as people went to get last-minute costumes at Spirit Halloween, leaving a pregnant woman dead and sending people scrambling for cover.
  
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• Fake nuclear alerts hit Ukrainians and Russians on the same day

  02-11-2026 06:25 via Yahoo.com/news Top Stories
  
  Ukrainians, such as those sheltering here in August, rely on air raid alert apps to warn of incoming drone and missile attacks.Kostiantyn Liberov/Libkos/Getty ImagesUkrainians and Russians both received nuclear attack scares on their official alert apps.The false alerts warned of nuclear attacks via Russia's Oreshnik missile and small Ukrainian drones.Both sides said their systems were breached by cyberattacks.Official alert apps in Ukraine and Russia sent out false nuclear-threat warnings to mi
  
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• Trump invites Haley Stevens to join GOP as Democrats condemn her 'betrayal'

  02-11-2026 06:15 via Yahoo.com/news Top Stories
  
  Mike Rogers, the Republican nominee for U.S. Senate from Michigan, and Democratic Rep. Haley Stevens speak to reporters outside Perfecting Church in Detroit on Nov. 1, 2026. —Emily Elconin—Bloomberg/Getty ImagesPresident Donald Trump invited outgoing congresswoman Haley Stevens, a longtime Michigan Democrat, to join the Republican Party after she surprisingly endorsed her state’s GOP nominee for the U.S. Senate, Mike Rogers, in a last-minute move her partymates have called a “betrayal.�
  
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• 4 Americans among dozens killed in last week's train crash in Spain, officials say

  02-11-2026 01:58 via Yahoo.com/news Top Stories
  
  Four United States citizens were among the at least 69 people who were killed when a high-speed train slammed into the rear of another train in central Spain last week, officials said Sunday.The Center for Integrated Data, the legal body in Spain in charge of identifying victims of events with a high death toll, said on Sunday night that the casualties in the country's second deadly rail collision this year also included one citizen each from Canada, Japan, Argentina, Mexico, Tunisia and the Cze
  
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