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October 31, 2026

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Oct 31 · Iran's Supreme Leader Mojtaba Khamenei orders an immediate response without geographic limits to any new U.S. or Israeli attack as Qatari mediators move their talks from Tehran to Doha

Oct 30 · Federal Judge Trina Thompson in California orders the Justice Department to stop threatening election officials with prosecution over ballots it says belong to noncitizens, days before the midterms

Oct 30 · Rep. Haley Stevens demands that Michigan Democratic Senate nominee Abdul El-Sayed apologize over remarks on Israel, and his campaign asks her to stay away from its final events before Tuesday's election

Oct 30 · The State Department approves a possible $2.1 billion sale of 500 Patriot PAC-3 interceptors to Ukraine, paid for by Canada, Germany, Norway and EU-backed funds, as Volodymyr Zelensky warns delivery could take years

Oct 30 · A shooting at a Spirit Halloween store in the Solano Town Center mall in Fairfield, Calif., kills one person and wounds six

Oct 30 · A Texas grand jury indicts ICE officer Mario Alberto Morales on an aggravated assault charge over the Oct. 10 vehicle strike that injured Miguel Parra Hernandez in Houston

Oct 29 · Binance says a security breach that may have begun with a DevOps engineer's compromised laptop had an estimated $6.3 billion impact, suspends deposits and withdrawals and says it will cover user losses

Oct 29 · The New York Times reports that a woman U.S. officials suspected of gathering intelligence for China gained access to Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang, and Nvidia responds to the report

Oct 29 · Patrick Stewart, who played Capt. Jean-Luc Picard in 'Star Trek' and Professor Charles Xavier in 'X-Men,' dies at 86 after Alzheimer's and Lewy body dementia, a statement says

Oct 28 · Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth fires Lt. Gen. Brett Sylvia, the Joint Staff's top planner, after a Pentagon official says he failed three polygraphs about leaking classified Iran and Ukraine war information, a claim other Pentagon sources dispute

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Oct 30 · At a Daytona Beach, Fla., rally for Byron Donalds four days before the midterms, President Trump calls Robert De Niro a moron, says he will probably give Hollywood tax credits and has protesters removed

Oct 30 · Data centers become a midterm issue as residents near Meta's Prometheus site in New Albany, Ohio, push back, Rep. Summer Lee ties them to power bills and Tucker Carlson attacks the industry

Oct 30 · Former Republican Rep. Alan Steelman endorses Democrat James Talarico over Ken Paxton in the Texas Senate race, Sen. Ted Cruz calls Talarico a "tofu-eating" charlatan and a prediction market favors Talarico

Oct 30 · Four days before the Nov. 3 midterms, Rep. Jamie Raskin and Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez describe what House Democrats would do first with a majority, from pardon investigations to the Medicaid cliff

Oct 30 · The Justice Department issues a new wave of subpoenas in its probe of the second Dan Sullivan on Alaska's Senate ballot, and Mary Peltola says she knew nothing about the effort

Oct 29 · Trump tells a rally that Black or Jewish voters who back Abdul El-Sayed are "crazy," and El-Sayed, Michigan's Democratic Senate nominee, answers the attacks on his faith

Oct 29 · With five days to go, Republican Sen. Susan Collins and Democrat Troy Jackson make their closing cases in Maine's Senate race, the only Republican-held seat up this year in a state Trump lost in 2024

Oct 28 · With Israel's election count still under way, Benjamin Netanyahu alleges fraud in the Arab vote and neither bloc has a clear path to a 61-seat majority

Oct 29 · Trump calls Brazil's election "a very great embarrassment to the people of Brazil" after Flávio Bolsonaro, who lost the runoff and declared himself the rightful leader, arrives in the U.S.

Oct 29 · Alaska Gov. Mike Dunleavy calls for a criminal investigation after a New York Times report that Mary Peltola's campaign sought a second Dan Sullivan for the Senate ballot, and Trump calls it voter fraud

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