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November 2, 2026

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Oct 31 · Shootings over the Halloween weekend kill more than a dozen people across the U.S., including four in Dallas's Deep Ellum neighborhood

Nov 1 · A Learjet 60 flying from Austin, Texas, to the Bahamas crashes near Cresthaven in Palm Beach County, Fla., killing all nine people on board

Nov 1 · U.S. District Judge Sharon Gleason in Alaska dismisses the Justice Department's suit to block certification of the Senate race if Sen. Dan Sullivan loses

Oct 31 · Sen. Chris Murphy of Connecticut has a stroke at his son's hockey game and is moved to Johns Hopkins, where his chief of staff says he is awake and alert

Nov 1 · Alaska Sen. Dan Sullivan says on CNN he will accept the election results, and says Mary Peltola is still lying about the second Sullivan on the ballot

Nov 1 · Two days before the midterm elections, an NBC News poll finds Democrats ahead 52%-45% and President Trump's disapproval at 60%

Oct 31 · Youth-led Gen Z protests over living costs turn violent in Frankfurt and Cologne, as France holds a third weekend of rallies

Oct 31 · The FBI says North Korean hackers stole more than $6 billion from crypto exchange Binance this week, as Binance says it has covered 90% of the stolen assets

Oct 31 · Gabby Williams scores 30 points as the Golden State Valkyries beat the Atlanta Dream 68-63 in Game 7 at Chase Center in San Francisco for their first WNBA title

Oct 31 · Federal Judge Darrin Gayles in Miami dismisses President Trump's $10 billion defamation lawsuit against The Wall Street Journal and Rupert Murdoch over the Epstein birthday letter story, this time with prejudice

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Nov 1 · Rep. Haley Stevens tells CNN's Anderson Cooper she backed Republican Mike Rogers over Abdul El-Sayed because of anger in her party, as President Trump says he'd love to have her in the GOP

Nov 1 · President Trump ends his midterm rally tour in Salina, Kan., as Speaker Mike Johnson tells Trump's Iowa rally there are no moderate Democrats and Sarah Longwell calls for a repudiation of Trump

Nov 1 · Two days before the midterms, Sen. Raphael Warnock calls Sen. Ted Cruz's Kansas remark about Muslims and heaven 'bigotry,' as Democrat Adam Hamilton says President Trump's Salina rally for Sen. Roger Marshall will help him

Oct 31 · Three days before the midterms, House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries calls Nov. 3 'Judgment Day,' Speaker Mike Johnson calls a Democratic majority 'a nightmare scenario' and Rep. Jim Himes says a win would give Democrats 'an audition'

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

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