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Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin sent a message to North Korea, Democrats are pulling out all the stops as Election Day approaches, a man attacked Republican Senate candidate Don Bolduc just before his debate with Democratic Sen. Maggie Hassan, immigration officials say the man who allegedly violently attacked Paul Pelosi was in the country illegally, Israeli Acting Prime Minister Yair Lapid conceded defeat, inspectors have found nothing to support Russia’s claims that Ukrainian forces were planning to set off so-called “dirty bombs”
America’s newest military branch welcomed a new commander, Moscow says it’s not pulling out of a wartime grain shipping deal after all, the White House says North Korea is secretly shipping artillery shells to Russia to use against Ukraine, North Korea fired missiles in the direction of a South Korean island, Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell says interest rates are going up once again, election officials in Israel are expected to finish counting ballots today, CVS and Walgreens have agreed in principle to settle lawsuits over the nationwide opioid epidemic
A San Francisco judge on Tuesday ordered David DePape to be held without bail, President Biden stumped for Democrats in Florida on Tuesday, Chief Justice John Roberts has temporarily blocked the handover of Donald Trump’s tax returns to House Democrats, North Korea made a thinly veiled nuclear threat against the United States and South Korea, former Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu may soon be prime minister once again, SpaceX launched its mega Falcon Heavy rocket for the first time in more than three years
Russian missiles and drones rained down on Kyiv and other cities, the United States is calling on Russia to end its renewed Black Sea blockade of grain exports from Ukraine, analysts predict Republicans will take control of the House while the Senate appears to be a dead heat, Former President Donald Trump filed an emergency appeal with the Supreme Court, college admissions in America may soon be colorblind, police in western India made arrests in the deadly collapse of a Colonial-era bridge
More than 150 people were killed in a crowd crush at a Halloween party in South Korea, 60 people died after a century-old cable suspension bridge collapsed in India, Election Day is one week away, lawmakers say Congress must weigh new protections for members and their families, the U.S. Supreme Court is set to hear arguments today about whether race should be considered in college admissions, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva has ousted incumbent President Jair Bolsonaro in Brazil
President Biden is defending his handling of the economy, a new poll reveals that inflation is the top worry on the minds of voters, the cost to take out a mortgage has more than doubled over the past year, the White House responded to threats by Russia to target U.S. satellites in retaliation for arming Ukraine, parents of children killed in the Uvalde school shooting were allowed to attend a meeting of the Law Enforcement Commission, Republican lawmakers are demanding answers about the Biden administration using taxpayer dollars to fund LGBT drag performances in Ecuador
Russian missiles and Iranian-made drones continue to target civilian populations in Ukraine, the White House and Asian U.S. allies are warning North Korea against carrying out another nuclear test, a jury found Darrell Brooks guilty of all 76 charges, a jury in Michigan found three men guilty of supporting terrorism with a plot to kidnap Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer, a judge in New York says city sanitation workers should not have been fired for failing to comply with a COVID vaccine mandate, gunmen in Iran attacked a major Shiite holy site, Rishi Sunak made his first appearance in Parliament
Rishi Sunak is vowing to bring stability to the office of prime minister, Vladimir Putin is scrambling to get his hands on more weapons for the war in Ukraine, WNBA basketball star Brittney Griner remains behind bars in Russia, consumer confidence slipping in the United States, Wisconsin is facing ongoing election lawsuits as the midterms get closer while early voters are going gangbusters at polls in Georgia, the trial continues in Wisconsin for Darrel Brooks
The Conservative party named Rishi Sunak as the successor to outgoing Prime Minister Liz Truss, the Kremlin claimed that Ukraine is preparing to detonate a dirty bomb, Attorney General Merrick Garland announced charges against two suspected Chinese spies, a gunman broke into a St. Louis high school and shot eight people, Ethan Crumbley pleaded guilty to terrorism and the first-degree murder of four students, one of the former police officers involved in the death of George Floyd pleaded guilty, math and reading scores dropped in every state over the past year
Migrant encounters at the U.S. southern border have soared to a new record high, a California judge has ruled in favor of a bakery owner who declined to make wedding cakes for a same-sex ceremony, President Volodymyr Zelenskyy is asking the Ukrainian people to conserve electricity, Chinese leader Xi Jinping has become the country’s most powerful dictator, former President Trump has reportedly told associates that he’ll consider complying with a subpoena from the Jan. 6 committee
