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President Trump took his closing midterm pitch to Corpus Christi and Lubbock on Tuesday, stumping alongside Republican Senate nominee Ken Paxton as the GOP fights to hold both chambers. Asked whether he'd accept the results, Trump said he would — "if they're honest elections." A fresh NPR/PBS/Marist generic ballot has Democrats up 52 to 44, while Michigan's Senate race shows Democrat Abdul El-Sayed leading Mike Rogers by roughly six.
Justice Department prosecutors filed a two-count criminal information against former FBI Director James Comey in federal court in Washington, alleging he directed another person to disclose national defense information to a reporter back in 2016. The filing, originally sealed on October 5, marks the DOJ's third swing at prosecuting him. Comey fired back on Instagram, calling it "an appalling abuse of the Department of Justice."
The Federal Reserve kicked off its two-day policy meeting Tuesday with annual inflation ticking up to 3.7 percent on energy costs, and traders overwhelmingly expect no move until a possible quarter-point action in December. Consumer confidence rebounded sharply this month per the Conference Board, even as households peg their own twelve-month inflation expectations near 6 percent. The Dow dropped roughly 500 points as tech names wobbled on AI-spending jitters.
Federal prosecutors say thousands of noncitizens paid up to $30,000 apiece to be "victims" in hundreds of staged armed robberies, manufacturing police reports to qualify for crime-victim visas. Ringleader Parth Nayi drew two years in federal prison. Investigators describe a fully industrialized fraud pipeline with scripted holdups and cooperating fake gunmen.
Israelis voted in their first national election since the October 7 attacks, with more than 74 percent casting ballots by 8 p.m. — the highest at that hour in decades. Exit polls put Benjamin Netanyahu's bloc at 50 seats against 52 or 53 for former military chief Gadi Eisenkot's bloc, with Arab-led parties at 17 to 18. Neither side hit 61, so Eisenkot declared victory while the country braces for weeks of coalition horse-trading.
Iran's navy confirmed a commercial oil tanker caught fire after striking naval mines in the eastern Strait of Hormuz, and Tehran declared the passage closed to uncoordinated traffic. Hours earlier, Iranian security chief Mohsen Rezaei told visiting Saudi, Turkish and Pakistani officials to cut their security ties to Washington and build a region-only defense framework. Trump, meanwhile, told a Corpus Christi crowd the war with Iran would end very soon.
A localized truce negotiated by First Lady Melania Trump went into effect Tuesday in the Russian-occupied Ukrainian town of Oleshky, opening a window for humanitarian aid and the evacuation of roughly 2,000 residents. Both Moscow and Kyiv sounded cautiously positive. On the same day, the leaders of Finland and Norway held their first call with Vladimir Putin in over a year, ahead of trilateral talks expected in Abu Dhabi in early November.
A new observational study links everyday complaints including depression, vertigo and headaches to elevated Alzheimer's risk years ahead of any formal diagnosis. The findings suggest the disease leaves a trail in primary-care records long before memory loss shows up. Researchers caution these are correlations, not a diagnostic test — but they could reshape who gets screened and when.
A new genetic analysis narrows the arrival of the first humans in North America to a window between 14,000 and 20,000 years ago, pushing hard against the long-dominant "Clovis First" model. The DNA evidence points to a migration well before the toolmakers that textbooks built the story around. It's the latest in a string of findings chipping away at a decades-old consensus.
Two major Chinese brands dropped French soccer superstar Kylian Mbappé on Tuesday after video circulated of him apparently laughing at a meme about Mao Zedong. Mbappé moved quickly to smooth things over with an apology. One of the most marketable athletes on the planet, undone in a single reaction shot.
