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President Trump spent the final weekend of the 2026 midterm cycle rallying voters in Iowa and Kansas as Republicans fight voter frustration over prices, soft turnout projections, and the historical headwind every party in power faces in a midterm. Both parties are pouring everything into the last 48 hours before Tuesday's vote. Democrats currently lead the generic House ballot 54 to 45 in Fox's own polling.
Alaska officials are asking a federal judge to toss the Justice Department's lawsuit seeking to delay certification of the state's Senate election if Republican Sen. Dan Sullivan loses to Democrat Mary Peltola. At issue is a second candidate on the ranked-choice ballot named Daniel J. Sullivan Jr., whom the administration says was recruited to siphon votes through name confusion. Trump called the episode a "total Democrat con job"; state and federal investigators are both looking into it.
The macro data looks good — third-quarter GDP came in at a 3.4% annualized clip, beating expectations, and weekly jobless claims fell to 194,000, near a 57-year low. Yet Trump's job approval sank to 36% in the latest Fox News poll, his lowest ever in that survey, with just 22% approving of his handling of inflation. Six in ten voters name cost of living as their top economic worry, and 55% say inflation is "not at all" under control.
A shooting near Legion Field in Birmingham, Alabama, following the Magic City Classic college football game left one person dead and eight others wounded. The annual Alabama State–Alabama A&M rivalry game draws one of the largest crowds in HBCU football. Authorities have not announced arrests.
Iranian negotiators were in Doha Sunday for a third straight day of Qatari-mediated talks aimed at ending the US-Israeli war, with Tehran saying the Strait of Hormuz could reopen within two days under a new proposal. Talks remain stalled over nuclear verification, sanctions relief, and frozen assets, and Iranian officials warned that "red lines are a thing of the past" while threatening an "earth-shattering blow." Secretary of State Marco Rubio said Trump hasn't decided on resuming strikes but prefers diplomacy — and has signaled nothing new will happen before Tuesday's vote.
The US Embassy in Moscow issued a credible-threat warning for the Tsaritsyno Museum Reserve, telling Americans to avoid the area and stay clear of crowds. The alert landed as the Russia-Ukraine energy truce frayed — Ukraine struck an oil refinery in southern Russia on Friday, ending a two-week pause on infrastructure attacks that Trump had brokered. Separately, Ukrainians evacuated from Russian-occupied Oleshky reunited with families Saturday under a narrow humanitarian ceasefire.
The 71-year-old pontiff is embarking on an 11-day tour of Uruguay, Argentina, and his adopted homeland of Peru — one of the most ambitious papal trips in decades. He had a cancerous lung tumor removed fewer than three weeks ago, but doctors say no further treatment is needed and have cleared him to fly. Vatican aides are describing the itinerary as "intense."
Blockchain forensics firms TRM Labs and Chainalysis both concluded that North Korean state-backed hackers were behind the recent breach of the Binance cryptocurrency exchange. If the $6.4 billion figure holds, it would rank among the largest digital thefts ever recorded. Pyongyang has long used crypto heists to fund weapons programs around sanctions.
A new South Korean life-cycle assessment published Friday found paper straws scored 6.33 times higher than conventional plastic straws on a measure of cancer-related harm from pollution generated during manufacturing and disposal. The researchers point to the chemical-heavy pulping and coating process, plus the sheer energy cost of production. It's a direct challenge to the eco-friendly branding that drove the paper-straw switch worldwide.
Sean Kirkpatrick, the former head of the Pentagon's UAP office, publicly disputed a reported sighting by FBI personnel of a dark, non-reflective triangular craft with no visible engines or exhaust that allegedly rose over a mountain ridge and vanished into a canyon. Kirkpatrick says the reports lack corroborating sensor evidence. The dispute comes amid the administration's rolling declassification of UAP records, which has already produced infrared footage, Apollo-era audio, and hundreds of pages of historical sighting files.
