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  1. World · Sat, Oct 31 · 5 PM CTUpdate: Rubio says Trump has made no decision on new Iran strikes and has set no deadline for talks, as Iran's foreign minister floats a two-day plan to reopen Hormuz, on Iran's terms
  2. World · Sat, Oct 31 · 5 PM CTIran's armed forces chief says Tehran has a 'new stockpile' of U.S. and Israeli targets; Iran blames U.S. forces for an attack on two fishing boats, a claim not independently confirmed
  3. World · Sat, Oct 31 · 5 PM CTUpdate: G20 foreign ministers' meeting in Atlanta ends with no joint communique; Rubio issues a chair's statement on energy security and free navigation
  4. World · Sat, Oct 31 · 5 PM CTU.S. Embassy in Moscow warns of a 'credible threat' of a mass casualty event Saturday at the Tsaritsyno Museum Reserve
  5. World · Sat, Oct 31 · 5 PM CTUpdate: Oleshky evacuation completed under the truce Melania Trump helped broker; Ukraine says it hit a Russian rocket-propellant plant in Rostov
  6. World · Sat, Oct 31 · 5 PM CTFrance deploys 70,000 police as anti-government protests enter a third weekend; looting losses top $1 billion
  7. World · Sat, Oct 31 · 5 PM CTUpdate: Poland's President Nawrocki holds crisis talks with party leaders over the Constitutional Tribunal as protests continue; the Left refuses to attend
  8. White House · Sat, Oct 31 · 5 PM CTTrump praises L.A. federal prosecutor Bill Essayli and vows to keep fighting after the Ninth Circuit refuses to set aside about 20,000 California ballots
  9. White House · Sat, Oct 31 · 5 PM CTUpdate: Alaska's Republican-run government urges a federal judge to dismiss DOJ's 'Decoy Dan' suit, calling a request to set aside ballots 'disturbing and impossible'
  10. White House · Sat, Oct 31 · 5 PM CTD.C. and Virginia sue to stop Trump's planned 250-foot arch near Arlington National Cemetery, the third lawsuit against it, days before a planned Nov. 5 start
  11. White House · Sat, Oct 31 · 5 PM CTMichigan man charged with threatening to kill FBI Director Kash Patel and one of his associates
  12. White House · Sat, Oct 31 · 5 PM CTAt his Daytona Beach rally, Trump repeats a promise of a $5,000 check to every U.S. citizen if Republicans keep the House and Senate
  13. Supreme Court · Sat, Oct 31 · 5 PM CTSupreme Court: Big Bend border-wall request fully briefed and awaiting a ruling; challengers say the waivers fail the major questions doctrine
  14. Supreme Court · Sat, Oct 31 · 5 PM CTNext at the Court: November sitting opens Monday with Maxwell v. Dinis and Younge v. Fulton County DA; Catholic preschool case follows
  15. World · Sat, Oct 31 · 6 AM CTUpdate: Iran's supreme leader orders an 'immediate' and 'geographically unrestricted' response to any new attack, as the Revolutionary Guard claims a fourth tanker fire in Hormuz
  16. World · Sat, Oct 31 · 6 AM CTOil settles at a six-month high as traders brace for possible escalation with Iran after the midterms; Brent ends October up 13.6%
  17. World · Sat, Oct 31 · 6 AM CTSaudi air defenses shoot down a 'hostile drone' over the Riyadh region Saturday as Houthi attacks on the kingdom continue
  18. World · Sat, Oct 31 · 6 AM CTState Department approves a $2.1 billion sale of 500 Patriot PAC-3 missiles to Ukraine, paid for with allied money, but delivery may be years away
  19. World · Sat, Oct 31 · 6 AM CTLavrov concedes no ground on Ukraine at the G20 in Atlanta and Europeans scrap the family photo; Rubio speaks with him briefly as Oleshky evacuations continue
  20. World · Sat, Oct 31 · 6 AM CTPoland's President Nawrocki forces his way into the Constitutional Tribunal after Tusk-aligned judges suspend its chief, and calls crisis talks over 'the threat to internal security'