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  1. World · Wed, Oct 28 · 6 AM CTU.S. tells Gulf allies to be ready for a 'short, intense' Iran campaign after the midterms, WSJ reports; Trump: 'You'll see Iran in a couple of weeks'
  2. World · Wed, Oct 28 · 6 AM CTUpdate: Netanyahu's bloc gains overnight to 54 seats with about 70% counted, still short of a majority; official results due Nov. 4
  3. World · Wed, Oct 28 · 6 AM CTCuban diplomat accused of shoving a U.S. diplomat at the U.N. is being expelled, Ambassador Waltz says: 'He's gone'
  4. World · Wed, Oct 28 · 6 AM CTU.S. strike kills five aboard suspected drug boat in the eastern Pacific, Southern Command says
  5. World · Wed, Oct 28 · 6 AM CTUpdate: Congo's Ebola outbreak passes 10,000 confirmed cases with 4,887 deaths; CDC still rates U.S. risk 'very low'
  6. White House · Wed, Oct 28 · 6 AM CTTrump in Lubbock unveils plan to roll back Biden-era methane rules, says it will save $45 billion; says he'd pick Ted Cruz for the Supreme Court
  7. White House · Wed, Oct 28 · 6 AM CTGrand jury declines to indict ex-White House aide Cassidy Hutchinson over her Jan. 6 committee testimony
  8. Supreme Court · Wed, Oct 28 · 6 AM CTSupreme Court: Herridge press-sources petition awaits a response due Nov. 6; Big Bend border-wall responses due Thursday; November sitting opens Monday
  9. World · Tue, Oct 27 · 5 PM CTUpdate: Israel's exit polls show no majority; Likud is the largest party but Netanyahu's bloc falls to 50 seats
  10. World · Tue, Oct 27 · 5 PM CTU.S. orders non-emergency staff out of Saudi Arabia after Houthi attacks; IAEA says it can't verify Iran's 440 kg of highly enriched uranium
  11. World · Tue, Oct 27 · 5 PM CTUpdate: Putin hosts Iran's president at the Kremlin, says Bushehr nuclear plant work continues and trade grew 10.4%
  12. World · Tue, Oct 27 · 5 PM CTUpdate: Oleshky truce widens across Ukraine's Kherson region and holds; evacuation still set for Friday
  13. White House · Tue, Oct 27 · 5 PM CTTrump in Corpus Christi: shows off 1 million barrels of Venezuelan oil, says the Iran war will end 'very soon'
  14. White House · Tue, Oct 27 · 5 PM CTAverage gas price in Trump's second term edges past Biden's, AAA data show; White House says prices will fall when the Iran war ends
  15. Supreme Court · Tue, Oct 27 · 5 PM CTSupreme Court refuses to revive Biden-era rule that let immigration judges pause deportation cases
  16. World · Tue, Oct 27 · 6 AM CTIsrael votes: turnout is the highest since 1981 as Netanyahu and Eisenkot fight a near-tie; exit polls at 3 p.m. CT
  17. World · Tue, Oct 27 · 6 AM CTUpdate: Iran's president goes to Moscow to meet Putin as Qatar tells Tehran to open the Strait of Hormuz
  18. World · Tue, Oct 27 · 6 AM CTBritain charges two men in a suspected Iranian plot at RAF Fairford, a base used by U.S. forces in the Iran conflict
  19. World · Tue, Oct 27 · 6 AM CTUpdate: Oleshky truce begins and both sides say it is holding; civilian evacuation now planned for Friday
  20. White House · Tue, Oct 27 · 6 AM CTTrump in Corinth: 'I can't take a chance' on the Mississippi Senate race; today he rallies in Corpus Christi and Lubbock, Texas