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  1. World · Fri, Oct 30 · 6 AM CTUpdate: Tanker set ablaze in the Strait of Hormuz after a small boat attached two explosives to its hull, UKMTO says; Iran now claims four tankers hit mines
  2. World · Fri, Oct 30 · 6 AM CTUpdate: Top U.S. commander briefs Trump on Iran military options at the White House as Qatari mediators return to Tehran
  3. World · Fri, Oct 30 · 6 AM CTIran-backed Houthis claim six missile and drone attacks on Saudi refineries, airports and a military post; Riyadh says it intercepted missiles
  4. World · Fri, Oct 30 · 6 AM CTBinance hit by a $6.3 billion hack, believed to be the largest crypto theft on record; analytics firms tie it to North Korea
  5. World · Fri, Oct 30 · 6 AM CTRussian ballistic missiles kill one in Kyiv; a drone strike kills 13 at a Dnipro commuter train as aid starts to reach Oleshky under a truce Melania Trump helped broker
  6. World · Fri, Oct 30 · 6 AM CTEl Salvador rushes about 2,000 troops to Haiti after four Salvadoran members of a UN-backed force went missing in a gang ambush
  7. White House · Fri, Oct 30 · 6 AM CTEconomy grew at a 3.4% pace last quarter, but September inflation rose to 3.6% from a year earlier
  8. White House · Fri, Oct 30 · 6 AM CTDHS says ICE's 'Lone Star Mission' arrested 4,170 illegal immigrants across Texas in 10 days
  9. White House · Fri, Oct 30 · 6 AM CTUpdate: DOJ files a revised lawsuit to block Alaska's Senate certification if Sen. Dan Sullivan loses narrowly and issues more than 40 subpoenas in the 'other Sullivan' probe
  10. White House · Fri, Oct 30 · 6 AM CTTrump cancels weekend rallies in Kansas and Iowa for 'tele-rallies' in about 20 states; Daytona Beach rally goes ahead today
  11. White House · Fri, Oct 30 · 6 AM CTFCC plans Nov. 19 vote to bar China Mobile, China Telecom and China Unicom from direct access to U.S. phone numbers
  12. Supreme Court · Fri, Oct 30 · 6 AM CTSupreme Court asks Hillary Clinton to respond to President Trump's petition to revive his 2016 lawsuit; response due Nov. 27
  13. Supreme Court · Fri, Oct 30 · 6 AM CTSupreme Court: November sitting opens Monday; Catholic preschool case is Tuesday; Big Bend border-wall request still pending
  14. World · Thu, Oct 29 · 5 PM CTIran says tankers hit mines in the Strait of Hormuz and claims it seized a U.S. drone; U.S. Central Command calls the drone claim false
  15. World · Thu, Oct 29 · 5 PM CTUpdate: Iran says it received Vance's letter but has not answered; parliament speaker says 'the carrot-and-stick approach has no effect on Iran'
  16. World · Thu, Oct 29 · 5 PM CTUpdate: Pentagon says top war planner's firing followed an 'extensive' leak investigation; matter referred to the Justice Department
  17. World · Thu, Oct 29 · 5 PM CTAir Force reports two more 'nonhostile' deaths in the Middle East; Pentagon database lists 23 U.S. service members killed and 865 wounded since the Iran war began
  18. World · Thu, Oct 29 · 5 PM CTUpdate: Israel's count ends with no majority; Netanyahu bloc 53, Eisenkot-led bloc 48, Arab parties 19; certified results due by Wednesday
  19. World · Thu, Oct 29 · 5 PM CTU.S. and Japan agree to build a plant in Japan to assemble AMRAAM missiles for F-35s and to boost SM-3 interceptor output
  20. World · Thu, Oct 29 · 5 PM CTEuropean Central Bank President Christine Lagarde will step down Feb. 7, 2027