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  1. World · Mon, Oct 26 · 5 PM CTUpdate: Saudi, Pakistani and Turkish chiefs meet Iran's president in Tehran as reports say U.S. forces could strike within 96 hours of an order
  2. White House · Mon, Oct 26 · 5 PM CTTreasury Secretary Bessent tells Iranians: 'don't pay your taxes' and fill your gas tanks now, predicting Iran's economy will shrink more than 25%
  3. World · Mon, Oct 26 · 5 PM CTUpdate: Brazil's election chief says the two-hour voting extension did not change the result as Flávio Bolsonaro pushes to annul Lula's win
  4. World · Mon, Oct 26 · 5 PM CTIsrael votes Tuesday: Eisenkot leads Netanyahu by 8 to 10 points in most polls as Netanyahu denies plans to fire his army chief
  5. World · Mon, Oct 26 · 5 PM CTLimited ceasefire for starving Ukrainian town of Oleshky: residents told buses will start taking them out Tuesday morning
  6. White House · Mon, Oct 26 · 5 PM CTTrump lands in Memphis and heads to Corinth, Mississippi, for a 6 p.m. rally for Sen. Cindy Hyde-Smith
  7. White House · Mon, Oct 26 · 5 PM CTDHS says ICE arrested convicted murderers and child sex offenders over the weekend in several states
  8. White House · Mon, Oct 26 · 5 PM CTTrump says he's thinking about moving the press corps out of the briefing room, but denies any pool plan
  9. Supreme Court · Mon, Oct 26 · 5 PM CTSupreme Court: Big Bend border-wall responses due Thursday; Baltimore deportation-pause fight fully briefed with no order yet; November sitting opens Nov. 2
  10. World · Mon, Oct 26 · 6 AM CTLula wins a fourth term in Brazil's runoff, 51.79% to 48.21%; Flávio Bolsonaro refuses to concede and calls for the vote to be annulled
  11. World · Mon, Oct 26 · 6 AM CTUpdate: Saudi, Pakistani and Turkish security chiefs meet Iran in Tehran as an intelligence memo warns Iranian plots against Americans are at 'advanced stages'
  12. World · Mon, Oct 26 · 6 AM CTIsrael votes Tuesday: final polls show Eisenkot's party ahead of Likud, but neither bloc near a 61-seat majority
  13. World · Mon, Oct 26 · 6 AM CTZelenskyy says U.S.-Ukraine-Russia talks will restart in November
  14. White House · Mon, Oct 26 · 6 AM CTTrump's Monday: Oval Office policy meetings, then a 6 p.m. CT speech in Corinth, Mississippi
  15. White House · Mon, Oct 26 · 6 AM CTEight days out: Trump sharpens attacks on Michigan Senate candidate El-Sayed as ballot fights in California and Alaska continue
  16. Supreme Court · Mon, Oct 26 · 6 AM CTSupreme Court returns to the bench Nov. 2; Baltimore's request to block the Texas-DOJ deportation agreement is still pending
  17. World · Sun, Oct 25 · 5 PM CTUpdate: Trump says 'there will not be a strike today' on Iran, but weighs whether to 'finish the job' or make a deal
  18. World · Sun, Oct 25 · 5 PM CTBrazil's runoff goes into overtime: a Supreme Court justice extends voting two hours at Lula's request; count paused
  19. World · Sun, Oct 25 · 5 PM CTNobel winner María Corina Machado makes a surprise return to Venezuela after nearly a year abroad
  20. World · Sun, Oct 25 · 5 PM CTUpdate: More than 1,300 arrested in France as unrest spreads across Europe; Trump says he told Macron 'You are destroying France'