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  1. World · Mon, Nov 2 · 5 PM CTUpdate: Trump tells Axios there is 'no rush' to decide on new Iran strikes, then posts that a deal 'could happen' as Qatar's mediator returns to Tehran
  2. World · Mon, Nov 2 · 5 PM CTIran says its seven-step plan is now 'condensed' to two days, but its demands are unchanged: lift the blockade and sanctions first
  3. World · Mon, Nov 2 · 5 PM CTAt least 26 killed as Russian glide bombs hit a school used as an aid center in Ukraine's Zaporizhzhia region, a day after the Oleshky truce ended
  4. World · Mon, Nov 2 · 5 PM CTFighting resumes in Kherson after the longest ceasefire of the war, brokered by First Lady Melania Trump; Kyiv says Russia used the pause to rearm
  5. White House · Mon, Nov 2 · 5 PM CTTrump makes his final pitch before Tuesday's midterm elections in front of the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool
  6. Supreme Court · Mon, Nov 2 · 5 PM CTSupreme Court opens its November sitting with Maxwell v. Dinis and Younge v. Fulton DA; the Catholic preschools case, St. Mary Catholic Parish v. Roy, is argued Tuesday
  7. World · Sun, Nov 1 · 6 AM CTUpdate: Trump says the U.S. is 'not in that much of a hurry' for an Iran deal as Iranian negotiators hold a third straight day of talks with Qatari mediators
  8. World · Sun, Nov 1 · 6 AM CTIran's security chief says Hormuz 'cannot reopen' until seven conditions are met; Iran's navy reports a tanker fire after mines east of the strait
  9. World · Sun, Nov 1 · 6 AM CTRussia launches 433 drones at Ukraine overnight, leaving 'hundreds of thousands of families' without power; Zelenskyy and Erdogan agree to work on a new Black Sea grain corridor
  10. World · Sun, Nov 1 · 6 AM CTDrone attack causes 'significant damage' at an industrial site in Russia's Nizhny Novgorod region, where monitors say Lukoil's large Kstovo refinery was hit
  11. World · Sun, Nov 1 · 6 AM CTUpdate: France arrests 565 as a third weekend of protests turns violent at the edges; interior minister calls a Molotov attack on a gendarme 'attempted murder'
  12. World · Sun, Nov 1 · 6 AM CTUpdate: Moscow's Tsaritsyno park reopens Sunday after the U.S. Embassy's 'credible threat' warning; FSB says it took 'appropriate' measures
  13. White House · Sun, Nov 1 · 6 AM CTJudge dismisses Trump's defamation suit against The Wall Street Journal over the Epstein birthday-letter story, this time with prejudice
  14. White House · Sun, Nov 1 · 6 AM CTUpdate: FBI agents visit 'Decoy Dan' Sullivan donors in Alaska and Massachusetts; Trump calls the case 'voter fraud at the highest level'
  15. White House · Sun, Nov 1 · 6 AM CTTrump urges New Yorkers to elect Bruce Blakeman governor in a tele-rally, calling Gov. Kathy Hochul 'the worst governor' in state history
  16. White House · Sun, Nov 1 · 6 AM CTTrump agrees to grant a visa to the mother of a 15-year-old shot and killed on his way to school in the Bronx, Mayor Mamdani says
  17. Supreme Court · Sun, Nov 1 · 6 AM CTNext at the Court: November sitting opens Monday, Nov. 2; the Colorado Catholic preschools' religious-liberty case is argued Election Day, Nov. 3
  18. Supreme Court · Sun, Nov 1 · 6 AM CTSupreme Court: Big Bend border-wall request still awaiting an order after challengers' Oct. 29 response
  19. 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
  20. 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