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  1. World · Tue, Oct 6 · 6 AM CTUkraine sends 650 drones toward Moscow in one of the largest attacks in two years; Russian officials say two killed
  2. World · Tue, Oct 6 · 6 AM CTUpdate: Yemen’s government says it retook the port of Mokha; Houthis claim missile and drone strikes on Saudi airports
  3. World · Tue, Oct 6 · 6 AM CTIran’s president calls talks with the U.S. ‘meaningless’ as a third tanker is hit near Hormuz
  4. World · Tue, Oct 6 · 6 AM CTUpdate: Reports say Iran’s Revolutionary Guard plotted a drone attack on U.S. bombers at Britain’s RAF Fairford
  5. World · Tue, Oct 6 · 6 AM CTSatellite images show attack jets at China’s new military site in Laos, Reuters reports
  6. World · Tue, Oct 6 · 6 AM CTKenya confirms its first Ebola case; patient who flew in from Uganda has died
  7. White House · Tue, Oct 6 · 6 AM CTTrump approves Army firing squad for Fort Hood killer Nidal Hasan, nearly 17 years after the massacre
  8. White House · Tue, Oct 6 · 6 AM CTUpdate: Trump signs diesel tax relief order on stage in Nebraska, letting red-dyed diesel on highways through Dec. 31
  9. White House · Tue, Oct 6 · 6 AM CTJustice Department moves to strip U.S. citizenship from 40 naturalized citizens accused of serious crimes
  10. White House · Tue, Oct 6 · 6 AM CTRubio opens three-nation NATO tour in Iceland, then Greece and Portugal
  11. Supreme Court · Tue, Oct 6 · 6 AM CTJustice Kagan refuses to halt the $111 billion Paramount-Warner Bros. merger before today’s closing
  12. Supreme Court · Tue, Oct 6 · 6 AM CTToday: Justices hear Intel 401(k) case on what workers must show to sue over retirement-plan investments
  13. World · Mon, Oct 5 · 5 PM CTSaudi-backed Yemeni forces say they retook the Bab el-Mandeb Strait coast from the Houthis
  14. World · Mon, Oct 5 · 5 PM CTTreasury warns foreign banks still dealing with Iran they can be sanctioned without notice
  15. World · Mon, Oct 5 · 5 PM CTFrance’s school riots: more than 5,000 arrested, teen loses hand to police grenade
  16. World · Mon, Oct 5 · 5 PM CTSpain’s Sánchez calls early elections after housing defeat
  17. White House · Mon, Oct 5 · 5 PM CTTrump readies order to widen use of tax-exempt diesel as prices sit at $6.32
  18. White House · Mon, Oct 5 · 5 PM CTUpdate: Trump says ‘some threats’ drove bomber move out of Britain; warns Iran would ‘suffer greatly’
  19. White House · Mon, Oct 5 · 5 PM CTWhite House releases files showing FBI tracked Trump family travel and Susie Wiles’ phone records
  20. White House · Mon, Oct 5 · 5 PM CTJustice Department sues University of Delaware over in-state tuition for illegal immigrants