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  1. 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
  2. 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
  3. 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
  4. 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
  5. 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'
  6. 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
  7. 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
  8. 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'
  9. 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
  10. 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
  11. 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
  12. Supreme Court · Sun, Nov 1 · 6 AM CTSupreme Court: Big Bend border-wall request still awaiting an order after challengers' Oct. 29 response
  13. 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
  14. 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
  15. World · Sat, Oct 31 · 5 PM CTUpdate: G20 foreign ministers' meeting in Atlanta ends with no joint communique; Rubio issues a chair's statement on energy security and free navigation
  16. World · Sat, Oct 31 · 5 PM CTU.S. Embassy in Moscow warns of a 'credible threat' of a mass casualty event Saturday at the Tsaritsyno Museum Reserve
  17. World · Sat, Oct 31 · 5 PM CTUpdate: Oleshky evacuation completed under the truce Melania Trump helped broker; Ukraine says it hit a Russian rocket-propellant plant in Rostov
  18. World · Sat, Oct 31 · 5 PM CTFrance deploys 70,000 police as anti-government protests enter a third weekend; looting losses top $1 billion
  19. World · Sat, Oct 31 · 5 PM CTUpdate: Poland's President Nawrocki holds crisis talks with party leaders over the Constitutional Tribunal as protests continue; the Left refuses to attend
  20. White House · Sat, Oct 31 · 5 PM CTTrump praises L.A. federal prosecutor Bill Essayli and vows to keep fighting after the Ninth Circuit refuses to set aside about 20,000 California ballots