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  1. World · Sat, Oct 24 · 5 PM CTUpdate: Trump says the U.S. could strike Iran 'tomorrow' or reach a deal; WSJ reports carrier crews loading munitions
  2. World · Sat, Oct 24 · 5 PM CTSaudi Arabia intercepts two Houthi ballistic missiles fired toward Mecca and Medina
  3. World · Sat, Oct 24 · 5 PM CTUpdate: Jordan church attack death toll rises to 9; government blames 'extremist takfiri ideology'
  4. World · Sat, Oct 24 · 5 PM CTUpdate: Nearly 1,000 arrested across France as 70,000 police face renewed nationwide protests
  5. World · Sat, Oct 24 · 5 PM CTZelenskyy says Ukraine's Starlink and Starshield speeds are restored after a week of front-line disruption
  6. White House · Sat, Oct 24 · 5 PM CTTrump and the first lady vote early in person in Florida; President says he voted Republican 'very much so'
  7. White House · Sat, Oct 24 · 5 PM CTUpdate: 9th Circuit will hear DOJ's noncitizen-ballot appeal Sunday before a panel with two Trump appointees
  8. White House · Sat, Oct 24 · 5 PM CTJustice Department aims to send election monitors to all 50 states for the midterms
  9. Supreme Court · Sat, Oct 24 · 5 PM CTSwitchblade and body armor rulings raise gun-rights hopes ahead of the Supreme Court's Dec. 2 AR-15 argument
  10. Supreme Court · Sat, Oct 24 · 5 PM CTNo new Supreme Court orders Saturday; immigration stay request still pending as justices prepare for Nov. 2 arguments
  11. World · Sat, Oct 24 · 6 AM CTU.S. intelligence warns Iranian plots to kill Americans abroad have reached 'advanced stages'; Tehran vows to keep U.S. ships out of the Gulf
  12. World · Sat, Oct 24 · 6 AM CTMagnitude 7 earthquake in China's Tibet kills 16 and injures 76
  13. World · Sat, Oct 24 · 6 AM CTUpdate: Kenya reports second Ebola death as the U.S. makes every arriving air passenger attest they haven't been in Congo
  14. White House · Sat, Oct 24 · 6 AM CTRubio urges Cubans to seek change through a 'discrete partnership with the CIA'; Trump floats sending Rubio to 'finish up the deal'
  15. White House · Sat, Oct 24 · 6 AM CTUpdate: 9th Circuit orders California to answer by noon Saturday on DOJ bid to set aside about 20,000 suspected noncitizen ballots
  16. White House · Sat, Oct 24 · 6 AM CTHegseth says the Pentagon dismantled 80 Chinese 'propaganda cells' at U.S. colleges in two months
  17. White House · Sat, Oct 24 · 6 AM CTFBI arrests Georgia man accused of throwing a Molotov cocktail at Atlanta ICE building
  18. Supreme Court · Sat, Oct 24 · 6 AM CTTrump administration and Texas urge justices to keep their deal ending a Biden-era rule that let judges pause deportation cases
  19. Supreme Court · Sat, Oct 24 · 6 AM CTNo new Court orders since Thursday; justices return to the bench Nov. 2, with a Catholic parish case on Nov. 3
  20. World · Fri, Oct 23 · 5 PM CTGunmen kill seven at a funeral in a Greek Orthodox church in Jordan; officials call it terrorism