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  1. World · Mon, Oct 19 · 5 PM CTUpdate: France admits police 'lost control' as Macron refuses his interior minister's resignation; Trump says 'close the borders'
  2. World · Mon, Oct 19 · 5 PM CTLavrov visits Tehran and condemns U.S.-Israeli strikes as Netanyahu tells Trump 'we have a job to finish'
  3. World · Mon, Oct 19 · 5 PM CTHouthi missiles kill at least 53 recruits at a Yemeni army camp; Saudi Arabia postpones its flagship investment forum to 2027
  4. World · Mon, Oct 19 · 5 PM CTUpdate: Canada's top soldier vows to make the Wainwright fire inquiry public; Carney says 50 investigators are on site
  5. World · Mon, Oct 19 · 5 PM CTUpdate: Florida announces arrest warrant charging Raúl Castro in the 1996 Brothers to the Rescue shootdown
  6. White House · Mon, Oct 19 · 5 PM CTTrump signs a women's health executive order creating an NIH Women's Health Division and a White House task force
  7. White House · Mon, Oct 19 · 5 PM CTTrump says 'it's time for somebody else to negotiate on behalf of Ukraine'; Speaker Johnson warns 'Putin cannot be trusted'
  8. White House · Mon, Oct 19 · 5 PM CTUpdate: Judge Reyes cites 'a strong showing of bad faith' at East Potomac golf hearing after rejecting DOJ's bid to remove her
  9. White House · Mon, Oct 19 · 5 PM CTTrump takes his border message to Kansas tonight as a Senate race there tightens
  10. Supreme Court · Mon, Oct 19 · 5 PM CTSupreme Court takes up Asian-American parents' school admissions challenge and the 1868 federal ban on home distilling
  11. Supreme Court · Mon, Oct 19 · 5 PM CTJustices turn away 9/11 plotters' plea-deal bid and fired NLRB member Wilcox; seek U.S. views on Iowa's illegal-reentry law
  12. World · Mon, Oct 19 · 6 AM CTUpdate: France holds 2,331 over weekend riots, jails dozens and orders local curfews as ministers admit 'we failed'
  13. World · Mon, Oct 19 · 6 AM CTUpdate: Canada names the four soldiers killed in the Wainwright training fire; 39 hurt, at least 19 critical
  14. World · Mon, Oct 19 · 6 AM CTRiyadh's Kingdom Centre sends office workers home as Houthi missile and drone attacks on Saudi Arabia mount
  15. World · Mon, Oct 19 · 6 AM CTUN maritime chief says about 6,000 sailors remain trapped near the Strait of Hormuz as attacks on ships mount
  16. World · Mon, Oct 19 · 6 AM CTAlbania's anti-government protests turn violent for a sixth day; U.S. lawmakers urge restraint
  17. World · Mon, Oct 19 · 6 AM CTFlorida obtains no-bond state arrest warrant for Raúl Castro over the 1996 Brothers to the Rescue shootdown
  18. World · Mon, Oct 19 · 6 AM CTNational Guard member shot in the leg while breaking up a fight on Capitol Hill; suspect also wounded
  19. White House · Mon, Oct 19 · 6 AM CTPutin floats a Trump-Xi summit on Ukraine without Zelensky; Rubio says there was 'no pause' in U.S. intelligence for Kyiv
  20. White House · Mon, Oct 19 · 6 AM CTToday: Trump and the first lady sign an executive order in the Rose Garden, then Trump holds a rally near Wichita