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  1. World · Tue, Oct 27 · 5 PM CTUpdate: Israel's exit polls show no majority; Likud is the largest party but Netanyahu's bloc falls to 50 seats
  2. World · Tue, Oct 27 · 5 PM CTU.S. orders non-emergency staff out of Saudi Arabia after Houthi attacks; IAEA says it can't verify Iran's 440 kg of highly enriched uranium
  3. World · Tue, Oct 27 · 5 PM CTUpdate: Putin hosts Iran's president at the Kremlin, says Bushehr nuclear plant work continues and trade grew 10.4%
  4. World · Tue, Oct 27 · 5 PM CTUpdate: Oleshky truce widens across Ukraine's Kherson region and holds; evacuation still set for Friday
  5. White House · Tue, Oct 27 · 5 PM CTTrump in Corpus Christi: shows off 1 million barrels of Venezuelan oil, says the Iran war will end 'very soon'
  6. White House · Tue, Oct 27 · 5 PM CTAverage gas price in Trump's second term edges past Biden's, AAA data show; White House says prices will fall when the Iran war ends
  7. Supreme Court · Tue, Oct 27 · 5 PM CTSupreme Court refuses to revive Biden-era rule that let immigration judges pause deportation cases
  8. World · Tue, Oct 27 · 6 AM CTIsrael votes: turnout is the highest since 1981 as Netanyahu and Eisenkot fight a near-tie; exit polls at 3 p.m. CT
  9. World · Tue, Oct 27 · 6 AM CTUpdate: Iran's president goes to Moscow to meet Putin as Qatar tells Tehran to open the Strait of Hormuz
  10. World · Tue, Oct 27 · 6 AM CTBritain charges two men in a suspected Iranian plot at RAF Fairford, a base used by U.S. forces in the Iran conflict
  11. World · Tue, Oct 27 · 6 AM CTUpdate: Oleshky truce begins and both sides say it is holding; civilian evacuation now planned for Friday
  12. White House · Tue, Oct 27 · 6 AM CTTrump in Corinth: 'I can't take a chance' on the Mississippi Senate race; today he rallies in Corpus Christi and Lubbock, Texas
  13. White House · Tue, Oct 27 · 6 AM CTJustice Department charges James Comey a third time, alleging he leaked national defense information in 2016
  14. Supreme Court · Tue, Oct 27 · 6 AM CTSupreme Court: Sotomayor denies Louisiana's bid in Devon Energy case; Baltimore deportation fight still awaits an order; Big Bend responses due Thursday
  15. World · Mon, Oct 26 · 5 PM CTUpdate: Saudi, Pakistani and Turkish chiefs meet Iran's president in Tehran as reports say U.S. forces could strike within 96 hours of an order
  16. White House · Mon, Oct 26 · 5 PM CTTreasury Secretary Bessent tells Iranians: 'don't pay your taxes' and fill your gas tanks now, predicting Iran's economy will shrink more than 25%
  17. World · Mon, Oct 26 · 5 PM CTUpdate: Brazil's election chief says the two-hour voting extension did not change the result as Flávio Bolsonaro pushes to annul Lula's win
  18. World · Mon, Oct 26 · 5 PM CTIsrael votes Tuesday: Eisenkot leads Netanyahu by 8 to 10 points in most polls as Netanyahu denies plans to fire his army chief
  19. World · Mon, Oct 26 · 5 PM CTLimited ceasefire for starving Ukrainian town of Oleshky: residents told buses will start taking them out Tuesday morning
  20. White House · Mon, Oct 26 · 5 PM CTTrump lands in Memphis and heads to Corinth, Mississippi, for a 6 p.m. rally for Sen. Cindy Hyde-Smith