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  1. World · Fri, Oct 30 · 5 PM CTUpdate: Iran says four tankers hit trouble in Hormuz on Friday, including a supertanker it says struck a mine and caught fire; Oman rescues 25 crew from the burning tanker RITI
  2. World · Fri, Oct 30 · 5 PM CTThursday's Hormuz tanker attack named as the Louise 1, hit by limpet mines; UKMTO says October brought the most reported strikes of the war
  3. World · Fri, Oct 30 · 5 PM CTTrump says the Iran war is 'going to get wrapped up soon' as Qatari mediators carry edits of a peace draft to Tehran; Brent oil climbs to $117.56
  4. World · Fri, Oct 30 · 5 PM CTHouthis target Yemen's presidential palace in Aden with two missiles, police official says, hours after Saudi forces intercept a drone near Riyadh and a ballistic missile
  5. World · Fri, Oct 30 · 5 PM CTUpdate: Starving Oleshky residents begin evacuating under a truce Melania Trump helped broker, as Russian strikes black out Dnipro for more than 350,000
  6. World · Fri, Oct 30 · 5 PM CTRubio opens G20 foreign ministers' talks in Atlanta, with Russia's Lavrov at the table, warning of 'interconnected economic and geopolitical crises'
  7. White House · Fri, Oct 30 · 5 PM CTTrump welcomes Stephen Hubbard, the 74-year-old American freed from a Russian prison, to the Oval Office
  8. White House · Fri, Oct 30 · 5 PM CTUpdate: Trump puts Kansas and Iowa rallies back on for Sunday, a day after canceling them, alongside nearly 20 tele-rallies; Daytona Beach rally tonight
  9. White House · Fri, Oct 30 · 5 PM CTICE lists 17 more noncitizens arrested in its nationwide crackdown on illegal voting, days before the midterms
  10. White House · Fri, Oct 30 · 5 PM CTJudge hears Comey's bid to toss the third federal case against him and warns DOJ against a 'predawn raid'; DOJ may seek a grand jury indictment
  11. Supreme Court · Fri, Oct 30 · 5 PM CTSupreme Court opens its November sitting Monday; this week it left a Texas-DOJ deportation deal in place, and the Big Bend border-wall request is close to decision
  12. Supreme Court · Fri, Oct 30 · 5 PM CTNov. 4 argument: Texas, backed by the Trump administration and 22 states, asks the justices to limit a death-row inmate's second habeas petition
  13. World · Fri, Oct 30 · 6 AM CTUpdate: Tanker set ablaze in the Strait of Hormuz after a small boat attached two explosives to its hull, UKMTO says; Iran now claims four tankers hit mines
  14. World · Fri, Oct 30 · 6 AM CTUpdate: Top U.S. commander briefs Trump on Iran military options at the White House as Qatari mediators return to Tehran
  15. World · Fri, Oct 30 · 6 AM CTIran-backed Houthis claim six missile and drone attacks on Saudi refineries, airports and a military post; Riyadh says it intercepted missiles
  16. World · Fri, Oct 30 · 6 AM CTBinance hit by a $6.3 billion hack, believed to be the largest crypto theft on record; analytics firms tie it to North Korea
  17. World · Fri, Oct 30 · 6 AM CTRussian ballistic missiles kill one in Kyiv; a drone strike kills 13 at a Dnipro commuter train as aid starts to reach Oleshky under a truce Melania Trump helped broker
  18. World · Fri, Oct 30 · 6 AM CTEl Salvador rushes about 2,000 troops to Haiti after four Salvadoran members of a UN-backed force went missing in a gang ambush
  19. White House · Fri, Oct 30 · 6 AM CTEconomy grew at a 3.4% pace last quarter, but September inflation rose to 3.6% from a year earlier
  20. White House · Fri, Oct 30 · 6 AM CTDHS says ICE's 'Lone Star Mission' arrested 4,170 illegal immigrants across Texas in 10 days