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  1. White House · Tue, Nov 3 · 6 AM CTElection Day: polls open across America with control of the House and Senate on the line
  2. White House · Tue, Nov 3 · 6 AM CTTrump on the eve of the vote: Iran is a 'very soft war' the U.S. can end 'at any time'
  3. White House · Tue, Nov 3 · 6 AM CTJudge denies NAACP's broader request but orders DOJ poll monitors to be unarmed, non-police staff
  4. World · Tue, Nov 3 · 6 AM CTU.S. carries out 'defensive' strikes on Iran's Qeshm Island after Iran fires at U.S. aircraft
  5. World · Tue, Nov 3 · 6 AM CTUpdate: Qatar says it is seeking an interim U.S.-Iran deal after a three-hour session in Tehran, but 'no concrete progress' yet
  6. World · Tue, Nov 3 · 6 AM CTUpdate: Russia fires 289 drones and 76 missiles at Ukraine overnight; Kharkiv hospital hit, 73 injured; aid-center death toll rises to at least 31
  7. Supreme Court · Tue, Nov 3 · 6 AM CTSupreme Court hears Catholic preschools' challenge to Colorado's universal preschool rules today
  8. World · Mon, Nov 2 · 5 PM CTUpdate: Trump tells Axios there is 'no rush' to decide on new Iran strikes, then posts that a deal 'could happen' as Qatar's mediator returns to Tehran
  9. World · Mon, Nov 2 · 5 PM CTIran says its seven-step plan is now 'condensed' to two days, but its demands are unchanged: lift the blockade and sanctions first
  10. World · Mon, Nov 2 · 5 PM CTAt least 26 killed as Russian glide bombs hit a school used as an aid center in Ukraine's Zaporizhzhia region, a day after the Oleshky truce ended
  11. World · Mon, Nov 2 · 5 PM CTFighting resumes in Kherson after the longest ceasefire of the war, brokered by First Lady Melania Trump; Kyiv says Russia used the pause to rearm
  12. White House · Mon, Nov 2 · 5 PM CTTrump makes his final pitch before Tuesday's midterm elections in front of the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool
  13. Supreme Court · Mon, Nov 2 · 5 PM CTSupreme Court opens its November sitting with Maxwell v. Dinis and Younge v. Fulton DA; the Catholic preschools case, St. Mary Catholic Parish v. Roy, is argued Tuesday
  14. 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
  15. 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
  16. 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
  17. 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
  18. 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'
  19. 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
  20. 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