Evening Brief: Election Day's final hours; Iran says 'ball is in America's court'; Court leans toward Catholic preschools
Polls begin closing at 6 p.m. ET; Russia's attacks kill at least 38 in Ukraine.
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I'm Nora Vale with your 5 PM World Brief for Tuesday, November 3, Election Day. Final hours: 54M+ voted early; first polls close 6 p.m. ET in Indiana and Kentucky. Westchester, N.Y.: machines reject paper ballots; officials say all will be counted. Ninth Circuit, 6-5: DOJ may ask states to set aside suspected noncitizen ballots. Iran: 'the ball is now in America's court.' Qatar says talks continue. Russian attacks kill at least 38 in Ukraine; Dnipro hospice destroyed. Supreme Court appears likely to side with Catholic preschools in Colorado case. In national weather, from the National Weather Service: Snow will develop over parts of the higher elevations of the Central Rockies on Wednesday. Our opinion. Count every legal vote, in the open. Hold firm with Iran. Don't shut faith schools out. Full stories and sources at WorldBriefNow.com. I'm Nora Vale.
U.S. officials told CBS the Qeshm Island strikes were limited and defensive, after Iran's Revolutionary Guard fired on a U.S. aircraft, the BBC reported; the IRGC said it downed two U.S. MQM-170 drones and an MQ-9 drone. On Tuesday Iran's chief negotiator, parliament speaker Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf, said "the ball is now in America's court to prevent war." Qatar's foreign ministry spokesman Majed al-Ansari said both sides were reviewing its proposals and "remain committed to the negotiation process."
Regional authorities said Russian attacks across Ukraine killed at least 38 people and injured 167 over the past day, the Kyiv Independent reported. A morning missile strike on Dnipro killed two and injured 20 and destroyed a hospice, forcing about 50 terminally ill patients to be moved, Mayor Borys Filatov said, while Kharkiv prosecutors said 73 people were affected by the overnight hospital strike. Ukraine's Air Force said Russia fired 289 drones and 59 cruise missiles, and Zelensky said 17 ballistic missiles, mostly at energy sites.
Fox News reported that more than 54 million Americans cast early ballots before Election Day, citing the Associated Press, with all 435 House seats, 35 Senate seats and 36 governor's races on the ballot. The first polls close at 6 p.m. ET in parts of Indiana and Kentucky, followed by more closings at 7 and 7:30 p.m. ET. Fox reported ballot-scanner problems in New York's Westchester County and reports of misleading texts about polling-place changes in Georgia.
The Westchester County Board of Elections said an issue with paper ballots kept some voting machines across the county from accepting them, and that unprocessed ballots go into secured orange emergency bags to be counted later, Fox News reported. Rep. Mike Lawler, R-N.Y., said new machines were being brought in and the emergency bags would be taken by police escort to the board of elections, where both campaigns will have representation. County Executive Ken Jenkins called the situation "unacceptable" and promised a bipartisan review.
The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals voted 6-5 on Tuesday to reinstate a stay, allowing federal officials to resume asking state election administrators to segregate ballots suspected of being cast by noncitizens, Fox News reported, citing SCOTUS Wire. The order does not require states to comply and does not establish that any voters are noncitizens. Chief Judge Mary Murguia was among five dissenters, warning election officials could face conflicting legal obligations.
After about two hours of argument in St. Mary Catholic Parish v. Roy, the Court's conservative majority appeared likely to rule for Catholic preschools excluded from Colorado's universal preschool program, CBS News reported. Justice Amy Coney Barrett asked how Colorado could impose a condition it knows religious schools cannot accept, and Justice Brett Kavanaugh noted that more than 2,000 preschools take part in the program while only 34 are overseen by the Archdiocese of Denver. Justices Kagan, Sotomayor and Jackson questioned whether the schools want a "special" rule.
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