A 42-year-old man from Blaine was struck and killed by a pickup while walking on Highway 65 near 125th Avenue just before 8 p.m. Saturday, according to the Minnesota State Patrol.

State Patrol investigators say the man had entered a northbound traffic lane on the four-lane divided highway when he was hit by a Dodge Ram, and he died from his injuries at the scene. Authorities have not said why he was on the roadway, and no other injuries were reported.

President Isaac Herzog on Sunday formally tasked opposition leader Gadi Eisenkot with trying to assemble Israel's next government, giving him six weeks to break a post-election deadlock that stripped Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of his parliamentary majority.

At a ceremony in Jerusalem, Herzog handed Eisenkot the mandate after consultations in which most major parties recommended the former army chief over Netanyahu, even though Netanyahu's right-wing and ultra-Orthodox bloc remains the largest at 53 of the Knesset's 120 seats. Eisenkot's bloc controls 48 seats and Arab-led parties hold a record 19, leaving every camp short of the 61 seats needed to govern and forcing Eisenkot to choose among a power-sharing deal with Netanyahu, a coalition that relies on Arab parties, or a compromise with ultra-Orthodox factions his allies campaigned against. Laying down his terms on Sunday, Eisenkot said any partner must support Israel as a Jewish and democratic state, back its declaration of independence, accept military or national service obligations, and recognize Hamas as a terrorist organization.

Polish prosecutors have opened a terrorism investigation into Saturday's mass shooting in Krakow's Main Market Square after discovering three additional family members of the suspected gunman shot dead at his home, bringing the overall death toll to nine.

Authorities said Sunday that the 24-year-old Polish suspect, who was wounded and arrested after a gunfight with police, is being investigated for murder and attempted murder "constituting a terrorist offense," citing his "very radical" ultranationalist far-right views. Interior Minister Marcin Kierwinski said the man appeared fascinated by far-right ideologies, while officials confirmed that the six people killed in the square were four women and two men, including four Poles, a man from the UK and a woman from another foreign country that has not yet been identified. Poland declared two days of national mourning starting Sunday and halted the traditional St. Mary's Trumpet Call from St. Mary's Basilica for the first time since World War II in tribute to the victims.

Two Newport Beach fishermen pulled a cruise ship employee alive from the Pacific Ocean on Friday after finding him treading water 15 to 20 miles off the Southern California coast, ending what officials say was a harrowing overnight ordeal.

The man, who identified himself as a pianist working aboard Royal Caribbean's 14-deck Ovation of the Seas, told his rescuers he had been in the water for about nine to ten hours before they spotted him while returning from a fishing trip to Catalina Island. After they brought him aboard, the fishermen issued an emergency maritime call that drew Newport Beach lifeguards, who transferred him to shore to be hospitalized; authorities say he is expected to survive as the U.S. Coast Guard investigates how he went overboard.

Russia unleashed another major wave of missiles and drones across Ukraine overnight into Sunday, knocking out power for more than 850,000 people just two days before U.S.-mediated Ukraine-Russia talks are due to open in Abu Dhabi.

Utility DTEK said more than 600,000 residents in the central Dnipropetrovsk region lost electricity after key energy facilities were hit, while a drone strike on critical infrastructure in the northeastern Kharkiv region left nearly 250,000 customers without power, local officials reported. President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said the latest night-time barrage caused "widespread power outages across the country," cutting heating to 140 apartment buildings in the Zhytomyr region as temperatures hovered around freezing and even targeting Komyshuvakha in Zaporizhzhia, where rescuers have spent a week digging through rubble from an earlier strike on an aid center.

Mississippi's U.S. Senate race remained uncalled early Sunday as thousands of absentee and provisional ballots awaited processing, leaving Democrat Scott Colom and Republican Sen. Cindy Hyde-Smith locked in a razor-thin fight that could reshape the state's political history.

Colom held a lead of nearly 2,500 votes out of almost 1 million cast, but election officials will continue counting mail-in absentee ballots that arrive by Tuesday and sorting through an estimated 20,000 affidavit, or provisional, ballots that could tip the outcome. Mississippi law allows absentee ballots postmarked by Election Day to be accepted until Tuesday, also the deadline for voters who cast affidavit ballots because of ID or registration problems to fix those issues at local election offices; counties must certify results by Friday, and the Associated Press has withheld a projection in the race.

Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni on Saturday blamed "pro-Russian hackers" for publishing Foreign Minister Antonio Tajani's personal data on the dark web, saying Italy would not be intimidated over its support for Ukraine.

Tajani disclosed that his own and his family's data had appeared in online leaks in recent days, which he described as a targeted campaign linked to his and Italy's pro-Ukraine stance, but vowed not to change his position. He filed a report with judicial authorities, while Italy's privacy watchdog warned media that republishing illegally obtained data would itself break the law.

U.S. cyber, transportation and agriculture agencies are warning hospitals and other critical industries to harden their industrial refrigerators after a recent cyberattack tried to cook stored plasma at three French blood banks and hackers ruined food in supermarket freezers across Europe.

In a joint advisory released Thursday, November 5, the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, FBI, Department of Health and Human Services, Department of Agriculture and Department of Transportation said there is "ongoing cyber threat activity" against industrial and commercial refrigeration systems in the United States and urged operators to assume they could be targets. The notice and an accompanying CISA fact sheet recommend immediate steps such as changing default passwords, disconnecting internet-exposed control devices where possible, and rapidly applying software updates, warning that successful intrusions could allow attackers to remotely raise temperatures, create fire hazards and destroy inventory.

A 63-year-old cyclist was killed and more than a dozen others were injured Saturday morning when an allegedly impaired driver crossed the center line and plowed into a large group ride in Wake County, North Carolina, authorities said.

The crash happened shortly after 9:30 a.m. Eastern on a two-lane road as more than 40 cyclists were traveling eastbound, according to state officials. A black Infiniti sedan traveling westbound crossed into their lane and struck the group head-on, killing Patrick Allen Turner, 63, of Cary, and leaving at least seven riders with major injuries and several others with minor wounds, for a total injury count estimated between about 12 and 22. The driver, identified as 76-year-old Donald Robert Morris-Jones of Apex, allegedly fled the scene, then crashed into a ditch and was taken into custody on multiple felony charges, including driving while impaired and felony death by vehicle; his bond was set at $1 million.

New York City police on Saturday arrested 27-year-old PS 200 teacher's aide Sayed Mohassib and charged him with murder in the stabbing death of Brooklyn jogger Katie Suarez along the Shore Parkway greenway.

Police said Mohassib, a Brooklyn resident, faces counts of second-degree murder, tampering with physical evidence and criminal possession of a weapon in connection with the October 30 attack in Gravesend that left the 28-year-old Suarez fatally wounded.

Democratic leaders in Congress, newly empowered by this week's midterm election wins, are preparing wide-ranging investigations into a string of fatal shootings by Immigration and Customs Enforcement and Border Patrol officers since Donald Trump returned to the White House.

Lawmakers say they intend to call senior Trump administration officials, subpoena internal use-of-force reports and training records, and scrutinize at least nine deaths since early 2025, including high-profile killings in Minneapolis and Houston that sparked nationwide protests. Rep. Jamie Raskin of Maryland, expected to chair the powerful House Judiciary Committee when the new Congress is seated in January, said Democrats will use "every tool" they have to force ICE to explain the shootings and the policies behind them.

A cooperating federal witness told jurors in New York that a group of Massachusetts Uber drivers used "inside information" to place dozens of winning prop bets on Cleveland Guardians closer Emmanuel Clase's pitch speeds during the 2023 season, before the flow of tips abruptly stopped after the Shohei Ohtani betting scandal became public.

Testifying Friday, Luis de Aza Baez said he won about $69,000 wagering on Clase because he received advance guidance on pitch velocity and sequences in a group chat called "Uber Inc.," which he said was started by Clase associate Enoc Pena. De Aza Baez told the jury he never communicated with Clase directly, only with Pena, and that he agreed to forfeit his winnings and cooperate in exchange for dismissal of a wire fraud charge. He also testified that after Ohtani's former interpreter Ippei Mizuhara was exposed in March 2024 for illegal gambling and theft, "there was no more information like that" about Clase's pitches for the 2024 season.

A federal judge in Washington, D.C., said Saturday she intends to appoint former U.S. attorney Jessie Liu as a special master to investigate whether federal officials misled the court in a lawsuit over Donald Trump's planned overhaul of the East Potomac Golf Course.

Judge Ana Reyes of the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia told lawyers she plans to tap Liu to probe the conduct of officials and attorneys from the Interior Department, the National Park Service and the Justice Department, focusing on whether they provided false or incomplete information or broke ethics rules during earlier hearings. She ordered both sides to file written positions on Liu's potential appointment by Friday, ahead of the next hearing in the case, which has already produced an injunction blocking tree removal and other irreversible work at the historic public course.

Two people were killed when an Acura SUV fleeing a Ramsey County sheriff's deputy at more than 100 mph crashed into a tree in St. Paul shortly after midnight Saturday, authorities said.

The Ramsey County Sheriff's Office said a deputy attempted to stop the Acura RDX near Rose Avenue East and Burr Street North in St. Paul, but the driver took off, leading to a roughly one-mile pursuit that topped 100 mph before the vehicle hit a dip at Wheelock Parkway, lost control, and slammed into a tree near Payne and Nebraska avenues, ejecting both occupants. The suspected driver, a 27-year-old man who had outstanding felony warrants for drug offenses and for fleeing police, and a 29-year-old passenger were pronounced dead at the scene, and officials have not yet released their names.

Ousted Paraguayan president Santiago Peña was driven under police escort to the attorney general's office in Asunción for questioning on Saturday, a day after his impeachment and arrest over the collapse of Ueno Bank, a digital lender that held massive public funds and served more than half the country's adults.

Prosecutors ordered Peña's arrest on Friday on allegations including breach of trust, influence peddling and using public office for personal gain, offenses that could carry up to 10 years in prison, and he was moved overnight from house arrest to a military base as crowds gathered outside his home. Vice President Pedro Alliana was sworn in to complete Peña's term through August 2028, began naming a new cabinet on Saturday, and pledged to compensate depositors who lost money, while the central bank said 1.2 million Ueno customers have already received partial or full reimbursement of insured deposits.

European governments are investigating a fresh wave of hoax bomb threats that on Friday grounded or diverted passenger jets in several countries and forced the evacuation of major newsrooms in Dublin and London, prompting Ireland to say the incidents now "seem likely" to be part of a coordinated campaign to disrupt air travel and sow wider alarm.

Hungary's defense minister said military jets escorted three threatened passenger planes across Hungarian airspace within an hour on Friday, while French officials reported four more bomb threats to aircraft flying over France, all of which landed safely at Paris Orly Airport for searches that found nothing suspicious. In Dublin, the offices of Ireland's national broadcaster RTÉ, Newstalk radio and the Irish Independent newspaper were cleared after emailed bomb threats, and UK-based Sky News reported receiving a similar message, extending a pattern that had until now largely focused on flights. Irish officials, who are preparing to host dozens of European leaders for a summit next week, said no explosives were found in any of the buildings or on any of the affected aircraft but acknowledged the alerts have sharpened questions about security ahead of the gathering.

The Justice Department on Friday moved to voluntarily dismiss its high-profile lawsuit seeking to stop California from counting roughly 20,000 mail ballots it claimed went to noncitizens, after the U.S. Supreme Court and lower courts repeatedly refused to grant emergency relief and state officials processed millions of votes that can no longer be separated out.

In a filing with U.S. District Judge David O. Carter in Los Angeles, DOJ lawyers said they had "needed this relief around November 3" and now consider their requested remedy unattainable because the challenged ballots have been verified and commingled with lawful votes under California's anonymized counting system, with nearly 11 million ballots processed as of Friday evening. The department simultaneously threw its weight behind a separate, longer-term case filed in May accusing California of failing to adequately remove ineligible voters from its rolls, even as spokesperson Kiersten Pels continued to assert without presenting new evidence that "thousands of likely noncitizens remain on California's voter rolls and voted in the 2026 elections."

Two licensed and experienced skydivers died after colliding in midair while preparing to land at the Skydive Elsinore facility in Riverside County, California, on Friday, November 6, authorities and company officials said.

The pair reportedly crashed into each other about 150 feet above the ground, causing their parachutes to become entangled before impact. Both were rushed from the drop zone to a local hospital in critical condition and were later pronounced dead, according to officials and a statement from Skydive Elsinore. The company said there was no evidence of an equipment malfunction, and investigators are examining how the final approach to landing turned fatal.

Researchers reported Saturday that the experimental drug pelacarsen, once seen as a potential game-changer for heart disease, failed to prevent heart attacks, strokes or other major cardiovascular events in a large international trial unveiled at the American Heart Association meeting in Chicago.

The five-year randomized study followed 8,350 adults who already had heart disease and were given either pelacarsen or a placebo in addition to standard therapies, including statins, but patients on the drug did no better at avoiding cardiovascular complications despite seeing their lipoprotein(a), or Lp(a), levels drop by about 78 percent. Novartis, which co-developed pelacarsen, acknowledged the trial did not meet its primary endpoint, and detailed results were published simultaneously in the New England Journal of Medicine and NEJM Evidence.

The U.S. Coast Guard has detained the MSC Poesia cruise ship in PortMiami after inspectors found safety deficiencies, prompting MSC Cruises to cancel the vessel's ongoing 11-night Caribbean itinerary and disrupt travel plans for more than 2,000 passengers.

The Coast Guard said Tuesday, November 3, that the ship will remain held in Miami until the problems identified during a Port State Control examination are fixed and the vessel is cleared to sail. MSC canceled the November 1-12 cruise and said affected guests will receive full refunds and assistance arranging flights and hotel stays as they disembark in South Florida.

California Gov. Gavin Newsom has moved to commute every death sentence in the state, announcing Thursday that all 548 people on California's death row will instead serve life in prison without the possibility of parole.

In a public letter released Thursday, Newsom said "state-sanctioned killing is incompatible with California's values" and emphasized that he alone bears responsibility for the sweeping decision and its consequences. His office said the commutations apply to 529 men and 19 women and that 382 of the 548 have more than one felony conviction, meaning their clemency must also be approved by the California Supreme Court under the state constitution. A later PBS News segment reported that Newsom has now issued the commutation orders converting all 548 sentences to life without parole, calling it the largest single removal of people from death row in modern U.S. history.

Two men were arrested at a Turning Point USA event on the University of New Mexico campus Monday in Albuquerque, and a 70-year-old New Hampshire man faces charges in a separate alleged assault on a Turning Point volunteer outside a polling place the next day.

University of New Mexico police took Kevin Castro and Harrison Magnus into custody during the campus event after officers said one man hurled a lacrosse ball toward the crowd and both were heard discussing plans to throw objects. Castro is charged with aggravated assault with a deadly weapon, disorderly conduct and conspiracy, while Magnus faces counts of conspiracy, disorderly conduct and concealing identity.

An armed man who allegedly told officers he was hearing voices directing him to assassinate President Trump was arrested late Thursday near the White House after Secret Service agents stopped a suspicious vehicle, according to the Department of Homeland Security.

Secret Service officers approached the parked truck on the 1600 block of Constitution Avenue NW near the Ellipse on Thursday night, where the driver, identified as Venezuelan national Ronny Yordrix Guanipa Chrinos, admitted there were weapons in the vehicle and said voices had told him to kill the president, DHS said. A search of the allegedly stolen Ford F-150 recovered three firearms, including a rifle, and dozens of rounds of ammunition, and Guanipa Chrinos now faces multiple firearms and weapons-possession counts along with charges of unauthorized use of a motor vehicle, theft and receiving stolen property.

Democratic socialist Los Angeles City Councilmember Nithya Raman has unseated incumbent Mayor Karen Bass in this week's runoff election, a stunning upset in the nation's second-largest city that will put a Democratic Socialists of America-backed mayor in charge at City Hall next month.

Bass conceded on Thursday after updated tallies showed Raman leading roughly 52% to 48%, making Bass the first Los Angeles mayor in about two decades to lose a reelection bid; Raman is scheduled to be sworn in on December 8. Raman ran on ousting the city's police chief, overhauling homelessness policy, and focusing on basic services such as road and sidewalk repairs, and she won despite lacking endorsements from major City Council colleagues or top national Democrats.

Democrats secured full control of Arizona's state government on Friday, November 6, as the Associated Press projected the party had flipped both the state House and Senate while keeping the governor's office, ending six decades of Republican legislative dominance.

The projected wins give Democrats their first trifecta in Arizona since 1966 and come after voters re-elected Democratic Gov. Katie Hobbs, who has clashed sharply with the GOP-controlled Legislature over the past two years. Unofficial tallies reported by the Arizona Capitol Times suggest Democrats are on track for roughly a 37-23 majority in the House and 20-10 in the Senate, while also leading in most statewide races as counting continues. The AP call sparked celebrations among Democrats and progressive activists on social media, where accounts like @unusual_whales and @States_Win hailed the result as a historic shift and @MsWinterrrr cast it as a governing mandate for Hobbs.

The U.S. economy added 165,000 jobs in October 2026, far more than forecasters expected, as hiring in health care, manufacturing and professional services helped push the unemployment rate down to 4.1% even as inflation continues to squeeze workers' budgets.

The Labor Department report released Friday showed particularly strong gains in professional and business services, which added about 70,000 jobs, health care with nearly 42,000, manufacturing with 19,000, and warehouse and transportation employers with 25,000, while hotels, restaurants, bars and construction companies cut jobs. Average hourly pay rose 0.4% from September and 3.1% over the past year, but with consumer inflation running around 3.7%, economists say workers are still losing purchasing power even as more people find work. Investors and analysts now see a December interest rate hike by the Federal Reserve as highly likely, with some expecting another increase early next year as policymakers try to contain price pressures.

U.S. Border Patrol agents seized more than 1,435 pounds of cocaine worth an estimated $9.8 million after stopping two vehicles at the San Clemente checkpoint in Southern California on October 25, authorities said.

Agents at the Interstate 5 checkpoint, located about 70 miles north of the U.S.-Mexico border, pulled both vehicles aside for further inspection after noticing suspicious behavior by the drivers, according to U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP). A Border Patrol canine alerted to possible contraband in each vehicle, leading agents to 550 vacuum-sealed packages of suspected cocaine hidden inside black garbage bags. The drivers were arrested at the scene, and the Drug Enforcement Administration later took custody of both the suspects and the narcotics for federal prosecution.

Minnesota's newly enlarged Democratic-Farmer-Labor majorities at the Capitol are moving ahead on an aggressive agenda for affordability and gun safety even as Governor-elect Amy Klobuchar holds firm to a pledge not to raise taxes, setting up an early test of unity for the state's DFL trifecta.

In St. Paul, Speaker-elect Zack Stephenson and House Majority Leader-elect Jamie Long are drafting plans to tackle child care, health care, housing costs, gun legislation and new limits on federal immigration enforcement, while openly discussing higher taxes or fees on Big Tech and renewed surtaxes on the wealthiest Minnesotans. Klobuchar, who campaigned on tightening state spending and has promised to lower some taxes if possible despite a shrinking surplus, has reiterated that she will not sign a bill that raises overall taxes, even as early revenue reports come in stronger than expected ahead of the February budget forecast.

President Donald Trump said in a pre-taped 60 Minutes interview that he planned to fire members of his team after Republicans lost both chambers of Congress, comments that aired the same week he pushed out White House chief of staff Susie Wiles and elevated hard-line adviser Stephen Miller to replace her.

In the interview with Ross Douthat, recorded before Friday, Trump acknowledged he would "maybe" make "a few changes" after the GOP's midterm defeat, adding that he did expect to "fire" people even as he insisted he loved his Cabinet. He also declared he still had confidence in Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, despite having recently asked advisers whether Hegseth should stay, and boasted that the US had "won Venezuela" in "less than one hour," highlighting how he is weighing personnel moves amid contentious foreign-policy claims.

A federal judge in Washington has temporarily blocked President Donald Trump's plan to start building a 250-foot triumphal arch between the Lincoln Memorial and Arlington National Cemetery, issuing a 14-day order that halts any construction work despite a key federal commission's approval hours earlier.

U.S. District Judge Tanya Chutkan granted the temporary restraining order late Thursday night going into Friday at the request of Virginia and the District of Columbia, finding in a 33-page opinion that they are likely to suffer irreparable traffic, environmental and emergency-response harms and sharply questioning the administration's shifting national-security rationale for the project. Her order bars any construction-related activity at Memorial Circle, including excavation, land disturbance, utility work and road closures, at least through mid-November while the consolidated lawsuits brought by the two jurisdictions and a group of Vietnam veterans move forward.

The White House quietly restored public access to its online ethics and financial disclosure hub on Friday afternoon, hours after the page began returning a 404 error as reporters sought records on President Trump's investments.

The disclosures portal at whitehouse.gov/disclosures, which hosts ethics filings for senior administration officials, was reachable at 3:01 p.m. Eastern but was showing a "page not found" error by 3:31 p.m., according to access records reviewed by CBS News. After CBS emailed the White House at 4:20 p.m. Eastern asking why the page had disappeared, the hub was restored sometime between 4:31 p.m. and 5:01 p.m., without any public explanation. When it came back online, the page included a new entry for President Trump's periodic stock transaction report, a document that had been posted by the Office of Government Ethics (OGE) nearly a month earlier.

U.S. officials say a woman they believe was working for China's top intelligence service sought to cultivate Nvidia chief executive Jensen Huang as an information source on advanced American AI chips, even as House Republicans press Huang for a closed-door briefing on the alleged espionage threat and his contacts with her.

According to a U.S. surveillance-based assessment, Alice Huang, a former executive at Singapore-based Megaspeed, was recruited by China's Ministry of State Security to gather intelligence on Nvidia's CEO and help Beijing better understand cutting-edge U.S. artificial-intelligence processors and export controls. Officials say her efforts also appeared aimed at nudging Nvidia to support making its highest-end chips more accessible to China, an objective that, if successful, could have undercut Washington's attempts to choke off Beijing's access to the most powerful AI hardware.

Houston Mayor John Whitmire on Friday ordered the city's police department to sharply narrow when officers contact federal immigration authorities, saying Houston will no longer call ICE on people stopped for non-jailable offenses such as routine traffic citations.

The directive, signed Friday, instructs Houston Police Department officers to reach out to US Immigration and Customs Enforcement only when someone is arrested on a jailable offense and ICE has issued an administrative immigration warrant, and it bars using suspected immigration status alone as a reason to detain someone or involve ICE. Police Chief J. Noe Diaz said the updated instructions were sent department-wide the same day and will be read at roll call for five days to make sure every officer understands the change.

President Volodymyr Zelenskyy pressed the United States on Friday to put "clear" and written postwar security guarantees for Ukraine on the table ahead of next week's trilateral talks in Abu Dhabi, a meeting Kyiv hopes will move the war closer to a negotiated end.

Speaking in Kyiv, Zelenskyy said the guarantees must be "truly ironclad" and spelled out in advance, warning that any vague or purely procedural pledges would be unacceptable as his government weighs a framework that could eventually open the way to a direct meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin. His push comes as his chief of staff, Kyrylo Budanov, voiced "restrained optimism" that the November 10-11 talks in the United Arab Emirates could move the process toward a first Zelenskyy-Putin encounter since Russia's full-scale invasion began.

Cornell University's Faculty Senate on Friday approved a no-confidence resolution in the university's top leaders, escalating a campus reckoning over the administration's handling of an alleged 2024 gang rape at a fraternity house in Ithaca, New York.

The resolution passed by a 75-50 vote, with five abstentions and five non-votes, and while it does not explicitly demand President Michael Kotlikoff's resignation, its sponsors say they intend it as pressure on Cornell's Board of Trustees to confront what they call longstanding institutional failures around sexual misconduct. Within hours, the board publicly reaffirmed its full support for Kotlikoff and his team, even as it acknowledged the vote reflected deep anger on campus and called the alleged assault "unacceptable."

Connecticut Sen. Chris Murphy was released Friday from Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore and will spend several weeks in a rehabilitation facility after suffering a small hemorrhagic stroke, a recovery that will keep him from Senate votes for weeks.

Murphy, 53, said in a statement that he expects to miss several weeks of floor votes while he undergoes rehab but stressed that he remains engaged with his staff and colleagues remotely and that his office's legislative and constituent work will continue uninterrupted. Johns Hopkins critical-care neurosciences chief Dr. Jose Suarez said the Democrat suffered a small hemorrhagic stroke in the thalamus region of his brain and is expected to make a full recovery following rehabilitation.

Democrats have seized commanding majorities in both the House and Senate after Tuesday's midterm elections, ending Republican control of Congress and handing President Donald Trump a hostile legislature that party leaders say will drive down costs and aggressively investigate his administration.

By Friday, Democrats were confirmed to control at least 54 Senate seats to Republicans' 44, with only the Alaska and Mississippi contests still uncalled, while CBS projects House Democrats will ultimately hold between 251 and 268 seats in what multiple outlets are describing as a "Democratic tsunami." Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer called the result a "generational remake of the Senate map," highlighting upsets in Texas, Iowa, Ohio, South Carolina and a landmark victory in Kansas, which had not elected a Democratic senator in 94 years, as incoming House leader Hakeem Jeffries, poised to become the first Black speaker, promised "bold, dramatic, and decisive change."

Senate Democratic leader Chuck Schumer said Thursday that his newly empowered caucus will block any attempt by President Donald Trump to put a "right-winger" on the Supreme Court, warning that Democrats will not approve what he called "crappy nominees" for the high court, lower courts or the Cabinet.

Speaking in Washington a day after Democrats secured a decisive Senate majority, Schumer said his party would use its numbers to shape the federal government's direction on the courts and domestic policy, while declining to say whether he would revive efforts to scrap the filibuster or keep any Supreme Court seat vacant through the 2028 election.

Federal prosecutors in New York have unsealed an indictment charging three people with running a $129 million, AI-driven executive impersonation scheme that targeted thousands of companies worldwide, using deepfake voices and images to trick employees into wiring money.

The defendants allegedly posed as corporate CEOs and lawyers on phone and video calls, relying on artificial-intelligence tools to clone voices and, in some cases, generate realistic images, then directing finance and operations staff to move large sums into accounts they controlled. Prosecutors say victims included hospital systems in Missouri and California, a bank in Rhode Island, a United Kingdom fintech firm, a mutual fund company in Massachusetts, and a Florida pet food company.

Voters across the country approved new limits on data centers in at least 44 of 47 local ballot measures in Tuesday's midterm elections, a sweeping rebuke that analysts say will slow the construction of AI infrastructure and upend where in the US new facilities can be built.

Updated tallies from political research firm Redbud Consulting and network projections on Friday show that measures to ban, pause or tightly restrict data centers passed in 44 of 45 decided local races across 44 municipalities in 12 states, even as Democrats flipped governorships in Texas, Ohio, Georgia, Nevada and Iowa on promises to rein in the industry. Governor-elects Gina Hinojosa in Texas and Keisha Lance Bottoms in Georgia say they will extend or impose statewide pauses on new projects and revisit lucrative tax incentives, moves Wall Street firms warn could stall as much as 45% of planned US data-center capacity and contribute to what some describe as the AI stock boom's "final innings."

The European Commission on Friday accused TikTok of breaking the European Union's Digital Services Act, saying the video app's core recommendation system steers users into harmful content and fails to give them real power to opt out.

In preliminary findings issued November 6, regulators said TikTok's "For You" feed relies too heavily on how long people watch videos, which they argue traps users in so-called rabbit holes and exposes especially young people to addictive or damaging material. The Commission said it wants the platform to reduce its dependence on viewing time as a ranking signal and to strengthen tools that let users set and enforce their own content and recommendation preferences. TikTok called the accusations "fundamentally inaccurate," and will be allowed to submit a formal defense before Brussels decides whether to confirm the violations and impose penalties that could reach up to 6% of the company's global annual revenue.

Assistant Attorney General John Eisenberg abruptly resigned as head of the Justice Department's National Security Division on Friday in Washington, becoming the second senior DOJ official to quit this week after Democrats swept the midterm elections.

Attorney General Todd Blanche announced Eisenberg's departure on X, publicly thanking him for strengthening the country's ability to address foreign and domestic threats, but did not give a reason for the resignation or name a successor. His exit follows the earlier resignation of another assistant attorney general this week and comes as Democrats prepare to take control of Congress and step up oversight of the department's national security and civil rights work.

Harmeet Dhillon resigned as head of the Justice Department's Civil Rights Division on Thursday, November 5, with Attorney General Todd Blanche announcing he had accepted her departure after an 18-month tenure that radically reshaped the office.

Blanche made the resignation official in a statement on X, praising Dhillon for defending civil liberties and enforcing the law "without fear or favor," while Dhillon simultaneously cast the move as her own choice, calling her time leading the division "the honor of a lifetime" in a social media post. She told Fox News and PBS/Associated Press she had decided weeks before the midterm elections to step down but stayed at the White House's request until after Election Day, insisting, "My decision, my choice," and saying she plans to return to her law firm in California. Her exit makes her the first senior Justice Department official to leave since Democrats retook Congress in Tuesday's midterms, and colleagues now expect further departures from the depleted division.

Thomas Markle Sr., the estranged father of Meghan, Duchess of Sussex, was arrested Friday in Lakeland, Florida, on federal charges linked to child sexual abuse material found in Los Angeles-area storage units he rented for years.

Prosecutors say the case centers on sexually explicit photographs of Markle with prepubescent girls that investigators discovered in two storage units in the Los Angeles area that he had maintained for nearly two decades. The US attorney's office in Los Angeles said the charges relate to possession of child sexual abuse material tied to those units, and Markle is expected to make his initial federal court appearance in Tampa later Friday.

Minnesota officials on Thursday dedicated a stretch of Highway 610 in the north metro as the Hortman Memorial Highway, unveiling new roadside signs to honor Mark and Melissa Hortman, the married political couple assassinated in 2025.

Gov. Tim Walz, state Sen. John Hoffman, and the Hortmans' children, Colin and Sophie, joined transportation and community leaders along the corridor on Nov. 5 as the signs were revealed, giving drivers a permanent visual reminder of the couple's legacy. Colin told attendees that his parents were not "spotlight people" and said the family believes they would have liked being remembered through a highway that thousands of Minnesotans quietly use every day.

Former West Virginia governor and five-term U.S. senator Jay Rockefeller died Thursday night at his home in Washington, D.C., at age 89, ending the political career of the last Rockefeller to hold elective office.

Mary Stewart of public broadcaster WETA confirmed Rockefeller's death, which was reported Friday by multiple outlets; no cause was immediately disclosed. Current Sen. Shelley Moore Capito of West Virginia, a Republican whose father defeated Rockefeller in his first run for governor, called him "a true gentleman" and said their friendship "transcended politics."

Kenya's High Court in Mombasa on Friday sentenced pastor Paul Mackenzie to 200 years in prison for the murders of 191 followers of his Good News International Church doomsday cult.

Justice Diana Kavedza ruled that 183 of the victims died after being starved and eight were killed outright, calling the crimes "cold and calculated" and placing primary criminal responsibility on Mackenzie. During the hearing, Mackenzie smiled and chatted with his assistant pastor, Smart Mwakalama, who received a 160-year sentence for his role in the killings. Defense lawyer Lawrence Obonyo said he has already filed an appeal, arguing that such lengthy terms amount to unconstitutional life sentences by another name and accusing the court of "circling around the constitution."

Marine veteran and Citibank security officer John Fraley has been identified as the guard who shot and killed a gunman during a deadly attack at Citibank's Brandon, Florida, campus on Wednesday, an intervention that the local sheriff says likely prevented a mass-casualty shooting.

Hillsborough County Sheriff Chad Chronister on Thursday named Fraley, a former Marine working armed security at the four-building Citibank Center near Tampa, and said he fatally shot 35-year-old Jacob Pearson inside the cafeteria after Pearson had already killed one employee and was hunting for more victims. Investigators have now publicly tied Pearson's rampage to his anger over a $2,500 delinquent Citibank credit card debt and a related court summons, a conclusion reiterated Friday by CBS News.

Elon Musk said Friday that Tesla will wind down Cybertruck production at its Texas gigafactory by mid-2027 to clear space for expanding output of the company's planned self-driving Cybercab robotaxi fleet.

In a post on X, Musk framed the move as a strategic shift rather than an immediate shutdown, signaling that the angular stainless-steel pickup will stay in production for roughly another year and a half before being phased out in Austin. CBS, citing Forbes, reported that the Texas plant is currently the only Tesla factory building the Cybertruck and that Tesla has not identified another site to take over the program, raising the possibility that the model could disappear entirely unless production is relocated.

The United States carried out limited airstrikes on Iranian surface-to-air missile units around the Strait of Hormuz on Monday, November 2, hitting sites on Qeshm and Hengam islands and near the port city of Bandar Abbas in what officials called a defensive response to fire on a U.S. aircraft, just hours before Americans voted in the midterm elections.

A U.S. official said the operation targeted Iranian units that had been using surface-to-air missiles against "U.S. assets" in the strategic waterway, even though President Donald Trump had publicly pledged that the U.S. would not strike Iran before the Tuesday, November 3 vote. Iranian state media reported explosions on Qeshm and Hengam and near Bandar Abbas but has not detailed the damage, while Iranian leaders warned that any further U.S. or Israeli action would trigger an immediate response without geographic limits.

An infant in southwestern Wisconsin has died from measles, state health officials said Thursday, marking the first measles-linked death in Wisconsin since 1990 amid a fast-growing outbreak this year.

The Department of Health Services (DHS) said the coroner listed measles as the infant's immediate cause of death and released no details about the child's exact age or hometown, citing privacy. As of this week, Wisconsin has recorded 431 measles cases across 13 counties in 2026, including nine hospitalizations, the highest statewide tally in more than 35 years. Officials again urged vaccination, saying the measles, mumps, rubella (MMR) vaccine remains the best protection, especially for young children, pregnant people and immunocompromised residents who face the greatest risk of severe complications.

A growing Federal Emergency Management Agency backlog has stalled at least $191 million in Southern California climate resilience projects, leaving counties and cities waiting years for promised funding under the agency's BRIC grant program.

Emergency managers say FEMA has not approved a single pending California application under the Building Resilient Infrastructure and Communities program this year and is slow to pay out on projects it has already agreed to fund, even as flood, wildfire and heat risks rise. In San Bernardino County, a $15 million BRIC-backed flood-control project remains stuck in the design phase because local officials are still waiting for federal dollars to arrive, part of what a recent Government Accountability Office report identified as a $2.2 billion nationwide backlog in resilience grants.

Indiana, Alabama and Florida each carried out executions on Thursday, with Indiana putting to death child-killer Jeffrey Weisheit just after midnight, Florida executing Jesse Guardado in the evening, and Alabama later executing Michael Taylor, in only the second day this year that three U.S. states have conducted executions on the same date.

Weisheit was pronounced dead at 12:45 a.m. Central at Indiana State Prison for the 2010 murders of 8-year-old Alyssa Lynch and 5-year-old Caleb Lynch in a house fire near Evansville, after Gov. Mike Braun denied clemency earlier in the week. Guardado was executed by lethal injection at Florida State Prison in Starke at 6:13 p.m. local time for the 2004 stabbing and robbery murder of 75-year-old Jackie Malone, marking Florida's 19th execution of 2026 and tying the state record, while Alabama inmate Michael Taylor, 54, was pronounced dead at 6:10 p.m. local time for the 1991 beating deaths of two elderly victims. In his final statement, Guardado apologized to Malone's family and to his own relatives, and after the execution Malone's son publicly challenged opponents of capital punishment who had protested the sentence.

U.S. stocks swung sharply lower on Thursday as investors dumped AI-linked technology companies in the wake of Democrats' sweeping midterm election gains, even as oil prices rebounded and energy markets tried to find a new footing.

By early afternoon Thursday, the tech-heavy Nasdaq Composite had plunged about 1,285 points, or roughly 5%, wiping out more than $2 trillion in market value from technology shares, while the S&P 500 slid 3.7% and the Dow Jones Industrial Average fell 2.9%. AI-exposed names led the rout: Nvidia dropped 7.5% after a 3.2% fall on Wednesday, Advanced Micro Devices tumbled 14.6%, and cloud-computing player CoreWeave sank 12.1%. Stocks tied to Elon Musk's AI and data-center ambitions, including Tesla and SpaceX, were among the hardest hit amid fears that Democrats, whom Musk opposed with hundreds of millions in campaign spending, will target his companies for tougher scrutiny. At the same time, Brent crude oil climbed 2.6% to about $97.11 a barrel, clawing back much of a nearly 9% plunge the day before as traders reassessed the outlook for the U.S.-Israeli war with Iran and the timing of a return to more normal energy markets.

Several tankers loaded with Russian diesel that had been signaling destinations on the U.S. East Coast have changed course in recent days, casting doubt on whether any of the controversial fuel shipments tied to President Donald Trump's deal with Vladimir Putin will actually arrive in American ports.

As of Thursday, two sanctioned vessels that had declared U.S. East Coast ports as their destinations have diverted, with one now heading toward Brazil and another turning into the Mediterranean, while a third tanker has switched its listed destination from New York to the vague "for orders," according to ship-tracking data cited by traders and analysts. Analysts say the course changes reflect mounting legal and reputational risks for shippers, banks and ports that would handle the cargoes, despite a federal sanctions waiver meant to clear the way for imports.

President Donald Trump met privately at the White House on Thursday with Vladimir Putin's special envoy, Kirill Dmitriev, and said negotiators are "close" to a "big agreement" that will go beyond Ukraine and "might involve all of Europe," even as he declined to meet visiting Ukrainian officials who were in the building for a ceasefire ceremony hosted by first lady Melania Trump.

Trump, speaking to reporters in the Oval Office, would not detail his discussion with Dmitriev but cast the prospective deal as sweeping, while elsewhere in the White House Melania Trump presided over a ceremony marking a localized ceasefire around Russian-occupied Oleshky in Ukraine's Kherson region that enabled the evacuation of nearly 800 civilians. At that event, Dmitriev publicly thanked the first lady "on behalf of President Putin" and said Putin had personally ordered instructions to ensure the Oleshky ceasefire held, as Ukrainian officials praised Melania Trump, presented her with one of their country's highest honors for women and urged her to continue her humanitarian work.

Democrat Rob Sand has won Iowa's governor's race, defeating Republican Zach Lahn and ending a decade of GOP control in a state that had appeared safely Republican just four years ago.

Sand, Iowa's state auditor and a prominent Democratic rising figure, emerged from Tuesday's midterm elections as part of a broader wave of Democratic gains in governors' offices nationwide, with Iowa among a handful of key pickup states. His victory over Lahn, a Republican operative and first-time statewide candidate, immediately reshapes policy fights in Des Moines and weakens Republicans' ability to push through legislation without negotiation.

North Carolina Democrats have flipped at least four Republican-held U.S. House seats in Tuesday's midterm elections, positioning the party to seize a commanding majority in the state's 14-member delegation despite a GOP-friendly map.

The Associated Press has projected Democratic victories in NC-6, NC-9, NC-13 and NC-14, where Democrats Cyril Jefferson, Richard Ojeda, Paul Barringer and LaKesha Womack defeated Republicans Addison McDowell, incumbent Rep. Richard Hudson, Brad Knott and state House Speaker Tim Moore, respectively. AP has also called the redrawn NC-1 for Democratic Rep. Don Davis, who leads Republican challenger Laurie Buckhout by more than 10,000 votes, while razor-thin margins in NC-3 and NC-5 leave GOP Rep. Greg Murphy up by 233 votes and Democrat Chuck Hubbard ahead of 11-term GOP Rep. Virginia Foxx by 99 votes, making recounts likely.

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth on Thursday released a defiant video message recorded outside the Pentagon, defending the seven-month-old Iran war and vowing to "finish what we have started" as House Democrats move toward impeachment proceedings and some Republicans call for his ouster.

In the message, posted earlier Thursday, Hegseth praised the campaign in Iran as a success that he said would ensure Tehran "never gets a nuclear weapon," and touted his role in ending diversity, equity and inclusion programs, banning transgender troops from service, and expelling most reporters from the Pentagon press corps. He also forcefully defended U.S. lethal strikes on what the Pentagon has labeled drug-smuggling boats in the Caribbean Sea and Eastern Pacific, operations legal experts and human rights advocates have condemned as illegal extrajudicial killings.

Democrat Cait Conley has unseated Republican Rep. Mike Lawler in New York's 17th Congressional District, flipping a key Hudson Valley swing seat that had been central to the battle for control of the US House.

CBS News projected Conley the winner on Thursday after days of extended counting driven by problems reporting results from some Westchester County precincts, solidifying a rare Democratic pickup in a closely divided chamber. Lawler had already called Conley to concede on Tuesday, acknowledging her victory even as the slow count left the race officially uncalled until later in the week.

The Justice Department has opened a criminal investigation into the 2022 leak of the Supreme Court draft opinion overturning Roe v. Wade, with the probe run out of U.S. Attorney Jeanine Pirro's office in Washington, D.C., according to multiple people familiar with the matter.

The department has not publicly announced the inquiry and declined to comment, but people briefed on the matter say prosecutors have begun treating the leak as a potential federal crime, elevating a previously internal court controversy into a full-blown Justice Department case.

Unsealed court filings in Washington on Thursday revealed that the Trump administration has been holding quiet talks with Iranian officials about deporting Iranians from the United States during the ongoing U.S.-Iran war, despite public claims that there are no negotiations with Tehran.

The documents, disclosed in a lawsuit over deportation practices, show that as of mid-October the administration told a federal judge it planned to remove Iranians via an unnamed third country, coordinating with Iranian authorities on travel documents and routes, even as U.S. forces remain in active conflict with Iran. In an October 15 hearing, Justice Department attorney Dimitar Georgiev-Remmel acknowledged that deported Iranians could face a "serious threat of certain death" if returned, but argued the government was obligated to carry out lawful removal orders. U.S. District Judge Ana Reyes responded by ordering the Justice Department to give her 24 hours' notice of any finalized deportation plan and at least five days' written notice before any Iranian is actually removed, warning she would consider contempt if her directives are ignored.

The Minnesota Department of Health says the state's measles outbreak has climbed to 139 confirmed cases, after 59 new infections were reported this week, all among unvaccinated people.

Health officials say the new patients have a median age of 9.5 years, with most of the recent cases linked to existing exposure chains in Todd County that show measles is still spreading in that community. One of the latest cases, in Scott County, is tied to international travel and is not connected to the Todd County cluster, underscoring the risk of the virus being reintroduced from outside the country. The department has secured additional doses of the measles, mumps and rubella (MMR) vaccine from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to help local health departments expand outreach and vaccination during the outbreak.

Colorado voters appeared to back a ballot measure to bar transgender girls from competing in girls' school sports as of Thursday, while Gov-elect Phil Weiser signaled he will seek changes to how the new rules are enforced once he takes office.

Unofficial results Thursday morning showed Proposition 134 passing with 52.66% support to 47.34% opposition, though election tracker Ballotpedia still listed the measure as too close to call. At a news conference Wednesday, Weiser said his incoming Democratic administration would "take a look" at the initiative, a statutory change to state law, and consider what adjustments are "necessary and appropriate," stressing that he opposes any regime in which "every student athlete" must undergo "full body examinations" to verify sex.

Two young men with alleged ties to a west-metro street gang have been charged in Hennepin County with drive-by shooting and second-degree assault in a rush-hour attack that wounded a rival motorist on southbound Highway 100 in St. Louis Park on September 30.

Prosecutors say Ayub Abdirashiid Said, 19, and Mohamed Ahmed Mohamed, 20, opened fire from a vehicle at a white Honda Accord, hitting the car six times and striking the driver in the ankle, while a third man, previously charged driver Abdisalan Ali, allegedly sped them away from the scene. The complaint alleges the victims are members of the Muddy gang, while the three suspects are associated with rival SLP and "1300" gangs that investigators have also linked to other recent shootings in the west metro.

Democratic Rep. Marie Gluesenkamp Perez has won a third term representing Washington's 3rd Congressional District, keeping a Trump-leaning corner of southwest Washington in Democratic hands, CBS News projected Thursday.

CBS News called the race for Gluesenkamp Perez over Republican John Braun, the top GOP member in the Washington state Senate who was backed by Donald Trump, solidifying her hold on a district national Republicans had targeted as one of their best pickup opportunities.

A Mexican federal judge has been indicted in the United States and arrested in Colombia on accusations that he took $2 million in bribes to free a Canadian drug suspect from extradition proceedings in Mexico, U.S. prosecutors said.

Judge Luiz Benítez Alcántara was detained in Colombia on Sunday, November 1, and is charged in a nine-count U.S. indictment as an accessory after the fact, with the Justice Department saying it will seek his extradition to face trial in an American court. Attorney General Todd Blanche said officials who help drug traffickers evade justice "will face justice in the United States," casting the case as part of a broader push against corruption in foreign judiciaries that shields major narcotics networks.

Democrat Aaron Ford defeated Republican Gov. Joe Lombardo in Nevada's governor's race, CBS projected Thursday, a history-making win that will make Ford the state's first Black governor and the first Black governor elected in any state west of the Mississippi.

Ford's victory ousts Lombardo after a single term marked by economic headwinds, including the impact of national tariffs and a downturn in international tourism to Las Vegas that weighed on Nevada's travel-dependent economy. The governor's race was one of several bright spots for Democrats on Tuesday, as the party also flipped Nevada's 2nd Congressional District in a broader midterm surge.

At least three people were injured Thursday morning when a gunman opened fire on the second floor of Des Moines' main post office, prompting a rapid police response and a brief lockdown of nearby school facilities.

Police said two people were shot in the building, a four-story regional sorting facility with a public walk-in counter just north of downtown and across from a major hospital, while a third person was hurt while trying to escape; all three were hospitalized with injuries that are not believed to be life-threatening. Officers began receiving 911 calls about shots fired around 9:10 a.m. Central and arrived within about three minutes, taking the suspect into custody just east of the post office, according to Sgt. Paul Parizek of the Des Moines Police Department. Des Moines Public Schools said a nearby elementary school, welcome center, and nutrition center went into "secure" status at 9:20 a.m. and lifted it at 10:00 a.m., once authorities confirmed the suspect was in custody. Gov. Kim Reynolds and Sen. Chuck Grassley both posted statements saying they were in touch with law enforcement, noting that the suspected shooter had been detained and offering prayers and thanks for the quick response.

Record multi-day rains across Minnesota have sharply eased the state's drought this week, cutting both moderate and severe drought coverage nearly in half as of Thursday, according to the latest federal update.

The U.S. Drought Monitor now shows 24.92% of Minnesota in moderate drought and 2.86% in severe drought, down from 35.55% and 24.52% a week earlier, while 45.72% of the state is classified as abnormally dry. A slow-moving system dropped 1.5 to 2.5 inches of rain on the Twin Cities and surrounding areas, part of a soaking that broke daily rainfall records in both Minneapolis-St. Paul and Hibbing.

The Shakopee City Council has approved spending up to $140,000 on an independent noise and vibration study of the Mystic Lake Amphitheater, seeking hard data on sound complaints that neighbors say have rattled homes miles from the tribal casino concert venue.

In a vote taken earlier this week, the council signed off on a $130,000 contract with GZA Environmental, plus a $10,000 contingency, to measure how music and bass from the outdoor amphitheater travels through nearby neighborhoods and to recommend ways to reduce the impacts. The consultant will deploy temporary sound monitors in areas where residents have logged the most complaints, analyze how weather and topography affect sound, and design a permanent monitoring network whose data Shakopee police will be able to see in real time.

Comedian and actor Russell Brand was convicted in London on Thursday of raping one woman and sexually assaulting three others, and was immediately taken into custody to await a likely "significant" prison sentence.

A jury at Southwark Crown Court found the 51-year-old guilty on one count of rape and three counts of sexual assault involving four women, while acquitting him of two further rape charges and one count of attempted indecent assault. Judge Joel Bennathan revoked Brand's bail after the verdict on Thursday, November 5, citing a flight risk, and said he faces a "significant" term when he is sentenced on Monday. In court, Bennathan acknowledged that Brand's children would suffer hardship but said it stemmed from "serious criminal offending by their father."

Convicted murderer Jacob Morley was recaptured late Tuesday morning in rural Carroll County, Missouri, when a stolen pickup he was driving became stuck off a county road after an interstate, tech-assisted manhunt that began with his escape from a Tennessee prison on October 25.

Missouri State Highway Patrol troopers arrested Morley without incident around 11:34 a.m. Tuesday after tracking the truck from the Kansas City area using automated license plate readers, undercover officers and a police helicopter, and moved in only after he drove off-road near County Road 515 despite concerns he had multiple firearms. Authorities say the 32-year-old, convicted of killing a co-worker in Tennessee, now faces federal charges in both Tennessee and Missouri, while prosecutors in his home state prepare additional counts and work out when he will be returned to state custody.

St. Paul voters overwhelmingly approved a "right-to-repair" ballot measure for renters, passing a new ordinance by a 79%-to-21% margin that will let tenants arrange certain repairs themselves if landlords fail to act, reshaping the rules for multifamily housing across the city.

The ordinance, approved in the November 2026 election, gives renters the right to hire qualified contractors for specified repairs after giving proper notice and time to their landlord, then seek reimbursement or rent offsets under procedures the city will spell out in detail. It immediately raises compliance and cost questions for owners and managers of multifamily properties, who now must adapt their maintenance practices and lease terms to the new framework.

A Spokane County sheriff's deputy and an alleged gunman were among four people killed after a domestic-violence call erupted into a shootout at a rural property near Spangle, Washington, on Tuesday afternoon, authorities said.

Sheriff John Nowels said Wednesday that one of two Spokane County SWAT deputies who were critically wounded during the exchange of gunfire died of his injuries, and the other remains on life support and is not expected to survive. Both were described as young members of the tactical team; the fallen deputy leaves behind a wife and two children, and the surviving deputy is an organ donor, according to the sheriff's office. The woman who first sought help was hospitalized with non-life-threatening wounds, and officials have not yet said publicly whether the suspect was killed by deputies' bullets or died by suicide.

A five-judge panel of New York's Appellate Division, First Department, is hearing oral arguments Thursday in Manhattan on Donald Trump's bid to overturn his 2024 conviction on 34 felony counts of falsifying business records, a case that tests the durability of the only criminal conviction ever returned against a sitting U.S. president.

Trump's new lead appellate lawyer, Robert Giuffra of Sullivan & Cromwell, is expected to argue that the case should have been governed by federal election law rather than New York statutes, that federal law preempted the state prosecution, that prosecutors improperly relied on evidence protected by presidential immunity, and that they failed to prove Trump intended to defraud anyone. Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg's office counters in its briefs that the scheme involved unofficial conduct aimed at deceiving voters and regulators, that multiple courts have already rejected immunity and preemption claims surrounding this prosecution, and that a "mountain of evidence" unrelated to Trump's official acts supports the jury's verdict.

Democrats have captured a commanding new majority in the US House of Representatives and moved quickly to claim the gavel, as party leader Hakeem Jeffries on Wednesday formally launched his bid for speaker and incumbent Speaker Mike Johnson told Republicans he will not seek to lead them in the next Congress.

Networks now project Democrats will control the House by one of the largest margins in recent decades, with CBS estimating they are on track to hold between 251 and 268 seats once all ballots from Tuesday's midterm elections are counted, and at least 54 seats in the Senate with two contests still rated toss-ups. Jeffries, appearing Wednesday in Washington with Katherine Clark and Pete Aguilar, who intend to run for the No. 2 and No. 3 posts, cast the outcome as a mandate to lower gas and grocery prices, reverse Republican cuts to Medicaid and the Affordable Care Act, and end President Donald Trump's war in Iran while launching aggressive oversight of what he called an "out-of-control" executive branch.

Deb Haaland was elected governor of New Mexico and Minnesota Lt. Gov. Peggy Flanagan won a U.S. Senate seat on Tuesday, Nov. 3, becoming the first Native American women to serve as a governor and as a senator in U.S. history.

Haaland, a Democrat and citizen of Laguna Pueblo, defeated Republican former Rio Rancho mayor Gregg Hull 57.25% to 42.75%, a 14.5-point margin that blew past late polling and outpaced Kamala Harris's 2024 New Mexico presidential margin. Flanagan, a Democrat and enrolled member of the White Earth Nation, beat Republican Michele Tafoya 53.71% to 43.56% in Minnesota's open Senate race, winning by about 10 points in a contest that drew national attention to her progressive platform. The National Congress of American Indians hailed both victories as historic milestones for Native representation, saying they would bring tribal issues into rooms where they have long been absent.

Hong Kong pro-democracy activist Joshua Wong was sentenced to 10 years in prison on Thursday under the city's national security law, after a court found him guilty of conspiring to collude with foreign forces through his appeals for international pressure on Beijing.

Judge William Tam said he started from a 13-year term but could only reduce the punishment to the 10-year statutory minimum for "grave" collusion cases because Wong had pleaded guilty. The new sentence will run concurrently with his existing four-year, eight-month national security term, of which he has about two months left, effectively keeping one of the city's best-known activists in prison until around 2036. Prosecutors argued that Wong's lobbying, including meetings with then US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Senator Marco Rubio, showed he had sought foreign sanctions against Hong Kong and Chinese officials.

Minnesota Department of Corrections Commissioner Paul Schnell publicly accused federal immigration authorities of playing a "propaganda game" on Wednesday, saying new state records undercut U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement claims that Operation Metro Surge was targeting violent offenders released onto local streets.

Schnell said his agency cross-checked "every name" that ICE and the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) had promoted as the "worst of the worst" and found many of the people cited were already in custody, had been formally transferred to ICE, or had no Minnesota criminal record at all. He released detailed prison files and video showing DOC officers physically handing shackled inmates over to ICE agents, which he and Gov. Tim Walz say flatly contradicts DHS messaging that the Walz administration had let dangerous non-citizens walk free.

Democrats used Tuesday's midterm elections to seize full control of more state governments and flip the Texas House of Representatives, part of a sweeping national wave that also delivered them large majorities in both chambers of Congress.

The gains, confirmed Wednesday, shift at least five previously divided states into Democratic "trifectas" where the party now controls the governorship and both legislative chambers, while Republicans saw their own trifectas shrink from a recent peak and their supermajorities broken or blocked in nine legislative chambers across eight states. PBS coverage framed the results as part of a broader realignment, with voters handing Democrats both the House and Senate in Washington "by wide margins" and prompting Republican presidential hopeful Ron DeSantis to label the night an "extinction-level event" for his party.

California's embattled high-speed rail project is heading into yet another leadership shakeup after CEO Ian Choudri abruptly resigned on Oct. 28, just hours after the board approved a controversial, scaled-back trainset contract and amid mounting scrutiny of the agency's finances and consulting practices.

The board named state Department of Finance director Joe Stephenshaw as interim CEO and its chair has called for an independent inspector general investigation into how the authority has handled billions of dollars in contracts and consultant spending, including travel bills the agency's own watchdog recently labeled wasteful or unallowable. Choudri cited personal and family priorities in his immediate resignation, which came as the authority moved to buy just three wide-body trainsets from the same manufacturer it rejected in 2024, this time without the $4 billion in federal funds California forfeited after missing key purchase milestones.

Democrat Randy Villegas has unseated Republican Rep. David Valadao in California's 22nd Congressional District, CBS News projected Wednesday, flipping a Central Valley seat and ending the House career of one of the last Republicans who voted to impeach Donald Trump.

With nearly all votes still being counted under California's slow tallying process, preliminary results from the secretary of state showed Villegas leading Valadao by roughly a 2-to-1 margin, 66.4% to 33.6%, although the final spread is expected to narrow as more ballots are processed. Valadao's defeat, combined with Washington Rep. Dan Newhouse's planned retirement, means none of the 10 House Republicans who backed Trump's second impeachment will remain in the chamber after this term.

Spring Lake Park's mayoral race ended in an exact tie, with candidates Robert Nelson and Halyn Roth each receiving 1,401 votes, meaning the winner will now be chosen by random drawing at City Hall on Monday, November 9.

Under Minnesota law, tied elections must be decided "by lot," so city officials will conduct a name drawing during the Spring Lake Park City Council meeting at 5:30 p.m. on Monday to determine who becomes the next mayor for a two-year term. There were also 12 write-in votes cast in the race, and Roth has already said that if he loses the drawing, he plans to request a publicly funded hand recount, which state rules allow within seven days when the margin is 0.5% or less.

A former pre-K classroom aide at a small Cape May County school has been charged with 61 offenses after prosecutors say he filmed himself sexually assaulting multiple young students on campus in New Jersey.

Cape May County Prosecutor Jeffrey Sutherland announced that 44-year-old Shaun M. Stebbins, who worked at Woodbine Elementary School, now faces 29 counts of manufacturing child pornography, 5 counts of aggravated sexual assault, 13 counts of sexual assault by contact, and 14 counts of endangering the welfare of a child. Investigators say images and videos recovered from his devices appear to show assaults carried out in a school bathroom and during classroom nap time.

A married couple found dead in a North St. Paul home after a reported attack have been identified as Gregory Darnell Thigpen, 41, and his wife, Lisa Louise Thigpen, 37, and police say they are not seeking any other suspects.

North St. Paul police said Gregory was found with an apparent gunshot wound and Lisa with apparent stab wounds after officers responded to an "attack in progress" call at the residence. A 14-month-old granddaughter who was inside the home was not hurt, was evaluated at a hospital, and has since been released to relatives. Investigators said preliminary findings indicate the deaths involved only the couple and that no other suspects are being sought, though autopsy results are still pending.

Democrat Amy Acton has been elected governor of Ohio, defeating Republican Vivek Ramaswamy on Tuesday and becoming the first woman ever to hold the office in a state that had not chosen a Democratic governor in about 20 years.

The Associated Press called the race for Acton on Tuesday night, capping a contest that drew more than $100 million in spending against her and helped push Democrats to control at least 28 governorships nationwide as of 2027. Republicans will still hold majorities in both chambers of the Ohio Legislature, but after this year's elections they will lack the supermajorities needed to override her vetoes without at least some Democratic support.

NASA's Swift space telescope ended its 22-year mission in a fiery plunge over Indonesia on Wednesday morning, reentering Earth's atmosphere at 6:39 a.m. Central near North Sumatra after a failed rescue attempt.

The roughly 3,200-pound observatory largely burned up on the way down, but NASA says some components likely survived and could end up scattered across multiple hemispheres, with tracking support for the reentry provided by the U.S. Space Force. Pennsylvania State University astronomer John Nousek, who led the mission control team, called the reentry "catastrophic" but said his team had "known this day would come."

Minnesota Democrats cemented full control of state government as final counts in all 67 Senate races showed the Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party expanding its majority to 39-28, locking in a DFL trifecta with the House and governor's office.

The larger Senate margin comes after Democrats flipped six Republican-held seats while surrendering just one, building on victories that had already delivered them a 77-57 edge in the Minnesota House and re-elected a DFL governor. Republicans now face at least two automatic, publicly funded recounts in tight Senate contests and one in the House, but even potential reversals in those races would not threaten DFL control of either chamber.

Minnesota Democrats cemented full control of state government on Wednesday, as the DFL clinched a 77-57 majority in the Minnesota House, completing a governing trifecta with the governor's office and state Senate.

The new House margin, which includes at least 10 flipped GOP-held districts, ends the 67-67 deadlock that had forced a rare power-sharing arrangement last session and gives the DFL clear authority to set the legislative agenda in St. Paul. With the Senate now standing at 39-28 in favor of Democrats and Gov. Tim Walz already in office, the party holds its first trifecta since 2022, positioning DFL leaders to move more aggressively on their priorities without needing Republican votes.

Peggy Flanagan secured Minnesota's open U.S. Senate seat over Republican Michele Tafoya, powered by lopsided margins in the Twin Cities metro and a handful of regional strongholds, according to nearly complete results.

With 99% of the statewide vote counted, Flanagan holds 1,520,299 votes, or 53.7%, to Tafoya's 1,232,683 votes, or 43.6%, in one of the highest-turnout midterm elections in Minnesota history. A county map of the race shows Tafoya winning 72 of the state's 87 counties, but Flanagan taking 15 high-population counties that produced her winning margin.

Federal investigators confirmed Wednesday that the Learjet 60 that crashed in Palm Beach County, Florida, killing nine people suffered a catastrophic in-flight tail failure that left the crew unable to pull out of a high-speed nose dive.

National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) member Tom Chapman said parts of the jet's tail, including its elevator, were found broken into multiple pieces and scattered as far as roughly 3.8 miles from the main impact crater, confirming the aircraft began breaking apart before hitting the ground around 12:50 p.m. on Sunday, November 1, in a neighborhood near Military Trail and 10th Avenue North. Chapman said the loss of an intact elevator would have made it impossible for the pilots to arrest the plunge, and investigators are now focused on why the tail failed as the jet flew through icing and severe turbulence.

Voters in the Robbinsdale Area Schools district narrowly approved a sweeping building referendum worth up to about $360 million, authorizing a major high school and middle school consolidation even as the district confronts a roughly $20-21 million budget deficit linked to an accounting error.

In Tuesday's election, Question 1 passed with 52.9% support, or 25,092 votes, while Question 2 cleared the threshold with 50.47% support, or 23,098 votes, setting the stage for a unified 9-12 high school campus at Cooper in New Hope, the conversion of Armstrong High into Plymouth Middle, and renovation of Sandburg Middle, each designed to serve about 1,100 students. Question 3, which would have funded a new elementary school on the former Robbinsdale Middle School site, failed with 55.8% "no" votes, or 25,326 ballots, leaving that piece of the district's long-range facilities plan unfunded. Officials say the approved projects are intended to cut leased-space costs and expand job-training and work-experience options for students across the west-metro suburban district.

Jordan Collins Sr., the Anoka man recently convicted of murdering his 16-year-old son, has been charged with fourth-degree assault after allegedly punching a correctional deputy in the face inside the Anoka County Jail in August.

Prosecutors say jail surveillance video from August 2 shows Collins "sucker punching" a deputy in the jail's day space while the deputy was conducting routine inmate checks; the deputy was later treated at a hospital, and staff used a Taser to subdue and detain Collins. Collins, who remains in custody, is due for sentencing in the murder case on December 2, and his first court appearance on the new assault charge is scheduled for January 29.

Former Minnesota state senator Nicole Mitchell has been elected to the Woodbury City Council, securing one of two at-large seats in a crowded 10-candidate race that could still face a recount challenge.

Unofficial results show Mitchell finished second with 7,387 votes, or 13.27% of the total, edging out incumbent council member Steve Morris by just 101 votes, a margin narrow enough to allow Morris to request a city-funded recount once the results are canvassed.

Democrats swept every contested statewide office in Texas on Tuesday, Nov. 3, ousting Gov. Greg Abbott and ending more than three decades of uninterrupted Republican control over the state's executive branch.

State Rep. Gina Hinojosa won the governor's race against Abbott, becoming the first Democrat to capture the mansion since 1990 and the third woman to lead Texas, while Democrats also flipped the lieutenant governor, attorney general, comptroller and agriculture commissioner posts. Republican Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick lost to Democratic state Rep. Vikki Goodwin, and GOP attorney general nominee Mayes Middleton fell to Democratic state Sen. Nathan Johnson, cementing a top-to-bottom statewide rout.

Democrat Keisha Lance Bottoms has been elected governor of Georgia, defeating Republican billionaire Rick Jackson on Tuesday in a history-making win that will make her the first Black woman governor in U.S. history and Georgia's first woman governor, flipping the state's top office to Democrats for the first time in nearly three decades.

The Associated Press and major networks called the race for Bottoms on Tuesday night, with unofficial returns early Wednesday showing her leading Jackson 54.2% to 45.8% with about 96.8% of the vote counted, a roughly 8-point margin that mirrors and reverses the GOP's 7.5-point gubernatorial victory four years ago. Once she is sworn in, a record 17 women will be serving as U.S. governors, underscoring a broader shift in gender representation in statewide executive offices. Bottoms told CBS that she learned networks had called the race while she was working on her speech with AirPods in, and that her husband kicked her leg and said, "They called it," as their victory became public.

One person was killed and two others were injured late Wednesday morning when a small helicopter crashed into Biscayne Bay near Bill Baggs Cape Florida State Park off Key Biscayne, just southeast of Miami.

The Robinson R44 helicopter went down around 11:15 a.m. local time, prompting a rapid response from local marine units and rescue crews, who pulled the survivors from the water and took them to a nearby hospital while the third occupant was pronounced dead. Authorities did not immediately release the names of the victims or details on their conditions, and there was no early word on a possible cause.

Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport's high-profile effort to revamp dozens of restaurants, shops and coffee outlets has stalled after nearly half of the concession packages failed to attract viable bids, forcing officials to shift into direct negotiations with operators to fill the gaps.

Airport documents reviewed by the Metropolitan Airports Commission show such a weak response to the formal bid process that staff can no longer award all of the planned contracts through competitive proposals and must instead approach potential concessionaires one on one. The shift raises questions about how quickly travelers will see the promised overhaul of food and retail options in the terminals and how much leverage the airport will have on rent, investment commitments and local-brand participation.

Two people were found dead from gunshot wounds early Wednesday at Cottage Grove Ravine Regional Park in Cottage Grove, Minnesota, after police responded to reports of shots fired around 6:11 a.m.

Cottage Grove police and the Washington County Sheriff's Office set up a perimeter and closed the park as they launched a joint investigation, speaking with at least one witness at the scene. Authorities said the victims knew each other, the shooting does not appear random, and there is no active threat to the wider community.

Progressive Democrat William Lawrence has unseated first-term Republican Rep. Tom Barrett in Michigan's 7th Congressional District, flipping a key battleground seat that both parties saw as critical to control of the US House.

CBS News projected Lawrence as the winner on Wednesday afternoon, after a hard-fought race centered on the cost of living, local economic development, and his challenge to the political establishment in both parties. Lawrence had faced late scrutiny over past social media posts calling to defund the police and attacking Sen. Joe Manchin, which he disavowed during the campaign as he sought to assure swing voters in the Lansing-area district.

Republican Rep. Byron Donalds has been elected governor of Florida, defeating Democrat David Jolly on Tuesday and making history as both the state's first Black governor and the first Black Republican ever elected governor of any U.S. state.

Unofficial returns with about 97% of the vote counted late Tuesday showed Donalds with roughly 49.8% of the vote to Jolly's 49.0%, an unexpectedly narrow margin in a state Republicans have dominated in recent cycles. In a victory speech in South Florida, Donalds thanked President Donald Trump and told supporters, "I want you to hear from Florida that we are still red," underscoring that Trump's adopted home state remains in Republican hands.

Black candidates won governors races in Georgia, Florida, Wisconsin and Maryland on Tuesday, ushering in a historic wave of Black executive leadership in statehouses and shattering multiple racial and gender barriers across the country.

In Georgia, Democrat Keisha Lance Bottoms was elected governor, making her both the first Black woman governor in U.S. history and the first woman ever to lead Georgia. Republican Byron Donalds won Florida's governor's race and is set to become the state's first Black governor and the first Black Republican governor in the nation. In Wisconsin, Democrat David Crowley defeated Republican Tom Tiffany, while in Maryland Democratic Gov. Wes Moore secured a second term; in Nevada, Democrat Aaron Ford held a lead of more than 70,000 votes in his gubernatorial race as of Wednesday afternoon. Once Bottoms is sworn in, a record 17 women will be serving as U.S. governors nationwide.

Democrat James Talarico has won Texas' U.S. Senate race over Republican Attorney General Ken Paxton, flipping a long-held Republican seat on Tuesday and shattering the GOP's three-decade lock on statewide offices in the state.

The Associated Press call late Tuesday made Paxton the first Republican to lose a Texas U.S. Senate contest since the 1990s, capping what the Texas Tribune describes as a broader "blue tsunami" in which Democrats swept every statewide office on the ballot. Unofficial results with about 94% of votes counted early Wednesday showed Talarico leading 54.9% to 43.2%, an 11.7-point margin that represents nearly a 20-point swing from Republican Sen. Ted Cruz's 8.5-point win in the 2024 Senate race. Talarico told "CBS Mornings" that his victory sends a message to billionaire Elon Musk, who poured money into pro-Paxton efforts, saying Texas voters rejected that level of outside influence.

Defense lawyers for Tyler Robinson, the man accused of murdering conservative activist Charlie Kirk, have asked a Utah judge to bar still and video cameras from a November 9 courtroom hearing in Provo, arguing that a recent social media post by President Donald Trump attacking the judge has already inflamed the case.

In an October 30 filing, Robinson's team opposed a request from Court TV to video-record and livestream the upcoming hearing, which is expected to focus only on scheduling, with no witnesses or evidence presented. The motion cites a late-October Truth Social post in which Trump blasted 4th District Judge Tony Graf as "doing a terrible job," demanded a much faster trial, and called for "JUSTICE FOR CHARLIE," arguing that electronic media coverage layered on top of such political pressure risks further poisoning the future jury pool. Robinson's lawyers acknowledge the November 9 session is "largely administrative" but say cameras would turn even a routine scheduling discussion into fodder for nationwide commentary driven by the president's remarks. Judge Graf, who has previously allowed cameras over similar objections, had not ruled on the latest request as of earlier this week.

France deployed about 70,000 police and gendarmes across the country on Saturday, October 31, as roughly 320,000 people marched in a third straight weekend of youth-led protests over the cost of living and education.

Authorities rerouted the main Paris demonstration to the capital's eastern edge along the Boulevards des Maréchaux, from Porte de Bagnolet to Porte de Charenton, where about 70,000 people took part under heavy security staffed in part by CGT union stewards at the head of the march. The Interior Ministry said roughly 300 people had been arrested nationwide by Saturday evening, fewer than the approximately 800 arrests at the same point a week earlier, and warned of a "very high risk" of disorder after dark on Halloween, as police fired stun grenades and tear gas near Porte de Charenton after some protesters threw bottles and fireworks.

Five candidates backed by the Democratic Socialists of America won U.S. House races on Tuesday, November 3, in contests called by the Associated Press across New York, Colorado, Michigan and Pennsylvania, expanding the left-wing group's foothold in Congress and potentially complicating Democrats' choice of the next House speaker.

The projected winners are Darializa Avila Chevalier and Claire Valdez in New York, Melat Kiros in Colorado, Donavan McKinney in Michigan, and Chris Rabb in Pennsylvania, all of whom ran on campaigns for universal health care and childcare, abolishing Immigration and Customs Enforcement, and ending U.S. military aid to Israel while rejecting corporate and pro-Israel lobbying money. Several secured their seats by defeating long-serving Democrats in primaries, including Kiros unseating 15-term Rep. Diana DeGette in Denver and Avila Chevalier ousting New York Rep. Adriano Espaillat, signaling a leftward shift in parts of the party's base. None of the incoming DSA-endorsed lawmakers has committed to backing Rep. Hakeem Jeffries for House speaker, a stance that could give them leverage if Democrats emerge with only a slim majority when the new Congress convenes in January.

Democrat Adam Hamilton has defeated Republican Sen. Roger Marshall in Kansas's U.S. Senate race, flipping a longtime GOP seat in one of the biggest surprises of the 2026 midterm elections.

With nearly all votes counted in unofficial returns early Wednesday, Hamilton led Marshall 51.0% to 46.0%, a margin of about 54,000 votes, with roughly 95% of precincts reporting. The upset win in a state that backed Donald Trump by about 16 points in the 2024 presidential race immediately elevated Hamilton as a symbol of Democrats' strong night nationwide.

Democrat Annie Andrews has been projected to unseat appointed Republican Sen. Darline Graham in South Carolina, flipping a ruby-red U.S. Senate seat on Tuesday and delivering Democrats one of their most surprising gains of the 2026 midterms.

The Fox News Decision Desk and the Associated Press called the race Tuesday night, making Andrews the first Democrat in nearly three decades to win a Senate election in South Carolina and the first woman the state has ever sent to the chamber. Her victory turns a seat in a state Donald Trump carried by nearly 18 points in 2024 into a critical pickup for Democrats as they vie to reclaim a Senate majority.

Democrat Xavier Becerra has won California's governor's race over Republican Steve Hilton, CBS News projected Tuesday night, securing the state's top office and extending Democrats' long hold on the nation's most populous state.

Becerra, California's attorney general and a former US congressman, will succeed termed-out Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsom and become the first Latino governor to lead the state since Romualdo Pacheco more than 150 years ago. An October UC Berkeley Institute of Governmental Studies/Los Angeles Times poll had shown him with a commanding 61% to 34% lead among likely voters, signaling the depth of his advantage in a state where Democrats enjoy a large voter registration edge.

Democrat Paige Cognetti, the mayor of Scranton, unseated Republican Rep. Rob Bresnahan on Tuesday in Pennsylvania's 8th Congressional District, flipping the northeastern Pennsylvania seat in a closely watched U.S. House race.

The Associated Press called the race for Cognetti at 10:41 p.m. Eastern on Tuesday, cementing a defeat for Bresnahan as he sought a second term representing the district, which includes Scranton and surrounding communities.

Melat Kiros, a Democratic Socialist attorney backed by the Democratic Socialists of America, won a U.S. House seat on Tuesday, becoming the first Gen Z woman elected to Congress and signaling a sharp leftward jolt inside the Democratic coalition.

Kiros was elected in Tuesday's midterm elections as part of a slate of at least five DSA-endorsed candidates who captured House seats after campaigning on universal health care, universal childcare and an uncompromising antiwar message. The group refused corporate donations and money from pro-Israel political action committees, and made opposition to the war in Gaza and calls to cut off U.S. military aid to Israel central to their appeals to voters.

Democrat Bob Brooks defeated Republican Rep. Ryan Mackenzie on Tuesday to win Pennsylvania's 7th Congressional District, unseating the first-term incumbent and flipping the Lehigh Valley-based U.S. House seat to the Democrats.

The Associated Press called the race for Brooks at 10:27 p.m. Eastern on Election Night, cementing one of Pennsylvania's most closely watched congressional contests in a year when control of the narrowly divided House could hinge on a handful of suburban swing districts.

Democrat Janelle Stelson defeated Republican Rep. Scott Perry on Tuesday in Pennsylvania's 10th Congressional District, unseating the former House Freedom Caucus chair in a closely watched U.S. House race.

The Associated Press called the race for Stelson at 10:41 p.m. Eastern, handing Democrats a key pickup in a swing district centered on Harrisburg and ending Perry's bid for an eighth term in Congress.

Democratic Gov. Katie Hobbs has won reelection in Arizona, with CBS News projecting Tuesday night that she defeated Republican Rep. Andy Biggs in a closely watched governor's race that tested the state's political direction two years after it backed Donald Trump by about five points.

The projection came late Tuesday as votes were still being counted, but Hobbs maintained a durable edge over Biggs despite his backing from Trump, who had carried the state in 2024 and campaigned for the congressman. Hobbs' victory gives Democrats another four years in the governor's office in Phoenix and blocks Republicans, who control the Legislature, from installing an ally who has echoed Trump's false claims about the 2020 election.

Democrat Zach Dembo won Kentucky's 6th Congressional District on Tuesday, defeating Republican Ralph Alvarado and flipping a strongly Republican U.S. House seat that had been vacated by GOP Rep. Andy Barr.

The Associated Press called the race for Dembo at 10:16 p.m. Eastern on Tuesday, securing Democrats a surprise pickup in a district long considered safe for Republicans. Dembo, a former U.S. Navy lawyer and federal prosecutor backed by Democratic Gov. Andy Beshear, defeated Alvarado, a physician who was the first Hispanic person to serve in the Kentucky state legislature. The New York Times also reported Dembo's victory over Alvarado in the Republican-leaning district on Tuesday night.

Ballot counting in New York's Westchester County was thrown into disarray on Tuesday when ballot scanners across the county would not accept paper ballots because of a programming glitch, forcing officials to collect votes by hand and delaying results in several races, including the closely watched 17th Congressional District contest.

The malfunction appeared as polls opened, when optical scanners at sites around the suburban county north of New York City began rejecting ballots, prompting election workers to shift to emergency procedures and reassure voters their paper ballots would still be counted. A judge quickly authorized officials to place the completed ballots in sealed bags, transport them under police escort to a secure county warehouse, and scan them there, a workaround that officials said would preserve ballot security but push full results back until at least Wednesday.

Democratic Sen. Sherrod Brown has won back his Ohio U.S. Senate seat, defeating Republican Sen. Jon Husted on Tuesday and flipping the seat back to Democrats in a key pickup for the party.

CBS News projected Brown as the winner Tuesday night, delivering Democrats a symbolic victory in a state that had shifted right in recent years and tightening their fight for control of the Senate. Brown's win unseats Husted, who was running statewide as an appointed incumbent for the first time and had the backing of national Republican groups.

Paul Pelosi, husband of former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, was barred from driving for six months after pleading no contest Tuesday to a misdemeanor hit-and-run charge stemming from a crash in California's Napa Valley.

A Napa County judge imposed the driving prohibition as part of Pelosi's sentence for striking a parked Tesla in Yountville, a small town near the Pelosis' Napa Valley estate, and then leaving the scene. Prosecutors had charged the 86-year-old with a misdemeanor hit-and-run; his no-contest plea carries the same legal effect as a guilty plea for sentencing.

Democrat Rebecca Bennett defeated two-term Republican Rep. Tom Kean Jr. on Tuesday in New Jersey's 7th Congressional District, flipping a key suburban House seat that includes former President Donald Trump's Bedminster golf club and further weakening Republicans' hold on the chamber.

The race was called by major outlets, including Fox News and PBS, as results showed Bennett ousting Kean in one of the nation's most closely watched swing districts at a time when GOP aides were already describing emerging House returns as a "bloodbath" for their party. Bennett ran on frustration over stubbornly high prices, opposition to the U.S. war in Iran, and a promise to rein in Trump's aggressive use of import tariffs, while Kean aligned himself with Trump's economic record and support for the war.

Democratic socialist Janeese Lewis George was elected mayor of Washington, D.C., on Tuesday, November 3, 2026, becoming the city's first new leader in 12 years in a race with no major-party opposition.

Lewis George, a D.C. councilmember and outspoken progressive, defeated an independent candidate, a D.C. Statehood Green Party nominee and 11 write-in contenders in the general election and will take office January 2 as only the District's eighth mayor since Congress granted limited home rule in 1973. Her victory follows an earlier win in the Democratic primary, which effectively decided the race in the overwhelmingly Democratic city.

Live vote counts are coming in Tuesday night for Minnesota Senate Districts 51 through 60, a key stretch of suburban and outstate seats that could decide whether Democrats keep or lose their one-seat majority at the Capitol.

FOX 9 is updating results for these 10 districts in real time after polls closed at 8 p.m., using data from the Associated Press and the Minnesota Secretary of State as precincts report.

Virginia voters on Tuesday approved a constitutional amendment establishing a fundamental right to reproductive freedom, cementing protections for abortion, contraception and fertility care in the only Southern state that had not moved to restrict abortion since Roe v. Wade was overturned.

The measure, approved in Tuesday's election, guarantees access to abortion during the first two trimesters and allows abortions in the third trimester when needed to protect the life or health of the pregnant woman, subject to regulation. It also explicitly protects Virginians' access to birth control and fertility treatments such as in vitro fertilization by writing those rights into the state constitution, putting them beyond the reach of ordinary legislation.

Maryland voters on Tuesday approved a constitutional amendment that loosens redistricting rules for the state's U.S. House seats while preserving tighter standards for Maryland legislative maps, a shift that could give Democrats more leeway in future congressional line-drawing.

The measure, backed by top state Democrats and supported nationally by former President Barack Obama, changes Maryland's constitution so that compactness and natural-boundary requirements explicitly apply only to state House and Senate districts, not to the boundaries for Maryland's eight U.S. House districts. Supporters argued the change was needed to give Maryland more flexibility to counter aggressive GOP gerrymanders in Republican-controlled states, framing it as a response to efforts by former President Donald Trump and his allies to lock in House majorities through redistricting.

Tens of millions of Americans cast ballots in Tuesday's midterm elections with no major disruptions reported nationwide, even as the Trump administration's Justice Department mounted an unprecedented deployment of about 1,000 poll monitors to sites in all 50 states.

The Justice Department called the operation the largest election-monitoring effort in its history and said personnel from the Civil Rights Division and U.S. Attorneys' Offices were on the ground to watch for voter intimidation or discrimination, an expansion of a program that has existed in some form since the Voting Rights Act of 1965. Assistant Attorney General Harmeet Dhillon was quoted by the DOJ's Civil Rights Division account as saying she was "very proud we are deploying the largest monitoring effort in DOJ history" and described election integrity as a top priority. Early in-person voting overall appeared orderly despite localized problems, including flooding in parts of Florida and the Four Corners region that forced some polling locations to move or rely on emergency paper ballots.

Democratic Rep. Haley Stevens' surprise endorsement of Republican Mike Rogers in Michigan's Senate race has sparked a backlash inside her own party and coincided with a record one-day fundraising surge for Democratic nominee Abdul El-Sayed, reshaping the race just 48 hours before Election Day.

On Sunday, November 1, Stevens released a video announcing she would back Rogers, appeared with him and his wife at a Detroit-area church, and said El-Sayed had told her she was "no longer welcome" in his campaign. El-Sayed, campaigning separately at a "Souls to the Polls" church event in Detroit, publicly brushed off the defection even as his team reported raising more than $2.4 million that day from over 65,000 donors, nearly half of them first-time contributors, which the campaign called a single-day record and evidence that Stevens' move had galvanized his supporters.

Trump administration officials on Tuesday vowed an aggressive post-election hunt for noncitizen voters nationwide, with Immigration and Customs Enforcement warning on social media that anyone who cast a ballot illegally would be arrested and prosecuted.

In a Fox News interview, Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin said the Department of Homeland Security would obtain voter logs from across the country after polls close and match them against federal immigration databases to ensure "no illegals voted," echoing ICE's Election Day warning that "we will find you." The remarks prompted sharp partisan reactions, with conservative commentators praising the effort as overdue enforcement and Democratic officials accusing the administration of voter intimidation.

Democrat Chris Pappas won New Hampshire's open U.S. Senate seat on Tuesday, defeating Republican John E. Sununu and becoming the first openly gay man ever elected to the Senate, in a closely watched race that could help decide control of the chamber.

The Associated Press called the race for Pappas on Tuesday evening, confirming that the 46-year-old congressman will succeed retiring Democratic Sen. Jeanne Shaheen when she leaves office after three terms. Speaking to supporters in Manchester, Pappas cast his victory as a demand from voters for change in Washington, saying the campaign unfolded "against the backdrop of chaos, corruption and costs coming out of Washington" and that New Hampshire had voted for a "course correction." He argued that his win showed "Washington needs a new generation at the table to fix things."

Democrat Roy Cooper has won North Carolina's open U.S. Senate seat, defeating Republican Michael Whatley on Tuesday and flipping the longtime GOP-held seat to Democrats in one of the night's marquee contests.

CBS News and NPR projected Cooper the winner over Whatley, a former Republican National Committee chairman, in a race that became a test of Donald Trump's continued pull in a battleground state he narrowly carried in 2024. Cooper, 69, ran on a kitchen-table economic pledge to "make stuff cost less," while Whatley, 57, campaigned as a loyal Trump ally promising to advance the former president's agenda and conservative priorities.

Democratic Sen. Jon Ossoff has won reelection in Georgia, with the Associated Press and major television networks calling Tuesday's U.S. Senate race in his favor over Republican Rep. Mike Collins in the closely watched battleground state.

The AP call on Tuesday, November 3, secures another six-year term for Ossoff and preserves Democrats' lone Senate seat in a state that Donald Trump carried in the 2024 presidential election. CBS and other networks also projected Ossoff the winner over Collins, whom Trump had endorsed in the GOP primary, as returns showed the Democrat winning by a far more comfortable margin than his first narrow victory in 2021.

Fairfield police have arrested 17-year-old Monte Smith and charged him with two counts of murder in the October 30 shooting inside a Spirit Halloween store at the Solano Town Center mall that killed a pregnant mother of four and wounded six other people.

Prosecutors in Solano County say they will ask a judge to move Smith's case from juvenile to adult court, arguing he should face adult penalties if convicted in the killing of 31-year-old Constance Hages, who died at the scene. Police say Smith was arrested November 2 at a home in nearby Suisun City after a school resource officer recognized him from store surveillance video as a former student and flagged him to detectives.

The FBI has formally tied last week's $6.3 billion theft from crypto giant Binance to North Korea's state-linked TraderTraitor hacking unit, as rattled customers pull billions of dollars off the platform and Pyongyang angrily denies involvement.

In a public advisory on Saturday, October 31, the bureau called the Binance theft the biggest crypto hack in history, warned that TraderTraitor is rapidly converting much of the haul into ethereum, and urged exchanges and other companies to block transactions from listed wallet addresses to slow the laundering. Binance says hackers moved about $6.36 billion out of its hot wallets across ten blockchains in roughly 20 minutes on or about October 29, and that with help from issuers and blockchain partners about $3 billion has been frozen while roughly $2.4 billion in bitcoin and ether is already being laundered through mixers and conversion services.

Democrat Jamie Ager has defeated Republican Jennifer Balkcom in North Carolina's 11th Congressional District, flipping the longtime GOP stronghold and delivering Democrats a key U.S. House pickup on Tuesday.

The race call by PBS NewsHour and the Associated Press on Tuesday night confirms that Ager will succeed Republican Rep. Chuck Edwards, turning a historically Republican seat in western North Carolina blue. CBS News had already projected a Democratic gain in the district earlier in the evening, and the PBS/AP confirmation adds an independent call to what had been one of the night's closely watched House contests.

Democrat Pia Dandiya flipped Florida's 22nd Congressional District on Tuesday, as the Associated Press projected her the winner over Republican Casey Askar in a Trump-leaning, newly drawn seat that had been expected to favor the GOP.

Dandiya, an education nonprofit executive from Palm Beach Gardens, defeated Askar, a Naples businessman and former Marine, in the open-seat race, handing Democrats a symbolic and potentially consequential pickup in a district that Donald Trump carried by 10 percentage points in the 2024 presidential election.

Democrat JB Pritzker has won a third term as Illinois governor, defeating Republican challenger Darren Bailey in Tuesday's election and cementing Democratic control of the state as national attention turns toward 2028.

Speaking to supporters in Chicago after the race was called Tuesday night, Pritzker cast his victory as proof that "hope is winning out over fear," framing his agenda on issues like abortion access, gun control and state finances as a contrast to Bailey's conservative platform. His win makes him the first Democrat ever elected to a third gubernatorial term in Illinois, reinforcing the state's recent trend toward solidly blue statewide politics.

Republican Sen. Ashley Moody won Florida's special U.S. Senate election on Tuesday, defeating Democrat Angie Nixon and keeping the battleground state's seat in GOP hands for the remainder of former Sen. Marco Rubio's term.

The Associated Press called the race for Moody on Tuesday evening, cementing her hold on a seat she was appointed to in 2025 and allowing her to serve about two more years before she can run for a full six-year term in 2028. Her victory preserves Republicans' advantage in a state former President Donald Trump carried by 13 points in 2024 and that the party has come to see as a reliable part of its Senate firewall.

Democratic Sen. Mark Warner of Virginia won a fourth term to the U.S. Senate on Tuesday, defeating Republican challenger Bert Mizusawa in a race quickly called by the Associated Press after polls closed statewide.

The AP declared Warner the winner at 7:00 p.m. Eastern, cementing his return to Washington, where he is expected to continue serving as vice chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee, a key post overseeing U.S. intelligence agencies and foreign threats.

Democrat Juliana Stratton won Illinois's open U.S. Senate seat on Tuesday, defeating Republican Don Tracy and becoming part of a trailblazing trio of Black women who will serve in the chamber at the same time.

Stratton, Illinois's lieutenant governor, will succeed retiring Democratic Sen. Dick Durbin, who is stepping down after five terms, making her only the second Black woman ever to represent Illinois in the Senate and helping create a record-setting class of three Black women senators.

Floodwaters that ravaged the Four Corners region over the past two weeks were finally beginning to recede on Tuesday, but rivers in parts of New Mexico remained above flood stage, whole neighborhoods in Colorado and Arizona were left buried in mud, and officials warned that the human and financial toll from more than 20 trillion gallons of rain is only starting to come into focus.

In San Juan County, New Mexico, where major rivers near Shiprock and Farmington were still running high on Tuesday, evacuation orders that have displaced at least 20,000 people could soon be lifted as the county shifts from emergency response to cleanup, a spokesperson said. Across the region, skies were clearing but downtown streets in hard-hit towns like Pagosa Springs, Colorado, remained closed while heavy equipment scraped away thick layers of mud, splintered homes, and broken bridges left behind by successive storms that also disrupted voting and prompted statewide and federal disaster requests.

Deschutes County officials on Tuesday released the 911 recording of Oregon father Kaylub Giamanco, who called from outside Silver Rail Elementary School in Bend as he moved to confront and fatally shoot a teenage gunman inside a special-needs classroom.

The call, made during the Oct. 15 attack and released Nov. 3 under a public-records request, captures Giamanco telling the dispatcher, "I have a gun and I will shoot them right now" and "I'm about to go kill this kid," moments before he entered the school through an open window and shot the assailant. In later remarks referenced in the new reporting, he describes himself as the "last line of defense" and calls the staff member grappling with the shooter "a real true hero."

President Donald Trump on Tuesday reiterated that the United States will suspend roughly $4 billion in annual grant aid to Israel beginning in 2027, saying Washington will keep selling weapons to its longtime ally but end direct military assistance payments.

Speaking as Americans voted in the midterm elections, Trump cast the move as the next step in reshaping the U.S.-Israel security relationship, emphasizing that Israel will continue to have access to U.S. arms through commercial sales rather than guaranteed grants. PBS NewsHour, which first reported the comments on Tuesday, stressed that the White House is planning a suspension of grant-based aid rather than a full cutoff of military support.

A federal judge in Anchorage has thrown out the Trump administration's bid to block certification of Alaska's U.S. Senate race if Republican Sen. Dan Sullivan loses, even as the Justice Department is escalating a parallel criminal probe into an alleged same-name spoiler scheme targeting the contest.

In a 20-page order issued Sunday, November 1, U.S. District Judge Sharon L. Gleason ruled that the federal government lacked authority to bring the civil suit and had offered "no workable plan" to separate ballots cast for independent candidate Daniel J. Sullivan Jr. without violating ballot secrecy and Alaska's constitutional control over its own elections. Gleason rejected the Justice Department's attempt to rely on the preamble of the National Voter Registration Act and to use federal law and the Constitution's Supremacy Clause to justify an order halting certification if Democrat Mary Peltola narrowly prevailed, a remedy she said would intrude on state authority. DOJ attorneys are expected to appeal, while conservative commentators online attacked the decision as a partisan move by an "Obama-appointed judge" and urged Alaskans to "vote for the REAL Dan Sullivan."

A child in New York has died after contracting measles, the state's first measles-related death in more than 30 years, health officials said Tuesday, underscoring renewed concern about vaccine-preventable diseases.

State authorities announced the death on November 3 but did not release the child's age, where in New York the child lived, or the child's vaccination status, citing privacy concerns and ongoing public health investigations. Officials said more details would be shared with local providers and health systems as contact tracing and exposure assessments proceed, and urged families to review their immunization records and ensure children are up to date on the measles, mumps and rubella (MMR) vaccine.

Greenland's parliament on Tuesday approved a new security pact with Denmark and the United States that clears the way for an expanded American military presence and additional bases on the Arctic island, while affirming it remains under Danish control.

The Inatsisartut, Greenland's parliament, backed the trilateral agreement in Nuuk by a vote of 16-0, with seven lawmakers abstaining, sending the deal on to Denmark's Folketing for debate and ratification. The State Department hailed the outcome as "another major victory for American national security," saying the accord will strengthen US defenses and strategic reach in the rapidly changing Arctic region. The pact is written to continue in force even if Greenland eventually becomes independent, locking in US access regardless of the island's future status.

Two helicopters operated by Nepal's Air Dynasty and Fishtail Air collided just above the Pheriche helipad below Mount Everest base camp on Tuesday morning, killing an Indian tourist and injuring at least three other people, officials said.

The crash occurred around 8:12 a.m. Tuesday at the high-altitude Pheriche helipad, about 12 kilometers south of Everest Base Camp in Nepal's Solukhumbu District, as one Airbus AS350 helicopter carried rescued passengers and the other transported cargo, according to the Civil Aviation Authority of Nepal (CAAN). One passenger, 47-year-old Indian national Vasanth Kumar Balaramudu of Chennai, died, while New Zealander Shailesh Krishna Patel and pilots Rabindra Prajapati of Fishtail Air and Prajwol KC of Air Dynasty were injured and airlifted to Kathmandu for treatment.

Voters in 40 states are weighing 145 proposed laws and constitutional amendments Tuesday that could reshape abortion access, how congressional maps are drawn and what identification is required to cast a ballot in future US elections.

The measures on the Nov. 3 ballot are part of 164 statewide initiatives certified for 2026, a total near the modern average, but the mix this year places unusually heavy emphasis on reproductive rights, voting rules and who controls the mechanics of elections. In several closely watched states, both supporters and opponents have poured millions into campaigns that treat these ballot questions as stand-ins for larger national fights over democracy, culture and political power.

An Oklahoma City man has been charged in federal court with orchestrating a nationwide campaign of hundreds of white-powder letters sent to election officials, members of Congress and other public figures ahead of the 2024 and 2026 elections.

A criminal complaint unsealed Tuesday in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Oklahoma names 47-year-old Robin Patrick Martin and charges him with conveying false or misleading information and hoaxes and mailing threatening communications; he was scheduled for an initial court appearance the same day. An FBI affidavit alleges Martin sent more than 700 envelopes containing white powder and ultraviolet-ink threats to officials of both parties, media outlets, pollsters and senior law-enforcement leaders including FBI Director Kash Patel, prompting evacuations at election offices in states such as Louisiana and Oklahoma but ultimately testing negative for hazardous substances.

A federal judge in New York has temporarily blocked the Biden administration from deporting nearly 200 Afghan nationals via a charter flight routed through Pakistan to Taliban-controlled Afghanistan, halting an operation that immigrant advocates say could send former U.S. allies into grave danger.

On Tuesday, U.S. District Judge Valerie Caproni in Manhattan barred the government from deporting Afghan nationals to either Afghanistan or Pakistan through Saturday, Nov. 7, after a Justice Department lawyer told the court that U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement had "no planned or confirmed chartered or commercial flights" for Afghans this week. The order means a charter flight that ICE had scheduled to leave Alexandria, Louisiana, on Tuesday for Pakistan did not take off, even as detainees report being told the flight could be rescheduled within one or two weeks.

Conservative justices on the US Supreme Court signaled Tuesday that they are likely to let two Denver-area Catholic preschools join Colorado's taxpayer-funded universal preschool program while continuing to turn away children from LGBTQ+ families.

During nearly two hours of oral argument in St. Mary Catholic Parish v. Roy in Washington, several members of the court's 6-3 conservative majority pressed Colorado on why its LGBTQ nondiscrimination rule should apply to religious schools whose beliefs condemn same-sex marriage, suggesting the policy functions as a backdoor exclusion from a generally available public benefit. Justice Brett Kavanaugh called the requirement that participating schools give all families an "equal opportunity" to enroll regardless of sexual orientation or gender identity a "provocation," and floated a "win-win" in which Catholic preschools receive an exemption because families could choose among roughly 2,000 other providers in the program while only 34 are Catholic. Colorado's lawyer countered that the state "welcomes" religious preschools into the program as long as they follow the same rules as all other publicly funded providers and warned that preschools are not interchangeable, citing at least one child rejected under the policy and parents who need particular hours or sibling placements.

Minnesota voters are deciding Tuesday whether to change the state constitution to increase annual withdrawals from the $2.3 billion Permanent School Fund, a move that could send tens of millions of additional dollars to public schools each year.

The ballot question asks whether to boost the fund's yearly distribution to 4.5 percent, calculated on a three-year rolling average of the fund's value, instead of continuing with the smaller payout now written into the constitution. The proposal follows a formal recommendation from the Minnesota School Fund Task Force, which concluded that a 4.5 percent rate using a three-year average best balances predictable support for schools with protecting the fund's long-term health.

Live vote counting is set to begin Tuesday night in Minnesota's 2nd Congressional District, where Democrat Matt Little and Republican state Sen. Eric Pratt are competing for an open US House seat in the south metro suburbs.

The Associated Press is expected to start reporting results shortly after polls close at 8 p.m. Central, with the race drawing extra attention because it will determine who replaces Democratic Rep. Angie Craig, who chose not to seek another term. The district covers all of Dakota and Scott counties and parts of Washington County, including a mix of fast-growing suburbs, exurbs and small towns south of Minneapolis and St. Paul.

Minnesota voters are deciding Tuesday whether to give Democratic Secretary of State Steve Simon a fourth term or turn the office over to Republican challenger Tad Jude, with FOX 9 posting live, AP-powered results once polls close at 8 p.m. statewide.

The down-ballot contest will shape how Minnesota runs and safeguards elections over the next four years, as Simon defends his record of expanding access to the ballot while Jude campaigns on tightening voting rules and restoring confidence among skeptics of the system.

St. Paul police arrested 35-year-old David Saw on Sunday, Nov. 1, near the 200 block of Cottage Avenue after a report of streetlight copper theft, marking at least his seventh such arrest in about a year.

Officers said they found tools commonly used to strip and steal wire on Saw and recovered a bag of insulated copper nearby, and he is now charged under a new Ramsey County criminal complaint that highlights his repeat arrests.

Spain's transport minister, Oscar Puente, resigned on Tuesday, saying he could not stay in office after two deadly high-speed rail crashes on the same Madrid-Seville line this year, including last week's collision that killed 69 people near Urda in central Spain.

Announcing his decision in parliament six days after the October 28 crash, Puente told lawmakers that "a transport minister in a country like Spain cannot remain in office after two accidents of this seriousness in less than a year," directly tying his exit to both the October disaster and a January wreck that killed 46. Earlier on Tuesday, he outlined new safety steps, including better staffing and conditions in control centers and a faster rollout of the European Rail Traffic Management System, a digital signaling and protection network he said should be accelerated across Spain's high-speed lines.

The Justice Department on Monday released new survey data showing that Americans experienced about 25% fewer violent crime victimizations in 2025 than in 2024, a sharp drop officials say confirms that serious violence is falling nationwide.

The preliminary 2025 National Crime Victimization Survey (NCVS) estimates roughly 669,000 fewer violent crimes, excluding simple assaults, including a 31% decline in aggravated assault victimization, or about 390,000 fewer incidents, along with double-digit drops in robbery and major categories of property crime such as burglary and motor vehicle theft. The results, drawn from 101,980 household interviews with a 53% completion rate, broadly align with FBI figures showing that reported violent crime fell in 2025 and the murder rate hit a 20-year low, a trend the Trump White House has made central to its midterm-election message.

The Federal Reserve left its benchmark interest rate unchanged in a 3.75%-4% range at its policy meeting in Washington on Wednesday, October 28, even as fresh government data show inflation has re-accelerated to 3.6% and the economy grew at a strong 3.4% annual rate last quarter.

Fed officials said they are not backing away from their inflation fight and signaled that another rate hike at their December meeting is likely on the table, a view reinforced by Thursday's hotter-than-expected inflation and GDP reports. Two policymakers, Governor Lisa Cook and Cleveland Fed President Beth Hammack, broke with the majority and voted for an immediate quarter-point increase, underscoring internal concern that price pressures may be firming again.

Anthropic, one of the world's largest artificial-intelligence firms, filed to go public on Monday, October 26, applying to list on the Nasdaq under the ticker "ANT" in an initial public offering that could value the company between $1.5 trillion and $2 trillion despite massive losses and unusually stark warnings that its own technology could someday pose "catastrophic or existential risks to humanity."

In a 335-page Form S-1 registration statement to the Securities and Exchange Commission, the San Francisco-based company revealed a net loss of $80.7 billion in the first half of 2026, driven largely by fair-value changes on complex financing instruments, atop rapidly rising operating losses and surging revenue that reached $33.2 billion in the first nine months of 2026. The filing devotes 93 pages to risk factors, far more than SpaceX's 38-page risk section, and warns that Anthropic's models could be misused to design chemical weapons, assist authoritarian crackdowns or, if AI capabilities outstrip the company's ability to control them, help autonomous systems inflict harm "independently and at scale without human intervention." The S-1 does not yet specify how many shares will be sold or at what price, but says the deal could come as soon as November on the Nasdaq Global Select Market, amid sharp swings in other AI-linked stocks.

A federal judge in Washington, D.C., late Monday ordered the Justice Department to limit its Election Day poll monitors to unarmed civilian staff without arrest powers, rejecting a bid by the NAACP to bar federal monitors outright but sharply curbing who can be sent and what they can do.

U.S. District Judge Reggie Walton ruled that all monitors deployed today must be administrative or clerical DOJ employees rather than sworn law enforcement officers, and must be unarmed, out of uniform, and barred from making arrests or displaying federal insignia at polling places. He also ordered the department to file a report by 7 a.m. Eastern Tuesday detailing how it screened personnel to ensure no one with general arrest authority would be used, and said monitors may not interact directly with voters inside polling locations.

The Southern Poverty Law Center is asking a federal judge to rein in the Justice Department's use of a key informant in its fraud case against the civil rights group, arguing prosecutors have effectively made the witness part of the prosecution team while letting him control which evidence is preserved.

In a motion filed Wednesday, October 28, in federal court, SPLC lawyers requested an order requiring the informant, identified only as "F-9," to preserve documents and to make him available for defense subpoenas, saying he has a "house full of documents" and has discussed plans to "shred" some of them. The filing alleges the Justice Department allowed F-9, a former SPLC informant, to decide which documents, recordings and photos to turn over despite his extensive, ongoing collaboration with investigators.

Federal prosecutors in Washington have urged a federal judge to keep sealed the search warrant and related documents from the October 12 search of Rep. Ilhan Omar's home, arguing in a Tuesday court filing that public release could jeopardize an active criminal investigation and any future charging decisions.

In a 47-page filing submitted by U.S. Attorney Jeanine Pirro, the Justice Department said requests to unseal the materials are "premature" because investigators are still reviewing evidence gathered in the search, which stemmed from a Department of Homeland Security inquiry into immigration paperwork involving members of Omar's family. The October 12 warrant that authorized federal agents to search the Minnesota Democrat's Washington residence listed potential immigration-related offenses and conspiracy, though no charges have been filed and prosecutors emphasized that no charging decision has yet been made.

President Donald Trump personally directed US border agents to let Brazilian senator Flávio Bolsonaro enter the United States on humanitarian parole when Bolsonaro arrived on a private jet in Miami on Wednesday, October 28, despite a Brazilian court order barring him from leaving his country, US officials told the New York Times.

The officials said the decision by Customs and Border Protection at Miami-Opa locka Executive Airport followed explicit orders from Trump, and that a White House official helped arrange the private jet that flew Bolsonaro, his wife, and daughters to Florida, where he is now expected to seek permanent US residency. A public US arrival record reviewed by the Times shows Bolsonaro presented a canceled Brazilian diplomatic passport number on entry, while the Department of Homeland Security said only that the family was "met and inspected" under immigration law and released, without addressing Trump's role; later that day Trump told reporters Bolsonaro had been given "a pass" to enter.

Sen. Marco Rubio is urging Cubans who want "positive change" on the island to secretly partner with the CIA, a call he posted on X on Friday, October 23, that the agency quickly amplified online.

In the English-language post, Rubio encouraged Cubans to contact US intelligence for a "discrete partnership," and within hours the CIA reposted his message along with its own Spanish-language appeal and a video explaining secure ways to reach the agency. The unusual, highly public push for clandestine cooperation came as Cuban officials condemned recent US rhetoric, and as shortages of food and medicine on the island remain severe under Washington's decades-long embargo.

The Supreme Court on Wednesday, October 21, 2026, refused the Trump administration's emergency bid to immediately enforce a new federal prison policy that would sharply limit gender-affirming medical care and social accommodations for transgender inmates nationwide.

In a brief unsigned order, the justices left in place U.S. District Judge Royce Lamberth's injunction requiring the Bureau of Prisons to continue providing hormone therapy, surgeries already approved, and social-transition measures such as makeup and wigs to a certified class of inmates while the underlying lawsuit, Kingdom v. Trump, proceeds. The Court noted that Justices Clarence Thomas and Samuel Alito would have granted the administration's request, but a majority rejected it, meaning the Trump-era policy remains blocked as the case moves forward in lower courts.

California voters on Tuesday are deciding whether to hit residents worth more than $1 billion with a one-time 5% wealth tax, a high-stakes Proposition 40 measure pitched as a way to plug looming federal health-care funding cuts.

The proposal, on ballots statewide, would apply to people who were California residents on January 1, 2026, largely exclude real estate and retirement accounts, and steer 90% of the revenue to health care outside the state's normal spending limit and school-funding formulas. The Legislative Analyst's Office (LAO) says the tax would likely raise tens of billions of dollars, paid mostly in 2027 and potentially over an optional five-year payment plan, but warns the total and timing are "very hard to predict" because billionaires can move or rearrange assets.

President Donald Trump on Monday, October 19, created a new Division of Women's Health at the National Institutes of Health and a White House Women's Health Task Force by executive order during a Rose Garden ceremony in Washington.

The order directs federal agencies to bolster research and diagnostic tools focused on maternal health, mental health, endometriosis, Alzheimer's disease, osteoporosis, heart disease and stroke, but it does not set any new funding levels to pay for those efforts. White House chief of staff Susie Wiles, who recently completed treatment for breast cancer, will co-chair the task force with Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., and the panel was scheduled to hold its first meeting later that same day. First lady Melania Trump, speaking at the event, declared, "Beginning today we will change the reality of women's health," casting the initiative as this generation's drive to find cures for diseases that disproportionately affect women.

Alberta voters have overwhelmingly rejected a move toward independence, with unofficial results from Monday's provincewide referendum showing about three-quarters choosing to remain in Canada rather than start a legal process that could lead to separation.

By Tuesday, October 20, unofficial Elections Alberta tallies from more than 1.8 million ballots in 81% of voting areas showed roughly 75% backing unity and about 25% supporting the proposal to begin an independence process, well short of what separatist organizers had hoped. The question on the ballot did not directly ask Albertans to secede, but whether the province should start a legal pathway toward a future independence referendum, a distinction leaders emphasized throughout the campaign.

Elon Musk has quietly become the single biggest financial backer of Republicans' fight to hold the U.S. Senate, giving $158 million this fall to a GOP super PAC that immediately funneled the money into a Texas group boosting Attorney General Ken Paxton in a razor-thin Senate race.

Federal Election Commission records show Musk donated $75 million on September 9 and another $83 million two weeks later to the Senate Leadership Fund, a powerful Republican super PAC; on the day after each gift, the group transferred matching amounts to a Texas PAC that has spent more than $100 million on ads promoting Paxton and attacking Democratic challenger James Talarico in a race both parties view as pivotal to Senate control.

Newly released photos from Ukrainian systems show SpaceX's Starlink connection slowed to unusable levels during a deadly Russian drone strike in Kharkiv region on October 19, intensifying Kyiv's dispute with Elon Musk and Washington over wartime limits on the satellite network.

Screengrabs obtained by CBS News indicate Starlink bandwidth to ground-based air-defense radars fell to about 0.1 megabytes per second that day, a rate a Ukrainian technical source said was too low even to load a webpage as a Russian Geran-4 drone killed five civilians in a park, including 34-year-old Yulia Spichak and a 1-year-old girl. Ukrainian officials say similar mid-October restrictions, imposed without warning, also interfered with drone interceptors and call the connectivity an "essential" part of shielding civilians from air attacks.

New York Attorney General Letitia James' role as special prosecutor in the Cornell University gang-rape probe is now in the hands of a judge, after a defense lawyer argued in court last Thursday that her prior public support for the accuser shows bias and should disqualify her.

At an October 29 hearing in Monticello, Sullivan County Judge James Farrell pressed James' office on whether her earlier social-media post praising the "brave young woman" at the center of the case and declaring "we stand with you" crossed a line for a prosecutor tasked with neutral fact-finding. Defense attorney Andrew Miltenberg, representing former Chi Phi fraternity member Gillio Lopes, said the post, which described what Jane Doe was "forced to endure" as "horrific and unacceptable," creates an "avoidable question" about whether James has already decided what happened, even as he stressed he was not alleging corruption. Assistant Attorney General Kaitlin Vigars countered that public statements alone do not meet New York's legal standard for disqualifying a prosecutor, which generally requires proof of actual prejudice or a personal stake in the outcome, and Judge Farrell ended the session without ruling.

The Trump administration has detailed a $15 billion package of aid, loans and targeted investments for farmers and other agriculture producers in the final stretch before Wednesday's midterm elections, framing the moves as relief from record diesel and input costs across rural America.

Announced in pieces over recent weeks and tallied by the Department of Agriculture on Monday, the promises include $8 billion in direct "Harvest Fuel Relief" payments to offset this year's diesel bills, at least $5 billion in new government-backed loans for ranchers and fishermen, and $1.8 billion in checks to conservation-program participants and landowners. USDA has also pledged hundreds of millions more for fertilizer plants, meat-processing expansion and specialty-crop innovation, plus up to $472.5 million in federal commodity purchases, even as it separately plans $13.8 billion in 2025-crop-year safety-net payments that are not part of the pre-election total.

St. Paul Downtown Airport officials have rolled out a $105 million redevelopment plan that would close one of Holman Field's three runways to make room for new hangars and future electric aircraft operations on the city's riverfront.

The proposal, unveiled this week, outlines a long-term strategy to consolidate flight operations on the remaining runways while converting the freed-up pavement and adjacent land into modern hangar space aimed at business aviation and emerging electric aircraft technologies.

New Jersey Gov. Mikie Sherrill has warned port and terminal operators in her state not to accept any Russian diesel shipments, saying in a letter sent Monday that doing so would violate federal law and could expose companies to civil and criminal charges.

Sherrill told operators that an April 2022 congressional ban on Russian energy imports remains in force, and argued that a recent Treasury Department move allowing Russian diesel back onto global markets does not give New Jersey ports legal cover to unload those cargoes. She said Russia has already dispatched several diesel tankers toward the United States, including at least one believed to be headed for New Jersey, and urged companies to refuse docking or offloading.

On Tuesday, November 3, 2026, Poland launched a "special operation" along its northern frontier with Russia near Kaliningrad, citing fears of sabotage and possible armed incursions.

Prime Minister Donald Tusk said the operation deploys counterterrorism police, intelligence officers and reinforced border security. He said a late-night "disturbing movement" just across the Kaliningrad border involved unidentified people carrying flashlights and that allied intelligence warned of possible "acts of sabotage or more serious provocations." Tusk added that newly received, more precise intelligence indicated events could occur in the first half of November, including armed incursions into Polish territory.

Shelby County District Attorney Steve Mulroy on Monday released bodycam, stationary and bystander videos showing the aftermath of the July 5 fatal shooting of 20-year-old Tyrin Johnson in Memphis.

The released clips do not show the shooting itself and depict only the moments after gunfire. An autopsy shared with Johnson's family found he was shot in the back. That finding conflicts with statements from police and the Tennessee National Guard that Johnson was facing troops with a gun when they fired. The Tennessee Bureau of Investigation is still probing the case, and Mulroy has not decided whether to seek charges against the Guard members.

Marathon Petroleum agreed to sell its St. Paul Park refinery to Texas-based CVR Energy as part of a $4.2 billion package of refineries.

The package covers multiple Marathon refineries and includes the St. Paul Park plant, a major supplier of gasoline and diesel to the Twin Cities and the upper Midwest. Closing remains subject to regulatory review and other customary conditions, and neither company has provided specifics on potential job or operational changes at St. Paul Park.

A U.S.-brokered localized ceasefire in Russian-occupied Oleshky, announced by Melania Trump, briefly paused fighting to allow humanitarian aid deliveries and organized evacuations for trapped civilians.

The pause took effect at 3 a.m. Tuesday, October 27, and ended Sunday night, November 1. A humanitarian convoy of roughly 25 buses, ambulances and aid trucks entered Oleshky after designated access routes were demined. Evacuees who chose Ukrainian-controlled areas were bused to Anapa in Russia, flown to Homel in Belarus, and then escorted across the Belarus-Ukraine border into undisclosed Ukrainian territory.

The Indian Navy freed 20 crew members from the Iranian fishing vessel Azini during a more-than-48-hour rescue operation that ended Monday, November 2, 2026, off Somalia near Bandar Bayla and Hafun.

The Defense Ministry said the operation used an Indian warship, a maritime surveillance aircraft and marine commandos, with additional commandos airdropped by an Indian Air Force C-17. A Puntland Maritime Police Force official said Indian forces disarmed 12 suspected Somali pirates, confiscated their phones and released the suspects. The official said the suspects and two Somali security guards later came ashore at Bandar Bayla.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said on Monday, November 2, 2026, that Ukraine carried out a retaliatory hack against Russia's emergency-alert system after cyberattacks disrupted alert apps in both countries.

Ukraine's Air Alert app began issuing false warnings at 10:47 p.m. Ukraine time on Sunday, November 1, including alerts about radiation, chemical threats, nuclear attack and street fighting in Kyiv. Developers Ajax Systems and Stfalcon said there was unauthorized interference and temporarily disabled push notifications and the app itself. Russia's Emergencies Ministry said hackers accessed its mobile app at about 2:45 a.m. Moscow time on Monday, November 2. The ministry said false alerts went to 33 regions, mentioned "nuclear warheads," and urged residents to stock up on three weeks of food and shelter in basements. Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov warned that state agencies face constant cyberattacks, increasingly using artificial intelligence, and called for stronger cybersecurity.

The U.S. Coast Guard's Miami sector detained the cruise ship MSC Poesia at the Port of Miami on Sunday, November 1, 2026, for an inspection that has put the ship's itinerary on hold.

The Coast Guard said it is verifying the ship's compliance with international standards and U.S. regulations. MSC Cruises said the vessel's departure is delayed, the company is fully cooperating, and guests are being kept informed about anticipated departure times.

Humberto Zeferino De Los Santos, 23, was charged Monday in Dakota County with felony leaving the scene of a collision resulting in death, and his whereabouts remain unknown.

The crash on June 29, 2024, at Highway 55 and Lexington Avenue in Eagan killed two people who were passengers in a Volkswagen Jetta, including De Los Santos' brother. Witness photos and a hotel room search tied De Los Santos to a bloodstained shirt and to the vehicle, but he fled and has not contacted authorities despite legal obligations.

John Nguyen Lutgen of St. Paul was charged in Hennepin County Monday with theft by swindle and check forgery for allegedly stealing about $28,000 from Minnesota Cannabis Services.

Authorities say Lutgen altered company checks and deposited them into his personal account. The alleged scheme ran from July 3 through Aug. 19, 2026, according to charging documents.

Hennepin County officials denied a U.S. Department of Justice request to allow federal election monitors inside polling places for the Nov. 3, 2026, general election in Minnesota.

The county's refusal prevents DOJ staff from being inside voting rooms on election day. Federal observers can still be positioned on public property outside polling sites, subject to state limits and local arrangements.

A Yakima County, Washington, dairy worker died Sunday, November 1, 2026, after contracting H5N1 bird flu following exposure to infected cattle, officials said.

Yakima County officials said 33 dairy herds in the county have recently tested positive for H5N1, and three human infections are linked to dairy exposures. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said genetic analysis of the virus from the patient found no mutations that would increase transmissibility or severity. The agency says it still rates the overall public risk as low. Health officials are tracing and monitoring close contacts and urging farm workers to use protective equipment around sick or dead animals.

MnDOT reopened eastbound I-394 between Highway 100 and downtown Minneapolis on Monday, several weeks ahead of schedule after a months-long closure.

The reopening also restores I-94 between Highway 55 and the Lowry Hill Tunnel, the Penn Avenue bridge over I-394 and ramps to and from I-394. The Linden Avenue ramp to westbound I-394 will reopen Tuesday, Nov. 3. E-ZPass lanes between Highway 100 and downtown remain closed until later this week, and MnDOT warned of occasional overnight closures for sign installation and other finish work.

Open enrollment for 2027 Affordable Care Act marketplace coverage begins Sunday, Nov. 8, 2026, in most states and runs through January 15, 2027, as premiums climb and subsidy rules tighten.

A KFF analysis of new Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services data projects an average 13 percent increase in 2027 marketplace premiums, with unsubsidized enrollees set to take the biggest hit. Roughly 19.2 million people were actively enrolled in ACA marketplace plans as of February 2026. New 2027 rules will limit premium tax credits for certain lawfully present immigrants, a change analysts say could eventually add about one million uninsured people. In September 2026 Vice President JD Vance and other officials announced plans to remove 760,000 alleged fraudulent or nonexistent enrollees, projecting $2.2 billion in savings.

ICE officer Mario Alberto Morales turned himself in and appeared Monday in Harris County court on a felony aggravated-assault-with-a-deadly-weapon charge over an October 10 vehicle strike in Houston.

Judge Matthew Peneguy set Morales' bond at $30,000 after prosecutors had sought $75,000. Surveillance video shows Morales' SUV drove over a median and struck Miguel Parra Hernandez as Hernandez ran away. Miguel Parra Hernandez broke his leg and is recovering at a rehabilitation facility while in federal custody.

U.S. Magistrate Judge Zia Faruqui in Washington on Monday, November 2, 2026 dismissed the Justice Department's criminal complaint against former FBI officials Nikki Floris and Bradley Benavides.

Faruqui delivered an hour-long oral ruling saying the complaint lacked probable cause and that the prosecution "erodes public confidence in the Department of Justice." He said the probe "cannot be described as anything other than weaponization" and called it rushed and riddled with errors. He also criticized the timing, noting the investigation opened the day after President Trump's primetime address and charges were filed just two weeks before the midterm elections.

Plaintiffs said Monday that Snap, TikTok and Alphabet have reached settlements in a Los Angeles lawsuit accusing major social media platforms of addicting teenagers.

Meta announced a separate settlement on Friday, October 30 that resolved claims the plaintiffs brought against Facebook and Instagram. The terms of the recent deals were not disclosed, and Snap did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

Minneapolis police arrested and charged 30-year-old Jaquan Darrian Edwards with murder in the Oct. 3 fatal shooting on the Metro Transit Green Line.

A criminal complaint says surveillance footage shows Edwards boarding at U.S. Bank Stadium while the victim boarded at East Bank. After the train left Stadium Village, the complaint alleges Edwards fired three shots that fatally wounded the victim in the neck, and the victim was later found near Westgate station and died at the scene. Investigators say they collected the shooter's DNA from spit left on a light rail platform and matched it to DNA from discarded wood-tipped cigars taken from trash at Edwards' mother's home. Police also used Edwards' Metro Transit To-Go card history to trace him to a bus trip to Maplewood, where Hy-Vee security and Advance Auto Parts co-workers identified him as an employee.

The Justice Department said it will oppose Evanston, Illinois's anticipated motion to dismiss a federal challenge to the city's race-based reparations program, the department announced on November 2, 2026.

Judge John F. Kness granted the DOJ's motion to intervene and earlier denied Evanston's prior motion to dismiss in the Judicial Watch class-action lawsuit. Evanston's program offers $25,000 in housing-related benefits and cash payments to Black residents and descendants who lived in the city between 1919 and 1969, and it is funded by a local cannabis tax.

A fight at St. Paul's Union Depot forced thousands of people to evacuate the station.

Alphanews described the gathering as a "Muslim halal" market at the depot. Reports said there was no confirmed gunfire amid the melee.

At Plymouth Superior Court on Monday, Nov. 2, 2026, Judge William Sullivan said he is leaning toward a March 2027 retrial for Lindsay Clancy after prosecutors told the court she will likely be tried again.

Judge Sullivan set a follow-up scheduling hearing for November 16, 2026, and prosecutors said they have not yet decided whether to seek first-degree murder or lesser charges. Defense attorney Kevin Reddington pushed for clarity and demanded a spring 2027 trial before Sullivan retires, saying he does not want Clancy jailed another year without a new trial. Prosecutors urged a gag order, accusing Reddington of making calculated public statements that could taint a jury, and Judge Sullivan took that motion under advisement. The hearing also included argument on a defense motion to preserve records tied to the holdout juror known as 'Juror Doe' from the first trial.

The Twin Cities recorded an average temperature of 57.8°F in October 2026, tying October 1900 for the third-warmest October on record at Minneapolis-St Paul since 1872.

The metro hit 90°F on two consecutive October days for the first time ever. Minneapolis-St Paul saw no official freeze in October, making it one of only a few years to reach November without one.

On Monday, November 2, 2026, Marvell Technology said it will acquire Lumentum Holdings in an all-stock deal valued at $115 billion, a move aimed at bolstering AI-era connectivity for data centers.

Lumentum makes lasers, circuit switches and other optical components used in data centers, while Marvell specializes in data-infrastructure semiconductor products. Nvidia previously took a $2 billion stake in Lumentum, and initial market reaction saw Marvell shares slip over 1% and Lumentum about 3% before the opening bell.

The W Minneapolis - Foshay hotel is slated for a foreclosure sale in December after a Hennepin County judge this summer found its owner owes more than $42.3 million tied to a loan.

The foreclosure would affect the 32-story downtown Foshay Tower, a distinctive historic skyscraper that operates as the W Minneapolis - Foshay hotel in the city's core.

The EPA inspector general announced a compliance audit of the agency's artificial intelligence practices on October 19, 2026, over concerns several systems may violate federal AI rules.

The audit will examine whether EPA tools comply with the Office of Management and Budget directive requiring an online AI inventory, extra safeguards for high-impact systems, and a human appeals process. The inquiry follows reports that EPA developed AI tools to help vet toxic chemicals and pesticides that were not listed in the agency's AI inventory.

The U.N. peacekeeping mission in Western Sahara, MINURSO, ceased operations on Sunday, November 1, 2026, after 35 years, removing a longstanding international presence from the disputed territory.

U.N. spokesperson Stéphane Dujarric said November 1, 2026, marks the start of a liquidation period overseen by a smaller U.N. team under the Department of Operational Support. Russia vetoed a U.S.-drafted Security Council resolution that would have backed Moroccan sovereignty and ended MINURSO in 2027. A competing Russian resolution to extend the mission was then voted down. Morocco welcomed the decision, while the Polisario Front and Algeria said it undermined the peace process.

Sen. Chris Murphy was hospitalized after suffering a stroke on Saturday, October 31, 2026, and was transferred to Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore, his office said.

He began feeling numbness in his arm during his son's hockey game and was taken to a local hospital, where doctors determined he had suffered a stroke before being transferred to Johns Hopkins for monitoring. As of Sunday, November 1, 2026, Murphy was described as awake and alert, responding well to treatment and "expected to make a full recovery," his chief of staff Allison Herwitt said.

A lender seized control of the MV Odyssey in Sihanoukville, Cambodia over the weekend of Oct. 31-Nov. 1, 2026, and told residents they had that weekend to remove all of their belongings before losing access to the ship.

The lender assumed responsibility for crew pay, fuel, operations and the vessel's safekeeping as it took control. The lender plans to move the MV Odyssey from Sihanoukville to Singapore, where the ship could eventually be auctioned, though no sale has yet been scheduled.

A shooting after the Magic City Classic on Saturday night, October 31, 2026, just outside Legion Field along Graymont Avenue in Birmingham killed one person and injured eight.

Birmingham Police Chief Michael Pickett said most spectators and families had already left stadium property when shots were fired, and he was "very grateful that more people weren't injured." Police spokesperson De'Rell Freeman said one person had been detained and taken to police headquarters for questioning and officers recovered and secured multiple weapons at the scene.

Multiple shootings in nightlife districts across the United States during Halloween weekend left at least six people dead and dozens more wounded, authorities said.

In Dallas, three separate shootings in the Deep Ellum entertainment district late Saturday killed four people and injured 15 others over about an hour and 15 minutes. Dallas Police Chief Daniel Comeaux said some arrests were made in connection with the Deep Ellum violence, but he did not specify numbers or charges.

On Sunday, November 1, 2026, Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney said he had a constructive conversation with U.S. President Donald Trump about a potential trade deal ahead of U.S. midterms.

Carney said negotiating teams will work in the coming weeks toward an agreement that he said would create jobs, lower costs for families and protect Canada's languages, culture and sovereignty.

U.S. District Judge Darrin Gayles in Miami dismissed President Donald Trump's defamation lawsuit against The Wall Street Journal and related News Corp defendants with prejudice on Saturday, October 31, 2026.

Gayles' 20-page opinion said Trump failed to prove the defendants acted with "actual malice" under the New York Times Co. v. Sullivan standard and called the suit "grasping at straws." The suit targeted a Wall Street Journal story about a sexually suggestive letter and a drawing bearing Trump's name that appeared in a 2003 Jeffrey Epstein 50th-birthday album. Gayles noted the Journal included Trump's denial, which the judge said undercut claims that the reporting was malicious. A Trump legal spokesperson said the president will "continue to press forward" in the "powerhouse" lawsuit and a source said the decision will likely be appealed.

Masked rioters looted stores and attacked police in Frankfurt on Saturday, October 31, 2026, as nationwide cost-of-living protests spread to more than 30 German cities.

They smashed storefronts, looted shops and threw stones, fireworks, pepper bombs and Molotov cocktails at officers, police said. Police said weapons stolen from a Frankfurt gun store during the unrest were later recovered.

John Searle, 55, now faces four additional felony charges tied to peeping incidents in Minneapolis' Como neighborhood, prosecutors said, and he is not currently in custody.

Prosecutors describe Searle as an "extreme risk" to public safety. He is not in custody after posting bond on an earlier case, officials said. One victim's post on the neighborhood site Nextdoor prompted at least five other people to report similar encounters, helping investigators expand their cases.

Elmer Mitchell Fields, 57, a middle school teacher from Viper, Kentucky, has been charged in Washington County with one felony count of engaging in electronic communication describing sexual conduct with a child.

Washington County human trafficking investigators say they created an undercover Kik account posing as a 15-year-old girl and collected alleged explicit messages, videos and audio they say came from Fields. Investigators say the evidence includes messages tied to school calendar dates and a voice match to Fields from a television interview, and that a search warrant was executed at his Kentucky home on Oct. 28.

Shareef Shaheed, owner of the Soul4Life food truck, was severely burned in an explosion during a test run at his St. Paul truck and faces a long recovery.

The blast blew him out of the truck after he turned on a propane tank while about to light the deep fryer's pilot light. Shaheed suffered second- and third-degree burns to his face, hands and legs and has already undergone surgery. His fiancée, Megan Welle, and a friend were also severely burned and all three are expected to remain at Regions Hospital for weeks.

The St. Paul school board approved a budget plan on Oct. 30, 2026, to close a nearly $5 million gap without immediate layoffs, voting 6-1 to adopt the approach.

The gap grew after more than 500 English learner students left the district, reducing federal funding. The approved plan avoids immediate layoffs but leaves 12 jobs unfilled, converts some roles to early retirement and keeps at least two EL teaching posts and seven educational assistant roles vacant.

Senior Trump administration officials, including Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent and FBI Director Kash Patel, traveled to St. Cloud on Friday, October 30, 2026, to announce arrests of allegedly fraudulent Medicaid providers.

Officials said the actions were tied to alleged fraud at Twin Cities autism centers and that the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services has frozen about $550 million in federal Medicaid assistance to Minnesota.

Two brothers from Waller, Texas, were sentenced to federal prison for kidnapping a Minnesota family and forcing the transfer of more than $8 million in cryptocurrency.

Raymond Christian Garcia received 15 years, and Isiah Angelo Garcia received 15.5 years in federal prison. Both men pleaded guilty in June to one federal count of interference with commerce by robbery.

St. Paul police ordered a shelter-in-place for the immediate area around the 1000 block of Ross Avenue just before 6:30 p.m. Thursday amid an active incident.

The St. Paul Police Department (SPPD) said it issued the advisory via social media and gave no details about suspects, injuries or the incident's nature.

St. Paul will invest $300,000 to secure nearly 200 leased vehicles from the Evie carshare fleet and seek a new vendor, Mayor Kaohly Her announced Oct. 29, 2026.

The city said the $300,000 includes $160,000 in newly identified funds and $140,000 already budgeted for 2027 to support a bridge operation. St. Paul will issue a request for information to identify a vendor to operate the service while it negotiates to secure the fleet.

The Minneapolis Park and Recreation Board (MPRB) will end off-leash use at the Minnehaha Regional Park dog area on December 21, 2026. The board issued a closure directive requiring the off-leash area to be closed for that use by no later than December 31, after which dogs must be leashed under standard park rules.

The board cited the site's status as a sacred Dakota place and a possible burial ground as the reason for the closure. That justification has prompted public outcry and pushback from dog owners and nearby residents who say they rely on the off-leash area and want firmer evidence for the board's claim.

Hennepin County Attorney Mary Moriarty charged conservative activist James O'Keefe and associate Cam Higby with felony identity theft and unlawful voting over an August 11 Minneapolis polling-place operation.

Prosecutors allege the two disguised themselves and went to multiple Minneapolis polling places, giving election judges the names of real registered voters without those voters' permission to start ballot applications. Moriarty says Minnesota law is broken once someone intentionally misrepresents their identity in applying for a ballot, even if they do not sign affidavits or obtain ballots.

Nicollet Avenue at Lake Street in Minneapolis is scheduled to reopen to traffic on November 24, 2026, pending weather, restoring a key downtown arterial ahead of Thanksgiving.

City officials said any weather-related delay would likely push the reopening into the following week. The reopening reunites a major artery severed in the late 1970s to make way for a Kmart superblock. That Kmart burned on October 20, 2023 and was later torn down after the fire.

St. Paul police say a fatal crash at about 8:30 a.m. Thursday, October 29, 2026, closed the intersection of Ford Parkway and Cleveland Avenue in the city's Highland Park neighborhood.

The intersection is closed to traffic until further notice, and St. Paul police are asking drivers to avoid the area.

A tornado watch has been issued for the Twin Cities metro and parts of Wisconsin until 9 p.m. Wednesday as strong storms move into the area.

Strong storms were already ongoing north and south of the metro and were moving east-northeast at about 30 mph. Forecasters said the severe weather is being driven by late-October warmth, sunshine, high humidity and above-average temperatures, producing an unusual late-fall outbreak setup.

Amiir Mawlid Ali, identified by police as a Minneapolis Muddy street gang member, was sentenced to nearly three years in federal prison for possession of a machine gun.

Prosecutors said the weapon was a Glock fitted with an illegal auto-sear "switch" and that Ali's DNA was found on the gun. The charge grew out of a June 3, 2025 Minneapolis traffic stop that took place between shootings at Wayzata and Burnsville high school graduation ceremonies.

Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison led 18 state attorneys general in filing an amicus brief on Oct. 26 to preserve Temporary Protected Status for Somali nationals.

The brief was filed in African Communities Together v. Mullin and asks the court to block the Department of Homeland Security's termination of Somali TPS. The coalition says ending TPS would harm state economies, public health systems and families, particularly in Minnesota's Twin Cities.

A Minneapolis City Council committee advanced an ordinance to dissolve the Office of Community Safety on a 9-3 vote with one abstention.

Council Member Robin Wonsley and other supporters said the office has failed and should be eliminated. Directors of 911, emergency management and neighborhood safety, and Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison urged retaining the office. Mayor Jacob Frey criticized the proposal as lacking an operational plan.

A Minnesota corrections officer was charged after authorities say they intercepted drug-soaked "beading paper" headed to an inmate at MCF-Lino Lakes on October 26.

Officers first received information about the alleged conspiracy around October 19 and then set up the October 26 interception, according to the report.

Federal prosecutors asked a U.S. District Court in Minneapolis to sentence Feeding Our Future ringleader Salim Said to 40 years in prison.

Said was convicted in March 2025 on 21 counts, including wire fraud, conspiracy, federal programs bribery and money laundering. Prosecutors say more than $44 million in fraudulent proceeds was routed through Safari Restaurant and Salim Limited. They say the money paid for a $1.2 million Plymouth home, Minneapolis commercial real estate, luxury vehicles and designer goods.

Alex Pretti's parents held a news conference in Minneapolis on Tuesday, Oct. 27, saying they have received no direct communication or explanation from the federal government since their son was killed.

The family and their attorney laid out specific unanswered questions, including why Pretti was stopped, what threat agents say he posed, and why body-camera or other video has not been released. They called on Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison and Hennepin County Attorney Mary Moriarty to bring charges or publicly explain any decision not to prosecute. The family described the federal response as a "wall of silence" and accused the Department of Justice and U.S. Customs and Border Protection of stonewalling state investigators and the family. Civil-rights advocates warned that withholding agents' phones, statements and the gun could stall or neuter any state charging decision.

The FBI has raised the reward to $50,000 for information leading to the arrest of Liban Abdulkadir Sheikh, who is wanted in a 2002 Washington state murder and is believed to have ties to Minneapolis.

Sheikh is accused in a November 27, 2002 shooting in which a man was shot six times in the back of the head and the man's girlfriend was also shot. The FBI says Sheikh fled Washington, was later seen in Minneapolis and may have travel or ties across multiple U.S. cities, Canada, Europe and Somalia.

Two St. Paul men were charged in Dakota County for a June 27 break-in at Eagan's DUCK! arcade that stole about $26,475 in rare Pokémon cards and collectibles.

The suspects are identified as Mitchell Teng Yang, 37, and Yeng Yang, 34, both of St. Paul; they face third-degree burglary and theft charges in Dakota County. Investigators say the suspects smashed a window and a display case at about 3:44 a.m. to take the cards.