President Trump told an Iowa crowd to stop watching the WNBA over players leaving the court for the national anthem. With the Finals under way, players say they are focused on the games.
A tanker carrying 40,000 tons of Russian diesel left the Baltic under the Trump-Putin deal, and tracking data points to New York. Energy analysts say one ship barely registers against the shortfall.
The Justice Department alleges a 42-year-old contractor with Top Secret clearance accessed classified reports beyond his duties and passed them to a romantic partner who runs a Substack. He is charged by complaint and presumed innocent.
North Korea's Kim Jong Un crossed the newly opened New Yalu River Bridge for a one-day visit to the Chinese city of Dandong, his first China trip in a year. It came days before the Oct. 25 Korean War anniversary and next month's APEC summit in Shenzhen.
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said in a video on X that the Pentagon designated Confucius Institutes a national security threat and dismantled 80 rebranded groups at 30 universities. The notes show no independent verification of the claim and no published list of schools.
A New York Post headline points to a federal probe of California districts over student surveys, though its details are unverified here. The underlying dispute is over whether the federal student privacy law demands parental consent for every survey touching sensitive topics.
A 70-year-old Florida-licensed attorney is accused, in a criminal complaint reported by WLOX, of asking a Mississippi gun shop whether a gun could pierce body armor and talking about shooting ICE agents. The shop's owner denied the sale and reported her to the ATF.
The New York Times reported that Navy and Marine Corps separation boards voted to retain transgender service members in nine of twelve cases it identified. The panels were set up to carry out Pete Hegseth's ban, and the sample is small and unofficial.
Eleven days before Alaska votes, the Justice Department has asked a federal court to block certification of the Senate race if Sen. Dan Sullivan loses in a narrow race, citing a retired teacher with almost the same name. President Trump says the suit was his idea.
Israeli soldiers killed two men near Hebron after what the military says was an attack that injured at least five people. Within hours, Netanyahu's office ordered Hebron cordoned off and told security forces to prepare a full closure of the West Bank.
A Massachusetts judge has refused Lindsay Clancy's lawyer a hearing into the juror at the center of her mistrial. Fox News reported that the judge found the grounds surfaced only after the mistrial; we have not read the order.
Mike Rogers and Abdul El-Sayed held their second and final Senate debate, clashing over Iran, the Muslim Brotherhood and Medicare for All. The race is neck-and-neck, and Michigan votes Nov. 3.
New York Mayor Zohran Mamdani has signed a single City Council bill since January, the New York Post reports, while nearly 100 others became law without his signature. Anonymous sources told the Post the mayor's team is focused on social media content.
A federal magistrate judge in Miami has ordered President Trump to sit for a deposition in his $10 billion lawsuit against the BBC by Dec. 11, and warned that the case could face sanctions up to dismissal if he does not comply.
Mayor Zohran Mamdani is set to make his first in-person campaign appearances for Gov. Kathy Hochul in Brooklyn, according to Politico. Her Republican challenger, Bruce Blakeman, has already pointed to the relationship, and the polls show the race is not as settled as one number suggests.
Ukraine's president says he supports a ceasefire and three-way talks with Washington and Moscow, and ABC reports the Kremlin says Putin agreed to resume them. Based on early reports, the terms, the venue and even the level of the talks are not yet clear.
A Wednesday night rally near Clemson was interrupted repeatedly by protesters, and at least two appeared to be roughed up by attendees. Trump praised one supporter from the stage.
