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Voters Decide Control of Congress Tuesday
Americans vote Tuesday in midterm elections that will decide control of the House and Senate, with Republicans defending slim majorities and toss-up Senate races in Alaska, Texas and Iowa.
Monday, November 2, 2026 · 4-minute read
Midterm Showdown, Mar-a-Lago Jet Crash, and a Kraken Museum
Voters head to the polls to decide Congress, Binance reopens withdrawals after a record hack, and a French whisky ages in concrete eggs.
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Learjet Crash Near Mar-a-Lago Kills All Nine
All nine people on a private Learjet died Sunday when the plane came down in a residential area of…
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Binance Resumes Withdrawals After Record $6.3 Billion Hack
Binance began restoring customer withdrawals in phases Sunday after a $6.3 billion theft, the…
Sources: The Guardian World, TechCrunch, Inc.
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The number of nights Harry Styles played Madison Square Garden in his record residency, which he closed on Halloween dressed as New York’s Pizza Rat. No artist has played a longer residency at the arena.
Source: The Hollywood Reporter
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Women travel thousands of miles for a reproductive moonshot. Scientists say they’ve been misled
Why women traveling thousands of miles for ‘three-parent’ IVF may have been misled about the science behind the reproductive moonshot.
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What Life Is Like by the Strait of Hormuz Right Now
What daily life is like in Bandar Abbas, the Iranian port city perched on the strategically vital Strait of Hormuz.
Foreign Policy · Stefanie Glinski and Mohammad MohsenifarSubscription
Voters in 1946 Had No Idea How Those Midterms Would Change America
How the 1946 midterms quietly changed America, launching the political careers of John F. Kennedy and Richard Nixon.
The Dispatch · Bob Crawford
- Today
Día de los Muertos reaches its central day, as families in Mexico and beyond honor departed loved ones with ofrendas.
- Tomorrow
Americans head to the polls for Election Day, with turnout, key races, and ballot measures across the country to watch.
Etcetera
- Martha Stewart says she’s ‘distressed’ by backlash to her homeless Halloween costume
- ‘Heat’ director Michael Mann was briefly hospitalized after his own holstered gun discharged
- Spain’s giant squid museum lets you meet the kraken face-to-face
- A world-first French whisky is aged in concrete eggs, like fine wine
- Mark Cuban’s first apartment: five roommates, one floor plan, $400 apiece today
Today’s clickbait, so you don’t have toLily Allen’s Halloween Costume? An Empty Ticketmaster Seating Map
On this day · November 2
The Historybook- 1889North Dakota and South Dakota are admitted as the 39th and 40th states
- 1920Pittsburgh’s KDKA airs the first commercial radio broadcast, announcing election results
- 1947Howard Hughes pilots the massive Spruce Goose on its first and only flight
- 1983President Reagan signs the law creating the Martin Luther King Jr. federal holiday
- 2000The first resident crew arrives aboard the International Space Station
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Quote of the day
“The ballot is stronger than the bullet.”
— Abraham Lincoln
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