Tuesday, November 3, 2026 · 4-minute read
the Supreme Court rejects Trump’s California ballot challenge, the Nasdaq slips into its third correction of the year, and jumping spiders may dream in their sleep.
Politics & World
The Supreme Court on Monday turned down a Justice Department request that California hold back about 20,000 mail ballots the department contends were cast by likely noncitizens.
Politics & World
Voters across the U.S. are casting ballots in the 2026 midterm elections, which will decide control…
Sources: NPR News, Fox News Politics, DW +1
Politics & World
American forces hit radar and air-defense missile installations on Iran’s Qeshm Island, officials…
Sources: BBC World, Washington Examiner, USA Today
That’s the age of fossilized red blood cells scientists say they’ve identified in a bone from the dinosaur Aratasaurus, after chemical tests detected heme — the compound that lets blood carry oxygen. Those cells predate Tyrannosaurus rex by roughly 50 million years.
Source: The Guardian
How North Korean hackers loot cryptocurrency to bankroll the isolated regime’s nuclear weapons program.
The Guardian · Dan Sabbagh
Why women travel thousands of miles for a ‘reproductive moonshot’ known as three-parent IVF — and why scientists say they’ve been misled.
STAT News · Megan MolteniSubscription
What the arrival of the agentic web — where AI agents browse and act on our behalf — means for the internet.
MIT Technology Review · Grace HuckinsSubscription
Election Day arrives: Americans cast ballots in races and ballot measures across the country, with polls open through the evening.
Polls close across the US and results begin rolling in, with key races and ballot measures decided overnight.
Today’s clickbait, so you don’t have toLeBron James Sipped a Fan’s Courtside Wine Mid-Game — Just to See ‘How Good It Was’
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