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WASHINGTON — A federal judge in Washington on Friday, October 30, 2026, ordered a formal inquiry into whether lawyers for the Department of Justice violated ethics rules in their handling…
BEIJING — China lost 3.39 million people in 2025, the largest annual population fall since its population began shrinking in 2022, according to official data from China’s National Bureau of…
BEIJING — Chinese President Xi Jinping held talks with German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier in Beijing on Friday, October 30, 2026, at the Great Hall of the People, closing a state…
ST. LOUIS — Bayer has won the first Roundup trial to reach a jury since the United States Supreme Court narrowed the legal claims available to plaintiffs in June 2026,…
HONOLULU — Tropical Rainstorm Olana continued to batter Hawaii with dangerous flash flooding and mudslides in the final days of October 2026, even though the system itself stayed well southwest…
RICHMOND, Virginia — Virginia voters will decide a United States Senate race and all 11 of the state’s House seats on Tuesday, November 3, 2026, in an election that has…
WASHINGTON — The Cook Political Report moved two Republican-held Senate races toward the challengers in its closing 2026 Senate analysis on October 30, 2026, shifting Nebraska from Likely Republican to…
WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump welcomed Stephen Hubbard, a retired teacher from Michigan freed from a Russian prison, to the Oval Office on Friday, October 30, 2026, in the freed…
WASHINGTON — A federal judge in New York ordered the Trump administration on Friday, October 30, 2026, to remove three taxpayer-funded advertisements from official government websites and social media accounts,…
WASHINGTON — The Department of Homeland Security has ordered every federal civilian agency to stop buying products from the Swiss cybersecurity firm Acronis AG and to remove Acronis products already…