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PARIS, 30 October 2026 — France will deploy 70,000 police officers and gendarmes across the country on Saturday as authorities brace for a new wave of demonstrations coinciding with Halloween,…
ATLANTA, 30 October 2026 — Foreign ministers from the world’s 20 largest economies gathered in Atlanta on Friday for a two-day meeting that was supposed to showcase American leadership of…
WASHINGTON — NASA has redrawn the road back to the Moon. At Kennedy Space Center in Florida on 23 October 2026, Administrator Jared Isaacman set out a revised Artemis plan…
WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court opened a new term on 5 October 2026 with a docket that reads like a map of the country’s unresolved arguments. In the months ahead,…
President Donald Trump said on Tuesday, 27 October 2026, that he will respect the results of next week’s midterm elections if the elections are honest, while warning that he would…
The White House declared on 28 October 2026 that diversity, equity and inclusion programmes in American public life are finished. In a fact sheet summing up 21 months of President…
Ask voters what they want the next Congress to do, and the answer, in poll after poll this October, is strikingly consistent. It is not a slogan, a scandal or…
With four days to go before Americans vote, the broad shape of the 2026 midterm elections has come into unusually clear focus, even as the final result in the Senate…
Flu season has not yet reached its winter peak, but the early signals are pointing in one direction: up, and earlier than usual. Estimates from the Centers for Disease Control…
Millions of Americans will see a larger Social Security check in January. On 14 October 2026, the Social Security Administration (SSA) announced a 3.6 percent cost-of-living adjustment (COLA) for 2027,…