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Marathon beats quarterly estimates, to sell two refineries to CVR Energy

Marathon Petroleum on Tuesday beat Wall Street estimates for third-quarter profit on stronger refining margins and struck a $4.2 billion deal to sell two refineries and related midstream assets to Carl Icahn-controlled CVR Energy .Marathon's shares rose about 2% in premarket trading.The Iran war has disrupted oil flows through the Strait of Hormuz, while attacks on energy infrastructure across the Middle East and Russia have tightened fuel supplies, pushing up refined product prices relative to crude.The resulting surge in refining margins has boosted refinery profitability, creating an attr

Russia trying to foment 'instability' in Poland, PM Tusk says

Trump says US is cutting off aid to Israel at year’s end because ‘they don’t need it’

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Melania Trump to bring Russian and Ukrainian representatives to White House this week

First lady Melania Trump will bring representatives from Russia and Ukraine to the White House on Thursday, after announcing a ceasefire in the city of Oleshky last month.“First Lady Melania Trump will personally bring representatives of Russia and Ukraine, two nations actively at war, together at the White House,” the first lady’s office said on Tuesday, touting the limited ceasefire as an “unprecedented diplomatic initiative by an American First Lady.”Trump, who will also deliver remarks on the limited ceasefire, has kept a much lower profile during her husband’s second term. But

S&P 500, Nasdaq open higher as oil prices extend declines, midterms on tap

Vigil held for Javits Frimpong, 15-year-old who was gunned down in the Bronx

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US job postings jumped sharply in September, potentially a good sign for anyone seeking employment

U.S. employers ramped up their job postings in September as stronger economic growth may be encouraging more hiring. Yet voters are headed to the polls Tuesday largely gloomy over an economy beset by higher prices. U.S. job openings jumped to 7.5 million from a revised 7.19 million in August, the Labor Department reported Tuesday. It is the largest number of openings since May and up from a recent low of 6.9 million in March. The department’s Job Openings and Labor Turnover Survey (JOLTS) also showed that gross hiring — job gains before subtracting people who

Trump says US is close to making a trade deal with Canada

Opposition party organiser killed in South Africa, election violence fears mount

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Investigators say Learjet may have broken up before crashing in Florida

The National Transportation Safety Board said on Monday a Learjet 60 that crashed on Sunday in a residential area in Palm Beach County, Florida, ‌killing all nine people on board, may have broken up before hitting the ground at high speed.The private Bombardier-made jet had taken off from Austin, Texas, and was headed to the Bahamas. Heavy rainfall and thunderstorms were occurring in the area where it went down.NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman, posting on X, highlighted the harrowing experience of those on the aircraft, including the 20-year-old copilot."She was doing her job, communicatin

Six things to watch as US voters decide control of Congress

Americans head to the polls on Tuesday in midterm elections that will decide control of Congress for the final two years of President Donald Trump's term.The results will serve as the first nationwide verdict on Trump's presidency, revealing whether voters want to check the Republican president's power by giving Democrats control of one or both chambers of Congress or are willing to accept the status quo despite frustrations over the cost of living and the US-led war with Iran.The outcome could also reshape debates within both parties over which messages and policies resonate most with voters

US carries out 'defensive' strikes on Iran's Qeshm Island, officials say

Trump details Reflecting Pool renovations in speech the day before midterm votes are counted

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Reflecting Pool vs. the state of the economy: Trump and Dems clash in closing messages

As midterm campaigns careened toward their conclusion, Democrats pushed through intraparty divisions Monday to stay focused on voters’ economic frustrations, while Republicans cast their opponents as dangerous radicals. President Donald Trump, the GOP's most powerful voice, seemed more interested in his plans for beautifying Washington, D.C. The dueling closing messages came as the nation's two major parties battled for control of Congress and key governors' offices. The outcome could fundamentally reshape Trump's final two years in the White House — and the level of power t

Supreme Court rejects Trump’s attempt to segregate ballots in California

The Supreme Court on Monday quickly shut down President Donald Trump’s effort to force California to sideline potentially thousands of ballots that the Justice Department claims may have been cast by noncitizens, rejecting the administration’s emergency request hours after it was filed.The unusually fast decision underscored that the administration’s case, which was based on an uncertain methodology, was a reach that has been rejected by every court to consider it. The appeal also came to the high court on an exceedingly tight timeline — on the eve of the midterm election — with an u

US Supreme Court rejects Trump, lets California count all ballots

Supreme Court rejects Trump administration push to set aside thousands of California ballots

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At least 33 dead after Russia drops nine bombs on a Ukrainian school building

Dozens of people were killed when Russia dropped at least nine bombs on a school building in southeastern Ukraine where they had taken shelter, President Volodymyr Zelensky said Tuesday, describing it as “one of the deadliest attacks of this war.”At least 33 people have been confirmed dead and another 50 are still unaccounted for after the attack on the building in Komyshuvakha in the Zaporizhzhia region, which local governor Mykhailo Semikin said was being used as a shelter and a humanitarian aid distribution center.Semikin said they were in a newly-built, EU-funded reinforced basement de

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Crypto scammers are capitalizing on anti-Muslim bigotry

In September, as election season entered its stretch run, researchers from the Center for the Study of Organized Hate, a DC-based think tank, began noticing a bizarre and disturbing variant of AI slop on X.One post depicted a Muslim family at an airport, overlaid with a floating sign that read, “We are leaving America due to lack of respect for our culture.” Another, showing a smiling Arab man and a dog side by side, asked: “Would you give your dog away to make a Muslim happy?” Yet another featured a woman wearing a niqab, surrounded by a throng of other women in niqabs, holding a sign

Spanish soccer player Jesús de Miguel dies after on-pitch collision

Italian taxpayers are paying millions to keep Russian yachts afloat

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On Day of the Dead, tourists bump shoulders with celebrating families in San Andrés Mixquic

As night falls over the cemetery in San Andrés Mixquic, a historic village on the outskirts of Mexico City, the family of Ángel Jiménez del Águila huddles around his grave.“Salucita for our dead,” says Jesús, one of Ángel’s sons, raising a toast to his father, who died in 2010.Only a few hours remain before the door between the world of the living and the dead opens: the family has gathered to honor Ángel during the Day of the Dead, a traditional Mexican celebration of departed loved ones held November 1 and 2.After days of cleaning graves and decorating headstones with marigolds,

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Notorious hacker says stolen crypto is like ‘holding a hot potato’

On Thursday, Binance, the world’s largest crypto exchange, saw more than $6 billion hacked from its system. Evidence pointed to North Korean hackers, who drained the accounts in a matter of minutes.But what does a hacker do with billions of dollars in stolen crypto?Perhaps no one on the planet is more qualified to discuss the hack than Ilya Lichtenstein, the notorious hacker who in 2023, alongside his wife, Heather Morgan, pleaded guilty to orchestrating a $4.5 billion money-laundering scheme linked to the 2016 hack of crypto exchange Bitfinex. In 2024, Lichtenstein was sentenced to five yea

Starved residents of Russian-occupied Oleshky return to Ukraine during a rare local ceasefire

Polish PM Tusk vows support for tribunal amid court crisis

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Judge blocks Trump administration from pressuring states over noncitizen voting

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Trump faces midterm verdict with control of Congress at stake

American voters will deliver a verdict on the first two years of President Donald Trump's second term in Tuesday's midterm elections, with polls and nonpartisan analysts

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Trump Justice Dept breaks with tradition to intervene in midterms

President Donald Trump’s Justice Department has shown a willingness to intervene directly in Tuesday's midterm elections, breaking with decades of practice meant to avoid

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Voting begins on last day to cast ballots in US midterms with observers keeping close watch at polls

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‘He would wind her up’: Democratic anger at Haley Stevens’ fiancé boils over after her endorsement reversal

Parts of a Learjet may have broken off midair before Florida crash that killed 9, investigators say

Parts of a business jet likely started to break off before the aircraft crashed in South Florida, killing nine people

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US judge orders Trump admin to stop demands California remove suspected noncitizen voters

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What polls do and don’t tell us about the 2026 midterms

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Dollar falls ahead of US midterms as oil plummets

The dollar eased on Monday as oil prices plunged and Treasury yields retreated ahead of a week full of catalysts, including the US midterm elections, a

Mamdani says Trump agrees to grant visa to mother of Ghanian teen killed in Bronx shooting

New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani says President Donald Trump has agreed to grant a visa to the mother of a 15-year-old immigrant from Ghana who was shot to death earlier this week

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From LA to Scottsdale: The Founder Behind AdDynamix Is Building the Bridge Between AI and Business Tools

An LA digital advertising veteran of 28 years has moved to Scottsdale and is building what he calls the missing piece between business software and the AI assistants people now use every day. SCOTTSDALE, AZ. When Benoit Pecqueur talks about his latest company, he sounds less like a founder pitching a product and more like an operator who got tired of watching the same problem repeat itself. “Most small business owners are watching the AI revolution from the sidelines,” he says. “Not because they don’t want it. Because their tools don’t talk to ChatGPT or Claude. Their accountant still pulls