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US Treasury auction changes loom in 2027; dealers eye long-end cuts

The US Treasury is widely expected to leave coupon auction sizes unchanged at this week's quarterly refunding announcement, but investors are focused on possible changes in 2027 that will help finance growing deficits and a wave of government debt maturing in the coming years.Primary dealers broadly expect that the Treasury will at some point next year cut auction sizes of 20-year and 30-year bonds while boosting issuance of 2-year to 10-year maturities to offset the funding gap created by reduced long-dated borrowing. The move could help limit long-term borrowing costs by reducing the supply

US to suspend South Africa and Rwanda from duty-free trade access

OpenAI says its AI is getting better at doing things humans do, like shopping and meal planning

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El-Sayed, Michigan Democrats push to galvanize voters after stunning Senate race defection

Senate nominee Abdul El-Sayed and fellow Michigan Democrats scrambled on Monday to refocus attention on turning out voters for Election Day after his former primary rival stunned the party by endorsing the Republican candidate in one of the country’s most closely watched races. The final push before Tuesday's midterms followed a dramatic Sunday, when Rep. Haley Stevens endorsed Republican Mike Rogers after appearing alongside him at church. It prompted her expulsion from the state Democratic Party and drew fierce condemnation from party leaders, including longtime allies.

Trump administration takes California ballot fight to Supreme Court

Ukraine's Zelenskiy: Russian bombing kills 18 in southeastern Zaporizhzhia region

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Trump administration appeals to Supreme Court to sideline 20,000 disputed California mail ballots

President Donald Trump's administration appealed to the Supreme Court on Monday in its push to sideline thousands of disputed California mail ballots the day before the pivotal midterm elections. The emergency appeal came after a divided appeals court rejected the request to set aside some 20,000 ballots from people the federal government suspects may not be citizens. The federal government says those ballots should not be counted until the voters’ status can be verified. California officials say the list is highly unreliable and likely includes many people who

Netanyahu lost his majority in parliament. Now he claims elections were stolen

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

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How Trump’s noncitizen voter lists could affect the midterms

As Americans head to the polls on Tuesday for midterm elections, lists the Trump administration has compiled of possible noncitizen voters could be used to contest the validity of the results.With US President Donald Trump’s Republican Party fighting to maintain control of Congress, here’s how the lists could affect the midterms.WHAT HAS THE TRUMP ADMINISTRATION SAID ABOUT THE LISTS?The Trump administration has acknowledged sending letters to election officials in five states — California, Washington, New Jersey, Pennsylvania and Nevada — as of October 30, saying it identified nonci

Here’s where Trump’s housing agenda stands before midterms

America’s housing market is paralyzed, with buyers pulling back and builders growing more pessimistic ahead of the midterms.Adding to the strain: Mortgage rates have surged back above 7% in recent weeks, hitting a three-year high of 7.4% last month. The average 30-year fixed rate eased slightly to 7.24% last week, according to Freddie Mac.America’s housing woes run deep. Homebuilding hasn’t kept pace with demand since the 2008 financial crash decimated the country’s housing industry. Elevated mortgage rates have also pushed up monthly payments for buyers, all while home prices keep cli

Sen. Chris Murphy hospitalized with stroke and expected to make full recovery, his team says

Democratic leaders enter the midterms ‘confident and paranoid’

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Michigan Democrat's endorsement of Republican ruffles critical Senate race

A prominent Michigan Democrat endorsed Republican Mike Rogers on Sunday, giving President Donald Trump's Republicans an unexpected boost in a critical US Senate race two days before midterm elections that will decide control of Congress.US Representative Haley Stevens, who lost the Michigan Democrats' Senate primary to Abdul El-Sayed in a bitterly contested race, publicly backed Rogers and appeared with him at a Detroit church, threatening to worsen divisions in a state viewed as crucial to Democratic hopes of retaking the US Senate."I don't belong in Abdul's campaign," Stevens said in a vid

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'Grasping at straws': Judge dismisses Trump suit against Wall Street Journal over Epstein letter

Saying the president was “grasping at straws,” a federal judge on Saturday threw out Donald Trump’s $10 billion lawsuit against The Wall Street Journal and media mogul Rupert Murdoch over a story reporting on his ties to Jeffrey Epstein. U.S. District Judge Darrin Gayles in Miami dismissed the suit with prejudice, ruling that the president did not prove the defendants made defamatory statements with actual malice as required by law. The ruling said the lawsuit had attempted to “manufacture” flaws in the Journal’s investigative reporting. W

Over 40% of names on DOJ list of alleged noncitizens are not on Calif. voter rolls, analysis finds

Middle East on edge as fears mount that Iran war could restart after the midterms

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Italian taxpayers are paying millions to keep Russian yachts afloat

An expensive floating eyesore has marred views in the port of Trieste, northern Italy, for more than four years, and it is costing Italian taxpayers millions to maintain, the city’s mayor says.Russian oligarch Andrey Igorevich Melnichenko’s “Sailing Yacht A,” one of the world’s largest sailing vessels and worth around $600 million, was in Trieste for maintenance in March 2022 when Russia’s invasion of Ukraine led to widespread sanctions and seizures of Russian assets.Among them was Melnichenko’s 468-foot craft, once dubbed the “world’s ugliest yacht” and known simply as “

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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,

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

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

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Polish PM Tusk vows support for tribunal amid court crisis

Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk sought to offer assurances that the country's Constitutional Tribunal will operate in accordance with the law, after President Karol Nawrocki, an ally of the previous hard-right government, accused him of staging a forced takeover of the court.Late on Friday, the Constitutional Tribunal said its longest-serving judge Anna Korwin-Piotrowska had suspended Bogdan Swieczkowski, the tribunal's president and an appointee of Tusk's nationalist predecessor, and was now in charge of the court.The move escalated a battle between Nawrocki and Tusk's pro-European governm

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Why this year’s World Series won’t prevent a labor dispute that imperils the 2027 season

The Milwaukee Brewers play in Major League Baseball’s smallest media market and their payroll is the 19th highest of the league’s 30 teams. Their World Series win this week would seem to puncture the claim that baseball needs a dramatic economic overhaul to be fair for the proverbial little guys.And yet, all indications are that the owners still intend to wage what is likely to be a contentious war in the upcoming labor negotiations, which will ratchet up in about a month and could wind up wiping out a significant portion of the next season.But commissioner Rob Manfred told reporters just

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Reunited after 1,711 days: Oleshky evacuees return to Ukraine under Melania Trump-brokered ceasefire

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Republicans, Democrats make midterm closing arguments as Michigan rift roils Senate race

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Sectors bracing for a pivot as US midterm elections loom

As the US midterm elections approach, Corporate America is bracing for a potential shift in the balance of power in Washington.

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US voters in a sour economic mood heading into midterm elections

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How an attempt at Democratic unity exploded with Stevens’ Senate endorsement flip

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A record number of health professionals are running for office. Could they help heal US politics?

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Trump rallies in Iowa and Kansas as Republicans fight to keep Senate and House control

President Donald Trump has wrapped up the final weekend of a turbulent midterm campaign with rallies in Iowa and Kansas

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Italian taxpayers are paying millions to keep Russian yachts afloat

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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