The races that will decide control of the US Senate
By Nolan D.
October 12, 2026By Nolan D.
October 12, 2026Here’s where Trump’s housing agenda stands before midterms
November 02, 2026The Kremlin said on Monday that it assumed that the Ukrainian army used a local ceasefire last week in and around the Russian-held southern town of Oleshky to regroup,
November 02, 2026Japan has made gradual progress towards anchoring inflation around the central bank's 2% target, the Bank of Japan said in a report on Monday, bolstering the
November 02, 2026Asian shares are mostly higher but technology stocks remain volatile
November 02, 2026Middle East on edge as fears mount that Iran war could restart after the midterms
October 31, 2026As Americans head to the polls on Tuesday for midterm elections, lists the Trump administration has compiled of possible noncitizen voters
November 01, 2026The U.N.'s peacekeeping mission in Western Sahara has ended after 35 years due to a U.S.-Russia standoff
November 01, 2026Five people were killed in two separate incidents in India's northeastern state of Manipur, police said on Sunday, as fresh ethnic violence erupted in the
November 01, 2026Bangladesh said on Sunday it had set up a wage board to review garment workers' pay and urged employees to return to work as violent protests forced the closure
November 01, 2026Dragons, waterfalls and white sand beaches: Travel insiders share their favorite Indonesia vacation spots
November 01, 2026China's Coast Guard is harassing shipping with its latest patrol off Taiwan's east coast and trying to exert a fictional jurisdiction, the Taiwanese Coast Guard said, adding
November 01, 2026South Korea's exports nearly doubled in October from a year earlier, beating market expectations and marking the sharpest jump in more than 50 years, trade data showed on
October 31, 2026The Trump administration plans to deport Afghans detained in the U.S. back to Afghanistan via Pakistan
October 31, 2026Canada is making rapid progress in diversifying its trade and security ties around the world with a goal of doubling its non-US trade in the next decade,
October 31, 2026Elderly couple loses life savings to scammer posing as FBI agent
October 31, 2026Taipei Mayor Chiang Wan-an, in a close race for re-election, got an angry reception on Saturday
October 31, 2026China's factory activity contracted in October, reversing the previous month's reboujnd
October 31, 2026President Donald Trump's administration plans to deport some Afghan immigrants to Afghanistan, a US official and a coalition of veterans and advocacy
October 31, 2026Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov was cited as saying on Friday that Russia's position on the Ukraine conflict was unchanged and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy's
October 30, 2026G20 photo scrapped amid tensions over Russian foreign minister’s presence
October 30, 2026A US appeals court said on Friday that blocking California from counting midterm election mail ballots received from more than 20,000 registered voters the Trump
October 30, 2026Russia has vetoed a U.S.-drafted resolution that would have supported Morocco’s demand for sovereignty over the disputed Western Sahara
October 30, 2026Pakistan’s military is “cautiously optimistic” about its mediation between Iran and the United States, its spokesman said on Friday in his first
October 30, 2026North Korean hackers likely behind the record $6.3 billion theft from cryptocurrency exchange Binance are among the world's most prolific crypto thieves, and the
October 30, 2026A Texas grand jury has indicted a US Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer after he struck a man with his vehicle earlier this month, according to the Harris County District
October 30, 2026Iran's Revolutionary Guards Navy said on Friday that four oil tankers had caught fire and exploded in the Strait of Hormuz, while attempting to use what it described as
October 30, 2026Israel demolished on Friday the homes of the assailants who killed two Israeli soldiers at a checkpoint in the occupied West Bank city of Hebron last week, part of an
October 30, 2026Starving and exhausted residents of a Russian-held town in southern Ukraine were evacuated by bus on Friday as part of a joint relief operation by the
October 30, 2026Swiss Foreign Minister Ignazio Cassis said on Friday that he had discussed security challenges affecting European and Asian nations with North Korea's Foreign Minister Choe
October 30, 2026President Donald Trump is signaling to states that his administration may be far less likely to help if their voters put Democrats in power on Election Day
October 30, 2026Some of Tuesday’s US midterm races may take weeks to clear recounts and court challenges, but ultimately the Senate and House of Representatives decide
October 30, 2026A deadly fire at a Hong Kong housing estate has exposed how bid-rigging networks linked to criminal gangs exploited weaknesses in the city's lucrative
October 30, 2026‘We just have to bother the crap out of these people’: How the GOP is confronting its voter enthusiasm deficit
October 30, 2026Pentagon officials have in recent weeks asked several NATO countries to tone down their rhetoric regarding the threat posed by
October 30, 2026The Southeast Asian bloc's special envoy met Myanmar's foreign minister during a visit to the country and discussed its civil war and humanitarian access, according to official
October 30, 2026Japan's Nikkei share average dropped as much as 3% on Friday, led by chip-related stocks, as concerns mounted over the sustainability of spending to fund the AI boom.
October 30, 2026German Chancellor Friedrich Merz said on Friday that the European Union will take the lead in shaping a better offer when free trade and the rules-based trading order come
October 30, 2026A flood caused by the Shintaphu glacial lake bursting its banks has washed away infrastructure at the Gasa Tshachu natural hot springs in the Himalayan
October 30, 2026South Korea will respond firmly to protect the military border with North Korea despite claims by Pyongyang that it is conducting operations on its side of the line, Seoul's
October 30, 2026Annual core inflation in Japan's capital well exceeded the central bank's 2% target in October, data showed on Friday, highlighting mounting price pressure
October 29, 2026The U.S. Justice Department has issued subpoenas to California officials in an escalation of its scrutiny of local election administration
October 29, 2026A Russian drone strike killed at least 14 people on a crowded rail platform in the Ukrainian city of Dnipro on Thursday, while
October 29, 2026Police say a shooting outside the Republican Party of Virginia offices in Richmond Thursday is unrelated to the upcoming midterm elections
October 29, 2026Spain faces fresh concerns about rail safety after a second high-speed train crash this year killed 69 people
October 29, 2026Mastercard on Thursday rounded out a strong quarter for payment networks with a profit beat, as consumer spending held up despite worries over
October 29, 2026Major central banks took a break from interest rate rises this week, but they are by no means done, with energy prices near multi-
October 29, 2026Two people were killed and one other injured when rocks from a fairy chimney, a volcanic geological formation, fell after heavy rainfall in the popular Turkish resort of
October 29, 2026US President Donald Trump has touted billions of dollars in new factories, energy projects and jobs while campaigning for Republicans
October 29, 2026For years, the neighborhood watch group in the working-class area of Solanda in Ecuadorean capital Quito had patrolled their nighttime streets armed
October 29, 2026The head of Indonesia's Nutrition Agency, which runs the country's free meals programme, said on Thursday that his agency "desperately" needs to prevent food poisoning
October 29, 2026Global index provider MSCI's warning of a potential downgrade for Indonesia's stock market was a "short-term shock" and the country would recover, its central bank governor
October 29, 2026In its pursuit of economic self-sufficiency, China must not create one-sided dependence in other markets, Germany's President Frank-Walter Steinmeier urged in an
October 29, 2026South Korea's National Security Adviser Wi Sung-lac said on Thursday that Seoul was still considering various options regarding a possible deployment to the Strait of Hormuz,
October 29, 2026South Korea says North Korea has launched a barrage of ballistic missiles toward the sea
October 29, 2026A voting member on the Bank of Korea's board warned that the recent pace of the won's moves warranted close monitoring, signalling caution over the currency even as the
October 29, 2026Hello Kitty maker Sanrio has cancelled a collaboration with a Japanese TV spy show after a backlash in China, the second incident in days
October 29, 2026A federal judge has rejected a Trump administration request to stop California from processing the ballots of up to 20,000 people
October 28, 2026A US judge strongly rebuked the Trump administration on Wednesday by rejecting a request by the Justice Department to temporarily
October 28, 2026Young boy rescued after falling into septic pipe
October 28, 2026The weekend escape of a Tennessee inmate who was convicted of murdering a co-worker was just the latest black eye for the state’s troubled prison system, coming only weeks after the failed execution of Christa Pike
October 28, 2026Authorities say that the suspects in an alleged plot to carry out a shooting at a Georgia high school had a floor plan of the school and had chosen a date
October 28, 2026Officials say that a six-day ceasefire in the Russian-occupied city of Oleshky in southern Ukraine has held for its first day and night
October 28, 2026Volkswagen is bringing China-developed technologies to overseas markets including South America and South Africa, as the German automaker seeks to bolster its global
October 28, 2026Malaysia's customs department has seized 30 servers with advanced AI chips in a suspected export-control violation
October 28, 2026US Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth sought to reassure Southeast Asian counterparts on Wednesday of Washington’s commitment to the
October 27, 2026Thailand's central bank kept its key interest rate unchanged for a fourth straight meeting on Wednesday, as widely expected.
October 28, 2026The head of the U.N. nuclear agency says there's been no indication Iran has tried to repair or reconstruct its nuclear facilities damaged in U.S. and Israeli military strikes this year or last year
October 28, 2026The Southeast Asian bloc ASEAN's special envoy on Myanmar will lead a humanitarian mission to the country starting on Wednesday, ASEAN chair the Philippines said.
October 28, 2026A federal judge says he is considering appointing a special master to evaluate claims by the Trump administration that California has some 20,000 noncitizens on its voter rolls
October 27, 2026A federal judge has scolded the Justice Department for its unorthodox handling of a criminal case against two former FBI officials accused of making false statements to Congress about their participation in and knowledge of investigations involving Hunter Biden, the son of former President Joe Biden
October 27, 2026Twenty-one US states and the District of Columbia sued President Donald Trump's administration on Tuesday over its rollback of reporting requirements
October 27, 2026MSCI's global equities gauge rose on Tuesday as investors awaited earnings from US technology companies and the Federal Reserve's next policy
October 27, 2026Florida mom arrested at airport for leaving 4 kids home alone during work trip to Vegas
October 27, 2026A federal judge on Tuesday temporarily blocked US President Donald Trump's administration from implementing a new rule that would cut the amount of time
October 27, 2026The New York Stock Exchange is preparing to start trading a new type of options contract that lets investors make all-or-nothing bets on whether a stock
October 27, 2026Manhunt underway for convicted killer who escaped through Tennessee prison fence and fled in stolen truck, officials say
October 27, 2026Alex Pretti’s family says feds are still stonewalling efforts for justice
October 27, 2026The U.S. military says it has attacked a boat it accused of smuggling drugs in the eastern Pacific Ocean
October 27, 2026Serbia’s youth movement pulled out a stunning election victory at the weekend against the country’s longtime strongman ruler Aleksandar Vucic
October 27, 2026The Ethiopian Orthodox Church reports that two attacks in Oromia have killed at least 60 Orthodox Christians
October 27, 2026Chinese President Xi Jinping on Tuesday extended condolences to the family of former Japanese Prime Minister Yasuo Fukuda, who died last week, while calling on Japan's
October 27, 2026A clutch of ultra-wealthy executives who made fortunes in and around the cryptocurrency business have become influential players in US politics, collectively spending more than $56
October 27, 2026A Chinese court on Tuesday handed Wang Huimin, a former anti-graft official at the China Securities Regulatory Commission, a death sentence with a two-year reprieve over
October 27, 2026India has deployed hundreds of additional security personnel in its remote northeast, authorities said on Tuesday, after youth protesters clashed
October 27, 2026Gunmen killed at least 62 people in an attack on a community in northeastern Nigeria
October 27, 2026Moody's sees encouraging signs in Japan's return to sustained growth and stable inflation, but a key test will be whether that resilience can withstand
October 27, 2026Taiwan's defence minister on Tuesday said China was waging "cognitive warfare" after Beijing marked the anniversary of Japan's handover of the island to Chinese rule with
October 27, 2026A US appeals
October 26, 2026Justice Department charges former FBI Director James Comey for third time
October 26, 2026The Trump administration is asking Washington state to set aside any ballots received from more than 400 people it suspects registered to vote without U.S. citizenship
October 26, 2026The Israeli military is pressing ahead with a massive operation in the occupied West Bank that has displaced hundreds of Palestinians
October 25, 2026The Saudi-led coalition said it destroyed several Houthi tunnels and missile launchers in Yemen, weakening the rebels’ ability to strike Saudi Arabia
October 26, 2026Fuel shortages in Yemen's besieged city of Taiz have forced one hospital to cut the number of incubators it can operate from 40 to 10, putting newborn
October 26, 2026The euro fell against the dollar on Monday ahead of a busy week of central bank meetings and with crude oil prices remaining elevated, while the Brazilian
October 26, 2026China opposes US "smearing and stigmatisation" of Confucius Institutes, its foreign ministry said on Monday, after the US Defense Department designated the Chinese-funded
October 26, 2026A U.N.-commissioned group of independent experts accuses Israel of committing genocide in Gaza despite a ceasefire agreement
October 26, 2026A mix of volatile bond markets, sticky inflation and shifting foreign exchange dynamics is creating a risk to Asia-focused banks
October 26, 2026China's Communist Party began a meeting of senior cadres on Monday aimed at tightening discipline and pressing officials to implement Beijing's orders, paving the way for a
October 26, 2026Japan's top automobile industry union group is looking to move beyond wage demands aimed merely at keeping pace with inflation in next
October 26, 2026Judges skeptical of Trump administration effort to force California to set aside mail ballots
October 25, 2026US Marine indicted over alleged murder of woman in Okinawa
October 26, 2026How the world’s highest bridge became a tourist hot spot in China
October 26, 2026Venezuelan opposition leader Maria Corina Machado was greeted by tens of thousands of cheering supporters as
October 25, 2026Serbia's Aleksandar Vucic conceded defeat to the student-led protest movement in parliamentary elections on Sunday.
October 25, 2026A federal appeals court appeared skeptical on Sunday of a lawsuit filed by President Donald Trump's administration that seeks to force California officials to set aside
October 25, 2026Protesters poured onto the streets of Tirana on Sunday hours after Prime Minister Edi Rama announced new measures to stem a wave of anti-government demonstrations.
October 25, 2026Pope Leo called for an end to the violence in Yemen on Sunday, as he addressed the faithful from the window over St Peter's Square less than two weeks after having
October 25, 2026North Korean leader Kim Jong Un returned from a surprise one-day trip to the Chinese border city of Dandong, where he visited a historic Korean
October 24, 2026How reliant is Ukraine on US support – and could Kyiv carry on without it?
October 24, 2026Typhoon Champi swept past Taiwan on Saturday, killing 1 person and injuring more than 500, downing trees and severing
October 24, 2026North Korean leader Kim Jong Un called for the country's army companies to be turned into elite, self-sufficient combat units during a two-day meeting of company commanders
October 23, 2026Ukraine and Russia said on Friday they had agreed on a ceasefire in the Russian-occupied Ukrainian town of Oleshky, brokered through US first lady
October 23, 2026A magnitude 7 earthquake struck Tibet on Thursday, killing at least 16 people and injuring dozens, according to Chinese state news agency Xinhua. At least 339 houses have collapsed, and a rescue team has been sent to the epicenter.
October 22, 2026A US appeals court ruled on Friday that President Donald Trump's administration is not required under the US Constitution to give detained immigrants a chance to
October 23, 2026Aung San Suu Kyi's son said that they spoke about health concerns when he spoke with the detained former leader of Myanmar by phone for the first time in five years
October 23, 2026How one of the world’s biggest ports rose to become Asia’s next great coastal city
October 23, 2026Almost all of Taiwan shut down on Friday with the approach of Typhoon Champi, which was already bringing strong
October 22, 2026Gustavo Raul Perez furrows his brow over a notebook at the hardware shop he has run for six
October 23, 2026An earthquake of magnitude 7 struck China's southwestern region of Tibet at around 10:33 p.m.
October 22, 2026Nepal will receive $20 million in aid from the United Nations' climate loss and damage fund after the devastating flood along its border with China’s Tibet region in
October 23, 2026Japan's manufacturing sector expanded at its slowest pace in seven months in October as output and new order growth eased, a business survey showed on Friday.
October 22, 2026A federal judge has ordered the Trump administration to halt investigations in nine states into whether noncitizens are registered to vote
October 22, 2026Egypt advocates exploring "every opportunity" to resolve the Yemen conflict diplomatically, its foreign minister said, ahead of a parliamentary vote next week on authorising the
October 22, 2026Aurora firefighters rescue trapped driver after crash
October 22, 2026Israeli strikes and gunfire killed at least four people in the Gaza Strip in separate incidents on Thursday, health officials in the enclave said.
October 22, 2026A new report shows President Donald Trump's administration has sharply increased deportations over the past year
October 22, 2026Taiwan issued a land warning on Thursday as powerful Typhoon Champi approached, prompting more than 200 flight cancellations in the region and forcing changes to a
October 22, 2026Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps Navy said on Thursday that four vessels involved in illegal oil transfers in the northern Persian Gulf were simultaneously hit and
October 22, 2026US Secretary of State Marco Rubio said on Wednesday that decisions regarding Ukraine's access to Starlink were up to its parent company SpaceX and Elon Musk
October 21, 2026Massachusetts man attacked on rail trail offers teens chance to make amends
October 21, 2026Chevron is exploring the sale of some of its older oil and gas assets in the US Gulf, the company confirmed to Reuters, part of an
October 21, 2026A Tunisian military court sentenced opposition politician Olfa Hamdi to four years in prison on charges of plotting against state security and inciting the
October 21, 2026Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi said Egypt's military support for Saudi Arabia would be limited to defending the kingdom's territory and borders and would not include
October 21, 2026By Michael S.
October 21, 2026It was hard to keep track of global markets from hour to hour on Tuesday, with Brent crude hitting fresh five-month highs before plunging, which rippled through tech-
October 21, 2026Families have started rationing water in and around Yemen's Taiz city, where renewed fighting has disrupted fuel supplies and access to
October 21, 2026North Korea will activate anti-South Korea propaganda loudspeakers along its entire border by the end of October, Kim Yo Jong, the powerful
October 21, 2026Choosing a full-size pickup truck is harder in 2027
October 21, 2026Two Ukrainians over 80 years old were among four killed in overnight Russian attacks that also targeted energy facilities across four regions, officials said, hours after US
October 21, 2026Nicolas Maduro is one of just a handful of people to be charged in the US with violating a federal law criminalizing torture committed overseas, a Reuters
October 21, 2026OPmobility reported higher third-quarter revenue on Wednesday, even as the French car parts supplier restructures its business amid broader
October 21, 2026US federal agents are investigating reports that an incendiary device was thrown at the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) building in downtown Atlanta, Georgia, on Tuesday
October 21, 2026Myanmar's junta chief-turned-president Min Aung Hlaing met on Tuesday with Japanese philanthropist Yohei Sasakawa in the capital Naypyitaw, state media reported, as international re
October 21, 2026Israel has become a Pacific Islands Forum partner, Foreign Minister Gideon Sa'ar said on X, describing the move as part of the country's broader effort to strengthen
October 21, 2026China's government said on Wednesday that its coast guard was "safeguarding order" around a tiny and strategically located Taiwan-controlled atoll at the top end of the
October 21, 2026Japan's economy is seeing price rises driven by higher import costs and on the cusp of shifting to a period of sustained inflation driven by rising wages,
October 20, 2026Japan's exports rose 16.7% in September from the same month a year earlier, government data showed on Wednesday, as strong demand for semiconductors and AI
October 20, 2026Japanese exports in September rose 16.7% year-on-year, up for a 13th straight month, data from the Ministry of Finance showed on Wednesday.
October 20, 2026Alberta rejects secession referendum, chooses to remain part of Canada
October 20, 2026Iran-backed Houthi rebels struck a residential area in Yemen’s third-largest city, killing two teenage girls
October 20, 2026US stock indexes ended mostly higher as oil prices and Treasury yields eased on Tuesday, while French stocks fell as worries about
October 20, 2026Net profit growth at China's CATL slowed sharply in the third quarter, hit by fierce competition in the electric vehicle battery market as China's auto sales growth cooled.
October 20, 2026California State Parks officer recounts rescuing woman from burning car on Highway 70
October 20, 2026Iran has deliberately prolonged talks with the US to try to weaken Donald Trump politically ahead of November's US midterm elections, senior officials say,
October 20, 2026Britain will fly Royal Air Force Typhoon fighter jets on defensive missions to help protect Saudi cities and critical national infrastructure from Houthi aerial attacks, the
October 20, 2026U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio has held talks with India's foreign minister in Mumbai
October 20, 2026A 16-year-old carried out the Bend school shooting. Could his parents face charges?
October 20, 2026European companies are expected to deliver another quarter of exceptional earnings growth, again driven mainly by profits at energy companies and those
October 20, 2026Chinese coast guard patrols to the east of Taiwan are "highly destabilising" and an extension of Beijing's legal, political and information warfare against
October 20, 2026When Volkswagen turned to EV maker Xpeng in 2023 to help fix its flailing Chinese business, executives touted the partnership as a
October 20, 2026A drone strike blamed on Sudan's paramilitaries has killed 41 displaced people near the Ethiopian border
October 10, 2026The euro fell against the dollar on Monday as riots in France added to concerns about the country's worsening fiscal outlook, while the US currency was boosted by
October 19, 2026A National Guard member has been shot and injured while trying to break up a fight in the nation's capital
October 19, 2026Twelve migrants drowned in two separate incidents off the Greek islands of Lesbos and Samos in the northeastern Aegean Sea on Monday, after their boats capsized as the coast guard
October 19, 2026Indonesian stocks suffered the deepest two-day sell-off recorded, while authorities in Jakarta demanded an explanation
October 18, 2026China's Premier Li Qiang called on Monday for deeper security and intelligence cooperation with Tajikistan to fight what Beijing views as extremism and separatism, and said
October 19, 2026The Philippine foreign ministry on Monday summoned China's ambassador to express its "serious concern and strong objection" about remarks by the envoy that it said conveyed
October 19, 2026Muhamad Yasin, a 63-year-old parking attendant in central Jakarta, says he has cut back on meals as rising prices have
October 19, 2026‘The world will be amazed:’ Iran’s commanders prepare for further war
October 19, 2026Mali's armed forces and their Russian backers utilized some "apparent indiscriminate" drone strikes and other abuses as part of an ramped-up offensive against insurgents in
October 19, 2026The Chinese capital Beijing is expected to become "super-aged" by 2035, with around one-third of its population aged 60 and above, the official Beijing Daily reported.
October 19, 2026Republicans confront anger from their own red-state voters ahead of midterms
October 18, 2026The approval rating for Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi's administration fell below 50% to its lowest level since she took office in October last year, Kyodo News
October 18, 2026