Here are today’s top stories.
Headlines
Trump Closes Out His Camapign Schedule
President Trump is making his last campaign stops in Republican-leaning states this weekend as the GOP tries to hold on to Congress. The midterm elections are Tuesday, Nov. 3, and Senate and House control are both at stake. Source
Cities across the country put teenagers on notice before Halloween, announcing curfews and police crackdowns after a wave of violent "teen takeovers." Covington, Georgia, required anyone under 16 to be home or with an adult downtown after 7 p.m. Long Branch, New Jersey, is enforcing an 8 p.m. to 6 a.m. curfew for those under 17 after a takeover in May led to six arrests. See Details
The FBI has blamed North Korea for the roughly $6.3 billion hack of crypto exchange Binance. The theft happened on or about Oct. 29, and the bureau put out a cyber alert about it Saturday. Source
Politics
Two days before the election, Inside Elections made 64 final rating changes, and all but one moved toward Democrats. The forecast now projects Democrats gaining 20 to 30 House seats and 4 to 6 Senate seats. The Texas Senate race between James Talarico and Ken Paxton and the Ohio Senate race have both moved from Toss-up to Tilt Democratic. Read More
Texans cast a record 7,410,631 early ballots through Friday, the most ever in a Texas midterm. That beats nearly 5.5 million in 2022 and is about 39% of the state’s 19 million registered voters. Source
Alaska’s Senate race is under fire after a report that aides to Democrat Mary Peltola’s campaign helped recruit a second candidate named Dan Sullivan. Peltola denies it. The Justice Department sued Alaska on Oct. 22, asking it to hold off on certifying results while voter confusion is investigated. Find out More
U.S. News
Daylight saving time ended at 2 a.m. Sunday, so clocks went back one hour on Halloween night. The Sunshine Protection Act, which would make daylight time permanent, passed the House in July but has stalled in the Senate. Clocks spring forward again on March 14, 2027. Source
One person was killed and six were hurt in a shooting at a Halloween store inside a California mall on the eve of the holiday. The shooting happened at Solano Town Center in Fairfield. Source
NASA’s 1.5-ton Swift Observatory is falling back to Earth after a robotic rescue mission failed. Most of the spacecraft should burn up, but tungsten parts and pieces of its mirror could survive, most likely landing in the ocean. Over 22 years, Swift detected more than 2,000 gamma-ray bursts. Read More
Business
This earnings season has been a mixed bag for the AI trade, as the biggest cloud companies’ huge spending on artificial intelligence draws more scrutiny. Investors are weighing whether those AI investments will pay off. See Details
European Central Bank President Christine Lagarde is stepping down before her term ends. Her departure leaves the eurozone’s central bank with a leadership change to manage. See Details
Berkshire Hathaway stock hit some new highs in late October, but its rally for the month stalled. Investors are now waiting on the company’s next quarterly report. Source
World News
France sent out 70,000 police officers as anti-government protests over rising costs went into a third week on Halloween. Interior Minister Laurent Nuñez promised "an extremely firm response" to violence, and retailers’ losses from looting have passed $1 billion. See Details
President Trump said the war with Iran is "going to end soon" as Qatari mediators returned to Tehran, while Iran’s supreme leader Mojtaba Khamenei warned Washington against new attacks. The Pentagon puts the U.S. death toll in the war at 23, and Iran says six commercial ships have hit sea mines in recent days. Source
Spain’s high-speed rail system is still reeling after a collision in Toledo province killed 69 people. Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez faces voters in an election four weeks from now, and service delays are still common across the country’s 3,900 kilometers of high-speed track. Source
Entertainment
Celebrities went all out for Halloween, and Lizzo dressed as country legend Dolly Parton. Zendaya recreated a look Halle Berry wore to the 2000 "X-Men" premiere, and North West and Natalie Nunn dressed up as each other. Source
Michael Douglas gave a rare update on his longtime friend Jack Nicholson, saying the screen legend has largely "disappeared" from public life. Nicholson, a three-time Oscar winner, has rarely been seen in public in recent years. Read More
Two-time Oscar winner Jessica Lange, 77, has hinted she may retire from acting, saying "I actually feel like I’m coming to an end." Lange won Oscars for "Tootsie" and "Blue Sky," and her last film role was in "Long Day’s Journey Into Night," shot in 2022. Source
Sports
The Denver Broncos held on to beat the Kansas City Chiefs 28-24 and took control of the AFC West. See Details
Lions linebacker Jack Campbell was immobilized on a backboard, carted off with a neck injury and kept in the hospital overnight. Detroit went on to beat the previously unbeaten Minnesota Vikings 19-15. Source
Jerry Koosman, the New York Mets left-hander who helped the "Miracle Mets" win the 1969 World Series, has died at 83. Koosman was a key starter on that championship team. Source
Off the Wall
Five days after winning the World Series, Milwaukee Brewers players went trick-or-treating in suburban Wauwatosa and posed for selfies with fans. Sal Frelick and Andrew Vaughn wore matching beer-mug costumes, and pitcher DL Hall came as an astronaut. Find out More
Five days after winning the World Series, Milwaukee Brewers players went trick-or-treating in suburban Wauwatosa and posed for selfies with fans. Sal Frelick and Andrew Vaughn wore matching beer-mug costumes, and pitcher DL Hall came as an astronaut. Read More
