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The Federal Open Market Committee voted 10-2 to keep the federal funds rate in a 3.75 to 4.00 percent range, citing the need for more data with inflation still running hot at 3.7 percent year over year. Governor Lisa Cook and Cleveland Fed President Beth Hammack dissented, both pushing for an immediate quarter-point hike. Futures markets now imply roughly an 88 percent chance of a hike in December.
President Trump headed to Ohio for a final-week midterm push after back-to-back Texas rallies in Corpus Christi and Lubbock. He also demanded Alaska remove Democrat nominee Mary Peltola and a second candidate named Dan Sullivan from the ballot, alleging Democrats recruited the identically named challenger to confuse voters against incumbent Republican Sen. Dan S. Sullivan. The second Sullivan quietly switched his registration from Republican to undeclared ahead of November.
The administration has privately told several Gulf Arab governments to prepare for a short, intense American military campaign against Iran after the November 3 elections. U.S. forces are reinforcing Israel's missile defenses, restocking munitions and repositioning an additional carrier strike group and a Marine expeditionary unit. Trump said "anything's possible," while noting he has called off major strikes six times since July.
The first lady spent weeks in back-channel talks with both Putin and Zelenskyy to help secure a localized ceasefire around the Ukrainian city of Kherson. The arrangement opened a corridor to deliver aid to civilians trapped in the contested area. It is the most substantive diplomatic role a sitting first lady has taken on in decades.
A RENFE train plowed into the tail of a stopped IRYO train near Urda in Toledo province this morning, knocking two cars off the track. There were 397 passengers aboard the RENFE train and 147 on the IRYO, with at least 58 more treated in hospitals. Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez cleared his schedule; it is Spain's second high-speed crash this year involving the same two operators.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's right-wing bloc is closing in on a parliamentary majority as votes continue to be tallied, reversing the picture painted by election-night exit polls. A governing majority remains just out of reach, but the trend line is moving in his favor. Trump credited his own endorsement with helping engineer the comeback.
With rioting and destruction spreading across French cities, Trump told Fox News Digital that France's unrest is fundamentally "an immigration problem" and revived a warning he first delivered to Emmanuel Macron a decade ago. Analysts describe an alliance between immigrant-descended protesters and radical-left networks built up over years. The violence has raised hard questions about French state capacity.
NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman confirmed the agency holds imagery of objects it genuinely cannot explain, saying plainly, "We don't know what it is." The admission landed the same day the Pentagon released another batch of UFO records. Isaacman also laid out plans for a permanent American moon base, including uncrewed robotic missions and a first lunar rover by 2028.
New research finds each year of legal cannabis sales is associated with a 2.3 percent rise in atrial fibrillation hospitalizations, a 3.1 percent rise for heart attacks, and a 3.7 percent rise for heart failure. The association held across the states studied. Researchers stop short of claiming causation but call the trend line worth watching closely.
The Villa Vie Odyssey, which sold passengers the ocean as a permanent home, suspended its voyage in Sihanoukville after fuel costs per cabin jumped from roughly $1,800 a month to as much as $8,000 in parts of Asia. The 203 passengers, mostly Americans, plus 156 crew, got about seven hours' notice to get off and make their own arrangements. One couple who had lived aboard 17 months said they were hit up for extra fuel money every two to four weeks.
