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President Trump held back-to-back rallies in Corpus Christi and Lubbock Tuesday, stumping for Gov. Greg Abbott and Senate candidate Ken Paxton while announcing he's terminating Biden-era methane rules he says will save $45 billion. A Fox News poll has Paxton and Democrat James Talarico deadlocked at 49 percent each, while the generic congressional ballot shows Democrats up eight. Ohio is next on the campaign blitz.
The Federal Reserve wraps its two-day meeting today, with markets pricing a roughly 90 percent chance rates stay parked at 3.75 to 4 percent. September CPI ran hotter than forecast at 3.7 percent annually, driven largely by energy, keeping the central bank well above its 2 percent target. Several officials have floated a December hike instead.
The Justice Department filed a criminal information against the former FBI director tied to an alleged classified information leak from roughly ten years ago, a maneuver aimed at preserving the statute of limitations. Comey called it "an appalling abuse" of the department, and his attorneys argue the filing is both legally invalid and too late. It's the latest round after a judge tossed earlier charges on appointment grounds.
The Federal Election Commission's electronic filing system has been down since roughly 10 p.m. Monday, with internal emails pointing to an attempted breach. The outage blocks 24- and 48-hour independent expenditure reports — the disclosures that reveal last-minute spending in tight races. The FEC oversees campaign finance, not ballots, so voting itself isn't affected.
Turnout hit 77.7 percent — the highest since 1999 — in Israel's first national election since the October 7th massacre, and it produced a deadlock. With about 70 percent counted, Netanyahu's right-wing and religious bloc stood at 54 of 120 seats, short of the 61 needed, with Gadi Eisenkot's Yashar party at 20 and Arab parties surging to 19. Netanyahu claimed a "decisive majority" anyway; Trump credited his own endorsement for the late swing.
The president defended the war with Iran as "one of the greatest things" he's done, claiming U.S. forces have destroyed 288 fighter jets and 159 ships, and predicted the conflict ends "very soon." Pressed on whether more strikes come after November 3rd, he declined to rule it out. Meanwhile the IAEA is sounding alarms over Tehran's unverified uranium stockpile, U.S. war spending has topped $47 billion, and an intelligence memo warns Iran has "substantially increased" plots against Americans abroad.
A localized pause in fighting took effect around 3 a.m. Tuesday in the Russian-occupied Ukrainian city of Oleshky, negotiated with the first lady's mediation to allow humanitarian aid in and civilians out. It's slated to run through Saturday. Elsewhere the war grinds on — Zelenskyy reported 16 ballistic missiles and over 280 drones launched at eleven regions the same day, even as he claimed Ukraine's strongest front-line positions in a long time.
NASA is racing toward a permanent lunar presence, with Artemis II sending humans back to deep space in February and a crewed South Pole landing targeted for 2028. NASA and the Department of Energy have signed an agreement to build a nuclear reactor capable of powering a moon base through the two-week lunar night, aiming for 2030. China and Russia are pursuing a joint lunar program on a similar timeline.
University College London researchers found that a tissue-based molecular test called Decipher can identify which high-risk prostate cancer patients actually benefit from intensified treatment — and which can safely skip it. The findings, published Monday and presented at the ESMO Congress in Madrid, point toward sparing many men the side effects of aggressive hormone therapy. It's a concrete step toward personalized cancer treatment rather than one-size-fits-all protocols.
The administration released another batch of declassified UAP material under its PURSUE disclosure program, including Apollo 12 and Apollo 17 transcripts where crews describe strange flashes and moving lights near the lunar horizon. Also included: infrared footage of an F-16 downing a diamond-shaped object over Lake Huron, and reports of unexplained objects near military operations in Iran, Syria, Iraq and Greece. NASA chief Jared Isaacman's caveat — unexplained sensor data, yes; alien bodies or spacecraft, no. Everything's posted publicly, no clearance required.
