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Speaking on Fox & Friends as midterms voting began, Mr Trump said the 10-year security aid deal, worth about $3.8 billion a year, would be cut off at the end of the year because Israel “no longer needs it”.
Iran warned Sunday that a new war with the United States would last longer than the last, after President Trump threatened at an Iowa rally to give Tehran ’the hammer’ and spoke with Israel’s prime minister about possible strikes.
President Trump appeared in Rock Hill, S.C., on Thursday, his second visit in a month, to shore up Republican Senator Darline Graham against Democrat Annie Andrews — and cancelled his remaining weekend rallies for a ‘72-hour sprint’ of telephone events.
Archbishop Jeffrey Grob of Milwaukee and Bishop William Joensen of Des Moines said they regretted praying with President Trump in the Oval Office, saying the White House staged the moment for social media ahead of the November 3 midterm elections.
President Trump held a rally in Port Huron, Michigan, on Sunday for Senate candidate Mike Rogers, joined onstage by Nicki Minaj, who pledged support days before the November 3 midterms that decide control of Congress.
Brazil’s electoral court declared Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva the winner of Sunday’s runoff with 51.8 percent, nearly 4.4 million votes ahead of Flávio Bolsonaro, who refused to concede and said he would seek to annul the result.
Ukraine said restrictions on SpaceX’s military-grade Starshield terminals remain in place, with drones above 100mph still losing connectivity, despite President Trump’s statement that SpaceX had reversed the speed caps.
The Justice Department sued Alaska’s election officials to block certification of the state’s Senate race unless Republican Sen. Dan Sullivan prevails, a suit President Trump said Friday he directed, drawing scepticism from election-law experts.
The New York City Council passed Romanch’s Law, banning horse-drawn carriages from June 2028 after the fatal accident that killed 18-year-old Romanch Mahajan in Central Park. Mayor Mamdani’s office says he will sign it; owners and the TWU threaten a federal lawsuit.
A federal magistrate judge in Florida ordered President Trump to sit for a deposition in his $10 billion defamation lawsuit against the BBC by Dec. 11 or face penalties including dismissal, after the BBC said his Oct. 16 no-show was for a rally and a fundraiser.
Vladimir Putin told US envoy Steve Witkoff that Moscow is in principle ready to resume stalled US-mediated peace talks with Ukraine, which could take place in November with security as the main topic, the Kremlin said after their St Petersburg meeting.
