Democratic Rep. Jason Crow said his party faces several challenges in the midterm elections. On CBS’s “Face the Nation,” he said Democrats are running against President Donald Trump, what he called “MAGA extremism” and corruption, as well as their own history.
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Jason Crow is a Democratic representative.
Crow discussed the midterm elections on CBS’s “Face the Nation.”
Crow said Democrats are running against President Donald Trump.
Crow described “MAGA extremism” as another challenge for Democrats.
Crow also cited corruption as a challenge.
Crow said Democrats are also running against their own history to some degree.
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Israeli forces continued an operation in Hebron after a gun attack killed two Israeli soldiers and wounded three others. The operation has displaced thousands of Palestinians and restricted movement across the city as Israel approaches an election on Tuesday.
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The military said it operated in more than 400 locations over the weekend and arrested 40 Palestinians it said were affiliated with Hamas or Islamic Jihad.
The military said most Palestinian workers with permits could not enter Israeli West Bank settlements on Sunday and Monday, and crossings into Israel would remain closed until after the election.
Hebron’s municipality said more than 2,600 people had been displaced, and families had left nearly 500 apartments in and around the Deir Bahha neighborhood.
The military sealed the entrances and exits to Hebron and told residents of Deir Bahha to evacuate.
No militant group has claimed responsibility for the gun attack.
The Palestinian Health Ministry said 112 Palestinians, including the suspected gunmen, and six Israelis had been killed in West Bank attacks this year.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu visited the attack site and vowed a forceful response.
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Senator Adam Schiff said Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth and other officials should testify about reported restrictions on Ukraine’s access to SpaceX satellite services. He said conflicting accounts from U.S. officials, Elon Musk and Ukrainian leaders call for congressional scrutiny.
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Schiff said he would call Hegseth and others with relevant knowledge to testify if Democrats regain control of the Senate.
Ukrainian officials said access to Starlink and Starshield was restricted without advance warning, and that a speed limit on Starlink terminals disrupted battlefield operations.
Reuters reported, citing officials, that an order to slow Starshield service came from inside the White House, but did not identify who made the decision.
A senior U.S. official told Reuters that President Donald Trump had not requested the change.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said the instruction came from the U.S. government and was carried out by SpaceX.
Secretary of State Marco Rubio said the United States and Trump had nothing to do with Starlink’s decisions.
Musk said the U.S. government had the final say on the service, then said Ukraine had violated Starlink’s terms of service.
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Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado returned to Venezuela after more than 10 months in exile, she and ally Edmundo González Urrutia said on Sunday. Her return comes after the United States seized President Nicolás Maduro and backed his deputy, Delcy Rodríguez, as interim president, according to the report.
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Machado said on X, “I am here. With you.”
Edmundo González Urrutia confirmed that Machado was back on Venezuelan soil.
Machado had been in exile for more than 10 months.
She left Venezuela in January to accept the Nobel Peace Prize in Norway.
The United States seized President Nicolás Maduro in January, according to the article.
The Trump administration backed Maduro’s deputy, Delcy Rodríguez, as leader.
Rodríguez was sworn in as interim president and later signed an oil deal with the United States.
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Crowds gathered in Jordan to bury eight of the nine people killed in a church shooting. The attack wounded 40 others, and authorities are still searching for the attackers.
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The shooting took place at a church in Jordan.
The attack killed nine people.
Crowds gathered to bury eight of the victims.
Forty people were wounded.
Authorities are searching for the attackers.
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Serbia is voting in a parliamentary election that pits Aleksandar Vučić’s ruling Serbian Progressive Party against the student-led Student List. The movement grew out of protests after a railway station canopy collapse killed 16 people in November 2024 and has focused on corruption and abuses of power.
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Vučić’s Serbian Progressive Party has been in government since 2012.
Vučić served as prime minister from 2014 and president from 2017; he resigned as president in September and is seeking to lead the government again.
The Student List is a leaderless movement with 250 candidates chosen through a democratic process, according to the article.
The protests began after the Novi Sad railway station canopy collapsed in November 2024, killing 16 people.
The movement says it aims to tackle corruption, clientelism and abuses of power.
Polling stations opened at 7am and were scheduled to close at 8pm local time.
The article says Serbia’s EU accession process is stalled and the country has fallen in international press freedom and corruption rankings.
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Joshua Loudermilk says he recognized Sacha Baron Cohen during the filming of the new Ali G movie but kept playing along, hoping to test his comedy acting. He says he welcomes the attention and wants to pursue acting, while fellow participant Michael Aboud says he plans to sue Cohen.
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Loudermilk is a 54-year-old aspiring actor from North Carolina.
He says he recognized Cohen early in the shoot and continued portraying a hard-right border activist.
Loudermilk says he responded to a Craigslist ad from the American Citizen Initiative, which offered participants $300 plus travel expenses.
He says he mainly joined for the money after recently being made redundant.
Loudermilk says he fabricated hard-right views in his application and did not mention his comedy-acting ambitions.
The film shows Loudermilk and Michael Aboud joining a fictional mission involving a kidnapped newborn and a plan to take the baby across the border by drone.
Aboud, identified in the article as chair of the El Paso county Republican party, has called Cohen a “liar” and a “pervert” and said he plans to sue.
Loudermilk says he hopes to use the publicity to pursue comedy acting.
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Israeli soldiers beat and injured Hijazi Shawer, a 70-year-old Palestinian shopkeeper and community leader, during a raid in Hebron in the occupied West Bank. The raid took place amid house-to-house searches and the forced displacement of more than 2,000 people.
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Hijazi Shawer is 70 years old.
Shawer is a Palestinian shopkeeper and community leader.
Israeli soldiers beat and injured Shawer during a raid.
The raid took place in Hebron, in the occupied West Bank.
Israeli soldiers were conducting house-to-house searches.
More than 2,000 people have been forcibly displaced.
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Attorney General Todd Blanche defended the Justice Department’s lawsuit against Alaska over how the state handles ballots in a Senate race involving two candidates named Dan Sullivan. He said the department had reviewed the issue for months and was asking a court to address federal law, while host Margaret Brennan cited state court findings and showed the ballot.
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The interview aired on “Face the Nation” on Oct. 25, 2026.
Blanche said he agreed that election counting and certification should proceed as usual unless facts and law require federal action.
The Justice Department sued Alaska in connection with the Senate race between incumbent Republican Dan S. Sullivan and challenger Dan J. Sullivan.
Blanche said the department had examined the matter for months and described its lawsuit as a request for a court to consider federal law.
President Donald Trump said he was the one who called for the lawsuit, according to Brennan’s question.
Brennan said the Alaska Supreme Court upheld a lower court ruling that found insufficient evidence for the claim that Dan J. Sullivan sought to confuse voters.
Blanche disputed Brennan’s account of the state court’s role and said the lawsuit was not an effort for the federal government to take over Alaska’s election system.
The interview excerpt ends while Blanche is responding to Brennan’s question about the ballot listing Dan S. Sullivan as the incumbent.
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Sen. Adam Schiff called for Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth to answer Senate questions about Starlink’s slowdown in Ukraine. Schiff said Hegseth should testify if Democrats regain control of the Senate, and said the slowdown disrupted Ukraine’s military capabilities.
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Schiff is a Democratic senator from California.
Schiff made the call on NBC’s “Meet the Press.”
Kristen Welker hosted the interview.
The issue was a slowdown to Starlink’s satellite service in Ukraine.
The slowdown disrupted Ukraine’s military capabilities.
Schiff said Hegseth should testify if Democrats regain control of the Senate.
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The article compares President Donald Trump’s approach to Russia and Ukraine with Winston Churchill’s diplomacy, drawing on historians’ accounts of Churchill’s dealings with Moscow. It says Churchill favored direct summit talks and could bargain over smaller nations’ interests, but argued from strength and sought a price for agreements.
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Trump has publicly described Churchill as a hero and restored Churchill’s bust to the Oval Office in 2025.
The article reports that Trump criticized British Prime Minister Keir Starmer by saying, “This is not Winston Churchill,” during a dispute over U.S. access to British bases for strikes on Iran.
Historian Richard Toye said Churchill continued to favor personal meetings with leaders to address major international problems until he left office in 1955.
Churchill called for a “parley at the summit” with Moscow in a 1950 speech in Edinburgh.
During a 1944 meeting in the Kremlin, Churchill proposed a division of influence that assigned Russia 90 percent predominance in Romania and Britain 90 percent influence in Greece; Stalin marked the proposal with a blue pencil.
Historian Martin Folly described the 1944 proposal as a “clear cold-blooded bargain.”
The article reports that Trump envoy Steve Witkoff met Russian President Vladimir Putin in St. Petersburg on October 21, 2026, and that trilateral Ukraine negotiations were expected in November.
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Alyce Collins recounts how her husband, Patrick, developed worsening fatigue, nausea, bowel changes and bloody stool after years of anemia and other health problems. After doctors initially attributed some symptoms to other causes and a colonoscopy was delayed, his condition worsened and he went to the emergency department on August 26, 2024, where a CT scan led to a serious diagnosis; the article excerpt does not include the diagnosis itself.
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Collins and Patrick married in 2018 and have two sons born 13 months apart.
Collins says blood tests showed Patrick was anemic about five years before his diagnosis, and several oncologists recommended a colonoscopy and endoscopy.
In 2023, Patrick experienced persistent coldness and very low testosterone, according to Collins.
Patrick developed worsening fatigue, nausea, alternating constipation and diarrhea, a metallic taste, and bloody stool.
Patrick began testosterone replacement therapy around January 2024, but Collins says its effects did not last.
A colonoscopy was first scheduled for December 20, 2024, then moved to August 28 after Patrick's primary care physician intervened.
Patrick went to the emergency department on August 26, 2024, and doctors performed a CT scan.
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The U.S. considered three approaches to seasonal time changes this year. None changed the schedule, and clocks are set to fall back as usual next month.
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The article says the U.S. considered three possible approaches to seasonal time changes this year.
The article does not identify the three approaches in the provided text.
No change to the usual clock schedule is described.
Clocks are expected to fall back next month.
The article concerns the U.S. seasonal time change.
The article title says the three approaches were considered this year.
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High gas, diesel and food prices are expected to persist through Election Day, creating a political challenge for Republican candidates. President Donald Trump’s diesel deal with Russia has had little lasting effect on fuel prices, while Republicans face a serious risk of losing the House and may also lose the Senate.
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Gas, diesel and food prices are high.
The article expects those prices to remain elevated through Election Day.
High prices create a political headwind for Republican candidates.
Republicans face a serious risk of losing control of the House.
Republicans could also lose control of the Senate.
Trump’s diesel deal with Russia has had little lasting impact on fuel prices.
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The article argues that undocumented immigrants pay taxes and asks why their children should not benefit from what their parents have worked to earn. Its title challenges the idea that college students who are undocumented receive special treatment.
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The article says undocumented immigrants are taxpayers.
It focuses on the children of undocumented immigrants.
It says parents have often made sacrifices for their children.
It asks why those children should not enjoy benefits their parents have worked to earn.
The title challenges the idea that undocumented immigrant college students receive special treatment.
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Texas Democratic gubernatorial candidate Gina Hinojosa said Texans feel deep disappointment with both major political parties. She said her agenda is not a Democratic agenda and that people are forging a new way forward.
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Gina Hinojosa is running for governor of Texas.
Hinojosa made the remarks on CBS’s “Face the Nation” on Oct. 25, 2026.
She said there is deep disappointment in both political parties in Texas.
Hinojosa said her agenda is not a Democratic agenda.
She said people are forging a new way forward.
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Israeli attacks killed at least seven Palestinians across Gaza on Sunday, including three security guards at the Islamic University campus in Gaza City. The attacks also injured students and other civilians, as Gaza health officials reported rising death and injury totals since the October 2025 ceasefire began.
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Three security guards were killed in an Israeli air strike on the Islamic University campus in Gaza City.
An earlier drone strike on the campus injured seven female students; one was seriously hurt and taken to a field hospital.
The Nasser Medical Complex said Israeli shelling in al-Mawasi, Khan Younis, killed two people and wounded several others, including a child.
Wafa reported one death in a drone strike east of Deir el-Balah and another death in an attack on al-Rashid Street near Hamad Hospital.
UNESCO estimates that nearly 95 percent of Gaza’s higher education campuses have been destroyed or damaged since October 2023.
Gaza’s Ministry of Health said at least 1,551 people have been killed and 5,573 injured since the ceasefire began in October 2025.
The ministry put the total death toll in Gaza since October 2023 at 74,544, with at least 175,692 people wounded.
The article says almost two-thirds of Gaza is under Israeli military control or subject to Israeli restrictions, while crossing closures and reduced aid funding have worsened food insecurity.
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Richard Davis, a Republican candidate for justice of the peace in Brazoria County, Texas, died on September 14, but his name will remain on the November 3 ballot. Texas law requires election officials to count votes for candidates who die after a specified deadline; if Davis wins, county commissioners will appoint someone to serve the remaining two-year term.
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Davis was the incumbent justice of the peace for Precinct 2, Place 2, and took office on January 1, 2011.
Davis died on September 14, after the August 21 deadline for removing a candidate from the November 3 ballot.
Texas law requires officials to count votes for candidates who die after the 74th day before Election Day.
Some text messages to voters incorrectly claimed that votes for Davis would not count.
Davis is running against Shenequa Harrison.
If Davis wins a majority, the Brazoria County Commissioners Court will appoint a qualified replacement for a two-year term.
Voters will choose a permanent successor at the next general election.
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UN official Tomas Lamanauskas warned that unequal access to AI infrastructure and technology could deepen global inequality. He made the remarks to Al Jazeera at the 9th World Investment Forum in Qatar.
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Tomas Lamanauskas is a senior UN official.
Lamanauskas warned that unequal access to AI could deepen global inequality.
His warning covered access to AI infrastructure and technology.
He spoke to Al Jazeera.
The remarks came at the 9th World Investment Forum in Qatar.
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Israeli forces continued a major operation in the occupied West Bank after a gun attack in Hebron killed two Israeli soldiers and wounded three. The military sealed Hebron’s entrances and exits, while Israel said most Palestinian workers with permits would be barred from settlements and crossings into Israel would stay closed until after Tuesday’s election.
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Hebron’s municipality said more than 2,200 people, including nearly 200 children, had been displaced over the previous two days.
The Israeli military said it operated in more than 400 locations over the weekend and arrested 40 Palestinians it said were affiliated with Hamas or Palestinian Islamic Jihad.
The military said most Palestinian workers with permits could not enter Israeli settlements for work on Sunday and Monday.
Crossings into Israel were set to remain closed until after Tuesday’s Israeli election.
The article said six Israelis and 112 Palestinians had been killed in West Bank attacks and violence this year, citing the Palestinian Health Ministry for the Palestinian figure.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu vowed a forceful response to Friday’s attack and is seeking reelection in next week’s vote.
The article said roughly 3 million Palestinians and 540,000 Israeli settlers live in the West Bank, which Israel occupied in 1967.
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