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Democrat Josh Turek flips Republican-held US Senate seat in Iowa

Democrat Josh Turek won Iowa’s US Senate race on Tuesday, according to media projections, defeating Trump-backed Republican Ashley Hinson to become the state’s first Democratic senator in more than a decade and scoring a key pickup in the battle for Senate control.President Donald Trump carried Iowa in three straight presidential elections, but Turek’s victory underscored Democratic gains in a state that had initially been expected to remain safely Republican.Republicans held a 53-47 Senate majority going into Tuesday’s elections, with Democrats needing a net gain of four seats to ta

India services growth hits 4-month high as domestic demand improves, PMI shows

Cruise ship leaves Cambodia after forcing hundreds of passengers off

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Toyota second-quarter profit seen climbing 18%, first increase in six quarters

Toyota is forecast to report its first increase in operating income in six quarters on Thursday, as a weaker yen and robust demand for its more profitable hybrid vehicles offset slumping sales in China and the Middle East.The absence of US tariff-related costs that hit earnings a year earlier will also help.Operating profit for the world's biggest automaker in the July-September quarter is predicted to surge 18% to 992 billion yen ($6.3 billion), according to the median estimate of nine analysts surveyed by LSEG.Revenue was predicted to rise 8% to 13.4 trillion yen.Global sales of Toyota and

Markets fret blue wave will drown data centres

Oracle abandons $7 billion Tencent AI deal under Trump pressure, FT reports

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Estee Lauder sets 2030 growth, margin targets as turnaround advances

Estee Lauder said on Wednesday it aims to lift its adjusted operating margin by as much as 5.6 percentage points over the next three years, as the cosmetics maker builds on progress in its turnaround. The company is targeting an adjusted operating margin of 16.5% to 18.5% in fiscal 2030, compared with its fiscal 2027 guidance of 12.9% to 13.8%.The targets come days after Estee Lauder raised its fiscal 2027 sales and profit forecasts, citing strong demand for premium fragrances and skincare products."We are now entering a new chapter, moving beyond restoring growth to accelerating sustainab

‘Epic’ blue wave helps Democrats take Congress in overwhelming rebuke to President Trump

Lindt investors seek board shake-up at chocolate maker after CEO ouster

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Democrat Annie Andrews wins US Senate seat in South Carolina upset

Democrat Annie Andrews won a US Senate seat in conservative South Carolina on Tuesday, according to media projections, ousting Republican Darline Graham in a state President Donald Trump carried by 18 percentage points just two years ago.Andrews, a pediatrician, is the first Democrat to win a Senate seat in South Carolina in 28 years, a striking gain for a party that needed a net four seats to overturn Republicans' 53-47 majority.Andrews' win in a state that neither Democrats nor Republicans considered competitive until recent weeks embodies the broader rejection of Trump and his handling of

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Republican Byron Donalds will win Florida’s governor race, CNN projects

Republican Rep. Byron Donalds will be Florida’s next governor, CNN’s Decision Desk projects, and will make history as the state’s first Black leader.Donalds defeated David Jolly, a former Republican congressman who became a Democrat last year and tried to appeal to voters as a pragmatic centrist. However, Donalds overwhelmed Jolly with a sizable spending advantage and proved that Florida remains a Republican stronghold.Donalds’ victory puts a close ally of Donald Trump in charge of the president’s adopted home state for the final two years of his presidency and beyond. Trump end

Stocks wilt, dollar slides as blue sweep jolts AI bets

Democratic Rep. Chris Pappas will win New Hampshire’s open Senate seat

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Progressive Democrat Abdul El-Sayed wins Michigan Senate race, will become first Muslim senator

Progressive favorite Abdul El-Sayed has defeated Republican Mike Rogers in a bitter campaign for Michigan’s open Senate seat, giving the Democratic Party’s left wing a breakthrough victory in one of the nation’s most important swing states. El-Sayed, the son of Egyptian immigrants, will become the nation’s first Muslim senator. A former public health official who has never held elected office, he rose from a double-digit defeat in Michigan’s Democratic gubernatorial primary eight years ago to win a seat in the U.S. Senate. El-Sayed overcame massive outsi

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The Latest: Democrats win US House, cementing control over Congress

Democrats have won control of Congress in Tuesday’s 2026 midterm elections in a widespread repudiation of President Donald Trump and the Republican Party, a drubbing that reached deep into reliable GOP territory. Democrats flipped at least seven Senate seats in ruby-red states and battlegrounds alike: Kansas, which hasn’t elected a Democratic senator in nearly a century, Iowa, Texas, Ohio, Maine, North Carolina and South Carolina. They held on to battleground seats in Georgia and Michigan. In the House, Democrats flipped more than two dozen districts, some tha

Justice Department sends criminal target letters in Alaska probe to people aligned with Democratic party

US Supreme Court leans toward Catholic preschools' challenge to LGBT protections

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How Trump’s noncitizen voter lists could affect the midterms

As Americans head to the polls on Tuesday for midterm elections, lists the Trump administration has compiled of possible noncitizen voters could be used to contest the validity of the results.With US President Donald Trump’s Republican Party fighting to maintain control of Congress, here’s how the lists could affect the midterms.WHAT HAS THE TRUMP ADMINISTRATION SAID ABOUT THE LISTS?The Trump administration has acknowledged sending letters to election officials in five states — California, Washington, New Jersey, Pennsylvania and Nevada — as of October 30, saying it identified nonci

Middle East on edge as fears mount that Iran war could restart after the midterms

With little transparency from Washington and warmongering from Tehran, people across the Middle East have been left anxious and confused, scanning for signals on whether the conflict between Iran and the United States will reignite.“The mood has definitely shifted,” a 36-year-old American living in Saudi Arabia told CNN. She plans to leave before Tuesday’s US midterm elections, after which US President Donald Trump has hinted renewed fighting is possible.“People are more cautious in general, and it feels like a waiting game to see what happens,” she added.At homes and workplaces acro

Trump says US is cutting off aid to Israel at year’s end because ‘they don’t need it’

G20 photo scrapped amid tensions over Russian foreign minister’s presence

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Russian bombing of Ukrainian aid center is one of the war’s ‘deadliest attacks,’ Zelensky says

Dozens of people were killed when Russia dropped at least nine bombs on a school building in southeastern Ukraine where they had taken shelter, President Volodymyr Zelensky said Tuesday, describing it as “one of the deadliest attacks of this war.”At least 33 people have been confirmed dead and another 50 are still unaccounted for after the attack on the building in Komyshuvakha in the Zaporizhzhia region, which local governor Mykhailo Semikin said was being used as a shelter and a humanitarian aid distribution center.Semikin said they were in a newly-built, EU-funded reinforced basement de

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Crypto scammers are capitalizing on anti-Muslim bigotry

In September, as election season entered its stretch run, researchers from the Center for the Study of Organized Hate, a DC-based think tank, began noticing a bizarre and disturbing variant of AI slop on X.One post depicted a Muslim family at an airport, overlaid with a floating sign that read, “We are leaving America due to lack of respect for our culture.” Another, showing a smiling Arab man and a dog side by side, asked: “Would you give your dog away to make a Muslim happy?” Yet another featured a woman wearing a niqab, surrounded by a throng of other women in niqabs, holding a sign

Spanish soccer player Jesús de Miguel dies after on-pitch collision

Italian taxpayers are paying millions to keep Russian yachts afloat

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Democrat Keisha Lance Bottoms will win Georgia governor race, CNN projects

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Democrat James Talarico will win Texas Senate race, CNN projects

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Democrat Rob Sand wins Iowa governor race, projections show

Iowa State Auditor Rob Sand defeated Republican businessman Zach Lahn to become the first Democratic governor elected in the state since 2006, according to US media

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Democrat Chris Pappas will win New Hampshire Senate race, CNN projects

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Exit polls have become the CNN Voter Poll. Here’s what that means

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Senator Jon Ossoff wins reelection, holding Georgia for Democrats

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Democrats capture governorships in Texas and other GOP-controlled states in rebuke to Republicans

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Democrats win the US House and Senate as voters deliver a strong rebuke to Trump and Republicans

Democrats won control of both chambers of Congress, delivering a decisive rebuke of Republican governance in Washington and ushering in a new era of congressional resistance to President Donald Trump

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Election night agenda: When polls close and when to expect results

With voters deciding thousands of races across the country, keeping track of which races to watch throughout the night and when to expect results can get tricky

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Judge blocks Trump administration from pressuring states over noncitizen voting

A US judge on Monday temporarily barred the Trump administration from moving ahead with a plan it says would prevent noncitizen voting, but that critics say risks

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From LA to Scottsdale: The Founder Behind AdDynamix Is Building the Bridge Between AI and Business Tools

An LA digital advertising veteran of 28 years has moved to Scottsdale and is building what he calls the missing piece between business software and the AI assistants people now use every day. SCOTTSDALE, AZ. When Benoit Pecqueur talks about his latest company, he sounds less like a founder pitching a product and more like an operator who got tired of watching the same problem repeat itself. “Most small business owners are watching the AI revolution from the sidelines,” he says. “Not because they don’t want it. Because their tools don’t talk to ChatGPT or Claude. Their accountant still pulls

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