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Democrat Jonathan Kreiss-Tomkins wins the Alaska governor's race, AP projects. He's the first Democrat elected governor in Alaska since 1998. Alaska voters also rejected a ballot measure to repeal open primaries and ranked choice voting.

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Microsoft says Teams, Outlook, Copilot and other Microsoft 365 services are fully restored after a global outage that lasted more than 24 hours. The company blames a network change tied to an earlier capacity upgrade and says it was not a cyberattack.

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Trump, Xi Jinping and Vladimir Putin will hold the first-ever U.S.-China-Russia leaders' meeting next week at the APEC summit in Shenzhen, China, the White House says. Nuclear arms reduction is on the agenda. Moscow and Beijing haven't commented.
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USMNT coach Mauricio Pochettino is leaving U.S. Soccer to become Manchester United manager. United confirmed he starts Nov. 18. He'll coach the U.S. in its next two matches, both against Haiti, before leaving, just months after the 2026 World Cup.

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The U.S. has lost its measles elimination status after 26 years, the Wall Street Journal reports. Citing unnamed sources, it says the Pan American Health Organization found measles spread continuously for more than a year. About 7,500 U.S. cases and 13 deaths since 2025.

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FAA ground stop cause: Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy says aging air traffic control switches and routers "got overloaded with data" and gave inconsistent readings, so the system was shut down. DHS says no cyberattack and no link to Microsoft's outage.

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SpaceX launched Starship Flight 15 from Texas but called off the Super Heavy booster’s tower catch. It splashed down in the Gulf of Mexico and exploded. The ship reached orbit, deployed 26 Starlink satellites, and is set to try a first-ever tower catch Saturday.

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Medicaid work requirement enforcement delayed: CMS will let states hold off on denying or dropping people for not meeting the new work rules until June 30, 2027. States must still screen enrollees, and enforcement can start July 1, 2027.

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DHS Secretary Markwayne Mullin says no lives were ever at risk during Friday’s nationwide FAA ground stop. He called it a telecommunications outage and said the halt was done “out of an abundance of caution.” The root cause is still under investigation.

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FAA has lifted the nationwide ground stop, ending a rare halt of U.S. departures that began at 2:54 p.m. CT Friday. It was canceled at 7:19 p.m. CT, per the FAA Command Center. The cause is still under investigation. Expect lingering delays and cancellations; check your airline.

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UPDATE: United Airlines and JetBlue say they plan to cancel most of their remaining flights tonight as the nationwide FAA ground stop continues, ABC News reports. Transportation Sec. Sean Duffy and DHS Sec. Markwayne Mullin are briefing at the White House now.

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UPDATE: The FAA's nationwide ground stop remains in effect. As of 6 p.m. CT, 3,000+ U.S. flights were canceled and 10,000+ delayed, per FlightAware. DHS Secretary Markwayne Mullin says it's a telecom outage, not an attack. Some Hawaii and Alaska flights are moving.

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BREAKING: President Trump, China's Xi Jinping and Russia's Vladimir Putin will meet in China next week, NBC News reports. A U.S. official tells AP that Trump plans to discuss the Iran war at the joint meeting but not Ukraine.