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Chris Van Hollen is challenging Chuck Schumer for Senate majority leader. Schumer says he has the votes. The vote is a secret ballot, so in December he finds out which ones.

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Jensen Huang resigned, Nvidia fell 13 percent and Speaker Mike Johnson says Congress is developing a consensus on chip exports to China. Our Washington bureau is holding very still.

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Spain's first general strike in 14 years was over housing. The government encouraged people to join it. The government is in charge of housing. Nigel Ashcombe-Pryce reports from the basement.

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Cindy Hyde-Smith told Mississippi it had so many other proteins to choose from. Mississippi looked over the menu for eight days and picked Scott Colom. #Midterms2026

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Trump made the Oval Office a national monument and said future changes should need Congress. Same week, his lawyers argued his 250-foot arch doesn't. Harlan Whitcomb has the floor plan.

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Warner Bros. is developing a new 'You've Got Mail,' the movie where a megastore swallows a corner shop. Five weeks ago Warner Bros. was folded into Skydance. June Albrecht has notes, and a star rating.

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Amazon's new Ring Drone Cam flies a patrol route through your home for up to 8 minutes, struggles with mirrors, glass and wet tile, and maps your floor plan to the cloud. Our tech reporter is all in.

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House Republicans picked Jim Jordan to lead them in the minority, 106 to 73 over Steve Scalise. Our markets reporter has been long brawling since 4 a.m.

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Three House committees want closed-door briefings with Jensen Huang about Megaspeed, Trump says he was "amazed" and Nvidia fell 4.27 percent. Our markets reporter has been long closed doors since 4 a.m.

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California voters rejected Prop. 40, a one-time 5% tax on billionaires' wealth, after opponents spent more than $350 million against it. The sponsors said it would raise $100 billion.

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Lauren Boebert moved across Colorado to the safest Republican seat in the state so she would not lose. She lost. #Midterms2026

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Blades Brown, 19, came from seven back to win in Los Cabos. ESPN says youngest PGA Tour winner since 1938. The AP says 1931. Our sports columnist says the kid won either way and the record books need a rules official.

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NASA is taking astronaut applications through Dec. 3. Starting pay $164,395, and the job could include living at a Moon Base. Our outdoors editor checked: the Moon has a Sea of Tranquility, a Sea of Crises and an Ocean of Storms, and not one walleye.

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The Supreme Court ruled 8-1 Monday that border construction can resume in Texas's Big Bend region, home of 1,500-foot canyon walls and the fewest border crossings in the state.

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Pope Leo XIV, in Argentina, to President Milei: "The economy must serve the person, not the person the economy." Our foreign correspondent covered it from the basement and has notes on the seating.

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Trump says Dan Sullivan won Alaska "BY A LOT" once you add the other Dan Sullivan's votes to his. Mary Peltola leads by 637, a quarter of the ballots are uncounted, and the count resumes Tuesday. #Midterms2026

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A federal judge called Miami-Dade elections chief Alina Garcia's "winner, with or without a recount" remark "a really dumb statement to make, even in part," then declined to remove her from the FL-27 recount. #Midterms2026

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With the doors opening Thursday, the complimentary three-day pass has become the most disruptive product in live streaming, and the only one nobody can seem to give away.

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Jensen Huang told Nvidia staff he had an affair, and the board opened an independent investigation after US officials alleged a link to Chinese intelligence. The jacket has been asked to wait in the hall. Our markets reporter is buying.

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Trump offered UFC chief Dana White the White House press secretary job on Saturday and asked him to bring six fighters as assistants. The briefing room seats 49. Follow-up questions are now a weight class.

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