On the eve of what may prove to be a tough election for the GOP, young conservatives vying to be part of the first class of Gen Z Republicans in Congress want a role shaping the party's next chapter.

As polls close on election night, here's a look at what to expect each hour and which midterm races are key to deciding control of Congress.

The majority of congressional races this cycle are rated either solid Democrat or solid Republican. They're the opposite of tossups, where candidates from the minority party face near impossible odds.

The Archdiocese of Denver wants to be able to turn away LGBTQ families from Catholic preschools that receive state funding.

A family affected by Sanfilippo syndrome raised millions of dollars for research. The Food and Drug Administration just approved a gene therapy the support helped make possible.

President Trump has maintained a near-daily rally schedule as Election Day draws closer, playing his greatest hits for loyal crowds in red states in what is a sort-of goodbye to campaigning.

Saying the president was "grasping at straws," a federal judge on Saturday threw out Donald Trump's $10 billion lawsuit against The Wall Street Journal and media mogul Rupert Murdoch over a story reporting on his ties to Jeffrey Epstein.

U.S. District Court Judge Tanya Chutkin ordered both sides to talk and to agree on a proposed briefing schedule on the motion for a temporary restraining order by Saturday evening.

There was a mixed Halloween bag of economic news this week. GDP growth is up, but so are prices. For now at least, interest rates are staying the same. What does that mean for the midterm elections?

French Interior Minister Laurent Nuñez warned of a "very high risk" of disorder, especially after dark on Halloween, as some 320,000 people nationwide took to the streets.

The protests in cities across Germany - including Berlin, Hamburg and Frankfurt - came on the same day hundreds of thousands also protested in France.

The Chancellor has suggested that younger workers might not receive the same minimum wage as others before the next election.

The state's $500m Senate race may be the most closely watched in the US midterms, and is about far more than control of Congress.

In her first major intervention since leaving the Treasury, Rachel Reeves says Brexit has made the UK "poorer, weaker and less secure".

A Spanish research centre has confirmed her death days after she was declared misisng.

Certain stars have been tipped by industry experts as getting the biggest career boost after the show.

The supermodel and TV host provided a gory new shock at her New York event.

Airbnb hosts must stop asking guests to wash-up or take out bins under rules coming into force in November.

Ruchira Ranasingha, 50, has been stranded in the Cook Islands since 2023 and wants to return to Sri Lanka.

Celebrities have been embracing the scariest day of the year by dressing up as sport stars, dismembered limbs and unsold concert tickets.

Legacy public switched telephone network service is to be retired on January 31, 2027

Experimental orbital datacenter prototype puts its TPU to work producing poetry

Labeled in black on black - controls for a galactic hyper-hearse or ill-advised Windows theme?

A lot of software engineers feel bleak about the future of the profession

London's Oxford Street signage shows its underwear to passing tourists

How a $6.9B bet on Mellanox made Nvidia bigger than Cisco, and the world's most valuable company to boot

Blame plunging prices on tokens

How the Uber-bound delivery giant tuned its mobile networking stack to cut latency

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$220 million? For all of you? Yeah, we can probably dig that up ...

A long flight home from feeding grounds messes with birds' internal clocks.

The regulator says Tavneos was approved on the basis of manipulated study data. Should patients still have access to it?

The space agency solicited ideas for reboosting Hubble four years ago, but they didn't go anywhere.

USDA has identified 74 animal cases in US since parasitic flies invaded in June.

"For huge numbers of people, I will always be Jean-Luc Picard. ... We created an admirable individual."

Boom’s airliner may be delayed, and its data center power business lost a customer.

It's still unknown how attackers got access to Anthropic's verified Cursor account.

People who love AI don't always love telling others they used it.

Faked symptoms still point to infections that antibiotics don't treat.

But it's still early days for the relatively new e-commerce use case.