Democrats' 569,000-Voter Lead in North Carolina Is Down to 3,241, a Rebound Since Republicans Were Ahead This Year, last year and in previous years. The Official Party Rolls in 10 Battlegrounds, Then and Now
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Senate and House Democrats Tell FCC Chairman Carr to Withdraw Proposal That Asks Whether to End E-Rate or Limit It to Rural Schools
Democrats led by Sen. Ed Markey and Leader Chuck Schumer told FCC Chairman Brendan Carr to withdraw a proposal asking whether E-Rate, which helped 158,000 schools and libraries pay for broadband in 2025, should be sunset or limited. Reply comments are due Nov. 12.
South Africa's 2026 Medium Term Budget Policy Statement cuts this year's growth forecast to 1.2 percent from 1.6 percent, puts the deficit at 3.9 percent of GDP and cuts the fuel levy by R3 a litre on diesel and R1.50 on petrol from Nov. 4.
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Four Senators Give SpaceX Until Nov. 2 to Explain Who Restricted Ukraine's Starshield Access and When
Four Senate Democrats asked SpaceX to say by Nov. 2 who decided the Starshield and Starlink limits Ukraine reported on Oct. 14, how SpaceX was told, and whether it can refuse such orders.
Seychelles President Patrick Herminie has been admitted to the Seychelles Hospital for observation, State House said Wednesday, adding that his condition is stable while more tests are done. No reason was given.
South Africa will reprioritise R556.7 million over three years to sustain HIV and AIDS services after the United States withdrew PEPFAR funding, the government said with Wednesday's Medium Term Budget Policy Statement.
Toledo Orders a One-Mile Evacuation and a Three-Mile Shelter-in-Place as a Damaged 5,000-Gallon Chemical Tank Keeps Releasing Glycidyl Methacrylate
Toledo Fire and Rescue ordered everyone within a mile of a Progress Avenue tank terminal to leave and told people within three miles to stay indoors as a compromised 5,000-gallon tank of glycidyl methacrylate kept releasing, the city and U.S. EPA say.
Judge Reyes Refuses to Step Aside in the East Potomac Golf Course Case, Answering the Justice Department's Bias Charge "With the Record"
Judge Ana C. Reyes denied the Justice Department's motion to disqualify her from the East Potomac Golf Course case on Oct. 18, writing that "it is easy to weaponize selective quotations to bring a baseless recusal motion."
South Africa's Treasury gazetted R157 million in severe weather and flood relief for Eastern Cape, Mpumalanga, Northern Cape and Western Cape, nearly all of the 2026/27 Provincial Disaster Response Grant, leaving R372,000 unallocated.
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