Early polling results show nearly half of voters viewed the midterm election as a rebuke of Trump. Voters expressed major concerns about the economy, while the president’s approval rating fell.

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Polls are due to close in waves across the country, with the first closures expected at 23:00 GMT in Indiana and Kentucky.

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Voters across the US are choosing senators, House members and governors in the midterm elections. The vote is framed as a referendum on Trump’s agenda, with full results being tracked.

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Follow results in the US Senate, House and governors’ races with live interactive maps, charts and analysis.

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One person has died and another is missing following a suspected grizzly bear attack in Bella Coola, British Columbia.

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Binance's incident report said hackers gained access to systems involved in the theft by using a fake job interview and an internal AI tool.

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Binance says attackers linked to North Korea spent months compromising its employees and internal systems before exploiting the exchange’s hot-wallet signing infrastructure through Ethereum’s EIP-7702 mechanism.

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The Justice Department said Tuesday that Donald Trump’s proposed 250-foot (76-meter) triumphal arch in Washington would only be completed after his second term ends.

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Spain’s transport minister has resigned and withdrawn from the election following a fatal train crash in Toledo.

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The minister said he would leave his post, six days after a rail collision south of Madrid claimed 69 lives.

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Óscar Puente said a high-speed train was allowed to continue at more than 160 km/h after its safety system failed. Rail workers are threatening to strike.

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Transport Minister Oscar Puente said on Tuesday he would resign after two deadly train crashes in less than a year, but did not say when he would leave office.

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Spanish Transport Minister Oscar Puente offered to resign after a crash south of Madrid on October 28 killed 69 people. The collision was Spain’s second fatal rail accident in less than a year. Puente did not say when he would leave office.

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Transport Minister Óscar Puente resigned six days after a high-speed train collision near Urda killed at least 69 people and injured dozens. He said a transport minister could not stay in office after two accidents of such severity in less than a year.

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Texas Democratic nominee James Talarico held his final rally on Monday before the November 3 US midterms. His contest against Republican Ken Paxton could decide which party controls the Senate. A Talarico victory would mark the first time since 1988 that a Texas Senate seat turns blue.

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Democratic candidate James Talarico is leading polls in Texas ahead of a high-stakes US Senate race against Republican Ken Paxton. Democrats hope the closely watched midterm contest will end their 30-year losing streak in the state.

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In long-standing Republican stronghold Texas, Democratic Senate candidate James Talarico is carrying hopes that the state could turn blue. He has performed well in polls against Republican Ken Paxton, whose legal troubles have shadowed his campaign.

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Apple’s watchOS 27.3 developer beta adds Siri Recap, which uses ambient listening to summarize conversations, and Live Rewind, which transcribes the last 15 seconds detected by the watch’s microphone. Apple says raw audio is processed by dedicated hardware and is not saved or accessible to its operating system, apps, or the company.

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King Charles called the transatlantic slave trade a “shameful chapter of history” that fills him with profound sorrow as he opened a Commonwealth leaders’ summit in the Caribbean. He did not formally apologize for Britain’s historic role. Prime Minister Andy Burnham rejected reparations but said the government should continue supporting Commonwealth countries with development, debt issues and green finance.

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At the opening of the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting in Antigua and Barbuda, King Charles III said the transatlantic slave trade filled him with “horror” and “the most profound personal sorrow”. He stopped short of formally apologising for colonial-era slavery as Caribbean nations called for reparations.

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At the Commonwealth summit in Antigua and Barbuda, King Charles III said the legacy of the transatlantic slave trade filled him with horror. He stopped short of addressing calls for an apology or reparations, urging leaders instead to learn from the past and look ahead.

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King Charles III attended the Commonwealth Business Forum in Antigua and Barbuda, where calls were made for slavery reparations. He described the slave trade as a “monstrous injustice.”

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At the Commonwealth summit, King Charles said he still feels profound personal sorrow about the past international trade in enslaved people, which he characterized as a monstrous injustice.

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King Charles III told leaders of 56 Commonwealth countries on Tuesday that he better understands the horrors of slavery, calling it a “shameful chapter of history”. Prime Minister Andy Burnham said he was open to the United Kingdom apologising for the transatlantic slave trade.

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Italy is holding emergency talks as cyberattacks targeting supermarket fridges spread across Europe. The EU says they are a deliberate effort to disrupt the food supply chain, while Romania’s cyber chief describes them as “semi-amateurish”.

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Several freezers at a Swedish store were taken offline by a cyberattack, leaving staff to work around empty units. Attacks targeting supermarket cooling systems are spreading across Europe.

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Cyberattacks have raised temperatures in internet-connected supermarket refrigerators and freezers across Europe, spoiling or damaging food. The attacks began last month and have also reached the United States. Belgium has opened a criminal investigation into the latest incidents, but no one has claimed responsibility.

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Supermarkets from Estonia and Sweden to Portugal and Italy have reported freezer problems, forcing many retailers to throw away food.

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More than ten European countries reported hacker attacks on supermarket refrigeration systems. Attackers remotely switched on defrost mode, spoiling large quantities of food, with preliminary losses estimated at tens of millions of euros. The incidents affected several countries on November 2, with similar cases also reported in Germany, Italy, Denmark and Portugal; France saw similar incidents in October.

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Suspected cyberattacks on 2 November affected supermarket fridges in nine European countries, switching them to defrost mode. Belgium, Estonia, Finland, Ireland and Italy were among those affected.

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