Democrats won control of both chambers of Congress in Tuesday's midterm elections. Iranian leaders on Wednesday welcomed the result as a rejection of President Donald Trump's war policies.
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King Charles III is due to address Commonwealth leaders on Tuesday in Antigua and Barbuda, the final stop of a nine-day Caribbean tour, while Caribbean governments and reparations groups press Britain for a formal apology over the slave trade. He is expected to speak about the suffering it caused without issuing one.
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President Donald Trump said Tuesday that the US will stop paying Israel about $4 billion a year in military aid by the end of 2026. He described the move as part of a deal he made with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu months ago.
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The United States carried out limited strikes on Iranian targets near the Strait of Hormuz on Monday, the eve of the US midterm elections, including on Qeshm Island. A US official speaking anonymously said the targets were "Iranians using surface to air missiles against US assets."
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Karl Bushby, a 57-year-old British adventurer and former paratrooper, walked into his hometown of Hull, in northeast England, on Monday, completing a trek on foot that took about 28 years. He set out from Punta Arenas, Chile, in November 1998, at age 29, and the journey crossed South America, North America, Asia and Europe.
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Lindsay Clancy, 36, was back in court in Plymouth, Massachusetts, on Monday for a hearing on whether and when she will be tried again for killing her three children. Her first trial ended in a mistrial in September.
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A Learjet 60 carrying nine people crashed in a residential area of Palm Beach County, Florida, on Sunday. The FAA and Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy said everyone on board died.
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Poland's Constitutional Tribunal was thrown into crisis on Friday when its president, Bogdan Święczkowski, was suspended. President Karol Nawrocki cut short a trip to Senegal and flew back to Warsaw.
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Seven people were shot, one fatally, at a Spirit Halloween store inside the Solano Town Center mall in Fairfield, California, on Friday evening, the night before Halloween. Fairfield police said six people were wounded, and at least three of them were in critical condition.
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Iran's Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi welcomed a personal letter from US Vice President JD Vance as a "positive step" toward dialogue on Saturday, while saying Tehran has not ruled out an "outbreak of war." Vance sent the letter to Mohsen Rezaei, a hardliner who heads Iran's Supreme National Security Council.
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Cost-of-living protests, many led by young people, are expected in cities across Europe on Saturday, Halloween. France and Germany are the main focus.
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Two people have been arrested on suspicion of murder in the death of Christina Downer, the sister of "Saturday Night Live" writer Jimmy Fowlie. The Los Angeles Police Department confirmed the arrests on Friday.
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Christa Pike, 50, survived an attempt to execute her by lethal injection in Tennessee on September 30, and on Friday she issued her first public statement since. Pike, who was sentenced to death for a 1995 killing, said in the statement that she is healing but in constant pain.
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A federal judge in Manhattan sentenced Oren Alexander, Alon Alexander and Tal Alexander to 30 years in prison each on Tuesday. A jury had convicted the three former luxury real estate brokers on all 10 counts in March, including conspiracy to commit sex trafficking and sex trafficking by force, fraud or coercion.
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María Corina Machado, the Venezuelan opposition leader and Nobel Peace Prize winner, returned to Venezuela on Sunday after more than 10 months in exile. The 59-year-old leader of the party Vente Venezuela announced her arrival on X with the words "I am here. With you."
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On Friday, a gun attack near Yehuda Junction in Hebron, in the occupied West Bank, killed two Israeli soldiers and wounded three others. Two suspected Palestinian gunmen were also killed in the exchange of fire.
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Israel's October 27 election produced no majority for either side. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's bloc won 53 seats in the 120-seat Knesset, 8 short of the 61 needed, and the opposition bloc led by Gadi Eisenkot won 48.
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Police estimated that 110,000 people marched in Paris on Saturday as protests over school funding, wages and living costs spread across France. Up to 70,000 police officers were deployed nationwide, and Interior Minister Laurent Nuñez said 135 people had been arrested by early afternoon.
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Gunmen opened fire on mourners at a funeral at a Greek Orthodox church in Jordan's Karak governorate on Friday. Reports put the death toll anywhere from six to nine.
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Meghan, the Duchess of Sussex, said on Friday that she was "deeply distressed" by allegations that her estranged father, Thomas Markle, possessed child abuse images. Thomas Markle has denied the allegations, calling them "sick lies."
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