What changed the week of Nov 2

001 RULES U.S. 2026 midterms bring a wave of firsts to the U.S. Senate SOURCED 002 RULES U.S. America's measles elimination status at risk SOURCED 003 RULES U.S. Democrat Adam Hamilton wins Kansas Senate seat, first since 1932 SOURCED 004 RULES U.S. Democrats flip three Southern Senate seats, widening 2028 battleground SOURCED 005 RULES U.S. Democrats win Senate and House, setting up divided government SOURCED 006 RULES U.S. Democrats win full control of Congress in 2026 midterms SOURCED 007 RULES U.S. Justice Department civil rights division shifts mission, loses most lawyers SOURCED 008 RULES U.S. Keisha Lance Bottoms wins Georgia governor's race, a first for Black women in the US SOURCED 009 RULES U.S. Missouri voters reject Amendment 3, keeping abortion legal SOURCED 010 RULES U.S. Speaker Mike Johnson steps aside after Republicans lose the House SOURCED 011 RULES U.S. Troy Jackson defeats Susan Collins, flipping Maine's Senate seat SOURCED 012 RULES U.S. Trump declares national emergency over foreign power grid equipment SOURCED 013 RULES U.S. U.S. homelessness posts largest drop in a decade as officials dispute the cause SOURCED 014 RULES WORLD 2026 governor races elect a record slate of historic firsts SOURCED 015 RULES WORLD Britain moves to require salary disclosure in job adverts SOURCED 016 RULES WORLD Byron Donalds becomes Florida's first Black governor SOURCED 017 RULES WORLD Democrats win Congress as Kansas and Texas flip Senate seats SOURCED 018 RULES WORLD Democrats win Congress as local votes restrict data centers SOURCED 019 RULES WORLD Democrats win statehouses and gain leverage over clean energy policy SOURCED 020 RULES WORLD Flint newborn deaths fall by half in first year of cash payment program SOURCED 021 RULES WORLD Gina Hinojosa wins Texas governor's race, ending 31 years of Republican control SOURCED 022 RULES WORLD Google ties school search access to its AI tools SOURCED 023 RULES WORLD Hong Kong's national security crackdown SOURCED 024 RULES WORLD Houston limits police cooperation with ICE after Texas Democrats win statewide SOURCED 025 RULES WORLD Hungary publishes communist-era secret police informant list SOURCED 026 RULES WORLD Israel's president opens coalition talks after October 27 election SOURCED 027 RULES WORLD James Talarico wins Texas Senate seat, first Democrat since 1988 SOURCED 028 RULES WORLD Jehovah's Witnesses ease blood transfusion ban weeks after a member's death SOURCED 029 RULES WORLD Judge blocks Trump's arch hours after federal approval SOURCED 030 RULES WORLD Justice Department sues California over alleged noncitizen mail-in ballots SOURCED 031 RULES WORLD Kenyan court convicts doomsday cult leader of mass starvation murders SOURCED 032 RULES WORLD Landlords settle RealPage rent-pricing claims; RealPage pays nothing SOURCED 033 RULES WORLD Macau convicts former lawmaker Au Kam San in first national security trial SOURCED 034 RULES WORLD New Zealand Parliament dissolved ahead of tight November election SOURCED 035 RULES WORLD Newsom moves to commute all 548 California death sentences SOURCED 036 RULES WORLD One-third of US states pass housing reforms in 2026 SOURCED 037 RULES WORLD Paraguay's Senate removes Peña over bank collapse; Alliana sworn in SOURCED 038 RULES WORLD Progress Residential settles FTC rental-fee case for $49.75 million SOURCED 039 RULES WORLD Somalia's Supreme Court voids term extension and orders elections SOURCED 040 RULES WORLD Tanzania jails opposition leader Tundu Lissu for incitement SOURCED 041 RULES WORLD Trump names Stephen Miller chief of staff after midterm losses SOURCED 042 RULES WORLD US voters reject data center development in local ballot measures SOURCED 043 RULES WORLD Virginia voters add abortion, marriage and voting rights to the state constitution SOURCED 044 NEW U.S. A heart drug cuts a major risk factor but not heart attacks SOURCED 045 NEW U.S. A worm's brain circuit erases one smell while keeping another SOURCED 046 NEW U.S. Brain stimulation guided by fMRI outperforms scalp targeting in depression trial SOURCED 047 NEW U.S. COURAGE at 25 years: upfront PCI does not reduce death or heart attack in stable coronary disease SOURCED 048 NEW U.S. Room-temperature supersolid observed in a light-matter condensate SOURCED 049 NEW WORLD A physics model of the telescope pulls a hidden planet out of Webb data SOURCED 050 NEW WORLD A twice-yearly HIV shot arrives as funding to deliver it shrinks SOURCED 051 NEW WORLD All five DNA and RNA nucleobases found in asteroid Ryugu samples SOURCED 052 NEW WORLD Ancient DNA supports Gothic origin story from Scandinavia SOURCED 053 NEW WORLD Attosecond X-ray pulses reach record intensity in a nanoscale spot SOURCED 054 NEW WORLD Bangka slow loris confirmed alive after decades without a scientific record SOURCED 055 NEW WORLD Brain-activated CAR-T cells clear childhood brain tumors in mice SOURCED 056 NEW WORLD Calcium scans cut statin use without changing heart outcomes in CorCal trial SOURCED 057 NEW WORLD Cannabis use in ancient Siberia dated to 2,800 years ago SOURCED 058 NEW WORLD Chemists isolate stable oxoboranes, ending a 60-year hunt SOURCED 059 NEW WORLD Colombian fossils point to evolutionary turnover without mass extinction SOURCED 060 NEW WORLD Europe's ancient vegetation was a woodland-grassland mosaic, study finds SOURCED 061 NEW WORLD Europe's new weather satellite returns first rapid-scan images SOURCED 062 NEW WORLD IceCube detects cosmic neutrinos far more energetic than the sun's SOURCED 063 NEW WORLD Internet use passes three-quarters of the world's population SOURCED 064 NEW WORLD New Amazon killifish is named from three forest pools and proposed as endangered SOURCED 065 NEW WORLD OpenAI's vulnerability pipeline finds Linux root exploits at scale SOURCED 066 NEW WORLD Physicists clock electron tunneling at the space-time limit SOURCED 067 NEW WORLD Researchers report fossilized red blood cells in a 115-million-year-old dinosaur bone SOURCED 068 NEW WORLD Researchers trace a number plate to remote car unlock in automaker’s connected-car systems SOURCED 069 NEW WORLD Robotic spacecraft launches to catch NASA's falling Swift telescope SOURCED 070 NEW WORLD Silicon air-hole metasurface focuses ultraviolet light SOURCED 071 NEW WORLD South Africa's HPV vaccination drive cuts cancer-causing infections by 83% SOURCED 072 NEW WORLD The Rubin Observatory opens its eye on 20 billion galaxies SOURCED 073 NEW WORLD Writing read from a carbonized Herculaneum scroll for the first time in 2,000 years SOURCED 074 MONEY U.S. Artificial intelligence stocks tumble after Democratic midterm sweep raises data-center doubts SOURCED 075 MONEY U.S. October hiring far exceeds forecasts as December rate-hike odds rise SOURCED 076 MONEY WORLD Binance hit by largest crypto heist on record SOURCED 077 MONEY WORLD US voters back local transit taxes as federal infrastructure law expires SOURCED 078 MONEY WORLD Venezuela opposition walks fine line over U.S. oil deal SOURCED 079 BUILT WORLD Amtrak opens Seattle maintenance facility built for its new Airo trains SOURCED 080 BUILT WORLD Army awards Dominion contract for grid-independent Fort Hood microgrid SOURCED 081 BUILT WORLD China’s mangrove restoration expands coastal bird habitat SOURCED 082 BUILT WORLD EU prosecutors open fraud inquiry into Spain's Madrid-Seville rail upgrades SOURCED 083 BUILT WORLD FRA selects 91 rail-crossing projects for $1.24 billion, but only 37 include construction SOURCED 084 BUILT WORLD Google buys Crusoe's Wyoming data center site SOURCED 085 BUILT WORLD MTA hires STV to design subway power upgrades SOURCED 086 BUILT WORLD Maryland's 8-lane Bay Bridge replacement clears NEPA—now comes the $15 billion bill SOURCED 087 BUILT WORLD Middle East conflict cuts global refinery runs, then a partial rebound SOURCED 088 FORCE WORLD Democrats prepare congressional investigations into Apple, Meta and Musk companies SOURCED 089 FORCE WORLD Iran's largest uprising since 1979 SOURCED 090 FORCE WORLD Melania Trump brokers localized ceasefire in Ukrainian city of Oleshky SOURCED 091 FORCE WORLD Russia's double-tap strikes on Ukrainian aid hubs SOURCED 092 FORCE WORLD UN peacekeeping mission in Western Sahara ends after 35 years SOURCED 093 FORCE WORLD US and Israel launch joint military campaign against Iran SOURCED 094 FORCE WORLD US sanctions Rwanda's defence ministry over M23 support in eastern Congo SOURCED 095 FORCE WORLD Uganda begins withdrawing troops from Somalia SOURCED 096 FORCE WORLD Ukraine-Russia energy infrastructure war SOURCED