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Today's edition covers a surprising twist in a closely watched Senate race, a deadly plane crash in Florida, and a 17-million-year-old fossil challenging what scientists know about early apes. We're also following rising tensions with Iran, new questions about AI-powered smart glasses, and an unexpected music comeback. From major headlines to fascinating discoveries, there's plenty worth exploring.

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The Middle East is braced for a possible return to all-out war amid concerns the United States and Israel could strike Iran shortly after Tuesday's midterm elections. Two Iranian officials said their delegation left Qatar after days of talks, though messages with the US are still passing through the mediator.

Tehran says it is waiting for a US response to a proposal to fully open the Strait of Hormuz within two days if Washington meets several conditions. President Trump said the US has "one or two sites" left that it could hit in 10 minutes as Iran's army spokesman warned a new war could last longer.

A business jet carrying nine people nose-dived into a South Florida neighborhood Sunday and erupted into a fireball near a busy Palm Beach County roadway. Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy said everyone on board was killed. Gov. Ron DeSantis said there were no immediate reports of anyone on the ground being hurt.

The Learjet 60 had departed Austin for the Bahamas. In air traffic control audio, someone in the cockpit reported moderate turbulence and said the crew was "managing the ice" before declaring an emergency. The last words heard from the cockpit about 35 seconds after the mayday call were that the crew was out of time.

Michigan Rep. Haley Stevens endorsed Republican Senate candidate Mike Rogers on Sunday over her former primary rival Abdul El-Sayed less than 48 hours before Election Day. Stevens said in a video that El-Sayed had told her she was no longer welcome in his campaign. Her endorsement followed a surprise appearance with Rogers at a Detroit church.

The feud between the centrist Stevens and the progressive El-Sayed boiled over in recent days after she called on him to denounce an outside group's ad linking US support for Israel with high prices. Senate Democratic leader Chuck Schumer called the endorsement "a despicable betrayal." El-Sayed told reporters that voters do not think about Stevens.

The UN's Western Sahara peacekeeping mission shut down Sunday after 35 years, a casualty of a US-Russia standoff over the territory claimed by both Morocco and the Polisario Front.

Ukraine and Russia said their emergency alert apps were hacked Sunday night as Ukrainians received false warnings that included a radiation threat in Kyiv and chemical attacks.

Iliana Yotova appears to have won Bulgaria's presidential runoff with about 58% of the vote in initial results that would make her the first elected female head of state.

Connecticut Sen. Chris Murphy is expected to make a full recovery after suffering a stroke Saturday at his son's hockey game, his team said, adding he is awake and alert.

A Washington state resident died of bird flu after exposure at a dairy with infected cattle in what appears to be the first US death of the year.

Former Guardians pitchers Emmanuel Clase and Luis Ortiz go on trial Monday in Brooklyn, accused of taking bribes while gamblers made hundreds of thousands betting on their individual pitches.

Wall Street futures pointed higher Monday after stocks suffered their worst day since June on Friday, with Apple set to report its latest quarterly earnings later in the day.

Ryanair is considering temporary pay freezes and expects European fares to rise as it braces for a fuel bill forecast €2 billion higher because of the war with Iran.

Binance, the world's largest crypto exchange, replenished 90% of assets lost in an estimated $6.3 billion hack that blockchain analysts tentatively tie to North Korea-linked hackers.

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A jaw from the Egyptian desert belongs to a new species that is the first definitive fossil ape found in North Africa and challenges where scientists thought apes began.

Focused sound waves aimed deep in the brain slightly eased delusions for up to a week in a 10-person trial of patients with schizophrenia and a related disorder.

Artisan cheeses aging in New England caves are being rotted by a mold that can produce toxins as researchers eye salt as a leading suspect in its spread.

Saquon Barkley says the Eagles assured him he won't be traded before the deadline, speaking after Sunday night's 27-10 loss to Washington dropped Philadelphia to 2-6 with six straight defeats.

Rookie Yaxel Lendeborg poured in 37 points, the most by a Warriors rookie since Stephen Curry in 2010, as Golden State rested Curry and still beat the Clippers 124-112.

Joe Burrow threw for 462 yards and five touchdowns, then ran for a 9-yard score in overtime as Cincinnati beat Tennessee 43-36 for its first 5-2 start since 2021.

First basemen Christian Walker and Matt Olson each won their fourth Gold Glove Sunday, while Boston and Arizona tied for the most winners with three apiece.

Simon Pegg will play a Hollywood agent in the dark comedy My Phone Died, co-starring Mark Duplass and Haley Joel Osment, about survivors after smartphones start exploding worldwide.

Ke Huy Quan collected a career achievement award at the Hawai'i International Film Festival, where the animated We Are Aliens won the Shooting Star prize for emerging filmmakers.

My Chemical Romance landed its first No. 1 album as The Black Parade jumped from No. 139 to the top of the albums chart two decades after its release.

What it is: Two senators are pressing Meta over whether its smart glasses protect people recorded without their consent. Sens. Ron Wyden of Oregon and Edward Markey of Massachusetts questioned the company's safeguards against nonconsensual recording in a letter. They say Meta's own disclosures confirm that imagery processed through the glasses' visual AI features may be kept and used to train AI systems with help from human reviewers.

The detail: An investigation last year found men recording massage parlor workers with Meta's Ray-Ban glasses and posting the videos to Instagram accounts with millions of views. A woman shown in one video was stalked at work by men who had watched it and bombarded with calls after her phone number appeared with the footage. Swedish journalists reported in March that data labeling workers in Kenya saw unredacted footage from the glasses that included sex and violence.

Why it matters: The senators argue that most bystanders never agreed to have their images used for AI development and that keeping the footage extends the time it can be misused. More than 70 people sued Meta alleging that workers labeling AI data had viewed their private photos and videos. Meta ended its contract with the Kenyan workers less than two months after the Swedish report.

What to watch: The senators want to know whether Meta weighed the glasses' potential to enable voyeurism and what imagery it uses to train AI. They also asked whether people can request deletion of biometric information and other data recorded through the glasses.

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Mariah Carey announced the holiday season in her yearly defrosting video posted just before midnight on Halloween with a punk look and cat ears on a bar stage.

Robert Downey Jr. and Pedro Pascal swapped Marvel costumes for Halloween as Downey dressed as Mister Fantastic and Pascal wore Doctor Doom's silver mask from their upcoming Avengers film.

Two red wolves at a South Carolina park can now be weighed without handling on a device called HOWL that college students designed with help from two Navy engineers.

North and South Dakota become the 39th and 40th states (1889) · KDKA in Pittsburgh reports Warren G. Harding's presidential win in the first significant news broadcast (1920) · Harry Truman upsets Thomas Dewey (1948) · Jimmy Carter is elected the 39th president (1976) · President Reagan signs the bill creating the Martin Luther King Jr. holiday (1983)

"Dewey Defeats Truman" — The newspaper headline that wrongly called the presidential election (1948)

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