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President Trump questioned the legitimacy of the midterm results Monday, writing, "Does anybody really believe that this 'Election' was honest?" His post cited early voting "dumps" and machines without specific evidence, after saying on election night he was "absolutely willing" to accept the outcome.

State and local officials said voting was mostly problem-free, though Senate races in Alaska and Mississippi remain uncalled. The day after the vote, Trump had said, "I'll get along probably with the Democrats unless they want to be destructive."

The Supreme Court on Monday let the administration resume wall construction in Big Bend, Texas, pausing a lower court's halt on all building. Bipartisan opponents argue the project, with 30-foot steel walls in places, wastes money in an area of historically low illegal immigration.

The administration cited illegal crossings and drug seizures there, and the majority said the law sharply limits judges' power to intervene. Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson dissented from the order, and Congress funded the wall with $46 billion last summer.

The Senate is set to hold a procedural vote on bipartisan legislation speeding up permitting reviews for data centers and energy projects. The bill would fast-track clean energy and fossil fuel projects alike and make sure data centers pay for the power they use.

Trump called it a "BIG WIN for U.S. ENERGY INDEPENDENCE," and major clean energy and oil and gas groups also back it. Many environmental groups say it would weaken safeguards, while some Democrats want to use next year's majority to limit oil, gas and mining expansion.

Germany is set to get its first female president after Chancellor Friedrich Merz’s party nominated Bavarian lawmaker Ilse Aigner, who looks all but assured of winning in January.

France blamed Iran's Revolutionary Guard Monday for an October cyberattack that sent supermarket refrigerator temperatures soaring at about 700 stores, and summoned Iran's ambassador in protest.

South African police arrested nine foreigners suspected of breaking the country’s mercenary laws by trying to travel to Russia to fight in its war with Ukraine.

Ozempic, Wegovy and other GLP-1 drugs will carry a new warning about rare vision loss, after an FDA review found the eye condition in about 6 per 100,000 year-plus users.

A fourth Justice Department official has departed since Thursday, as Brett Shumate, who led the department's Civil Division, resigned Monday, Attorney General Todd Blanche announced in a post on X.

Twenty-five Santa Barbara half marathon and 5K runners were treated at two local hospitals with similar symptoms, and officials are checking whether illness or heat was to blame.

Boeing will cut 5% of its commercial airplane workforce through attrition and layoffs, saying a slower 737 Max production ramp has left it overstaffed, with notifications beginning in December.

PepsiCo is cutting about 1,000 jobs across North America over the next week, as its home-market turnaround drags on after beverage volumes there shrank 2% in the third quarter.

Honda plans a $3 billion assembly plant near Marysville, Ohio, that will create more than 2,000 jobs and build gas, electric and hybrid vehicles once production begins in 2029.

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Four engineers emerged from NASA's 3D-printed habitat after over a year on simulated Mars, growing crops and coping with communication delays to test long missions' toll on health.

Tiny plastic fragments may be tinting a stretch of Pacific between Hawaii and California, where satellites caught a blue-green shift near the garbage patch over 20 years, a study suggests.

Eli Lilly's obesity pill Foundayo significantly eased sleep apnea in a late-stage trial of over 700 patients, and Lilly plans to seek US approval for that use by year's end.

College football will expand its playoff to 24 teams next season, with ESPN agreeing to pay an additional $1.7 billion over five years as conference title games get dropped.

Lionel Messi became the first player to win consecutive MLS Golden Boot awards, scoring a league-high 26 goals for Inter Miami to edge FC Dallas striker Petar Musa's 22.

Atlanta traded safety Jessie Bates III to Jacksonville for a 2027 second-round draft pick and a 2028 fifth-rounder ahead of Tuesday's deadline, and Bates promptly posted, "WOKE UP A JAGUAR!"

Expectant LPGA veteran Ryann O'Toole clinched the $1 million Aon Risk Reward Challenge bonus with two events left, topping her best full season's earnings of just over $629,000.

James Gunn and Peter Safran are stepping down after four years at DC Studios, as Skydance chief David Ellison taps Marvel veteran Jeremy Latcham to steer Superman and Batman.

Martin Luther King Jr.'s handwritten "I Have a Dream" pages, seven yellow sheets in all, will go on exhibit at Christie's New York in January before heading to auction.

Pink is landing a residency show at the Las Vegas Sphere, with the Grammy winner set to perform in fall 2027, an idea she says has been "bubbling up for years."

What it is: The Labor Department on Monday proposed requiring jobless Americans to log at least five work-search activities every week before an unemployment check goes out. Labor Secretary Keith Sonderling said the rule helps "jobseekers find work faster" and argued unemployment insurance should be "temporary support," not "a permanent taxpayer-funded paycheck."

The detail: Federal law requires states to set a work-search rule, but there is no national standard, and only four states require five a week, according to a worker advocacy group. Depending on the state, an activity might mean applying for a job, building a profile on a job-search site or attending a networking event, and the rule encourages broad options.

Why it matters: It comes in what economists call a "low hire, low fire" job market, where 27.6% of the unemployed had been out of work over six months as of October. Michele Evermore of that group, the National Employment Law Project, called the change "devastating" for claimants without five weekly options and said it would likely cost states hundreds of thousands of dollars.

What to watch: Nearly all states would have to update their claimant intake forms and technology, Evermore said, and many would need to rewrite their laws to meet the new requirement. Watch the 60-day public comment period, when states, workers and employers can weigh in before the department settles on a final version of the rule.

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Hundreds of people in Chicago tried to push The Bean seven inches left to reach a man supposedly trapped inside, though the famous sculpture never actually budged an inch.

An Idaho dad and his 7-year-old son set a Guinness record playing blindfolded Hungry Hungry Hippos, each landing his fourth world record for the frantic marble-chomping game.

Dozens of Elizabeth Holmes and Nathan Fielder impersonators competed in a San Francisco park, battling it out in a staring contest, a dance-off and dueling business and marketing pitch competitions.

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