The Baltimore Ravens lost 35-13 to the Cincinnati Bengals on Sunday. It was the Ravens' second straight home defeat. The Ravens can't sustain their performance for a full game, especially on offense in the second half. The team's defense followed suit, falling apart in an embarrassing, toothless second half showing.
Serbia's veteran ruler Vučić concedes election to student-led protest movement
Brazil's election stood at a virtual tie halfway through counting on Sunday. President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva holding a razor-thin lead over right-wing senator Flavio Bolsonaro. Pollsters said higher-than-expected turnout appeared to have boosted Lula. Mostly clear skies will persist Sunday night, with temperatures dropping into the upper 30s.
“We want to convince everyone in the State of Israel not to vote for Netanyahu,” he said. “If [Netanyahu] insists on staying with ultra-Orthodox parties, I will not join him. It seems astounding, in light of what has happened in Israel over the past three years, that what we have seen in Israel is not enough.”
Protesters in Lisbon, Portugal, are expected to march across the city Saturday to demand affordable housing. The demonstrations have been ongoing since September, when high school students in the southeast of Paris protested for better conditions. The demonstrators are mainly high school and university students, demanding lower tuition fees, greater state investment in education.
What to Know About Brazil’s Election as Bolsonaro Faces Off With Lula
Brazil votes in a tense Lula vs. Bolsonaro runoff, with U.S. influence in Latin America at stake. Brazilians were voting in Sunday’s polarizing presidential runoff between President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva and challenger Sen. Flávio Bolsonario.
Aleksandar Vucic Concedes Defeat in Serbian Election
Vucic previously announced his resignation as Serbia's president on Sept. 27, allowing him to run as prime minister in the nation's October parliamentary elections. Vucic, having served as either Serbia’s prime minister or president since 2014, was known as a right-wing populist leader with authoritarian tendencies.
Burnham to double spending on homelessness amid drive to end rough sleeping by Christmas
Andy Burnham will double funding to ensure every rough sleeper in England is offered a route off the streets by Christmas. Additional £432 million committed to rough sleeping plan.Burnham is set to host the first-ever Rough.Summit brings firms from all over the world to the UK.
Alaska Senate candidate Mary Peltola delays campaign stops after car crash
GOP Sen Husted warns Senate control runs through Ohio, blasts Sherrod Brown on border, energy. Sen. Husted, R-Ohio, took direct aim at his challenger, former Democratic Sen. Sherrod brown, blaming liberal economic and energy policies for driving up consumer costs. Headliners Vivek Ramaswamy and incumbent Sen. Jon Husted delivered closing pitches centered on kitchen-table economics, cultural defense, and base turnout.
America by the numbers: How voters feel about the economy, inflation, AI and Trump
Inflation has slowed, but the recent direction of inflation is less reassuring. A lower inflation rate means prices are increasing more slowly, not that households are recovering the purchasing power lost during previous years. Consumers don't experience inflation as a weighted national average. The persistence of those pressures helps explain why slower inflation hasn't translated into stronger public confidence.
The Expat Voters Hoping to Swing Israel’s Election
Tens of thousands of Israelis living abroad are expected to fly in for pivotal vote. US tops the list of voters traveling to Israel, one group's estimates show. As many as 67,000 voters are returning, based on surveys of expatriates and regis.“They’re looking at the Israeli population as pawns,” one woman says.
U.S. Pressures Mexico to Deliver a Security Win Ahead of Midterm Elections
Possible Flip is a race rated Lean or Likely for the party not currently holding the seat. Elaine Luria is the current incumbent of the House of Representatives. She is the first woman to hold the seat in the history of the California constituent Assembly.
Netanyahu Is Up for Re-election After Years of War. How Will Voters See Him?
Netanyahu is campaigning on what he's done to fight back against external threats. He has spoken of cracking down on settler expansion and violence against Palestinians in the West Bank. Netanyahu cautioned he would not withdraw troops from Lebanon and Gaza anytime soon. The whole idea is for Israel to keep fighting, because endless wars serve Netanyahu to maintain… a constant state of emergency.
El-Sayed Needs Black Voters in Michigan. Tensions With Arab Americans Make That Harder.
Obama seeks to shore up Abdul El-Sayed with Black voters at Michigan rally. "We're clear about the choice in this election," Obama says. "Abdul is as Michigan as it gets," Obama adds. "I don't think that President Obama himself even understands the racial divides, the class divides," he says.
What This Democrat’s Surge in Texas Says About the Midterms
"Susan Collins has proven that she is willing and able to work in a bipartisan manner, to get things done, and during his time in the [state] Senate, did the opposite," Libby said. If Maine Republicans can save Susan Collins once again, it will show that the GOP really can, at least in part, embrace moderate and centrist positions.
Former opposition presidential candidate Edmundo González Urrutia: "Long live freedom, damn it!" US President Donald Trump said he didn't know about her return but that he hoped she was safe. "I don't know anything about it, but I think she's a very nice woman," Trump said when asked about Machado's whereabouts.
Nokia's Starlink and Starshield are back to full speed. The two systems are part of a larger plan to improve communications in the Ukraine. The plan is to make it easier to connect to the rest of the world via satellite. It's not clear when the new system will be ready for use.
Fire engulfs Hitler's mountaintop Eagle's Nest retreat
Man placed in psychiatric hospital after Adolf Hitler’s mountaintop retreat catches fire. Man remanded to a psychiatric hospital following a destructive suspected arson fire. The blaze occurred on Friday at 9:15 p.m. local time at the "Eagle's Nest," known in German as "Kehlsteinhaus"
Duchess of Sussex ‘deeply distressed’ over child sexual abuse image claims against father
Duchess Meghan told her dad, Thomas Markle Sr., that she knew he had abused young girls in a letter severing all ties with him last year, according to a new report. Meghan released a statement on Oct. 23 saying that she was first made aware of "disturbing allegations" against her dad in 2018. She also explained that concerns about her father had been brought to her attention years earlier.
Opposition leader María Corina Machado returns to Venezuela from exile. Machado's return to Venezuela aims to foster a transition and move the country toward holding elections. "We want to tell the whole world that María Machado will achieve freedom and democracy in Venezuela," her party said in a statement.
Kim Jong-un Makes First Visit to China in Over a Year
The South Korea-U.S. alliance must help counter efforts by North Korea, China and Russia to hollow out the sanctions regime. South Korea, the United States and Japan have established the Multilateral Sanctions Monitoring Team. The bilateral relationship is an "unbreakable" bond forged during the 1950-1953 conflict.
‘Unusually large’ multi-state storm causing severe weather for Australia’s east – with more on the way
November is likely to be warmer than usual for the southern half of the continent. Night-time temperatures are forecast to be well above average over most of the country. Large parts of eastern Australia were put on alert for severe thunderstorms on Sunday afternoon with more potential storms and flood risk in store for Monday.
Iran in ‘Advanced Stages’ of Planning Attacks Against Americans, Officials Say
Houthis say they attacked Saudi Arabia, Yemen's Aden after deadly strikes that killed 17 people. Fighting between Saudi-backed Yemeni forces and Iran-backed Houthi rebels in Yemen has seen the latter repeatedly attack Saudi military and oil infrastructure facilities. Saudi-led coalition in Yemen announced on Sunday it had intercepted 10 Houthi missiles fired at southern Saudi Arabia.
