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Tensions between the United States and communist Cuba are boiling over, with a Cuban diplomat expelled from the United States after a confrontation on the floor of the United Nations in New York City.

A shouting match kicked off in the General Assembly Hall on Tuesday between U.S. Ambassador to the U.N. Michael Waltz and Cuban Foreign Minister Bruno Rodríguez Parrilla.

Waltz said the United States would not tolerate such conduct.

President Donald Trump returned to Ohio on Wednesday night to campaign for Republican candidates ahead of the November midterm elections.

Trump, who has spent the past few weeks on the campaign trail, appeared with Ohio gubernatorial candidate Vivek Ramaswamy and Ohio Senator Jon Husted, who is facing Democratic former Senator Sherrod Brown in a competitive contest that will help determine whether Republicans maintain their 53–47 advantage in the chamber.

Tiffany Meier's panel reacts to President Trump's Chillicothe, Ohio stop boosting Sen. Jon Husted against former Sen. Sherrod Brown in a race still within the margin of error, and weigh whether Vivek Ramaswamy's controversial ad featuring Amy Acton's estranged mother — defended by Trump but criticized by Ohio Republicans — could cost him the governor's race with six days to go.

Tiffany Meier and her panel play "How Wild Is This? — Election Edition," weighing Florida DSA Senate candidate Angie Nixon's refusal to call the Cuban regime a dictatorship, Sen. Lisa Murkowski's cross-party endorsement of a Democrat for Alaska governor, and President Trump floating Ted Cruz as a potential Supreme Court nominee.

Tiffany Meier's panel reacts to a New York Times report that Mary Peltola's aides and Democratic operatives worked to recruit a second "Dan Sullivan" for the Alaska ballot, President Donald Trump's call for legal consequences, and the Justice Department's lawsuit to block certification if the challenger costs the incumbent the race. They also weigh Obama and Kamala Harris campaigning in Georgia for Democratic Senator Jon Ossoff, who's running for reelection.

Heritage Foundation Latin America senior policy analyst Andrés Martínez-Fernández joins Tiffany Meier after Flavio Bolsonaro arrived in Florida with his wife and daughters following his presidential runoff loss to Lula, refusing to concede. He weighs the Trump administration's visa approval, Bolsonaro's use of an Italian passport to exit Brazil amid a Supreme Court passport order, and what options he has to challenge the result from the U.S.

A 260 percent tariff on a Chinese product—and it's set to remain in place for at least five years. The U.S. Commerce Department announced the measure today.

Can a joke cost millions? In China, apparently so. French soccer star Kylian Mbappé is being dropped from advertising campaigns by Chinese brands after making remarks about a meme portraying him as a dictator. What sparked the backlash?

Federal agents searched a Beverly Hills mansion as part of an investigation involving former Congressman Eric Swalwell. The former lawmaker has also faced scrutiny over his past ties to suspected Chinese spy Fang Fang, in a case involving an alleged honey trap, as well as sexual misconduct allegations made by several women.

The United States remains committed to the Indo-Pacific—that was the message Secretary of War Pete Hegseth delivered to Southeast Asian nations at a key regional meeting in the Philippines.

What would it take to control a star?

Far out into the cosmos, there is a star that doesn't seem to have gotten the memo that it's a star.

Every so often, Tabby's Star (KIC 8462852) does something unthinkable. It twinkles. No, really—as in, it loses more than a 5th of its light at totally random intervals for no apparent reason. Which is something that stars just don't do. As if something massive is blocking its light.

When astronomers first saw it, they tried every explanation: dust, debris, instrument error. None of it fit. For a moment, some scientists considered a possibility they almost never say out loud: What if something out there was powerful enough to harness a star? But that's the wrong question.

Long before we had telescopes, we were already imagining what it would mean to control the sky. To harness the power of our sun, and bend it to our whim. An old story about a Demi-God from the Pacific Islands—who did something impossible—tells of capturing the sun as it raced across the sky.

That same question captures us today, as we ask: not what's out there, but how much power a civilization—how much power we—could ever truly possess. Is it truly possible to control a star? What's the true future of our technology? And what limits there are really– to being human? And why is one particular star in the night sky twinkling, for real?

One week before the midterms, President Donald Trump is in Texas touting a major oil deal with Venezuela. What has the president planned for the final stretch?

Early voting is already underway in North Carolina, home to a closely watched Senate race. Rep. Pat Harrigan (R-N.C.) tells us which issues are driving voters in the Tar Heel State.

Former acting Defense Intelligence Agency Director David Shedd explains what to know about Confucius Institutes acting as a front for Chinese influence on American campuses.