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November 3, 2026. Two things happened in the same stretch of water inside two days. Iran cut its offer to reopen the Strait of Hormuz from seven days to two. And the Wall Street Journal reported, on the word of American officials who would not be named, that the American military had bombed Qeshm Island at the mouth of it. Central Command said nothing. The President, asked that same day whether he was weighing strikes after the midterms, said no, and said the war was already won. Americans voted through all of it, in the largest early turnout ever counted for a midterm, and the Supreme Court refused to hold any of those ballots back without explaining why.

Tonight's report:

• An American strike on Iran's Qeshm Island, reported by the Wall Street Journal, called defensive by two unnamed officials, confirmed by nobody.• The President says he is not considering strikes after the election: "We had a war with Iran. We won."• Iran offers to reopen the Strait of Hormuz in two days, down from seven, on terms Washington has not accepted.• Polls open on 435 House seats, 35 Senate seats and 36 governorships. Democrats need a net gain of four for the Senate.• More than 57 million early ballots as of Monday, against just under 44.5 million at the same point in 2022.• The Supreme Court refuses to set aside the ballots of 20,000 California voters, and gives no reasons.• Brent crude settles at $104.77, down 7.63 per cent, then turns back up after the Qeshm reports.• Apple closes a record $479 billion fiscal year without stating net income in dollars.• Witkoff sets American, Russian and Ukrainian talks for Abu Dhabi on November 10 and 11. The Kremlin has not confirmed.• Strikes on Ukrainian energy infrastructure in ten regions. Emergency outages in Kyiv and six regions.• 206 engagements at the front, heaviest at Kostiantynivka, and no sign of a new northern front.• Gaza's health ministry puts the toll since the ceasefire at 1,593. The Red Crescent says 26 hospitals are out of service.• Israel's army leaves Hebron after eleven days. The UN logs 397 settler attacks in 26 days of the olive harvest.• A Knesset with no majority: 53 seats, 48 seats, and a record 19 for the Arab-led parties.• Taiwan logs 85 Chinese sorties, up 85 per cent from a week that lost four days to a typhoon.• El Fasher a year on: the UN estimates 6,000 killed, and no court has tried anyone.• The NTSB says a Learjet 60 began breaking up before it hit the ground in Palm Beach County.• Dorothy roasts a boned shoulder of pork from Rufus Estes, Chicago, 1911.

SOURCES: ABC News and The National on the Qeshm Island strike and the President's remarks. Euronews on Iran's conditions. CBS News and Ballotpedia on the ballot. The Associated Press early-vote analysis. Al Jazeera on the Supreme Court application and on Gaza, Hebron and the Knesset. CNBC via FinanceFeeds on the Brent settlement, https://financefeeds.com/brent-crude-oil-price-106-tuesday-after-7-6-percent-plunge-qeshm-strike-report-midterms-bull-113-bear-100/ . Apple Newsroom, https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2026/11/apple-reports-fourth-quarter-results/ . The Moscow Times on Abu Dhabi. Ukraine's energy ministry via UNN, and DTEK via RBC-Ukraine. Ukrinform on the General Staff report, https://www.ukrinform.net/rubric-ato/4180749-war-update-206-clashes-on-front-line-over-past-day-fiercest-fighting-in-kostiantynivka-sector.html . Times of Israel on Hodeidah and the Ras al-Khafji tanker. Taiwan Security Monitor on sortie counts. allAfrica on El Fasher, citing Yale, Amnesty, Human Rights Watch and the ICC. PBS NewsHour on the NTSB. The Weather Channel on the forecast. Rufus Estes, Good Things to Eat as Suggested by Rufus, Chicago, 1911, via Project Gutenberg, https://gutenberg.org/files/18435/18435-h/18435-h.htm

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November 2, 2026

Two crude oil tankers are burning in the Strait of Hormuz, and the only account of why belongs to the force that controls the water. A Qatari gas carrier was struck on Friday by objects nobody has identified and nobody has claimed. In Jerusalem an election has produced a parliament that cannot assemble a government. In Washington the voters go out tomorrow. Walter Hartley anchors, with Edward James Whitmore on the markets and the arms ledger, Theodore Charles Bennett at the world desk, and Dorothy Wilson from the homefront.

Tonight's report:

• Two tankers afire in the Strait of Hormuz, and why the IRGC account stands alone• The Qatari LNG carrier Al Mayeda, struck by objects nobody has claimed• More than 120 commercial ships hit since the war began, 29 of them in October• Tehran's two-day plan to reopen the strait, and the conditions attached• Brent settles at $113.43 as OPEC and partners hold December targets a third month• Wall Street closes lower across the board, the Nasdaq off 2.86 per cent• 500 Patriot missiles approved for Ukraine, at $2.1 billion or $2 billion depending on who you read• The Senate called a toss-up on the eve of the vote, 48 seats to 45• Ukraine's air raid app hacked, sending false nuclear and chemical warnings nationwide• 167 civilians evacuated during the Oleshky ceasefire, 22 of them children• A girl of thirteen killed in a drone strike on a Vinnytsia dormitory• 19 PLA aircraft sorties around Taiwan in 24 hours• A 120-seat Knesset with no majority, and a theft claim that belongs to a party and not a man• Hebron under siege for a tenth day, 327 businesses closed• Eight dead in Gaza, or nine, and why those two figures reconcile• A UN human rights officer dead in Houthi custody• Nine killed as a Learjet 60 falls onto a Florida road• From the Homefront: Dorothy cooks a daube out of the 1915 Suffrage Cook Book

SOURCES:

Al Jazeera, Iran war liveblog and Middle East desk, November 1 and 2, 2026, for the Hormuz tankers, the Al Mayeda, the Israeli election deadlock, the Hebron siege, Gaza, the Yemen detention death, Bolivia and the Binance attribution.https://www.aljazeera.com/news/liveblog/2026/11/2/iran-war-live-tankers-hit-in-hormuz-trump-again-says-conflict-to-end-soon

The Kyiv Independent, November 1 and 2, 2026, for the Air Alert hack, the Oleshky evacuation and the Vinnytsia strike.https://kyivindependent.com/ukraines-air-raid-alert-system-hacked-air-force-says-as-false-nuclear-chemical-warnings-sound/

Ministry of National Defense, Republic of China, PLA activity report, November 2, 2026.https://www.mnd.gov.tw/en/news/plaact/88110

CBS News, for the Patriot sale and President Zelensky's response. The Washington Times, Meduza and Seeking Alpha carry the competing figure.https://www.cbsnews.com/news/ukraine-patriot-missiles-us-lockheed-martin-sale-zelenskyy/

FinanceFeeds, for the Brent settlement and the OPEC and partners decision.https://financefeeds.com/oil-price-opec-holds-december-targets-for-a-third-month-as-brent-ends-october-at-113-43/

Associated Press index table as carried by KRMG, for the October 30 closes.https://krmg.com/2026/10/30/how-major-us-stock-indexes-fared-friday-10-30-2026/

Fox News Power Rankings, November 1, 2026. NBC6 Miami, for the Greenacres crash. Ballotpedia, for the 1915 Pennsylvania referendum returns. The Suffrage Cook Book, compiled by Mrs. L. O. Kleber, Pittsburgh, 1915, read in full scanned text at archive.org.

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November 1, 2026. Ukrenergo published hourly outage schedules for Ukraine this morning, 6:00 to 23:59 in certain regions, after strikes that President Zelensky said left 280,000 families without power. Walter Hartley opens on that timetable. Edward James Whitmore has 500 Patriot interceptors approved but not yet built, an OPEC+ decision taken only in principle, and Friday's oil settles, where two Brent contracts are quoted as one. Theodore Charles Bennett has Pokrovsk, Iran's maximum deterrence order, day 245 of the closed Strait of Hormuz, Gaza, an Israeli election with no majority, 53 Chinese vessels on a Taiwanese map, El Fasher a year on, and 565 arrests in France. Dorothy Wilson closes with Fannie Farmer's 1896 Election Cake.

Tonight's report:

• Ukrenergo publishes hourly blackout schedules as Zelensky reports 280,000 families without power• 500 Patriot interceptors approved for Ukraine at $2.1 billion, delivery not expected until the 2030s• 264 combat engagements reported, 55 of them at Pokrovsk, with sector counts that sum to 120• Mojtaba Khamenei orders maximum deterrence and an expanded target bank• Day 245 of the closed Strait of Hormuz, a limpet-mine strike Friday, three competing baselines• Twelve hours of Qatari mediation and still no date for an American delegation in Doha• Houthi ballistic missiles at Aden airport and the Presidential Palace• Gaza's Health Ministry reports 1,580 killed since the October 2025 ceasefire• The UN human rights office says Israeli forces appear to treat the yellow line as a kill zone• Israel's count closes at 53, 48 and 19 seats, and 61 is a majority• Taiwan maps 53 Chinese vessels from southern Japan to the Philippines• Amnesty marks one year since El Fasher fell, where fewer than 70,000 remain• France arrests 565, with turnout counted at 320,000 and at 500,000• OPEC+ holds December targets in principle, and Brent's January contract settles at $113.43• Wall Street's worst session since June, and the FBI blames North Korea for the $6.3 billion Binance theft• From the Homefront: Election Cake, from Fannie Merritt Farmer's 1896 cook book

SOURCES:

Ukrinform, General Staff front-line report: https://www.ukrinform.net/rubric-ato/4180173-war-update-264-clashes-on-front-lines-over-past-day-pokrovsk-sector-hottest.htmlUNN, Ukrenergo outage schedules: https://unn.ua/en/news/ukrenergo-introduces-hourly-power-outages-on-november-1Kyiv Post, Zelensky on 280,000 households: https://www.kyivpost.com/post/88748Critical Threats and ISW, Iran Update October 31: https://www.criticalthreats.org/analysis/iran-update-october-31-2026Al Jazeera carrying Reuters, FBI on the Binance theft: https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/11/1/fbi-blames-north-korea-for-record-6-3bn-crypto-heistFannie Merritt Farmer, The Boston Cooking-School Cook Book, 1896, Election Cake: https://americantable.org/recipes/election-cake-1896/

Also read, named without links: Amnesty International on El Fasher; ABC News Australia carrying Reuters on the Patriot sale; Business Standard carrying Reuters on OPEC+; The Nation Thailand and FinanceFeeds on Friday's oil settles; StockTitan and market summaries citing CNN on Friday's closes; Fox News on Hormuz and American posture; straits.live with IMF PortWatch on transit counts; Al Jazeera on Gaza, the UN statement and the Israeli election; Money and Banking citing Reuters and Stars and Stripes on Taiwan; Taiwan's defence ministry via The Tribune; The Local France and RTE carrying AFP; Oregon Public Broadcasting carrying the Associated Press; Men's Journal citing the National Weather Service and AccuWeather; the New England Historical Society on the 1896 method.

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October 31, 2026. Iran's Revolutionary Guard says four oil tankers burned and exploded in the Strait of Hormuz on unauthorised routes, naming no vessel and no crew. American Central Command says the lanes are clear and Iran's navy destroyed. Qatari mediators are back in Tehran. In New York, Intel took its worst single day in more than half a century. And in about twenty minutes on Thursday night, roughly six billion dollars left the wallets of the largest crypto exchange on earth.

Tonight's report:

• Four tankers afire in Hormuz, and three accounts that do not match• Tehran warns of an "earth-shattering blow" as Qatari mediators return• Intel closes down 28.58%, dragging the Nasdaq down with it• The largest theft on record: $6.3bn out of Binance, traced to North Korea• What Binance will not say about how it happened• Diesel at $6.35 a gallon, up $2.63 on the year• More than 46 million early ballots, three days before the midterms• Kyiv in the dark after a strike on an energy facility• Dnipro's railway station hit twice in two days• Eighty hours of ceasefire at Oleshky, and a convoy that split• 500 Patriot interceptors approved, which is not the same as delivered• Israel's final count: nobody reaches 61• The Davidson window over Taiwan, and the estimate that disagrees with it• One year after El Fasher, fewer than 70,000 left in a city of a million• Riot police at Poland's Constitutional Court• About ten ballistic missiles out of Wonsan• Seventeen minutes outside Urda, and an order called "inexplicable"• From the Homefront: a 1907 Hallowe'en cider jelly, served from a carved pumpkin

Walter Hartley anchors, with Edward James Whitmore on Washington and the exchanges, Theodore Charles Bennett at the world desk, and Dorothy Wilson from the homefront.

SOURCES:TRM Labs on the Binance theft: https://www.trmlabs.com/resources/blog/north-korea-steals-usd-6-36-billion-from-binance-in-the-largest-hack-in-historyTechCrunch on Binance's own account: https://techcrunch.com/2026/10/30/north-korean-hackers-blamed-for-stealing-record-6-3b-in-binance-breach/US Energy Information Administration: https://www.eia.gov/petroleum/gasdiesel/Amnesty International on El Fasher: https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/news/2026/10/sudan-el-fasher-civilians-suffer-unlawful-killings-detention-and-torture-one-year-after-citys-capture-by-the-rsf-new-testimony/Taipei Times on the Davidson window: https://www.taipeitimes.com/News/front/archives/2026/10/30/2003866854Notes from Poland on the Constitutional Tribunal: https://notesfrompoland.com/2026/10/30/chaos-at-polands-constitutional-court-as-government-backed-judges-seek-to-oust-chief-justice/Paul Pierce, comp., Suppers: Novel Suggestions for Social Occasions, Chicago, 1907: https://www.gutenberg.org/files/33975/33975-h/33975-h.htmAlso relied on, with links in the Substack dispatch: Al Jazeera, Euronews, Kyiv Independent, Ukrinform, Ukrainska Pravda, The Times of Israel, ABC News, Time, FleetOwner, and the University of Florida Election Lab via AP.

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October 30, 2026, read in 1930s radio style. Binance confirmed that roughly 6.3 billion dollars left its wallets, in what the company itself calls the largest such theft in history. TRM Labs puts it at 6.36 billion across ten chains and attributes it to a North Korean unit. Two accounts of the method do not agree, and we print both. In Spain, a control room cleared a high-speed train onto an occupied track and 69 people are dead.

Tonight's report:

• Binance confirms about 6.3 billion dollars taken, halts deposits and withdrawals, says it will cover every loss• TRM Labs attributes the theft to North Korea's TraderTraitor; 2.7 billion frozen, 2.4 billion still with the attacker• Binance blames a compromised engineer's laptop; TRM points to the signing infrastructure and calls that its most likely assessment, not a finding• The Federal Reserve holds at 3.75 to 4 per cent, 10 to 2, both dissenters wanting a quarter point higher• A reported Vance letter to Iran's security chief proposes talks; President Trump says the contact was mainly about medical supplies• A six day truce holds around Russian-occupied Oleshky, with about 2,000 people trapped and an aid convoy expected• A Russian jet drone strikes a train at the platform in Dnipro: 13 dead by two outlets, 14 by four others• Kremenchuk 3 dead, Chernihiv two girls aged 15; Zelensky's total of 19 closes only with the higher Dnipro figure• Ukraine's central bank turns 2026 growth into a 0.4 per cent contraction and raises inflation to 12.5 per cent• Israel's final count: Netanyahu bloc 53, opposing bloc 48, Arab-led lists at an all-time 19, turnout 77.9 per cent• One year into the Gaza ceasefire, the UN counts 1,493 Palestinians killed since it took effect• Amnesty finds fewer than 70,000 people left in El Fasher, from a pre-war million• North Korea fires its Sniper 600mm rocket launcher in public for the first time• US Army Pacific plans on a 2027 Taiwan window the ODNI's own March assessment does not endorse• Spain in a third day of mourning; that line still runs 1992 signalling• From the Homefront: Dorothy pulls Mary M. Wright's 1915 molasses taffy for Hallowe'en, every departure named

SOURCES:Binance and the heist, Al Jazeera: https://www.aljazeera.com/economy/2026/10/30/binance-says-2-54bn-in-crypto-funds-frozen-amid-potential-security-issueTRM Labs' own analysis and attribution: https://www.trmlabs.com/resources/blog/north-korea-steals-usd-6-36-billion-from-binance-in-the-largest-hack-in-historyFOMC statement, October 28: https://www.federalreserve.gov/newsevents/pressreleases/monetary20261028a.htmThe Vance letter and the President's account, Euronews on WSJ and Axios reporting: https://www.euronews.com/2026/10/29/jd-vance-contacts-senior-iranian-official-in-bid-to-revive-peace-talksLagarde, European Central Bank: https://www.ecb.europa.eu/press/pr/date/2026/html/ecb.pr261029~abbb6dc64b.en.htmlAlso read and used, without links here: the Associated Press on Oleshky, the Kyiv Independent and Ukrainska Pravda on Dnipro, Ukrinform's wire, Interfax-Ukraine on the National Bank of Ukraine, The Times of Israel on the final count, Al Jazeera and UN News citing OCHA on Gaza, Amnesty International on El Fasher, The Korea Times on North Korea, the Taipei Times citing Stars and Stripes, ABC Australia on the Spanish toll, Canada's Prime Minister's Office, and Investopedia on the October 29 close.

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October 29, 2026. At 8:53 on Wednesday morning a Renfe train struck a stationary Iryo train on Spain's Madrid to Andalusia high-speed line, near Urda in Toledo province. At least 68 people were killed and more than 100 injured. Spain's transport minister says a computer malfunction stopped every train on a 39-mile stretch at 8:30, and that the central command centre then told the Renfe train to proceed with no speed restriction while a stop signal was still active. He called the order inexplicable. Three days of national mourning began Thursday. No inquiry has reported and nobody has been charged.

Tonight's report:

• Spain: 68 dead near Urda, and the order given over an active stop signal• The Fed holds at 3.75-4.00% on a 10-2 vote, with Cook and Hammack dissenting for a HIKE• The Q3 GDP advance estimate did not appear, so we give the nowcasts and label them forecasts• Alphabet posts negative free cash flow of $9.1bn as capex hits $51.4bn; Microsoft stays positive• Israel: Netanyahu bloc 53, Eisenkot bloc 48, Arab-led parties 19, and 61 needed• Hebron enters a sixth day of near-total closure with nearly 5,000 displaced• Iran presses a 7-day Hormuz plan while Al Arabiya reports a push to shorten it to four• Trump denies directing Vance's outreach to Tehran, and calls it a medical supplies request• Houthis claim a missile strike on Ras Tanura; Saudi authorities confirm no target• The Oleshky truce holds, and who brokered it is still contested• Sudan: UN mission finds El Obeid caught between RSF drones and army mass arrest• UN Cuba embargo vote drops to 130 in favour, the lowest since 1995• From the Homefront: fried pies from Martha McCulloch-Williams, 1913• Why no oil price appears in tonight's ledger

SOURCES:Federal Reserve FOMC statement, October 28, 2026 - https://www.federalreserve.gov/newsevents/pressreleases/monetary20261028a.htmITV News on the Toledo crash and three days of mourning - https://www.itv.com/news/2026-10-29/spain-begins-three-days-of-mourning-after-fatal-toledo-high-speed-train-crashAl Jazeera on the Israeli count - https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/10/29/no-clear-winner-in-israeli-election-with-nearly-90-percent-of-votes-countedAl Jazeera on Hebron - https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/10/28/israeli-forces-continue-west-bank-raids-as-hebron-lockdown-enters-sixth-dayAl Jazeera Iran war liveblog, October 29 - https://www.aljazeera.com/news/liveblog/2026/10/29/iran-war-live-tehran-presses-7-day-hormuz-plan-trump-denies-peace-talksAntiwar.com on Abu Dhabi and Oleshky - https://news.antiwar.com/2026/10/28/russia-and-ukraine-expect-to-hold-trilateral-talks-with-the-us-in-abu-dhabi-but-no-date-set/UN News on the El Obeid report - https://news.un.org/en/story/2026/10/1168696The Motley Fool market and earnings wrap, October 28 - https://www.fool.com/coverage/stock-market-today/2026/10/28/stock-market-today-oct-28-markets-edge-higher-as-fed-holds-rates-steady/Microsoft and Alphabet quarterly figures - https://www.fool.com/investing/2026/10/28/microsoft-and-alphabet-just-reported-earnings-putting-the-ai-boom-to-the-test/Martha McCulloch-Williams, Dishes & Beverages of the Old South, 1913 - https://gutenberg.org/cache/epub/28491/pg28491-images.html

Full source list for every item, including The Times of Israel, Kyiv Post, Dawn, Focus Taiwan, The Rio Times and the BEA release schedule, is in the written dispatch on Substack.

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October 28, 2026. Israel voted for all 120 Knesset seats and neither bloc can show a majority: two exit polls put the Netanyahu and Eisenkot camps within three seats of each other, 600,000 soldiers' ballots are uncounted, and the Arab parties at a projected 19 seats may decide who governs. Central Command handed Congress a figure of $47.1 billion for the war against Iran, a quarter above the July estimate. And Cyclone Arnab came ashore in Andhra Pradesh after 180,000 people were moved out.

Tonight's report:

• Israel's election leaves both blocs short of 61 seats, with turnout at 77.7 per cent, the highest since 1999• The UN commission of inquiry says the Gaza ceasefire has not stopped what it calls genocidal acts; Israel wants it dissolved• Central Command puts the Iran war at $47.1 billion, and we run the arithmetic on the three published lines• The Federal Reserve closes its meeting with the decision not yet published at airtime• Trump campaigns in Texas for Ken Paxton as corruption edges past inflation in one poll• Washington weighs lifting sanctions on the Russian Direct Investment Fund• Finland and Norway telephone Putin for 90 minutes and split the Nordic bloc doing it• Ballistic missiles close Kyiv's Southern Bridge to road and rail• A local ceasefire holds at Oleshky so an aid mission can reach 2,000 trapped residents• Day 241 of the Hormuz closure, escorted transits above 30 a day against a pre-war baseline of 138• Jordan strikes Daraa province; Amman counts 20 militants, Damascus counts seven dead• The carrier Liaoning passes within 50 nautical miles of the Philippine coast• Taipei plans a plant for half its rare earth demand by 2030, and Konotop enters a fifth day without power• Two men charged over the RAF Fairford incident under the National Security Act• Brussels drafts a law requiring member states to prepare for a world 3C warmer by 2100• Cyclone Arnab makes landfall with 180,000 evacuated and 12 million in the path• Dorothy Wilson cooks a New England boiled dinner from an 1903 American Kitchen Magazine text

Where accounts conflict we print both. Israel's exit polls disagree by three seats. Jordan and Syria give different casualty counts for the same strikes. We resolve neither.

SOURCES:Al Jazeera, on Israel's election and on Cyclone Arnab's landfall: https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/10/28/five-key-takeaways-from-israels-parliamentary-electionsCBS News, on the Central Command cost estimate: https://www.cbsnews.com/news/iran-war-cost-centcom-47-billion/Euronews, on the Nordic call to Putin: https://www.euronews.com/2026/10/27/putin-call-pits-finland-and-norway-against-denmark-and-swedenThe Crown Prosecution Service, on the Fairford charges: https://www.cps.gov.uk/national-news/news/cps-announces-two-men-charged-national-security-act-offences-following-rafINTERTANKO via Safety4Sea, on Hormuz transits: https://safety4sea.com/intertanko-gulf-ship-attacks-continue-as-hormuz-transits-exceed-30-per-day/Wikisource, for the 1903 American Kitchen Magazine recipe: https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/A_Genuine_New_England_Boiled_DinnerAlso drawn from Ukrinform, The National, Daily Sabah, AEI and the ISW China programme, The News Minute, Kiplinger, KPMG, the Lancet Countdown, Investrade, and New York Times reporting carried by Ukrainska Pravda and Meduza.

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October 27, 2026. Israel went to the polls with the last published surveys showing neither bloc at the 61 seats a majority requires, and with a UN commission of inquiry report landed on the eve of the vote. Two commissions reported in a single day, one on the West Bank and Gaza, one on Russian strikes against Ukraine's power stations, and both governments concerned called them wrong. Walter Hartley anchors, Edward James Whitmore has the Federal Reserve and the exchanges, Theodore Charles Bennett has the world desk, and Dorothy Wilson closes from the homefront.

Tonight's report:• Israel votes: 7.3 million eligible, 61 of 120 seats for a majority, exit projections after 10pm local• The final Tatika poll: Eisenkot's Yashar 26, Netanyahu's Likud 20, and neither bloc at 61• Lula takes a fourth term on more than 51 per cent; Bolsonaro calls the result impossible to recognise• Vucic concedes Serbia after fourteen years, on his own arithmetic and no official count• Monday's closes: Dow 52,361.52, S&P 7,676.80, Nasdaq 26,169.38; Brent settles $115.81, WTI $101.76• Anthropic files to list on the Nasdaq as ANT, with the share count and the price range both left blank• Trump says the Iran decision is near: finish it off, or make a deal• A UN commission alleges extermination and persecution in the West Bank; Israel demands it be dissolved• Ballistic missiles over Kyiv: the South Bridge restricted and the green metro line split in two• A bilateral ceasefire declared at besieged Oleshky, with no Russian confirmation in those terms• A second UN commission finds war crimes in Russia's campaign against Ukraine's grid• The Khoryv sunk off Constanta, and two incompatible counts of the Black Sea toll• A North Korean howitzer photographed in plain view above Gimpo, and three PLA sorties off Taiwan• Flood water falling across the Four Corners after a near-century crest on the San Juan• From the Homefront: Cheese Fonda, from Recipes Tried and True, Marion, Ohio, 1894

Where accounts conflict, both are given and neither is resolved. Figures left out for want of a settlement price or a second source are listed in the dispatch under On the Record.

SOURCES:Israeli election mechanics and Trump on Iran: The National, https://www.thenationalnews.com/news/mena/2026/10/26/what-happens-on-israeli-election-day/The Tatika poll: Times of Israel, https://www.timesofisrael.com/liveblog_entry/toi-poll-eisenkot-opens-up-big-lead-on-netanyahu-but-both-blocs-short-of-majority/Brazil, and the UN commission on the occupied Palestinian territory: Al Jazeera, https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/10/26/brazil-election-2026-key-takeaways-from-lulas-historic-winSerbia: CBS News, https://www.cbsnews.com/news/serbia-election-aleksandar-vucic-concedes-defeat/Monday's index closes: TheStreet, https://www.thestreet.com/stock-market-today/stock-market-today-dow-jones-sp-500-nasdaq-updates-oct-26-2026Crude settlements and Tehran: Reuters via Investing.com, https://www.investing.com/news/commodities-news/oil-prices-down-almost-1-in-early-trading-4971306The Ukraine commission: OHCHR, https://www.ohchr.org/en/press-releases/2026/10/russian-authorities-committed-crimes-against-humanity-through-attacksKyiv: Kyiv Post, https://www.kyivpost.com/post/88247Oleshky: Ukrinform, https://www.ukrinform.net/rubric-ato/4178492-humanitarian-mission-gets-underway-in-oleshky-budanov-says.htmlFour Corners floods: Deseret News, https://www.deseret.com/environment/2026/10/26/hundreds-remain-evacuated-after-four-corners-flooding/Also drawn on: Forbes on the Fed, UN News on Hebron, The Korea Times on the Kaepung howitzer, and Recipes Tried and True, Marion, Ohio, 1894.

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October 26, 1930s-style radio news covering today's real world events. Two incumbents learned their fate this weekend and took it very differently. Brazil's electoral court declared Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva the winner of Sunday's runoff, and Senator Flávio Bolsonaro refused to acknowledge the count. In Belgrade, Aleksandar Vučić conceded to a list of physicians and teachers built out of two years of street protest. Israel votes tomorrow with no majority visible in any poll, and in Tehran, delegations from Saudi Arabia, Pakistan and Turkey met Iran's security officials to try to keep the war from restarting.

Tonight's report:

• Lula wins a fourth term with more than 51 per cent against 48 for Flávio Bolsonaro, who says it is "impossible to acknowledge the result"• Aleksandar Vučić concedes in Serbia and puts the opposition Student List at 135 to 140 seats of 250• The Federal Reserve decides Wednesday with rates at 3.75 to 4 per cent and the market pricing no change• Brent settles at $116.72 and WTI at $103.27, with two outlets disagreeing on where that sits in the record• Saudi, Pakistani and Turkish delegations meet Iran's security officials in Tehran• Israel's three final polls agree on one thing only, that neither bloc reaches 61 seats• Gaza aid falls to 832 trucks, and the health ministry's weekly total runs 66 ahead of its own components• Three arrests in Jordan over the Karak church attack, with three different casualty counts in circulation• Ukraine's General Staff counts 177 engagements and itemises only 81 of them• Taiwan's security bureau publishes two cyberattack figures that differ by more than a factor of two• María Corina Machado returns to Venezuela, and one hurricane closes out an entire Atlantic season• From the Homefront: Dorothy makes smothered ham with sweet potatoes, from the 1927 Aunt Sammy's Radio Recipes

SOURCES:

Al Jazeera, Brazil runoff: https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/10/26/lula-holds-off-far-right-with-victory-in-brazil-presidential-electionAl Jazeera, Serbian election: https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/10/25/serbia-voter-turnout-highest-in-decades-as-students-oppose-longtime-leaderAssociated Press via WSLS, Tehran delegations: https://www.wsls.com/news/world/2026/10/26/delegations-meeting-in-tehran-with-region-on-edge-over-potential-for-renewed-fighting/The Times of Israel, final pre-election polls: https://www.timesofisrael.com/final-polls-before-election-show-both-blocs-short-of-majority-small-parties-out-of-knesset/Next Century Foundation, Gaza Information Index: https://www.nextcenturyfoundation.org/gaza-information-index-26-october-2026/The National, Karak arrests: https://www.thenationalnews.com/news/mena/2026/10/26/jordan-arrests-three-over-deadly-karak-church-attack/Ukrinform, General Staff front line report: https://www.ukrinform.net/rubric-ato/4178121-ukrainian-forces-repel-36-russian-attacks-in-pokrovsk-sector-as-177-clashes-reported-on-front-line-over-past-day.htmlAmerican Enterprise Institute, China and Taiwan Update: https://www.aei.org/commentary/china-taiwan-update-october-23-2026/Rio Times, Friday oil settlements: https://www.riotimesonline.com/oil-markets-latam-friday-october-23-2026Forbes, the October Fed meeting: https://www.forbes.com/sites/simonmoore/2026/10/19/what-to-look-for-from-the-feds-october-meeting/

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October 25, 2026. The President voted early in Florida on Saturday, then told reporters the United States was "thinking about" striking Iran again, "and maybe tomorrow," while in the same breath holding out a "nice, big, beautiful agreement." His own White House said earlier this month there would be no attack before the November 3 midterms. Nobody has reconciled the two. Brazil, Serbia and Bulgaria all voted today, Hebron was sealed, and the dead at a church in Karak are still counted differently by different people.

Tonight's report:

• "We're thinking about doing it, and maybe tomorrow" - the words in West Palm Beach, against a written pledge not to strike before November 3• The Strait of Hormuz by the numbers: CENTCOM says 400 ships a week, UKMTO counted 254 transits, the pre-war baseline is 138 vessels a day• Houthi missiles on Aden airport and Riyadh, and two unverified casualty claims pointing opposite ways• Brazil's runoff: Bolsonaro 47.03 per cent to Lula's 45.16 in the first round, a gap of 2,224,965 votes• Serbia votes on fourteen years of SNS rule, with a student list as the challenger• Bulgaria's presidential first round, where low turnout forces a runoff on November 1• Israel votes Tuesday, after thousands filled Hostages Square demanding a commission of inquiry• Hebron sealed: "about 2,000" displaced per Israel's defence minister, 2,200 per the city's mayor• The church at Hammoud: nine dead and 34 injured per ABC News, eight dead and about 40 per Al Jazeera• Binnari, Nigeria: 10 dead per police, at least 20 per survivors, at least 40 per Amnesty• France counts 410,000 marchers and nearly 1,000 arrests; the CGT calls that half the truth• Russia, Ukraine and the United States to meet in Abu Dhabi in the first half of November• A ceasefire for one occupied city, Oleshky, announced by the White House and by nobody else• Keen Sword puts American anti-ship missiles on Yonaguni, 110km from Taiwan, for the first time• The Archdiocese of New York agrees to pay $800 million to about 1,300 abuse survivors• The ledger: Brent settled at $116.72, the Dow closed down 652.82

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SOURCES:Samaa TV, on the President's Saturday remarks: https://www.samaa.tv/2087359079-trump-says-us-could-strike-iran-as-soon-as-sundayAl Jazeera, on the Strait of Hormuz, with CENTCOM, UKMTO and Kpler figures: https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/10/17/us-and-iran-both-claim-control-of-strait-of-hormuz-amid-attacks-on-vesselsAl Jazeera, on the Houthi attacks: https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/10/24/houthis-launch-attacks-on-saudi-arabia-and-yemens-adenRio Times, on the Brazilian runoff and the oil settlements: https://www.riotimesonline.com/brazil-runoff-october-25-2026-flavio-bolsonaro-lula/ABC News, on the Karak death toll: https://abcnews.com/International/death-toll-rises-9-after-gunmen-open-fire/story?id=137538843Arab News, carrying Reuters and Amnesty, on Binnari: https://www.arabnews.com/world/gunmen-kill-at-least-40-people-in-northeastern-nigeria-amnesty-international-says-3008099Associated Press close table for Friday, October 23: https://krmg.com/2026/10/23/how-major-us-stock-indexes-fared-friday-10-23-2026/The White House, on the Oleshky ceasefire: https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefings-statements/2026/10/first-lady-melania-trump-secures-ceasefire-between-russia-and-ukraine-localized-to-oleshky/Also drawn on, with the full list in the written dispatch: Al Jazeera on the Serbian and Bulgarian votes and on Hebron, CBS News, the Kyiv Independent and Mediazona, NPR, AEI, and American Cookery of November 1921 via Project Gutenberg.

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