The US Senate fight dominated the government side of the hour. New Times/Siena polling gives Democrats slight edges in seven competitive races ahead of Tuesday's election, though most are statistical ties ^1,2. In Maine, a Fox News poll has Susan Collins and Democrat Troy Jackson tied at 49%, and Collins accused Chuck Schumer of pushing attack ads full of "outright lies," including one concerning Jeffrey Epstein ³. In Michigan, Abdul El-Sayed won endorsements from Muhammad Ali's daughter and grandson ⁴, while Haley Stevens endorsed Republican Mike Rogers over him, drawing a crude rebuke from James Carville ⁵. In markets, the clearest thread was doubt about AI. A global AI selloff and small-cap losses are pushing investors toward India's large caps ⁶, and investors are reportedly buying bonds to hedge against the risk that US AI-sector growth stagnates ⁷. That unease sits alongside continued AI borrowing and dealmaking. Singapore's STT GDC is reportedly negotiating a roughly $2.4 billion syndicated loan as AI-driven debt demand keeps rising ⁸, and Sam Altman made a surprise South Korea trip to meet Samsung executives, with SK Group executives reportedly also present, as OpenAI builds on chip partnerships ⁹. Separately, Elon Musk said the cost of running Grok is "unsustainably high" relative to its revenue ¹⁰. In China, weak official manufacturing readings are fueling bets on another PBOC rate cut ¹¹, and Primavera's Fred Hu urged much bolder policy action ¹². Big bank shares jumped after robust third-quarter earnings ¹³, and the yuan held near a four-year high ¹⁴. On energy, OPEC+ will hold output flat in December for a third straight month ¹⁵, and Japanese groups have staged a $21bn deal spree to secure gas supplies amid market upheaval ¹⁶. In a separate report, Iranian ghost fleet tankers were documented evading the US naval blockade to smuggle sanctioned liquefied petroleum gas to China via an offshore hub in Malaysia . Among top-tier items, the Justice Department said it identified about $29.1 million in Minnesota benefits fraud over one month, charging, convicting or sentencing 13 people in schemes with nearly $83 million in intended losses ¹⁷. Utah teen Kylie Arellano was found safe in Oregon after more than 500 days missing, and a 39-year-old man was taken into custody ¹⁸. Abroad, exit polls show incumbent Iliana Iotova winning Bulgaria's presidential runoff ¹⁹, drawing congratulations from the European Commission president ²⁰. Latvia's military said a suspicious-object incursion near the Belarus-Russia border was over less than an hour after it was announced ²¹, and a midsize jet crash in Florida killed all nine aboard ²².