Election Day in the US dominated the hour, and the sharpest developments came in court. The Supreme Court, with no noted dissents, refused the Trump administration's emergency bid to make California set aside roughly 20,000 ballots it says were cast by noncitizens ^1,2, and the full Ninth Circuit voted to rehear the administration's appeal over threats of prosecution against election workers ^3,4. Trump has questioned the outcome if Republicans lose, while early turnout is on pace to exceed the last midterms ⁵, with more than 57 million early ballots cast ⁶. About 1,000 Justice Department monitors were deployed across all 50 states, and DC's attorney general urged residents to report National Guard troops near polling places ⁷. Ballot scanners malfunctioned at most polling locations in Westchester County, New York, as polls opened . A Harvard model gives Democrats a 96 percent chance at the House and 78 percent at the Senate ⁸, though Reuters/Ipsos shows only a narrow generic-ballot lead ⁹. Consumer prices rose 3.7% through September, and a New York Fed study tied about 2.9 percentage points of price increases to tariffs ¹⁰. Separately, Trump said US aid to Israel will end at year's end ¹¹, under an agreement with Netanyahu ¹²; the current deal provides about $3.8 billion a year through 2028 ¹¹. Oil slid, with one report tying the move to that comment ¹³ and others to hopes for US-Iran diplomacy ^14,15. Saudi Arabia's quarterly deficit more than doubled as the US-Iran conflict strained its finances ¹⁶. In crypto, Binance said its roughly $6.3 billion hack began with a fake job interview ¹⁷ and that the attacker used a compromised computer and an internal AI tool to control wallets ¹⁸. The FBI blamed North Korea's TraderTraitor group, which Pyongyang rejected ¹⁹. Customers withdrew $7.42 billion ²⁰, and South Korea's central bank began surveying its largest banks on crypto-hack exposure ²¹. In Ukraine, Russian bombs on a school used as an aid center in Zaporizhzhia Oblast reportedly killed 33, and Zelensky said more than 50 may be trapped ²². Ukrenergo described one of the largest attacks yet on the energy sector ²³, and Kyiv lost water supply ²⁴. Lavrov rejected Ukrainian ceasefire proposals ²⁵, even as Melania Trump prepares to host Russian and Ukrainian representatives ²⁶. Tech funding was the other thread: Meta seeks at least $20 billion in bonds ²⁷, and Big Tech brought more than $60 billion to market in one week ²⁸. Shopify fell as much as 20% premarket after a revenue miss, with Wells Fargo citing AI margin headwinds ²⁹.