Election Day dominates the hour: Americans are voting for all 435 House seats and roughly a third of the Senate ¹, with polling models and prediction markets heavily favoring Democrats to win both chambers , and one analysis ties Trump's polling slide to climbing gas and food prices ². Voters went to the polls with national average gasoline above $4 a gallon on an election day for the first time ³, and campaign spending has reached a record $12 billion ⁴. The vote's mechanics are already contested. The Supreme Court, in a one-sentence order with no apparent dissents, rejected the administration's emergency bid to force California to isolate 20,000 ballots it said were cast by noncitizens, a list the administration admitted contained inaccuracies ⁵. A judge declined to stop the Justice Department from deploying federal law enforcement staff as poll monitors ⁶. Ballot scanners refused paper ballots across Westchester County, home to the Lawler-Conley House contest ⁷. Senate Republicans plan a floor fight to block Mary Peltola from being seated if she wins ⁸. In Michigan, the Senate race drew national attention after Democratic Rep. Haley Stevens endorsed Republican Mike Rogers ⁹. On foreign policy, Trump said the US will end military funding to Israel by year's end, terminating a memorandum worth $3.8 billion a year ¹⁰, and oil turned lower after the announcement ¹¹. Iran rejected the latest US draft and said Washington must meet seven conditions before the Strait of Hormuz reopens, while the IRGC reported three tankers exploded on naval mines there ¹². Separately, the US reportedly approved a Qatari-presented draft deal ¹³ and launched new strikes on Iranian targets ¹⁴. In Ukraine, Russian strikes hit power plants and substations across nine regions ¹⁵, and strikes on an aid site in Zaporizhzhia killed at least 31 ¹⁶. US-Russia-Ukraine talks are set for Abu Dhabi on November 10-11, with Vladimir Medinsky leading Moscow's side ¹⁷. Binance disclosed that North Korean hackers used fake LinkedIn job interviews to plant malware on an engineer's computer in a $6.3 billion theft, with about $2.5 billion recovered after Tether and Circle froze stablecoins ¹⁸. US data ran strong: job openings rose 333,000 to 7.52 million in September ¹⁹, and factory orders rose 1.9%, a third straight monthly gain ²⁰. The CFTC cleared perpetual futures on single stocks ^21,22. Not otherwise covered here, New York health officials confirmed a child's death from measles, the state's first measles fatality in 30 years .