Election Day dominated the hour. The sharpest operational story is in Westchester County, New York, where ballot scanners at most polling places rejected paper ballots. The county board tied the problem to ballot paper thickness, and it delayed the count in Rep. Mike Lawler's neck-and-neck race against Cait Conley . Lawler's campaign is in court seeking counting at one central location ¹, and Attorney General Letitia James said her office is monitoring ². In Georgia, Fulton County officials reported paper jams and power issues at two polling locations affecting roughly 1,000 ballots . Around the vote, Judge Tanya Chutkan ordered federal officials to stop sending states lists of suspected noncitizen voters ³. The FBI arrested an Oklahoma City man suspected of mailing hundreds of white powder letters to public officials, including election offices ⁴. Trump accused Democrats of putting a fake Sullivan on Alaska's ballot ⁵. Prediction markets heavily favor a Democratic sweep of Congress ⁶, and average US gasoline prices topped $4 a gallon on Election Day for the first time on record, amid an ongoing energy crisis ⁷. The biggest policy surprise came from Trump himself. He said the US will end nearly $4 billion in annual military aid to Israel by year-end, a cutoff he said he and Netanyahu agreed to months ago ^8,9. That cuts short a $38 billion commitment running through 2028, and whether Congress must approve the change is unresolved ⁹. Israel's Democrats leader blamed Netanyahu ¹⁰. The other must-read is Binance's account of its $6.34 billion theft, which began with fake job interviews and a compromised internal AI tool ^11,12. The FBI attributed the attack to North Korea. Binance says it froze about $2.85 billion and replenished 98% of affected tokens, while customers withdrew $10.97 billion in the 46 hours after withdrawals reopened ¹². South Korea's president called for a national cybersecurity czar after the hack ¹³. Separately, suspected cyberattacks on refrigeration equipment spread across Europe, with Germany, Greece and Italy reporting incidents ¹⁴. In Ukraine, Russia's largest attack on energy infrastructure this year left Kyiv with emergency power cuts and widespread water outages ¹⁵. A strike on a humanitarian hub killed at least 31 people, and the US announced it would resume peace talks ¹⁶. Steve Witkoff said US-mediated talks will take place in Abu Dhabi next week ¹⁷. US forces also struck Iran's Qeshm Island ¹⁸, and Tehran called American responses to a peace proposal not convincing ¹⁹. Stocks rose on an AI chip rebound ²⁰, though Goldman noted 60% of S&P 500 constituents sit in bear market territory ²¹.