Voters decide House and Senate control Tuesday, with tight Senate races in Texas, Iowa, Kansas and Alaska testing Trump's influence.

U.S. District Judge Darrin Gayles dismissed Trump's $10 billion defamation suit against the WSJ and Rupert Murdoch with prejudice, citing a lack of actual malice.

Mediators in Qatar worked a third day to end the Iran-U.S. war as Iran's leadership threatened a maximum response and Washington weighed further strikes.

Democratic Senate nominee Abdul El-Sayed, who won a close August primary over Rep. Haley Stevens, and Stevens are continuing a public dispute in the final days of the campaign, with El-Sayed's campaign asking Stevens not to attend its remaining events and Stevens calling on him to apologize for his comments on Israel. The general election against Republican nominee Mike Rogers is set for November 3 in a race that could help decide control of the Senate.

Civilians evacuated from Russian-occupied Oleshky crossed into Ukraine via Belarus under a six-day truce brokered by Melania Trump, set to expire Sunday.