The United States and Iran completed a third day without directly attacking one another while mediators worked on negotiations and a shipping mechanism for the Strait of Hormuz, even as drones struck or approached targets across the region.
Saudi defenses intercepted drones approaching energy facilities and the capital as attacks linked to armed groups in Iraq and Yemen widened the security test around the U.S.-Iran pause.
Oil benchmarks fell to their lowest levels in more than a week after three days without direct U.S.-Iran attacks, while industry estimates showed that crude and product exports through Hormuz remained depressed.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu arrived in Washington for talks with President Trump centered on Iran, regional security and the future of a war the two governments began together in February.
Sen. Mitch McConnell's office released a physician's update saying he had not been medically cleared to leave rehabilitation or resume Senate work more than six weeks after his hospitalization.
The Trump administration asked the Supreme Court to allow enforcement of an executive order that would condition mail-ballot delivery on a new federal citizenship list while litigation continues.
Federal lawyers said in a court filing that hundreds of clean-energy grants were included in an October cancellation notice based on the political identity of the recipient's state.
President Trump used a visit to General Motors' Milford Proving Ground to promote his trade program, presenting tariffs as an industrial revival even as the state's cross-border economy absorbed higher costs.
Chad said it had begun withdrawing from the Rome Statute after two decades in the International Criminal Court, following similar moves by Venezuela and three Sahel governments.
Confirmed Ebola cases in Congo reached 2,973 with 1,309 deaths as workers at a Bunia treatment center joined strikes over unpaid compensation and difficult conditions.
French police detained a man accused of attacking three women with two knives in northwestern Paris after bystanders intervened and held him for an off-duty officer.
South Korea's government proposed a tax overhaul aimed at stimulating investment, supporting strategic industries and improving market participation during a period of weak domestic momentum.
A Wake County community forum examined the proposed WakeMed-Atrium Health combination, with speakers pressing for disclosure, local oversight and clear protections for care and workers.
Garner officials announced federal funding for improvements to Jones Sausage Road, including capacity, pedestrian and intersection work connecting housing, parks and a greenway.
The Raleigh-Durham region entered Tuesday under a slight severe-weather risk for afternoon and evening storms after weekend damage and outages in parts of the Triangle.
Anthropic's chief executive said lower-risk open models are a public good and denied advocating a general ban, while preserving the company's concern about releasing frontier systems with dangerous capabilities.
Microsoft announced MAI-Cyber-1-Flash and Project Perception, presenting benchmark and cost claims for AI-assisted security work less than a week after an OpenAI agent breached Hugging Face.
ChatGPT started declining prompts to write in the exact style of famous authors and offered original text using more general traits, a behavior not clearly stated in OpenAI's public model specification.
Elmer Saflor sued the operator of Memes.ai and Memes AI Studio, alleging that subscriptions to an AI ad generator commercially reproduced his copyrighted comic as a template.