Voters are heading to the polling stations Tuesday in the crucial midterm elections with reports hinting a swing in favor of the Democratic party could help it take control of the Congress for the final two years of Donald Trump's presidency. All 435 seats in the House of Representatives and 35 seats of the 100-member Senate are up for grabs. Gubernatorial and mayoral elections also are being hel
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has issued final guidance for manufacturers of cellular and gene therapy products to implement a comprehensive, science- and risk-based plan for making sure their products meet potency standards. The guidance provides FDA's recommendations for a Potency Assurance...
Global impunity for journalist killings has risen for the first time in more than a decade, while the growing use of drones is an emerging threat for reporters in conflict zones, according to the latest report from UNESCO. "Journalists are increasingly paying with their lives for reporting from the...
The right to live in the UK forever will no longer be granted to migrants almost automatically after 5 years. Instead, it will be earned, under the new earned settlement model set out before Parliament by Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood Monday. Recognizing that settled status is a significant privilege which allows free and unrestricted access to the labor market, health and welfare system, the r
U.S. Customs and Border Protection, Homeland Security Investigations, the Drug Enforcement Administration, and the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Southern District of Texas announced major enforcement results from Operation Southern Surge, a coordinated Homeland Security Task Force initiative targeting...
The Department of War's Office of Strategic Capital announced that it has signed a conditional loan commitment of up to $450 million to Neros, Inc., a U.S.-based developer and manufacturer of dual-use small unmanned aircraft systems. This investment is intended to support Neros' domestic manufacturing...
Europe is entering the winter heating season with its lowest natural gas storage levels in more than a decade, potentially extending tight conditions in global gas markets well into 2027, according to a new report by the International Energy Agency. The Global Gas Security Review 2026, released on Tuesday, examines how a decade of structural changes are reshaping global gas markets and helping im
North Korea is building factories and hospitals, rolling out smartphones and mobile banking, and passing new laws at an unprecedented rate. But its people are more cut off from the outside world than at any point in the country's history, according to a top UN human rights official in the South Korean...
The UK Home Office has launched a campaign to deter knife crime in two regions in London most affected by the crime by posting knife crime hotspots over billboards, digital advertising, and social media. The 'No Place for Knives' campaign will be piloted in parts of Westminster and Croydon, with advertisements...
MAX POWER, a two day aerospace expo and air show organized by NASA, will kick off near the agency's Kennedy Space Center in Florida this weekend. NASA has announced key events of public exposition of American air and space innovation, beginning Friday, and running through Sunday. Through multiple park experiences at MAX POWER, NASA and a variety of external collaborators will showcase the newest
In a move that stunned the Democratic Party in Michigan just ahead of the Mid term election, outgoing Democratic Rep. Haley Stevens has endorsed the Republican candidate in the state's key Senate race. Stevens, serving as the U.S. representative from Michigan's 11th congressional district, ran for the Democratic nomination in the Senate election in Michigan, losing to Abdul El-Sayed in the primar
All nine passengers on board a business jet plane were killed after it crashed in a neighborhood in Florida on Sunday. The private jet, traveling from Austin, Texas, to the Bahamas, crashed near the residential neighborhood of Cresthaven, close to Mar-a-Lago, President Donald Trump's Palm Beach County...
The Trump Administration has taken steps to impose visa restrictions on more than 15 individuals involved in organizing, facilitating, or promoting recent migrant caravans into the United States. The Department of State previously announced a policy to restrict visas to foreign government officials...
Defense and security leaders from 19 nations across the Western Hemisphere worked to advance a campaign plan to dismantle dangerous transnational cartels and narco-terrorist networks during an Americas Counter Cartel Coalition forum in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic, earlier this week. The forum...
Ban on sale of nicotine-free vapes and addictive products such as nicotine pouches to children under 18 came into force in the United Kingdom Thursday. Selling nicotine-containing vapes to under-18s was already illegal in the country. But from now, products that were not previously covered by existing...
November 03, 2026 10:34 ET A key date in rare disease research. BridgeBio Pharma’s BBP-418 is under FDA Priority Review for limb-girdle muscular dystrophy type 2I/R9, a rare genetic disease with no approved treatment. The FDA decision is targeted for November 27. If approved, BBP-418 could become the first approved therapy for any form of limb-girdle muscular dystrophy.