- James Talarico received more votes during early voting than his Republican opponent did in total. Talarico received nearly 4.4 million advance votes, plus another million on Election Day.
- Many left-leaning Democrats are calling for the party's congressional leaders to be replaced. This follows House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries' statement that he's not interested in impeachment proceedings against Trump and similar statements from Chuck Schumer.
- New Zealand's parliamentary election, held over the weekend, has ended inconclusively, with neither the incumbent rightwing coalition nor the opposition left-leaning parties having enough seats to form a majority. A new centrist party, Opportunity, appears to be a potential kingmaker. The situation is complicated by a quirk of New Zealand's mixed member proportional representation system, related to so called "overhang seats". This occurs in mixed member systems when a party receives more constituency seats than the total number of seats that its popular vote would entitle it to. Most of the time this would not be a big problem, but in Saturday's election both the centre-right National Party and Te Pāti Māori won several overhang seats. The situation may have been exacerbated by gamesmanship (though this is debated); several far-right organizations urged their supporters to vote for Act or NZ First for the list vote, but to cast a tactical vote for the Nationals for the constituency vote, with the result that the Nationals won six more seats than Labour despite coming narrowly behind them in the popular vote. Meanwhile Te Pāti Māori urged their supporters to vote for them for the constituency vote but to vote for prospective coalition partners for the list vote. This means that 11 leveling seats will need to be awarded to other parties to give proper proportionality, bringing the total size of the parliament to 131 members from the usual 120. There is still some uncertainty over the exact distribution of seats as some "special votes" (mail-in and the like) won't be counted until the end of the month, but the most realistic majority coalition would be the Nationals, Act, and NZ First forming a razor-thin majority.
- A man opened fire on a crowded market square in the Polish city of Krakow, killing six people and wounding 16 others. Three additional victims were found in the home of the shooter, who has since died in hospital. Authorities say that the shooter held far-right political views.
- Health researchers are concerned that new Canadian privacy legislation, Bill C-36, has a glaring hole in it - the legislation allows private sector companies to gather personal information without the person's consent so long as they have a "legitimate interest" that outweighs any "foreseeable harm" to the individual. The problem is, in practice it would left to the companies to decide whether they have such an interest.
- China's CO2 emissions decreased by 3.1% in the third quarter of 2026, the largest decline since the height of the COVID-19 pandemic. A decline in coal consumption for electricity generation and the rapid electrification of the country's vehicle fleet are major factors, although an economic slowdown also seems to be playing a role.
- Jensen Huang, the CEO of tech giant Nvidia, has admitted to an affair with a woman suspected of being a spy for the Chinese government.
