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Architect of the Capitol, public domain Democrats took both chambers of Congress from Republicans in the 3 November midterms. Two Senate races and dozens of House seats were still being counted on 5 November.
Michael Barera, CC BY-SA 4.0 Democrat Scott Colom leads Republican Sen. Cindy Hyde-Smith with thousands of mail and affidavit ballots still to be counted. Both parties have sent lawyers.
Leah Herman, House Creative Services, public domain Democrat Mary Peltola leads Republican Sen. Dan Sullivan by about 600 votes. The result may turn on ballots cast for a second candidate named Dan Sullivan, whom the Justice Department tried and failed to make the subject of a federal lawsuit.
LoneStarMike, CC BY 3.0 Democrats won at least five governorships held by Republicans, including Texas, where Gina Hinojosa unseated Gov. Greg Abbott. Kansas and Alaska were still unresolved.
Aviper2k7, CC BY-SA 3.0 Democrat Cindy Holscher leads Republican Ty Masterson by about 5,600 votes, or 0.51%. She has declared victory, but the race is uncalled and Masterson has not conceded.
United States Congress, public domain Johnson will not seek a leadership post in the next Congress after Republicans lost the House. Republicans choose their leader on 10 November, and Hakeem Jeffries is running for Speaker.
Yngvadottir, CC BY-SA 4.0 Voters backed abortion rights in three of four states on 3 November but turned down an Idaho measure that would have eased its near-total ban. Missouri voters also rejected a Republican-drawn congressional map.
Avi Ohayon, CC BY-SA 3.0 Opposition leader Gadi Eisenkot finished President Isaac Herzog's consultations with 67 recommendations to Benjamin Netanyahu's 46, after the ultra-Orthodox United Torah Judaism declined to back the prime minister. Herzog has said he will name a candidate to form a government on Sunday.
Erica Fischer, CC BY 2.0 Emailed and telephoned bomb threats forced diversions, fighter escorts and searches on at least 27 passenger flights across Europe on Thursday 5 November, two days after a smaller wave. No explosives were found and no one has claimed responsibility.
Jeanne Menjoulet, CC BY 4.0 France's interior ministry said 575,000 people joined strikes and marches on Thursday 5 November over pay, living costs and school conditions; unions put the figure at 1.6 million. Most rallies were peaceful, but 448 people were arrested.
VOA, public domain Hong Kong's High Court sentenced the pro-democracy activist Joshua Wong to 10 years in prison on Thursday 5 November after he pleaded guilty to conspiring to collude with foreign forces under the national security law.
ajay_suresh, CC BY 2.0 The Nasdaq Composite fell 5.5% on 5 November 2026, its worst day since April 2025, as chipmakers led a sell-off driven by fears that a Democratic Congress will slow the data-centre build-out behind the AI boom.
Coolcaesar, CC BY-SA 4.0 AMD's revenue rose 45% in the third quarter of 2026 and it forecast about $17 billion for the fourth, but its shares fell 17% two days later in a broad chip sell-off.
Dktue, CC0 The multi-year deal, announced on 4 November 2026, covers base-station chips for tens of thousands of US sites from 2027 and moves Starlink closer to competing with AT&T, T-Mobile and Verizon.
ANKAWÜ, CC BY-SA 3.0 Attackers raised temperature settings at three cold-storage sites of France's national blood service overnight on 1 to 2 November 2026, through a refrigeration contractor. The service says no blood products were lost.
Frank Schulenburg, CC BY-SA 4.0 The companies filed separate lawsuits on 5 November 2026 against AB 1709, which would bar autoplay and personalised feeds for under-16s from 1 January 2027. They argue it breaches the First Amendment.
Brian Vasel/NOAA, public domain Carbon dioxide averaged 426.8 parts per million at the Earth's surface last year, the World Meteorological Organization said on 27 October, with methane and nitrous oxide also at record highs.
Geoff Charles, CC BY-SA 4.0 A JAMA study of more than 5.2 million US births found the share of newborns not given vitamin K more than doubled between 2017 and 2025, and those infants had higher rates of bleeding, including bleeding in the brain.
NASA E/PO, Sonoma State University/Aurore Simonnet, public domain The gamma-ray observatory re-entered over northern Sumatra on 4 November, almost 22 years after launch, after a commercial mission to raise its orbit was called off.
John Gregoire, NASA/JPL, public domain NASA's most distant spacecraft is about to sit so far away that a radio signal takes a full day to reach it, weeks after a brief loss of contact and a power-saving overhaul.