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Qatari mediators return to Tehran for talks

A delegation from Qatar landed in Tehran on Friday for further talks with Iranian leadership, just days after Vice President J.D. Vance sent a letter requesting a resumption of direct negotiations.

Trump urges Kansas farmers to lift Sen. Roger Marshall in tight race with Adam Hamilton

President Trump says Kansans "can't do better" than Republican Sen. Roger Marshall, hoping to lift the incumbent in a race that's much closer than the GOP wanted.

Mary Peltola tries to distance herself from Democrat-linked plot to meddle with the Senate ballot

Democratic Senate candidate Mary Peltola says she didn't know about a covert effort to put another candidate on the Alaska ballot with the same name as the Republican incumbent.

Make no bones about it, the giant skeleton has become an American Halloween fixture

It reared its bony head in 2020, during that first, chaotic pandemic year that was rife with grief and fear but also toilet paper hoarding and questionable lockdown-inspired purchases.

'Time is the fire in which we burn': 2 major cast losses rock the passionate 'Star Trek' universe

One of the countless memorable lines that have tumbled out of the "Star Trek" universe over the years is this gem, originally from a 20th-century poet named Delmore Schwartz: "Time is the fire in which we burn."

U.S. futures fall as Amazon, Intel and Alphabet weigh on Wall Street

U.S. futures are falling Friday as technology companies such as Amazon, Intel and Alphabet all tumble lower, pressuring Wall Street.

LISTEN: Why satellite maneuverability is key to U.S. space dominance

Kristin Houston, CEO of the company Rocketdyne, joins the show to talk about why maneuverability matters for satellites in orbit and why nuclear power is key to future space missions.

Amsterdam's Art Zoo museum has people entering cages while animals roam free

Look up as you enter Amsterdam's new Art Zoo museum, and a 12-foot crocodile stares down at you, mouth open, ready to chomp.

Will votes be counted accurately? What the public is saying

For more than 20 years, after each election, the Pew Research Center has asked voters whether they believed their vote and separately, votes across the country, were counted accurately. Around 90% of voters consistently said they were very or somewhat confident of this, and around 80% gave that response about the votes of their fellow Americans. The news media and political actors on both sides of the aisle are trying to scare voters about what could go wrong on Nov. 3, but most people are reasonably confident that voting will go smoothly in most places.

Vance touts new beef facility in Texas while stumping for Paxton

Vice President JD Vance announced that the Agriculture Department is opening a new beef processing facility in Texas, a move that will bring jobs and money to the state as the Republican Party works furiously to help boost the economy.

Trump and Vance offer glimpse of MAGA's future on 2026 campaign trail

President Donald Trump and Vice President JD Vance took the stage hundreds of miles apart Thursday, offering Republican voters two different presentations of the MAGA movement as the party fights to preserve its congressional majorities.

The Right is at a time for fusing

In the weeks leading up to midterm elections that could define American politics for a decade, a heated debate has broken out between various factions of the American Right. Pre-Trump Republicans, who resent the GOP’s shift away from Bushism and Romneyism, have declared war on Make America Great Again conservatives who celebrate the party’s Trumpian turn.