The Big Rundown  If things go the way Donald Trump hopes, he'll enter the history books as just the second US president to ever serve nonconsecutive terms. Keep reading
More Big News  Voters in 10 states are deciding whether abortion rights should be protected or expanded within their borders, reports the Guardian, weighing ballot measures that are expected to spur turnout for a range of crucial races. Keep reading Also Making Headlines Today's Jaw-Dropper A private contractor in Mississippi was killed in a freak accident when he was fatally buried under hot asphalt. Keep reading
Don't Overlook Japan is doing whatever it can to get people to partner up amid historically low birth rates, and based on a new survey of high schoolers, it may have its work cut out. Keep reading On the Lighter Side Seven seas, seven continents, seven wonders of the ancient world, and now ... seven major marathons. Keep reading Science Buzz Could eliminating mosquitoes' sense of hearing be the key to eliminating mosquito-borne diseases like dengue, yellow fever, and Zika? Keep reading Wild Card It wasn't a fun weekend for scores of students at a New Zealand college, after suspected food poisoning caused "carnage" across campus. Keep reading TODAY'S NEWSER.AI PICK An Iranian official has alleged that Iranian-German prisoner Jamshid Sharmahd died before his scheduled execution, contradicting earlier claims by Tehran that he was executed on October 28. Keep reading Comment of the Day "Stuff like that happens. My grandparents were undertakers in Cleveland Ohio for decades. People dont come to claim the body. Paperwork gets lost misplaced. They dont want to get sued by families. There is a license to protect. They dont have $$ for someone else's vault, casket, plot. Stuff happens! Life was fun at the funeral home growing up. As kids we would ride up and down on the open elevator lift that lifted caskets up from the basement to the parlors upstairs. Saw bodies being embalmed. Quite an education and no fear of death." MoneyDriver Quote of the Day "He was lousy with tools but built the world's largest chain of hardware stores. He never owned a home aquarium but created the planet's biggest fish tank." Read This Elsewhere Why Californians should expect ballot measure surprises on election night Today's 6 Most-Read Stories
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First Results Reported in Election 2024 (Newser Morning 8)
1  All 50 states vote on Tuesday, but most eyes will be on just seven of them: the swing states that will most likely determine the outcome of the race. Keep reading 2 If you hoped the miniscule township of Dixville Notch would serve as a bellwether for Election 2024, steel yourself for disappointment: The New Hampshire locale, which has opened and closed its poll just after midnight of Election Day since 1960, has reported a draw: three votes for Kamala Harris, and three votes for Donald Trump. Keep reading
At a Glance
3 A series of social media posts from a sheriff's lieutenant in Ohio raised eyebrows recently, and now the law enforcement officer is blaming the posts on sleep medication. Keep reading 4 New Orleans' former Six Flags theme park, which shuttered in the wake of Hurricane Katrina, is finally coming down, the AP reports. Keep reading 5 Jason Kelce says he could have done a better job of handling his confrontation with a fan at last weekend's Penn State game. Keep reading 6 FBI agents posing as co-conspirators foiled a man's alleged plot to blow up a Nashville energy facility using a weapon of mass destruction, court records show. Keep reading
7 Unionized machinists at Boeing voted Monday to accept a contract offer and end their strike after more than seven weeks, clearing the way for the aerospace giant to resume production of its bestselling airliner and generate much-needed cash, the AP reports. Keep reading 8 Donald Trump and Kamala Harris each continued to make their case to voters well into Monday evening, the night before election day in the US: Trump started Monday in North Carolina, then went to Pennsylvania, and finally Michigan (though technically his rally there started very early Tuesday morning), the AP reports. Keep reading Today From Newser.AI See more stories from our human + machine experiment here. This Day in History On Nov. 5, 1872, suffragist Susan B. Anthony defied the law by casting a vote in the presidential election; she was later arrested and charged with "knowingly voting without having a lawful right to vote." Found guilty at trial, she was fined $100, which she refused to pay. Find out what else happened on this date here. From the Newser Archives On this day in 2020: Pa. Official: We Could Know Winner Thursday Night Yesterday's Most-Read Stories
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