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Ballot ruling • Early-vote surge • Jet crash probe 👇
📅 November 2nd, 2026AD
THE FIVE NATIONAL STORIES AMERICANS SHOULD KNOW TODAY
📋 TONIGHT’S FIVE
1. ⚖️ Supreme Court denies ballot bid
2. 🗳️ Early voting tops 57 million
3. ✈️ NTSB probes jet crash weather
4. 🌊 Southwest evacuations expand
5. 📉 Oil drops; stocks finish mixed
⚖️ SUPREME COURT DENIES CALIFORNIA BALLOT BID
The Supreme Court on Monday denied the Trump administration's emergency request to make California separate about 20,000 mail ballots from people it alleges are noncitizens, CBS News and NBC News reported.
An unsigned, one-line order denied the Justice Department's request for an injunction. No dissents were noted.
Lower courts also rejected the administration's request, NBC reported.
California officials questioned the accuracy of the federal government's information and noted that state law already bars noncitizen voting, according to NBC.
The decision came one day before the election.
🗳️ EARLY VOTING TOPS 57 MILLION
More than 57 million Americans had voted early by Monday afternoon, CBS News reported, citing the University of Florida Election Lab.
Nearly 32 million voted in person and more than 25 million by mail. The total exceeds the nearly 46 million early votes cast in the 2022 midterms, according to CBS.
Those figures are a snapshot, not final turnout.
President Donald Trump made closing remarks at the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool on Monday, CBS reported.
House Democratic leader Hakeem Jeffries said members would discuss next steps after Rep. Haley Stevens backed Republican Mike Rogers, NBC reported.
Election Day is Tuesday, Nov. 3.
✈️ NTSB DETAILS DEADLY JET CRASH
The crew of the Learjet 60 that crashed Sunday in Palm Beach County, Florida, reported icing, turbulence and precipitation before a rapid descent, federal investigators said Monday, according to WFLX.
All nine people aboard died. The flight had left Austin for the Bahamas with two crew members and seven passengers, WFLX reported.
NTSB member Tom Chapman said investigators had some evidence of a breakup before impact. Weather is a major focus, but the cause remains undetermined.
One person on the ground suffered a leg injury, an NTSB investigator said, according to WFLX.
🌊 SOUTHWEST FLOODS FORCE NEW EVACUATIONS
Another round of flooding forced evacuations across the Southwest on Monday as communities faced a second week of high water, The Associated Press and NPR reported.
New Mexico's San Juan County issued evacuation notices to more than 20,000 people near the Animas, La Plata and San Juan rivers, the Albuquerque Journal reported.
AP reported one person died in the flooding and a second death may have been weather-related. The Journal reported no serious injuries or fatalities in the latest San Juan County flooding.
Red Cross officials estimated hundreds of homes had major damage or were destroyed. Colorado's governor requested a major disaster declaration, according to the state's emergency management agency.
📉 OIL FALLS AS STOCKS FINISH MIXED
U.S. stocks ended mixed Monday as oil prices fell sharply on hopes for talks to reopen the Strait of Hormuz, MarketWatch reported.
The Dow rose 213.67 points to 51,983.98. Meanwhile, the S&P 500 fell 0.51% and the Nasdaq Composite declined 1.07% as concerns about artificial intelligence investment weighed on technology shares.
U.S. crude settled at $96.46 a barrel, down 7.4%, according to MarketWatch. Brent fell 7.63% to $104.77, CNBC reported.
That was a one-day market drop, not a measured decline at gas pumps. The Guardian reported a national gasoline average of about $4.10 a gallon.
WASHINGTON WATCH
TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 3rd, 2026AD
🗳️ Tuesday, Nov. 3: Election Day. The first polls close in parts of Indiana and Kentucky at 5 p.m. Central.
📅 Trump plans to monitor election results from the White House, a White House official told CBS News.
That’s America Tonight.
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