Tuesday, November 3, 2026

Good Morning! On this day in 1900, the first modern auto show took place at Madison Square Garden, drawing 10,000 attendees and over 65 exhibitors, though only 31 vehicles were displayed. (See Photos)

Election Day is finally here, and polls open this morning for those who still prefer to vote in person in this pivotal midterm election. Let us know in today's Poll below whether you voted weeks ago or plan to slip into a voting booth on the way home.

How's your blood pressure? A blood pressure check is so routine that most of us never stop to wonder whether the number is actually right. The squeeze of the cuff, the beep of the machine, and a number in your chart before you’ve rolled your sleeve back down. The American Heart Association says seven everyday mistakes can quietly inflate a reading, and when 30 health care professionals were tested on how to take one properly, only three passed. Ayla counts down the seven mistakes that throw off your blood pressure reading on today’s episode of The Flyover Podcast. Tune in here!

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Election Day Opens With 56M Early Votes

Americans head to the polls today to decide control of Congress, with more than 56 million ballots already cast early, about 24 million of them by mail.

That is a midterm record, topping the 45.9 million early votes cast before Election Day in 2022. Much of the jump came from in-person early voting.

In the battle for control of the Senate, analysts are watching for results tonight in six toss-up races, all currently held by Republicans. They include Maine, where Republican Sen. Susan Collins faces Democrat Troy Jackson, and Texas, where Republican Ken Paxton faces Democrat James Talarico, as well as Senate races in Alaska, Ohio, Iowa, and Kansas.

The Senate race in Michigan, where Republican Mike Rogers faces Democrat Abdul El-Sayed for an open Democrat-held seat, is seen as the GOP’s best chance to pick up a Democrat's seat. Democrats need a net gain of four seats to flip the Senate.

Trump Floats Pardons for Musk, Staff

President Trump said he would issue preemptive pardons to Elon Musk and members of his administration if Democrats win Congress today and follow through on threats to investigate them.

“I would if I needed to. Sure,” Trump said in a podcast interview published Monday. “I did it for J6.” As a precedent, he pointed to President Biden’s final-day pardons of Anthony Fauci, Gen. Mark Milley, the Jan. 6 committee, and Biden’s own family.

Democrats have signaled they would probe Musk’s run at DOGE, his companies’ federal contracts, and Ukraine’s Starlink access. Musk has spent some $474 million backing Republicans this cycle. Asked about talk of arresting him, Trump said, “It’s talk. But if it is talk, we’ll have to protect them.”

Pardons cover only federal crimes, leaving state prosecutions, civil suits, and impeachment untouched.

LIST: Best Places to Retire in 2027

Midland, Michigan, is the best place to retire in the country for a second straight year, according to U.S. News & World Report's 2027 rankings.

The city of about 42,800 people has a median home value of $206,176, far below the $359,870 national average, and average rent of $790 a month. Homes there sell in a median of 42 days.

Communities from eight states made the top 10, with Texas and Florida each landing twice. Among the top 10, Altoona, Pennsylvania, has the cheapest housing at $115,035, and The Woodlands, Texas, the priciest at $472,814.

U.S. News put more weight on affordability and retiree taxes this year, after surveying Americans 45 and older about what matters most. See the full rankings here.

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➤ Blood pressure readings can be inflated by seven everyday mistakes, and one can add nearly 20 points. (See Mistakes)

➤ As food prices continue to outpace the Fed’s target, planners say one weekly habit could shrink your grocery bill. (Hear Tip)

➤ Prosecutors are pushing to retry Lindsay Clancy for her three children’s deaths after a deadlocked jury forced a mistrial. (Listen Now)

➤ The Trump administration asked the Supreme Court on Monday to require California to set aside roughly 20,000 mail ballots cast by people the government says are likely noncitizens. Lower courts so far have refused. (More)

➤ Some House Democrats are pushing to expel Rep. Haley Stevens of Michigan from their caucus after she endorsed Republican Mike Rogers in her state’s Senate race. She has already been dropped from Democratic text-message chains. (More)

➤ A federal judge threw out the Justice Department’s case against two former FBI officials accused of lying to Congress about Hunter Biden’s laptop, criticizing prosecutors for their "weaponization" of the legal system. (More)

➤ President Trump spent the final day of the midterm campaign at the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool, reopening the renovated landmark and touting Washington construction projects before calling the elections "the most important midterm, I believe, in our lifetime.” (More)

➤ The College Football Playoff selection committee unveils its first rankings of the season tonight on ESPN. New this year, the top three seeds in the 12-team field get to choose their bowl path. (See Details)

➤ Florida State fired football coach Mike Norvell and will pay a nearly $50 million buyout that ranks among the largest in college football history. The Seminoles are 10-22 since the start of 2024. (More)

➤ Baltimore Ravens quarterback Lamar Jackson will have surgery on his right thumb and may miss the rest of the season. (More)

➤ Former MLB pitchers Emmanuel Clase and Luis Ortiz went on trial this week on charges they took bribes to rig individual pitches for gamblers who won at least $460,000. (More)

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Daily Market Report 11/02/2026

▼	NASDAQ National Association of Securities Dealers Automated Quotations	25,164.32	-1.07%
▼	SPX S&P 500	7,541.40	-0.51%
▲	DJI Dow Jones Industrial Average	51,983.98	0.41%
▼	BTC Bitcoin	$76,758.88	-1.90%
▲	GOLD Per Ounce	$3,956.10	1.47%
▲	SILVER Per Ounce	$50.61	3.08%
▼	OIL West Texas Intermediate Crude	$96.06	-7.74%
▼	10Y 10-Year US Treasury Yield	4.89%	-0.79%
▲	IDXX Idexx Laboratories	$671.64	+21.85%

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➤ Binance customers pulled more than $4.6 billion from the cryptocurrency exchange after a $6.3 billion theft that security experts call the largest ever. Binance says it has covered most of the losses. (More)

➤ Anthropic disclosed about $895 billion in computing and data center commitments in an amended IPO filing, nearly seven times its cash and short-term investments. (More)

➤ McDonald’s must face a proposed class action claiming the McRib misleads buyers because it contains no actual rib meat, a federal judge in Chicago ruled last week. The company denies the allegations. (More)

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➤ Four NASA volunteers walked out of a 1,700-square-foot 3D-printed habitat in Houston on Saturday after 378 days of pretending to live on Mars, complete with simulated soil for growing crops and built-in delays on every message to mission control. (See Details)

➤ Hackers switched dozens of supermarket freezers across seven European countries to defrost mode overnight, warming some to 122 degrees and spoiling millions of dollars' worth of food. One Belgian store lost $115,000 worth of produce, and U.S. officials are investigating links to fridge failures at American military bases. (See Details)

➤ Sitting or standing makes no real difference in how well healthy men empty their bladder, a new randomized trial of 52 volunteers found. The caveat: the men were 18 to 39, so the finding may not hold for older men with prostate trouble. (See Study)

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➤ The “forever cruise” is now controlled by its lender. Residents of the Villa Vie Odyssey, stuck in Cambodia for days, had one weekend to clear out their cabins before the ship sails for Singapore and a possible auction. One man paid $350,000 for a cabin he used for 26 days. (See Details)

➤ Five U.S. destinations made National Geographic’s list of best places to visit in 2027: Madison, Wisconsin; Baltimore; the southern Ozarks; and California’s Pacific Coast Highway and Catalina Island. (See List)

➤ Don’t buy a round in Germany. Locals pay for exactly what they ordered, even among close friends, and one Berlin bartender says people “will be counting” who covered what. The exception: Bavaria’s beer gardens and festivals, where rounds are expected. (See Why)

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➤ An Englishman walked home Monday after 28 years and 30,000 miles, having set out from Chile in 1998 with two rules: no machines and no trips home, even for funerals. Karl Bushby, now 57, finished with a hug from his mother in Hull. (See Story)

➤ Julia Child’s longtime Cambridge, Massachusetts, home sold for $6.52 million, $50,000 over asking, though her famous kitchen isn’t part of the deal. It was donated to the Smithsonian, where it’s still on display. Fans used to leave sticks of butter on the picket fence. (See Home)

➤ Some people really do thrive on four or five hours of sleep thanks to a rare gene mutation, and scientists are finally figuring out why. The catch is that most of us who think we’re one of them are wrong, and one study shows exactly how wrong. (See Why)

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Daily Quote

“So we all need to breathe a little bit, get through the tough times; we’re going to be just fine. My bet is on us, no matter what. My bet is on humanity.”

— Karl Bushby, after arriving home in Hull, England, on Monday, 28 years and 30,000 miles after setting out on foot from Chile