Wednesday, November 4, 2026

The Hourly News

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The Hourly News

Global News, Business, AI & Markets — Hour by Hour

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Rows of server racks in a data centre, with overhead cabling.

CrowdStrike Bets Nearly $500 Million on Securing AI Agents with Fiddler and Dreadnode Deals

The New York Stock Exchange building on Broad Street in New York.

US Stock Futures Fall and Dollar Softens as Midterm Results Point to Democratic Gains

People tending poppy crops in a field in Helmand province, Afghanistan, in 2011.

Afghanistan’s Opium Crop Surges Fivefold as Taliban Ban Weakens, UN Survey Finds

The United States Capitol building in Washington, DC

Democrats Retake the House in Midterm Rebuke of Trump, Projections Show

Official portrait of Keisha Lance Bottoms, Georgia's governor-elect, from 2022.

Keisha Lance Bottoms Wins Georgia Governorship and Makes History as First Black Woman Elected Governor of a US State

Official portrait of Chris Pappas, the Democratic congressman who has won New Hampshire's US Senate seat.

Chris Pappas Wins New Hampshire Senate Seat and Makes History as First Openly Gay Man Elected to the Chamber

Former North Carolina Governor Roy Cooper on board a train between Raleigh and Charlotte in November 2023.

Roy Cooper Flips North Carolina Senate Seat in Key Midterm Pickup for Democrats

AMD chief executive Lisa Su speaking at a conference.

AMD Forecasts Revenue Growth Above 80% in 2027 as Data Centre Sales Nearly Double

Official Senate portrait of US Senator Jon Ossoff.

Ossoff Wins Re-Election in Georgia in First Major Call of US Midterm Night

German Chancellor Friedrich Merz at a summit meeting in Tokyo on 28 October 2026.

Merz Promises More Winter Aid for Ukraine and Warns Russia Over Black Sea Attacks

Jeanne Shaheen