Flávio Bolsonaro entered and left Argentina Tuesday evening, Argentine migration authorities said, countering media reports that he’d already reached the U.S. and deepening questions about the whereabouts of the defeated Brazilian presidential candidate.

Bolsonaro and his family entered Argentina through the border of the Brazilian city of ...Read more

A high-speed rail service slammed into another train about 60 miles south of Madrid on Wednesday, killing at least 30 people in the second major accident on Spain’s rail network this year.

Fifty more people are seriously injured, while 30 others have minor injuries, said Emiliano García Page, president of Castilla-La Mancha region, where the...Read more

President Donald Trump said a meeting would soon be arranged involving Russian President Vladimir Putin and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy in an effort to end the war between their countries, now in its fifth year.

“I think with Russia, we’re making a lot of progress with Russia-Ukraine,” Trump told reporters early Wednesday ...Read more

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu spent much of election day warning his base that Arab citizens were voting in record numbers. He was right.

Results on Wednesday showed the two Israeli Arab parties are likely to have significantly increased their number of seats in parliament to about 17, well ahead of forecasts, after party leaders ...Read more

PITTSBURGH — Before Hempfield teens take their seats each class period, they tuck their cellphones into a calculator caddy hanging on the wall, keeping their hands device-free throughout the lesson.

The system, first enforced this school year at the Westmoreland County district’s middle and high schools, permits students to use devices in ...Read more

President Donald Trump’s approval ratings are cratering. Even his Make America Great Again, or MAGA, diehards have reservations.

This fact was evident to me when I attended MAGA rallies in three states on Oct. 24-25, 2026. One was a Turning Point USA get-out-the-vote event outside Harrisburg, Pennsylvania.

Along with a few ...Read more

Inflation is causing real economic pain. Worries about healthcare costs have jumped sharply. And 7 in 10 Americans believe the country is in decline.

That is the landscape for the 2026 midterm election, according to a new survey from the American Communities Project at Michigan State University, which I direct.

The findings, ...Read more

My grandmother was a Holocaust survivor from Kostopol, Ukraine. Years after she passed away, I was trying to learn more about her life before the war – something I knew very little about. When I found a book called “Sefer Kostopol” – Hebrew for “Book of Kostopol” – I hoped to find her among its pages.

It was a memorial ...Read more

WILLMAR, Minn. — Julie Henslin had never considered running for office. Age 67 seemed an odd time to try.

But Henslin, who works at her family’s small manufacturing businesses in this city two hours west of Minneapolis, couldn’t shake what she saw this winter, when federal agents swarmed into the meatpacking town.

Headlines from ...Read more

A member of a prominent family in city emergency services in Illinois has been decertified as a police officer.

Last month, the Illinois Law Enforcement Training and Standards Board adopted the recommendations of an administrative law judge and a certification review panel by decertifying Jerame Simmons Jr.

Judge Sarah Carlson concluded that ...Read more

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and opposition leader Gadi Eisenkot are neck and neck in the first election since the 2023 Hamas attacks, setting up a tense period of negotiations over who will form the next government.

Netanyahu’s religious right-wing alliance and Eisenkot’s bloc are both on track to secure 51 of Israel’s 120 ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — A federal judge on Tuesday seemed skeptical of a Trump administration request to immediately block California officials from counting about 20,000 ballots from voters whose citizenship the administration questions, but said he would not issue a ruling until Wednesday.

U.S. District Judge David O. Carter questioned how the ...Read more

Federal investigators searched the Beverly Hills home of timeshare magnate Stephen Cloobeck on Tuesday. It's in connection with an ongoing investigation into former Democratic Rep. Eric Swalwell, who resigned from office in April and dropped out of the governor’s race after five women accused him of sexual misconduct.

Cloobeck did not respond...Read more

The United Nations General Assembly debate on the U.S. embargo against Cuba descended into a shouting match on Tuesday, as U.S. Ambassador Mike Waltz faced repeated interruptions from the Cuban delegation and the presiding officer briefly suspended the meeting while Cuban diplomats gathered near the podium.

“This individual needs to back away...Read more

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — A group looking to make inroads with Latino voters in the November election has ties to a conservative firebrand’s effort to counteract Democratic dominance across the state.

The California Latino Voter Alliance, which is backed by Republican lawmakers, mailed guides to Californians in recent weeks pitching them in ...Read more

The NYPD is backing away from a $750,000 no-bid contract with a company accused of treading on people’s civil rights for a new technology that can quickly pinpoint a suspect’s cellphone after Mayor Mamdani faced heat over the city using tech from the controversial firm, the Daily News has learned.

The department confirmed it is restarting ...Read more

In a packed federal courtroom in Lower Manhattan on Tuesday, the three Alexander brothers, donning tan jail uniforms, were each sentenced to 30 years in prison for sex trafficking women and committing other federal sex crimes for more than a decade.

Dozens of women have come forward in lawsuits and to law enforcement since early 2024 with rape ...Read more

PHILADELPHIA — Teachers, coaches, and school administrators who suspect hazing will now be required to report it to law enforcement, under a new law spurred by locker-room assaults on a Cheltenham football player last fall.

The new requirement, which takes effect Jan. 20, closes what lawmakers described as a loophole in Pennsylvania’s ...Read more

The United Nations nuclear watchdog said it hasn’t detected any efforts by Iran to rebuild nuclear facilities damaged in U.S. and Israeli strikes over the past two years, even as Tehran continues to block inspectors’ access to most of its atomic sites.

“Since June 2025, we have not identified any activity to repair or reconstruct any of ...Read more

SAN DIEGO — The San Diego City Council, on a 9-0 vote Tuesday, passed an urgency ordinance that places a moratorium on the development of new data centers within the city.

Coming days after an executive order from Mayor Todd Gloria, the moratorium is designed to give officials time to develop policies and recommendations to make sure that ...Read more