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

ANCHORAGE, Alaska — Alaska's election officials might have fought to keep a namesake challenger to U.S. Sen. Dan S. Sullivan off the ballot over the summer, but now the state has moved to stop a Trump administration effort to block the results of the Senate race over the same controversy.

On Monday, the state of Alaska filed a motion to ...Read more

SAN LUIS OBISPO, Calif. — Three California children are in serious condition after contracting E. coli — and health officials are investigating a farm as a potential source.

On Tuesday, the San Luis Obispo County Department of Public Health reported five total confirmed cases of E. coli throughout the county, potentially linked to ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — Imprisoned "That '70s Show" actor Danny Masterson on Tuesday suffered a legal blow that ensures he will remain behind bars for at least another decade.

Three California appeals court judges rejected Masterson's efforts to overturn his 2023 rape convictions and allegations that he did not receive a fair trial, deciding in an ...Read more

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — Broward Supervisor of Elections Joe Scott said Tuesday some county residents are experiencing unusually long delays by the Postal Service getting vote-by-mail ballots returned to his office — and could risk missing the deadline for their votes to count.

Scott said mail voters should check their ballot status online ...Read more

FORT WORTH, Texas — A political advertisement paid for by a Republican political action committee claims that three Tarrant County Democratic candidates are endorsed by a terrorist organization.

The PAC, Texans United for a Conservative Majority, is funded by West Texas oil moguls Tim Dunn and Farris Wilks. Much of the PAC’s money has been ...Read more

WASHINGTON — Democrats believe they can flip the Senate and control 51 votes or more, and their confidence has only grown in the final week before the midterms. But senators in both parties are privately bracing for another possible scenario: a 50-50 split that would give the upper hand to Republicans while causing headaches for everyone.

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Since Brazil’s runoff elections, most attention has been focused on President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva’s surprise upset.

The first round of voting gave a narrow lead to challenger Flávio Bolsonaro – son of former President Jair Bolsonaro, who is now serving a 27-year sentence for efforts to overturn the 2022 election. In a ...Read more

Grayson Lambert, South Carolina Gov. Henry McMaster’s top attorney, is going to be nominated by President Donald Trump to a prestigious lifetime federal judge’s post, various news organizations are reporting.

Lambert, 39, was born in Columbia, graduated from the University of Virginia in 2009, and then graduated magna cum laude from Duke ...Read more