In the heated news coverage of what’s at stake in the 2026 midterms, state supreme court races are drawing relatively little attention. Yet these are highly significant elections.

Thirty-one states are holding supreme court elections in 2026, with voters nationwide picking judges to fill more than 60 open seats.

As a law ...Read more

A federal judge has temporarily blocked a Trump administration regulation used to impose massive immigration fines, granting relief in a lawsuit brought by two women, including a South Florida resident, who were hit with a $1.82 million penalty while pursuing a path to permanent residency.

U.S. District Judge George A. O’Toole Jr. in ...Read more

KANSAS CITY, Mo. — After a dizzying legal battle that drew national attention, Missouri’s map fight is now headed to the ballot box.

Missouri voters will decide Nov. 3 whether to approve or strike down a gerrymandered congressional map lawmakers passed last year. The measure, called Proposition A, will mark the culmination of a fight that ...Read more

Brazil presidential candidate Flávio Bolsonaro won the backing of two center-right parties on Wednesday, a day after a veteran lawmaker endorsed him, bolstering his campaign ahead of a tight runoff.

The União Brasil party and the Progressistas, known as PP, endorsed the right-wing hopeful, Senator Tereza Cristina Dias told reporters in ...Read more

A pair of undocumented immigrants with criminal histories wanted for stabbing an off-duty NYPD cop during a botched chain snatch robbery in the Bronx have been arrested, police said Wednesday.

D’Angelo Carabello, 25, and Sneider Mejia, 24, were nabbed overnight in Lynn, Mass., by NYPD detectives assigned to the U.S. Marshals Regional Fugitive...Read more

BOSTON — Two illegal immigrants accused of stabbing and robbing an off-duty New York Police detective sought refuge in the basement of a Lynn home, where authorities arrested them overnight Tuesday.

The New York Police Department announced Wednesday morning that detectives assigned to the U.S. Marshals Regional Fugitive Task Force apprehended...Read more

ORLANDO, Fla. — Tropical Storm Isaias formed Wednesday morning with the National Hurricane Center forecasting it to intensify close to a Category 3 storm before bearing down on the Gulf coast and threatening Florida.

As of the NHC’s 11 a.m. advisory, the center of Isaias was located about 260 miles west-northwest of Progreso, Mexico and 540...Read more

LOS ANGELES — If you’ve noticed your water bills are getting a lot more expensive, you’re not alone.

In a new nationwide survey of 500 large drinking water utilities, researchers found that average water bills have gone up 1.6 times faster than inflation, and Californians are paying some of the highest bills.

The report by Food & Water ...Read more

The International Space Station got a little less crowded Wednesday as the four members of Crew-12 climbed aboard the SpaceX Crew Dragon Freedom, undocked and headed back to Earth.

NASA astronauts Jessica Meir and Jack Hathaway along with European Space Agency astronaut Sophie Adenot and Roscosmos cosmonaut Andrey Fedyaev had been on board the ...Read more

In the history of voter suppression in the United States, including attempts to stop Black and Latino people from voting, Republican tactics in the 1981 New Jersey gubernatorial race stand out.

That November, voters in several cities saw posters at polling places printed in bright red letters: “WARNING. This area is being patrolled ...Read more

Russia’s military spending is on track to hit a record this year after Vladimir Putin added almost $60 billion to the outlays set out in the budget.

The Russian president ordered the dramatic shift for the war in Ukraine late last year after concluding that talks with the U.S. in Alaska were not going to lead to an acceptable deal to end the ...Read more

WASHINGTON — A White House bid to address sky high fuel prices by allowing temporary expanded use of untaxed diesel will have a limited impact on businesses and consumers feeling the pain at the pump, experts say.

President Donald Trump signed an executive order while at a Nebraska campaign event on Monday allowing the sale of red-dyed diesel...Read more

For weeks, a Kenyan man infected with Ebola kept moving, undetected.

He traveled through several cities in Democratic Republic of Congo, made the roughly nine-hour road journey from Beni to Uganda’s capital of Kampala, spending a night there. On Oct. 3, he boarded Jambojet flight 8523 from nearby Entebbe to Nairobi. By the time he reached a ...Read more

For years, the psychoactive compound kratom has been sold across much of the United States as an herbal supplement, available in powders, capsules and extracts with few of the restrictions applied to controlled substances.

But the market is changing. Products containing a potentially dangerous kratom derivative known as concentrated 7-...Read more

A federal judge in Miami has struck down a decades-old federal law barring people who are not U.S. citizens from voting in federal elections, ruling that Congress overstepped its constitutional authority by imposing a voter qualification that belongs to the states.

The decision comes as the Trump administration has made non-citizen voting a ...Read more