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.

...Read more

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

LOS ANGELES — The FBI on Tuesday morning raided a mansion in Beverly Hills in connection with an investigation into former Rep. Eric Swalwell, sources told the Los Angeles Times.

Swalwell, a Democrat from Dublin, dropped out of the California governor's race and resigned from Congress in April after being accused of sexually assaulting a ...Read more

ORLANDO, Fla. — Just before a sentence was handed down Tuesday to Jaylen Edgar, the teen gunman responsible for killing two people and injuring seven others in a mass shooting on Halloween night 2024 in downtown Orlando, Circuit Judge Keith Carsten addressed him bluntly.

“Nearly two years ago today, you terrorized this city,” Carsten said...Read more

MINNEAPOLIS — Minnesota Republicans are outspending Democrats for the first time in recent memory as they try to wrest control of state offices from the DFL and defy national headwinds in next week’s midterm elections.

Four years ago, Democrats spent more than double what Republicans did and won every statewide office and majorities in the ...Read more

BRASILIA, Brazil — The Trump administration plans to issue visas to defeated Brazilian presidential candidate Flávio Bolsonaro, a senior State Department announced, confirming multiple reports that the senator fled his country following his loss.

Bolsonaro is en route to the U.S. and is likely to land in either Dallas or Miami, Folha de S....Read more

WASHINGTON — Electricity prices have gained political salience as U.S. households feel the financial strain ahead of next month’s midterms. Senate authors of the landmark permitting overhaul bill argue it would lower costs through quicker approvals for new transmission lines to get more clean power flowing to homes and businesses more ...Read more

WASHINGTON — The U.S. Supreme Court left in force what opponents call a “collusive” settlement struck by President Donald Trump’s administration and Texas to cut off an avenue for pausing some deportations.

The justices on Tuesday turned away an emergency request from three cities and a legal services provider, which argued the accord ...Read more

BRASILIA, Brazil — The Trump administration plans to issue visas to defeated Brazilian presidential candidate Flávio Bolsonaro, according to a senior State Department official, confirming multiple reports that the senator fled his country following his loss.

The visas will allow Bolsonaro and his family to enter the U.S., the official said ...Read more

Northwestern Medicine has consolidated its robust transplant program into a new Transplant Institute, with a focus on tech and innovation.

Spearheaded by transplant surgeon Dr. Satish Nadig, the announcement of the Northwestern Medicine Transplant Institute comes just a month after the hospital’s 3,000th liver transplant, according to a ...Read more

TEL AVIV, Israel — Israeli opposition leader Gadi Eisenkot edged slightly ahead of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in a fiercely contested first election since the October 2023 attacks, setting up a tense period of negotiations on who will form the next government.

Eisenkot’s bloc is on track to secure 52 of Israel’s 120 parliamentary ...Read more

NEW YORK — Following two deaths involving cyclists in NYC’s Central Park this fall, advocates are demanding safety improvements on the iconic park loop — especially given the fact that safety concerns sparked the City Council’s recent decision to ban horse carriages.

NYC E-Vehicle Safety Alliance — a nonprofit advocating for licensing...Read more

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Marchers plan to take to Woodland streets Tuesday to protest the presence of federal immigration agents in the Northern California city where, one week earlier, an agent appeared to strike an observer with his vehicle as local authorities continue their probe into the collision.

Demonstrators will first gather 4 p.m. at ...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 and other federal charges related to raping women for more than a decade.

Dozens of women came forward in lawsuits and to law enforcement with rape allegations over ...Read more