Flood watches cover much of the US Southwest through Monday after Halloween-night rescues in Arizona and Nevada, including a death in Henderson, with up to 4 inches more rain forecast on saturated ground.
A first outside analysis of the Justice Department’s 20,930-name California list found 8,880 names — 42% — match no one on the state’s voter file, and at least 22 US citizens on it.
A Miami federal judge has permanently dismissed Donald Trump’s defamation lawsuit against The Wall Street Journal, ruling he failed to show actual malice.
A federal judge barred the Justice Department from threatening election workers with prosecution days before the US midterms, finding the campaign likely unlawful.
Pope Leo XIV has become the first sitting pope known to vote in a US election, submitting a mail-in ballot in Chicago for the 2026 Illinois midterms, the Vatican confirmed on Friday.
A federal judge has opened an ethics inquiry into Justice Department lawyers over Trump’s East Potomac golf course plans, after contradictory statements in court.
Donald Trump has reversed his decision to cancel his Kansas and Iowa midterm rallies, restoring both as back-to-back in-person events on Sunday, a White House official said.
Fired Pentagon general Brett Sylvia admitted leaking classified information about Iran and Ukraine to journalists over about a year, after failing four polygraph tests, an internal report obtained by Axios says.
More than 43 million Americans had voted early by October 29, with Texas alone passing 5.8 million ballots as in-person early voting ended on October 30 ahead of Election Day on November 3.
Donald Trump has cancelled weekend rallies in Kansas and Iowa days before the November 3 midterms, with the Republican National Committee replacing them with tele-rallies in at least 19 states.