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The 2026 midterms are taking place amid attempts by the White House to use election fraud as a pretext to rewrite election rules. County clerks and voter-rights advocates are seeking ways to safeguard the results.

Democrats have hammered Republican opponents and Donald Trump's administration with midterm ads featuring a man dead for seven years, Jeffrey Epstein. Despite being a part of congressional efforts over the past year to learn more about Epstein's crimes, they are vowing to press on if they score midterm wins next week.

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and rival Gadi Eisenkot offered competing claims to lead Israel after Tuesday's election, with Netanyahu calling for a right-wing government and Eisenkot saying voters had rejected the longtime Israeli leader, even as early counting showed no clear winner.

Canada is facing a carbon tariff threat from the European Union within months as the economic bloc fully implements its Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism.

While millions of U.S. voters have become only more entrenched in their party loyalties in the era of Donald Trump, the large and growing Hispanic community has instead bucked that partisan trend. A willingness to cast ballots across party lines has made the roughly 39 million Hispanic eligible voters a crucial demographic at election time, courted equally by Democrats and Republicans.

Brazilian Senator Flávio Bolsonaro has left the country for the United States after losing Sunday's presidential election, three sources said on Tuesday afternoon, with the U.S. State Department due to grant him and his family entry visas.

Legalization of cannabis in Canada is having unintended and serious consequences an ocean away. Belgian customs seized 21 tonnes of Canadian cannabis in 2025 alone, exceeding illegal exports from every other country in the world.

Neil Young is once again suing over Rockin' in the Free World being played at U.S. President Donald Trump's political rallies, six years after their last go-around about the blistering anthem.

Israelis surged to the polls on Tuesday at a pace that shattered records, to pass wartime judgment on Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in what voters described as the most consequential election in the nation's history.

U.S. and Cuban officials engaged in a stunning shouting match on the floor of the United Nations General Assembly on Tuesday, the latest in a series of public spats between the longtime adversaries over Washington's escalating economic campaign against Havana.