North Korea fired a suspected ballistic missile on Tuesday, according to South Korea’s Joint Chiefs of Staff and Japan’s Coast Guard, ratcheting up tensions just hours ahead of the U.S. election.

At least one missile was launched toward waters off its east coast, Japan’s Coast Guard said. The missile likely already fell, it said. Other ...Read more

An explosive new report details the ways in which the private estates of Prince William and King Charles rake in funds by charging charitable organizations and public agencies for use of the duchies’ land and rights of way,

The controversy centers around the Duchy of Lancaster, established in 1399 and owned by King Charles, and the Duchy of ...Read more

HUEHUETOCA, Mexico — In a forlorn stretch of high desert outside Mexico City, a dozen migrants trudged along beside a set of railroad tracks, hoping to jump on a freight train that would take them closer to the United States. They said they were only vaguely aware of the U.S. presidential election — which was a just few days away — and ...Read more

The National Hurricane Center said Tropical Storm Rafael formed in the Caribbean on Monday, and is forecast to intensify into a hurricane as it heads north toward the Gulf of Mexico.

As of the NHC’s 7 p.m. EST advisory, Rafael was located about 150 miles south of Kingston, Jamaica, and 370 miles southeast of Grand Cayman moving north-...Read more

Highlighting the challenges of dealing with disinformation, a new study published last month by Stanford University researchers suggests that partisan bias often outweighs the truth in influencing how people consume news.

While it may seem unsurprising to those who have been paying close attention, the findings published in the Journal of ...Read more

ATLANTA — Former President Donald Trump’s most devout supporters gathered last week at the inaugural National Faith Summit in Powder Springs to pray for him and for his campaign.

The audience was more diverse than his usual rallies, an indication of the diversity among evangelical Christians that make up a key component of Trump’s base. ...Read more

An Illinois man was arrested after police said he punched an election judge in the face.

Officers responded Nov. 3 at about 11 a.m. to reports of a man “causing a disturbance in the voting line,” at the Orland Park Township Office, according to a Nov. 4 news release from the village of Orland Park.

Police found 24-year-old Daniel Schmidt �...Read more

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — Rapper Jamelle Demons, known professionally as YNW Melly, has filed a federal lawsuit seeking release from jail ahead of his retrial on charges of murdering two close friends in 2018.

The lawsuit alleges that Demons, 25, ” is being illegally detained under conditions that violate the First, Fifth, Sixth, Eight and ...Read more

FLINT, Mich. — Republican vice presidential nominee JD Vance rallied hundreds of supporters in Flint on Monday afternoon, saying the state of Michigan "is going to take out the trash in Washington D.C." in Tuesday's election ― a reference to Vice President Kamala Harris.

“Tomorrow, we’re going to say to Kamala Harris, you are fired. Go...Read more

WASHINGTON — The head of the nation’s cyberdefense agency said Monday there is no way a technical hack could change the final outcome of the presidential race, but Americans are facing a “fire hose” of disinformation leading into Election Day.

Jen Easterly, director of the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, said there’s...Read more

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Election Day is Tuesday, and the California Highway Patrol is standing by in case this year sees a recurrence of the violent political protests of 2020.

Days after Joe Biden won the U.S. presidential election in 2020, supporters of then-President Donald Trump clashed with counter-protesters at the California Capitol. That...Read more

The Kentucky Board of Elections says it has received no complaints of pre-marked election ballots despite an image widely circulated on social media by right-wing accounts.

The image, posted Sunday by the influential X account Libs of TikTok, claimed to show a ballot marked with a small dot allegedly representing a vote for Democratic ...Read more

Cuba is bracing for yet another storm, just days after Hurricane Oscar wrought havoc in the eastern province of Guantanamo and the country’s entire grid collapsed last month.

Civil defense authorities issued an alert Sunday for central and western Cuba as tropical storm Rafael is expected to strengthen and cross western Cuba as a Category 1 ...Read more

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — Parkland mass shooting survivor Anthony Borges has agreed to share the rights to the name of the man who tried to kill him, ending a legal standoff with other families shattered by the 2018 tragedy at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School.

Borges, 21, announced through his lawyer earlier this year that he had secured ...Read more

The Justice Department will monitor elections in 86 jurisdictions nationwide on Tuesday, nearly doubling the number of areas this presidential election cycle and adding locations in key swing states set to decide the race.

Department officials have regularly been utilized to monitor compliance with federal voting rights laws on Election Day, ...Read more

NEW YORK — A Manhattan jury hearing the manslaughter case against Daniel Penny Monday saw footage of the fateful encounter with Jordan Neely in which — as Penny has his arm tightly gripped around Neely’s neck— an onlooker shouts at him to stop:

“He’s dying. You gotta let go!” the onlooker is heard saying.

The footage, captured by...Read more

WASHINGTON — As this election cycle finally draws to a close, all eyes inside the Beltway will undoubtedly be glued to their phones watching “the most important battleground seat,” as Paul Strauss put it: the District of Columbia’s shadow senator.

Strauss was joking, even though he takes his (unpaid) job as one of Washington’s two ...Read more

TAMPA, Fla. — In Tampa Bay, Election Day is arriving less than four weeks after Hurricane Milton, the second storm of a historic one-two punch, leaving uncertainty about the natural disasters’ impact on voting.

But local officials have made accommodations, and many are hopeful the storms will not cause an enormous effect.

Historically, ...Read more