BOISE, Idaho — A federal judge said Tuesday that he would issue a stay of execution for Idaho death row prisoner Thomas Creech, who was scheduled to be put to death next week after a failed attempt to do so earlier this year.

U.S. District Judge G. Murray Snow, a senior judge from the District of Arizona, said at an afternoon hearing that it ...Read more

ORLANDO, Fla. — The National Hurricane Center forecasts Tropical Storm Rafael to grow into the season’s 11th hurricane Tuesday as it moves toward Cuba with winds and storm surge expected to affect the Florida Keys this week.

As of the NHC’s 4 p.m. Eastern time advisory, Rafael was located about 105 miles east of Grand Cayman and 120 miles...Read more

WASHINGTON — Blanca de Leon won’t be closing up shop or boarding up the windows of her beauty parlor on Pennsylvania Avenue Southeast because of fears about the election, even as other businesses around the city brace for the worst.

That doesn’t mean de Leon, who owns Capitol Hair Salon a block away from the Capitol, isn’t nervous.

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NEW YORK — Mayor Eric Adams — who has seemed reticent in recent days to use Vice President Kamala Harris’ name — did so just before voting in Tuesday’s high-stakes election for the White House.

“Same person I endorsed: VP Harris,” Adams told reporters when asked who he was voting for as he walked into Brooklyn’s PS 81 to cast ...Read more

PHOENIX — Vice President Kamala Harris thinks she can win the election on an abortion rights message. Former President Trump thinks he can win on immigration.

In Arizona, they’ll find out who was right.

None of the seven swing states puts the two campaigns’ top issues in such stark relief. Arizona is the only border state among the ...Read more

CHICAGO — Two men were fatally shot Tuesday afternoon at Navy Pier by a gunman who authorities believe was a recently terminated worker.

Speaking with reporters at the pier, Chicago police Chief of Patrol John Hein stressed that authorities did not believe the suspect posed a danger to the public, though the shooter remained at large, as of 4...Read more

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — Donald Trump returned to Palm Beach County on Tuesday, where he voted, told his staff the campaign was on the verge of victory, and returned to Mar-a-Lago to wait for results that may show if he’ll win another term as president.

“I feel very confident,” he said after voting in Palm Beach.

The former president, ...Read more

WASHINGTON — Capitol Police arrested a man Tuesday afternoon who was stopped during a screening at the Capitol Visitor Center because he smelled like fuel and had a torch lighter and a flare gun, the department announced.

A 28-year-old Michigan man, whom police have not named, approached a screening area and placed a backpack and coat on the ...Read more

NEW YORK — For Donald Trump, the outcome of Tuesday’s election is about more than winning the White House — it’s also about the future of criminal cases that put him at risk of spending time behind bars.

The stakes could hardly be higher. If Trump wins, he could wield the vast powers of the U.S. presidency to shield him from ongoing ...Read more

Queen Camilla, the wife of Britain’s King Charles III, will be sitting out a number of scheduled events so that she can recover from a recent illness.

In a statement on Tuesday, Buckingham Palace said the queen “is currently unwell with a chest infection,” but did not provide further details about her condition.

As a result, “her ...Read more

ATLANTA — Rudy Giuliani arrived at a polling station in Florida on Tuesday apparently driving the Mercedes-Benz he’s been ordered to turn over to two Fulton County poll workers.

The former New York City mayor was found liable late last year of defaming Ruby Freeman and Shaye Moss, who he falsely accused of voting fraud after the 2020 ...Read more

As red-flag fire conditions bore down on the San Francisco Bay Area and Northern California, a planned shutdown of electricity by PG&E was set Tuesday afternoon to affect more than 22,000 customers, as well as five polling locations during late voting Tuesday, the utility said.

One voting location in the East Bay was closed at midday Tuesday ...Read more

A 24-year-old man with ties to white supremacist movements was arrested after allegedly plotting to use an explosive drone to attack a Nashville power plant, the Justice Department said.

Skyler Philippi, of Columbia, Tenn., allegedly sought to “shock the system” by attacking the power grid. He conducted extensive research into such an ...Read more

Most of Georgia has gone more than a month without any significant rain. Now, a tropical storm brewing in the Caribbean appears set to finally bring moisture to the state, and the National Weather Service is warning the system’s heavy rains could overwhelm the area’s parched soils and lead to flooding.

The forecast rain is associated with ...Read more

CHICAGO — Two people were shot, one critically, Tuesday afternoon at Navy Pier.

Chicago Fire Department crews responded to Navy Pier around 1:30 p.m. and quickly transported two people to Northwestern Memorial Hospital, according to fire spokesperson Larry Langford. One victim was reported to be in critical condition, according to Langford, ...Read more

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Officer Tara O’Sullivan, the centerpiece of her family, the best friend to nearly a dozen, the paragon of a hero to hundreds, in the end died alone.

Adel Ramos hunkered in a so-called what Deputy District Attorney Jeff Higher called a “murder hole” inside his North Sacramento home when he shot in the back of her ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — A Canadian citizen pleaded guilty to voting illegally in 2016 in Orange County, District Attorney Todd Spitzer said in a release Monday.

Robert Soutar, 76, of Fullerton, is a legal permanent resident of the United States, but because he is not a citizen, he is ineligible to vote. Despite that, he was able to register to vote in ...Read more

Election nights are always simultaneous moments of triumph and tragedy. One group of voters’ dreams are dashed, while another set of voters see their hopes realized.

Every election is also unique. The United States has had some critical presidential elections that reshaped the way Americans think about politics. This Election Day, ...Read more

CHICAGO — The former ComEd vice president who secretly recorded his colleagues as part of a federal corruption probe began testifying against ex-House Speaker Michael Madigan on Tuesday, the first of what is expected to be multiple days on the stand.

One of the prosecution’s star witnesses, Fidel Marquez’s cooperation with federal ...Read more