ABC News
Elections 2026Americas / ABC News
A judge has complicated President Donald Trumps efforts to plow forward on construction of a memorial arch, setting multiple notification deadlines before any work can begin
A federal judge has dismissed a lawsuit against Harvard University over its alleged failure to provide admissions records that the Justice Department demanded to ensure the Ivy League school stopped using affirmative action in admissions
Indianas governor turned down a clemency request and says an execution planned for Thursday will go forward against a man who killed his girlfriends two children in 2010
A chaotic climate phenomenon called El Nio is intensifying heavy rains and floods in the Southwest
Eleven years after the Aliso Canyon gas blowout in the Los Angeles area, millions of dollars are becoming available to those affected
Another round of heavy rains and flash flooding has triggered evacuations along rivers in parts of Colorado, Utah, New Mexico and Arizona
Karl Bushby completes 28-year, 31,000-mile walk around world and returns to mothers house
An amateur historian says hes found evidence that the namesake of New York's popular Jones Beach played a key role in an infamous pirate heist in the Red Sea centuries ago
An Idaho appeals court is scheduled to hear Lori Vallow Daybells appeal of her convictions in Idaho for killing her two youngest children and conspiring to murder a romantic rival
Michigan Democrat Abdul El-Sayeds former opponent in the U.S. Senate primary, Haley Stevens, has stunned party officials by endorsing Republican Mike Rogers
The U.N.'s peacekeeping mission in Western Sahara has ended after 35 years due to a U.S.-Russia standoff
Mass shootings over the Halloween weekend across the U.S. left at least six people dead and dozens injured
The Justice Department is urging a federal judge to consider whether to hold an immigrant rights group in contempt of court for disclosing the results of its analysis of a dataset of alleged noncitizens registered to vote in California
President Donald Trump is wrapping up a turbulent midterm campaign with rallies in Iowa and Kansas
Lamar Jackson needs surgery on his injured thumb and it could be season-ending, Ravens coach Jesse Minter says
Mercedes driver Kimi Antonelli becomes youngest F1 champion at age 20
The San Juan River is forecast to crest at more than 19 feet around 11:00 p.m.
Andreas Almgren of Sweden finishes first in his marathon debut, taking the New York City Marathon
The legal challenges to President Donald Trumps proposed memorial arch are mounting
The National Weather Service says heavy rains are expected to bring a threat of flash flooding to already saturated areas of the U.S. Southwest
The Trump administration plans to deport Afghans detained in the U.S. back to Afghanistan via Pakistan
President Donald Trump is taking time off from the in-person campaign trail for virtual rallies
A federal judge has dismissed President Donald Trumps multibillion-dollar lawsuit against The Wall Street Journal and media mogul Rupert Murdoch over a story reporting on his ties to wealthy financier Jeffrey Epstein
The U.S. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives and local agencies are investigating a fire at a beleaguered police department in Mississippi
Irans strikes on more than two dozen U.S. bases in the Middle East focused on early warning systems before hitting aircraft and buildings
Secretary of State Marco Rubio is planning to host his foreign minister counterparts at a quintessential American sporting event
The Trump administration has approved a proposed $2.1 billion sale of Patriot air defense interceptors for Ukraine
A U.N. rights investigator reports that Myanmar's military-backed government is attacking civilians to instill fear and force submission
Rep. Trey Lamar has sparked a debate in Mississippi about whether the state needs 23 public colleges and universities
Former FBI Director James Comey's lawyers will ask a federal judge to block the Justice Department from pursuing its third criminal case against the outspoken critic of President Donald Trump and frequent target of the Republicans outrage
The roof of a water tower atop a building in Manhattans Upper West Side that was home to a family of celebrity barn owls has been removed
A former Massachusetts police detective is being tried on charges that he killed a pregnant woman to hide that he had begun sexually abusing her when she was 15
Five Spanish missionaries are being elevated one step away from sainthood nearly 430 years after they were killed in present-day Georgia
Asian trading is mixed as worries about the future of artificial intelligence grow after Alphabets stock drop dragged on U.S. markets
The nations major political parties are at a crossroads
Authorities say two helicopters collided near a small airport southwest of Portland, Oregon
Polymarket temporarily halted trading on its international platform Thursday due to a security incident involving a third-party provider
Relatives whose loved ones were killed in the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting are urging the U.S. Supreme Court to uphold bans on certain semiautomatic rifles
A woman has been shot just outside the Republican Party of Virginia's offices in Richmond
After a brief bidding war, the manuscript map that helped divide the United States into North and South, free and slave states, sold for $950,000
A federal judge has set a September 2027 trial date for a man charged with attempting to kill President Donald Trump at the White House Correspondents Association dinner
Get ready to fall back
South Korea says North Korea has launched an unidentified projectile off the North's east coast
Donald Trump roared back into office two years ago partly on the power of immigration
The Justice Department has filed notice that President Donald Trumps announcements that there are plans for renovating the East Potomac Golf Course and there are plans to close the park beginning Nov. 15 are accurate
Utah is pursuing criminal charges against prediction market operator Kalshi and two executives, after a federal judge rejected Kalshis effort to prevent Utah from enforcing its anti-gambling laws against the activity
The Big 12 Conference has fined UCF $100,000 for derogatory chants by football fans aimed at The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in a game against BYU
United Nations human rights experts say Nicaraguas co-presidents have established a dictatorship and there are reasonable grounds to believe that crimes against humanity have been committed.
President Donald Trumps Justice Department has been scrambling before the midterm election with a blitz of headline-making actions and cases that some critics say reeks of politics
The weekend escape of a Tennessee inmate who was convicted of murdering a co-worker was just the latest black eye for the states troubled prison system, coming only weeks after the failed execution of Christa Pike

29 C