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Federal prosecutors were rebuffed in their effort to secure an indictment against former White House aide Cassidy Hutchinson over her testimony related to the Jan. 6, 2021, assault on the U.S. Capitol, according to four sources briefed on the grand jury proceedings. The Justice Department has not yet responded to a request for comment. The Washington Post first reported that the grand jury declined to indict Hutchinson. Hutchinson, who was a top aide to White House chief of staff Mark Meadows, a

With a week to go until the 2026 midterm elections , you'd be forgiven for thinking that President Trump and former President Barack Obama were running against each other this year. While campaigning for Democrats in Ohio over the weekend, Obama mocked the various renovation projects that Trump has been overseeing at the White House, prompting a pointed response from the president and his administration. I don't know if you've noticed, but he seems very focused on home renovations, Obama told th

Oct. 27 (UPI) -- A federal judge on Tuesday tossed new obstruction charges the Justice Department filed against two former FBI agents accused of lying to Congress about an investigation into Hunter Biden. Magistrate Judge Zia Faruqui of the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia expressed anger at the federal prosecutors who filed the superseding complaint shortly after midnight Tuesday, CBS News reported. The complaints were unsworn and unsigned. We have never had complaints filed tha

By Ricardo Brito and Gram Slattery SAO PAULO, Oct 27 (Reuters) - Brazilian Senator Flavio Bolsonaro has left the country for the United States after losing Sunday's presidential election and refusing to comply with a Supreme Court order to hand over his passports, two sources said. The US Embassy in Brazil did not immediately respond to a request for comment. Bolsonaro's lawyer also did not respond. It was not immediately clear where Bolsonaro was heading, what time he would arrive or whether he

Michael Pretti and Susan Pretti, parents of Alex Pretti, who was killed by federal immigration agents in January, listen during a news conference, Tuesday, Oct. 27, 2026, in Minneapolis. (AP Photo/Ellen Schmidt) - Ellen Schmidt/AP PROGRAMMING NOTE: Susan and Michael Pretti join CNNs Jake Tapper on The Lead at 5 p.m. Eastern The parents of Alex Pretti , a US citizen shot and killed by immigration agents in Minneapolis in January, are accusing the Department of Justice of violating their rights u

The 2026 midterm elections are just 7 days away. So where do things stand nationwide in the race to control Congress? Which party has a better chance of, you know, winning? To get a sense of that, it helps to geek out over some cold, hard data. The usual caveats apply, of course. Polls aren't predictions; they're momentary snapshots of public opinion. And they have been wrong before . Yet time is running out and the stakes in November couldn't be higher, especially for President Trump, who ha

By Andrew Chung Oct 27 (Reuters) - The US Supreme Court declined on Tuesday to reinstate the authority of immigration judges to temporarily postpone deportation cases, keeping in place an agreement between President Donald Trump's administration and Republican-governed Texas that bars the once-common practice. The justices denied an emergency request by three US cities including Baltimore and an immigrant legal advocacy group to halt for now the deal ending the practice, known as administrative

Benjamin Netanyahu casts his ballot next to his wife Sara at a polling station in Jerusalem - Pool via Reuters/Yonatan Sindel Israel attracted a record turnout for Tuesdays crucial election, as Benjamin Netanyahu and Gadi Eisenkot accused each other of dirty tricks. At 4pm in Israel (2pm UK time), voter turnout stood at 55.7 per cent, according to the countrys central elections committee 8 per cent higher than at the same time of day during the 2022 election. It was the highest turnout at that

April 2026 photo of former Rep. Eric Swalwell at a town hall meeting in Sacramento. (Rich Pedroncelli / Associated Press) The FBI Tuesday morning raided a mansion in Beverly Hills in connection with an investigation into former Congressman Eric Swalwell, sources told The Times. Swalwell, a Democrat from Dublin, dropped out of the California governors race and resigned from Congress in April after allegations that he sexually assaulted a former staffer and acted inappropriately with other young w

New data from the Energy Information Administration showed that gas prices since Jan. 20, 2025 have averaged $3.458 per gallon the first time in President Trump's second term that overall average gas prices have surpassed the average seen during President Biden's four years in office. The weekly government data, released Tuesday, shows a reading of $4.269 per gallon for Oct. 26, which nudged up the average price under Trump from Jan. 27, 2025 to this week. It has now surpassed the $3.455-per-g

Federal prosecutors filed new criminal charges on Tuesday against two ex-FBI counterintelligence officials, accusing them of obstructing a congressional proceeding and lying to lawmakers about their roles in the bureau's investigations of Hunter Biden. The unsigned and unsworn superseding complaint, filed early Tuesday morning, comes just hours before the defendants Nikki Floris and Bradley Benavides are due to appear in federal court in Washington, D.C. for a preliminary hearing. At that hearin

This booking photo released by the Tennessee Department of Correction on July 24, 2025, shows Jacob Morley. - Tennessee Department of Correction/AP Tennessee authorities are searching for a 28-year-old convicted murderer who escaped through a state prisons fence late Sunday night before stealing a truck and driving off. Jacob Morley, who is serving a life sentence, is now on the Tennessee Bureau of Investigations Most Wanted list, with a reward of up to $2,500 for information leading to his ar

By Steven Scheer and Pesha Magid JERUSALEM, Oct 27 (Reuters) - Israelis surged to the polls at the fastest rate in nearly half a century on Tuesday to pass wartime judgment on Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, in what voters described as the most consequential election in the nation's history. Long lines formed outside polling stations for the first election since the October 7, 2023, Hamas-led attacks, with voters passionately engaged over the trauma of the country's deadliest day and the ensu

Someone could win an estimated $716 million in Wednesdays Powerball drawing after no ticket matched all six numbers on Monday. The jackpot has gone for more than 30 drawings without a winner, since Aug. 12, when a single ticket sold in Illinois won $1.04 billion. Monday still produced a couple of big winners. Two tickets , one sold in Florida and one in Georgia, matched all five white balls and won $1 million each. What are the odds of winning Powerball? The odds of winning a Powerball jackpot a

By Steven Scheer and Pesha Magid JERUSALEM, Oct 27 (Reuters) - Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu faces a fight for political survival in Israel's election on Tuesday, with voters weighing his leadership after the 2023 Hamas-led attacks, wars in Gaza and with Iran, and Israel's deepening international isolation. Yet Netanyahu, Israel's longest-serving leader with 19 years in office, remains a formidable survivor, with nationalist politics increasingly entrenched and Israel's fragmented system pot

A federal appeals court has rejected the Trump administration's late-breaking effort to force California to separate mail-in ballots from 20,000 purported noncitizens. A 2-1 ruling from a panel of the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals concluded that the Justice Department improperly circumvented a lower-court judge who had scheduled a hearing on the matter on Tuesday and moved too slowly to seek emergency relief. [T]he United States failed to allow the district court adequate opportunity to consider

President Donald Trump prays during a roundtable discussion at the Trump National Doral Miami resort in Miami, Florida, on Oct. 22, 2024. Chandan KannaGetty Images A video of Catholic bishops praying around President Donald Trump during a meeting at the White House last week has sparked debate, with some bishops claiming their attendance was exploited for political purposes less than two weeks before the midterm elections . The 12 clergymen joined Trump on Thursday in the Oval Office, for what A

Vivek Ramaswamys campaign for Ohio governor appears to be stumbling to the finish line after a series of setbacks including the loss of a major endorsement and venue cancellations amid mounting fallout from the MAGA Republicans controversial attack ad . The 30-second ad, released last week , features Democratic candidate Dr. Amy Actons mother calling her daughter a liar and urging Ohio residents not to vote for her. The spot has drawn intense bipartisan backlash , with critics condemning the c

Anthropic ( ANTH.PVT ) has publicly filed its S-1 investment prospectus with the Securities and Exchange Commission, giving investors a look at the company's most important financial information ahead of its initial public offering. The company, which will trade under the ticker symbol ANT, said it generated $16.3 billion in revenue in the six-month period that ended in June, more than the $4.6 billion the company saw in all of 2025. But the company also spent $9 billion on AI infrastructure in

US President Donald Trump shakes hands with Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth in Sparrows Point, Maryland, on October 6. - Jim Watson/AFP/Getty Images US forces in the Middle East are prepared to launch new, potentially major, military operations against Iran within 96 hours of receiving an order from President Donald Trump, according to two US officials. Sufficient forces are now deployed in the region to carry out the potential attacks, the sources said. The scope of new US military operations

Getty Images When Israelis go the polls on October 27, they will face a familiar question: Should Benjamin Netanyahu, the countrys longest-serving prime minister, stay in power? Nearly every recent election has been a referendum on Netanyahu. This time, many Israelis say the choice is more consequential than ever: not only about who will lead the country, but about where it is heading. It is the first national vote since the Hamas-led attack of October 7, 2023, the deadliest security failure in

A voter casts her ballot in Boyle Heights on Saturday, the first day of early voting in Los Angeles. (Genaro Molina/Los Angeles Times) In a rare Sunday hearing, a federal appeals court judge appointed by President Trump questioned how the Trump administrations request to intervene in Californias ongoing midterm election in order to force state officials to set aside 20,000 ballots from voters whose citizenship it questions squares with the U.S. Constitution. Judge Mark J. Bennett said that while

Vucic is a relentless campaigner (SASA DJORDJEVIC) The dominant force in Serbian politics for over 14 years, Aleksandar Vucic, who conceded defeat in a snap parliamentary poll on Sunday, rose from the wreckage of strongman Slobodan Milosevic's cabinet to the centre of power using his brand of populist nationalism. For supporters, the 56-year-old represented stability, development and patriotism in a country scarred by the bloody wars of the 1990s and ensuing international isolation. But opponent

Images by the Press Team of Maria Corina Machado team on Sunday shows the opposition leader arriving at Santa Rosa church in Barquisimeto, Venezuela. After more than 10 months in exile, Venezuelan opposition leader and Nobel laureate returned home to a political landscape that has been reshaped by her ally the United States without her involvement. - Maria Corina Machado Press Team Sigue nuestra cobertura en espaol After more than 10 months in exile, Venezuelan opposition leader and Nobel laurea

Dustin Johnson and other players are considering whether to continue with LIV Golf. ASSOCIATED PRESS One way or another, LIV Golf is in its final days as originally created. The tour began life as a PGA Tour breakaway funded by Saudi Arabia's virtually limitless Public Investment Fund, but now is working to both line up financing and hold onto players in preparation for what league officials have termed LIV 2.0. With a self-imposed go/no-go deadline nearing, several recent developments have comp

A 20-year-old U.S. Marine stationed in Okinawa, Japan, has been indicted on charges stemming from the death last month of a woman found strangled in a hotel, authorities said on Sunday. LCpl. Devin Jacob Ballard, who is stationed at the Futenma Air Base in Okinawa, was indicted on charges of robbery and murder, according to NHK, Japan's public broadcaster,citing the Naha District Public Prosecutors Office and other sources, Kyodo via Reuters - PHOTO: Marine Lance Corporal Devin Jacob Ballard lea

The midterm campaign is being fought in areas President Donald Trump carried in the last election, and largely among voters who have supported him in the past but have soured on his presidency. Rick Sebring, a resident of rural Black Creek, Georgia, is one of them. He was among the Americans drawn to Trump when he emerged as a political outsider running for president in 2015, and supported him in each election since. Subscribe to The Post Most newsletter for the most important and interesting st

By Bo Erickson and David Shepardson PERRY, Georgia, Oct 25 (Reuters) - US President Donald Trump announced on Saturday that Audi plans to build a $4 billion assembly plant in Georgia that will produce 200,000 SUVs annually, as he seeks to convince Americans to back Republicans in the November midterm elections. Trump, who has pressured automakers to move production to the United States and has raised tariffs on autos, steel, aluminum and parts, made the announcement at a rally in Perry, near Mac

Meghan says she was informed of disturbing allegations about her father via a letter [PA Media] A letter making a number of claims relating to the Duchess of Sussex's father was received by the Metropolitan Police in 2019, Scotland Yard has confirmed. The Met said it passed the information relating to allegations outside the UK to the office of the Duke and Duchess but did not share it with other law enforcement agencies. It was reported on Friday that images of child sexual abuse allegedly belo

Director of National Intelligence Jay Clayton warned Friday that Iran has substantially increased efforts to target U.S. personnel abroad, with plots to kill Americans reaching advanced stages in the Middle East and other countries. The warning, contained in an unclassified memo that was sent to Secretary of State Marco Rubio and obtained by CBS News, comes as the State Department adjusts staffing at diplomatic posts across the Middle East , and the U.S. military pares back its footprint in the