It began with a phone call. A grassroots write-in campaign had been launched weeks before Tuesday’s midterm election in an effort to keep longtime Alabama Sheriff Jay Jones in office. Jones was ousted in May by about 300 votes in a bitterly fought Republican primary in Lee County by a former sheriff’s deputy, Cameron Hunt. …
Voters in Alaska are going to the polls to cast their ballots in key races, including a Senate election that has garnered widespread attention amid scrutiny over the presence of a candidate bearing nearly the same name as the sitting senator, Dan Sullivan. Alaska’s election system itself has also been in the spotlight in recent…
Washington — The Trump administration on Monday asked the Supreme Court to intervene in its effort to force California election workers to set aside mail ballots from thousands of people it claims are not U.S. citizens. The Justice Department’s request for emergency relief came after a federal appeals court on Friday declined to order California…
One morning this summer, a 9-year-old girl from El Salvador picked through colorful markers at a Houston-area shelter for migrant children and crafted a letter to her mom. “I want to be with you already,” the little girl, M.R., wrote in misspelled, unpunctuated Spanish, adding hearts, a rainbow, and a large “I love you” surrounded…
Four United States citizens were among the at least 69 people who were killed when a high-speed train slammed into the rear of another train in central Spain last week, officials said Sunday. The Center for Integrated Data, the legal body in Spain in charge of identifying victims of events with a high death toll,…
A federal judge in Alaska has thrown out the Trump administration’s lawsuit seeking to block certification of the state’s Senate election results in this week’s midterm elections if the Republican incumbent Sen. Dan Sullivan loses. U.S. District Judge Sharon L. Gleason wrote in a 20-page order Sunday that the Justice Department did not have proper…
Residents of Villa Vie Odyssey — which remains stuck in Cambodia — have been informed the cruise ship is now under control of its lender, according to a message sent to residents and obtained by CBS News. The ship will soon be moved from Cambodia to Singapore, where it could eventually be auctioned off, according…
On this “Face the Nation with Margaret Brennan” broadcast, moderated by Margaret Brennan: Sen. Bernie Sanders, Independent of Vermont Rep. Mike Lawler, Republican of New York Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro, a Democrat David Becker, CBS News election law contributor and the executive director of the Center for Election Innovation and Research Anthony Salvanto, CBS News…
The following is the full transcript of the interview with Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro, a Democrat, a portion of which aired on “Face the Nation with Margaret Brennan” on Nov. 1, 2026. MARGARET BRENNAN: All right. So, Governor, you’re campaigning for re-election, and you’re also trying to help some of these Democrats get elected to…
Every four years, we get to choose our own president. But every two years, we have other elections, where we choose all 435 members of the House of Representatives, and a third of our Senators, and a whole lot of governors. This is a midterm elections year, our chance to steer the direction of the…
