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Riot police are guarding Poland's Constitutional Court after the justice minister sought immunity waivers for its president and vice-president, and the president returned to join the protest.
Russian and Ukrainian authorities say hundreds left the occupied Kherson town during a four-hour window, with a convoy of 25 buses and a route through Russia and Belarus.
A Harris County grand jury indicted ICE Officer Mario Alberto Morales, 33, on a charge of aggravated assault with a deadly weapon over an October 10 vehicle strike that badly injured Miguel Parra-Hernandez, 48. The district attorney questioned the agent's training and tied the case to falling crime reports.
A divided 9th Circuit panel rejected the Justice Department's request to set aside ballots in California that the government says may have gone to noncitizens. The 2-1 ruling said the government had not met its burden and that segregating ballots would risk disenfranchising voters.
The Vatican confirmed that Pope Leo XIV, the first US-born pope, cast a mail-in ballot in Illinois ahead of the midterms, making him the first pontiff to vote in a US election. The church framed the vote as civic duty, and the White House relationship has been tense.
Infighting between Edouard Philippe and Gabriel Attal has split the centrist vote, and a Reuters poll shows Melenchon ahead of both as Le Pen closes on the runoff.
The Justice Department has reportedly issued subpoenas over an alleged effort to recruit a second Dan Sullivan, Alaska's governor has opened an inquiry, and a suit over certification is pending.
Early voting has passed 43 million ballots with less than a week to go, Texas is running about 1.75 million ahead of 2022, and Cook now rates five Senate races as toss-ups.
A record 33 members were expelled at the fifth plenum, attendance fell below 300 for the first time in Xi Jinping's tenure, and the military's top commission was cut to two members.
Three people died on Thursday afternoon when a Robinson R22 and an Airbus H125 collided in midair near McMinnville Municipal Airport in Oregon. The NTSB is leading the investigation and the cause is not yet established.
Israel's final count left Benjamin Netanyahu's bloc with 53 seats and Gadi Eisenkot's opposition with 48, both short of the 61 needed to govern. Arab-led parties won a record 19 seats, and Likud is claiming without evidence that the election was stolen.
Flood watches remained for Oahu, Molokai, Lanai, Maui, Kahoolawe and Hawaii Island through early Thursday, while Kauai dropped out. Molokai closed all schools on Wednesday because of flooded roads.
