MIAMI — Smartmatic, a London-based company with roots in Venezuela and a subsidiary in South Florida, was charged Thursday with foreign corruption by conspiring to pay more than $1 million in bribes to a Filipino election official to obtain voting machine contracts in the Philippines, according to an indictment filed in Miami federal court.

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WASHINGTON — As part of an attempt by Republicans to keep the House majority in 2026, North Carolina state lawmakers redrew the state’s congressional map and proposed removing one of its four congressional Democrats from the district he represents.

If it becomes law, the map could give Republicans one extra vote in Congress from North ...Read more

The British Library has reinstated the suspended library card of revered Irish author Oscar Wilde, who died in 1900.

Wilde’s access to the British Museum Reading Room was revoked in 1895 after the gay writer was convicted of “gross indecency” and sentenced to two years in prison. Sexual relationships between men were illegal in the U.K. ...Read more

Publix recalled one lot of ice cream in six states because the product inside doesn’t match the container — and that can be a problem with the worst consequences for some customers.

The container is for Publix Rich & Creamy Vanilla Ice Cream. That doesn’t have egg, which is an allergen. What’s inside the recalled lot might be Rich & ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — The University of Southern California on Thursday rejected the controversial education compact the Trump administration offered it and eight other schools, saying it would undermine “values of free inquiry and academic excellence.”

USC interim President Beong-Soo Kim said in a statement that he had sent a letter to the U.S. ...Read more

There’s a new system worth watching in the Atlantic.

Thursday afternoon, the National Hurricane Center began tracking a tropical wave that could form in the Caribbean. As of 2 p.m. Eastern time, forecasters gave it no chance of developing in the next two days and a 20% shot of strengthening into a tropical depression or storm within the next ...Read more

In a simulated natural disaster, robotic drones from the University of Maryland’s RoboScout Team arrived first, scanning the area for survivors. They beamed patients’ locations to robot dogs and medics on the ground to quickly find, triage and treat the most critically injured people first.

“When we talk about robot triage, we’re ...Read more

As the government shutdown inflicts pain on federal workers, Republicans have promised to ease the financial blow for men and women in uniform.

“Pay the troops, pay law enforcement, continue the RIFs, and wait,” the Office of Management and Budget posted on X this week, drawing a contrast with its plans for mass layoffs at other departments...Read more

The Institute of Behavioral Research at TCU has been awarded a $7.2 million grant from the NIH National Institute on Drug Abuse to study alternatives to arrest or prosecution that connect people with treatment instead.

The project will work with 20 communities across Colorado, Illinois, New Mexico, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin.

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WASHINGTON — The U.S. Justice Department has charged John Bolton, a former national security adviser to President Donald Trump during his first term, with allegedly mishandling classified materials.

Bolton was indicted on 18 counts by a federal grand jury in Maryland. He’s accused of breaking laws related to the transmission or retention of...Read more

U.S. Rep. Mikie Sherrill said Jack Ciattarelli is "acting like a total baby" for threatening legal action after she blamed him for tens of thousands of deaths in the opioid crisis in a wide-ranging 30-minute interview with The Inquirer's editorial board.

She also reaffirmed her decision to keep her Naval Academy disciplinary records private ...Read more

Virginia Giuffre’s upcoming memoir is revealing new details about her alleged encounters with Britain’s Prince Andrew.

In an excerpt from her posthumously published book, “Nobody’s Girl: A Memoir of Surviving Abuse and Fighting for Justice,” Giuffre, who died by suicide in April, describes her first interaction with Andrew in 2001.

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Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent is urging the International Monetary Fund (IMF) to sell an elite country club it owns in Montgomery County, so the organization can “go back to their core mission.”

Asked Wednesday what changes he expected to see now that his former chief of staff, Dan Katz, has become the IMF’s second-in-command, Bessent ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — An attorney for the man charged with intentionally igniting a smoldering blaze that later became the deadly Palisades fire says the evidence against his client is thin and accused authorities of scapegoating him.

Jonathan Rinderknecht, 29, was indicted this week on three felony charges and faces the prospect of up to 45 years in...Read more

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — California Attorney General Rob Bonta and the state’s Public Utilities Commission have teamed up with other Democratic states to sue the federal Environmental Protection Agency over its cancellation of its Solar for All program.

The $7 billion Solar for All program was announced in 2023 as part of the Inflation ...Read more

An out-of-state visitor with a confirmed case of measles may have exposed people at a southern Colorado hotel and gas station earlier this week, according to state and Huerfano County health officials.

The person was in La Veta from Sunday through Wednesday, and people who were exposed will likely develop symptoms between Nov. 3 and 5.

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Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins said Thursday that the food stamp program will run out of funds in two weeks because of the partial government shutdown, potentially leaving nearly 42 million people without monthly benefits.

“We’re going to run out of money in two weeks. So you’re talking about millions and millions of vulnerable ...Read more

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump on Thursday announced a new approach by the administration to boost in vitro fertilization and other fertility treatments, as well as a deal to lower the price of a common fertility drug.

Trump said EMD Serono, which manufactures the widely used fertility drug Gonal-F, has entered into a “most favored ...Read more

North Carolina and 22 other states sued President Donald Trump’s Environmental Protection Agency Thursday, claiming it had illegally canceled more than $7 billion in grants meant to help install solar power in low-income and rural areas.

N.C. Attorney General Jeff Jackson joined the suit on behalf of the state, which had secured $150 million ...Read more