Rocket fire from Lebanon killed five people in northern Israel on Thursday, including four foreign workers, in the deadliest such attack since Israel’s invasion earlier this month.
The attack came as senior U.S. diplomats were in the region to push for cease-fires in Lebanon and Gaza, hoping to wind down the wars in the Middle East in the Biden administration’s final months.
Donald Trump is traveling to New Mexico and Virginia in the campaign’s final days, taking a risky detour from the seven battleground states to spend time in places where Republican presidential candidates have not won in decades.
The Trump team is projecting optimism based in part on early voting numbers and thinks he can be competitive against Democrat Kamala Harris in both states — New Mexico in particular, if he sweeps swing states Nevada and Arizona.
The Minnesota Supreme Court has ordered election officials in the state’s most populous county to go back to a list submitted by the state’s Republican Party and pick new members for a board that validates absentee ballots.
In an order handed down late Tuesday, the court said officials in Hennepin County had a duty to appoint election judges off the party’s list before letting cities pick from it and exhaust the number of people available. The court gave the county until Friday to comply.
Until now the county absentee ballot board had been filled by four Democrats and one Republican.
Elaina Mankowski can be reached at mank2823@stthomas.edu.