Politics

Official portrait of Ignazio Cassis, Switzerland's foreign minister, taken for the Swiss federal government.

Switzerland reopens its diplomatic office in Pyongyang, and Cassis makes the first Swiss ministerial visit to North Korea since 2003

Voters wait inside an early-voting site in Plantation, Florida, in October 2008.

Nearly 48 million Americans had voted early by Friday, breaking the midterm record before Election Day

Iliana Iotova at a European Parliament debate on the Schengen area in 2016, when she was a member of the European Parliament.

Iliana Iotova wins Bulgaria's presidential runoff with about 57% and becomes the first woman elected to the office

The Palácio do Itamaraty, seat of Brazil's Ministry of Foreign Affairs, in Brasília, in 2020.

Brazil and Argentina

Brazil presses Argentina for answers on Flávio Bolsonaro's departure, and Amorim calls the relationship its "worst moment"

Downtown St John's, the capital of Antigua and Barbuda, in 2012. The city hosts the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting from 1 to 4 November.

The Caribbean takes its slavery reparations claim to the Commonwealth summit opening Sunday in Antigua

The Rio Grande marks the border between Mexico and the United States near Laredo, Texas, in a photograph taken from the US side in 2017.

Mexico rejects Texas's claim to nine Rio Grande islands and says only a treaty can set the border

The United States Capitol at sunrise, in a 2023 photograph released by the U.S. House of Representatives. Every House seat is on the ballot on November 3.

Corporations have put a record $737 million into the 2026 midterms, 60% more than they spent on the 2024 presidential race

The Robert F. Kennedy Department of Justice Building, the department's headquarters in Washington, D.C., photographed in March 2026.

Midterm elections

Justice Department orders California election officials before a grand jury on November 4, the day after the midterms

The seat of Poland's Constitutional Tribunal in Warsaw, pictured in January 2016.

Judge suspends the head of Poland's Constitutional Tribunal for a month, and Nawrocki turns his plane around

Aerial view of the Centro de Confinamiento del Terrorismo (Cecot), El Salvador's maximum-security prison and the declared model for the Honduran project, in January 2023.

Honduras approves life imprisonment for gang leaders and plans a 1,300-inmate megaprison

Pablo Catatumbo Torres Victoria in a file photograph from his time as a senator for the party formed out of the FARC.

Colombia's peace tribunal charges Pablo Catatumbo and eight other former FARC commanders over 468 incidents

The front of the Knesset, Israel's parliament, in Jerusalem, in 2022.

Israeli election

Netanyahu's bloc takes 53 of the Knesset's 120 seats, the opposition 48, and Arab parties reach a record 19

An ICE Enforcement and Removal Operations team during an arrest in Boynton Beach, Florida, in January 2025.

Immigration enforcement

More than 29,000 state and local officers are now deputized to enforce immigration law, over twice ICE's own deportation force

Senator Flávio Bolsonaro (PL-RJ) speaks to reporters at the Senate in Brasília in April 2026.

Brazilian senator Flávio Bolsonaro lands in Miami a day after police cancelled his passports

The headquarters of the Instituto Nacional Electoral in Tlalpan, Mexico City, in 2018.

Mexico's electoral authority loses its president as Guadalupe Taddei resigns and Congress opens the search for a successor

María Corina Machado at a press conference at the Colegio de Abogados de Valencia, Venezuela, in October 2023.

María Corina Machado returns to Venezuela after ten months away and says she is willing to sit down with Delcy Rodríguez

Viktor Orbán speaks in Kossuth Square, Budapest, on 15 March 2012, when he was prime minister of Hungary.

Trump administration pushes Viktor Orbán for UN Secretary-General, and Russia says it will not nominate him

The House of the National Assembly of Serbia in Belgrade, photographed in November 2023. Parliament has 250 seats, and 126 make a majority.

Student List wins Serbian election as Vučić concedes defeat after 14 years in power

President Iliana Yotova hands Andrey Gyurov, then deputy governor of the Bulgarian National Bank, the mandate to form a caretaker cabinet, in February 2026. The two now face each other in the presidential runoff.

Bulgaria heads to a presidential runoff on 1 November after turnout of barely 22%

Justice Cristiano Zanin at the ceremonial session marking his swearing-in to Brazil's Supreme Court, in Brasília, in August 2023.

Brazilian Supreme Court justice extends runoff voting to 7 p.m. nationwide, and the electoral court freezes the count at 0.25% of ballot boxes