Daily News Brief · October 26th

A panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit is not expected to side with the Trump administration in its lawsuit against California over allegations that “likely noncitizens” are likely to vote in the elections this year. After nearly two hours of rare Sunday arguments at the West Coast federal appeals court, there did not appear to any path to the panel siding with the Justice Department at this time.

On Route 60 in the West Bank, sandwiched between the Palestinian village of Al Lubban Ash Sharqiya and the Jewish settlement of Eli, Muayyad Hussein feels under siege in the roadside kiosk he’s run for some 30 years. First, settlers set the unit on fire. Then they robbed his stock. Then, this month, on Oct. 7 of all days, they hammered a thicket of Israeli flags six-to-ten deep across his shop front and to either side as police looked on.

China’s President Xi Jinping opened a key meeting of Communist Party elites in Beijing on Monday (October 26, 2026), state media said, which observers will be closely watching for clues as to the country’s direction and future leadership. Roughly 300 members of the ruling Communist Party’s Central Committee in attendance at the meeting, called the fifth plenum, will be looking to tighten discipline within their ranks, according to state media. That includes measures to reduce corruption and make cadres more effective and loyal. Mr.

At least 61,059 Form-7 applications seeking the deletion of names from Karnataka’s electoral rolls were filed by election officials themselves, with not a single application mentioning a reason for the deletion, a mandatory requirement under the Registration of Electors Rules, 1960.

With 100% of the vote counted, Brazil's electoral court announced that the soon-to-be 81-year-old Mr. Lula had a lead of nearly 4.4 million votes — 51.8% of the total vote — over opponent Flávio Bolsonaro