Sen. Chris Murphy hospitalized after suffering a stroke, chief of staff says

A Learjet believed to be carrying nine people crashed on Sunday afternoon in Palm Beach County, Florida, after making a rapid dive of about 350 feet per second, according to the Federal Aviation Administration. The plane, a 22-year-old twin-engine Learjet 60, crashed after taking off from Austin, Texas, and was headed to North Eleuthera in the Bahamas, according to the FAA. The FAA and National Transportation Safety Board will investigate the crash, the FAA said.

A federal judge in Alaska has thrown out the Trump administration's lawsuit seeking to block certification of the state's Senate election results in this week's midterm elections if the Republican incumbent Sen. Dan Sullivan loses. The Justice Department argued that Daniel J. Sullivan's name on the ballot potentially diverted voters, and the Democrat running in the race, Mary Peltola, would benefit as a result. Gleason said she could not grant the injunction that the Trump administration sought "because the United States has failed to establish the redressability prerequisite for Article III standing."

The November 2026 midterm elections are just two days away. Candidates in key races — and President Trump — are making their closing arguments to voters.

Washington — Sen. Bernie Sanders decried some of the rhetoric from Republicans in the Michigan Senate race, as the GOP has leaned in heavily on attacks on Democratic candidate Abdul El-Sayed's ethnicity and religion. "That level of racism, overt absolute racism, is frankly disgusting and should appall every decent American," Sanders said on "Face the Nation with Margaret Brennan ." Sanders said, "What Cruz and Trump and Vance and others are saying is disgusting."