Obama hosts fundraiser with Senate Democrats weeks before midterms

A Democratic congressional candidate in Arizona says she was raped over the summer while trying to repair a campaign sign. Bernadette Greene-Placentia, who is running in the state's 8th district to try to unseat GOP Rep. Abe Hamadeh, told the Phoenix New Times, a local news outlet, that she was attacked at around 2 a.m. as she was walking toward a campaign sign in a parking lot in Sun City, north of Phoenix. Greene-Placentia said she was attacked, subdued and then woke up to find that she was being raped by an unknown assailant.

The Food and Drug Administration expects to complete its safety review of the abortion pill mifepristone in March, according to a court document the Justice Department filed Wednesday. In the filing, the FDA said it plans to compare mifepristone’s safety to that of surgical abortions through 10 weeks’ gestation. Its review will measure the frequency of side effects among roughly 100,000 women who took mifepristone, it said. Results of the FDA’s review are expected in mid-December. From there, the agency will analyze the data and draft a final report — a process it expects to wrap up in March.

A Texas man who fatally shot a convenience store clerk was put to death Wednesday evening, becoming the 30th person executed in the U.S. this year and the first since Tennessee's failed attempt to administer a lethal injection to Christa Pike . Jamaal Howard, 46, was pronounced dead at 8:03 p.m. local time after receiving a fatal dose of pentobarbital at the state prison in Huntsville. He was convicted of killing Vickie Swartout, 42, in a 2000 store robbery caught on surveillance video.

Several hecklers were removed from President Trump's rally in Texas late Wednesday. At least 10 people were either ejected from the venue by authorities or appeared to walk out after interrupting the rally, drawing jeers from the crowd at San Antonio's Freeman Coliseum as Mr. Trump mocked the protesters. It's the president's third trip to Texas in recent weeks to support Republican Senate nominee Ken Paxton, who is facing a tougher-than-expected contest against Democratic candidate James Talarico .