FBI Is Investigating Florida Company Where Whitaker Was Advisory-Board Member  —  Active case is being handled by FBI Miami office; acting attorney general oversees FBI  —  The Federal Bureau of Investigation is conducting a criminal investigation of a Florida company accused of scamming millions …

For Democrats, a midterm election that keeps on giving  —  In the early hours of election night on Tuesday, a consensus began to take hold that the vaunted Democratic blue wave that had been talked about all year was failing to materialize.  Now, with a handful of races still to be called …

Palm Beach elections supervisor bans cameras from public ballot-counting  —  An NBC attorney objected to the elections supervisor's camera ban, calling the Palm Beach County Canvassing Board meeting “illegal.”  —  RIVIERA BEACH — Breaking from normal practice, the Palm Beach County elections …

Tape of Khashoggi's killing has been given to U.S., Saudi, Europeans, Erdogan says  —  ANKARA — An audio recording tracking the dying moments of journalist Jamal Khashoggi inside the Saudi Consulate in Istanbul has been shared with Saudi Arabia, Britain, France and Germany in addition to the United States …

Photos Show Scores of Uncounted Ballots in Opa-locka Mail Center … Miami-Dade County announced today that it has finished counting votes for the 2018 election.  —  But photos obtained by New Times show scores of mail-in ballots sitting inside an Opa-locka mail distribution center …

What Beto Won  —  They said it couldn't be done and, in the end, they were right.  Texas had been a one-party state for years.  It's true that the state's motley, virtually nonexistent opposition party, hardly worthy of the same name as its national counterpart, had put up strong showings …

‘What a stupid question’: Trump demeans three black female reporters in three days  —  President Trump has made no secret of his contempt for reporters, whom he calls “fake news” and “enemy of the American people.”  He's also had unkind things to say about women and people who are African American.

Deployed Inside the United States: The Military Waits for the Migrant Caravan  —  With little electricity, no combat pay and holidays away from home, the 5,600 American troops on the southwest border are on a mission ordered by a politically determined commander in chief and a Pentagon unable to convince him of its perils.

Tech C.E.O.s Are in Love With Their Principal Doomsayer  —  The futurist philosopher Yuval Noah Harari thinks Silicon Valley is an engine of dystopian ruin.  So why do the digital elite adore him so?  —  The futurist philosopher Yuval Noah Harari worries about a lot.

17 Black Women Sweep to Judgeships in Texas County  —  The photo was unforgettable: 19 black women, all dressed in black, gathered in a mock courtroom in Thurgood Marshall School of Law.  All of them were running for judgeships in November.  —  On Tuesday, 17 of them won their races …

Trump blames California forest policies for deadly wildfires  —  President Donald Trump on Saturday blamed “mismanagement” of California's forests for ongoing deadly wildfires, threatening to withhold federal payments after multiple blazes killed 9 people and prompted evacuation orders for some 250,000 state residents.