The president has a largely ceremonial role, except after elections when it is his responsibility to pick a candidate for prime minister.

Voters supporting two leading Arab parties turned out in record numbers to voice their opposition to the Netanyahu government.

The U.S. plans to issue a visa to Mr. Bolsonaro, a U.S. official said. Brazilian police had asked him to hand over his passports because of his links to an investigation.

In some cases, court paperwork bears unmistakable signs of urgency — typos, unorthodox tactics and the signatures of the department’s senior political leadership.

The Texas attorney general has been silent about his relationship with Tracy Duhon, a New Orleans woman who has built a personal brand around faith and redemption.

State Senator Brent Taylor, the Republican nominee for a U.S. House seat, responded to a Nashville outlet’s report that he had sent “an unsolicited nude picture.”

El Niño is expected to push this winter’s high tides even higher.

The election forecaster Nate Silver breaks down the likelihood of a G.O.P. wipeout.

Highland Park United Methodist Church in Dallas had waged an unusually public campaign against the denomination’s demands for control.