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The Robert F. Kennedy Department of Justice Building, headquarters of the U.S. Department of Justice, in Washington, D.C., in 2014.

Justice Department charges 63 people with election crimes one day before the midterms

The Robert F. Kennedy Department of Justice Building, the agency's headquarters in Washington, in March 2026.

Midterm elections

Justice Department asks a judge to set aside 20,000 California ballots, and Los Angeles County says the list is unreliable

The Robert F. Kennedy Department of Justice Building, the headquarters of the U.S. Justice Department, in Washington, D.C., in 2026.

Midterm elections

The Justice Department sues California to keep 20,000 mail ballots uncounted, 19 days before the midterms

The headquarters of the Tribunal Superior Eleitoral in Brasília, the court that runs Brazil's elections and publishes the count, photographed in 2012.

Brazil and Washington

Brazil's October 25 runoff will pick the government that negotiates America's 25% tariff and its access to Brazilian rare earths

The west facade of the U.S. Supreme Court building in Washington

Supreme Court keeps Trump's mail ballot rules on hold for the midterms