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Data center infrastructure in the United States, in a 2025 photograph released by the Department of Energy's National Renewable Energy Laboratory.

AI and the midterms

Voters went against data centers in 40 of 41 local ballot measures, and the AI industry is already rewriting its offer

The west facade of the United States Supreme Court building in Washington, D.C., at dusk, in 2011.

Supreme Court weighs whether a 2013 change to a psychiatric manual can reopen a Texas death sentence

The Harris County Criminal Justice Center, the county's criminal court building, in Houston, Texas.

Immigration enforcement

A Houston grand jury indicts an ICE officer who struck a Mexican construction worker with his SUV

Voters wait inside an early-voting site in Plantation, Florida, in October 2008.

Nearly 48 million Americans had voted early by Friday, breaking the midterm record before Election Day

The Rio Grande marks the border between Mexico and the United States near Laredo, Texas, in a photograph taken from the US side in 2017.

Mexico rejects Texas's claim to nine Rio Grande islands and says only a treaty can set the border

ICE Enforcement and Removal Operations officers make an arrest during a vehicle stop in Manassas, Virginia, in April 2022. Archive photo; not the Austin incident.

Immigration enforcement

ICE agent shoots Venezuelan delivery driver in Austin, and the government's account clashes with his lawyer's