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Voters look at candidates listed on a display board before entering a voting station for the general election in Bangkok, on Sunday, Feb. 8, 2026. And, several asylum cases filed by Somali migrants in immigration courts were suddenly fast-tracked. Analilia Mejia, co-executive director of Center for Popular Democracy, speaks during a news conference outside the U.S. An FBI employee stands inside the Fulton County election hub, near Atlanta, as the FBI executes a search warrant for 2020 election materials, on Jan. 28. Sign up for ProPublica’s Big Story newsletter and get our latest stories delivered straight to your inbox.
The new document revealed that the FBI’s investigation was initiated following a referral from an attorney who worked to overturn the election results in 2020. Former Rep. Tom Malinowski has conceded the New Jersey special election to fill Gov. Mikie Sherrill’s congressional seat. GOP leaders launched an unsuccessful bid to reinstate a ban on resolutions that challenged the president’s sweeping tariffs.
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Sanae Takaichi, Japan’s prime minister and president of the ruling Liberal Democratic Party (LDP), puts pins marking the names of candidates who won lower house elections at the LDP headquarters Sunday, Feb. 8, 2026 in Tokyo. Check this page for latest political news today including live updates and breaking headlines from Australia and around the world. February 8, 2026 • Vote counting was underway in Thailand’s early general election on Sunday, seen as a three-way race among competing visions of progressive, populist and old-fashioned patronage politics. The Department of Homeland Security has faced criticism over law enforcement tactics targeting undocumented immigrants and the killing of two U.S. citizens in Minneapolis. February 10, 2026 • The hearing underscored how deeply divided Republicans and Democrats remain on top-level changes to immigration enforcement in the wake of the shootings of two U.S. citizens. February 10, 2026 • An FBI investigation of the 2020 election in Fulton County, Ga., was initiated by a lawyer who aided President Trump’s unsuccessful efforts to overturn that election, an unsealed affidavit says.
I cover justice and the rule of law, including the Justice Department, U.S. attorneys and the courts. The Pima County Sheriff’s Department in Arizona has detained a person of interest connected with Nancy Guthrie’s disappearance, according to two law enforcement sources. With the search for Nancy Guthrie in its tenth day, law enforcement sources told CBS News that the Pima County Sheriff’s Office detained a person for questioning. The Marshall Project found more than 70,000 cases referred to law enforcement over allegations of substance use during pregnancy — and that’s a significant undercount. Estée Lauder lawsuit alleges Walmart sells fake versions of products from brands including Aveda, Clinique and Tom Ford. A 14-year-old girl said she was “crying” and “struggling to breathe” when law enforcement officers herded her onto a racetrack with other detainees and zip-tied her hands.