Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva took 51.79% of Sunday's runoff vote after losing the first round - a first since Brazil's return to democracy. Flávio Bolsonaro says he will seek to annul the result.
Between late October and November 2 - above all on November 1 and 2 - families across Mexico and beyond set out photographs, bread, candles and marigolds to welcome their dead home. The tradition is older than Mexico itself.
For the women whose laughter arrives before the punchline is finished, and makes the whole room forget to be cool.
Five senior Republicans tell POLITICO the House has all but slipped away. With less than three weeks to go, the party is triaging, and the money is moving to the lifeboats.
The Supreme Court chooses most of the cases it decides. Here is how a petition becomes an argued case, from the 90-day deadline to the June opinion.
The Supreme Court opens its term with a climate case about state law, federal power and whether local governments can seek damages from oil companies.
A federal judge temporarily restored access for CNN, MS NOW and Politico. His narrow due-process ruling leaves a larger press-freedom fight unresolved.
A 22-country experiment expected the pull to copy other people to vary with culture. It found little evidence that it does.
A Renfe high-speed train struck a stationary Iryo train near Urda in Spain's deadliest rail crash since 2013. Leaked audio has raised questions about why one train was cleared down a track where another had stalled.
When a permanent member blocks action at the UN, the work moves down the hall - to a room where all 193 countries vote and no one holds a veto. Here is what it can do, and what it cannot.
Ten days after the Gang Suppression Force formally launched operations, an ambush north of Port-au-Prince has left four foreign soldiers missing. The UN-backed mission is the second international attempt in two years to break gang control - and its hardest test has just begun.
The ICC tries individuals, not countries, for four crimes, and only when national courts do not. Here is how the court in The Hague works.
Real estate agents working for Elon Musk's AI company are going door to door in Southaven, Mississippi, offering to buy homes near its data center and gas-turbine power plant - on the condition that sellers give up their claims in a lawsuit over the noise.
The Claude maker's S-1 shows about $16.3 billion in half-year revenue against an $80.7 billion loss - and a governance structure built to keep control with its founders and a safety trust. A Nasdaq debut under the symbol ANT could come before Thanksgiving.
The Commerce Department signed letters of intent for up to $389 million in semiconductor R&D funding aimed at power electronics for the grid, data centers and fusion energy - and will take a minority equity stake in every recipient.
A newsletter signup may seem far removed from the old video store. But a Supreme Court case argued on Wednesday, October 14, asks whether that signup can establish the relationship that makes a person's video-viewing history protected by federal law. The dispute is about who counts as a consumer, and how a law written for videotapes operates on websites that mix text, video and advertising.
