Politics

RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — In the run-up to Brazil’s presidential election , many feared a narrow result would be contested and spell the death knell for Latin America’s largest democracy.

WASHINGTON (AP) — Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell sought Wednesday to strike a delicate balance at a moment when high inflation is bedeviling the nation’s economy and commanding a central role in the midterm elections.

ANKARA, Turkey (AP) — Annual inflation in Turkey continued to rise in October, official figures showed Thursday, pushing the price of essential goods higher and amplifying a cost-of-living crisis in the country. Consumer prices rose to 85.

BERLIN (AP) — Chancellor Olaf Scholz is making his first visit to China as German leader this week, a diplomatically delicate trip while Germany and the European Union work on their strategy toward an increasingly assertive and authoritarian Beijing

WASHINGTON — Their arrival atop a cresting "blue wave" of Democrats in 2018, two years into the caustic presidency of Donald Trump, heralded a bold new era of young, diverse and left-leaning political power on Capitol Hill.

BEIRUT (AP) — U.S. mediators tried for more than a decade to broker a maritime border agreement between Lebanon and Israel.

WINNIPEG — Manitoba Justice Minister Kelvin Goertzen says the Progressive Conservative government is not planning to call an early election.

SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — For days North Korean officials have raged over U.S.-South Korean military drills, promising a violent response.

Statewide races for U.S. Senate, U.S. House and governor top the ticket in Alaska’s ranked choice election. Republican U.S. Sen.

OTTAWA — Prime Minister Justin Trudeau told Ontario Premier Doug Ford on Wednesday that his pre-emptive use of the notwithstanding clause in legislation intended to keep education workers from striking is "wrong and inappropriate.