Four candidates are on the Nov. 3 ballot in Arizona's 6th Congressional District: Republican Rep. Juan Ciscomani, Democrat JoAnna Mendoza, Libertarian Jereme Peters and Green Party candidate Gary Swing. Here is where they stand on health coverage and immigration.

Republican Rep. Monica De La Cruz faces Democrat Bobby Pulido on the Nov. 3 ballot in Texas's 15th Congressional District, a race rated a toss-up. Here is where they stand on health care, seniors and water security.

Five candidates are on the Nov. 3 ballot for Michigan's open 10th Congressional District, a Macomb County seat rated a toss-up: Republican Michael Bouchard Jr., Democrat Christina Hines, Libertarian Mike Saliba, Green Kwabena Nkromo and Working Class Party candidate Andrea Kirby. Here is where they stand on health care and affordability.

Republican Rep. Rob Wittman faces Democrat Shannon Taylor on the Nov. 3 ballot in Virginia's 1st Congressional District, a race rated a toss-up. Here is where they stand on health care and data centers.

Republican Rep. Jen Kiggans, Democrat Elaine Luria and independents Bishop Staten and Matt Baker are on the Nov. 3 ballot in Virginia's 2nd Congressional District in Hampton Roads. Here is where all four stand on health care and affordability.

Republican Aaron Flint, Democrat Sam Forstag and Libertarian Nick Sheedy are on the Nov. 3 ballot for Montana's open 1st Congressional District, a race rated a toss-up. Here is where they stand on rural health care and housing costs.

A federal grand jury in Virginia has indicted Mikia Noble, co-owner of the mental health agency ACE, on charges that she helped bill Virginia Medicaid more than $49 million for crisis services not provided as billed. A June charging document in an earlier case says she signed a session note while on a flight from Grand Cayman.

A former civilian U.S. Army official, Carlos Duque, pleaded guilty Wednesday in federal court in Honolulu to conspiracy, bribery and major fraud tied to an Army technology innovation lab in the Pacific. The Justice Department says he agreed to take about $1.25 million in bribes over five years to steer subcontracts to two Florida contractors, received about $55,000, and that the Army paid their company more than $3 million.

U.S. District Judge David O. Carter on Wednesday denied the Justice Department's request to set aside vote-by-mail ballots from more than 20,000 people it called likely noncitizens. His 26-page order says Los Angeles County's review found 7,035 of the records had county addresses and that 71.2% of the list had never voted. The Justice Department filed a notice of appeal and a renewed request for an injunction the same day.

A federal jury in Boston convicted Eric Tabaro Nshimiye, 54, of Uniontown, Ohio, of four counts of perjury and one count of obstruction for lying about his role in the 1994 Rwandan genocide while testifying for another suspect at a 2019 trial. Prosecutors say he entered the U.S. as a refugee in 1995 and later became a citizen. Sentencing is set for Jan. 26, 2027.

A Kansas City, Missouri, woman was sentenced to 24 months in federal prison for possessing two unregistered destructive devices that prosecutors say she used in February to set fire to a Botts Road warehouse that ICE had sought to buy for immigration detention. She paid $43,612 in restitution under her plea agreement, the U.S. Attorney's Office said.

Federal prosecutors in Nevada charged two lawful permanent residents, from Sudan and Afghanistan, with voting in the 2024 federal election, the office's third and fourth such cases since Oct. 23. A day earlier, a federal jury in Fort Worth convicted an Indian national of voting and of falsely claiming U.S. citizenship to register. The charges are allegations; the Nevada defendants are presumed innocent.

Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier sued Rengstorff Consulting Ltd, the Las Vegas company that runs the A2E artificial intelligence site and a face-swap app, alleging its tools let users "nudify" real people and generate child sexual abuse images, and that it reported none of them. The complaint, filed in Sarasota County, seeks a permanent injunction and civil penalties.

The Department of Homeland Security added three related Chinese genomics companies, BGI Group, BGI Genomics and MGI Tech, to the Uyghur Forced Labor Prevention Act Entity List, saying they support genetic testing in Xinjiang with the regional government. Starting Oct. 29, their goods are presumed barred from entering the United States unless importers prove otherwise.

The Justice Department's elder fraud cases from July 2025 through June 2026 named 712 defendants accused of taking $4.84 billion from 711,353 victims, more than double the $2.36 billion in last year's report, according to the department's annual report to Congress released Wednesday. Nearly half of the cases involved schemes run from abroad.

Morocco's Foreign Ministry sent about $80,000 to the U.S. law firm seeking a presidential pardon for Abdeslam Jaidi, a former Moroccan ambassador to the U.N. charged in a 2019 federal visa fraud case in New York, according to a new FARA filing reviewed by The Digital Free Press.

State auditors found 1,564 building access keycards, fobs and badges still active but no longer needed at 20 New York school districts and BOCES, some tied to former employees, ex-contractors and first responders who had moved on, a State Comptroller report says. Only two of the 20 regularly reviewed who had access.

Medicare paid $27.6 million on 160,918 outpatient drug claim lines whose billing codes did not match federal crosswalk files, a new HHS inspector general data brief reviewed by The Digital Free Press found. Here is what a 30-line sample turned up, the two gaps the inspector general flagged, and what the report does and does not say about improper payments.

Two Army internal audit offices could not produce files for five projects, one because the auditors with access had left and one because files were lost in a 2023 cloud migration, a Defense Department inspector general peer review says. It also found an auditor who audited financial statements the same auditor had prepared, and rated the program pass with deficiencies.

Officials at 20 New York fire districts had not fully carried out 121 of 163 state audit recommendations, or 74%, a follow-up report from State Comptroller Thomas DiNapoli's office says. The Fine Fire District implemented none of its 20, and four districts were listed as persistent nonfilers of required annual financial reports.