“2026 midterms” — 48 distilled results

Oregon news digest: wildfires, outage, outbreak, and protests

Oregon faces record wildfire activity with dozens of fires and widespread smoke; separately, T-Mobile outages affected thousands, cyclospora cases emerged, a Border Patrol shooting in Portland resulted in guilty plea, and federal workers protested office relocations. Multiple unrelated news items are grouped together.

Trump allies could use midterms ‘counting window’ to disrupt results, experts warn

Fears grow that loyalists in key states could use critical period when votes are counted to amplify false claims Election experts have warned Donald Trump’s administration could use the crucial hours and days after November’s midterm elections to disrupt the results after struggling to enforce a crackdown on voting. With less than six weeks remaining until polls close, and control of US Congress in the balance, the post-election “counting window” is seen as as a particularly vulnerable moment by