Brazil’s former far-right President Jair Bolsonaro was fully aware of and actively participated in a coup plot to remain in office after his defeat in the 2022 election, according to a Federal Police report that has been unsealed. Brazil’s Federal Police last week formally accused Bolsonaro and 36 other people of attempting a coup. They sent their report to the Supreme Court, which lifted the seal. Bolsonaro in December 2022 presented a draft decree to the commanders of the three divisions of the armed forces that would have declared the vote fraudulent to justify a possible military intervention. Bolsonaro has denied any wrongdoing.

Republican Donald Trump’s support has grown broadly since he last sought the presidency. In his defeat of Democrat Kamala Harris, Trump won a bigger percentage of the vote in each one of the 50 states, and Washington, D.C., than he did four years ago. According to an Associated Press analysis, he won more actual votes than in 2020 in 40 states. Even with turnout lower, Trump received 2.5 million more votes than he did in 2020. Trump cut into places where Harris needed to overperform to win a close election, especially in swing-state metropolitan areas that have been Democrats' winning electoral strongholds. Now Democrats are weighing how to regain traction ahead of the midterm elections in two years.

MEXICO CITY (AP) — Over 18,000 people have registered online to run for Supreme Court seats and federal judgeships in Mexico's contentious new…

Uruguay’s leftist opposition candidate, Yamandú Orsi, became the country's new president in a tight runoff election that ousted the conservative governing coalition. Sunday's vote brings the storied progressive coalition back to power and makes Uruguay the latest in a year of landmark elections to rebuke the incumbent party. Even as the vote count continued, Álvaro Delgado, the presidential candidate of the center-right government coalition, conceded defeat to his challenger. While failing to entice apathetic young voters, Uruguay’s lackluster electoral campaigns steered clear of the anti-establishment fury that has vaulted populist outsiders to power elsewhere in the world, like in the United States and neighboring Argentina.

Uruguay’s leftist opposition candidate, Yamandú Orsi, has claimed victory in a tight runoff presidential election that ousted the conservative governing coalition. Sunday's vote brings the storied progressive coalition back to power and makes Uruguay the latest in a year of landmark elections to rebuke the incumbent party. Even as the vote count continued, Álvaro Delgado, the presidential candidate of the center-right government coalition, conceded defeat to his challenger. While failing to entice apathetic young voters, Uruguay’s lackluster electoral campaigns steered clear of the anti-establishment fury that has vaulted populist outsiders to power elsewhere in the world, like in the United States and neighboring Argentina.