Democrat Gina Hinojosa defeated incumbent Republican Governor Greg Abbott to become Texas governor, the first Democrat elected to the post since 1990. Democrats also won control of the U.S. House and secured a Senate majority, with gains described as the largest since the 1970s. Keisha Lance Bottoms, former Atlanta mayor, won the Georgia governorship, and Deb Haaland was elected governor of New Mexico. Races in Mississippi and Alaska remain too close to call.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection
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29 October 2026
Personal details of more than 41,000 employees and contractors at the US Department of Homeland Security were published online after a hacker stole them. The exposed records include names, job titles, phone numbers, email addresses and office locations. About 21,000 relate to Customs and Border Protection staff and roughly 10,000 to Immigration and Customs Enforcement personnel, with the rest from CISA, USCIS and HSI. The hacking group Department of Peace says it gained access through the Okta single sign-on service used by DHS, while Okta says it has no evidence its systems were compromised. DHS says it is aware of a potential breach and is working to address it.
28 October 2026
Flávio Bolsonaro, a senator who lost Brazil's 25 Oct presidential runoff to Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, arrived at Opa-locka Executive Airport near Miami on Wednesday, 29 Oct, after leaving Brazil via Argentina and Ecuador. A Gulfstream G400 jet carried the family, and the operation was reportedly planned before the runoff. Brazilian police had cancelled his passports as part of a money laundering and corruption investigation, which he denies. U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio said Washington was not directly involved in the departure arrangements.