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Brewers win first championship with 5-0 win in Game 5 Misiorowski tosses five and two-thirds scoreless innings Contreras named World Series MVP after batting .381 The Milwaukee Brewers captured their first World Series crown on Wednesday night, defeating the Tampa Bay Rays 4-1 to complete a four-games-to-one victory and end more than half a century … Read more

Justice department had demanded state segregate and not count ballots from people it claimed were non-citizens A federal judge declined to order California election officials to segregate and not count ballots from people the Trump administration claimed were non-citizens, rebuffing a legally thin request from the justice department that appeared designed to cast doubt over … Read more

Firm calls charges, which include violating state gambling ban and profiting from illegal activity, ‘crazy overreach’ Utah on Wednesday filed criminal charges against prediction market operator Kalshi and two of its executives, months after a federal judge rejected Kalshi’s effort to prevent Utah from enforcing its strict anti-gambling laws against the activity. The felony charges … Read more

Kraemer, Tremblay score first senior international goals Fillier nets winner after Americans erase two-goal deficit Canada avenge Olympic heartbreak in worlds tune-up Canada ended an eight-game losing streak against the United States with a 5-3 victory on Wednesday night in Windsor, Ontario, as newcomers Caitlin Kraemer and Rosalie Tremblay scored their first senior international goals … Read more

Former US president comes to Georgia to support Jon Ossoff for US Senate and Keisha Lance Bottoms for governor Barack Obama, speaking at a Wednesday campaign rally in suburban Atlanta, offered a closing argument for Democrats in the final week of the midterm election campaign. “These are not serious people,” he said of Donald Trump … Read more

A federal judge in California on Wednesday refused the Trump administration’s request to segregate 20,000 mail-in ballots from individuals it alleges are noncitizens.

Information released by Distributed Denial of Secrets is the third such government data disclosure in the last month Data identifying more than 41,000 employees and contractors for the US Department of Homeland Security (DHS) was released on Wednesday in an unprecedented leak that reveals how the agency is organized. The records, which were made public … Read more

President Trump has made several comments about people’s appearances during recent rallies ahead of the midterms. In Michigan, he commented on the singer Nicki Minaj’s physique, and in South Carolina he called a heckler who was punched during the event “unattractive.”

Brazilian Sen. Flávio Bolsonaro and his family have arrived in Miami, where the U.S. government will grant them entry visas after he refused to comply with Brazil’s order to surrender his passports. NBC News’ Carlos Curbelo explains how Bolsonaro was granted entry and its impact on U.S.-Brazil relations.

A New York Times report said in a secret plot the campaign of Alaska Democrat Mary Peltola recruited a man with the same name as Republican Senator Dan Sullivan to get on the ballot in an attempt to sabotage the Republican’s chances of winning. The Peltola campaign denied the report. NBC News’ Garrett Haake reports. … Read more