Welcome to The Australian’s rolling coverage of Israel’s election, as voters turned out in record numbers to decide whether to keep Benjamin Netanyahu in power.

An inconclusive result would leave Israel in political limbo after the country's first national election since Hamas' Oct. 7, 2023, attack. The vote served as a referendum on Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's wartime leadership.

The Israeli electorate seems to have firmly rejected Binyamin Netanyahu and his hard-right coalition. Exit polls on October 27th suggest that the prime minister’s Likud party has lost around a quarter of the 32 seats it won in the 2022 election and that his coalition will fall short of a majority in the Knesset,

Opinion polls show a close race between Israel’s longest-serving leader and his right-wing allies and a rival alliance led by a former military chief of staff.

Defeated right-wing presidential candidate Flavio Bolsonaro left Brazil and is traveling to the United States despite a court order banning him from exiting the country, US media reported Tuesday.

The son of former president Jair Bolsonaro is en route to the US and is likely to land in either Dallas or Miami, according to a São Paulo outlet.

Brazil's leftist President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva pulled off a dramatic comeback on Sunday as he clinched a re-election victory, but his rival Flavio Bolsonaro refused to accept the loss and

Flavio Bolsonaro's Liberal Party on Monday recognized the outcome of Brazil's presidential runoff, despite the candidate's objections to the poll won by leftist President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva.

Donald Trump has unleashed his longest social media tirade to date, penning a 1321 word post blasting American comedian and television host Bill Maher as a “complete and total loser”.

"The View's" cohosts, including Trump's former staffer Alyssa Farah Griffin, ridiculed the president for going off on Bill Maher on Truth Social.

President Donald Trump has just penned his longest Truth Social post ever, according to a CNN analysis and a third-party tracking firm.

After President Donald Trump and Bill Maher had their second dinner at the White House, the president told the comedian, "Don’t call anymore."

The US president offered the payout days before crucial midterm elections that are expected to weaken the Republican Party’s grip on Congress.

President Trump says he will offer a $1 million reward for information that leads to a voter fraud conviction, a move his campaign says is aimed at protecting election integrity.

Trump announced the plan in an Oct. 26 post on Truth Social before discussing it with reporters.

It was unclear how the president would pay for the proposal, which fused his campaign trail promotion of financial incentives to help his party win and his unfounded warnings about voter fraud.

The US president intensified his anti-Muslim rhetoric against Michigan's Democrat Senate candidate at a rally.

The rapper spoke at the Republican campaign in Michigan on Sunday.

President Donald Trump returned the favor for his "No. 1" fan, Nicki Minaj, by calling out her "hard to miss" backside at a Republican rally.

The Super Bass singer is the latest big name to campaign in Michigan, where a tight Senate race is playing out ahead of the 3 November midterms.

If you attack Trump on these terms, he comes back at you with a vengeance. And it will be more than simply referring to his predecessor as “Barack Hussein Obama.”

Former US president Barack Obama is taking aim at Donald Trump ahead of critical midterm elections.

"He wouldn't understand": The president stands up for his renovation projects during a campaign rally.

Trump fired back at Obama after the former president compared the White House to a Cheesecake Factory.