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Last updateThu, 17 Sep 2026 4pm

US Supreme Court decision lifts cloud over mail-in voting

All 50 U.S. states should send out mail-in ballots for the November 3 midterm by Saturday, and voters living abroad can be grateful, after Monday’s Supreme Court ruling, that their niche of voting rights has been protected from attacks by the Trump administration. However, according to a U.S. activist in Oaxaca, David Schallenberger, the high court decision “stops restrictions on mail-in voting in the midterms, which are seven weeks away, but not the possibility of it happening in 2028.”

Mother Nature misbehaving: A year of quakes, heat & fury

Anybody else getting the impression that Mother Nature is getting cranky about all the abuse and indignities modern mankind has inflicted on Planet Earth?

Records show 11 earthquakes with magnitudes of 7.0 or greater in 2026, on top of 14 such events last year. Most have occurred in the Eastern Hemisphere along the Ring of Fire, which encircles the Pacific Ocean.