The 2026 U.S. midterm ballots are arriving now — and they need to be completed and returned within seven days.

Given the new voting challenges this year, that timing is more important than ever.

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.”

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. 

Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum issued a forceful defense of her nation’s sovereignty on Monday after U.S. President Donald Trump shared a map on social media depicting Mexico and much of North America under the U.S. flag.

The romantic streets and bright lights of Paris will be within easier reach of Guadalajara from April next year, when Aeroméxico launches a non-stop route to Paris Charles de Gaulle (CDG).

With primary elections wrapping up, this fall’s general midterm elections are fast approaching. Voters will elect U.S. House and Senate members, state governors and other officeholders.