Video above: ‘News 5 Now’ — Top Stories from Oct. 2, 2026 UPDATE (10/5/2026 8:15 a.m.): A news release from Satsuma City Schools says Kory Wesley has resigned: Satsuma City Schools announced Sunday…

The Trump DOJ is looking to charge Cassidy Hutchinson with lying to Congress.

And the recovery of justice

On Friday night, just before 11:00, Trump announced that his administration “will, immediately, begin sending ‘Checks’ of nearly $100 to over 20 MILLION wonderful Seniors to help pay for their Medicar...

The White House press corps caves, and Trump’s horror show continues.

The decline of the rule of law and our republic is not inevitable

It’s going to get worse.

The Conservative leader and Alex Burghart MP held "off-site meetings" with the billionaire media mogul in August

Nevada election officials said Thursday that 185 voters in the state who the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) identified as noncitizens were all, in fact, citizens.

Voters face stark choices for offices with vast powers on policing and punishment. Bolts walks you through key contests to watch across a dozen states.

Crystal Mason has spent nearly a decade fighting conviction for casting provisional ballot that ultimately wasn’t counted

Highlighting the growing list of people killed by federal immigration agents, U.S. Rep. Chellie Pingree and other Democratic members of Congress on Tuesday heard from family members of those killed…

Counties will start receiving a surge of applications less than two weeks before the Oct. 5 registration deadline, adding work at one of the busiest points in the election calendar.

Nearly 75 Haitians living in Ohio have been detained at one of four Ohio detention facilities that contract with ICE since President Trump took away their protected status on July 27 —  a 142.3%…

The U.S. administration is preparing sweeping sanctions that would cut the court off from much of the global financial system.

An ICE agent shot and wounded a person Sunday in North Austin, according to three state and local officials.

Federal officials are drafting an executive order that would place grants under review by an outside panel, the latest effort to redirect billions of dollars in research spending.