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Narges Mohammadi has dedicated much of her life to advocating for the rights of the people of Iran, including those languishing in the country’s prisons without access to proper medical care. The Nobel Peace Prize laureate is now in a similarly precarious position, as her health deteriorates within the confines of Iran’s notorious prison system.

PHOENIX — Inside a squat building ringed with a chainlink fence and concrete barriers in downtown Phoenix, election workers on Nov. 5 will begin a grindingly slow tally of every ballot cast in the vast expanse of stucco and saguaro that is Maricopa County, Arizona. In what has become the nation’s ultimate swing county, the count here could determine whether Democrat Kamala Harris or Republican Donald Trump will be the next U.

This article is part of The D. C. Brief, TIME’s politics newsletter. Sign up here to get stories like this sent to your inbox. It happened when no one was really paying attention, but Democrats somehow climbed out of a decade-long, double-digit ditch with voters on the question about who they trust to handle the economy.

After Kamala Harris received the call this summer that President Joe Biden would be endorsing her for the Democratic nomination, she immediately sprung into action working the phones in her Howard University sweatshirt. The sweatshirt isn’t just a callback to the Vice President’s alma mater; it’s also a symbol of the historic nature of her candidacy.

WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court on Wednesday allowed Virginia to resume its purge of voter registrations that the state says is aimed at stopping people who are not U. S. citizens from voting. The justices, over the dissents of the three liberal justices, granted an emergency appeal from Virginia’s Republican administration led by Gov.

The trial of Dominique Pelicot, the man in the South of France who pleaded guilty in September to charges of secretly drugging his wife of 50 years, Gisèle, and, over the course of about a decade, filming dozens of men as they had sex with her while she was sedated, would have been disturbing enough just as the story of an epically vile husband.