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In the United States, the Democratic Party wins a majority in both the House of Representatives and the Senate in the midterm elections.
- Elections in the United States were held on November 3, 2026. In these midterm elections, which occurred during the non-consecutive second term of incumbent Republican president Donald Trump, all 435 seats in the U.S. House of Representatives and 35 of the 100 seats in the U.S. Senate were contested to determine the 120th United States Congress. Thirty-nine state and territorial U.S. gubernatorial elections, attorney general elections, and numerous state and local elections were also contested. The Democratic Party won a majority of seats in both houses of Congress and among state governorships across the United States.
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In motorsport, Kimi Antonelli becomes the youngest ever winner of the Formula One World Championship.
- The 2026 FIA Formula One World Championship is a motor racing championship for Formula One cars and the 77th running of the Formula One World Championship. It is recognised by the Fédération Internationale de l'Automobile (FIA), the governing body of international motorsport, as the highest class of competition for open-wheel racing cars. The championship is contested over twenty-three Grands Prix held around the world. It began in March and is scheduled to end in December. Drivers and teams compete for the titles of World Drivers' Champion and World Constructors' Champion, respectively. Lando Norris was the reigning World Drivers' Champion, while McLaren-Mercedes are the reigning World Constructors' Champions. The World Drivers' Championship was clinched by Mercedes driver Kimi Antonelli at the Mexico City Grand Prix. It was his maiden title in his second year competing in Formula One, becoming the youngest ever champion in Formula One history and the first Italian to win the championship since Alberto Ascari in 1953.
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American labor activist Dolores Huerta dies at the age of 96.
- Dolores Clara Huerta (Spanish: [doˈloɾes ˈweɾta] ; née Fernández; April 10, 1930 – October 28, 2026) was an American labor leader and feminist activist. After working for several years with the Community Service Organization (CSO), she co-founded the National Farm Workers Association (NFWA) with fellow activists Cesar Chavez and Gilbert Padilla, which eventually merged with the Agricultural Workers Organizing Committee (AWOC) to become the United Farm Workers (UFW). Huerta joined Filipino leader Larry Itliong in the Delano grape strike in 1965, managing boycott campaigns on the east coast and negotiating with the grape companies to end the strike. Some credit her with the UFW slogan "sí se puede" (transl. 'yes we can').
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The Polish Constitutional Tribunal crisis escalates with the suspension of tribunal head Bogdan Święczkowski and deputy head Bartłomiej Sochański by judge Anna Korwin-Piotrowska.
- The Polish constitutional crisis, which originally began in 2015, has continued into 2026 between Prime Minister Donald Tusk's pro-European Union government and the right-wing, nationalist party Law and Justice (PiS) over control of the judiciary. In 2026, the Sejm elected eight judges to the Constitutional Tribunal (six in March, one in June, and one in September). President of Poland Karol Nawrocki invited three of the judges to swearing-in ceremonies at the Presidential Palace and refused to swear in the other five. On 13 October, the Venice Commission stated that all eight judges were full members of the tribunal. On 16 October, the eight new judges made a public statement asserting that Article 194 of the Polish Constitution gives no power to the Polish president in selecting members of the tribunal. By late October, the president of the tribunal, Bogdan Święczkowski, had not recognised the five judges as members of the tribunal, and filed a disciplinary case against the other three judges, attaching the eight judges' public statement as evidence in the case.
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Iran war (ongoing)
- Since 28 February 2026, the United States and Israel have been at war with Iran and its regional allies. The war follows the Twelve-Day War in June 2025 and sporadic fighting during the Middle Eastern crisis sparked by the Gaza war, which began in 2023. Amid ongoing US–Iran negotiations regarding Iran's nuclear program, the war began when the US and Israel conducted hundreds of air strikes on targets across Iran, including strikes that assassinated Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei alongside several other Iranian officials.
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Russo-Ukrainian war (ongoing)
- On 24 February 2022, Russia invaded Ukraine, starting the largest and deadliest war in Europe since World War II, in a major escalation of the existing war between the two countries that began when Russia attacked Ukraine in 2014. The fighting has caused hundreds of thousands of military casualties and tens of thousands of Ukrainian civilian casualties. Russian troops
occupy roughly 20% of Ukraine. From a population of 41 million, about 8 million Ukrainians have been internally displaced and 6–7 million have fled the country, creating Europe's largest refugee crisis since World War II.
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Yemen offensives (ongoing)
- On 3 September 2026, the Iran-backed Houthis launched an offensive against the Saudi-backed Presidential Leadership Council (PLC), the internationally recognized government of Yemen, amid the ongoing Yemeni civil war. Clashes began in Taiz Governorate, prompting a PLC counter-offensive against the Houthis in the Al-Jawf and Al-Bayda governorates.
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