SANTA BARBARA COUNTY, Calif. (KEYT) - Voters in the 37th Assembly District are deciding a closely watched race between incumbent Gregg Hart and challenger Sari Domingues.

The contest is a rematch between Hart and Domingues.

The district includes Santa Barbara County and portions of the Central Coast.

Hart is seeking another term in Sacramento after first winning the Assembly seat in 2022.

Domingues has focused her campaign on issues including affordability, housing, and the cost of living.

Results will be updated after polls close and ballots begin to be processed.

"I believe Californians deserve leaders to focus on affordability public safety, educational excellence and government accountability," said Domingues.

"I’m looking forward to continuing the work I’ve been doing for the past two years, representing our wonderful community in Sacramento and the state legislature," said Hart.

Vote-by-mail and provisional ballots will continue to be counted after Election Day.

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SANTA BARBARA, Calif. (KEYT) - The 2026 Law Enforcement Torch Run for Special Olympics Southern California made its way through South Santa Barbara County today.

Officers from multiple agencies carried the "Flame of Hope" through the UC Santa Barbara campus.

The annual event raises awareness and support for Special Olympics athletes.

The torch is now continuing its journey toward the upcoming Special Olympics Summer Games.

The Law Enforcement Torch Run is one of the largest grassroots fundraising efforts for Special Olympics programs worldwide.

Organizers say the event helps celebrate inclusion while supporting athletes year-round.

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Por Rocío Muñoz-Ledo, CNN en Español

El presidente de Estados Unidos, Donald Trump, respaldó este martes a Abelardo de la Espriella, dos días después de que el candidato ultraderechista sorprendiera al ser el más votado en las elecciones presidenciales del domingo en Colombia.

“Felicitaciones al candidato presidencial colombiano, “El Tigre (THE TIGER)”, Abelardo de la Espriella, un líder inteligente, fuerte y firme, por su decisiva victoria en la primera vuelta de la elección presidencial colombiana”, escribió el mandatario estadounidense en su cuenta de Truth Social.

“Debido a sus enormes logros en la vida y a su apoyo político hacia mí, personalmente, es un honor para mí darle a Abelardo mi respaldo completo y total”, añadió.

De la Espriella, abogado y empresario outsider, consiguió el 43,74 % con más de 10 millones de votos, según los resultados divulgados por la Registraduría, casi tres puntos por encima del candidato oficialista Iván Cepeda (40,9 %), quien se perfilaba como el favorito para ganar en primera vuelta.

Trump, quien ya ha intervenido explícitamente en campañas electorales en países como Argentina y Honduras, dijo que las elecciones en Colombia, cuya segunda vuelta se realizará el 21 de junio, son “muy importantes” para la relación con Estados Unidos.

“Los resultados de esta elección son muy importantes para el futuro de Colombia y su relación con los Estados Unidos”, dijo Trump en su publicación.

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By John Fritze, CNN

(CNN) — The Supreme Court on Tuesday allowed Alabama to use a congressional map that will benefit Republicans in this year’s midterm elections, permitting the state to ditch one of two House districts represented by a Black member of Congress who is also a Democrat.

The court dealt with the case in an unsigned order over the dissent of the three liberal justices.

The order on the court’s emergency docket is the latest instance of the justices dipping into the nationwide flurry of mid-decade redistricting instigated by President Donald Trump’s desire for the GOP to retain control of the House in this November’s midterms.

Over the course of several months, the Supreme Court has had a hand in congressional maps in Louisiana, Texas, Alabama, Virginia and California. Most of those decisions have benefited the Republican Party.

The Alabama case is also the latest emergency order tied to the court’s April 29 decision on the Voting Rights Act, in which a 6-3 majority gutted the ability of groups to bring claims of racial discrimination under that 1965 landmark law. The decision essentially requires voting rights groups to find a “strong inference” of intentional racial discrimination before proceeding with a lawsuit.

Several Southern states moved quickly after that decision to redraw their maps. Tennessee and Florida, for instance, have both enacted new congressional districts that advantage the Republican Party.

Even though Alabama already held its primary election in May, Republican Gov. Kay Ivey signed legislation authorizing special elections in August for the affected congressional districts if courts allow the state to use its new map.

Alabama’s legal battle over its maps has repeatedly made it up to the Supreme Court in the past.

The Supreme Court in 2023 effectively required Alabama to redraw its congressional map to allow for an additional Black district, upholding a lower court decision that found the state likely violated the Voting Rights Act by enacting a discriminatory map. Ultimately, voters in Alabama cast their 2024 ballots under a court-drawn congressional map that led to the election of two Black and Democratic representatives out of seven seats.

While Alabama continued to challenge that map on appeal, the Supreme Court decided the Voting Rights Act case in late April. Based on that decision, Alabama rushed up to the Supreme Court in early May asking the justices to toss out the court-ordered map that it used in 2024 in time for this ye

Por Aditi Sangal, CNN

La expiloto de helicóptero de la Marina Rebecca Bennett ganará la primaria demócrata en el 7º Distrito Congresional de Nueva Jersey, proyecta CNN.

Bennett buscará desbancar al representante republicano Tom Kean Jr. en las elecciones de noviembre en un distrito muy competitivo.

Ese escaño podría ser clave para las aspiraciones demócratas de recuperar la mayoría en la Cámara de Representantes, ya que los republicanos mantienen actualmente una ventaja mínima. El Comité de Campaña Congresional Demócrata, brazo electoral de los demócratas en la Cámara de Representantes, también lo ha incluido entre sus “distritos en disputa” para las elecciones intermedias de 2026.

Esto ocurre mientras Kean lleva semanas sin votar en el Congreso, lo que ha generado preguntas sobre cuándo regresará a Capitol Hill. El congresista ha atribuido su ausencia a un problema de salud, sin ofrecer detalles. Kean dijo a New Jersey Globe a finales de mayo que espera recuperarse por completo y afirmó que seguía en carrera por un tercer mandato, aunque no dio detalles específicos sobre su ausencia prolongada.

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