Supreme Court won’t block counting of certain provisional ballots in Pennsylvania

Washington — The Supreme Court on Friday declined to freeze a decision from Pennsylvania’s highest court that required election officials to count provisional ballots cast by people whose mail ballots are invalid because they lacked mandatory secrecy envelopes. The order from the justices means that election officials in the key battleground state must tally provisional

Illegal border crossings remain low amid concerns that election could end lull

Nogales, Arizona — The lull in illegal crossings at the U.S.-Mexico border continued in October, according to preliminary Customs and Border Protection figures obtained by CBS News. But officials worry that could be upended by the presidential election on Tuesday.  Border Patrol agents recorded nearly 57,000 apprehensions of migrants between legal entry points along the