Mike Jeffries, the former longtime chief executive of Abercrombie &Fitch, has been criminally charged with sex trafficking and prostitution involving dozens of men.

Georgia’s top court declined on Tuesday to hear an expedited appeal by Republicans of a decision blocking a new rule that would have required poll workers to hand-count ballots, a change that voting rights groups warned could have caused chaos.

A bipartisan group of eight U.S. senators on Monday urged President Joe Biden to order a review of the security of the global network of undersea communications cables that handle nearly all the world’s internet traffic.