It’s rain­ing across much of the na­tion’s mid­sec­tion this morn­ing and fore­cast­ers say storms are pos­si­ble in large swaths of the coun­try lat­er to­day.

The at­tor­neys gen­er­al from 47 states and three U.S. ter­ri­to­ries are urg­ing peo­ple to re­main peace­ful and to pre­emp­tive­ly “con­demn any acts of vi­o­lence re­lat­ed to the re­sults.”

An 18-year-old labour­er of Sun­flower Dri­ve, Pleas­antville, is ex­pect­ed to ap­pear at the San Fer­nan­do Mag­is­trates’ Court to­day, fol­low­ing his ar­rest in con­nec­tion with a rob­bery over the week­end.

The Unit­ed Na­tions Res­i­dent and Hu­man­i­tar­i­an Co­or­di­na­tor in Haiti, Ul­ri­ka Richard­son, says that “Haitians want to be able to live, not just sur­vive.

A pres­i­den­tial cam­paign marked by up­heaval and ran­cour ap­proached its fi­nale on Elec­tion Day as Amer­i­cans de­cid­ed whether to send Don­ald Trump back to the White House or el­e­vate Ka­mala Har­ris to the Oval Of­fice.

A Ch­agua­nas man has be­come the first per­son to be charged with ex­tor­tion by the An­ti-Ex­tor­tion Unit for 22 of­fences stem­ming from a rack­et that spanned eight months be­tween March and Oc­to­ber.

Jah-Keb­ba Browne, chair­man of PNM’s Laven­tille West Youth League, has de­nied that peo­ple were “left out” of last Sun­day’s vot­ing for a gen­er­al elec­tion nom­i­nee or that there was “in­ter­fer­ence” or “bac­cha­nal” af­ter MP Fitzger­ald Hinds re­ceived 18 votes to chal­lenger Ka­reem Mar­celle’s 14.

Five for­eign used-car deal­er­ships have been or­dered to pay al­most $24 mil­lion in com­pen­sa­tion to ANSA Bank for their roles in a fraud­u­lent loan con­spir­a­cy.

Ship­ping lines are turn­ing away from T&T as in­dus­tri­al ac­tion by work­ers con­tin­ues at the Port of Port-of-Spain.

UNC leader Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar be­lieves that En­er­gy Min­is­ter Stu­art Young is un­qual­i­fied to be prime min­is­ter of T&T. While she de­scribed Young as “im­ma­ture, class­less, and rude,” Per­sad-Bisses­sar said that his eth­nic­i­ty was caus­ing prob­lems with­in the par­ty.

Rel­a­tives are hop­ing that the dri­ver who was re­spon­si­ble for an ac­ci­dent that claimed the life of a mo­tor­cy­clist and in­jured an­oth­er on Sun­day night will come for­ward or some­one will give the po­lice his iden­ti­ty.

The race to the White House in the Unit­ed States is un­der­way to­day, with for­mer US pres­i­dent Don­ald Trump bat­tling cur­rent US Vice Pres­i­dent Ka­mala Har­ris for the job of US com­man­der-in-chief.