Elections that energized Democrats and angered President Donald Trump this week have cast a chill over efforts to end the government shutdown.

Get the latest news an live updates as the government shutdown enters day 37, with FAA cuts to flights and energy bill assistance cuts looming

The set of remains handed over to Israel on Tuesday were those of Itay Chen, the final remaining American Israeli hostage, U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio said.

Democrats dominated the first major Election Day since President Donald Trump returned to the White House, and there are signs that the economy — specifically, Trump’s inability to deliver the economic turnaround he promised last fall — may be a real problem for Trump’s party.

Republican District 23 incumbents Michele Matsikoudis and Nancy Munoz are trailing in their re-election race to Democrats Andrew Mccurdy and Vincent Kearney, with 94% of the votes counted. The Democrats hold a 5,000-vote lead, but the results are unofficial.

Jensen Huang, Yoshua Bengio, Geoffrey Hinton, Fei-Fei Li, Yann LeCun and Bill Dally talk to the FT’s AI editor

Voters across the country are heading to the polls today for a slew of key off-cycle races, including governor's races in New Jersey and Virginia and the New York City mayoral election.