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• State Attorney General Pam Bondi’s office announced Friday that it had added the drugstore chains to a lawsuit filed in May against opioid distributors and manufacturers.
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• Latino turnout was up dramatically in the midterms, according to early voting and other preliminary data. Democrats say Latino votes helped flip house and senate races across the country.
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• Carlos Ghosn, who also chairs Renault and Mitsubishi, is widely admired for saving Nissan from bankruptcy nearly 20 years ago. Now he has been accused of underreporting income and reportedly arrested.
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• At least 80 people have died throughout California since the Camp Fire and Woolsey Fire broke out earlier this month. The official missing persons list spans 993 names.
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• Officials are still counting ballots from the midterm elections in several states — in part because of the signature verification process. But signatures change over time, especially young people’s.
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• Keeping Florida in the GOP column is a highlight for Republicans this year. While Republicans held onto the Senate, Democrats flipped the House and made major gains in the governor’s contests, too.
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• Now that wildfires are a year-round problem in California, officials are adding emotional support to the services they provide to firefighters in the field.
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• On this week’s Florida Roundup we’re looking at the Florida recount and the slow recovery in the Panhandle. The Florida Recount Republican Ron DeSantis is all but certified as Florida’s next governor. That’s after a recount showed that he beat Democrat Andrew Gillum by 33,652 votes or 0.4 percent. But, a hand recount is on in the Senate race between incumbant Democrat Bill Nelson and Republican Gov. Rick Scott. Secretary of State Ken Detzner announced Thursday that manual recounts of “overvotes” and “undervotes” will be required in the two statewide races, as the margins between candidates were below 0.25 percent. The announcement came amid a series of legal battles that focus on the race between Nelson and his Scott. Scott continued to …
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• More than 200 American women played a crucial role in the war as telephone operators. But when the shooting stopped, they weren’t considered veterans and their story was largely forgotten. Until now.
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• Machine counting of votes will begin this week after narrow margins were reported in the races for governor and U.S. Senate.
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