Tight Pennsylvania race too close to call — Democrat Conor Lamb and Republican Rick Saccone battled to the wire Tuesday night in a tighter-than-tight congressional election that pitted the strength of President Donald Trump in blue-collar America against the energy and anger of the political left. The contest in the Pittsburgh-area district has drawn national attention as a bellwether for the midterm elections in November for control of Congress. Whatever the final outcome, the showing by Lamb in a district Trump won by 20 points in the presidential race is sure to stoke anxiety among Republicans nationwide and renewed enthusiasm among Democrats. Nearly three hours after polls closed and with 99 percent of precincts reporting, unofficial results had Lamb leading Saccone by 847 votes. Some absentee ballots were not expected to be counted until Wednesday morning, and the final result could be decided by a recount. The White House had scrambled to rally voters behind Saccone, who cast himself as the president’s “wingman,” but he struggled at times to connect with the blue-collar coalition that fueled Trump’s victory little more than a year ago.

Russian spies abound in Britain — Russia now has more intelligence agents deployed in London than at the height of the Cold War, former officials have said. They serve a variety of functions, including building contacts among British politicians. But the most important task is to keep an eye on the hundreds of heavyweight Russians — those aligned with President Vladimir Putin, and those arrayed against him — who have built lives in Britain, attracted by its property market and banking system. The poisoning of Sergei V. Skripal, a retired double agent, and his daughter has put pressure on the British government to rein them in.

3 men charged in Minnesota mosque bombing — Federal authorities on Tuesday charged three men from rural central Illinois with the bombing of a Minnesota mosque last year and said one of the suspects told an investigator the goal of the attack was to “scare” Muslims out of the United States. A statement from the U.S. attorney’s office in Springfield, Illinois, says the men also are suspected in the attempted bombing of an abortion clinic. The Dar Al-Farooq Islamic Center in Bloomington, Minnesota, was bombed just before morning prayers on Aug. 5, causing a fire and extensive damage although no one was injured or killed. And there was an attempted bombing of the Champaign, Illinois, Women’s Health Practice on Nov. 7. One of the men, Michael Hari, 47, described in an April 2017 Chicago Tribune article how he drafted a $10 billion plan to build a wall along the border with Mexico, citing President Donald Trump’s call for such a wall. Hari drew up the proposal after launching a security company, Crisis Resolution Security Services, the newspaper said. Hari also filed a federal lawsuit just last month in central Illinois, naming the U.S. secretaries of agriculture and health and human services as defendants. It accuses their departments of violating his constitutional rights by doing the food-safety certification work that his firm, Equicert, does.

Blast hits Palestinian prime minister’s convoy in Gaza — A roadside bomb blast in Gaza on Tuesday morning damaged several vehicles in the convoy of the Palestinian Authority’s prime minister, Rami Hamdallah, in what the authority called a failed assassination attempt. But the incident quickly raised questions about the motives of those responsible and whether a successful assassination might not have been their real aim. No group immediately claimed responsibility, and Hamdallah was unharmed, but the attack came amid a tense standoff between his Ramallah-based government and the Islamic militant group Hamas.

Syrian enclave evacuated under deal — More than 100 people left a rebel-held enclave in Syria on Tuesday after rebel forces reached a medical evacuation agreement with the Syrian government’s ally, Russia. The deal, brokered by the United Nations, came weeks after government forces began a ferocious assault to retake the insurgent stronghold. One hundred and seventy people were evacuated from eastern Ghouta to Damascus, Syria’s capital, through a checkpoint near Douma. They were but a small fraction of the estimated 1,000 people in need of emergency medical treatment but unable to get it within the besieged enclave, according to the Syrian American Medical Society.

The story of an Afghan baby named Donald Trump — Even in his mother’s womb, Donald Trump was unusually sensitive. When his mother was distressed, he would become restless, turning and kicking. This is not Donald J. Trump, son of Mary and Fred Trump. This is Donald Trump, the third child of Jamila and Sayed Assadullah, born in the central Afghan province of Daikundi on Sept. 3, 2016. The baby Donald Trump got his name because of his father’s admiration for the tycoon Trump. But the hoped-for good luck has yet to appear. If anything, the naming choice has only added to the family’s misfortune. The decision to give the child a non-Muslim name angered relatives so much that the family no longer felt welcome in their village in Daikundi, and moved to Kabul.