The Brief

All nine people aboard a business jet died when it crashed into a Florida neighborhood near a busy roadway on Sunday, Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy said. The aircraft, identified by CBS News as a Learjet, had departed Austin, Texas, and was headed to the Bahamas, according to the Federal Aviation Administration.

On Monday, NTSB member Tom Chapman said evidence at the crash site indicates the aircraft was breaking up before impact and that debris could be found far from the site. BBC reported the NTSB also believes weather could have been a factor but that it is too early to determine the cause. CBS News reported the pilot said "we're managing the ice" before a "Mayday" call. BBC reported the dead include a tech entrepreneur and his young family, as well as the 20-year-old copilot.

The Supreme Court on Monday rejected a Trump administration request to order California election officials to set aside mail ballots from about 20,000 people the administration alleges are noncitizens, CBS News reported. The administration had filed the emergency appeal earlier in the day, a day before the midterm elections, after an appeals court rejected the request.

The government had said the ballots should not be counted until the voters' status could be verified. California said blocking ballots from suspected noncitizens could disenfranchise eligible voters.

Democratic Rep. Haley Stevens, who lost the party's Senate nomination to Abdul El-Sayed by a slim margin in the August primary, endorsed Republican Mike Rogers two days before the election. PBS reported she had been uninvited to a joint event with El-Sayed the same day.

One top Democrat called the move a "despicable betrayal," and BBC reported Stevens defended the switch but declined to explain her reasons. Michigan Rep. Debbie Dingell told PBS the endorsement was a "huge distraction," while telling CBS News it is "galvanizing" voters behind El-Sayed.

President Trump rallied over the weekend in states Republicans previously won, which BBC said shows how tight Tuesday's elections could be in deciding control of Congress. On Monday he delivered his closing message from the Reflecting Pool in Washington, the site of a contentious renovation project, rather than travel to key states.

CBS News reported Trump held up photos of his renovation projects instead of addressing cost-of-living issues, which voters say matter most to them. Al Jazeera reported a Reuters/Ipsos poll put his approval at 32 percent, near a record low.

A federal judge dismissed charges against two former FBI officials, Nicole Floris and Bradley Benavides, who were accused of falsely suggesting to Congress that they were not aware of the federal investigations surrounding Hunter Biden.

PBS reported the judge cited "weaponization" in the ruling and that the Justice Department may still have an opportunity to seek a grand jury indictment.

An ICE officer, Mario Alberto Morales, made his first court appearance Monday on a felony charge of aggravated assault with a deadly weapon, PBS reported. He is accused of striking Miguel Parra Hernandez with an unmarked SUV on Oct. 10.

CBS News reported Morales turned himself in after being indicted, and that the man, who had lived in Texas for decades, was hospitalized for weeks.