Playing her first singles match since August 2023, Venus Williams defeated World No. 35 Peyton Stearns in straight sets to become the oldest tour-level match winner in more than two decades.

Lois Boisson breaks into the Top 50, Irina-Camelia Begu wins at home and rising teenagers Tereza Valentova and Petra Marcinko headline a week of momentum-shifting results.

Gov. Ron DeSantis, touting himself as someone committed to fraud-free, glitch-free elections, said Wednesday that he removed Broward County’s then-supervisor of elections when he came into office.