CNN, MS NOW and Politico have revised their lawsuit against the Trump administration over press access to the White House to include a request for a court order to allow their journalists into other areas, including the Oval Office and Air Force One.

The updated lawsuit was filed Wednesday, two weeks after U.S. District Judge Timothy J. Kelly ...Read more

RALEIGH, N.C. — A congressional race in Eastern North Carolina is breaking spending records.

The contest for North Carolina’s 1st Congressional District has drawn $52.9 million in total ad spending and reservations, making it the most expensive U.S. House general election on record, according to AdImpact, an advertising intelligence firm ...Read more

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump intensified his attacks on Alaska Democrat Mary Peltola following a report that her allies secretly recruited candidates, including one with a similar name to Republican incumbent Dan Sullivan, to join the state’s Senate race.

The New York Times reported Wednesday that Peltola’s team engaged in a broad ...Read more

With a week to go until Election Day, the campaign in favor of repealing Alaska's election system has raised $2.5 million — less than a quarter of the amount raised by the campaign seeking to protect the state's election laws.

Ballot Measure 2 would repeal Alaska's open primaries, ranked choice general elections and campaign finance reporting...Read more

KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Before Missouri became the first state in the country to overturn a near-total abortion ban in 2024, Republican lawmakers were already signaling a plan to strike down the results.

“People will be given an opportunity to vote again,” Sen. Mary Elizabeth Coleman, an Arnold Republican, said before nearly 52% of voters ...Read more

President Donald Trump on Wednesday headed to Ohio to boost Republican candidates as the ugly attack ad from gubernatorial candidate Vivek Ramaswamy is reportedly backfiring on the GOP ticket.

With just days before Election Day, Trump is continuing his strategy of barnstorming through red states in hopes of bolstering endangered Republicans ...Read more

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. — Abortion isn’t on the ballot this year in Florida. But reproductive rights have become an issue in the attorney general race, where staunch anti-abortion Republican James Uthmeier faces Planned Parenthood-endorsed Democrat Jose Javier Rodriguez.

In a podcast episode posted earlier this month, Uthmeier sat down with anti-...Read more

The U.S. Department of Justice is declining to unseal a search warrant carried out this month at the Washington, D.C., home of U.S. Rep. Ilhan Omar of Minnesota.

Homeland Security Investigations agents carried boxes of evidence from Omar’s home on Oct. 12 in connection with federal authorities investigating potential fraud in her family’s ...Read more

President Donald Trump predicted the Senate would unanimously confirm Sen. Ted Cruz for a potential Supreme Court seat because both Democrats and Republicans would love “to get rid of him.”

Continuing his odd streak of putting down some GOP allies, Trump regaled the crowd at a Texas rally by needling Cruz for being famously unpopular with ...Read more

By the time Joe Rogan formally endorsed Donald Trump on the eve of the 2024 election, the nod felt like it had been a long time coming.

All summer, Rogan had used his platform — the world’s most popular podcast — to amplify the chosen themes of the Trump ticket, mocking political correctness and challenging government authority, while ...Read more

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu edged ahead of opposition leader Gadi Eisenkot in the country’s tightly fought election, though a surge in the Arab vote ensured neither has a clear path toward forming a government.

Netanyahu’s right-wing religious alliance was projected to win 53 seats in the 120-member parliament as of Wednesday ...Read more

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu edged ahead of opposition leader Gadi Eisenkot in the country’s tightly fought election, though a surge in the Arab vote ensured neither has a clear path toward forming a government.

Netanyahu’s right-wing religious alliance was projected to win 53 seats in the 120-member parliament as of Wednesday ...Read more

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu spent much of election day warning his base that Arab citizens were voting in record numbers. He was right.

Results on Wednesday showed the two Israeli Arab parties are likely to have significantly increased their number of seats in parliament to about 17, well ahead of forecasts, after party leaders ...Read more

President Donald Trump’s approval ratings are cratering. Even his Make America Great Again, or MAGA, diehards have reservations.

This fact was evident to me when I attended MAGA rallies in three states on Oct. 24-25, 2026. One was a Turning Point USA get-out-the-vote event outside Harrisburg, Pennsylvania.

Along with a few ...Read more

Inflation is causing real economic pain. Worries about healthcare costs have jumped sharply. And 7 in 10 Americans believe the country is in decline.

That is the landscape for the 2026 midterm election, according to a new survey from the American Communities Project at Michigan State University, which I direct.

The findings, ...Read more

WASHINGTON — Electricity prices have gained political salience as U.S. households feel the financial strain ahead of next month’s midterms. Senate authors of the landmark permitting overhaul bill argue it would lower costs through quicker approvals for new transmission lines to get more clean power flowing to homes and businesses more ...Read more

Plenty of criminals are stupid and contemptible. Among the lowest of the low are the ones who hate police officers and prosecutors personally. They are too dim to comprehend an honest officer who is just doing his job. And so they sometimes seek revenge in ways that make no sense even from the standpoint of heartless self-interest.

President ...Read more

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and opposition leader Gadi Eisenkot are neck and neck in the first election since the 2023 Hamas attacks, setting up a tense period of negotiations over who will form the next government.

Netanyahu’s religious right-wing alliance and Eisenkot’s bloc are both on track to secure 51 of Israel’s 120 ...Read more

President Donald Trump kicked off a Texas two-step on Tuesday with his closing argument for why Texans should elect state Attorney General Ken Paxton, with the president arguing Republicans cannot lose a single vote in the Senate.

“I kid him all the time, but the bottom line is, he’s the best attorney general in the history of Texas,” ...Read more