FRESNO, Calif. — Sen. Alex Padilla and Congressman Jim Costa visited McFarland for a drop-in visit to the Golden State Annex, an Immigrations and Customs Enforcement detainment facility, but they never made it inside.

The lawmakers said they were turned away because, according to Golden State Annex officials, there weren’t on-site ICE ...Read more

SARAMENTO, Calif. — Rep. Doris Matsui, D-Sacramento, holds a narrow lead over progressive challenger Mai Vang in the final hours before the election in Sacramento’s closely watched congressional race, according to a new independent poll.

The poll, conducted by the USC Democracy and Fair Elections Lab and first shared with The Sacramento Bee...Read more

Top officials in California are bracing for unprecedented election interference from the Trump administration in coming days, including potential ballot seizures.

They are warning the public about such actions in striking messages casting President Trump and U.S. Department of Justice officials as threats to the vote and to American democracy. ...Read more

The House Judiciary Committee has released an election eve report on the “consequences of sanctuary policies” in the City of Boston as well as Massachusetts as Mayor Michelle Wu, Gov. Maura Healey and the supermajority Democratic state legislature continue to implement laws to counter President Trump’s nationwide crackdown on illegal ...Read more

DETROIT — Former Hamtramck Mayor Amer Ghalib said he was appointed by U.S. President Donald Trump as an envoy and adviser.

"I would like to express my sincere gratitude to President Trump for appointing me as his Envoy and Advisor for Arab American Affairs, and for his continued trust and support," Ghalib wrote in an Oct. 21 Facebook post.

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WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump used a speech on the eve of midterm elections that will shape his final two years in office to tout his months-long renovation of the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool.

Located hundreds of miles from the site of many battleground House and Senate races, the pool was an unusual place for the president to make...Read more

NEW YORK — A potential midterm blue wave could transform Washington, D.C. into an unlikely NYC outer-borough power playground with Brooklyn Democrats Sen. Chuck Schumer and Rep. Hakeem Jeffries likely sweeping to top leadership positions in Congress while Queens-bred President Trump occupies the White House.

If Democrats win both chambers of ...Read more

WASHINGTON — Some races may be too close to call, but one thing will be certain Tuesday no matter what — bar specials.

Residents of D.C. observe election night like some other cities observe major sporting events. And after the Nationals failed to advance to the postseason this year and with the first playoff game for the Washington Spirit ...Read more

WASHINGTON — Over the past decade, President Donald Trump has steadily expanded executive power, pushing the limits of his authority and evading traditional constraints. But a Democratic takeover of Congress on Tuesday could set up one final constitutional test for the Trump era, challenging the legislative branch to reclaim its role as a ...Read more

WASHINGTON — An acutely contentious and historically expensive midterm campaign barrels to a finish Monday, on the eve of elections that will set the nation’s course for the remaining half of President Trump’s second term.

Republicans are bracing for a backlash from voters as Democrats prepare for gains — but the magnitude of any “...Read more

If a reporter for the Times of Mars covering the recent elections in Israel were to assess the results, she might file a story that would get this headline: “Historic Day: Arab Parties Score Decisive Win. Netanyahu Is Out.” She would note that there were three major blocs: the right-wing coalition of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu with 53...Read more

MIAMI — A federal judge in Miami threw out President Donald Trump’s $10 billion defamation lawsuit against The Wall Street Journal and Rupert Murdoch, saying the president was “grasping at straws” in challenging the newspaper’s reporting on a sexually suggestive birthday letter bearing his name sent to Jeffrey Epstein.

U.S. District ...Read more

WASHINGTON — A federal magistrate judge on Monday threw out a case accusing two former FBI officials of lying to Congress, criticizing it as rushed, flawed and politically motivated.

During an hourlong hearing, Magistrate Judge Zia Faruqui for the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia found that there was no legal justification to ...Read more

WASHINGTON — It’s Election Week in America.

A lot of the midterm vote has already happened in states where early voting and mail-in voting are common, but there’s still time to get supporters to the polls on Election Day.

President Donald Trump will use the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool as the location for his midterm closing argument...Read more

MADRID — Support for Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez dropped following one of the deadliest train crashes in Spanish history.

Sánchez’s Socialist party has about 24.6% backing among voters, compared with about 26% a week earlier, according to a poll by SigmaDos published Monday by newspaper El Mundo. This would grant the Socialists ...Read more

WASHINGTON — An acutely contentious and historically expensive midterm campaign barrels to a finish Monday, on the eve of elections that will set the nation's course for the remaining half of President Donald Trump's second term.

Republicans are bracing for a backlash from voters as Democrats prepare for gains — but the magnitude of any "...Read more

Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker has spent nearly $39 million so far this election cycle to support fellow Democrats and their causes beyond his own reelection, even though many out-of-state races he’s backing look like long shots. To see why, look at Texas.

The billionaire Democrat already had a long-running rivalry with Republican Texas Gov. Greg ...Read more

Politicians across the Illinois ballot used the final weekend before Tuesday’s general election embarking on a closing-hours effort to turn out their political bases with rallies, church visits and door-knocking, while Gov. JB Pritzker took his case to a national Sunday television audience.

Appearing on NBC’s “Meet the Press,” the two-...Read more

Every two years heading into November, as state and federal elections draw nearer, voters are inundated with campaign advertisements on TV, websites and social media — some of which deliver misleading messages about candidates.

If an ad is misleading, why are television stations still allowed to run them?

For a station to censor a TV ...Read more

Donald Trump is capping his final electoral campaign the way he began over a decade ago: hoping a whirlwind sprint across the country will turn out his most fervent supporters and thwart Democratic designs to curtail his power in the sunset of his political career.

The 80-year-old president, weary from a nearly month-long blitz through ruby red...Read more