The Department of Justice publicly searching the home of Congresswoman Ilhan Omar recently seems to be a clear violation of the DOJ norm not to take action so close to an election (now just three weeks away) unless absolutely necessary for public safety reasons.

But President Donald Trump’s DOJ under Attorney General Todd Blanche isn’t ...Read more

The omens that President Donald Trump is facing an epic example of what another Republican president once called “a thumpin’” are accumulating. His deeply unpopular Middle East war is metastasizing, contributing to persistently high prices and a historically low public opinion of his presidency.

Republican schemes to rig the vote by ...Read more

The search of “Squad” Rep. Ilhan Omar’s home should extend to her bank account.

While the feds are at it, scrub Rep. Ayanna Pressley’s, too.

Omar reports assets falling between $20,006 and $125,000, according to Congressional financial disclosure reports.

Pressley’s total reported asset range is $2,250,005 to $7,501,000, the ...Read more

President Donald Trump’s announcement that the United States will not attack Iran before the midterm elections raises a question no commander in chief should leave unanswered: Is America’s policy being set by the national interest or by Election Day?

This does not sound like a strategic calculation. A strategy would explain what the U.S. ...Read more

The last thing President Donald Trump needs right now is another war brewing in the Middle East. But this is what Trump is getting at a time when he’s in a monthslong standoff with Iran over the Strait of Hormuz and as midterm elections, traditionally seen as a referendum on the first two years of a president’s term, are weeks away.

Over ...Read more

When President Donald Trump backed away from threats to strike Iranian power plants on March 23, it sparked a frenzy of buying and selling across oil, equities and other markets.

Traders had grown accustomed to prices lurching wildly on developments in the Middle East. But this time, some bettors had timed it perfectly. Billions of dollars’ ...Read more

Gov. Kathy Hochul and Republican challenger Bruce Blakeman traded nasty barbs Tuesday night about immigration, high prices and President Trump in a gubernatorial debate that repeatedly got heated with Election Day looming in just three weeks and early voting in New York City beginning a week from Saturday.

Blakeman repeatedly pounded Hochul for...Read more

Democratic U.S. Sen. Ed Markey took on his Republican challenger John Deaton in a live televised debate on WBZ-TV Tuesday night, hitting on everything from U.S. foreign policy and the country’s current economic state to issues directly facing Massachusetts.

Markey also continued the Democrat playbook of tying his opponent to President Donald ...Read more

WASHINGTON — A search of Rep. Ilhan Omar’s home has sent shock waves through electoral politics weeks before the midterms, as experts said it appeared to flout longstanding norms meant to keep prosecutors out of elections.

While the Minnesota Democrat herself has been on a glide path to reelection in a deep-blue district, some worry it ...Read more

The federal raid on U.S. Rep. Ilhan Omar’s Washington, D.C., home has raised questions about what led to an investigation into the Minnesota lawmaker.

Homeland Security Investigations agents, not FBI officers, carried boxes of evidence from Omar’s home, indicating that the search was related to Omar’s immigration status.

Top officials ...Read more

Although California’s 42nd Congressional District has a new look and new boundaries after last year’s redistricting, familiar names appear on ballots for voters across the district.

Rep. Robert Garcia, a Democrat from Long Beach, is running for his third term representing the Long Beach area. He faces Brian Burley, a Republican who serves ...Read more

WASHINGTON — A dozen senators from both parties bluntly told President Donald Trump in a letter Tuesday to reverse a deal he announced last week to allow U.S. purchases of Russian diesel fuel.

The proposed waiver of U.S. energy sanctions on Russia would permit the purchase of several hundred thousand tons of the fuel from that country, ...Read more

WASHINGTON — A key supporter for an age minimum on social media is not giving up hope that such a provision could be included in a potential compromise online safety package after the midterm elections.

Rep. Erin Houchin, R-Ind., whose original age-minimum bill was amended in committee to replace the age minimum with a related parental ...Read more

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Rep. Doris Matsui’s campaign has turned to California’s public records law in its latest effort to scrutinize congressional challenger and Sacramento Council member Mai Vang.

The campaign submitted a public records request on Friday seeking forms filed to the Sacramento mayor by Vang in which she cites preferences for...Read more

Kimberly Guilfoyle resigned her post as ambassador to Greece on Tuesday, after being asked to do so by President Trump amid a wave of misconduct allegations she has denied.

Guilfoyle, a former Trump campaign surrogate and onetime fiancee of Donald Trump Jr., faced allegations including an offer to use her influence in Trump’s orbit in ...Read more

LANSING, Mich. — Republican President Donald Trump might hold an event on Oct 25 in Marysville, near the U.S. border with Canada, as a fight over tariffs has become one of the defining issues of Michigan's 2026 campaign.

Trump's plans could still change, but for now, his team is taking steps to prepare for a potential visit to St. Clair ...Read more

WASHINGTON — With President Donald Trump’s national job approval rating hovering near 37 percent, it’s no surprise that dozens of Republican incumbents are sweating their reelection bids. But the GOP’s struggle to hold open seats might tell the story of the midterm elections.

While Republican incumbents such as Brian Fitzpatrick of ...Read more

President Donald Trump urged voters to pick Republican Michele Tafoya in Minnesota’s U.S. Senate race, the first time he has weighed in on the election this year.

“You have to vote for Michele Tafoya, who is a very respected person,” Trump said at a rally in Youngstown, Ohio, on Monday. “She’s very respected.”

The directive may ...Read more