WASHINGTON — A federal magistrate allowed an unusual, dayslong examination this week of the effort to charge two former FBI officials with lying to Congress amid concerns about partisan prosecution ahead of the coming election.

The extended preliminary hearing delved into the details of the Justice Department’s case and focused on errors in...Read more

BOSTON — A group seeking to overturn a recent Massachusetts abortion law expanding physicians’ ability to perform abortions after 24 weeks reported that they have gathered nearly 100,000 signatures.

That tally is overshooting the bar to put a ballot initiative before voters in 2028 and potentially suspend the law in the interim.

“The ...Read more

KALAMAZOO, Mich. — A Democratic win in the Republican-held 4th Congressional District in southwest Michigan would send "shockwaves" through the country and encourage Democrats in other traditionally red areas of Michigan, Democratic Sen. Elissa Slotkin told canvassers while campaigning with Democratic candidate Sean McCann.

Slotkin and ...Read more

A newly released poll of Pennsylvania’s 7th Congressional District shows voters are concerned about the rising cost of living, and are leaning toward voting for Democratic candidates in the upcoming midterm election.

The survey by Muhlenberg College’s Institute of Public Opinion shows Democrat Bob Brooks with a 49% to 43% lead over ...Read more

CLEARWATER, Fla. — GOP Rep. Anna Paulina Luna projected confidence on stage at a rally on Saturday, 10 days before Election Day.

“When we choose to pick our battles, we win. I don’t play to lose,” she told a crowd of hundreds of party faithful at Orange County Choppers Road House and Museum.

In just a few days, voters will decide ...Read more

Inside Elections, a prominent nonpartisan political forecaster, on Thursday shifted two close South Florida congressional races toward the Democrats.

Both contests are in congressional districts whose boundaries were changed this year in ways that Republicans who control state government hoped would benefit their candidates.

But the political ...Read more

RALEIGH, N.C. — The U.S. Department of Justice is sending election monitors to three North Carolina counties on Tuesday as part of a massive expansion of the longstanding practice across the country.

Alamance, Wake and Mecklenburg — three of the largest counties in the state — will all receive DOJ monitors on Election Day, the State Board...Read more

WASHINGTON — Supporters of greater liability for online platforms that are used to host child sexual abuse material see a path for their stalled legislation when lawmakers return to Washington after the midterm elections next month.

The push has gained steam in the Senate, where it is included in a proposed manager’s amendment to the annual...Read more

President Donald Trump on Thursday headed to South Carolina to boost Republican Sen. Darline Graham as polls show a surprisingly tight midterm race in the deep-red Palmetto State.

With Election Day looming on Tuesday, Trump called on voters to back the sister of the late Sen. Lindsey Graham to succeed him for a full term.

Trump mostly rattled ...Read more

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Gov. Gavin Newsom and the California Democratic Party are sending teams of election law attorneys to five congressional districts to guard against federal intervention in next week’s midterms after the White House accused the state of allowing noncitizens to illegally vote in recent elections.

The volunteer lawyers, ...Read more

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump was back in South Carolina on Thursday stumping for GOP Sen. Darline Graham, attacking her Democratic foe as “a radical left lunatic” and pleading with Republicans to vote.

In a twist, Trump opened the Rock Hill rally by spending a few minutes on North Carolina’s Senate race, in which polls show ...Read more

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — The Sacramento chapter of the Democratic Socialists of America saw record turnout at a canvassing event for congressional candidate Mai Vang Wednesday night, thanks in part to a celebrity appearance.

Hasan Piker, a left-wing streamer and divisive political commentator, took the Southside Park stage in Sacramento on ...Read more

President Donald Trump will no longer hold a rally in Salina on Saturday, the chair of the Kansas Republican Party confirmed Thursday.

Kansas GOP Chair Danedri Herbert said in a phone call that Trump’s rally, his second visit to the state this year, was canceled. She said she heard the news from the Republican National Committee.

“That’s...Read more

WASHINGTON — In the final days before an election that will decide control of Congress, President Donald Trump's closing argument — buoyant, digressive and characteristically off-script — is at times running headlong into the economic anxieties of the voters Republicans most need.

With a war in Iran driving up gas prices for Americans, ...Read more

Israel’s election monitor called for an investigation into possible meddling by foreign entities, after Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and some far-right allies decried the high turnout among Arab citizens.

The head of the Central Elections Committee wrote to Shin Bet — Israel’s domestic intelligence agency — asking it to look into ...Read more

WASHINGTON — Lawmakers plan to give Hollywood some airtime when they return to Washington after the midterm elections.

With just weeks to go before the end of the 119th Congress, lawmakers and advocates are making a bipartisan push to get a proposed federal film tax credit over the finish line. But competing priorities and a limited runway ...Read more

Israel’s election deadlock has set the stage for weeks or months of political horse-trading, with every path to a government likely to demand difficult compromises and broken campaign promises.

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his right-wing religious allies are projected to secure 53 seats in Israel’s 120-member parliament, ahead of ...Read more

Donald Trump could be in the White House for as long as another 26 interminable months, which is beyond depressing. But Democrats are mobilizing to use that time wisely if they win at least one congressional majority in midterm elections next week.

The odds are good that as of January 2027, they will be in charge of the House, and they’re ...Read more

When the Supreme Court heard arguments in the Suncor v. Boulder County climate change case on October 5, it confronted a question that has consequences far beyond Colorado and climate change: Can a state use its laws to make selected companies pay for harms tied to broad societal issues? The answer should be “no.”

Yet that is what the City ...Read more

The Supreme Court heard arguments this month in Suncor v. Boulder, a case that marks the fossil fuel industry’s latest bid to dodge accountability for its outsized contribution to climate change.

The City and County of Boulder, Colorado, sued Suncor Energy and ExxonMobil in 2018 for deceiving the public about their products’ role in causing...Read more