Voters in Illinois’ deep-blue 9th Congressional District may feel they already chose their next member of Congress in March’s open Democratic primary. Democrats have held the North Side and north suburban seat since 1949, and except for a brief stretch, only two people have represented it in that time.

Still, Democratic nominee Daniel Biss,...Read more

President Donald Trump’s new top congressional liaison has entered the job in limbo, with control of the House and Senate too close to call and a boss who could be slowed by a slew of investigations over his final two years in office if Democrats take the majority in one or both chambers.

Trump on Saturday announced that Katie Bailey would ...Read more

Sacramento Councilmember Mai Vang joined controversial political commentator Hasan Piker for a campaign fundraising stream Wednesday afternoon, an appearance that continues to draw attacks from her congressional opponent Rep. Doris Matsui, D-Sacramento.

The appearance comes as Matsui and Vang are locked in a tight race for the Sacramento region...Read more

Three of the four men accused by U.S. Rep. Nancy Mace of sexual misconduct during a 2025 House floor speech have been charged in South Carolina, according to a news release.

After an investigation that took more than a year, John Osborne, Eric Bowman, and Patrick Bryant, Mace’s former fiancé, were charged with sexual related offenses, the ...Read more

President Donald Trump called for executing individuals who leak information to the media during a campaign rally as he railed against what he saw as critical coverage of the Iran war.

“In my opinion, leakers should be shot. They should be shot. In the old days, we used to shoot leakers,” Trump said at the campaign event in Bullhead City, ...Read more

Democratic Gov. Maura Healey and her Republican challenger Mike Minogue will go head-to-head in their second and final debate live on WCVB-TV Thursday night as the general election is less than three weeks away.

The main thing to look for in Thursday’s matchup will be to see if Healey either pulls back or continues her strategy of tying ...Read more

WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court in an unsigned decision Wednesday sided with Republicans in a dispute over expanding discounted television advertising rates beyond political candidates ahead of the midterms.

The unsigned order from a majority of the court paused a ruling from the U.S. Court of Appeals from the 4th Circuit that could have ...Read more

In the race for California’s 46th Congressional District, voters will choose between two candidates with differing perspectives on federal health insurance programs, data centers and more.

Rep. Lou Correa, D-Santa Ana, said the rising number of uninsured Americans and the lack of affordable healthcare available to them is a result of ...Read more

Kimberly Guilfoyle may have announced her resignation Tuesday as U.S. ambassador to Greece over an expanding corruption scandal. But so far she hasn’t left.

The disgraced, short-lived diplomat has yet to vacate the elegant, official ambassador’s residence in Athens, the Daily Mail reported. Guilfoyle is “gripped by the mounting paranoia�...Read more

WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court sided with Republicans on Wednesday and gave political parties and their fundraising committees lower rates for broadcast campaign ads.

Over two dissents, the justices granted a fast-track appeal from the Trump administration and the National Republican Congressional Committee and upheld the use of the GOP-...Read more

INKSTER, Mich. — Standing near a Flock camera, U.S. Rep. Rashida Tlaib on Wednesday touted a bill she's sponsoring that would ban federal agencies from using automated mass surveillance systems, including automatic license plate readers such as Flock.

Tlaib's "Get the Flock Out of Our Communities Act" would also ban federal funding for an ...Read more

WASHINGTON — Democratic Rep. Marie Gluesenkamp Perez and Republican state Sen. John Braun attempted to sharpen their contrasts in a final debate Tuesday night, each seeking to portray the other as beholden to interests beyond Southwest Washington just weeks before the November midterm election.

The senator has taken the endorsement of ...Read more

WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court on Wednesday grappled with how far a law Congress passed to cover video rentals in the 1980s should stretch to cover the modern advertising-supported internet.

The case turns on the justices’ interpretation of the Video Privacy Protection Act, first passed in 1988 and last amended in 2013, and the protection ...Read more

PHILADELPHIA — National GOP efforts to save four vulnerable Pennsylvania Republicans ramped up to a new level this week — with a key group redirecting $3.6 million to boost U.S. Rep. Brian Fitzpatrick in Bucks County and Elon Musk’s super PAC spending more than $1.4 million across three other GOP districts.

The influx of spending in four ...Read more

MINNEAPOLIS — Republican U.S. Rep. Brad Finstad and Democrat Jake Johnson are both trying to put President Donald Trump at the center of the closely watched race to represent southern Minnesota in Congress.

Throughout two recent debates, Johnson forced Finstad to defend Trump’s policies, which the math teacher from Rochester has tied to the...Read more

HARRISBURG, Pa. — Just outside Hershey on a brisk October morning, Adam Kraut delayed breakfast at the Cocoa Diner in Dauphin County to vent about politics.

“I despise Scott Perry,” Kraut, 52, said of the incumbent Republican lawmaker who is running for reelection in the 10th Congressional District in south-central Pennsylvania.

“He’...Read more

LOS ANGELES — Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass and City Council member Nithya Raman traded verbal blows on Tuesday, scrapping over public safety, the Palisades fire and the fate of police Chief Jim McDonnell in the only televised head-to-head debate of the Nov. 3 runoff election.

Bass, now in a tough battle for a second term, portrayed Raman as ...Read more

COLUMBIA, S.C. — Three of the four men accused by U.S. Rep. Nancy Mace of sexual misconduct during a 2025 House floor speech have been charged by the South Carolina Law Enforcement Division, according to a news release.

After an investigation that took more than a year, John Osborne, Eric Bowman, and Patrick Bryant, Mace’s former fiancé, ...Read more

Texas’ statewide elections are in dead heat in the lead up to early voting, according to a new poll from the Texas Politics Project at the University of Texas at Austin.

The latest numbers show nail-biter races for the U.S. Senate, Texas governor, lieutenant governor, attorney general, comptroller and railroad commissioner, with state Rep. ...Read more