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

MINNEAPOLIS — President Donald Trump is losing ground in Minnesota, where a new Star Tribune/KARE 11 Minnesota Poll finds mounting disapproval of his presidency amid frustration over the economy and the war in Iran.

Nearly six in 10 likely voters — 58% — disapprove of Trump’s job performance, up from 56% in June and 54% a year ago. The ...Read more

The proposed livestream of Nidal Hasan’s execution by a U.S. military firing squad gives an old question a new audience. Hasan, an Army psychiatrist convicted by a military court of killing 13 people at Fort Hood in Texas in 2009, is scheduled to be executed on Dec. 3, 2026.

Explaining the plan to make his death public, Defense ...Read more

Democrats are gaining momentum in their bid to retake the Senate in November. This has led Republicans to prepare for the possibility that a conservative Supreme Court justice might announce their retirement before the new Congress is sworn in on Jan. 3, 2027.

This would give President Donald Trump his fourth Supreme Court nomination,...Read more

WASHINGTON — The House Freedom Caucus is poised to look very different next year, with several stalwarts of the hard-line conservative bloc moving on.

Reps. Andy Biggs of Arizona, Byron Donalds of Florida and Tom Tiffany of Wisconsin are all running for governor.

Alabama Rep. Barry Moore is favored to win election to the Senate.

Reps. Ralph...Read more

María Corina Machado holds a commanding lead in presidential voting intentions in Venezuela even as she remains sidelined from U.S.-backed negotiations between the government and opposition aimed at restoring democratic institutions.

Machado drew 52% support in a presidential voting-intention question, compared with 19% for acting President ...Read more

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