GOLIAD, Texas — Standing on a stage draped with patriotic bunting in this red pocket of the Lone Star State, Bobby Pulido prodded the audience of several hundred to look past the “D” next to his name.

Pulido, a Tejano singer who has two Latin Grammy Awards and broad name recognition across South Texas, is the Democratic nominee for a ...Read more

There may never be a more favorable setup for a midterm election cycle than the current iteration.

As we roll into the thick of this year’s fall campaigns, Democrats are all wringing their hands about taking Congress back. We will get the House, they stoutly declare, then add a frail whisper that the Senate could be a long shot.

The ...Read more

President Donald Trump denounced reporting by MS NOW that administration officials have floated attaching his name to Ford’s Theatre, the playhouse where an assassin killed President Abraham Lincoln in 1865.

“The story that the White House, or me, want to affix my name to Ford’s Theater, in Washington, D.C., where Abraham Lincoln was ...Read more

A phrase used repeatedly through the years is that “the road to the White House runs through North Carolina.”

But in 2026, the road to control of the U.S. Senate starts in North Carolina, seen by many as the most likely state to flip party control in November.

Which helps explain why President Donald Trump and Vice President JD Vance ...Read more

VIRGINIA BEACH — Rhena Hicks considers herself fortunate that she and her husband were able to save money and buy a house five years ago at a low interest rate. If they were shopping for a home today, Hicks believes it would be a different story.

“I don’t know if we could do it, or we would be in a much smaller place, or maybe not as nice...Read more

WASHINGTON — A federal judge appeared skeptical of the Trump administration’s argument that the president had valid national security grounds for banning three news outlets from the White House, but didn’t immediately rule on whether to reinstate their access.

U.S. District Judge Timothy J. Kelly, at a hearing Wednesday in Washington, ...Read more

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Rep. Kevin Kiley’s campaign has sent a cease-and-desist letter to a Sacramento television station over a new political advertisement that compares the congressman to a duck and highlights his past endorsement from President Donald Trump.

The 30-second ad — titled “Duck” — began airing Monday on ABC10 (KXTV) and ...Read more

WASHINGTON — Amid industry and government calls for a pause on the most advanced artificial intelligence development, leading progressives are drawing a line in the sand on one type of AI.

Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., and Rep. Greg Casar, D-Texas, who chairs the Congressional Progressive Caucus, unveiled legislation Wednesday that would ban AI...Read more

The conventional wisdom is that the Democratic Party has the advantage in the 2026 midterm elections and could become the majority party in one, or both, chambers of Congress. The margin of that anticipated victory is harder to predict.

And the size of a party’s majority makes a difference. To see why, it’s worth looking back to ...Read more

Recently, I moderated a national event that had college students speaking with election officials, something I often find myself doing this time of year. This year, a new question kept coming up: “If I’m voting by mail, can I trust my ballot will actually show up?”

For college students, such considerations have urgency. Many are...Read more

President Donald Trump announced Friday that CNN, MS NOW and Politico would be barred from the White House because of reporting he characterized as false and unfair. Reporters from the three organizations were subsequently denied access, and the outlets filed a federal lawsuit alleging violations of their First and Fifth Amendment rights.

The ...Read more

A disturbing innovation of President Donald Trump’s deportation dragnet has replaced confrontational invasions of big cities like Minneapolis and Los Angeles with a quieter and, unfortunately, more effective crackdown in the nation’s least visible corners.

Pennsylvania’s coal country is among the unlikely targets of this latest wave of ...Read more

The story of this political moment keeps getting written like President Donald Trump is the main character — his impulses, his conflicts, his latest post on Truth Social.

But the more important story is happening one branch over, where a Republican-controlled Congress has spent the last several weeks demonstrating, in real time, what it looks...Read more

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Incumbent U.S. Rep. Doris Matsui, D-Calif., and progressive challenger Mai Vang are in a fierce intraparty and generational battle for the Sacramento region’s 7th Congressional District.

Matsui, 81, faces her toughest reelection campaign since she took over the seat 21 years ago. Vang, 41, is part of a broader wave of ...Read more

More than a year and a half into President Donald Trump’s second term, U.S. Rep. Brian Fitzpatrick, R-Pa., has voted against the White House and the GOP more than any other House Republican.

Yet he has still voted with the president and his party nearly 70% and 77% of the time, respectively, during this congressional term, according to a new ...Read more

Lorenzo Salgado Araujo's wife used to spend her evenings cooking a big meal for her husband and waiting for him to return home from his job as a homebuilder. Now, his son told members of Congress, Salgado Araujo's wife spends those evenings visiting her husband's grave at the cemetery.

In a packed Senate hearing room, a rapt audience of dozens ...Read more

WASHINGTON — At least one Senate Republican is calling for an investigation of wedding after-party celebrations for President Donald Trump’s eldest son, which were financed by a Russian businessman with ties to the Kremlin.

The topic created waves on Capitol Hill on Tuesday thanks to a letter sent by Sen. John Curtis, R-Utah, to Senate ...Read more

UNITED NATIONS — President Trump threatened to “annihilate” Iran if it fails to negotiate a deal over its nuclear program, delivering a defensive speech justifying the mission at the United Nations on Tuesday.

His remarks come more than six months into a war that has grown increasingly unpopular at home, with fewer than a third of ...Read more

WASHINGTON — The January killings of two Minneapolis residents while protesting the federal immigration surge were thrust back into the national spotlight Tuesday when an eyewitness and a victim’s mother spoke to Democratic members of Congress on Capitol Hill.

Twin Cities resident Stella Carlson, known as the “pink jacket lady,” said ...Read more