WASHINGTON — Electricity prices have gained political salience as U.S. households feel the financial strain ahead of next month’s midterms. Senate authors of the landmark permitting overhaul bill argue it would lower costs through quicker approvals for new transmission lines to get more clean power flowing to homes and businesses more ...Read more

Plenty of criminals are stupid and contemptible. Among the lowest of the low are the ones who hate police officers and prosecutors personally. They are too dim to comprehend an honest officer who is just doing his job. And so they sometimes seek revenge in ways that make no sense even from the standpoint of heartless self-interest.

President ...Read more

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and opposition leader Gadi Eisenkot are neck and neck in the first election since the 2023 Hamas attacks, setting up a tense period of negotiations over who will form the next government.

Netanyahu’s religious right-wing alliance and Eisenkot’s bloc are both on track to secure 51 of Israel’s 120 ...Read more

President Donald Trump kicked off a Texas two-step on Tuesday with his closing argument for why Texans should elect state Attorney General Ken Paxton, with the president arguing Republicans cannot lose a single vote in the Senate.

“I kid him all the time, but the bottom line is, he’s the best attorney general in the history of Texas,” ...Read more

WILSON, N.C. — Speaking at a political barbecue here on a recent Thursday, Democratic House candidate Raymond Smith Jr. barely mentioned the high cost of living, the cornerstone of his party’s midterm strategy.

He never uttered the name of his Republican opponent, Rep. Greg Murphy, nor did he invoke President Donald Trump.

Instead, the 65-...Read more

Grayson Lambert, South Carolina Gov. Henry McMaster’s top attorney, is going to be nominated by President Donald Trump to a prestigious lifetime federal judge’s post, various news organizations are reporting.

Lambert, 39, was born in Columbia, graduated from the University of Virginia in 2009, and then graduated magna cum laude from Duke ...Read more

WASHINGTON — The U.S. Supreme Court left in force what opponents call a “collusive” settlement struck by President Donald Trump’s administration and Texas to cut off an avenue for pausing some deportations.

The justices on Tuesday turned away an emergency request from three cities and a legal services provider, which argued the accord ...Read more

TEL AVIV, Israel — Israeli opposition leader Gadi Eisenkot edged slightly ahead of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in a fiercely contested first election since the October 2023 attacks, setting up a tense period of negotiations on who will form the next government.

Eisenkot’s bloc is on track to secure 52 of Israel’s 120 parliamentary ...Read more

PHILADELPHIA — The Justice Department’s plan to send monitors to polling places in four Pennsylvania counties is being overseen by a lawyer who joined the agency earlier this year, and whose background includes stints at private firms working on municipal law, corporate issues, and labor and employment matters.

James T. Catania, a trial ...Read more

President Donald Trump is expected to make another stop in Michigan before the Nov. 3 midterm election, as part of his national push in support of Republican candidates, according to four sources with knowledge of the plans.

The sources spoke on the condition of anonymity because they weren't authorized to discuss publicly a travel schedule ...Read more

ALLENTOWN, Pa. — Rep. Ryan Mackenzie’s legal team is calling on his opponent, Bob Brooks, to take down a campaign ad that Mackenzie asserts is “false” and “defamatory.”

Brooks’ campaign said in a statement that it stands by the ad and will not remove it from the air.

Mackenzie’s cease and desist letter comes just over one week ...Read more

WASHINGTON — Until the evacuation, it had been an ordinary day in the office, as far as working for a member of Congress goes. Phones were ringing. Mail was being opened.

“I looked over and saw white powder,” said a staffer for a House Democrat. “That’s when it hit me that, oh, this is really happening.”

Police put up caution tape,...Read more

TEL AVIV, Israel — Israelis voted in close to record numbers in the country’s first election since the October 2023 Hamas attack, effectively a referendum on the war-dominated rule of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.

Turnout stood at almost 74% as of 8 p.m. on Tuesday, according to the central elections committee, the highest level at ...Read more

DENVER — Melat Kiros is already planning her victory celebration on election night.

After defeating longtime incumbent U.S. Rep. Diana DeGette in the June Democratic primary, the 29-year-old democratic socialist has mostly focused her campaign on helping other candidates and supporting or opposing certain statewide ballot initiatives. In a ...Read more

WASHINGTON — If history is any guide, President Donald Trump's low approval rating in Michigan could spell trouble for Republican candidates in the state's critical midterm elections.

Public opinion of Trump already hit a record low in battleground Michigan earlier this year, and the GOP president's numbers have not meaningfully improved ...Read more

DENVER — A shadowy new group is sending misleading mailers to voters in a closely contested Colorado congressional district as part of a nationwide effort to boost third-party candidates and attack their Republican opponents.

The group, called Our Heritage Matters, was registered just after a federal reporting deadline earlier this month, ...Read more

BALTIMORE — The U.S. Department of Justice will again send election monitors to Prince George’s County on Election Day to monitor compliance with federal voting requirements for providing election materials and language assistance in languages other than English, Maryland’s State Board of Elections said Tuesday.

The federal Voting Rights ...Read more

PHILADELPHIA — The U.S. Justice Department plans to send monitors to polling stations in Philadelphia and three other Pennsylvania counties for Election Day, according to a letter obtained by The Inquirer.

The Oct. 22 letter addressed to Pennsylvania Secretary of State Al Schmidt says the Justice Department intends to send monitors to ...Read more

President Donald Trump’s campaign speech in Mississippi was interrupted by a heckler opposed to his plan to build a glitzy new ballroom at the White House.

The president was most of the way through his speech late Monday to a crowd of MAGA loyalists when the heckler briefly forced him to pause.

“Shove that ballroom up your a--,” the ...Read more

A federal judge has indefinitely blocked President Donald Trump’s plan to transform a historic Washington, D.C. public golf course, but he insists the massive renovation will go ahead regardless.

District Judge Ana Reyes issued a preliminary injunction that bars the government from removing or damaging any additional trees on the East Potomac...Read more