WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump announced $8 billion in aid to farmers struggling with high diesel prices while also tying his support for increased ethanol content in gasoline — a boon to Midwest corn growers — to the reelection of a Kansas senator.

Trump made the proclamation Monday while stumping for the embattled Sen. Roger ...Read more

A Michigan congresswoman is among the Democratic lawmakers nationwide who have received threatening letters containing an unidentified white powder, her office announced Oct. 16.

U.S. Rep. Hillary Scholten, D-Mich., received the concerning mail at her Grand Rapids office, she said in a press release.

Scholten said the letter purported to be ...Read more

President Donald Trump announced that he’d host a “Kansas style rally” to support Sen. Roger Marshall, a Kansas Republican in the midst of a bitter campaign against the pastor of the nation’s largest Methodist church Adam Hamilton.

But on the stump on Monday, Trump also lent his support to other candidates that are up for election this ...Read more

BOISE, Idaho — An Idaho ballot measure that would rewrite the state’s strict abortion laws and enshrine protections for other reproductive healthcare is one of the hottest topics of pre-Election Day debate in the Gem State, with millions of dollars flooding in from supporters and opponents.

Its proposed changes to Idaho abortion ...Read more

WASHINGTON — Congressional Democrats and some Republicans are signaling their intention to try to enact legislation to force President Donald Trump to reverse what some of them have called his “pro-Putin agenda.”

The groundswell of bipartisan congressional criticism of Trump’s policy toward Russia, particularly as it relates to Ukraine,...Read more

WASHINGTON — Senior Democratic lawmakers warned the chief executives of the largest U.S. technology firms that their platforms were failing to crack down on disinformation spread by Russia and other actors on their platforms ahead of the Nov. 3 midterm elections.

In a letter to the CEOs of Anthropic PBC, OpenAI, Google parent Alphabet Inc, ...Read more

The Trump administration announced $8 billion in aid for farmers to help offset rising fuel costs, a major burden for growers during the harvest.

The move is the administration’s latest attempt to ease financial burdens on growers — traditionally a strong Republican voting base — ahead of midterm elections. The White House earlier this ...Read more

President Donald Trump used the antisemitic “Shylock” slur to defend endangered GOP Kansas Sen. Roger Marshall, a medical doctor who sued patients for unpaid medical bills.

The unpopular president, who is barnstorming red states and districts in hopes of fending off a Democratic blue wave in the midterms, used the slur to claim Marshall is ...Read more

LEXINGTON, Ky. — The candidates competing for Kentucky’s U.S. Senate seat in the Nov. 3 election tore into each other Monday night during their only scheduled debate of the 2026 campaign.

U.S. Rep. Andy Barr, R-Lexington, called Democratic opponent Charles Booker a “crazy socialist” who wants public funding for healthcare through ...Read more

U.S. Rep. Jamie Raskin’s district office in Rockville, Maryland, received a suspicious letter on Monday similar to those sent to his Maryland colleagues, the congressman told The Baltimore Sun in a statement Tuesday.

Raskin’s office said it’s “coordinating with Greenbelt law enforcement and federal law enforcement” on this issue. “I...Read more

WASHINGTON — Hidden within President Donald Trump’s midterms campaign sales pitch is what amounts to a legislative agenda for his final two years in office, priorities that almost certainly would be met with opposition if Democrats win the majority of one or both chambers of Congress.

Trump spent the months leading up to the election cycle�...Read more

Vice President JD Vance has broken with President Donald Trump over the commander in chief’s unusual endorsement of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu for reelection.

Vance said he’s staying out of the Oct. 27 elections in Israel because he’s laser-focused stateside on boosting Republicans in the forthcoming congressional elections...Read more

PHILADELPHIA — National Democrats are targeting Asian American and Pacific Islander voters as they try to flip a Bucks County congressional seat next month in one of the mostly closely watched contests in the country.

The new 30-second ad from the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee features Montgomery County Commissioner Neil Makhija...Read more

President Donald Trump was celebrating Venezuela’s recovery at the White House late last month, declaring that money was pouring into the country and its people were becoming wealthy again.

“We’re helping the people become rich again,” Trump told guests attending a Hispanic Heritage Month celebration on Sept. 30. “And the country’s ...Read more

MIAMI — A weekend visit to Cao Bakery and Cafe in Pinecrest by House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries and congressional candidate Eliott Rodriguez triggered a wave of complaints against the Cuban American-owned cafe, which found itself caught in a storm of political criticism for merely opening its doors to campaigning Democrats.

The criticism...Read more

President Donald Trump used the antisemitic “Shylock” slur to defend endangered GOP Kansas Sen. Roger Marshall, a medical doctor who sued patients for unpaid medical bills.

The unpopular president, who is barnstorming red states and districts in hopes of fending off a Democratic blue wave in the midterms, used the slur to claim Marshall is ...Read more

ORLANDO, Fla. — A former TV journalist and ex-NASA chief of staff will face off in one of the most hotly contested and closely watched Congressional races in Florida.

Ryan Elijah, an anchor for Fox 35 in Orlando until earlier this year, easily defeated embattled Congressman Cory Mills in the August Republican primary. That was a reversal of ...Read more

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s reelection bid has received no boost from — and may have even been damaged by — U.S. President Donald Trump’s unusually explicit endorsement, a poll by the country’s top-rated TV station found.

Projections for the Oct. 27 vote are unchanged, Channel 12 said on Monday, citing a survey from ...Read more

With the U.S. midterms approaching, about 1 in 5 voters has asked AI chatbots about elections and politics, a recent survey found.

But many voters may not know that governments around the world increasingly shape what chatbots can say. And because many tech companies apply the same policies worldwide, the answers American voters get ...Read more