In August 2026, government investigators subjected roughly 50 military officers and civilian employees on the Joint Staff to polygraph tests as part of an inquiry into press leaks about the Iran war and depleted U.S. munitions, according to The New York Times. The newspaper described the scope of the investigation as unprecedented in the ...Read more

DALLAS — President Donald Trump put himself on the midterm ballot Wednesday but acknowledged it would take more time to end the Iran war and lower gas prices.

If some vulnerable Republican candidates were eager to distance themselves from an unpopular president, Trump used the opening night of the first-ever GOP midterm convention to tether ...Read more

President Donald Trump’s promise to give $5,000 to every American adult if Republicans win the midterms fell flat as critics and even some allies trashed the plan as unworkable, irresponsible and potentially illegal.

Trump made the $1.2 trillion gambit at his midterm Republican convention as he seeks to do anything he can to rescue ...Read more

Haiti’s first general elections in a decade are less than 100 days away, and already questions about preparations are fueling doubts about whether the country will be ready to vote as scheduled on Dec. 13.

Among the biggest warning signs is a sluggish voter-registration process. With just 34 days left before registration closes and barely a ...Read more

Despite being divided on most issues, an overwhelming majority of Americans agree that their democracy is in a state of crisis or facing serious challenges.

A few of the symptoms of the problem: Close allies see the U.S. as a threat to peace. Immigration raids by poorly trained federal agents have terrorized cities. President Donald ...Read more

The U.S. Justice Department demanded that Nevada Secretary of State Francisco Aguilar preserve records related to the 2024 election while the federal government appeals a court ruling in a lawsuit that seeks the state’s unredacted voter registration database.

In a litigation-hold letter, DOJ official Eric Neff also informed the state’s ...Read more

California and nearly two dozen other states warned the U.S. Supreme Court Wednesday that allowing the U.S. Postal Service to move forward with President Trump's new rules for mail ballots in the November election would cause "chaos" and could disenfranchise millions of eligible voters.

"In some States ... compliance with USPS' rule would be ...Read more

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Fighting for reelection, Orange County Rep. Young Kim has removed several references to President Trump from her campaign website as she tries to broaden her appeal to voters in a race against fellow Republican Rep. Ken Calvert.

The two are locked in a brutal intraparty fight over one of the only safe districts left for ...Read more

WASHINGTON — The Trump administration proposed on Wednesday to exclude undocumented and temporary immigrants from the data used to apportion House seats after the 2030 census, continuing a push from his first term.

The changes, coupled with reducing the demographic data collected about Americans, could mean shifts in congressional seats among...Read more

Sen. Mitch McConnell’s monthslong absence created a roadblock to passing a new farm bill in Congress — a piece of legislation agriculture advocates say McConnell has championed throughout his career.

As the timing of McConnell’s return remains unclear, some Kentucky politicians and agricultural groups anticipate Kentucky’s senior ...Read more

The Trump administration Wednesday unveiled proposed new rules for the census that would order the national count to exclude undocumented immigrants and not ask about race, ethnicity or sexual orientation.

The proposals, which would likely face fierce objections and legal challenges, aims to reshape the once-a-decade count of people living in ...Read more

WASHINGTON — Brian Baird has spent a lot of time thinking about death over the last 25 years.

Not just his own, but also his former House colleagues’.

Making his way through the Longworth House Office Building on 9/11 and urging people to evacuate after seeing smoke rising from the Pentagon out of his seventh-floor window, Baird was struck...Read more

A congressional ethics watchdog has cleared U.S. Rep. Ilhan Omar of wrongdoing over errors in a financial disclosure that initially listed millions of dollars in assets tied to her husband’s businesses.

The Office of Congressional Conduct investigated whether Omar, a Minnesota Democrat, reported false or incomplete information in violation of...Read more

President Donald Trump gave $45,000 cash as Christmas gifts last year to his assistant Natalie Harp, as well as two other female aides, financial disclosure documents revealed.

The president doled out the large bonus to Harp, who has raised eyebrows for her ubiquitous presence by his side, and the same amount to communications adviser Margo ...Read more

​WASHINGTON — A grim new milestone for U.S. debt and surging interest rates haven’t sparked much urgency for a new round of deficit cutting on Capitol Hill. Yet.

But with federal debt topping $40 trillion for the first time last month, lawmakers will likely have to lift the $41.1 trillion statutory debt ceiling within the next year or so....Read more

Serbia will hold a snap vote on Oct. 25, setting in motion a political playbook that may see the embattled President Aleksandar Vucic transition to the role of prime minister.

Vucic signed an official decree on the snap ballot and parliament’s dissolution on Wednesday. The vote, long demanded by opposition groups, seeks to try to resolve ...Read more

State leaders are breathing a sigh of relief that the Trump administration’s threats to eliminate the Federal Emergency Management Agency have subsided.

But experts say there’s still confusion about President Donald Trump’s decisions to approve or deny disaster declarations, leaving states with uncertainty about whether they can expect ...Read more

PHILADELPHIA — In what might have been unheard of just two years ago, the Democrat in Bucks County’s key congressional race does not mention abortion or reproductive rights by name on his campaign website.

Instead, Bob Harvie, the county commissioner challenging U.S. Rep. Brian Fitzpatrick, R-Pa., in the crucial 1st Congressional District ...Read more

The Trump administration’s proposal to crack down on voting by mail in federal elections – articulated in a March 2026 executive order – faces its toughest legal test so far, as the Supreme Court decides whether to allow the measure to go ahead, or maintains a lower court’s block on its implementation.

Despite offering no ...Read more

WASHINGTON — Democratic U.S. House candidate Christina Hines on Tuesday, Sept. 8, launched her first video ad since winning a competitive primary for a suburban Detroit swing seat in early August.

The ad, titled "Clean-Up," promotes Hines' experience "cleaning up messes" as a former special victims prosecutor and mother of three young ...Read more