WASHINGTON — House Democrats will be able to force a vote to bring a long-stalled veterans benefits bill to the floor after securing 218 signatures on a discharge petition.

Rep. Nancy Mace, R-S.C., signed the petition Tuesday night, giving it the magic number needed to be successful.

“Thank you @RepNancyMace for joining the right side of ...Read more

News stories about campaign finance are frequent in any election season, and this year is no exception.

In Ohio, for instance, NBC reported in August 2026 that there had been over US$130 million in outside spending in the state’s U.S. Senate race. The story also summarized how much money the two candidates had raised from different ...Read more

SAN ANTONIO, Texas — Johnny Garcia donned his signature cowboy hat, grabbed a stack of candidate brochures and hit the neighborhoods of northern Bexar County on a sweltering Saturday morning.

Campaigning for a House seat redrawn to favor Republicans, the Texas Democrat approached Matthew Naef and launched into his pitch.

“I worked at the ...Read more

MINNEAPOLIS — Democrat Matt Little likes to come out swinging when he talks about his Republican opponent, Eric Pratt, as the two battle to represent what was once Minnesota’s swingiest district.

During a live interview at the State Fair, Little proclaimed that Pratt is “scared of daddy Trump.”

That sort of in-your-face style is in ...Read more

WASHINGTON — In the wake of recent dire warnings from industry about the national security risks of frontier artificial intelligence models, lawmakers have been quick to express concern and call for industry or legislative guardrails.

But action before the midterm elections looks unlikely as neither party has coalesced around a legislative ...Read more

WASHINGTON — The United States fired so many munitions at Iranian targets during the first few months of Operation Epic Fury that it “has resulted in strategic inventory shortfalls and revealed industrial base bottlenecks for munitions resupply,” Pentagon officials acknowledged to the Defense Department’s independent watchdog.

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U.S. Rep. Thomas Massie has introduced articles of impeachment against Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth.

Massie read the articles of impeachment on the House floor Tuesday, saying Hegseth had violated the War Powers Resolution by going to war with Iran without approval from Congress.

He said Hegseth “has demonstrated that he will remain a ...Read more

President Donald Trump lashed out at the U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday for blocking his efforts to give the U.S. Postal Service power to determine who can receive and cast mail-in ballots, while top Illinois Democrats and national voting rights experts hailed the ruling and said it would prevent chaos for the Nov. 3 general election.

In an ...Read more

A federal film and television tax credit could boost U.S. production spending by $125 billion and add more than 143,000 jobs by 2035, according to a study commissioned by the Motion Picture Association.

The analysis, released Tuesday morning, is expected to bolster Hollywood's push for a federal production incentive, which the industry says is...Read more

Donald Trump is a Republican and self-avowed nationalist. That, apparently, is true in an Irish sense, too – even if those terms have very different meanings across the Atlantic.

On Sept. 12, 2026, while seated next to taoiseach, the Irish title for prime minister, Micheál Martin, the U.S. president stated that he would “love to ...Read more

TAMPA, Fla. — Two ads released within days of each other show how corruption has become a central theme in the race for the congressional seat held by GOP Rep. Anna Paulina Luna.

Retired Brig. Gen. Leela Gray, the Democrat running against Luna in her red-leaning district, released her first general election ad Tuesday, touting her 30 years of...Read more

Sweden’s final election result is now expected on Thursday, a day later than previously anticipated, in one of the tightest parliamentary votes in the Nordic nation’s history.

The count of close to 300,000 advance and overseas votes will begin Wednesday, according to a statement from the Election Authority.

The delay prolongs uncertainty ...Read more

Sweden’s final election result is now expected on Thursday, a day later than previously anticipated, in one of the tightest parliamentary votes in Swedish history.

The count of close to 300,000 advance and overseas votes will begin Wednesday, according to a statement from the Election Authority.

The delay prolongs uncertainty after Sunday’...Read more

WASHINGTON — The Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee is adding three more candidates to its “Red to Blue” program for top recruits, including an independent running in red-leaning Alaska and a progressive seeking a battleground seat in Michigan.

The additions bring the DCCC program up to 40 candidates as the party grows ...Read more

WASHINGTON — The Congressional Black Caucus Institute is launching a new campaign seeking to turn out low-propensity Black voters and rural voters across the South ahead of the midterm elections.

The multimillion-dollar “SO VOTE” initiative, which is debuting Tuesday on National Voter Registration Day, seeks to go beyond traditional ad ...Read more

Another cry for help came from the billionaires building the artificial intelligence machinery that threatens to upend — if not end — the world: Save us from ourselves before it is too late!

Dario Amodei, the head of Anthropic, the company behind the Claude chatbot, posted a 3,800-word essay over the weekend that called for a global ...Read more

Politics nerds have many ideas about how to strengthen American democracy; however, few directly address silent elections. For example, ranked-choice voting does nothing to encourage more candidates to run if there are not enough. Term limits increase turnover, but even newcomers can frequently run uncontested in general elections if they have ...Read more

For 15 years, I worked in financial regulation and consumer protection, most of that time at the Conference of State Bank Supervisors. My job involved bringing Republican and Democratic state regulators together to go after payday lenders who were writing loans engineered never to be repaid and debt collectors chasing debts that did not exist.

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Mail voting in the 2026 midterm elections will go on as usual – now that the Trump administration’s major efforts to disrupt how Americans vote by mail have been blocked by the U.S. Supreme Court.

The U.S. Postal Service had recently implemented new rules placing unprecedented restrictions on the practice of mail voting in federal...Read more

DENVER — Outside groups have spent more than $3.3 million this month on two of Colorado’s most contentious congressional races, including more than $1 million that came from a super PAC associated with President Donald Trump.

Most of the money, $2.4 million, has been spent either to support Republican Reps. Gabe Evans and Jeff Crank or to ...Read more