SACRAMENTO, Calif. — U.S. Rep. David Valadao, R-Hanford, is once again facing a competitive reelection campaign for his seat in Congress.

Valadao, 49, has won six of the past seven elections in California’s 22nd Congressional District, overcoming a Democratic registration advantage in the Central Valley. The district, which spans the ...Read more

President Donald Trump is giving grudging praise to Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., even as he derides her fellow progressive lawmakers and candidates ahead of the congressional midterms.

Continuing his effort to blunt what polls say is a building Democratic blue wave, Trump told a cheering crowd in Michigan that he has surprising few ...Read more

Serbia’s surprise rejection of veteran leader Aleksandar Vucic hands political power to an opaque protest movement with no track record.

The Student List, formed from backers of mass anti-government protests that gripped the nation for nearly two years, won an outright majority in a snap general election promising to stamp out corruption and ...Read more

WASHINGTON — The backsides of Ohio GOP Sen. Jon Husted, rapper Nicki Minaj, even former Rep. Mike Rogers. As the midterm campaign enters its home stretch, President Donald Trump has talked up what he claims are the benefits of increasingly unpopular data centers, at the same time that he has made headlines taking about the physiques of Husted ...Read more

Brazilian markets suffered steep losses after President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva pulled off a stunning comeback to defeat Flávio Bolsonaro, the right-wing candidate that many investors preferred.

Brazil’s real slumped 11% in early Monday trading, while some longer-dated swap-rates contracts surged almost 300 basis points, after hitting ...Read more

On the evening of Oct. 11, just weeks before the 2026 midterm elections, a federal judge ordered the Trump administration to stop airing taxpayer-funded television advertisements praising President Donald Trump.

Yet two of the ads continued running past the court’s deadline, including during broadcasts of “60 Minutes” and “ABC...Read more

It may not be as shocking as rogue AI agents hacking another system, but the current political resistance to data centers has taken a surprising turn: It’s bringing together strange bedfellows, from democratic socialist Sen. Bernie Sanders to right-wing strategist Steve Bannon.

Organized opposition to new data centers, made up of a ...Read more

WASHINGTON — House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries knows Democrats need to finish the work, but just over a week before the midterm elections he sounds like a man preparing to be the next speaker.

Jeffries, D-N.Y., already has a to-do list for the new Congress, including measures aimed at stopping the Iran war and reviving lapsed health care ...Read more

For months, Israeli opposition leader Gadi Eisenkot has pitched himself as a modest alternative to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, campaigning more on reliability than a markedly different approach to the country’s myriad security challenges.

But in the final days of the election campaign, the question of Iran – and of Israel’s future ...Read more

If you’ve watched TV lately, you’ve probably seen this ad. Put out by Byron Donalds’ campaign, it features footage of a restaurant server, a utility worker and a senior-citizen couple, followed by a contemptuous voiceover accusing the Democratic gubernatorial candidate of wanting to raise taxes on tips, overtime, and Social Security.

The...Read more

Having failed to keep the trust of voters he needs to keep Congress red while barring all others from casting ballots, Donald Trump is now setting the stage for midterm chaos.

This state’s cozy relationship with the administration gives Florida no protection. In fact, quite the opposite.

Florida led a legal fight to make sure it could use ...Read more

Democrat Bob Harvie holds a narrow lead over Republican U.S. Rep. Brian Fitzpatrick in a Bucks County race that could decide control of the U.S. House.

The Bucks County commissioner leads the five-term Republican lawmaker 48% to 46% in a new poll of likely voters from The Inquirer, the New York Times, and Siena University.

Harvie’s lead is ...Read more

President Donald Trump said it’s “getting to be decision time” on whether he will make a deal with Tehran or resume attacks as Iranian and Houthi threats against Americans in the Middle East continue to grow.

“I have a decision to make: Do I finish it off, which would be very easy to do, or do I make a deal? That’s all,” Trump said ...Read more

In late September, Republican Speaker of the House Mike Johnson vowed in a social media video that his party would “defy the odds” in the San Diego region’s most competitive race.

Standing beside Republican candidate and San Diego County Supervisor Jim Desmond, Johnson called the 48th Congressional District — split between San Diego and...Read more

President Donald Trump said it’s “getting to be decision time” on whether he will make a deal with Tehran or resume attacks as Iranian and Houthi threats against Americans in the Middle East continue to grow.

“I have a decision to make: Do I finish it off, which would be very easy to do, or do I make a deal? That’s all,” Trump said ...Read more

In September, just weeks before Americans were set to vote in this year's midterm elections, a sudden panic over the dangers posed by artificial intelligence caught the White House off guard. A whistleblower had gained viral attention warning the technology could soon pose an existential threat.

President Trump was quick to dismiss concerns, ...Read more

Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva wasn’t going down without a fight. And his fans weren’t ready to give up on him. Here, marching down Sao Paulo’s most iconic avenue, they were bearing witness to what may turn out to be the last rally by the most defining figure of Latin America’s left.

On Saturday, hours before Brazilians headed to the polls ...Read more

Israel’s election campaign has been consumed by Iran, national security and the impact of three years of war, with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his main challenger, Gadi Eisenkot, rarely straying from the theme.

Those fixations belie a sobering reality for Israeli households: overshadowing Tuesday’s ballot is an economic ...Read more

President Donald Trump defended his decision to wield tariffs during a campaign rally in Georgia, saying they’ve made the U.S. richer as he announced that Volkswagen AG agreed to build a new $4.2 billion Audi plant in the state.

“Think of that. 200,000 cars a year. That’s incredible,” Trump told a crowd in the city of Perry. “This ...Read more