On America’s Election Night 10 years ago, I was a diplomat with the U.S. mission to Somalia in Mogadishu. We were hosting a watch party with local political, business and civil society leaders. U.S. elections offer a chance to showcase how democracy works and to share American values, so these watch parties are a public diplomacy staple at ...Read more

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — U.S. Rep. Doris Matsui, D-Sacramento, has spent the past few months making moves that suggest that she sees Sacramento Councilwoman Mai Vang as a serious threat.

With Election Day looming, political strategists say Matsui’s worries are warranted: She faces a real possibility of losing a congressional seat her family has...Read more

BOISE, Idaho — About once a year, in recent years, Dr. Becky Uranga has found herself in the same high-stakes situation: The Meridian OB-GYN sees a patient whose water has broken around 20 weeks into her pregnancy.

At that stage, the chances of the fetus surviving are low, “but not zero,” Uranga said. In a best-case scenario, she and her ...Read more

A group of Catholic leaders came to the White House Oct. 22 to pray for President Donald Trump. Unbeknownst to the well-meaning Catholics, their prayer in the Oval Office was recorded and the White House shared it without permission, according to Milwaukee Archbishop Jeffrey Grob.

Everything is on camera, and every photo and every recording has...Read more

A federal judge ordered the Trump administration to not threaten California election officials with criminal prosecution over the handling of election ballots cast by people swept up in a crackdown on alleged noncitizen voting.

U.S. District Judge Trina Thompson in San Francisco on Friday granted a request from labor and civil rights groups to ...Read more

Republicans and Democrats have poured millions of dollars into the race for southern Minnesota’s 1st Congressional District in the closing weeks of the campaign, a spending spree that some say indicates an increasingly tight contest.

Since mid-October, Democrat Jake Johnson has benefited from more than $3 million in outside spending, ...Read more

As concerns rise about the potential for federal influence over the results of next week's midterm elections, many voting experts and advocates remain confident that the nation's highly localized systems of administering and counting votes will persevere.

Facing sinking approval ratings over high prices, the White House has amped up attacks on ...Read more

Less than a week before Election Day, The New York Times reported that people with links to Alaska Democrat Mary Peltola’s U.S. Senate campaign and the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee had recruited a candidate to the race whose name is nearly identical to that of the incumbent Republican senator, Dan Sullivan, whom Peltola was ...Read more

President Donald Trump abruptly reversed course Friday said he would address weekend campaign rallies backing Republican congressional candidates in red states just hours after scrapping them amid grim midterm polls.

Trump now says he will jet into Kansas and Iowa for in-person rallies on Sunday after all, flip-flopping from his previous claim ...Read more

NORFOLK, Va. — Virginia Beach’s Electoral Board voted unanimously Friday to deny all neutral observers access inside of polling locations.

The three-person board had received requests from both the U.S. Department of Justice and the NAACP.

But both the DOJ and the NAACP observers will be allowed outside of polling locations, as long as ...Read more

The Trump administration’s threats of “prison time” for California election workers who process ballots cast by people it says may not be U.S. citizens were illegal and should be halted, a union representing the workers said in a federal lawsuit filed Thursday.

The complaint by the Service Employees International Union was filed in U.S. ...Read more

WASHINGTON — Amid concerns about President Donald Trump interfering in the midterm elections, a number of groups have stepped up their preparations, including setting up poll observers and preparing a range of legal responses.

After spending months trying to assert greater control over federal elections, the first attempt by the Trump ...Read more

WASHINGTON — Republicans in both the Senate and House will hold their leadership contests on Nov. 10, just a week after a high-stakes Election Day that will determine whether they keep their majorities.

The top question for the GOP will be whether they continue to support current Senate Majority Leader John Thune and Speaker Mike Johnson if ...Read more

Lawyers for the federal government told the Supreme Court in a brief this week that former Illinois House Speaker Michael Madigan’s corruption conviction was on solid ground, saying he was “not a low-level or novice official” and noting he testified himself that it was illegal to exchange benefits for official action.

Madigan, who turns ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — Democratic and independent voters could play the spoiler in a battle between two Republican incumbents vying for a solidly red congressional seat in Orange and Riverside counties.

Thanks to redistricting, Reps. Ken Calvert of Corona and Young Kim of Anaheim are pitted against one another in Congressional District 40, a newly ...Read more

On March 31, 2026, President Donald Trump was asked about plans for his presidential library, the archive that presidents build to house their administration’s records.

His was most likely going to be a hotel, he said, with “a beautiful building underneath and a 747 Air Force One in the lobby.”

“I don’t believe in ...Read more

Against the backdrop of an unpopular war in Iran, Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth announced on July 15, 2026, that the Pentagon would begin testing male service members 30 and older for low testosterone. That, the department later said, would include assessing symptoms of low testosterone such as “reduced libido, loss of spontaneous ...Read more

WASHINGTON — Senate Commerce Chairman Ted Cruz said his panel will take up legislation next month to extend a moratorium on new North Atlantic right whale protections, a move the Texas Republican credited to Maine GOP Sen. Susan Collins five days out from one of the most pivotal elections of her career.

Collins, who is in a competitive ...Read more