Secretary of State Marco Rubio said Monday that the Trump administration obtained assurances from Venezuela’s interim government weeks before María Corina Machado’s surprise return that the opposition leader could enter the country safely and move freely, providing the clearest account yet of Washington’s role in her homecoming after ...Read more

Democratic members of the House Judiciary Committee issued a 53-page report Monday alleging that five women have accused President Donald Trump of rape or sexual assault while in the company of sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein, or shortly after meeting the men together, decades before his presidency.

The Committee presented at least one new ...Read more

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump’s threat to veto everything that a possibly Democratic-run Congress might send him next year is igniting a debate in the opposition party as it contemplates a legislative agenda in a divided Washington.

The Republican president, who has spent his 11 years in national politics touting deal-making chops he ...Read more

President Donald Trump is headed to Rock Hill, South Carolina, on Thursday in support of the region’s Republican candidates ahead of the midterm election on Nov. 3, according to the Republican National Committee.

The location of the rally has yet to be announced, but the Republican National Committee says doors will open at 9 a.m. and the ...Read more

Democratic congressional candidates in a pair of Pennsylvania swing districts have pulled ahead of Republican incumbents before the high-stakes midterm elections — putting them on track to reclaim seats that President Donald Trump helped flip two years ago, according to a new Inquirer/New York Times/Siena University poll.

Scranton Mayor ...Read more

SAO PAULO, Brazil — Brazilian markets cratered, with the currency and the benchmark stock index quickly racking up losses of more than 10%, as the surprise reelection of leftist President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva blew up the bullish wagers that investors had made on the country in recent weeks.

The speed and magnitude of the rout — ...Read more

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