WASHINGTON — John Thune has yet to be branded with a derisive nickname from Donald Trump, but the president and his team have turned up the heat on the Senate majority leader. Yet, GOP sources are banking that the South Dakotan has the support of his caucus.

The latest Republican-on-Republican drama has yet to reach full-blown Washington feud...Read more

During a House Foreign Affairs Committee hearing last week on Haiti’s security crisis, Florida Republican Rep. Brian Mast repeatedly claimed that giving Haitians in the U.S. Temporary Protected Status had significantly weakened the Haiti National Police and impeded the country’s fight against terrorist gangs.

Mast, the committee’s ...Read more

Less than a year after Missouri lawmakers carved up Kansas City’s main congressional district under pressure from the Trump administration, six Republicans and one Libertarian are now running to unseat Democratic U.S. Rep. Emanuel Cleaver.

The new 5th Congressional District boundaries were designed to ease a path for Republicans to force out ...Read more

In the opening pages of the book he published between losing and then winning a Pennsylvania seat in the U.S. Senate, Dave McCormick painted the picture of an uncomfortable scene at Mar-a-Lago.

It was early 2022. McCormick, a former hedge fund CEO running in a tough Republican primary against celebrity doctor Mehmet Oz, had made the pilgrimage ...Read more

Justice Anthony M. Kennedy, the Supreme Court's most influential member prior to his retirement, has watched quietly for eight years as a new conservative majority took charge.

He was troubled by partisan gerrymandering, but a year after he stepped down, a 5-4 ruling closed the federal courts to challenges to state voting maps that allow one ...Read more

Every election season, Maryland political campaigns blanket voters with paper mailers, plastic yard signs and campaign literature. After the votes are counted, much of that material becomes trash — waste that few agencies track and almost no candidates campaign on reducing.

Some ends up in landfills or is burned at trash incinerators, while ...Read more

When powerful U.S. Rep. Sam Graves announced he would not seek a 14th term in Congress, his retirement kicked off a mad dash of candidates hoping to vie for his open seat.

Missouri’s sweeping 6th Congressional District, historically a Republican stronghold, stretches across northern Missouri and touches Kansas City’s Northland. Four ...Read more

Three Republican candidates in a sprawling new South Florida congressional district have poured millions of dollars of their own money into the abbreviated campaign for their party’s nomination.

Just before the final sprint to the Aug. 18 primary, campaign reports show:

—Belinda Keiser loaned her campaign $3 million. In addition to her own...Read more

Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese said he will appeal directly to President Donald Trump over new tariffs announced by Washington, describing the levies as unjustified.

Albanese said he would “absolutely” raise the topic with Trump, when asked during an interview on ABC’s Insiders program on Sunday. The Trump administration ...Read more

WASHINGTON — A U.S. appeals court rejected the Justice Department’s request to let federal officials fully move ahead with Donald Trump’s overhaul of mail voting ahead of the November midterm elections, leaving in place a Boston judge’s order that declared the president’s policies unlawful.

A three-judge appellate panel said it would ...Read more

Brazil has denied visas to two senior U.S. State Department officials whom the Trump administration planned to send to scrutinize the fairness and integrity of the country’s electoral system before the Oct. 4 presidential vote.

The Brazilian Foreign Ministry confirmed to Bloomberg News that it had denied the visas. The government saw the ...Read more

President Donald Trump had gone mostly quiet on trade wars since the Supreme Court struck down his tariffs and the start of the Iran conflict in February, making many think his campaign of import taxes would fade until after the U.S. midterm elections in November.

“What we learned this week was that’s not true,” Josh Lipsky, vice ...Read more

The United States is scaling up its aggression and conflict in the world with little to show for it but likely war crimes. It is inflicting pain and suffering on many communities and doing so in the name of the American people. Even if causing such civilian harm were achieving some U.S. national security goals, U.S. law, international law and ...Read more

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — California recall elections could get a makeover if voters approve a constitutional amendment this November.

Under current rules, voters casting ballots in recall elections face two choices at once: whether a politician should be recalled, and who should replace them.

Proposition 5 would drop the question over who should...Read more

The Federal Emergency Management Agency has issued new grant guidelines that threaten to withhold counterterrorism funds from states that do not comply with President Donald Trump’s election security directives.

The agency told states they must “reconcile the number of voters who voted in federal elections with the number of ...Read more

DENVER — Shimon Blau, a Denver doctor who said he was “saddened and alarmed” by the victory of Democrat Melat Kiros in last month’s 1st Congressional District primary, has qualified for the November ballot as an independent candidate.

Blau submitted 2,212 petition signatures to the Colorado Secretary of State’s Office on July 9 to run...Read more

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump has increasingly flashed frustration with the war in Iran, as the conflict that his team once predicted would end in a matter of weeks stretches into its fifth month and fighting intensifies.

The war’s seemingly intractable new chapter has unleashed fresh economic turmoil and driven up energy prices, ...Read more

Haiti’s Provisional Electoral Council has set the first round of presidential, legislative and municipal elections for Dec. 13, with final results expected on March 12, 2027, in what would be the country’s first general elections in more than a decade.

Whether that timetable is achievable remains an open question.

Before gang violence ...Read more

COLUMBIA, S.C. — South Carolina will go first in the 2028 Democratic primary contest nominating order, a move that keeps the Palmetto State in the early window and receiving outsized attention from White House hopefuls.

The decision was made Friday by the Democratic National Committee’s rules and bylaws committee. The full Democratic ...Read more

New Jersey made national headlines earlier this week when it was revealed that 6,600 noncitizens had been added to the state’s voter rolls between June 2023 and June 2024 — and roughly 400 of them had cast ballots since then. Not good.

Especially given the moment, when debates over election integrity have become intensely polarized and the ...Read more