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

When picking up groceries requires a two-hour round trip, fresh produce can become a luxury. As a food systems researcher, I see this tension firsthand: People need fresh food to be healthy, but rural regions increasingly lack access to it.

Food insecurity among rural households increased from 12% in 2019 to nearly 16% in 2024, ...Read more

In a 2025 investigation, The New York Times reported that officials in President Joe Biden’s administration, in the wake of Biden’s 2020 election win, had viewed rising immigration as “a distraction” best ignored so that the administration could concentrate political resources on more important economic matters.

Scott Shuchart...Read more

Millions of dollars are flowing into the tight congressional race for Southwest Washington's swing 3rd Congressional District, bolstering campaigns to reelect U.S. Rep. Marie Gluesenkamp Perez or flip the seat for state Sen. John Braun. Much of that money comes from outside Washington, according to Federal Election Commission filings.

About ...Read more

The U.S. Department of Justice sent subpoenas to at least two California election officials earlier this month, ordering them to appear before a grand jury on Nov. 4, the morning after voting ends in the midterm elections, according to copies of the documents reviewed by The Sacramento Bee.

The subpoenas were served last week, according to the ...Read more

WASHINGTON — Two constituents of U.S. Rep. Jack Bergman from the Traverse City, Michigan, area are asking the House Ethics Committee to investigate the situation surrounding the Washington, D.C., home where Bergman lives that was sold to his daughter earlier this year in a favorable deal financed by one of the congressman's top campaign donors...Read more

Minnesota voters on Tuesday will decide whether to give Democratic Attorney General Keith Ellison a third term or elect private attorney Ron Schutz as the first Republican to hold the office in more than 50 years.

What’s at stake? The attorney general is responsible for representing the state of Minnesota in legal matters like disputes with ...Read more

On Thursday morning, a former taco truck cruised into the parking lot of a Tampa Heights shuffleboard bar. One side read “The Donald J. Trump and Jeffrey Epstein Memorial Bookmobile,” alongside a red-lettered call to “Release all the files.”

The other side of the truck featured a timeline of an alleged relationship between the president...Read more