WASHINGTON — Few House lawmakers have risen through party leadership ranks as fast as GOP Conference Chair Lisa McClain. Now comes the toughest political challenge she’s faced in her short time in office: helping maintain Republicans’ tenuous grasp on the majority.

The third-term Michigan Republican, who took just four years to secure the...Read more

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump waived massive tariffs linked to Russian energy exports mandated in a law that he signed last month, as the measures complicated his push to lower diesel prices ahead of the U.S. midterm elections.

Trump invoked a waiver clause under the law, which was championed by the late Sen. Lindsey Graham as a way to ...Read more

ANCHORAGE, Alaska — Tempers flared Thursday as the leading candidates for Alaska’s hotly contested U.S. Senate seat clashed over the Iran war, the economy and healthcare.

Republican incumbent Dan Sullivan and Democratic challenger Mary Peltola repeatedly accused each other of lying in an hourlong debate, and their bickering at one point ...Read more

President Donald Trump touted his economic policies as bringing a manufacturing boom to Georgia as he sought to rally voters in a state hosting a crucial U.S. Senate race in November’s midterm election.

Trump hailed investment pledges from companies including pharmaceutical company UCB SA, tire manufacturer Pirelli & C. Spa and Hyundai Motor ...Read more

DETROIT — President Donald Trump will hold a rally in Michigan's St. Clair County roughly 10 days out from the Nov. 3 election.

The event, the exact location of which is not yet clear, will take place the afternoon of Sunday, Oct. 25, according to information from the Trump 47 Committee. The Detroit News reported earlier this week that Trump ...Read more

ST. PAUL, Minn. — Republican Michele Tafoya sought to establish her independence from President Donald Trump, while Democratic Lt. Gov. Peggy Flanagan faced questions about party loyalty and her responsibility for Minnesota’s fraud crisis during their first and only scheduled U.S. Senate debate Friday.

The debate came just days after Trump ...Read more

A judge threatened to sanction President Donald Trump for failing to sit for a mandatory deposition in the $10 billion defamation suit he filed against the British Broadcasting Corp.

“The court has admonished plaintiff for his lack of participation to no avail,” U.S. Magistrate Judge Enjolique A. Lett said in a brief order in Miami. “...Read more

DENVER — U.S. Rep. Joe Neguse has gotten used to playing defense.

During the first half of Donald Trump’s second presidency, the Democratic congressman from Lafayette has spearheaded efforts to prevent the administration from selling off public lands, closing scientific research centers in Boulder, and blocking oversight of immigration ...Read more

PINECREST, Fla. — With early voting set to begin Monday in Miami-Dade, House Democratic Leader Hakeem Jeffries joined former CBS News Miami anchor Eliott Rodriguez Friday on the campaign trail for Florida’s 27th Congressional District, signaling Democrats think they have a shot at flipping the seat blue as they seek to regain the House.

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WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump bypassed his White House chief of staff last week in selecting Katie Zacharia as his press secretary and chief messenger, triggering days of scathing headlines about her credentials and abilities before her ignominious resignation on Friday.

Susie Wiles, that senior-most aide ostensibly in charge of the ...Read more

President Donald Trump’s slated appearance near Wichita, Kansas, on Monday to rally support for Republican Sen. Roger Marshall’s reelection bid has stirred up both anger and excitement among hundreds of Kansans who are talking about the presidential visit online.

In that raucous public square known as Reddit, anti-Trumpers are planning ...Read more

MIAMI — President Donald Trump is holding a midterm election rally next Friday during early voting in Fort Myers, a part of the congressional district currently represented by Republican gubernatorial candidate Byron Donalds.

The Oct. 23 rally is in one of Florida’s reddest areas where Donalds is already a known political figure, and where ...Read more

NEW YORK — Presumptive Rep. Darializa Avila Chevalier has a point to prove when she gets to Washington: Progressives can “actually deliver” for their constituents.

The all-but-certain future congresswoman from upper Manhattan struck a surprisingly pragmatic tone in a new interview, throwing cold water on any effort to impeach President ...Read more

DETROIT — Democratic nominee for governor Jocelyn Benson vowed not to pursue a broad increase in taxes on the middle class after a Thursday debate in Detroit, where her opponent, Republican John James, accused her of using code words to disguise plans for a tax hike.

The televised back-and-forth highlighted the occasionally heated second ...Read more

LaKesha Womack, the Democrat challenging Republican U.S. Rep. Tim Moore in North Carolina’s 14th Congressional District, was served with a criminal summons at a campaign rally Sunday in connection with a felony charge dating back nearly seven years.

Womack told The Charlotte Observer that she received the summons Oct. 11 while attending a ...Read more

A gunman shot and killed three children and a teacher at a school in Bend, Oregon, on Oct. 15, 2026, the 52nd school shooting this year, according to CNN. The children’s ages were 5, 8 and 11; a 7-year-old and another teacher were taken to the hospital with critical injuries. The 16-year-old shooting suspect was shot and killed by a ...Read more

WASHINGTON — The New Democrat Coalition is already the largest ideological bloc within the House Democratic Caucus with more than 100 members. And Rep. Greg Stanton, who chairs the group’s campaign arm, doesn’t see that changing next year.

“We expect that our numbers are going to swell in the next Congress,” the Arizona Democrat said ...Read more

WASHINGTON — The sun-soaked crowd had been listening to President Donald Trump for just over an hour in Arizona on Wednesday. When some often-used lines about congressional Democrats and taxes got virtually no response, the president decided to go to a dark place.

“They want to mutilate — cut — your children. It’s unbelievable what ...Read more

MIAMI — Democratic House leader Hakeem Jeffries will join Eliott Rodriguez at a campaign event in Miami Friday as the race in Florida’s 27th Congressional District heats up, according to officials from both campaigns.

Rodriguez, a former CBS Miami news anchor, is challenging incumbent Rep. María Elvira Salazar in a Republican-leaning ...Read more

CHICAGO – As the Chicago school board elections creep closer and the city prepares to vote for its first fully-elected school board on Nov. 3, the candidates for president – Hilario Dominguez, Jessica Biggs and Victor Henderson – have been vocal about how best to improve Chicago Public Schools. One issue in particular is student success: ...Read more