LANSING, Mich. — Republican President Donald Trump called Democratic U.S. Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed "Mohammed El-Sayed" in an Oct. 7 social media post that was quickly denounced as racist by Arab-American leaders in Michigan.

Trump's message on Truth Social came a day before El-Sayed, who is Muslim and a former public health official, ...Read more

President Donald Trump said the U.S. would not attack Iran ahead of November’s midterm elections, citing what he said were “productive discussions” with the Islamic Republic.

“We will not be attacking Iran at any time prior to the Midterm Elections to be held in the United States on November 3rd,” Trump said in a social media post ...Read more

The National Football League urged the U.S. Supreme Court to allow state regulation of prediction markets in a stance putting it at odds with the Trump administration in a high-stakes clash.

In a court filing Thursday, the NFL told the justices that the “laissez-faire” approach federal regulators are taking toward prediction markets could ...Read more

HARRISBURG, Pa. — Gov. Josh Shapiro and state Treasurer Stacy Garrity on Wednesday sparred over President Donald Trump's leadership, soaring gas prices, the state budget deficit, and other top issues facing Pennsylvania in their only scheduled debate before Election Day.

And at one point, the gloves came off.

In the wide-ranging and mostly ...Read more

The Trump administration is launching investigations into foreign exchange visa holders at nine top colleges including Harvard University, Stanford University and MIT, in its latest broadside against international students and scholars at elite schools.

The sweeping fraud probe is focused specifically on J-1 visa holders, who at universities ...Read more

The Trump administration said it would suspend an immigration program for multiple tech firms, including Microsoft Corp., alleging widespread abuse of a worker visa system.

“There has been no company in the United States, unfortunately, that has abused this system more than Microsoft,” Vice President JD Vance said Thursday during a briefing...Read more

The Trump administration asked the Supreme Court on Thursday to step into a lower court dispute over television advertising rates paid by political candidates and joint fundraising committees weeks before the midterm elections.

The application asked the justices to set aside a 2-1 ruling issued Wednesday by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 4th...Read more

As midterm elections near, Democrats enjoy advantages in national “generic ballot” polling, suggesting they may secure majorities in the House of Representative or Senate, if not both chambers.

But the reality is that partisan control on Capitol Hill will be determined by just a handful of competitive House and Senate contests. ...Read more

After high-level Trump administration officials said they might send armed officers to the polls during the upcoming midterm elections, and after months of administration efforts to wrest control of some aspects of voting from state officials and limit how people vote, there’s a lot of fear that armed federal officials will disrupt voting ...Read more

In June 2026, the U.S. Supreme Court agreed to hear appeals of two lower court rulings that challenged assault weapons restrictions. The high court will decide whether the Second and 14th amendments protect the right to possess semi-automatic rifles like the AR-15. This marks a reversal for the court, which for years has declined to consider ...Read more

CHICAGO — Former U.S. Rep. Melissa Bean, a centrist Democrat whose 2004 upset helped begin the northwest suburbs’ shift to the left, is seeking a comeback in Illinois’ 8th Congressional District against Republican Jennifer Davis, a tech entrepreneur running for office for the first time.

The two are vying in the Nov. 3 general election to...Read more

President Trump told a crowd in Texas on Wednesday night that he would not allow Iran to attack San Diego or Los Angeles, a comment that came two days after he made off-the-cuff remarks suggesting the West Coast cities could be struck.

"You want to see a horror show? You want to see problems? Let them hit San Diego, let them hit Los Angeles," ...Read more

BERTHOUD, Colo. — The candidates vying to represent Colorado’s 8th Congressional District clashed on stage Wednesday night, with U.S. Rep. Gabe Evans calling his opponent the “most radical candidate” while former state lawmaker Manny Rutinel claimed Evans “seeks the approval of one man” — Donald Trump.

The debate, which drew ...Read more

Senate Commerce Committee ranking member Maria Cantwell, D-Wash., released a framework for artificial intelligence regulation Wednesday that includes a major role for the federal government in setting safety standards and testing models for catastrophic risk.

The six-point framework, which does not include legislative text, stands in contrast ...Read more

U.S. Republican Sen. Thom Tillis is set to take on a new role at Davidson College after his time in the Senate.

Tillis will serve as a leader-in-residence with Davidson’s new D.G. and Harriet Wall Martin Institute for Public Good, the college announced Wednesday. Former U.N. Ambassador Susan Rice and Arab American Institute President James ...Read more

The Democratic National Committee filed a lawsuit accusing the Trump administration of unlawfully using government money to pay for advertisements lauding the president that have been airing on cable and broadcast television stations across the U.S. in recent weeks.

The complaint filed Wednesday in federal court in Washington by the Democratic ...Read more

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — In their first and only debate of the campaign Tuesday night, Rep. David Valadao, R-Hanford, and progressive challenger Randy Villegas laid out sharply different strategies for winning over Central Valley voters.

Villegas repeatedly attacked Valadao’s record, calling it a failure for working families while pushing for a...Read more

WASHINGTON — Republican U.S. Senate candidate Mike Rogers appears to be breaking with President Donald Trump on another key issue less than a month before Election Day.

"Drinking a Labatt and watching the Red Wings, man, it just doesn't get any more Michigan than that," Rogers said in a new ad released Oct. 7. "Here in Michigan, we know that ...Read more

Secretary of State Marco Rubio used a dramatic backdrop in Greece to remind the world of the Trump administration’s focus on the “unapologetic” pursuit of power, and issued another warning to Europe about the dangers of Western decline.

In a speech on a hill in front of the Acropolis in Athens, the top U.S. diplomat invoked Renaissance ...Read more