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Oct 29, 2026
Expectations are cresting for Democrats, and some kind of wave seems likely, but so much will depend on a few close Senate races.
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Oct 29, 2026
For protesters seeking a ban on transgender athletes in women's sports, it made sense to protest near fans of the Portland Thorns, who are known for progressive politics.
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Oct 29, 2026
The use of A.I. chatbots to write candidate biographies and policy positions is another way the technology is entangled with elections.
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Oct 29, 2026
A Chinese businesswoman who had a close relationship with Jensen Huang was found to be passing intelligence to Beijing. President Trump was briefed and took no action.
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Oct 29, 2026
President Trump had lashed out at Mary Peltola after The New York Times reported that her campaign and national Democrats helped recruit spoiler candidates to the race. He offered no explanation of what crime may have been committed.
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Oct 29, 2026
Representative Chris Pappas and former Senator John E. Sununu both stressed their willingness to buck their parties on occasion. Neither had kind words for President Trump.
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Oct 29, 2026
Representative Haley Stevens has been less than enthusiastic about Dr. Abdul El-Sayed, injecting late intraparty tensions into a race that could decide Senate control.
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Oct 28, 2026
The government said in a court filing that it would meet the Nov. 15 deadline set by President Trump to close East Potomac Park to build a championship golf course there.
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Oct 28, 2026
The judge ruled that no immediate action was necessary, dealing another setback to the administration as it moves to target voting by noncitizens.
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Oct 28, 2026
In his letter, the vice president suggested an immediate resumption of comprehensive talks, including about Iran's nuclear program.
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Oct 28, 2026
The White House has been rocked by turnover and anxiety over the midterms. The president, who is tightening his inner circle, has lashed out at critics, held meandering rallies and feasted on a diet of news clips and "A.I. slop," as one aide put it.
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Oct 28, 2026
The president lashed out at the former representative after The New York Times reported that her campaign and national Democrats helped recruit spoiler candidates to the race. He offered no explanation of what crime was committed.
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Oct 28, 2026
A Russian official said potential relief for a state investment fund was part of talks. Russia has sought to wring economic benefits from the negotiations on ending the war with Ukraine.
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Oct 28, 2026
As Trump officials stump for Republican candidates facing difficult races, ethics experts say they are being lax about complying with the Hatch Act, a federal anti-corruption law.
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Oct 28, 2026
Keisha Lance Bottoms, in her bid for Georgia governor, has faced pointed criticism of her leadership in Atlanta and disappointment in her decision to leave after one term.
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Oct 28, 2026
Plus, ballot-stacking in Alaska and a polling surprise in South Carolina.
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Oct 28, 2026
Lawyers for the Southern Poverty Law Center say that federal prosecutors capitalized on the informant's money problems and exposure to indictment to persuade him to assist the government.
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Oct 28, 2026
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth and Markwayne Mullin, the homeland security secretary, submitted sworn statements to a federal court regarding the construction project.
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Oct 28, 2026
Long before its baroque décor and class identity became midterm talking points, this durable restaurant chain survived some withering critiques.
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Oct 28, 2026
The education secretary says her old furniture "cannot be configurationally or aesthetically integrated" into new office space.
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Oct 28, 2026
Some of the social media posts paid for by Gina Hinojosa's campaign for Texas governor don't include a disclosure, despite a state regulation that likely requires it.
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Oct 28, 2026
As soon as the midterms are over, presidential contenders are going to need to raise millions, quickly.
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Oct 28, 2026
As soon as the midterms are over, presidential contenders are going to need to raise millions, quickly.
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Oct 28, 2026
Operatives aligned with Mary Peltola, the Democratic nominee for Senate, spent months recruiting candidates to peel votes from Senator Dan Sullivan, the Republican.
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Oct 28, 2026
The move will block shipments from BGI, a major Chinese firm that U.S. officials allege is associated with forced labor and the abuse of minority groups.
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Oct 28, 2026
South Carolina seems like a serious race; Minnesota may not be; and Florida still appears out of reach for Democrats.
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Oct 28, 2026
A look at candidates from President Trump's party who are running on a platform of criticizing him.
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Oct 28, 2026
South Carolina seems like a serious race; Minnesota may not be; and Florida still appears out of reach for Democrats.
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Oct 28, 2026
New polls in Florida, South Carolina and Minnesota illuminate the head winds that Republicans are facing.
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Oct 28, 2026
Members of the team behind the Times/Siena Poll on what the data show, how they've improved their methodology and what it means to be "right."
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Oct 28, 2026
Bo French said the presence of Indian American students at a football game was a "problem." His campaign for Railroad Commission tests whether these biased views are now mainstream.
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Oct 28, 2026
Health officials will now allow some levels of a powerful substance to remain in products marketed as natural. The change could help a G.O.P. donor facing wrongful death lawsuits.
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Oct 28, 2026
Former students and teachers at the San Antonio school where he spent two years with Teach for America recalled a conscientious educator, though there are questions about how big his classes were.
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Oct 28, 2026
Together, they have pursued cases against the president's enemies and protesters and amplified false claims of widespread election fraud, often citing thin evidence.
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Oct 28, 2026
More than a dozen news organizations have asked a federal judge to unseal documents related to a search warrant executed at Ms. Omar's home this month.
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Oct 28, 2026
It was a showdown of sorts in western Texas as James Talarico and Ken Paxton appeared at dueling rallies on either side of a prairie-dog-filled city park.
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Oct 27, 2026
The French president, Emmanuel Macron, and his wife, Brigitte, sued Candace Owens in 2025 over claims she made about Ms. Macron's gender. A judge said the court had jurisdiction over her companies but not her.
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Oct 27, 2026
The estimate through Oct. 16 shows that bombs, missiles and other munitions accounted for more than 60 percent of expenses.
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Oct 27, 2026
In the legal tangle between the Justice Department and California, a federal judge on Tuesday deferred a ruling but said the government already had a remedy it could use after the election.
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Oct 27, 2026
In court testimony, the agent outlined the willingness of Kash Patel, the F.B.I. director, to take orders from President Trump to investigate his perceived enemies.
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Oct 27, 2026
A regional coalition convened as part of a U.S. military effort to disrupt and combat drug traffickers that officials have compared to the campaign against the Islamic State and Al Qaeda.
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Oct 27, 2026
The rejection of the indictment was the latest extraordinary setback in President Trump's wide-ranging campaign to go after his political opponents.
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Oct 27, 2026
Should a candidate light the world on fire, or is being a little bit boring actually a secret weapon?
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Oct 27, 2026
Jay Clayton is pushing his office back to more traditional functions, reshuffling or firing some officials and halting projects to build a dining room and firing range.
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Oct 27, 2026
Recent presidential election polls have overestimated Democrats, but midterm polls are far less consistent state by state. The differences could matter quite a bit.
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Oct 27, 2026
Recent presidential election polls have overestimated Democrats, but midterm polls are far less consistent state by state. The differences could matter quite a bit.
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Oct 27, 2026
In some cases, court paperwork bears unmistakable signs of urgency — typos, unorthodox tactics and the signatures of the department's senior political leadership.
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Oct 27, 2026
The move would be the latest U.S. concession to Moscow as President Trump pursues economic incentives he hopes will secure an end to war in Ukraine.
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Oct 27, 2026
More than elsewhere in the country, U.S. policy toward Israel is at the forefront of the race between Mike Rogers and Abdul El-Sayed.
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Oct 27, 2026
Immigrant advocates called the agreement "collusion" and had asked the justices to reinstate a Biden-era policy that gave immigration judges discretion.
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Oct 27, 2026
Dr. Jennifer Shuford, a respected former Texas health official, had been appointed by President Trump to help steady the agency.
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Oct 27, 2026
The latest Silicon Valley billionaire club is a $333 million political ad machine that is heavily engaged in next week's elections.
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Oct 27, 2026
Little known a year ago, Nithya Raman is a Democratic Socialist drawing comparisons with New York's Zohran Mamdani. She has mounted a strong challenge to the incumbent, Karen Bass.
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Oct 26, 2026
A federal judge stopped the Trump administration from cutting trees and prohibited other changes at the park where the president has sought to overhaul a golf course.
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Oct 26, 2026
Former President Barack Obama had cast his successor as out of touch while jabbing at his extravagant sense of style. Mr. Trump responded at length.
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Oct 26, 2026
By a 2-1 vote, a federal appeals court panel denied the Trump administration's request that it immediately order the state to set aside 20,000 mail-in ballots.
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Oct 26, 2026
Lawyers for James B. Comey said the case centered on an issue that had already been investigated and had not led to charges, of a purported leak of national security information to The Times in October 2016.
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Oct 26, 2026
Six takeaways from a new memoir by Mr. Woodward, the star Washington Post reporter, including his disappointment with the newspaper's billionaire owner.
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Oct 26, 2026
Examining President Trump's praise of a rallygoer who punched a protester last week, David E. Sanger, a White House and national security correspondent for The New York Times, studied the atmosphere at Mr. Trump's recent events. What he found was a faint echo of the moments that made Mr. Trump's 2016 rallies so shocking.
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Oct 26, 2026
Mr. Paxton, the Republican candidate for Senate in Texas, has taken about 350 trips outside of the state since he was sworn in as attorney general.
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Oct 26, 2026
A Platner superfan's reluctance to support the Democrat now running against Senator Susan Collins reflects the party's challenges navigating left-wing passions.
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Oct 26, 2026
Manufacturers and their customers are using materials made without the clouds of dust that have sickened workers in quartz-cutting shops.
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Oct 26, 2026
Norwegian officials emphasized that their country does not have any influence over who receives the Peace Prize, after President Trump used crude language to express his frustration.
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Oct 26, 2026
As political fights over artificial intelligence accelerate, there is now a super PAC aligned with the data center industry. Its first bet is on Ms. Graham, a Republican in an unexpectedly tight race.
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Oct 26, 2026
It's Oct. 26 — eight days from the midterms. Here's the state of play.
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Oct 26, 2026
It's Oct. 26 — eight days from the midterms. Here's the state of play.
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Oct 26, 2026
The left says its populist message can attract moderates and conservatives in addition to liberals. That theory will be put to the test in a series of competitive races on Election Day.
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Oct 25, 2026
The president contended that Dr. Abdul El-Sayed, a Muslim, would "invite hordes of jihadis to our shores" as he sought to bolster the G.O.P. candidate in a tight Senate race.
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Oct 25, 2026
At rallies this weekend, Mr. Obama and Mr. Trump delivered two starkly contrasting pitches, differing in style and substance.
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Oct 25, 2026
A lawsuit by the Justice Department challenging a potential narrow loss by the GOP Senate incumbent in Alaska reflects a new tactic by the president to try to shape the election results.
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Oct 25, 2026
Mary Peltola, Alaska's Democratic Senate nominee, is rescheduling stops that were planned for Sunday and Monday after the vehicle she was in was struck by another driver Saturday night, according to her campaign.
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Oct 25, 2026
On the trail, James Talarico, the Democratic Senate nominee, has increasingly gone after Mr. Musk, a critic of his who has given big to a group aligned with the Republican candidate, Ken Paxton.
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Oct 25, 2026
Democratic candidates are ahead in two, hold a narrow edge in a third and are tied in a fourth, new polling shows. The seats embody the fights playing out nationwide in the midterms.
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Oct 25, 2026
Latinos helped fuel President Trump's return to the White House. But Democrats have won back the trust of many Hispanic voters over the past two years.
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Oct 25, 2026
Senator Roger Marshall was slow to recognize the steep challenge he faced in his solidly conservative state. Now he is confronting dissent among voters with deep economic worries.
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Oct 25, 2026
In his campaign for governor, Zach Lahn has pitched himself as a self-made businessman. His backstory is more complicated.
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Oct 25, 2026
Rick Jackson's run for governor as a political nobody was his latest gamble. The campaign has brought scrutiny to the businesses that made him a fortune.
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Oct 25, 2026
A timely demographic story we've never been able to tell before.
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Oct 24, 2026
With new intelligence and the possibility of all sides seeking pretexts for action, the war in Iran is entering a dangerous phase ahead of elections in the United States and Israel.
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Oct 24, 2026
The Volkswagen division, which imports all its cars from Europe or Mexico, has been hit hard by U.S. tariffs.
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Oct 24, 2026
The comments were his first since the disruption in the country's satellite service. Earlier, Ukraine said drones using Starshield, the Pentagon-funded service, were back to normal speeds.
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Oct 24, 2026
The president voted at a polling station in Palm Beach County, Fla.
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Oct 24, 2026
The 44th president appeared in Ohio on Saturday, kicking off a two-state swing with a rebuke of President Trump and Vivek Ramaswamy, the Republican nominee for governor.
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Oct 24, 2026
With moves in Alaska and California, the department has stepped up interventions in the midterm elections as the president's instrument of unmediated executive power.
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Oct 24, 2026
The announcement followed more than a week of unexplained problems with Starshield, the Pentagon-funded satellite network Ukraine relies on to thwart Russian attacks.
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Oct 24, 2026
The Trump administration says Canadian officials are trying to sway the midterm elections for Democrats. Prime Minister Mark Carney says those claims have "no merit."
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Oct 24, 2026
Gina Hinojosa, the Democratic nominee for governor, on her appeal to MAGA voters and her refusal to engage in the "culture wars."
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Oct 24, 2026
The announcement followed more than a week of disruption to Starshield, the Pentagon-funded satellite network that Ukraine relies on to thwart Russian attacks.
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Oct 24, 2026
The Democratic nominee for governor on her appeal to MAGA voters and her refusal to engage in the "culture wars."
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Oct 24, 2026
The fallout from Vivek Ramaswamy's brutal spot targeting his Democratic rival in the Ohio governor's race showed that even in the Trump era, a political attack can be seen as going too far.
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Oct 24, 2026
Conflict between Michigan's Black and Arab communities could get in the way of Dr. Abdul El-Sayed's pitch in the critical Senate race.
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Oct 24, 2026
The Trump administration wants a public victory soon, as well as a potential path to U.S. military forces in Mexico.
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Oct 24, 2026
Some Muslim voters who backed Mr. Trump in 2024 say they believe he pledged his support when it was politically convenient, only to alienate and scapegoat them once he won the election.
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Oct 24, 2026
The president has spread false claims about ranked-choice systems, voting machines, vote counting and past results to question the integrity of elections.
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Oct 24, 2026
Democrats are increasingly optimistic about the midterms. But they are being outspent by Republicans. And they are trying to compete in states that favored President Trump by large margins.
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Oct 24, 2026
The 44th president will appear in Ohio and Michigan on Saturday, while President Trump will be in Georgia. The two men have presented starkly contrasting pitches in the midterms.
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Oct 24, 2026
Democrats are largely used to losing in the mountains of western North Carolina. Jamie Ager is trying to change that.
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Oct 24, 2026
In states like Florida, officers who hand out fishing citations and inspect produce have been deputized by Immigration and Customs Enforcement, expanding the reach of President Trump's deportation campaign.
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Oct 23, 2026
The U.S. government has ordered diplomats and other federal employees to leave Saudi Arabia. It is also drawing down staff at other missions in the region.
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Oct 23, 2026
Interviews and documents show a Russian energy giant secretly funded a U.S. firm. The deal has been discussed in talks to end the war in Ukraine.
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