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Mar 03, 2026
Kristi Noem, the homeland security secretary, is also likely to face questions about how her department's shutdown is affecting counterterrorism work after the U.S. assault on Iran.
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Mar 03, 2026
The heavy favorites in the Senate primary are former Gov. Roy Cooper, a moderate Democrat, and Michael Whatley, a former chairman of the Republican National Committee.
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Mar 03, 2026
The Senate primary in Texas shows the direction the parties are taking.
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Mar 03, 2026
Midterm season is kicking off with hard-fought Senate and House primary contests that include battles over political style and ideology, age and scandal.
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Mar 03, 2026
The Texas Democratic Senate primary is more about persona than policy, and the same is true for many other races.
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Mar 03, 2026
Kristi Noem, the homeland security secretary, is also likely to face questions about how her department's shutdown is affecting counterterrorism work after the U.S. assault on Iran.
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Mar 02, 2026
The Republicans John Cornyn and Ken Paxton — and the Democrats Jasmine Crockett and James Talarico — are battling in bitter and expensive races.
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Mar 02, 2026
James Talarico is talking up his beliefs and his status as a seminary student. Jasmine Crockett, his opponent, is the daughter of a pastor and is steeped in the Black church.
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Mar 02, 2026
The primary race for Senate in Texas has become the most expensive on record, with John Cornyn and James Talarico heavily outspending their rivals. But Mr. Cornyn seems to be in trouble.
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Mar 02, 2026
The primary race for Senate in Texas has become the most expensive on record, with John Cornyn and James Talarico heavily outspending their rivals. But Mr. Cornyn seems to be in trouble.
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Mar 02, 2026
The Constitution isn't a technicality.
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Mar 02, 2026
Primary contests in Texas could help decide control of the House and Senate in November, and North Carolina and Arkansas are also holding elections on Tuesday.
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Mar 02, 2026
Ahead of Tuesday's vote, the Democratic and Republican races have become increasingly personal and contentious.
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Mar 01, 2026
Lawmakers questioned whether the United States faced an "imminent" threat from Iran, a requirement for the president to lawfully initiate military action without congressional approval.
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Mar 01, 2026
Donald Trump promised voters that he would end wars, not start them.
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Mar 01, 2026
John Cornyn says his challenger doesn't have the character to serve in the Senate. MAGA voters might not care.
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Mar 01, 2026
Should Democrats concentrate on swing voters or their base? Can more traditional Republicans win in the MAGA era? Tuesday's Senate primary in Texas will show the direction the parties are taking.
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Mar 01, 2026
The first battle of the midterm elections will be the U.S. Senate primary in Texas. Our Texas bureau chief, David Goodman, explains why Democrats and Republicans across the U.S. are watching closely to see what happens in the state.
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Mar 01, 2026
Republicans largely supported the decision, while Democrats mostly opposed it — but divisions appeared in both parties.
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Mar 01, 2026
John Cornyn says his challenger doesn't have the character to serve in the Senate. MAGA voters might not care.
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Feb 28, 2026
Exchanges between two X accounts appear to offer a vivid example of how campaigns may sidestep campaign-finance law to share strategic information.
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Feb 28, 2026
As explosions rocked Tehran, Republicans largely voiced support as Democrats warned about a costly and unauthorized conflict.
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Feb 28, 2026
The round table convenes to discuss the upcoming Texas primaries and Trump's State of the Union shortcomings.
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Feb 27, 2026
The package worth billions of dollars and endorsed by lawmakers is stalled at the State Department as the U.S. and China plan an April summit.
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Feb 27, 2026
Marquee primary contests will determine the major-party nominees for an open U.S. Senate seat. The real action could unfold lower down the ballot.
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Feb 27, 2026
Our readers in the state offer a window into the current center of the political universe.
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Feb 27, 2026
On what makes Congress secret and toxic.
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Feb 27, 2026
The endorsement from the former vice president, her most significant since leaving office, comes as Ms. Crockett is facing a competitive Democratic primary contest against James Talarico.
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Feb 27, 2026
Relatives of those who died in a midair collision over D.C. last year came to Washington to watch a vote they thought would go their way. It didn't.
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Feb 26, 2026
Times Opinion convened a panel of state experts to weigh in on the Senate Republican primary.
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Feb 25, 2026
Here's how social media may have shaped your impressions of the State of the Union.
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Feb 25, 2026
Dr. Casey Means, a wellness influencer and supporter of Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., deflected questions about vaccines during her confirmation hearing before the Senate Health Committee.
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Feb 25, 2026
John DeLeeuw, an American Airlines executive, was confirmed to the seat vacated by Alvin Brown, who is suing over his ouster.
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Feb 25, 2026
Gov. Greg Abbott hopes the ads featuring the Democrat will galvanize Republican voter turnout in November.
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Feb 25, 2026
The race is one of a handful of competitive Senate elections this year, but Democrats seem most confident about North Carolina, partly because their candidate, former Gov. Roy Cooper, has never been beaten.
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Feb 25, 2026
Track the latest polls in the Nebraska U.S. Senate election.
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Feb 24, 2026
Democrats refused to allow a bill to reopen the Department of Homeland Security to move ahead without new restrictions on federal agents carrying out President Trump's immigration enforcement drive.
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Feb 24, 2026
A move to swiftly pass the bill failed by a single vote. It would have required aircraft to carry technology that officials said might have prevented a midair collision near Washington last year.
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Feb 24, 2026
The editor who oversees White House coverage for The Times talks about the challenges of tracking a major speech by a president who regularly goes off script.
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Feb 24, 2026
Senator Richard Blumenthal of Connecticut sent a letter to Binance asking about the flow of $1.7 billion from accounts on the crypto exchange to Iranian entities.
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Feb 24, 2026
The bill would have required aircraft to carry advanced location-tracking technology that officials said might have prevented a midair collision near Washington last year.
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Feb 24, 2026
The State of the Union gives the president a high-profile chance to issue a call to action on election security legislation he has pressured Republicans to ram through over Democratic opposition.
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Feb 24, 2026
As the president prepares to deliver a State of the Union address likely to touch on his own proposal, Senate Democrats introduced a bill with their own vision for limiting investors' purchases of single-family homes.
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Feb 24, 2026
President Trump will speak to a legislative body that has ceded much of its power to him but has recently pushed back gently, and where partisan divides are deeper than ever ahead of the midterm elections.
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Feb 24, 2026
The Supreme Court's tariffs ruling could make for a tense night.
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Feb 23, 2026
The Trump administration for months ignored Congress's demand for a plan on how the Defense Department would spend the money that Republicans pushed through in their sweeping domestic policy bill.
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Feb 23, 2026
The former official will appear with congressional Democrats, who also released documents indicating significant reductions in instructional hours for recruits.
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Feb 22, 2026
The Department of Homeland Security had said earlier on Sunday that it would suspend the priority airport security program, about a week after its funding lapsed because of the partial government shutdown.
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Feb 22, 2026
Some reluctant Republicans say an old-school filibuster showdown with Democrats could paralyze the Senate with no guarantee of success. But President Trump and their own colleagues are spoiling for the fight.
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Feb 21, 2026
Lawmakers have added some of the state's trademark in-your-face attitude to a measure that would expand residents' ability to sue federal immigration officials.
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Feb 21, 2026
In his concurrence to the ruling invalidating President Trump's tariffs, Justice Neil M. Gorsuch made a forceful case for the sanctity of the legislative process — and an implicit critique of its current dysfunction.
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Feb 21, 2026
Some reluctant Republicans say an old-school filibuster showdown with Democrats could paralyze the Senate with no guarantee of success. But President Trump and their own colleagues are spoiling for the fight.
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Feb 21, 2026
New Jersey lawmakers have added some the state's trademark in-your-face attitude to a measure that would expand residents' ability to sue federal immigration officials.
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Feb 20, 2026
Senate Democrats traveled to Kyiv and Odessa to show solidarity with the war-torn nation and make the case that the United States should do more, including imposing harsh sanctions on Russia.
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Feb 18, 2026
Both parties' Senate primary races are kicking into high gear.
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Feb 18, 2026
The House Democratic leader has asked rank-and-file members to sit quietly at the speech or skip it altogether, wary of creating a distraction.
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Feb 18, 2026
The House Democratic leader has asked rank-and-file members to sit quietly at the speech or skip it altogether, wary of creating a distraction.
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Feb 17, 2026
The 18-year-old arrested was wearing a tactical vest and carrying additional rounds of ammunition, the Capitol Police said. Congress was not in session, and no one was hurt.
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Feb 17, 2026
There are more Black senators than ever before, but a major Supreme Court ruling could reduce Black representation in the House.
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Feb 17, 2026
With Congress in a weeklong recess, there was little sign of progress toward a deal to fund the Department of Homeland Security.
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Feb 17, 2026
With Congress in a weeklong recess, there was little sign of progress toward a deal to fund the Department of Homeland Security.
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Feb 17, 2026
The agreement, which still must be approved by a judge, would end a lawsuit brought by the Republican National Committee that challenged the state's handling of its voter registration list.
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Feb 17, 2026
In a series of deals over the past three months, lawmakers rejected some of the president's most aggressive attempts to whittle down the government.
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Feb 17, 2026
La legisladora progresista asume un papel más importante dentro del Partido Demócrata, apoya a candidatos moderados y refuerza el mensaje económico.
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Feb 15, 2026
Funding for the Department of Homeland Security lapsed on Saturday amid a standoff over restrictions that Democrats have demanded for federal immigration agents. But much of its work continues.
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Feb 15, 2026
Congress members said that President Trump's coveting of Greenland had left a mark, even as they expressed hope for a less bellicose approach to foreign relations.
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Feb 14, 2026
An upcoming Senate primary contest in Illinois, which is likely to pick the state's next senator, has centered on Democrats' future approach to federal immigration policy.
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Feb 13, 2026
Dynamic SRG repeatedly, and apparently unsuccessfully, asked the sex offender Jeffrey Epstein to donate to House races, Justice Department records show.
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Feb 13, 2026
For many senators and House members, the job isn't what it used to be.
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Feb 13, 2026
Despite a deadlock over funding for the agency, lawmakers left town and left Democratic and White House negotiators to try to work out a deal in their absence.
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Feb 13, 2026
Despite a deadlock over funding for the agency, lawmakers left town and left Democratic and White House negotiators to try to work out a deal in their absence.
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Feb 13, 2026
President Trump's effort to get Kevin M. Warsh confirmed as the next Federal Reserve chair has been complicated by a criminal investigation into Jerome H. Powell.
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Feb 12, 2026
After a heated Senate hearing that highlighted the partisan divide over immigration enforcement, Democrats voted to block funding for the Department of Homeland Security.
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Feb 12, 2026
Congress must stand firm against President Trump's assault on the rule of law.
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Feb 12, 2026
Judge Richard J. Leon found that attempts to discipline Mark Kelly for a video that warned against following illegal orders would violate the senator's First Amendment rights.
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Feb 12, 2026
Senate Democrats refused to move ahead with a spending bill needed to keep the Department of Homeland Security running because it lacked limits they have demanded on federal immigration agents.
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Feb 12, 2026
The program was meant to help hospitals provide for poor patients by offering drug savings. But critics say a Texas company has turned it into a big business, driving up costs for patients and insurers.
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Feb 12, 2026
Senator John Fetterman and Gov. Josh Shapiro do not get along. The bad blood goes back years.
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Feb 11, 2026
Can Democrats win back working-class voters? These candidates are trying.
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Feb 11, 2026
The rejection was a remarkable rebuke, suggesting that ordinary citizens did not believe that the lawmakers had committed any crimes.
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Feb 10, 2026
Dozens of measures sprinkled throughout the recently enacted spending package seek to tie the Trump administration's hands on funding, an act of quiet bipartisan resistance to efforts to trample congressional power.
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Feb 10, 2026
The Maine Republican is one of her party's most vulnerable senators, but she has held off Democratic challenges before.
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Feb 10, 2026
The Maine Republican is one of her party's most vulnerable senators, and her seat is crucial to Democratic hopes of retaking control of the chamber.
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Feb 09, 2026
Michael Gold, a reporter for The New York Times, describes the fight in Congress over funding the Department of Homeland Security, as Democrats push for restrictions on federal immigration agents.
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Feb 08, 2026
Democrats' demands include that immigration officers be required to show visible identification and have judicial warrants when they enter private property to make arrests.
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Feb 08, 2026
A record number of senators running for governor reflects deep frustrations with the upper chamber.
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Feb 06, 2026
Administration officials told the top Senate Democrat the president would release frozen funding for the Gateway project if the transportation hubs were renamed for him.
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Feb 06, 2026
Administration officials told Senator Chuck Schumer that the president would release federal funds for the Hudson River Gateway project if New York's Penn Station and Washington Dulles International Airport were renamed after President Trump, according to four people familiar with the private conversations.
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Feb 06, 2026
The progressive lawmaker is taking a larger role in Democratic politics, supporting moderate candidates and helping drive the party's economic message. Now she is planning a major trip abroad.
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Feb 05, 2026
With eight days until a deadline to keep the Department of Homeland Security running, bipartisan talks on reining in federal immigration agents' tactics appeared to sputter before they had even gotten underway.
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Feb 05, 2026
President Trump froze a program to allow Afghans who had worked with American troops to come to the United States. Now Congress has quietly scrapped the visas, leaving little hope of reviving them.
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Feb 05, 2026
Katie Britt is uniquely positioned to reason with the Trump administration — when she chooses to speak up.
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Feb 05, 2026
Democrats say they will not support a spending bill to keep the Homeland Security Department running without new restrictions on federal agents.
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Feb 04, 2026
In a House committee hearing, the Treasury secretary declined to say if the president has the power to fire a member of the central bank's board.
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Feb 04, 2026
Senator John Cornyn, once seen as a potential Republican leader in his chamber, is now depending on wealthy party donors to survive a right-wing challenge.
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Feb 04, 2026
Bipartisan Senate and House packages, aimed at rewarding new construction and eliminating red tape, could bring significant changes to federal housing laws.
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Feb 03, 2026
State Representative James Talarico used the word "mediocre" in connection with a former House member who is Black. The controversy has repercussions for a key contest.
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Feb 03, 2026
Senators asked Ted Sarandos about whether the acquisition would raise prices, squeeze talent and degrade the moviegoing experience.
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Feb 03, 2026
A lawyer who has been scrutinizing archives for the bank, which is now part of UBS, is expected to testify about his findings on Tuesday.
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Feb 02, 2026
Some hard-line House Republicans have balked at the agreement Senate Democrats struck with President Trump to fund the government, complicating its path to enactment.
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