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Jul 29, 2026
The senator's funeral service will be held in Columbia, the capital. His remains will be buried in Pickens County, S.C., where he was born and raised.
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Jul 29, 2026
Orthodox Jewish leaders have lobbied against the Sunshine Protection Act since it was passed by the House of Representatives in July, joining an unlikely coalition of opponents.
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Jul 28, 2026
As Washington remembered Senator Lindsey Graham, his colleagues cleared away a hurdle to passage of his long-stalled bill to penalize Moscow.
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Jul 28, 2026
President Trump paid tribute to Senator Lindsey Graham in a memorial service at the National Cathedral on Tuesday.
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Jul 28, 2026
Gov. Andy Beshear called on Senator McConnell, who has been hospitalized since June, to prove his capacity to serve, or resign.
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Jul 28, 2026
Senators announced a breakthrough on the long-stalled measure as Senator Lindsey Graham, its main champion, was memorialized.
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Jul 28, 2026
Senator Lindsey Graham helped to coordinate a group of lawmakers to rebuke the I.C.C., which was investigating Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel.
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Jul 28, 2026
After exhausting their gerrymandering options in 2026, the party is hoping to redraw more congressional maps ahead of the next election cycle.
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Jul 28, 2026
The South Carolinian relished serving as a "bridge" between the institution he revered and the president, but now that bridge is gone.
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Jul 28, 2026
Senator Darline Graham, who was appointed to serve out Lindsey Graham's term after his unexpected death, appeared somber and stoic.
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Jul 28, 2026
Get live results and maps from the 2026 Georgia special election.
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Jul 28, 2026
Closed ceremonies for the Republican senator, a stalwart ally of President Trump, will be held in Washington on Tuesday before a procession and public funeral in South Carolina the next day.
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Jul 28, 2026
Days before a committee vote on Todd Blanche's nomination to be attorney general, Democrats demanded answers about the since-withdrawn subpoenas.
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Jul 27, 2026
At the final debate before next week's Democratic primary for Senate, Dr. Abdul El-Sayed and Representative Haley Stevens showcased their wildly different ideological stances and political styles.
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Jul 27, 2026
Troy Jackson, a former logger, faces the tall task of taking down Susan Collins.
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Jul 27, 2026
A new statement said the senator was not "medically cleared" to leave a rehabilitation facility and would miss a Kentucky political event.
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Jul 27, 2026
Michigan's Aug. 4 primary is a critical front in the fight between Democrats' progressive and moderate flanks and a preview of the 2028 presidential primary.
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Jul 27, 2026
Representative Hakeem Jeffries, the New York Democrat and minority leader, focused relentlessly on affordability in a swing district.
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Jul 27, 2026
President Trump could accomplish on Jan. 3, 2027, what he failed to do on Jan. 6. 2021.
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Jul 26, 2026
State Representative Josh Turek, the Democrat running to flip Iowa's open Senate seat, cycled with his hands at an Iowa biking event that took place between two cities nearly 60 miles apart.
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Jul 26, 2026
Troy Jackson is replacing Graham Platner, but Republicans are seeking to tie them together as a remade race kicks off with high stakes.
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Jul 25, 2026
Mr. Jackson, a progressive former State Senate president, clinched the nomination at a hastily arranged state party convention.
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Jul 25, 2026
Maine Democrats have chosen Troy Jackson, a progressive former State Senate president, to replace Graham Platner as their Senate candidate. Jackson was selected at a hastily organized state party convention, which came together after Platner, who faced a rape accusation he denies, dropped out of the race.
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Jul 25, 2026
Three Opinion writers discuss whether the president's Red Scare strategy will work.
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Jul 25, 2026
Despite partisan differences, intraparty feuds and the president's lack of interest, Congress delivered the first major housing bill in a generation.
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Jul 25, 2026
Republicans are pouring huge sums behind the Maine senator through a web of billionaire-funded super PACs. Troy Jackson, the likely Democratic nominee, has a lot of catching up to do.
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Jul 24, 2026
Crossing what was once seen as a political red line, Democrats voted against the usually bipartisan measure, registering dissent about the war in Iran.
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Jul 24, 2026
Track the latest polls in Virginia's 2nd Congressional District.
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Jul 24, 2026
A House Judiciary subcommittee summoned Compass, the biggest real estate brokerage in the world, and the listing service Midwest Real Estate Data to answer questions about their partnership.
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Jul 24, 2026
The president initially backed a little-known congressman. Then he talked to Gov. Henry McMaster and Ms. Graham herself.
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Jul 24, 2026
Morris Katz helped Zohran Mamdani win, and then tried to do the same for Graham Platner. What has he learned?
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Jul 23, 2026
The House Democratic campaign arm has stepped up its interventions in high-profile contested primaries. But this week, it suffered its third primary defeat in two months.
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Jul 23, 2026
A White House spokeswoman said President Trump's patience was running thin. The top Senate Republican said she should try finding the votes.
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Jul 23, 2026
Senator Bill Cassidy, who is believed to hold the deciding vote in the Senate health committee for Dr. Erica Schwartz's confirmation, had declined for days to say whether he would back her.
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Jul 23, 2026
Track the latest polls in Idaho's 1st Congressional District.
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Jul 23, 2026
Stop the steal before it starts.
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Jul 23, 2026
House Republicans narrowly passed two plans that would satisfy the Trump administration's funding demands for the war in Iran and its efforts to rebrand the Defense Department. But their prospects are far dimmer in the Senate.
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Jul 22, 2026
Dr. Amish Shah, who beat the choice of the party's House campaign arm, will face Jay Feely, a Republican, in a battleground district that covers parts of Phoenix.
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Jul 22, 2026
The criminal referral could provide a catalyst for a prosecution of Mr. Smith, who as special counsel became a top target of the president's retribution campaign.
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Jul 22, 2026
Democrats and Republicans are haggling about the Clarity Act, a major bill pushed by the crypto industry, as it moves closer to a Senate vote.
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Jul 22, 2026
Republican leaders muscled through resistance in their own ranks to approve the budget blueprint, but its prospects were far dimmer in the Senate.
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Jul 22, 2026
The measure has drawn bipartisan backing amid a public outcry against the practice, but Democrats opposed it after Republicans added a voter ID requirement.
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Jul 22, 2026
Republicans pushed through the $1.15 trillion bill over opposition from Democrats, who said backing it was akin to embracing the war.
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Jul 22, 2026
Jamieson Greer, the president's top trade negotiator, told the Senate that the United States remained intent on tariffs as it prepared to replace duties the Supreme Court struck down.
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Jul 22, 2026
Track the latest polls in Ohio's 10th Congressional District.
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Jul 22, 2026
Everyone wants to know who's going to win an election, but predicting the outcome isn't a poll's only job. The polling reporter Ruth Igielnik shares how polls are also judged on their ability to reveal the dynamics underlying a race, as well as to uncover how shifting tides and core issues shape the views of the electorate.
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Jul 22, 2026
House Republicans have tied their entire legislative agenda to President Trump's voting restriction measure, as he has demanded.
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Jul 22, 2026
Jamieson Greer, the president's top trade negotiator, told the Senate that the United States remained intent on tariffs as it prepared to replace duties the Supreme Court struck down.
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Jul 22, 2026
Times Opinion convened a panel of experts to help voters make sense of the race.
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Jul 21, 2026
Republicans managed to push through legislation to fund the government through Dec. 4. But with Democrats opposed, the stage is set for a broader battle.
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Jul 21, 2026
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth is requesting as much as $70 billion in emergency military spending after nearly five months of war.
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Jul 21, 2026
State Democrats released a ballot for their nominating convention on Saturday that includes Mr. Jackson and two long-shot candidates with little public support from delegates.
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Jul 21, 2026
Assuming he is confirmed by the full Senate as expected, Mr. Clayton will take command of the Office of National Intelligence from Bill Pulte, a housing official with little national security experience.
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Jul 21, 2026
A House subcommittee questioned the director of the National Museum of American History after a scathing White House report characterized it as insufficiently patriotic.
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Jul 21, 2026
Republicans claim that Olive Garden polices its Never-Ending Pasta Bowl more tightly than the United States does its elections. It's not that simple.
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Jul 21, 2026
Republicans claim that Olive Garden polices its Never-Ending Pasta Bowl more tightly than the United States does its elections. It's not that simple.
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Jul 21, 2026
Get live results and maps from the 2026 Arizona primary election.
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Jul 21, 2026
Get live results and maps from the 2026 Arizona primary elections.
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Jul 21, 2026
Get live results and maps from the 2026 Arizona primary election.
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Jul 21, 2026
Get live results and maps from the 2026 Arizona primary election.
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Jul 21, 2026
Get live results and maps from the 2026 Arizona primary election.
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Jul 21, 2026
Get live results and maps from the 2026 Arizona primary election.
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Jul 21, 2026
Get live results and maps from the 2026 Arizona primary election.
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Jul 21, 2026
Get live results and maps from the 2026 Arizona primary election.
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Jul 21, 2026
Get live results and maps from the 2026 Arizona primary election.
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Jul 21, 2026
Get live results and maps from the 2026 Arizona primary election.
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Jul 21, 2026
Troy Jackson, who is expected to become his party's nominee in the state's marquee Senate race, has long been an economic populist, but his positions on social issues have changed markedly over time.
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Jul 20, 2026
The contest in a deeply religious part of the state is a test of the power of a Trump endorsement.
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Jul 20, 2026
For the state's progressives, Graham Platner was tempting. Troy Jackson is tested.
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Jul 20, 2026
Ms. Graham, who filled her brother's Senate seat in South Carolina after his death, does not appear to have previous political experience. But she does have President Trump's endorsement.
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Jul 20, 2026
Republicans now face a worst-case political scenario of being asked to fund an unpopular war over which they have exercised little oversight.
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Jul 20, 2026
Track the latest polls in Florida's 4th Congressional District.
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Jul 20, 2026
Mr. Jackson, who has emerged as the clear front-runner to replace Graham Platner, is a Republican turned Democrat who is seen as close to Mr. Platner on policy.
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Jul 20, 2026
There are important lessons in my state's Senate race.
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Jul 20, 2026
Mr. Lasher, the likely successor to Representative Jerry Nadler, has an unusual back story: As a teenager, he was a prodigy who performed magic tricks on national television.
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Jul 19, 2026
Troy Jackson, a progressive, solidified his clear edge in the contest to replace Graham Platner, as Shenna Bellows, Jordan Wood and Nirav Shah ended their bids.
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Jul 19, 2026
Democrats have a chance to flip a competitive battleground district in and around Scottsdale, but the winner of Tuesday's primary will emerge bloodied and broke.
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Jul 19, 2026
Track the latest polls in Florida's 24th Congressional District.
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Jul 19, 2026
Troy Jackson, a progressive former State Senate president, showed signs of significant strength, as half the state's counties picked delegates to a convention where they will choose Graham Platner's replacement.
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Jul 18, 2026
The move by Cindy Burbank could clear a path for Dan Osborn, an independent candidate backed by her party's leadership. But Republicans have cried foul, and her effort could face obstacles.
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Jul 18, 2026
Of the 103 Democrats who voted to eliminate aid to Israel, more than a dozen had been endorsed by the pro-Israel lobbying group. AIPAC quickly closed off online donations for them.
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Jul 18, 2026
After 103 Democrats voted to eliminate aid to Israel, the lobbying group closed off online donations for more than a dozen Democratic lawmakers it had endorsed.
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Jul 18, 2026
Track the latest polls in Michigan's 13th Congressional District.
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Jul 18, 2026
This week: the Todd Blanche hearing, Lindsey Graham's legacy and progressive infighting.
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Jul 18, 2026
The state's Democratic Party must pick Mr. Platner's replacement by the deadline of July 27.
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Jul 18, 2026
Graham Platner's campaign for Senate imploded last week. The activists who backed him are seeking a candidate to carry his populist message in the race against Republican Susan Collins.
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Jul 18, 2026
The Trump administration has recently sought to scale back sanctions as adversaries develop workarounds that some believe could erode the U.S. dollar's supremacy.
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Jul 17, 2026
The fund-raising race is tighter than it seems.
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Jul 17, 2026
Most G.O.P. lawmakers had little to say about the president's claims of election vulnerabilities, and he did not appear to move the needle on the voting restriction bill he championed.
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Jul 17, 2026
Markwayne Mullin reiterated the president's false claims about voting security while escalating the administration's legally questionable attempts to control state elections.
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Jul 17, 2026
What will the Republican Party look like after 2028?
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Jul 17, 2026
The House has passed a bill that would bar the use of merchant codes specifically for firearm retailers, an effort to pre-empt state adoption of the tool.
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Jul 17, 2026
Voting-rights activists said the changes are a blatant attempt by G.O.P. leaders to make it harder for Black voters and students, who tend to vote for Democrats, to cast ballots this fall.
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Jul 16, 2026
Many of President Trump's attempts to curtail mail voting have been blocked by the courts. Before Trump, Republicans actually embraced absentee voting.
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Jul 16, 2026
Dozens of investigations, audits, recounts and court proceedings examined the 2020 election. None found the widespread voter fraud that President Trump claimed tilted the vote.
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Jul 16, 2026
Senator Thom Tillis of North Carolina, a key vote on confirmation, had demanded the acting attorney general meet with victims.
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Jul 16, 2026
A House panel approved the measure. But Republicans are divided over its size, cost and policy provisions, and many are concerned about the timing before the midterm elections.
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Jul 16, 2026
Ken Paxton, a Republican, has not debated in more than a decade. A showdown with James Talarico, a Democrat, could be a key moment in the hard-fought race.
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Jul 16, 2026
Mr. Kean, a New Jersey Republican who was absent from Congress while being treated for depression, has since appeared at few campaign events and declined interview requests.
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Jul 16, 2026
In the first half of this year, Democrats raised more cash in every key Senate race except Iowa.
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