Politics

For months, the Democratic establishment had issued increasingly dire warnings that Dr. Abdul El-Sayed, a progressive Michigan firebrand who had never won an election, would struggle to win a swing-state Senate seat...

The political world’s attention has turned this week to Michigan, where the Democratic primary for Senate has become the party’s most expensive — and ugliest — fight of the summer.The contest, between...

The scope of cyberattacks on U.S. water systems has grown to include at least seven states and may be far wider, officials and experts warned, as the authorities raced to safeguard the...

President Trump said on Monday that there was “a good chance” a new round of diplomacy with Iran could yield a breakthrough, but warned that he would quickly resume the airstrikes he...

The hearing had just started and Judge Arun Subramanian was no longer allowing Manhattan federal prosecutors to finish their sentences.Instead, he pressed a top prosecutor, Sean Buckley, for an explanation: Why had...

The Justice Department said on Thursday that it would withdraw the subpoenas that sought phone records and grand jury testimony from New York Times journalists who had reported on the security capabilities...

Troy Jackson, a progressive, has built a clear edge in Maine’s abbreviated nomination process to replace Graham Platner as the Democratic Senate nominee after he dropped out this month under pressure from...

Some of the nation’s top law enforcement officials were not pleased when the White House embarked on its push to assert more political control over more than $1 trillion in annual federal...

President Trump said on Tuesday that he would discuss election security and voting machines during an address to the country Thursday night, a potential escalation in his efforts to suggest that U.S....

The Supreme Court is asking for millions of dollars from Congress to draft plans for a new facility to screen visitors outside the court’s home on Capitol Hill, as security threats against...