Politics

The Libertarian candidate running for Senate in Arizona — who had threatened to play spoiler in the closely watched race — is dropping out and endorsing Blake Masters, the Republican nominee.The decision,...

In Arizona, voters are narrowly divided on whether to elect a prominent Trump-backed election denier. In Pennsylvania, they appear likely to reject a similarly minded Republican.

Gov. Brian Kemp and Stacey Abrams, who would like to replace him, met Sunday night for one of the last major televised debates of the 2022 midterm election cycle, and the Georgia...

Gearing up to report this year’s midterm election results, American television networks are facing an uncomfortable question: How many viewers will believe them?Amid rampant distrust in the news media and a rash...

MILWAUKEE — Democrats and Republicans raced on Saturday into the final stretch of more than a dozen competitive contests for governor, as the G.O.P. moves within striking distance of flipping the top...

GUANTÁNAMO BAY, Cuba — At a hearing in the U.S.S. Cole bombing case this week, a retired F.B.I. agent described what three Yemeni eyewitnesses had told investigators 20 years ago after the...

CLEVELAND — When Tim Ryan speaks to Democratic crowds in the closing days of the Ohio Senate race, his biggest applause line is about the other team.A Republican official in a “deep-red...

Speaking at a political event in Pennsylvania, President Biden said on Friday that he had spoken to Ms. Pelosi to “send our love,” and that she relayed that her husband was “coming...

WASHINGTON — The Treasury Department said on Friday that the deputy commissioner of the Internal Revenue Service, Douglas O’Donnell, would become the acting commissioner next month when Charles P. Rettig’s term ends,...

Steven Mnuchin, who was Treasury secretary under President Donald J. Trump, moved faster than previously known to obtain billions of dollars in investments from Persian Gulf royal families after leaving government, two...