Politics

The Senate race in Maine between Susan Collins and Graham Platner started in a near tie, according to a New York Times/Portland Press Herald/Siena poll, but both campaigns may find reasons for...

Bill Pulte, the acting director of national intelligence, has installed as his chief of staff a woman who worked on election-related issues for the Republican National Committee, according to former U.S. officials.Christina...

Senate Democrats plan to announce on Thursday that they will create a program to train congressional staff to serve as election observers, warning that President Trump may attempt to interfere with the...

President Trump abruptly canceled his plans on Wednesday to sign a bipartisan bill aimed at improving housing affordability, one that Democrats and Republicans alike had been eager to promote on the campaign...

The Senate on Tuesday adopted a resolution instructing President Trump to end the war in Iran or seek congressional authorization to continue it, delivering the most significant bipartisan rebuke yet of the...

Janeese Lewis George, a democratic socialist and D.C. councilwoman, has won the Democratic primary for mayor in Washington, D.C., The Associated Press said Thursday, defeating a former city councilman who ran as...

President Trump said on Wednesday that he was pulling back his own nominee to be the nation’s top intelligence official as he again tried to pressure Congress to pass a strict voter...

Representative Kevin Hern of Oklahoma won the Republican nomination for Senate on Tuesday, according to The Associated Press.In a deeply conservative state, Mr. Hern’s victory means that he is overwhelmingly likely to...

Ever since Gov. Gavin Newsom of California started his podcast over a year ago, one of the biggest questions about it has been: Doesn’t this man have other things to do?In the...

For days protesters have been clashing with law enforcement over conditions at an ICE detention facility in New Jersey. Our reporter Hamed Aleaziz explains how these complaints persist across the country, and...