Kay Granger, the first Republican woman from Texas to be elected to the U.S. House of Representatives and who served for nearly three decades, has died.

Key senators have unveiled a short-term spending bill to avoid a government shutdown during the middle of campaign season.

Brazil’s President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva has confirmed his candidacy for what is likely his last reelection bid.

National Democratic Party Chair Ken Martin is said to be in survival mode.

Kansas voters will decide Tuesday whether to elect state Supreme Court justices rather than have the governor appoint them.

President Donald Trump is threatening to push forward with a fund to compensate his allies if two Republican holdouts won’t support his nominee for attorney general.

Democrats are seeing a fresh opportunity for an upset in a northeast Ohio congressional seat.

Gov. Wes Moore of Maryland says he's concerned that President Trump might use federal power to influence the fall elections.

Missouri voters are deciding on a measure that could make it much harder to amend the state constitution.

Mandela Barnes has dropped out of Democratic primary for Wisconsin governor.

Despite sending more Republicans to Congress than any other state, Texas has elected only five GOP women to the U.S. House in its history. Redistricting and retirements could change things.

Voters in Manchester are electing a new mayor Thursday to replace Andy Burnham, who left the job to become Britain’s prime minister.

President Donald Trump says car companies are thriving due to tariffs and other key policies he's instituted as president.

A judge in Wisconsin has ruled that voters who have already returned their absentee ballots for the state’s primary election are not allowed to void those and request a new one.

The U.S. Postal Service is emerging as a pivotal player as the midterm elections approach.

Officials in Pakistan administered Kashmir are accusing an outlawed political group of trying to sabotage elections for the region’s constitutional assembly.

Keiko Fujimori has been sworn in as Peru’s president after a narrow victory in the June runoff election.

Newly released audio tapes appear to show Joe Biden sharing classified information with a biographer and sometimes claiming memory lapses during interviews that occurred before his election to the presidency in 2020.

The poll found the Austin Democrat with a commanding lead among independents and a surprising edge with non-college-educated voters, who have consistently favored Republicans.

Democrats casting in-person absentee ballots in Wisconsin’s chaotic Democratic primary for governor are divided over whether a democratic socialist can win in the swing state’s general election.

The Senate has confirmed Jay Clayton to become head of the nation’s intelligence agencies.

The GOP race to replace Sen. Lindsey Graham on the November ballot is heating up.

President Donald Trump remembers Sen_ Lindsey Graham as “a giant of the United States Senate" and a "true American original.”.

A new platform from the progressive Democratic Socialists of America is sparking Republican attacks.

Democrat James Talarico is challenging Republican Ken Paxton in a closely watched U.S. Senate race in Texas.

President Donald Trump says his economic policies have revived the auto industry and American manufacturing.

A federal appeals court has upheld a judge's ruling that halted President Donald Trump's efforts to create a federal voter list and limit who can receive a mail ballot.

Laura Loomer became infamous for spreading conspiracy theories online.

Former Rep. Cori Bush, outside the courthouse where the Dred Scott case was argued, promises to reverse her ouster from Congress.

The stage is in battleground Pennsylvania.

Former Honduran President Juan Orlando Hernández has returned to his country to face corruption charges.

House leaders are sending lawmakers home for the August recess after one of the rockiest sessions in recent memory to campaign for reelection.

Brazilian senator Flávio Bolsonaro has been confirmed as the presidential candidate for his father's Liberal Party.

Former state lawmaker and logger Troy Jackson has secured the Democratic nomination for U.S. Senate in Maine.

The Trump administration has again acknowledged in court documents that it terminated $7.6 billion in grants for hundreds of clean energy projects “based solely on the political identity of the grant recipient’s state,” in this case, 16 states that voted for Democrat Kamala Harris in the 2024 presidential election.

Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer has endorsed Rep. Haley Stevens in the Democratic primary for the U.S. Senate over progressive Abdul El-Sayed.

Democrats have selected South Carolina to hold the first presidential nominating contest in 2028.

A federal judicial panel has allowed a new Tennessee congressional map that splits apart a majority-Black district in Memphis.

Alaska has sent more than 3,000 letters to residents asking them to verify their citizenship ahead of this year's elections.

Nearly 150,000 voters have had their mail-in ballots rejected for California’s June primary election, a sharp spike from previous primaries.

More than two dozen states have sued the Trump administration after it required them to comply with election and immigration conditions to get billions of dollars in federal funding for disasters.

A key Republican lawmaker says he believes that special counsel Jack Smith may have lied to Congress while testifying about his investigation of President Donald Trump and that the Justice Department should consider prosecuting him.

Amish Shah has won the Democratic primary for an open congressional seat in Arizona.

Republicans on Capitol Hill are walking a cautious election-year line on the Iran war as the future of the conflict seems increasingly uncertain and as polls show that most Americans oppose it.

The House adopted a Republican-only $95 billion budget proposal, a long-shot effort to fund the Iran war and other White House priorities.

As midterm campaigning heats up, both major political parties face unexpected challenges.

A Texas Tribune analysis found Texas' incoming U.S. House delegation stands to get wealthier, with a $3.34 million median net worth among the crop of potential new members.

Democratic U.S. Rep. Cleo Fields says he won't not seek reelection to his redrawn Louisiana congressional district.

President Donald Trump is expected to rally in Oakland County on Monday as early voting begins in Michigan’s Aug. 4 primary.

The Wisconsin Democratic Party is urging the state elections commission to allow voters who already cast absentee ballots to vote again.

The Senate Intelligence Committee has advanced the nomination of Jay Clayton, President Donald Trump’s pick to head the nation’s intelligence agencies.

French lawmakers have approved a bill banning children under 15 from using social media.

New Jersey's governor says about 6,600 people who indicated they were noncitizens were nonetheless registered to vote in the state because of a Motor Vehicle Commission system error.

The progressive movement may already have hit its high point in the 2026 midterms.

U.S. Rep. Andy Biggs has won the Republican nomination for Arizona governor.

Sen. Darline Graham announces she's running for a full term in her late brother Lindsey Graham's Senate seat.

Andy Burnham has taken office as Britain’s new prime minister.

U.S. Rep. Haley Stevens is benefiting from tens of millions in pro-Israel spending in her race to be the Democratic nominee for Senate in Michigan.

Rep. Andy Biggs and Rep. David Schweikert are clashing in the Republican primary for Arizona governor.

David Crowley has reentered Wisconsin's Democratic primary for governor, two weeks after suspending his campaign.

Georgia Sen. Jon Ossoff has attracted national attention and praise from across the political left with his sweeping indictments of President Donald Trump.

Donald Trump has shifted his tone on former President Jimmy Carter, whom he once sharply criticized.

President Donald Trump says Darline Graham, the sister of the late Lindsey Graham, has his support to run for a full term to replace her brother in the U.S. Senate.

Milwaukee County Executive David Crowley plans to reenter the Democratic primary for Wisconsin governor.

Howden’s appointment follows weeks of speculation over who would take over running Texas’ elections before the November midterms.

Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin has pledged to aggressively pursue voter fraud cases at the White House complex after President Donald Trump revived debunked election theories in a primetime speech.

Boris Nadezhdin, who criticized Moscow’s military action in Ukraine and unsuccessfully tried to run against President Vladimir Putin in the 2024 election, was convicted of displaying “extremist symbols” — an action that will keep him out of this year’s parliamentary race.

Andy Burnham has been officially declared leader of Britain’s governing Labour Party, clearing his final hurdle to taking office as prime minister next week.

Andy Burnham is about to become Britain’s 59th prime minister, following the sudden downfall of Labour Prime Minister Keir Starmer.

President Donald Trump said in a speech to the nation that he's using federal power to secure elections from being “stolen.”.

Paxton rallied in McAllen while Talarico toured the border this week, offering an early look at how each will vie in the coming months for the Latino voters who swung to Trump in 2024.

The complaint comes after The Texas Tribune and ProPublica found the Texas attorney general repeatedly voted while registered at an address where he appears to no longer live.

Republicans on the House Budget Committee have advanced a $95 billion package for the Iran war, farm aid and President Donald Trump’s push for strict new voter ID requirements.

Secretary of State Marco Rubio has convened leaders from over 60 countries to take part in the Trump administration’s latest effort to quell what it calls “left-wing” political terrorism.

President Donald Trump addressed the nation on topics that included elections and voting machines, revisiting long-debunked conspiracy theories about his 2020 defeat to Democrat Joe Biden.

President Donald Trump is making a primetime address to the nation that's expected to include discussion of election issues.

President Donald Trump has used a primetime address to question the legitimacy of U.S. elections and push for more restrictive voting laws.

Americans are waiting longer for disaster aid under President Donald Trump, with delays often lasting weeks or months.

Election officials in Arizona's most populous county now agree on how to jointly oversee the vote.

More than half of House Democrats have voted to strip $3.3 billion in U.S. aid from Israel.

House Republicans have unveiled a $95 billion plan focused on boosting defense, aiding farmers and enacting stricter voter registration rules.

President Donald Trump has endorsed MyPillow founder Mike Lindell for Minnesota governor, praising him as “one of America’s greatest and most hard working Patriots.”.

Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche is confronting skeptical questioning at a Senate confirmation hearing about the creation of a fund to compensate allies of President Donald Trump and a tax immunity deal for the president.

Former President Joe Biden plans to publish his memoir, "Promise Me, America," this fall.

Keir Starmer has answered questions from lawmakers in the House of Commons for the last time before leaving the British prime minister's office next week.

President Donald Trump’s pick to head the nation’s intelligence agencies is struggling to win Democratic support.

President Donald Trump will deliver a primetime address this week that he says will include a focus on elections.

The bipartisan Wisconsin Elections Commission has found probable cause that billionaire Elon Musk broke state law when he promised to hand out $1 million checks to voters in the 2025 state Supreme Court election.

Senator Ron Wyden has accused Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. of breaking the law by urging third-party candidates to drop out of Iowa congressional races.

The sister of the late South Carolina Sen. Lindsey Graham has been sworn in to fill his seat, just three days after his death.

The sudden death of Sen. Lindsey Graham is renewing focus on the country’s aging lawmakers.

Darline Graham Nordone has been appointed to fill the Senate term of her late brother, Lindsey Graham, who died over the weekend.

August primaries in Michigan, Wisconsin and Minnesota will be another gauge of Democratic voters’ frustration with the establishment.

The European Union and Britain have imposed sanctions on Russian military intelligence officers, hackers and private companies.

South Carolina Gov. Henry McMaster has named Darline Graham as her late brother Lindsey Graham’s temporary replacement in the U.S. Senate.

Senate Republicans are returning to Washington with an uncertain agenda after the sudden death of prominent Republican Lindsey Graham, a committee chairman and key player who served as a crucial ally of President Donald Trump.

Many longtime residents of the small Alaska fishing community of Petersburg say they opposed efforts by the state to keep a local man named Dan Sullivan from running in this year's U.S. Senate race, even if they're not voting for him.

Graham Platner has submitted his paperwork to formally withdraw from Maine’s U.S. Senate race, officially ending an upstart yet troubled campaign whose dissolution threatens Democrats’ pursuit of chamber control.

President Donald Trump has ousted members of a bipartisan federal election commission charged with assisting state and local elections officials.

Calling into Gov. Greg Abbott's guest-hosted Hannity radio show, the Republican senator said Talarico is “charming” enough to win over voters “who may not be paying close attention to the issues.”