Darline Graham, the sister of the late Senator Lindsey Graham, is running in a crowded Republican Senate primary on Tuesday.

The Senate has passed a short-term measure to keep federal agencies funded into early December and avoid a government shutdown during campaign season.

States are debating whether to crack down on social media influencers making political advertisements without disclosing that they were paid.

Mississippi does not top the list of hotly contested U.S. Senate races this fall.

Michigan Democrats are showing unity behind their statewide candidates.

Scott Colom is a Black man and a Democrat running for the U.S. Senate in Mississippi, a state traditionally led by white conservatives.

The 2026 U.S. Senate race is poised to be one of Texas’ most competitive statewide races in years. We’re tracking the latest polls so you can see who’s ahead.

Republican Sen. Jon Husted of Ohio is calling on Rep. Max Miller to resign his House seat and abandon his fall reelection bid.

Wisconsin is the latest state where the battle over the direction of the Democratic Party will play out.

Former Tennessee Agriculture Commissioner Charlie Hatcher has defeated Congressman Andy Ogles in a Republican primary.

Jeanine Pirro this week found out there’s a tradeoff between loyalty to President Donald Trump and being loyal to reality.

Abdul El-Sayed has won Michigan’s Democratic nomination for U.S. Senate in a victory for the party’s progressive wing in a battleground state.

House Democrats are adding a dozen Republican-held seats to their list of targets for the November midterms.

After hitting his GOP foe for voting under an address where he no longer lived, the Tribune and ProPublica found the Democratic Senate candidate also appears to have done so.

Missouri’s top election official has rejected a petition for a statewide referendum on new congressional districts backed by President Donald Trump.

Maryland voters will decide in November whether to clear the way for a new congressional map that would favor Democrats in all eight of the state’s U.S. House districts.

The House Ethics Committee says it has opened an investigation into domestic abuse allegations made against Republican Rep. Max Miller.

The Democratic Senate race between Rep. Haley Stevens and former public health official Abdul El-Sayed is one of the clearest tests yet of the party’s future.

President Donald Trump is making a rare visit to California and Nevada to try to draw contrasts with Democrats on the economy and other issues.

Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche has cleared a critical hurdle in his bid to be confirmed to the post after swaying Republican holdouts on a Senate committee to advance his nomination for a floor vote.

In the survey released Tuesday, just 7% of Black Texans who voted in recent elections said they are less likely to vote in November due to Rep. Jasmine Crockett’s Democratic primary loss.

U.S. Rep. Haley Stevens and progressive Abdul El-Sayed are in a close race for the Democratic Senate nomination in Michigan.

Virginia Democrats picked establishment candidates to take on Republican incumbents in two congressional districts the party hopes to flip in November.

Abdul El-Sayed’s victory in Michigan’s Democratic Senate primary is the latest and perhaps biggest example yet that the party’s voters are looking to turn the page on establishment-backed candidates in must-win battlegrounds.

Washington state will hold a primary Tuesday for the U.S. House and other offices as firefighters battle wildfires that have devastated the Spokane area and forced local election officials to operate under a state of emergency.

Maryland lawmakers have opened a special session to consider a first step in a partisan redistricting initiative that could help Democrats pick up an additional U.S. House seat by 2028.

U.S. Rep. Haley Stevens and Abdul El-Sayed are spending the final hours of Michigan’s Democratic Senate primary in settings that reflect their starkly different campaigns.

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.