by Tim Balk on October 14, 2026 at 3:59 am

Senator Susan Collins, a Republican, and her Democratic challenger, Troy Jackson, disagreed over the war in Iran and President Trump in the third of four debates in a key race.

by Patricia Mazzei and Emily Davies on October 14, 2026 at 3:58 am

Representative Mike Collins, who lags Senator Jon Ossoff in public polls, hit his opponent harder in a second and final debate on Tuesday.

by Tyler Pager on October 14, 2026 at 1:54 am

Ms. Guilfoyle was asked to quit by the White House after a string of damaging reports, including that she had asked a Republican donor to pay off a credit card.

by Elisabeth Bumiller on October 14, 2026 at 1:49 am

President Trump cut her loose after damaging news reports about her tenure as ambassador to Greece. Once a prominent Trump insider, she suggested she will now fight to defend her reputation.

by Robert Jimison on October 14, 2026 at 12:12 am

A bipartisan group of 12 senators called on the president to drop his decision to ease sanctions on Russia’s exports of diesel fuel, saying the deal would help Moscow continue the war in Ukraine.

by Shawn McCreesh on October 13, 2026 at 11:49 pm

Ms. Zacharia spent eight minutes reading from a script, called on only three reporters and made an awkward slip-up.

by Jess Bidgood on October 13, 2026 at 10:43 pm

A quarter-billion dollars to help Republicans hold Congress.

by Ernesto Londoño, Alan Feuer and Devlin Barrett on October 13, 2026 at 10:40 pm

After years of investigation, the Justice Department appears to be intensifying a criminal inquiry into the immigration history of Ilhan Omar, a Minnesota Democrat, and her family.

by Rebecca Davis O’Brien on October 13, 2026 at 9:30 pm

The United Auto Workers has grown under Mr. Fain, who has also drawn scrutiny from federal prosecutors.

by Dustin Volz on October 13, 2026 at 7:04 pm

F.B.I. investigators worked with the cybersecurity firm CrowdStrike to dismantle so-called laptop farms that steal American identities to earn cash for Pyongyang.

by Zach Montague on October 13, 2026 at 6:56 pm

The ruling barred major modifications at the D.C. course while a federal judge seeks testimony from Interior Department officials about whether they ignored a court order.

by Laura Chung on October 13, 2026 at 6:32 pm

President Trump made the remark in response to a question about the U.S. ambassador to Greece, who faces accusations that she asked a G.O.P. donor to pay off her credit card.

by Anatoly Kurmanaev and Tyler Pager on October 13, 2026 at 5:42 pm

A Turkish businessman once allied with the Maduro regime has tied the knot with President Trump’s former personal lawyer, Alina Habba, at the same time he is seeking to retain a big contract in Venezuela.

by Ann E. Marimow on October 13, 2026 at 4:29 pm

A nonprofit watchdog group sued the Department of Government Efficiency, asserting that it should be subject to federal Freedom of Information Act discovery requests.

by David W. Chen on October 13, 2026 at 1:21 pm

Extreme weather is driving up insurance rates, impacting races from California to the nation’s central Tornado Alley.

by Shane Goldmacher on October 13, 2026 at 12:00 pm

Two major Republican super PACs are said to be withdrawing cash from the races of the incumbent Representatives Thomas H. Kean Jr. of New Jersey and Mariannette Miller-Meeks of Iowa in an effort to triage the midterm map.

by Emily Cochrane on October 13, 2026 at 10:03 am

The first 911 call from inside the prison was made at 8:40 p.m. It took about 30 minutes to verify its authenticity.

by Bayliss Wagner on October 13, 2026 at 12:41 am

The Democratic nominee for Senate in Texas spent nine days off the trail with what he and his campaign said was a bad case of the flu. His opponents fueled rumors, including one that spread widely before it was debunked.

by John Yoon on October 13, 2026 at 12:00 am

An executive with the Republican super PAC that paid for the ad attacking Troy Jackson, the Democratic Senate candidate in Maine, blamed its vendor for running the ad in Oregon.

by Zach Montague on October 12, 2026 at 10:29 pm

During a four-hour hearing, a federal judge demanded answers from the Trump administration about who authorized the removal of hundreds of trees at the East Potomac Golf Links.