The president’s misinterpreted comments about Los Angeles and San Diego created opportunities for his foes and confusion for his allies.

Increased demand for polling has strained call centers that conduct surveys, squeezed capacity and complicated the task of getting accurate reads on public opinion, according to pollsters.

Increased demand for polling has strained call centers that conduct surveys, squeezed capacity and complicated the task of getting accurate reads on public opinion, according to pollsters.

Shasta County, California, where election doubts run so deep that some don’t trust results even when their choice prevails, offers a glimpse of what happens when distrust in voting systems takes root.

As the midterms approach, some of the president’s foes are working to ensure his aggressive approach to executive power doesn’t outlast him.

With midterm elections a month away, the president is turning the audacity up to 11 as he labors to reverse his party’s decline in the polls.

The showdown over President Trump’s partial media ban played out as he welcomed President Xi Jinping, whose government is ranked among the most repressive in the world.

Congress has rendered itself powerless to start and stop wars, despite the Constitution.

James McCrery II resigned in October after warning that the president was insisting on designs that violated fire and safety codes.

Inside the secret deals powering the president’s push to deport migrants to countries not their own.

In private, President Trump has been hearing blunt news from advisers about the GOP's poor chances in the midterms and has accepted that some of the problem is of his making.

Republican leaders criticized a recent post by Bo French attacking South Asian UT students. But many in the party have felt compelled to embrace parts of his ideology.

Rep. Marcy Kaptur (D-Ohio), 80, has been unbeatable, even as her district gets redrawn again and again.

How Texas Republicans abandoned their immigrant-welcoming tradition.

Democrat Sherrod Brown is seeking to return to the chamber two years after losing his seat when many blue-collar voters embraced Donald Trump.

Diversity at a football game is not a "problem."

David Crowley had a surprising path to becoming his party’s nominee for governor of Wisconsin. His life before that was even more unlikely.

A surprise discovery unearthed a large cache of World War II documents that had been lost to history.

The president’s own public comments and actions have called his motivation into question.

An alleged assailant forced his way Sunday toward Democratic candidate Amy Acton at a county fair, officials and witnesses said. Authorities said he was carrying two pistols and a Taser.

Amy Acton’s campaign said multiple people were injured at the event at a county fair in Canfield, Ohio.

Rep. Mike Collins (R-Georgia) is challenging Sen. Jon Ossoff (D). The former Collins staffer posted a swastika and shared an image of himself in what appear to be KKK robes.

Prominent Democrats from President Donald Trump’s first-term battles are losing in primaries, a signal their party wants something else as it looks to 2028.

The Trump White House needed me—until the fact that I am trans became public.

The president wants the new fleet of aircraft carriers to more resemble those from World War II. Such a change could cost billions.

Matt Murray, the executive editor of The Washington Post, emails staff about the journalistic heater the newsroom is on:

The Brink of War, a new film about the Reykjavik summit, is too kind to the Gipper.

Surveys had showed Francesca Hong with a significant lead in the Democratic primary for governor. Then she lost. What did the polls get wrong?

The party establishment is breathing a sign of relief that democratic socialist Francesca Hong, who led the pre-election polls by double-digits, will not be topping their ticket.

The White House said the president was aboard Air Force One as he left a NATO summit. Instead, his departure included an elaborate ruse that concealed his travel.

The upset highlighted how out of touch the power brokers are with the party's surging left wing as they try to retake control of the Senate.

For Democratic Socialists of America leaders, the 2026 primaries have brought wins beyond what they dared to hope for. Now, they want to expand their reach.

A Democratic sweep of Pennsylvania’s competitive U.S. House and state legislative races could boost the case for Shapiro in his party’s presidential primary.

A Democratic sweep of Pennsylvania’s competitive U.S. House and state legislative races could boost the case for Shapiro in his party’s presidential primary.

Pollsters and GOP groups are raising the alarm about an unmotivated base in an election year that would be tough no matter what, given the president’s low approval.

The former state senate president, a progressive who champions Medicare-for-all, sprinted to a formidable lead in the race to take on GOP Sen. Susan Collins. Two of Jackson's top rivals dropped out.