President Donald Trump and his Republican Party will carry a 4.2% unemployment rate into the congressional elections, a hallmark of a solid US job market. Yet many voters don't see it that ‌way.

US job growth slowed more than expected in September and the nonfarm payrolls count for the prior two months was revised sharply lower, almost taking another interest rate hike from ​the Federal Reser...

Political power in state legislatures and governors’ offices is at stake in the November elections in more than one-third of the states.

Amid growing panic over the risks posed by rapidly developing AI technology, potential 2028 Democratic candidates are scrambling to respond — trying to show they are doing something, even as they ackn...

I was elected Chair of the Democratic National Committee three months after one of the most painful and consequential election losses for Democrats in modern history.

Vice President JD Vance received sobering assessments about the war that did not line up with what he, President Trump and other top administration officials were saying publicly.

Donald Trump's unfathomable link between U.S. interest rate policy and trade ties with America's biggest partners led to more head-scratching than market impact. But the strangeness of the president's...

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The PAC will back candidates who refuse corporate PAC money and support banning congressional stock trading.

See the U.S. Senate primary results in Massachusetts, where Democratic incumbent Ed Markey defeated Seth Moulton.

Nine more pharmaceutical companies said they would cut the prices on some drugs through Trump’s Most Favored Nation program.

Americans are now almost evenly split over which party they most agree with on economic policies: 37% say the Democrats, while 36% say the GOP.

President’s directive stalls for a second time about a week before the first postal ballots are due to be sent out

A fight over USPS is only one part of Trump's campaign to change how elections operate.

House Democratic leader Hakeem Jeffries and President Donald Trump’s son-in-law and outside Jared Kushner met privately recently.

An overwhelming majority of Americans are concerned the U.S. war with Iran will last a long time, according to a Reuters/Ipsos poll.

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

House Democratic leader Hakeem Jeffries and President Donald Trump’s son-in-law and outside Jared Kushner met privately recently.

Hi all, the Politics U.S. Newsletter comes to you this week from the skies above Texas, as I return from a reporting trip in Las Vegas. President Donald Trump was in town, too, and had a pointed react...

A combination of abundant rooftop solar, subsidized home batteries, and far less red tape is pushing power prices down—and changing when and how Australians use electricity.

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Dolly Parton's Imagination Library is teaming up with Utah's Operation Literacy to help improve state reading levels.

Attendees will include executives from Coinbase, a16z, Ripple, and Chainlink, plus Kalshi and Paradigm, as well as trade association Digital Chamber, according to people familiar with the plans.

The 2026 mid-term elections offer the Democratic party an opportunity to regain control of the House and Senate.  However, Democrats face an uphill battle challenged by Trump policies, anti-Democratic...

And Ukraine's Zelenskyy may meet with Trump this weekend ...

American democrats need a Hungarian-style landslide to overwhelm Trump’s attempts to rig November’s midterm elections, says Guardian columnist Timothy Garton Ash