As Justice Samuel A. Alito Jr. hints he could retire next year, senators are watching closely. It would mean a tough confirmation process on Capitol Hill for any replacement picked by President Donald Trump, experts say.

Alito, 76, has contemplated retirement but decided to stay through the end of the Supreme Court term that started this week, ...Read more

Rep. Kevin Kiley, I-Rocklin, and former state Sen. Richard Pan struck a largely cordial tone at the start of their Thursday morning candidate forum. Before long, however, the two candidates for the 6th Congressional District were back to the attacks that have defined their campaign against each other.

“Donald Trump, RFK Jr. and unfortunately ...Read more

President Donald Trump will hold a campaign rally in Wasilla, Alaska, on Tuesday, on the heels of a visit by his vice president, in the GOP's effort to support Republican Sen. Dan Sullivan and Rep. Nick Begich and hold on to majorities in the U.S. House and Senate.

Trump will headline the rally at the Curtis D. Menard Memorial Sports Center, ...Read more

LEMOYNE, Pa. – Janelle Stelson, the Democrat challenging Pennsylvania Rep. Scott Perry for a second time, rejected Thursday a claim that her campaign had employed an undocumented immigrant who recently pleaded guilty to a disorderly conduct charge.

“We don’t know this individual. Everybody hired goes through me, so I would know,” ...Read more

For generations, presidents have come to South Florida to escape Washington without leaving the presidency behind.

Now, President Donald Trump wants to make that tradition official.

Trump on Wednesday publicly embraced a proposal to create a Camp David-style presidential retreat on the grounds of his Trump International Golf Club in West Palm ...Read more

Rep. Mike Thompson, D-St. Helena, and challenger Eric Jones sparred over affordability, health care and data centers in a Wednesday night debate for Northern California’s sprawling 4th Congressional District.

Thompson continued to make his case that years in Congress give him the experience and influence needed to better the district. ...Read more

After the Trump administration’s latest attack on tech companies over their use of the H-1B visa program, Microsoft is disputing a claim by Vice President JD Vance that last year it hired thousands of workers from other countries.

Microsoft said in a statement Thursday that the workers “are not new arrivals to our country.”

Vance ...Read more

When you cover elections on a week-to-week, day-to-day, or even hour-to-hour basis, it can be easy to miss how the midterm battleground has evolved since the beginning of the cycle. But a fresh look at the list of competitive races demonstrates a significant shift and additional evidence that Democrats are well positioned to have a good November...Read more

Kimberly Guilfoyle’s breakup from Donald Trump Jr., announced after the 2024 presidential election, may not have been her idea. But his father, incoming President Donald Trump, reportedly wanted to reward her for her hard work on his campaign and offered her a consolation prize: He nominated her to be his U.S. ambassador to Greece.

Guilfoyle,...Read more

Republican House Speaker Mike Johnson Thursday hinted he could quit Congress if Democrats win the House of Representatives in the upcoming midterm elections.

With Democrats favored to retake control of the House, Johnson sounded very much undecided on whether he would stick around as GOP minority leader for the next two years.

“Heaven forbid...Read more

The remark from President Donald Trump came out of nowhere as he was speaking at a defense manufacturing facility under a beaming sun in Baltimore on Tuesday.

“Director of the Office of Management and Budget Russ Vought, who is fantastic, he’s done a job,” Trump said, delivering shout-outs while standing in front of a naval combat ship. �...Read more

LANSING, Mich. — Republican President Donald Trump called Democratic U.S. Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed "Mohammed El-Sayed" in an Oct. 7 social media post that was quickly denounced as racist by Arab-American leaders in Michigan.

Trump's message on Truth Social came a day before El-Sayed, who is Muslim and a former public health official, ...Read more

President Donald Trump said the U.S. would not attack Iran ahead of November’s midterm elections, citing what he said were “productive discussions” with the Islamic Republic.

“We will not be attacking Iran at any time prior to the Midterm Elections to be held in the United States on November 3rd,” Trump said in a social media post ...Read more

The National Football League urged the U.S. Supreme Court to allow state regulation of prediction markets in a stance putting it at odds with the Trump administration in a high-stakes clash.

In a court filing Thursday, the NFL told the justices that the “laissez-faire” approach federal regulators are taking toward prediction markets could ...Read more

HARRISBURG, Pa. — Gov. Josh Shapiro and state Treasurer Stacy Garrity on Wednesday sparred over President Donald Trump's leadership, soaring gas prices, the state budget deficit, and other top issues facing Pennsylvania in their only scheduled debate before Election Day.

And at one point, the gloves came off.

In the wide-ranging and mostly ...Read more

The Trump administration is launching investigations into foreign exchange visa holders at nine top colleges including Harvard University, Stanford University and MIT, in its latest broadside against international students and scholars at elite schools.

The sweeping fraud probe is focused specifically on J-1 visa holders, who at universities ...Read more

The Trump administration said it would suspend an immigration program for multiple tech firms, including Microsoft Corp., alleging widespread abuse of a worker visa system.

“There has been no company in the United States, unfortunately, that has abused this system more than Microsoft,” Vice President JD Vance said Thursday during a briefing...Read more

The Trump administration asked the Supreme Court on Thursday to step into a lower court dispute over television advertising rates paid by political candidates and joint fundraising committees weeks before the midterm elections.

The application asked the justices to set aside a 2-1 ruling issued Wednesday by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 4th...Read more

As midterm elections near, Democrats enjoy advantages in national “generic ballot” polling, suggesting they may secure majorities in the House of Representative or Senate, if not both chambers.

But the reality is that partisan control on Capitol Hill will be determined by just a handful of competitive House and Senate contests. ...Read more