The former chief of the FBI's Chicago field office said he was forced out after being wrongly blamed for failed prosecutions against anti-ICE protesters in the city.
New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani threatened legal action against ICE over agents allegedly staging immigration enforcement operations in city-owned parking lots.
Mike Rogers closed out his Senate campaign Monday night by calling on Michigan voters to reject socialism while praising Rep. Haley Stevens for putting country over party with her surprise endorsement.
The United States has conducted defensive strikes on some Iranian targets in the Strait of Hormuz, a U.S. official said Monday, on the eve of crucial midterm elections.
Sen. Tammy Duckworth (D-Ill.) condemned President Trump’s recent low flyover on Halloween in a Monday letter to Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) Administrator Bryan Bedford, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth and Office of Management and Budget (OMB) Director Russell Vought. The flyover occurred last Thursday during the White House’s Halloween party with Air Force One making two...
Chaos in Michigan is raising the stakes even higher in one of the most closely watched Senate battles in the nation. The political world was agog on Sunday when Rep. Haley Stevens (D-Mich.) endorsed the GOP’s Senate candidate, former Rep. Mike Rogers (R-Mich.), over her party colleague Abdul El-Sayed. Democrats immediately and fiercely denounced Stevens,...
Rep. Thomas Massie (R-Ky.) on Monday went after former Rep. Mike Rogers (R-Mich.), who is running for Senate in Michigan, over his claims that more young people are “against the Jews.” In an appearance on CBS News’s “60 Minutes” broadcast Sunday, Rogers said “the next generation of kids thinks it's really cool to be against...
National Guard members in at least seven states will have some form of a role around Tuesday’s highly charged midterm elections. As Americans head to the polls, plain clothes National Guard soldiers are set to help monitor ballot boxes in seven Washington state counties, Iowa guardsmen are tasked with monitoring and defending election networks, and...
The Supreme Court on Monday quickly rejected the Trump administration’s effort to force California officials to set aside 20,000 ballots it claims belong to likely noncitizens and must be investigated. The court’s one-sentence order contained no explanation and had no noted dissents. California and immigration rights groups question the veracity of the administration’s list and...
Thousands of voters in Washoe County, Nev., received mail-in ballot return envelopes with the word “FALSE” written on them. A spokesperson for the county’s Registrar of Voters, George Guthrie, said in a statement to The Hill that the affected envelopes were “not limited to voters of any particular political party.” “The inclusion of the word...
President Trump’s political capital is on the line ahead of the midterm elections as a potential blue wave threatens his final two years in office. Trump has crisscrossed the country, holding 28 in-person campaign rallies in addition to a series of tele-rallies. The president has made stops in Republican strongholds like Ohio, Texas, Iowa, Kansas...
A group of Democratic lawmakers on Monday urged Frank Bisignano, the CEO of the IRS, to answer for why the agency has delayed publication of data that shows how much money owed by taxpayers wasn't paid on time. The lawmakers wrote in a letter to Bisignano that the IRS not yet releasing its tax gap...
Public school closures are accelerating across the country, and voters in several states have a chance to speed up or slow down the process on Tuesday. Closures are largely determined by school board members and affected by a district's funding situation, which itself is downstream from state legislatures and governors' mansions. With school board seats...
There are no shortages of storylines to watch as the historic 2026 midterms draw to a close. The GOP is on defense as election forecasters, like Decision Desk HQ (DDHQ), predict Democrats have an 82 percent chance of flipping the House and a 62 percent shot at winning the Senate. A gloomy economy, President Trump's...
Democrats are expecting to win big on Election Day, but disagreements are already erupting among them over how aggressively to target President Trump for what they say are abuses of power and corruption. Democratic lawmakers and strategists are divided over whether to push another impeachment against Trump. Senators and leaders in the House are generally...
This week’s midterm elections feature a handful of races involving former athletes, coaches or sports media personalities who are hoping to secure victory at the ballot box and bring their experience on or around the field of play to a role in government. Tuesday’s elections come at the end of a midterm cycle in which...
