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GOP senator takes aim at blue-city mayor for move promoting foreign workers in key industry: ‘Lit on fire’

Sen. Bernie Moreno blasted Columbus Mayor Andrew Ginther over $225,000 in taxpayer dollars directed toward a Ghana nursing partnership program.

Murkowski snubs Trump-backed Alaska candidate, endorses Democrat for governor

GOP Sen. Lisa Murkowski of Alaska endorses Democratic gubernatorial candidate Jonathan Kreiss-Tomkins for governor, despite President Trump's endorsement of a Republican candidate.

GOP Senate majority faces fresh uncertainty as 2 key races tighten days before midterms

Sherrod Brown leads Jon Husted within the margin of error in Ohio while Darline Graham and Annie Andrews are tied in South Carolina polling.

Democrat’s 2-word answer on a possible presidential run draws cheers from Maine crowd

Mark Kelly responded "we'll see" when an audience member shouted "president" during a stump speech, fueling 2028 presidential election speculation.

Long-running embassy fight comes back to haunt Trump as State Dept hit with $461M lawsuit

B.L. Harbert International alleges the State Department reached a $370 million settlement over COVID-19 embassy construction claims, then reversed course.

Immigration court says missing mail no longer an excuse to avoid deportation

If migrants miss their immigration court dates because they moved and didn't get notices at their new address, they cannot come crying to judges later, asking them to block their deportation, the top immigration appeals court has ruled.

Trump, Obama throw punches at each other in Senate election brawl

President Trump and former President Barack Obama came out swinging, tossing insults and trading verbal jabs as the two party leaders joust for control of Congress in next week's midterm election.

Catholic bishops regret White House prayer photo with Trump, say it was used politically

Two Catholic bishops have expressed regret about agreeing to a White House meeting that produced a publicly distributed photo of them praying with President Donald Trump.

Democrats set their sights on ousting Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth next year

A top House Democrat said he'll make ousting Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth a priority if his party wins control of the majority in next week's midterm election.

Iowa’s Senate rivals pitch independence from their parties

Republican Ashley Hinson wants Iowans to know she’ll pick a fight with President Donald Trump. Democrat Josh Turek wants them to know he’ll work...

Le Pen vows to revive oil prospecting in France, calling 2017 ban ‘stupid’

Far-right presidential candidate Marine Le Pen vowed Sunday to allow France to prospect for oil again on its territory if she is elected in May, a proposal reminiscent of U.S. President Donald Trump's "drill, baby, drill " policy to speed up fossil fuel development.

AI has a language gap. That could be a problem for some voters.

AI chatbots are feeding non-native English speakers inaccurate information about the election, community activists and researchers warn, creating a barrier for some voters ahead...

Australian defense land selloff runs into multiparty opposition

SYDNEY — Former Prime Minister John Howard urged the Australian government to reverse its plans to sell defense land in prime locations at a...

MAPPED: The states Trump and top Democrats are targeting before Election Day

With Election Day less than two weeks away, Trump rallied in Florida, Georgia and Michigan as both parties deploy top surrogates to battlegrounds.

Peltola postpones campaign stops after Saturday car crash

Former Rep. Mary Peltola is postponing campaign stops in her bid for Alaska’s Senate seat after she and her family sustained minor injuries in...

Are Alaska voters confused by two Dan Sullivans? DOJ sues to find out, Blanche says

The Trump administration wants to ensure Alaskans are not misled into voting for the wrong Dan Sullivan in the U.S. Senate race, Attorney General Todd Blanche said Sunday in two interviews defending a new federal lawsuit.

Democrats blame billionaire-GOP conspiracy for causing America’s affordability crisis

Democrats are closing out some of the country's most competitive Senate races with a call to arms against the influence of the filthy rich. In their telling, the affordability crisis is really a corruption crisis.

Trump trashes Obama amid campaigning for Senate races in Michigan and Ohio

President Trump ripped former President Barack Obama in an early morning social media post accusing him of gross incompetence and providing Iran billions of dollars and a path to developing a nuclear weapon.

Massachusetts and Idaho put guns on the ballot. One seeks to restrict them, the other to honor them

Parked in his truck along a rural Idaho highway on his way to an elk hunt, Neill Goodfellow pondered a question that will appear on his November ballot: which of six historic firearms to choose as the official state gun?

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