Democrats Expect Record Number of Women in Party in House After Midterm Elections  —  Democrats are increasingly confident they will have a record number of women serving in the House next year, after backing women in competitive districts they are now positioned to win.

U.S. Rushes to Withdraw Bombers From U.K. Air Base After New Threats  —  The withdrawal came with unusual speed, following what U.S. officials said were threats of an Iran-based plot against the installation.  —  The United States rushed over the weekend to withdraw all 12 B-1 Air Force bombers …

Flávio Bolsonaro leads Lula as Brazil heads to a runoff  —  SAO PAULO — Brazilian conservative Sen. Flávio Bolsonaro emerged in pole position from a first round of voting Sunday, spelling a pro-Washington turn in the country.  —  The general vote in Brazil …

Trump heads to Nebraska for another red state rally  —  With less than one month to go until Election Day, President Donald Trump is embarking on a final campaign blitz to protect the GOP's control of Congress.  —  He's starting on defense.  —  Trump is kicking off his last weeks …

Sam Altman to Decoded: ‘The world should accept some bad things happening’ for the benefits of AI  —  OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said there remains a fundamental difference in worldview between his company and rival Anthropic on artificial intelligence regulation, arguing in an exclusive interview …

Scoop: White House monitors suspected plague outbreak in Russia  —  The White House is monitoring reports of a suspected plague case and a related quarantines in Russia, a Trump administration official told Axios on Sunday. … - Shipilova was admitted to a hospital on Sept. 29 with symptoms …

Republicans in Safe Red States Are Breaking With Trump, Too  —  It's not just vulnerable Republicans in swing districts distancing themselves from their party leader.  —  As President Donald Trump travels the country touting the “greatest” American economy in history, even senators …

House Dems target six new seats — that Trump carried by an average of 16 points  —  Democrats' House campaign arm is expanding its targets even further into Trump country, as the party grows increasingly bullish they will not just win, but win big next month.

The Alito Court: A rare interview with the influential Supreme Court justice  —  Walking across the gritty New Jersey ball field for the first time since he played here as a boy, Samuel Alito couldn't help but stop to analyze the playing surface.  —  The pebbles were bigger back then, he said, the field more uneven.

For a fed-up America, the elite impunity of the Cornell rape case is the last straw  —  It was the kind of smug dude-bro TV football commentary that would have gone mostly unnoticed if this had been an ordinary week in America.  —  On Amazon Prime's Thursday Night Football …

State Officials Are Trying to Get Ahead of Federal Agents at the Polls  —  Democratic state officials and organizations across the country are preparing for a scenario in which the Trump administration deploys federal agents to the polls in November.  —  The administration has said it has no plans …

A Reckoning in Springfield  —  This article was featured in the One Story to Read Today newsletter.  Sign up for it here.  —  He kept going over the details.  —  “I run this route every day, like clockwork,” the trucker was saying, heading west to where he had first seen the man on the side of the highway.

Buttigieg goes big to help 2026 Dems  —  CONCORD, New Hampshire— Pete Buttigieg is barnstorming the nation in the final weeks before the midterms, boosting candidates in battlegrounds and even areas traditionally hostile to Democrats.  And it's helping him look beyond November.

Democrats are divided over how hard to go after companies that courted Trump  —  Democrats are eager to probe President Donald Trump's business ties if they retake Congress, but those plans are already exposing an intraparty fault line over how hard to go after companies that courted the White House over the past two years.

As election looms, Supreme Court reconvenes to new wave of Trump cases  —  Climate change, guns and religion in schools are among cases headed to SCOTUS.  —  A general view of the Supreme Court., June 18, 2026.  —  The U.S. Supreme Court reconvenes Monday on the eve of the midterm elections …

Energy Secretary Chris Wright says Trump was “well aware of the risks to energy flows” before launching Iran war  —  Washington — Energy Secretary Chris Wright said Sunday that President Trump was “well aware of the risks to energy flows” before launching the war in Iran earlier this year …

Rahm Emanuel urges Dems not to impeach Trump if they win the House  —  Former Chicago mayor and Obama chief of staff urges the party to pursue ethics reform instead of a ‘food fight’  —  Former Chicago Mayor and White House chief of staff Rahm Emanuel urged his fellow Democrats not to attempt …

Trump reiterates pledge to send $5,000 checks, and hands out smaller payments, as midterm elections loom … With Election Day less than a month away, President Donald Trump is touting two federal cash-payment programs already underway while renewing a much larger $5,000 check promise contingent on Republicans retaining Congress.