DOJ dangles legal threats over state election officials days before the midterms  —  The Department of Justice on Thursday sent letters to elections officials in multiple states threatening potential prosecution if they fail to preserve election records, an unusually aggressive posture toward …

Inside Trump's Dark Plot to Keep Senate in GOP Hands Even If Dems Win  —  On Thursday night, the Republican governor of Alaska refused to commit to certifying the outcome in the Senate race if Democrat Mary Peltola wins.  Which means that if she does triumph, refusing to seat Peltola …

We polled Kansas.  Democrats wanted to talk.  Republicans, not so much.  —  The Post is publishing results of its Kansas Senate poll in the interest of transparency and to highlight the challenges the poll faced.  —  SummaryLoading...  The Washington Post and George Mason University began …

Trump adds weekend rallies back after canceling a day earlier  —  The president will travel to Iowa and Kansas on Sunday after spending Friday and Saturday in Florida.  —  SummaryLoading...  President Donald Trump has now rescheduled two weekend rallies a day after canceling them …

El-Sayed Clashes With Former Primary Rival Who Demanded His Apology  —  Dr. Abdul El-Sayed and Representative Haley Stevens traded sharply critical comments Friday, escalating intraparty tensions in Michigan's pivotal Senate race.  —  It looked on Thursday night as if feuding Democrats …

Alina Habba's Husband Ignited a White House Drama.  Now His Background Is Under Scrutiny.  —  Turhan Mildon, who married Alina Habba this summer, presents himself as a 29-year-old billionaire with ties to global leaders.  His story has inconsistencies.  —  President Trump's former lawyer …

Obamacare Policies Hit Again With Steep Premium Increases for 2027  —  Premiums will increase an average 13 percent next year for millions of Americans, on top of an earlier steep increase.  It adds to the problems facing the program, which the Trump administration has weakened.

Judge orders inquiry into whether DOJ lawyers misled court on Trump's golf plan  —  U.S. District Judge Ana C. Reyes opened another heated hearing by reading the D.C. Bar rules about truthfulness in court.  —  SummaryLoading...  A federal judge on Friday opened a formal inquiry …

U.S. to Send Dozens Back to Afghanistan, Despite Risk of Persecution  —  The Trump administration plans to fly the Afghan immigrants from Louisiana to Pakistan, where they are expected to be expelled over the border to Afghanistan.  —  The Trump administration has detained dozens …

Daniel J. Sullivan left his Alaska hometown before Senate election, sources say  —  Petersburg, Alaska — Daniel J. Sullivan, the independent candidate running for Senate in Alaska whose name is almost identical to the Republican senator running for reelection, left his hometown of Petersburg earlier …

Binance Suspends Withdrawals After Crypto Hackers Steal $6.3 Billion  —  The world's largest crypto exchange said it was compromised in a “complex hack” that could be the biggest crypto heist ever.  One research lab attributed the theft to “North Korea's elite hacking unit.”

Polish president turns back mid-flight amid court ‘coup d’état' claims  —  Police were deployed outside Poland's Constitutional Tribunal following security warnings.  Tribunal President Bogdan Święczkowski was suspended from his duties, while Polish President Karol Nawrocki cut short his trip to Senegal.

Even Republicans Want Ken Paxton to Lose  —  Texas's corrupt Senate candidate is the crude end point of Trump's war against the GOP Establishment.  —  That picture of him on the boat off Mar-a-Lago where he's pointing at his junk.  You remember that one?" a senior Republican lawmaker in Texas asks. "

Houston Grand Jury Indicts ICE Agent on Charges of Ramming Man in Chase  —  The agent is facing charges of aggravated assault with a deadly weapon, officials said Friday.  —  A grand jury on Friday indicted an Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent who struck and injured a Mexican construction worker …

Trump plans to resume strikes on Iran day after midterm elections  —  President Donald Trump is planning to resume strikes on Iran after the midterm elections, with his domestic political power set to wane during his final two years in office, and his attention expected to shift to foreign policy.

Tony-Winning Broadway Director Daniel Sullivan Announces Retirement After 55-Year Career; Jonathan Kent Steps In For Upcoming ‘Montauk’  —  Daniel Sullivan, the Tony-winning Broadway director of Proof, The Heidi Chronicles, Glengarry Glen Ross and numerous other acclaimed productions …

Pressed on affordability at town hall, JD Vance says all the wrong things  —  A young conservative voter asked the vice president a sincere question about one of the most pressing issues facing her generation.  It did not go well.  —  With time running out in the election cycle …

Bloomberg drops $36M more for Dems  —  Here's the latest midterm news, with four days to go.  —  Bloomberg drops $36M more for Dems  —  Michael Bloomberg is making another big splash in the final days of the election.  —  One of Democrats' most important megadonors …

Bessent alleges anti-fraud guardrails are ‘loosest’ in blue states  —  Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent accused Democratic-led states Friday of having poor fraud prevention mechanisms while at a Minnesota press conference.  —  The state has been at the center of a healthcare fraud scandal …

US approves $2.1 billion Patriot missile sale to Ukraine  —  The US State Department said on Friday it had approved the sale of 500 Patriot PAC-3 missiles to Ukraine for an estimated $2.1 billion, in what would be one of the most significant steps to supply defensive weapons to Kyiv since the start of the second Trump administration.

Rick Perry loses reelection to board of Fermi, the data center company he co-founded  —  Fermi, slated to build the largest data center and power generation campus in the U.S., has had a tumultuous first couple years including a turbulent ownership battle between Perry and his co-founder Toby Neugebauer.

Elon Musk Made Off With $16 Billion of Taxpayer Money … Did you know that there's a law barring federal contractors from making campaign contributions to a political party, committee, or candidate for federal office?  Don't feel bad if you don't, because neither, it seems, does Elon Musk.

Prediction Markets Face Their Biggest Accuracy Test Yet: The Midterms  —  As polls closed in Brazil last week, online bettors appeared convinced that Flávio Bolsonaro would become president, placing his odds of winning around 80 percent.  —  They were wrong.

EXCLUSIVE: Data center utility execs maxed out donations to Dan Sullivan  —  Within a nine-day period last spring, executives tied to a data center utility investor with major public projects in the Arctic dumped more than $50,000 into Alaska's tightly contested US Senate race between Republican …

U.S. Oil Industry Earned Over $130 Billion in Profit During Iran War  —  That was almost three times as much as what businesses producing and refining oil in the United States made in the same period in 2025.  —  The war with Iran has been very lucrative for American oil companies …