Judge imposes sweeping emergency order halting DOJ pressure campaign on election officials  —  Federal agencies Voting rights Election security  —  A federal judge imposed a sweeping emergency order halting various aggressive tactics employed by the Trump administration in recent days to pressure election officials across the country.

The New York Times invents a Democratic scandal while ignoring a new Trump rape allegation  —  America is four days out from the end of an election in which America's deeply unpopular fascist ruling party is trying to retain control of Congress.  The week began with yet another new rape allegation …

El-Sayed campaign wants Stevens to stay away after day of back-and-forth sniping  —  Michigan's Democratic coalition is fragmenting in real time days before a critical Senate election.  —  After it seemed like former primary rivals Abdul El-Sayed and Rep. Haley Stevens might finally appear together …

Trump's economic message on eve of midterms: It's better than you think  —  The president risks falling into the same trap that ensnared Joe Biden: asking voters to ignore their economic anxiety.  —  SummaryLoading...  American voters are stressed about the high cost of groceries …

Why Trump is spending time campaigning in deep red Florida  —  President Trump is set to appear at rally in Daytona Beach, Florida, on Friday night.  This also comes after Mr. Trump reversed course on his decision to cancel upcoming weekend rallies in Kansas and Iowa.  CBS News correspondent Cristian Benavides reports.

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 …

Trump rallies in Kansas and Iowa are back on after RNC said they were canceled: Source … President Donald Trump will host campaign rallies in Iowa and Kansas after all, a source familiar with the matter told CNBC on Friday, hours after the Republican Party said those events would be scrapped in lieu of a series of tele-rallies.

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.

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 …

Trump Lawyers Call His Arch a High Priority.  Some Veterans Call It Disrespectful.  —  Michael Lemmon didn't get a celebratory welcome back to D.C. when he returned from the Vietnam War in 1970.  He still grapples with how that felt, even 56 years later.  —  He often visits Arlington …

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.

As Midterms Near, Top Law Firms That Capitulated to Trump Are on the Sidelines  —  None of the firms that struck deals to avoid crippling executive orders are publicly involved in the major legal efforts to check the Trump administration's attempts to meddle in the midterm elections, a review by The New York Times shows.

Republican Leads Independent in Nebraska Senate Race, Poll Finds  —  Voters see Dan Osborn, the independent seeking to unseat Senator Pete Ricketts, as more like a Democrat than an independent, a Times/Siena poll found.  —  Senator Pete Ricketts of Nebraska, a Republican …

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 …

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.

Louisiana Senate contest is a tossup, poll finds  —  GOP Congresswoman Julia Letlow and Democrat Jamie Davis were tied in a poll released by the Davis campaign Friday  —  New poll shows GOP Rep. Julie Letlow (left) and Democrat Jamie Davis (right) tied in Senate contest

Tucker Carlson Gets Personal on ‘Sad, Greasy’ Ted Cruz: ‘His Personal Life Is a True Disaster’  —  Tucker Carlson got personal on Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX), claiming that the senator is a “sad, greasy” man who “doesn't know how absurd he is.”  —  On his show Friday, Carlson was asked by a viewer …

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.

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 …

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 …

Carney says he can wait out Trump for trade deal  —  Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney said Friday that if his government could not successfully negotiate a suitable trade pact with the Trump administration, he was prepared to wait for a new American president to close the deal.