One of the defining questions of the 2026 midterm elections is whether voters will still cross party lines in prominent statewide races or whether polarization has made straight-ticket voting the default. Maine and Georgia offer near mirror-image tests. In Maine, Democratic gubernatorial nominee Hannah Pingree is running well ahead of Republican nominee Bobby Charles, while […]
Democrats are gearing up for a potentially close and contentious midterm election by hiring lawyers, building out a nationwide “voter protection infrastructure,” and deploying tens of thousands of election observers across the country. The preparations include, for the first time, an internal Democratic National Committee litigation department designed to fight election-related legal battles as President […]
House Judiciary Committee ranking member Jamie Raskin (D-MD) has emerged as one of Democrats’ most in-demand national surrogates ahead of the midterm elections, campaigning for candidates across the party’s ideological spectrum and in some of the most competitive districts in the country. Raskin has campaigned with more than a dozen Democratic candidates during the August […]
In countless American minds, Brexit and President Donald Trump are linked, and not in a good way. The term Brexit is shorthand for “British exit.” The vote of more than 17 million U.K. citizens on a referendum to leave the European Union and Trump’s shock election to the presidency both happened in the same year, […]
KATHMANDU, Nepal (AP) — Rescuers pulled out survivors caked in dark brown mud and helicopters lifted stranded people to safety Friday as Nepal and China raced to respond to catastrophic flash floods that killed more than 470 people and left more than 1,500 missing. Nepal authorities said the death toll there rose to 469, injured people were […]
Can one spoil a TV series based on a 125-year-old novel? I won’t, but let the record show that I badly want to. Netflix’s My Brilliant Career, a six-part adaptation of the book by Australia’s Miles Franklin, seems so obviously to be doing one thing that its reversal is a gut punch. I watched the […]
“I will always love you …” If you have been alive in America at any point in the last half-century, you have heard those words in one of two voices — Dolly Parton’s original, a spare country farewell written as a professional goodbye, or Whitney Houston’s cover. Both belong to the same woman: the songwriter from […]
The midterm elections are less than 70 days away, but a handful of outstanding legal cases in federal courts and at the Supreme Court could directly affect the elections on everything from mail-in voting and how much party committees will be forced to spend on television ads. The GOP and Democratic Party are both beefing […]
Icelandic voters are casting their ballots this week whether to reopen negotiations for joining the European Union in a referendum some see as a way to protect their island against Washington’s desire to expand into the North Atlantic. Citizens will vote on Saturday in a referendum asking “Should Iceland resume accession negotiations with the European […]
A district court judge ruled on Thursday on the ongoing legal battle between Anthropic, an artificial intelligence safety and research company, and the Department of War. The court ruled in favor of Anthropic and against the War Department, following the company’s March lawsuit objecting to the War Department’s supply chain designation for Anthropic and categorizing […]
