An Australian man has been arrested after allegedly threatening staff at a female lawmaker’s office with nunchucks, days after another member of parliament lost both her legs in a suspected politically motivated attack. Police responded to reports of a disturbance at the Victoria Park office of Western Australian state lawmaker Hannah Beazley around 1:15 p.m. […]

The Justice Department is seeking to remove two federal judges in Minnesota from separate immigration-related cases, arguing that comments they made to the New York Times about immigration enforcement raise questions about their impartiality. Associate Attorney General Stanley Woodard, the department’s third-ranking official, filed motions Tuesday targeting U.S. District Judges Patrick Schiltz and John Tunheim. […]

A major polling scandal rocked the political world just two weeks before the midterm elections in which a fake firm fabricated results in key races, raising questions about the validity of a polling industry already under constant scrutiny. The firm, called Wedgewood, claims it was conducting a “social experiment” to reveal the issues plaguing the […]

A new poll suggests that the outcome of the hotly contested Texas Senate race may be in Gov. Greg Abbott’s (R-TX) hands. Fox News’s latest survey of the state found Democrat James Talarico and his Republican opponent, Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton, tied at 49% apiece in their bids to succeed Sen. John Cornyn (R-TX). […]