When Sen. Eric Schmitt (R-MO) stumbled into a sports gaffe, confusing the Atlanta Hawks for the Iowa Hawkeyes during a congressional hearing with former special counsel Jack Smith in September, millions viewed the moment on social media. As she pieced together the blunder in real time, Sen. Amy Klobuchar (D-MN), who is running for governor […]

ELON, North Carolina — Former Democratic Gov. Roy Cooper is on the cusp of flipping the open Senate seat in the Tar Heel State next month. Cooper has led wire-to-wire over Republican opponent Michael Whatley, maintaining wide polling and fundraising leads and forcing key GOP super PACs to pause spending in the race to focus […]

The 2026 midterm elections are set to become the most expensive on record, as Republicans pour cash into battleground races to defy history and maintain control of Congress. Political advertising spending for this year surpassed $10 billion in October, marking an all-time high, according to media tracking group AdImpact, driven by record spending in states […]

RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — Brazil’s President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, a vocal critic of U.S. President Donald Trump, was reelected Sunday in a result that provides relief to critics of widening U.S. influence in Latin America. With 100% of the vote counted, Brazil’s electoral court announced that the soon to be 81-year-old Lula […]