Less than a week before polls close, courts are still weighing a growing array of election-related lawsuits over voter identification, citizenship checks, access to registration records, and the federal government’s authority to intervene in state election procedures. For some smaller cases already adjudicated, President Donald Trump’s Republican Party has been on the winning side. For […]

President Donald Trump alluded to the likelihood that the Iran war will resume in earnest after next week’s midterm elections. “You’ll see Iran in a couple of weeks, if you don’t mind,” Trump told a crowd on Tuesday during a rally in Lubbock, Texas. Trump has used the campaign trail to defend the Iran war, […]

Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-AK) endorsed Democratic gubernatorial candidate Jonathan Kreiss-Tomkins, a cross-party backing that could move the needle for the only Democrat on Alaska’s ranked choice ballot. Murkowski released an email statement in which she urged voters to set partisan politics aside and support Kreiss-Tomkins, colloquially known as JKT, and his running mate, Anchorage Assemblyman […]

A federal appeals court grilled the Department of Justice on Tuesday over its challenge of Virginia laws that the Trump administration says unconstitutionally impede on federal immigration enforcement operations, as similar efforts to limit cooperation with federal immigration officials in other states also face legal battles. A three-judge panel on the U.S. Court of Appeals […]