Nebraska’s ‘blue dot’ district suddenly at the center of election
OMAHA — Bored by politics until two months ago, Coral Meija said two things got her involved in this year’s election: Vice President Kamala Harris’s ascension to the top of…
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Doug Emhoff is all over the campaign trail. Melania Trump is not.
Second gentleman Doug Emhoff has made more than 30 campaign stops in the five weeks since the Democratic National Convention, stumping for his wife in over a dozen states. This…
These Americans voted from the ends of the Earth — and beyond
Corrine Morse cast her vote in the 2016 presidential election from a glacially slow, often glitchy fax machine in Antarctica. For 20 minutes, Morse watched as the machine whirred and…
Meet Barbara Jones, the ex-judge now policing Trump’s business moves
Barbara S. Jones took on plenty of high-profile cases as a prosecutor and then as a federal judge, but now she finds herself in what is, even for her, an…
Post-UMD poll: Democrat Alsobrooks pulls ahead in Maryland’s must-win Senate race
Democrat Angela Alsobrooks has pulled clearly ahead in Maryland’s unusually competitive U.S. Senate race with a double-digit lead among likely voters, according to a Washington Post-University of Maryland poll, in…
GOP congressman posts, then deletes, racist comments about Haitians
Republican Rep. Clay Higgins (La.) published racist comments about Haitians on Wednesday — only to delete them after being confronted by House colleagues. In a post on X, formerly Twitter,…
Harris flubs manufacturing jobs claim in MSNBC interview
“All told, almost 200,000 manufacturing jobs were lost during his presidency, starting before the pandemic hit, making Trump one of the biggest losers ever on manufacturing.” — Vice President Kamala…
Foreign leaders seek meetings with Trump as knife-edge election nears
Foreign leaders traveling to the United States to attend the U.N. General Assembly this week in New York have also been meeting with former president Donald Trump, as they hedge…
Singer Chappell Roan says she’ll vote for Harris but won’t endorse her
Amid online backlash over her recent criticism of the Democratic and Republican parties ahead of the presidential election, singer Chappell Roan said on TikTok on Wednesday that she’ll vote for…
Trump, without evidence, suggests possible Iranian involvement in two assassination attempts
Donald Trump suggested without evidence Wednesday that Iran might have been involved in two recent attempted assassinations against him, as he called for threatening to blow the country to “smithereens”…