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Saturday, November 7, 2026 · Evening Edition

Republicans lost control of Congress , a thumping for Trump and the GOP driven in part by young men who punished him.

Friday, November 6, 2026 · Morning Edition

The blue wave that handed Democrats control of Congress is now hitting capital where it lives: an intensifying rout of tech stocks spread Friday from Wall Street to Asia and Europe , as investors read the election as a…

Friday, November 6, 2026 · Evening Edition

Republicans are struggling to regroup from a devastating midterm defeat , and the administration's first move tells you where its priorities sit: CNN's Kaitlan Collins flagged that signing an executive order was the…

Thursday, November 5, 2026 · Morning Edition

The 2026 midterms delivered a "blue wave" that landed hardest on the tech bosses, in elections widely seen as a referendum on Trump's second presidency, with control of the Senate and House—both held by Republicans—at…

Thursday, November 5, 2026 · Evening Edition

Voters handed the ruling party a historic beating.

Wednesday, November 4, 2026 · Morning Edition

The 2026 midterms delivered a landslide.

Wednesday, November 4, 2026 · Evening Edition

Even as Trump insists the fighting is finished, the United States is still striking Iran , with the White House declining to report on the attacks of the past several weeks.

Tuesday, November 3, 2026 · Morning Edition

Polls have opened across the country for midterm elections widely seen as a referendum on Donald Trump's second presidency and a chance for opponents to rein in his untrammeled power , with control of both the House…

Tuesday, November 3, 2026 · Evening Edition

On the eve of Tuesday's vote the administration escalated its assault on the ballot.

Monday, November 2, 2026 · Morning Edition

Voters go to the polls today in a midterm that will turn on whether working people feel better off than they were two years ago .

Monday, November 2, 2026 · Evening Edition

On Sunday afternoon, Rep. Haley Stevens retracted her endorsement of Abdul El-Sayed, the Michigan Democrat who beat her in August's Senate primary, and threw her weight behind Republican Mike Rogers.

Sunday, November 1, 2026 · Morning Edition

Polls close today on midterms that will decide control of Congress , and the president goes into them deeply underwater in four national polling trackers .

Saturday, October 31, 2026 · Evening Edition

A federal judge in Miami threw out Donald Trump's renewed $10 billion defamation suit against the Wall Street Journal and barred him from refiling it — the latest collapse of the administration's campaign to silence…

Saturday, October 31, 2026 · Morning Edition

From Alaska to California, Trump's election lawsuits may be failing, but the groundwork for midterm chaos is still being laid .

Friday, October 30, 2026 · Evening Edition

The Justice Department told a federal judge that Trump has the power to stop any criminal contempt case against Chicago federal prosecutors , refusing to cooperate with her investigation into possible criminal…

Friday, October 30, 2026 · Morning Edition

The world's richest person is buying in: Elon Musk has become the biggest GOP donor of 2026, opening his deep pockets to bolster Republican candidates after his wealth surged since befriending Donald Trump .

Thursday, October 29, 2026 · Evening Edition

The Justice Department has issued grand jury subpoenas to California officials , escalating its claim that the state may have as many as 20,000 non-citizens registered to vote; ABC reports the subpoenas hit local…

Thursday, October 29, 2026 · Morning Edition

The fight for the Senate runs through hostile ground: Democrats must flip four Republican-held seats , some in states Trump carried by double digits in 2024.

Wednesday, October 28, 2026 · Evening Edition

Dolores Huerta, co-founder of the United Farm Workers and the organizer who popularized the rallying cry “Sí, se puede!” , died Wednesday at the age of 96.

Wednesday, October 28, 2026 · Morning Edition

Benjamin Netanyahu has pulled ahead of Gadi Eisenkot with more than 70% of the vote counted, his bloc projected to take 54 seats against Eisenkot's 47 , and neither man holds a clear path to a government.

Tuesday, October 27, 2026 · Evening Edition

The president's prosecution machine is misfiring.

Tuesday, October 27, 2026 · Morning Edition

With the midterms a week away, Donald Trump has already set an operation in motion to overturn the vote in Texas, Alaska and other battleground states through what his side frames as a "legal" reversal of voters' choice.

Monday, October 26, 2026 · Evening Edition

A federal appeals court on Monday ruled 2-1 against the Trump administration's effort to force California to set aside ballots from more than 20,000 voters it suspects of being noncitizens .

Monday, October 26, 2026 · Morning Edition

Eight days out from the November 3 midterms , Trump spent Sunday escalating anti-Muslim attacks on Michigan Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed, portraying him as a threat to national security and questioning his loyalty…

Sunday, October 25, 2026 · Evening Edition

Nine days out from the November 3 midterms , the administration is working the machinery of the vote itself.

Sunday, October 25, 2026 · Morning Edition

The Trump administration is trying to cancel an election result before a single vote is counted.

Saturday, October 24, 2026 · Evening Edition

An immigrant held at the Folkston detention complex in Georgia died on Friday , local and federal officials confirmed, as a hunger strike at the facility continued and officials allegedly threatened strikers with…

Saturday, October 24, 2026 · Morning Edition

A gas venture that surfaced inside Donald Trump's Ukraine peace talks had a hidden backer.

Friday, October 23, 2026 · Evening Edition

Trump's Justice Department filed suit Thursday against Alaska, preemptively attempting to decertify the state's Senate race unless Republicans win .

Friday, October 23, 2026 · Morning Edition

Trump's U.N. ambassador says the war with Iran could last another year , even as he says he hopes Tehran will "come to the table" sooner.

Thursday, October 22, 2026 · Evening Edition

President Trump is gambling on a fast exit from the monthlong war in Iran , with Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent pushing a U.S. blockade of the Strait of Hormuz paired with sanctions on the theory that Tehran is near…

Thursday, October 22, 2026 · Morning Edition

The bill workers cannot escape is health care.

Wednesday, October 21, 2026 · Evening Edition

The gravest story is a push for war: Semafor, citing the Financial Times, reports that Benjamin Netanyahu is pressuring Trump to resume strikes against Iran , with both leaders contending with poor polling ahead of…

Wednesday, October 21, 2026 · Morning Edition

The administration has pushed visa revocations past 300,000 , the State Department boasting it has revoked more visas at a faster pace than any administration in history.

Tuesday, October 20, 2026 · Evening Edition

Billionaires are writing the midterms.

Tuesday, October 20, 2026 · Morning Edition

The clearest look at how power guards its own came from ProPublica , which reported that Trump's purge of the FBI killed a bribery investigation that had reached Lindsey Graham and James Clyburn over the contractor…

Monday, October 19, 2026 · Evening Edition

The sharpest news is on the streets: strikes and mass protests are spreading from Mexico to Chile , workers rising against austerity, war and unpopular right-wing governments installed with Washington's backing.

Monday, October 19, 2026 · Morning Edition

The heaviest move of the day is quiet and structural: the Trump administration has tied billions in rural health funding to the policy commitments states make , among them scrapping their certificate of need, or CON,…

Sunday, October 18, 2026 · Evening Edition

Days before they were to take effect, Trump waived new sanctions on Russia , reversing a bipartisan congressional push and casting fresh doubt on Washington's commitment to Ukraine.

Sunday, October 18, 2026 · Morning Edition

Weeks before the midterms, the administration is tightening its grip on the vote.

Saturday, October 17, 2026 · Evening Edition

Trump moved to exempt Russia from the sanctions legislation , and even his own bench balked: Senator Darline Graham, appointed to the seat of her late brother Lindsey, gently disagreed with the waiver.

Saturday, October 17, 2026 · Morning Edition

Trump signed an executive order Friday night exempting Russia from a sweeping package of penalties Congress passed last month, just two days before they were set to take effect , telling Congress the pause was in the…

Friday, October 16, 2026 · Evening Edition

Attorneys say the Trump administration has put migrant children on what they call a "deportation assembly line" , while a DOJ official insisted every case was decided in accordance with applicable law.

Friday, October 16, 2026 · Morning Edition

The administration is moving to deport Representative Ilhan Omar , more than just another persecution of the president's political enemies.

Thursday, October 15, 2026 · Evening Edition

The White House is preparing plans to use the weapon dubbed the "mother of all bombs" on Iran , according to sources — an escalation in a war the administration is already waging.

Thursday, October 15, 2026 · Morning Edition

President Volodymyr Zelensky has told the Financial Times that Ukraine will resume strikes on Russian oil refineries , defying the demand from Washington that had forced him to pause them.

Wednesday, October 14, 2026 · Evening Edition

The war in Ukraine has been thrown into a new moment of chaos and crisis , Ukraine abruptly cut off from a satellite service crucial to its wartime efforts as Russian missiles barraged Kyiv.

Wednesday, October 14, 2026 · Morning Edition

The country's retirees are staring down a 22% cut to Social Security benefits that the next class of senators will have to act to avert — and the candidates are dodging it.

Tuesday, October 13, 2026 · Evening Edition

Seven people once held by ICE sued the agency on Tuesday, accusing it of illegally refusing to return their personal documents and belongings months after their release — Social Security cards and employment…

Tuesday, October 13, 2026 · Morning Edition

The machinery of execution could not do its job.