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Oct 09, 2026
A majority of voters now cast their ballots ahead of Election Day, and we are tracking the returns in key Senate battleground states.
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Oct 09, 2026
A majority of Americans cast their ballots before Election Day, but early-voting data is limited in how much it can tell us about important races.
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Oct 09, 2026
The $5 million investment from the main super PAC for Senate Democrats is a sign that party leaders see a path to winning in another red state as the political environment worsens for Republicans.
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Oct 09, 2026
The $500 checks are accompanied by a letter signed by the president that criticizes the Biden administration for overcharging Americans for health insurance.
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Oct 09, 2026
Republicans are suddenly racing to defend a seat in Kansas, where Democrats are trying to win a Senate race for the first time in nearly a century.
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Oct 09, 2026
Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez of New York endorsed Dr. Abdul El-Sayed, the Democratic nominee for Senate in Michigan, ahead of the primary. She also appeared with him at a fund-raiser in New York this week.
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Oct 09, 2026
Senator Richard J. Durbin of Illinois, the No. 2 Democrat, learned how to take his fights to the floor and prevail — except in one crucial case.
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Oct 09, 2026
Track the latest polls in Colorado's 4th Congressional District.
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Oct 09, 2026
The last two midterms where Democrats surged against an unpopular Republican president were in 2006 and 2018. They had notably different outcomes.
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Oct 09, 2026
A leaked deposition from a fraud inquiry in 2014 provides insight into the Senate candidate's growing wealth and his tactics for defending himself.
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Oct 09, 2026
Candidates in three of the races that could determine control of the Senate engaged in bitter and personal attacks.
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Oct 08, 2026
Slashing personal attacks dominated the first televised face-off between Dr. Abdul El-Sayed, the Democratic nominee for Senate, and former Representative Mike Rogers, his Republican rival.
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Oct 08, 2026
Senator Jon Ossoff, a Democrat, called his Republican opponent, Representative Mike Collins, a bigot. Mr. Collins called the incumbent a radical "trust-fund kid."
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Oct 08, 2026
Plus, a big debate night in Senate battlegrounds.
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Oct 08, 2026
The former congressman is vying to be the first Republican from Michigan to win a Senate seat in three decades.
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Oct 08, 2026
Explore possible outcomes in battleground states to see how each party could win a majority in the Senate.
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Oct 08, 2026
Rewriting the rules for counting the population is yet another way to marginalize minorities.
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Oct 08, 2026
Rewriting the rules for counting the population is yet another way to marginalize minorities.
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Oct 07, 2026
In a top Senate battleground, Representative Ashley Hinson, the Republican nominee, sparred with Josh Turek, her Democratic rival, on policy issues ranging from Medicaid to term limits.
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Oct 07, 2026
Bernadette Greene-Placentia, a Democrat, said the attack in August occurred while she was repairing a damaged campaign sign.
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Oct 07, 2026
The president offered support for the Republican Senate candidate, after earlier grumbles, but focused much of his speech on a defense of his own record.
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Oct 07, 2026
Trump is in Texas tonight to stump for the Senate candidate.
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Oct 07, 2026
Senator Patty Murray, a former chair of the Senate health committee, is forming a group of experts to examine how to insulate the C.D.C. from political interference.
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Oct 07, 2026
But Chris Gallant, a Black Hawk pilot and Democrat who is running to represent Long Island in Congress, is making the most of life post-tabloid reveal.
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Oct 07, 2026
Senator Susan Collins, one of the most vulnerable Republicans in the midterms, clashed with the Democratic challenger Troy Jackson over President Trump, ICE and more.
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Oct 07, 2026
Angela Paxton is urging Texas voters to support Mr. Paxton's Senate campaign, even as she is divorcing him and accusing him of adultery. She has political aspirations of her own.
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Oct 07, 2026
The embattled congressman, accused of throwing scalding water at his ex-wife and breaking his daughter's collarbone, rebuffed earlier Republican calls to drop out.
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Oct 07, 2026
Senator Susan Collins, Republican of Maine, and her Democratic challenger, Troy Jackson, faced off on the debate stage for the first time on Tuesday.
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Oct 06, 2026
In "How to Lose Friends and Antagonize Presidents," Senator Thom Tillis details his regrets about backing President Trump's agenda.
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Oct 06, 2026
Different blocs are moving left. They could swing key Senate races.
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Oct 06, 2026
With less money than G.O.P., Democrats are torn over where to spend in the final weeks. The party is making its biggest move in years against one of G.O.P.'s biggest blue-district survivors.
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Oct 06, 2026
Democratic Senate candidates have generally out-raised Republicans, but are struggling to match outside spending from Trump-affiliated groups.
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Oct 06, 2026
With less money than G.O.P., Democrats are torn over where to spend in the final weeks. The party is making its biggest move in years against one of G.O.P.'s biggest blue-district survivors.
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Oct 06, 2026
Widespread anger at a billion-dollar fishing industry is shaping Alaska's key Senate race — and could determine which party takes control of the chamber in the midterm elections.
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Oct 05, 2026
Representative Ashley Hinson, the Republican nominee, and Josh Turek, her Democratic opponent, have both been targeted over campaign donations.
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Oct 05, 2026
In a tough new ad for the Democrat running against Representative Jeff Crank, the brother and sister-in-law of Virginia Giuffre say the congressman refused to meet with them.
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Oct 05, 2026
Ken Paxton, the Texas attorney general and Republican Senate candidate, has alleged a sprawling profit-driven conspiracy. Pediatricians say the accusations are an attempt at intimidation.
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Oct 05, 2026
Trump and his allies in the Capitol have revealed a problem that has been developing for decades.
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Oct 05, 2026
Democrats are increasingly confident they will have a record number of women serving in the House next year, after backing women in competitive districts they are now positioned to win.
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Oct 05, 2026
Trump and his allies in the Capitol have revealed a problem that has been developing for decades.
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Oct 05, 2026
Inside the weird campaign that could flip the Senate to the Democrats.
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Oct 04, 2026
The state hasn't elected a Democrat to the Senate in nearly a century. Economic challenges during President Trump's second term, as well as other factors, have put it in play.
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Oct 04, 2026
Dr. Annie Andrews, a Democrat, is hoping to defeat Senator Darline Graham. Even some of her most ardent supporters sense that her bid is a long shot.
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Oct 04, 2026
In primary races across the country, incumbency trumped calls for generational change, as older members of Congress held off younger challengers.
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Oct 04, 2026
Tipped workers in Arizona have benefited from the G.O.P.'s big tax cut. But they face economic stress from other Republican policies.
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Oct 04, 2026
It may not be enough for James Talarico to win. But might it also be a sign of a change to come?
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Oct 03, 2026
The president urged people to call Senator Tom Cotton of Arkansas and accused him of blocking a bill to cement daylight saving time.
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Oct 03, 2026
In a new ad, the wife of Ken Paxton, who is divorcing him for alleged adultery, tells Texas voters to focus on the "whole team," not "individual players."
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Oct 03, 2026
Democrats are competitive in Alaska, Iowa, Ohio, Texas and even Kansas as they try to wrest control of the Senate from Republicans. Here's a look at why.
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Oct 03, 2026
The president urged people to call Senator Tom Cotton of Arkansas and accused him of blocking a bill to cement daylight saving time.
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Oct 03, 2026
The justice, the second oldest on the court at 76, told CBS News that he decided against stepping down last term. He could face pressure should Democrats win the Senate in November.
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Oct 03, 2026
In a new ad, Angela Paxton tells voters to focus on the "whole team," not "individual players."
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Oct 03, 2026
After a dry spell of more than three decades, Democrats are daring (yet again) to believe they can win one or more top-of-the-ballot races in a vast and stubbornly red state.
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Oct 03, 2026
After a dry spell of more than three decades, Democrats are daring (yet again) to believe they can win one or more top-of-the-ballot races in a vast and stubbornly red state.
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Oct 03, 2026
New Times/Siena polls continue a run of strong results for the party in states that President Trump won easily in 2024.
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Oct 03, 2026
Representative María Elvira Salazar, a Republican, ran an ad criticizing the Trump administration. It may have jolted other Republicans — and drawn attention to her Democratic opponent.
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Oct 03, 2026
Democrats are performing strongly in five reliably Republican states where they are trying to flip Senate seats to win control of the chamber, new New York Times/Siena polls found.
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Oct 02, 2026
Hispanic voters are souring on Republicans. Here's why.
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Oct 02, 2026
The California senator gained national attention when he was forcibly removed from a Homeland Security news conference. Now, as California sits at the center of the immigration debate, what comes next for the politician?
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Oct 02, 2026
The move, affecting about one-fifth of the National Science Foundation's primary research budget, is the latest sign of how the White House is asserting more control over grants.
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Oct 02, 2026
Bill Pulte, director of the Federal Housing Finance Agency, moved to slash his agency's inspector general's office. Democrats called for his resignation.
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Oct 01, 2026
Accusations that Cornell University students assaulted a woman while she was impaired have renewed calls to amend the law.
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Oct 01, 2026
Track the latest polls in Utah's 4th Congressional District.
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Oct 01, 2026
Track the latest polls in Texas's 10th Congressional District.
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Oct 01, 2026
Track the latest polls in Utah's 3rd Congressional District.
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Oct 01, 2026
The progressive Senate candidate is offering olive branches to Jewish voters and campaigning with Kamala Harris to attract Black voters. Polling shows it may be working.
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Oct 01, 2026
Republicans lined up a series of doomed votes in their final hours, hoping to portray Democrats as obstructionists. But some conceded that their party was more likely to be punished.
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Oct 01, 2026
The Justice Department had fired Roger Rogoff as part of a larger maneuver to install its preferred judicial appointees and circumvent Senate confirmation.
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Oct 01, 2026
The inquiry by the Commodity Futures Trading Commission centers on bets the former congressman made on Kalshi in the weeks before he was pardoned in January 2025.
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Oct 01, 2026
Most of the Republicans, such as Lauren Boebert of Colorado and Victoria Spartz of Indiana, are incumbents in districts that President Trump won comfortably in 2024.
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Sep 30, 2026
Pete Hegseth has held onto his job by projecting a tough guy image, but his relationship with Republican lawmakers has never been worse.
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Sep 30, 2026
The search for fraud in the federal government must always end in the same place.
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Sep 30, 2026
Mr. Jackson, the Democratic nominee for Senate in Maine, had told an interviewer that some Jews in the state choose not to accuse the Israeli government of carrying out a genocide "only because" they were Jewish.
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Sep 30, 2026
Republican and Democratic senators struck a deal to vote on the largest overhaul of federal energy and environmental rules in decades.
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Sep 30, 2026
Some deep-red areas are in need of a jolt.
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Sep 30, 2026
The lawsuit, brought by Senator Marsha Blackburn of Tennessee, tests the reach of the Constitution's "speech or debate" clause.
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Sep 30, 2026
A Republican measure to limit, but not bar, congressional stock trading faltered in the Senate as Democrats thwarted a G.O.P. bid to show progress on an issue that has rankled voters.
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Sep 30, 2026
Senate Democrats were expected on Wednesday to block a measure that would encourage, but not require, states to protect consumers from power rate hikes as a result of data center growth.
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Sep 30, 2026
The effort to reunite two halves of Alexander Calder's monumental "Mountains and Clouds" hit many snags, until donors and legislators from both parties stepped in.
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Sep 30, 2026
Across the country, especially in the North Carolina Senate race, Republicans have charged opponents with being soft on crime, even as crime rates plummet.
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Sep 30, 2026
The search for fraud in the federal government must always end in the same place.
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Sep 30, 2026
Ken Paxton, one of the party's top Senate candidates and a Trump loyalist, said that "everybody's numbers dropped" after the event, according to audio obtained by The Times.
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Sep 30, 2026
Across the country, especially in the North Carolina Senate race, Republicans have charged opponents with being soft on crime, even as President Trump brags over plunging crime rates.
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Sep 29, 2026
Nearly every Democratic senator voted to advance a measure calling for a human rights report on Israel's conduct in the West Bank, as some in the party propose punishing settlement activity with sanctions.
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Sep 29, 2026
A Republican eager to prove the former special counsel was dishonest appeared to instead demonstrate his own confusion over basic facts.
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Sep 29, 2026
Senator Eric Schmitt, a Republican, appeared to confuse basketball teams as he accused former special counsel Jack Smith of perjury at a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on Tuesday.
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Sep 29, 2026
A Republican eager to prove the former special counsel was dishonest appeared to instead demonstrate his own confusion over basic facts.
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Sep 29, 2026
Ms. Peltola, the Alaska Democrat running for Senate, was shaped by growing up in remote villages in southwestern Alaska.
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Sep 29, 2026
Three campaigns left their positions unclear, and two said they would not join the president on the trail.
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Sep 29, 2026
Several Republicans in close races have distanced themselves from President Trump's effort to speed the construction of A.I. data centers, citing concerns about rising electricity bills.
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Sep 29, 2026
Mr. Smith's testimony will be the latest public clash over the use of prosecutorial power in American politics.
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Sep 29, 2026
Mr. Smith's testimony will be the latest public clash over the use of prosecutorial power in American politics.
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Sep 29, 2026
Voters are showing a growing determination to repudiate his presidency.
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Sep 29, 2026
A group supporting Dan Osborn, the independent Senate candidate in Nebraska, is airing an ad attacking Senator Pete Ricketts, a Republican, for pardoning a man convicted of sexual assault.
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Sep 29, 2026
The main super PAC for Senate Democrats will begin to run digital ads in the state's Senate race, in a sign of the party's growing confidence.
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Sep 29, 2026
This campaign could be a compelling model for Democrats.
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Sep 28, 2026
The outlook for the legislation, which seeks to stabilize the unsettled collegiate sports landscape, is uncertain in the House. It was one of the last congressional actions before the midterms.
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Sep 28, 2026
Representative Mike Lawler, a vulnerable Republican in a suburban New York district, faced Cait Conley, a military veteran, for the first time onstage.
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