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Trump will hold a campaign rally in Houston for Texas Senator Ted Cruz, who is facing a challenge from Democrat Beto O’Rourke.

On the midterm campaign trail, the vice president is assuring voters that Republicans will implement stricter work requirements for food-stamp recipients. He’s probably wrong.

Senator Lindsey Graham says he believes Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman was behind the killing of dissident journalist Jamal Khashoggi.

The two senators from a similar place on the left of the party are not working out any deal that would avoid a race that includes them both.

A Palestinian American from Michigan and a Somali American from Minnesota are poised to become the first Muslim women members of the U.S. House.

A criminal complaint filed Friday charges a Russian national, employed by a firm linked to Vladimir Putin and Russian intelligence, with helping direct interference in the 2018 midterm elections.  

The Justice Department charged a Russian woman for her participation in an online disinformation campaign aimed at interfering with the 2018 midterm elections.

Executive Editor Matt Thompson and the staff writer Sarah Zhang join the Cherokee writer and organizer Rebecca Nagle to discuss DNA tests, Elizabeth Warren, and how we define heritage.

The administration is approaching the journalist’s apparent death as a stage for spin more than as a diplomatic incident or a human-rights outrage.

In a wide-ranging interview, Jim Bridenstine explains his plans for NASA, the nerve-racking Soyuz launch failure, and his views on climate change.

Having spent $120 million and signed up 6 million people, Tom Steyer has assembled, in a year, an organization with more reach than the NRA.

President Donald Trump said he believes Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi is dead.

Kanye and Kim have not broken up.

A new inquiry significantly escalates the involvement of secular authorities.

She had her whole future mapped out when she met Ted Cruz, starting with her dream job in Washington. This is the story of what came after.

Republicans are surging in pro-Trump rural areas as a Democratic wave gathers in many anti-Trump suburbs, continuing a long-term shift toward nationalized congressional elections.

If the Democrats take back the House in November, Congressman Adam Schiff says he’ll try to close a hyper-partisan divide on the House Intelligence Committee.  

Immigrant children separated from their parents can spend months, even years, in American foster homes. There have even been rare cases in which state officials have authorized permanent adoptions without notifying deported parents.

The billionaires have funded initiatives on drug treatment, alternative energy, and in-home care for seniors, but some corporations and state activists wish they would keep their money and stay away.   

The Justice Department has warned that if the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals doesn’t rule on the program, it’ll take it up to the new conservative Supreme Court majority.

To combat the growing federal deficit, Trump said he would ask each of his Cabinet secretaries to cut five percent from their budget proposals next year.

The attorney general has stepped up the hiring of immigration judges, ordered them to hear more cases, and shown a preference for those who’ve previously been prosecutors.

The Senate next year could be more MAGA-oriented than ever—and the next senator from Utah isn’t likely to change that.

President Donald Trump praised a federal judge’s decision to throw out Stormy Daniels’ defamation lawsuit against him, calling her "Horseface," and threatening to "go after" her.

Attempts to discourage migrants from journeying to the U.S.-Mexico border often don’t take into account the conditions they’re fleeing from.