A Platner superfan’s reluctance to support the Democrat now running against Senator Susan Collins reflects the party’s challenges navigating left-wing passions.
Democrats are targeting G.O.P. strongholds that could set them up for new majorities. But if they don’t win those races now, it could be a long time before they have another chance.
Plus, can a three-hour documentary lead the box office?
It’s Oct. 26 — eight days from the midterms. Here’s the state of play.
The left says its populist message can attract moderates and conservatives in addition to liberals. That theory will be put to the test in a series of competitive races on Election Day.
The request comes as Democrats are working to paint Republicans as corrupt and highlight their plans to investigate Trump should they win the midterm elections.
Joe Lombardo, the governor of Nevada, was favored to win a second term. Now he’s in one of the nation’s tightest contests.
Mr. Lula’s victory represents a win for the forces of democracy not only in Brazil, but around the world.
Conflict? Cooperation? On the potential of divided government.
It’s crunch time and still looking bullish for Democrats.
President Trump will stump for a senator in a state he has won three times by double digits, and as Democrats see a path to victory.
Norwegian officials emphasized that their government does not have any influence over who receives the Peace Prize, after President Trump used crude language to express his frustration.
The president contended that Dr. Abdul El-Sayed, a Muslim, would “invite hordes of jihadis to our shores” as he sought to bolster the G.O.P. candidate in a tight Senate race.
At rallies this weekend, Mr. Obama and Mr. Trump delivered two starkly contrasting pitches, differing in style and substance.
A lawsuit by the Justice Department challenging a potential narrow loss by the GOP Senate incumbent in Alaska reflects a new tactic by the president to try to shape the election results.
A video of Catholic leaders praying with the president was shared by the White House. One archbishop said it was done without permission.
Latinos helped fuel President Trump’s return to the White House. But Democrats have won back the trust of many Hispanic voters over the past two years.
With new intelligence and the possibility of all sides seeking pretexts for action, the war in Iran is entering a dangerous phase ahead of elections in the United States and Israel.
Both Israelis and Palestinians are trapped in the Netanyahu paradigm.
There are signs the A.I. boom is going bust. If it does, the consequences could rival the 2008 financial crisis.
With moves in Alaska and California, the department has stepped up interventions in the midterm elections as the president’s instrument of unmediated executive power.
The president seems not to understand that the global standing of the United States suffers when he plays into the stereotype of the ugly American.
Senator Roger Marshall was slow to recognize the steep challenge he faced in his solidly conservative state. Now he is confronting dissent among voters with deep economic worries.
Former President Barack Obama attacked the Trump administration on Saturday as he hit the campaign trail before the midterm elections.
A deputy in small-town Texas became the local face of ICE’s national crackdown.
The Volkswagen division, which imports all its cars from Europe or Mexico, has been hit hard by U.S. tariffs.
The president voted at a polling station in Palm Beach County, Fla.
The president temporarily waived clean-air rules for industrial facilities that spew cancer-causing gases. Then his appointees worked to gut the regulations altogether.
The fallout from Vivek Ramaswamy’s brutal spot targeting his Democratic rival in the Ohio governor’s race showed that even in the Trump era, a political attack can be seen as going too far.
Chemical plants and other industrial facilities had been required to curb their toxic emissions. A New York Times investigation shows how they got out of it.
The 44th president sharply criticized Mr. Trump, who hit back later in the day. Mr. Obama also assailed Vivek Ramaswamy, the Republican nominee for governor of Ohio.
Brazil’s President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva faces an uphill battle for another term, in a high-stakes election that may reshape Latin America.
Democrats are increasingly optimistic about the midterms. But they are being outspent by Republicans. And they are trying to compete in states that favored President Trump by large margins.
The U.S. government has ordered diplomats and other federal employees to leave Saudi Arabia. It is also drawing down staff at other missions in the region.
The United States once declared that Ukraine’s fight was the front line in a global battle for freedom. Now the Trump administration is sending money to Moscow.
Election officials across the state received letters from the agency saying if they fail to comply, they “risk significant federal scrutiny.”
No obvious legal authority supports a pre-emptive effort to block the certification of Alaska’s Senate election if the Republican incumbent narrowly loses.
President Trump told the Justice Department to intervene in the race, where polling shows Republicans at risk of losing a seat.
The Trump administration says Canadian officials are trying to sway the midterm elections for Democrats. Prime Minister Mark Carney says those claims have “no merit.”
Interviews and documents show a Russian energy giant secretly funded a U.S. firm. The deal has been discussed in talks to end the war in Ukraine.
In states like Florida, officers who hand out fishing citations and inspect produce have been deputized by Immigration and Customs Enforcement, expanding the reach of President Trump’s deportation campaign.
Hope, dread and the final stretch to Election Day.
The move was announced by Senator Susan Collins, a Maine Republican who faces a tough re-election fight amid rising prices.
The fundamental issue is Trump’s shredding of the model that made America the world’s leading country.
A New York Times investigation shows how President Trump allowed companies to skirt rules designed to limit toxic pollution.
The Justice Department has opened an inquiry into Mr. Lewandowski. President Trump has not jumped to his defense.
The Brazilian echoes of American politics have become too eerie to deny.
Blake Miley yelled “fascist” as President Trump spoke at a midterm campaign rally. The violence that followed “was not right,” she said.
The Trump administration wants a public victory soon, as well as a potential path to U.S. military forces in Mexico.
Some Muslim voters who backed Mr. Trump in 2024 say they believe he pledged his support when it was politically convenient, only to alienate and scapegoat them once he won the election.
The president has spread false claims about ranked-choice systems, voting machines, vote counting and past results to question the integrity of elections.
Senators have warned the White House they will withhold confirmation votes until the administration ensures the restoration of communications capabilities used by Ukraine’s military.
The charges intensified the administration’s efforts to go after the law enforcement and intelligence personnel who cast doubt on unsubstantiated claims that Joseph R. Biden Jr. engaged in corrupt dealings in Ukraine.
The donations from James Blair and Chris LaCivita were revealed after the president expressed pique over their consulting work for Republika Srpska.
The ruling, from the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit, sharply curtails the ability of judges to free undocumented immigrants.
President Trump says Venezuela is not ready for elections, and he focuses instead on its oil. But Secretary of State Marco Rubio is nudging talks between opposing politicians.
The Alaska Supreme Court ruled months ago that two candidates, both named Dan Sullivan, could appear on the ballot on Election Day.
Georgia’s Rick Jackson has spearheaded a court battle over a failed ‘anti-woke’ bank that also counted Ohio’s Vivek Ramaswamy as a major investor.
Trump’s latest attempt to denaturalize Representative Ilhan Omar is yet another signal of his abuse of power, argues the columnist Jamelle Bouie. In fact, the entire immoral act, according to Bouie, “encapsulates the president’s outright contempt, hostility to, arguably, opposition to the Constitution itself.”
The department, in a highly unusual lawsuit, argued that confusion over candidates with similar names could taint the election result.
President Trump rallied on Friday in a Republican state where Democrats have their eye on several House races.
North Carolina has not elected a Democrat to the Senate since 2008. Can Roy Cooper break that spell?
But about half expressed concerns that Republicans could try to overturn the results, a New York Times/Siena poll found.
Plus, the Friday news quiz.
Among the stakes in next month’s election is the long-running question of whether tax cuts can shape how people vote.
Fueled by tens of millions from Elon Musk, President Trump’s super PAC, Michael Bloomberg and other big donors, both parties are pumping enormous amounts into the final days of the midterms.
The first lady, who is positioning herself as an intermediary between two warring nations as her husband sides with Russia, said the agreement would allow residents to evacuate.
A bill to bolster the nation’s unemployment insurance program reflects the concern — and the risks — in Washington.
The administration says the arch fulfills the “historic design intent” of a proposal from the 1920s. But does it honor history or flout it?
Nayib Bukele’s notoriously harsh and wildly popular security crackdown in El Salvador is spawning imitators and remaking the region.
The call from the president about the Starshield network came after officials in Ukraine reported that they found new limits on the use of military drones in their war against Russia.
In Ohio, many voters say their frustration about the increase in electricity and fuel prices and the growth of data centers won’t influence whom they vote for.
Wisconsin’s Republican candidate for governor, Tom Tiffany, is talking about nearly anything but President Trump. And as Republicans watch Mr. Trump’s approval ratings plummet, he is hardly alone.
Lawyers for the BBC had accused the president of delaying his testimony in the case he brought.
The G.O.P. nominee in Ohio has given conservatives space to reckon with the ethical degradation of Trumpism.
Sarah Longwell has conducted hundreds of focus groups with Trump voters, and many of them are feeling betrayed.
Ahead of the midterms, Natasha Sarin and Catherine Rampell unpack the state of the economy — and how much responsibility the president bears for it.
The details of the inquiry remain unclear, but it is one of the rare instances in which a Trump ally or appointee has been investigated for potential wrongdoing during the president’s second term.
The administration is planning a massive expansion of the surveillance program. Here’s how much it can see.
It evokes dark periods in American history.
About a fifth of the 300,000 metric tons of lean beef trimmings have come through customs, six weeks through a program designed to lower prices.
It’s been many years since the continent seemed more spectral, and its people more vulnerable, than it does now.
Calley Means, who helped unite Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and President Trump, pushed food reforms but grew frustrated with stalled progress on the MAHA agenda.
America is figuring out the trick to reindustrialization, if it can learn the right lessons.
President Trump said on Thursday that Elon Musk had put the Starshield satellite communications network back online in Ukraine.
President Trump’s proposed overhaul of a Washington golf course and park could sacrifice features long popular with locals.
The president visited Sioux City, part of deep-red Western Iowa, in an effort to boost GOP turnout in a state that was once solidly Republican.
The Justice Department sought to jump-start a lawsuit aimed at compelling the state to not count as many as 20,000 mail ballots it claims were sent to noncitizens.
Progressive activists released a video of three men making the allegations about the South Carolina Republican, who died in July. The New York Times has not confirmed their claims.
Trump got behind a much-criticized spot in the Ohio governor’s race.
The Justice Department is reviewing whether Representative Ilhan Omar, a Minnesota Democrat, broke the law when she became a U.S. citizen decades ago. Here’s what we know.
The Islamic republic has long used billboards in Tehran to mock its opponents and hammer home its messaging, but this piece of performance propaganda is perhaps the most eccentric yet.
Iran has a long history of using billboards for messaging, but this piece of performance propaganda is perhaps the most eccentric yet. A live impersonator of President Trump locked in a jail cell is attached to the billboard.
President Trump appeared to celebrate after a rallygoer physically confronted a protester at a rally in South Carolina on Wednesday. He was campaigning for Senator Darline Graham as he barnstorms ahead of the midterm election.
Russia has sought to separate the war in Ukraine from potential business deals and diplomacy with the United States. Its efforts now appear to be working.
Plus, America’s newest national park.
In the new Times/Siena poll, 70 percent of young voters identified as Democrats or leaned that way — a jump from just two years ago.
The Trump administration’s policies could cost Republicans in a state that is being hit hard by expensive diesel prices and uncertainty over trade.
New surveys show that increases in premiums and deductibles are forcing people to forgo treatments or doctor’s visits while budgets are strained by higher food and gas prices.
The ruling largely blocked homeland security agents from carrying out field interviews in nine states, including California, as part of a sprawling effort to find noncitizens registered to vote.
Abdul El-Sayed accused Mike Rogers of being overly devoted to President Trump. Mr. Rogers accused Dr. El-Sayed of not enough loyalty to the country. It was still more cordial than their last debate.
In today’s Backstory, the new Holmes film takes issue with our profile, Nikole Hannah-Jones unpacks her viral essay and a professor shares why he thinks we apply “conservative” and “liberal” labels inconsistently.
Renewed hostilities might not be any more successful than the war’s first phase, and President Trump has repeatedly canceled plans for a return to major combat.
Plus: The justices’ book deals mean the court can’t rule on cases involving a media conglomerate.
A former three-star admiral fired by Pete Hegseth is making his competence a campaign issue.
The win is a show of support for the International Criminal Court as the Trump administration moves to thwart its work.
The group discusses the economy, the president and the candidates for senator and governor.
Israelis on both sides of the political spectrum see next week’s vote as the most consequential in their country’s history.
He had an unlikely rise, from modeling agent to presidential special envoy. After his firing, he was unrepentant: “I need to make money.”
Mr. Trump has been searching for his Yalta in the war in Ukraine ever since he returned to the Oval Office.
A lower court judge had halted the administration’s plan to erect hundreds of miles of barriers in the Big Bend region of Texas.
From Barack Obama to Donald Trump, ideology has infused the interpretation of the federal law banning sex discrimination on college campuses.
President Trump’s announcement raised concerns that he would use the program seeking information on fraud for political purposes.
Some democracies seem caught in a trap: Spend more and risk market panic, or cut benefits and empower the far right.
After years of bipartisan effort, the former Chiricahua National Monument, in southeast Arizona, has become the United States’ 64th national park.
President Emmanuel Macron of France said President Trump and other foreign leaders made false claims about the protests in France.
After a Cornell student’s lawsuit alleging the school failed her when she reported sexual assault, there’s a new focus on Title IX, the federal law barring sex discrimination in federally funded education. Our Washington correspondent Michael C. Bender traces how interpretations of the law shifted between the Obama and Trump administrations.
Readers sharply criticize what they view as appeasement of Russia. Also: Costly midterm ads.
The Trump administration will release 315,000 barrels of heating oil, but analysts say the amount is too small to make much of a difference.
The latest rift with President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine serves as a reminder that President Trump readily lashes out at other world leaders, only to grow outraged if they fight back.
Ukraine says it still doesn’t know why the military satellite internet service, a sister to Starlink, was abruptly throttled, leaving troops vulnerable to Russian attacks.
Mr. Hubbard, a 74-year-old teacher, was held for more than four years on what the State Department called fabricated charges.
The move buys good will with President Trump while costing the President Vladimir V. Putin — who is wanted for war crimes — little.
Likely voters favored Democratic candidates over Republicans by 11 percentage points in their congressional district, a New York Times/Siena poll found.
Speaking in Qatar, President Emmanuel Macron railed against foreign leaders who he said had made false claims about unrest in France for their own political ends.
The map favors Republicans, but cracks in their base are leaving them vulnerable in defending House and Senate control.
A Times reporter and editors discuss the challenges of sifting through what’s real and what’s not in pursuit of the news.
The justices, for now, agreed to continue preventing the Bureau of Prisons from implementing a policy that would prohibit gender-transition medical treatments.
The enormous spending by the term-limited president’s super PAC has no parallel in American history, and could offer struggling Republican candidates a lifeline.
Julio Herrera Velutini, a prominent Venezuelan, was seeking clemency. He got it not long after his daughter gave Ms. Habba, a lawyer close to President Trump, an extraordinarily lucrative job.
After Russia released an American prisoner, President Trump’s special envoy praised President Vladimir V. Putin as “a humanitarian.” Our White House and national security correspondent, David E. Sanger, describes how the release comes amid Mr. Trump’s broader shift toward Russia and away from Ukraine.
President Trump’s special envoy, Steve Witkoff, praised President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia as a “humanitarian” for releasing an imprisoned 74-year-old American who was living in Ukraine when Russia invaded.
Trump’s meddling would have dark consequences for our democracy and our prosperity.
President Trump has talked about replacing the James S. Brady Press Briefing Room with an indoor swimming pool.
As the midterms approach, our chief economics correspondent breaks down the data.
The president called for the return of Stephen James Hubbard, a Michigan teacher seized from his home in Ukraine months after Russia invaded that country.
The president is preoccupied with summoning the image of a consolidated authoritarian state.
Ron Wyden, ranking Democrat on the Senate Finance Committee, is investigating the firms over their role in helping corporations dodge billions in taxes.
The country has never been more united.
Federal, state and city authorities conducted searches in New York City as the Trump administration investigates allegations at centers in states Democrats control.
The justice said during a discussion that recent Supreme Court decisions on voting rights, gerrymandering and campaign finance have deepened America’s divides.
MAGA Inc. is now flooding the social media platforms with targeted ads as it seeks to turn out Republicans amid the president’s historically low approval ratings.
The stakes in Ukraine are much larger than the fate of one nation.
Trump’s push for deals and Europe’s political fractures seem to be giving the Russian president the opening he’s been waiting for.
President Trump alluded to the antisemitic term “Shylock” at a rally in Kansas on Monday. The word is associated with a centuries-old antisemitic trope of a moneylender. Mr. Trump said “Shylock” at a rally last year and said that he didn’t know it was an antisemitic slur.
Senator Katie Britt of Alabama was the latest national Republican to visit Iowa to campaign for Representative Ashley Hinson. President Trump will follow on Thursday.
Staying quiet is riskier than speaking up, Ukrainian officials say, as President Trump goes further than ever in prioritizing Russia’s interests.
Once again, the president’s ability to wage a trade war without Congress will come before a court that has repeatedly ruled against him.
President Trump said that opponents of Senator Roger Marshall had unfairly cast him as “some kind of a Shylock-type guy.” Mr. Trump used the same slur last year at a rally in Iowa.
President Trump’s special envoy, Steve Witkoff, met with President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine amid a deepening rift between Ukraine’s leader and Mr. Trump over the latter’s push for deals with Russia.