WASHINGTON — Over the past decade, President Donald Trump has steadily expanded executive power, pushing the limits of his authority and evading traditional constraints. But a Democratic takeover of Congress on Tuesday could set up one final constitutional test for the Trump era, challenging the legislative branch to reclaim its role as a ...Read more

WASHINGTON — An acutely contentious and historically expensive midterm campaign barrels to a finish Monday, on the eve of elections that will set the nation’s course for the remaining half of President Trump’s second term.

Republicans are bracing for a backlash from voters as Democrats prepare for gains — but the magnitude of any “...Read more

If a reporter for the Times of Mars covering the recent elections in Israel were to assess the results, she might file a story that would get this headline: “Historic Day: Arab Parties Score Decisive Win. Netanyahu Is Out.” She would note that there were three major blocs: the right-wing coalition of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu with 53...Read more

MIAMI — A federal judge in Miami threw out President Donald Trump’s $10 billion defamation lawsuit against The Wall Street Journal and Rupert Murdoch, saying the president was “grasping at straws” in challenging the newspaper’s reporting on a sexually suggestive birthday letter bearing his name sent to Jeffrey Epstein.

U.S. District ...Read more

WASHINGTON — A federal magistrate judge on Monday threw out a case accusing two former FBI officials of lying to Congress, criticizing it as rushed, flawed and politically motivated.

During an hourlong hearing, Magistrate Judge Zia Faruqui for the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia found that there was no legal justification to ...Read more

WASHINGTON — It’s Election Week in America.

A lot of the midterm vote has already happened in states where early voting and mail-in voting are common, but there’s still time to get supporters to the polls on Election Day.

President Donald Trump will use the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool as the location for his midterm closing argument...Read more

MADRID — Support for Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez dropped following one of the deadliest train crashes in Spanish history.

Sánchez’s Socialist party has about 24.6% backing among voters, compared with about 26% a week earlier, according to a poll by SigmaDos published Monday by newspaper El Mundo. This would grant the Socialists ...Read more

WASHINGTON — An acutely contentious and historically expensive midterm campaign barrels to a finish Monday, on the eve of elections that will set the nation's course for the remaining half of President Donald Trump's second term.

Republicans are bracing for a backlash from voters as Democrats prepare for gains — but the magnitude of any "...Read more

Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker has spent nearly $39 million so far this election cycle to support fellow Democrats and their causes beyond his own reelection, even though many out-of-state races he’s backing look like long shots. To see why, look at Texas.

The billionaire Democrat already had a long-running rivalry with Republican Texas Gov. Greg ...Read more

Politicians across the Illinois ballot used the final weekend before Tuesday’s general election embarking on a closing-hours effort to turn out their political bases with rallies, church visits and door-knocking, while Gov. JB Pritzker took his case to a national Sunday television audience.

Appearing on NBC’s “Meet the Press,” the two-...Read more

Every two years heading into November, as state and federal elections draw nearer, voters are inundated with campaign advertisements on TV, websites and social media — some of which deliver misleading messages about candidates.

If an ad is misleading, why are television stations still allowed to run them?

For a station to censor a TV ...Read more

Donald Trump is capping his final electoral campaign the way he began over a decade ago: hoping a whirlwind sprint across the country will turn out his most fervent supporters and thwart Democratic designs to curtail his power in the sunset of his political career.

The 80-year-old president, weary from a nearly month-long blitz through ruby red...Read more

MIAMI — A 21-year-old woman who posted on Instagram that she was planning to shoot President Donald Trump at his rally in Daytona Beach has been arrested, authorities said.

Trump visited Daytona on Friday to help drum up the vote for Republican gubernatorial candidate Byron Donalds.

But the night before, investigators said Allison Albro ...Read more

Secretary of State Marco Rubio defended the U.S. decision to include Russia in this year’s Group of 20 meetings after criticism from the European Union and other allies, calling dialogue the only way to end the war in Ukraine.

Rubio spoke Saturday after a two-day meeting in Atlanta where the U.S. scrapped a traditional “family photo” ...Read more

As voters cast their ballots in the much anticipated midterms on Tuesday, TV networks will give their viewers a closer look at how the election sausage is made.

As usual, anchors and analysts will be at their network news desks when votes are counted to determine whether the Democrats can take the House and the Senate from Republicans for the ...Read more

NEW YORK — With just days to go until Election Day, Democrats are holding onto a surprisingly strong late lead in the midterm fight for Congress as Republicans have been dragged down by President Donald Trump’s historically deep unpopularity.

It’s far too early for Democrats to declare victory before votes are counted, especially with ...Read more

On America’s Election Night 10 years ago, I was a diplomat with the U.S. mission to Somalia in Mogadishu. We were hosting a watch party with local political, business and civil society leaders. U.S. elections offer a chance to showcase how democracy works and to share American values, so these watch parties are a public diplomacy staple at ...Read more