Off-Duty ICE Agent Is Shot and Arrested After Sleeping on Lawn in California
Sat, 10 Oct 2026 03:15:47 +0000 A woman found the agent asleep on her lawn early Friday, and her 72-year-old father shot the agent after he assaulted her, the police said.: In Deep-Red Kansas, a Surprisingly Competitive Senate Race Takes Shape
Fri, 09 Oct 2026 23:01:48 +0000 Adam Hamilton wants to be the first Democrat to win a Senate seat there in nearly 100 years.: For Trump, a Firing Squad on Livestream Becomes the Latest Spectacle
Sat, 10 Oct 2026 04:06:53 +0000 The idea seemed to surprise even some inside the Trump administration.: Blogger on Trial: Is a Lewd Image of Shrek Free Speech or Harassment?
Fri, 09 Oct 2026 21:40:45 +0000 An Ohio municipal court heard a misdemeanor case that considered the limits of political discourse in the age of the internet.: Fort Hood Shooter’s Execution Could Face Challenge in Federal Courts
Fri, 09 Oct 2026 21:26:59 +0000 Legal experts say the former Army officer convicted in a 2009 mass shooting could face a narrow, rushed path to appeal a public execution by firing squad.: Trump Casts Himself as Columbus’s Protector in Pitch to Italian Americans
Fri, 09 Oct 2026 21:12:39 +0000 President Trump sought to inject the Genoese explorer into the current political conversation.: The polls in the Maine Senate race show a fair amount of disagreement.
Fri, 09 Oct 2026 21:34:44 +0000: Senate Fact Finders Decry Costs of Immigrant Detention at Guantánamo
Fri, 09 Oct 2026 23:55:54 +0000 The setup has cost more than $100 million, the study said. A recent inspection found nearly 450 government employees and zero detainees.: Trump Says He Will Import Russian Diesel Fuel Amid High Prices
Sat, 10 Oct 2026 03:09:00 +0000 President Trump said Russia had agreed to ship potentially millions of tons of diesel fuel in the coming months. But the amounts would be small relative to global demand.: Donor Says Kimberly Guilfoyle Sought Money From Him to Cover Debt
Fri, 09 Oct 2026 23:26:59 +0000 Correspondence suggests that Ms. Guilfoyle, the U.S. ambassador to Greece and former fiancée of Donald Trump Jr., asked a G.O.P. donor to pay off her credit card.: Vance Says He Would Not Watch Livestreamed Execution of Fort Hood Shooter
Fri, 09 Oct 2026 19:13:29 +0000 The vice president also cast doubt on whether the public execution of Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan, the 2009 Fort Hood gunman, would go forward as Pentagon officials have planned.: Some G.O.P. Lawmakers Pan Hegseth’s Plan to Stream Execution of Fort Hood Shooter
Fri, 09 Oct 2026 19:15:45 +0000 Some G.O.P. members of Congress said that broadcasting the execution of the Fort Hood shooter was inappropriate, though others gleefully applauded it.: Why Early Voting Data Can Be Misleading
Fri, 09 Oct 2026 18:20:41 +0000 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.: Katie Zacharia Picked as Trump’s New White House Press Secretary
Fri, 09 Oct 2026 21:37:17 +0000 Ms. Zacharia is a conservative commentator who is also an adviser to the company that runs President Trump’s social media site, Truth Social. She succeeds Karoline Leavitt.: James Talarico Returns to Senate Campaign Trail in Texas After 10-Day Absence
Fri, 09 Oct 2026 22:23:04 +0000 Mr. Talarico, the Democratic nominee for Senate in Texas, showed up at a music festival, saying he had been at home with “a nasty case of the flu.”: Kansas Senate Race Is a Surprising New Midterm Fight
Fri, 09 Oct 2026 19:23:04 +0000 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.: Ocasio-Cortez to Campaign for El-Sayed on Bus Tour in Michigan
Fri, 09 Oct 2026 16:00:06 +0000 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.: Top Democratic Group Pumps Millions Into Kansas Senate Race
Fri, 09 Oct 2026 21:45:21 +0000 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.: Trump Administration Hits International Criminal Court With Severe Sanctions
Fri, 09 Oct 2026 17:51:25 +0000 U.S. officials announced the new, sweeping punishments just hours after the Nobel Peace Prize committee gave its annual honor to a former court judge.: Retiring Senator Dick Durbin Laments the Decline of Legislating
Fri, 09 Oct 2026 14:51:47 +0000 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.: F.B.I. Arrests Key Suspect in ShinyHunters Hack of Its Own Agents’ Data
Sat, 10 Oct 2026 02:38:34 +0000 The hack left the nation’s premier law enforcement agency racing to respond as both the victim and the investigator of a murky group that threatened to expose agents’ personal information.: Why This Election Could Be More Complicated for Democrats Than Polls Suggest
Fri, 09 Oct 2026 09:02:09 +0000 The last two midterms where Democrats surged against an unpopular Republican president were in 2006 and 2018. They had notably different outcomes.: Paxton Said in Deposition That Donor Gave Him Stocks to Please God
Fri, 09 Oct 2026 21:25:46 +0000 The leaked deposition from a fraud inquiry in 2014 provides insight into the Senate candidate’s investments and his tactics for defending himself.: How Trump’s Revenge Campaign Descended Into Turmoil
Fri, 09 Oct 2026 22:58:30 +0000 The president’s allies have sought to prove a “grand conspiracy” through a sprawling Justice Department inquiry. It has buckled under staffing shake-ups, internal disputes and trouble finding evidence.: The Controversial Class That M.I.T. Is Paying a Professor Not to Teach
Fri, 09 Oct 2026 16:59:22 +0000 Michel DeGraff, a vocal pro-Palestinian activist, can’t be easily fired because he has tenure. But he has been kicked out of his department.