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.
President Trump’s comments, coming in a key midterm battleground nine days before the elections, underscored the dark themes and personal vilification he and his allies have embraced as part of their closing pitch.
A federal appeals court panel seemed disinclined to order the state to set aside as many as 20,000 mail-in ballots the Trump administration claimed were sent to noncitizens.
A lawsuit by the Justice Department challenging a potential narrow loss by the G.O.P. Senate incumbent in Alaska reflects a new tactic by the president to try to shape the election results.
Proponents for a Berkeley public bank say that it would allow the city to keep its tax dollars local. Opponents say that it would be a high-risk experiment with tax dollars.
Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, the leftist incumbent, and Flávio Bolsonaro, the right-wing challenger, face off in a narrow race that could redefine the future of Latin America.
The return of thousands of Israeli expats to vote in their country’s tight election has set off debate over their political influence. We traveled to Tel Aviv to find out why.
Our politics reporter Kellen Browning walks through the four Senate races that progressive Democrats are closely watching in the upcoming midterm elections.
Israelis head to the polls on Tuesday for an election that will determine the country’s next prime minister. But it can take weeks, months or longer to form a new government.
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.
Fed up with the political establishment and rising cost of living, demonstrators hoped to make their message heard after violence overshadowed protests last weekend.
Young people protested the rising cost of living in Milan on Saturday, a week after similar demonstrations in cities across northern Italy ended in violent clashes and looting.
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.
After largely peaceful marches on Saturday, clashes broke out in the evening. But a large-scale police presence, 1,000 arrests and the rerouting of protest routes kept a lid on wholesale vandalism.
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.
President Trump during a campaign rally in support of Senator Dan S. Sullivan in Wasilla, Alaska, this month. Mr. Trump urged the Justice Dept. to intervene in the Senate race.
The authorities deployed tens of thousands of security forces and banned demonstrations in some cities, hoping to avoid a repeat of the riots that shook the country a week ago.
American soldiers awaited a visit by Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth and the White House border czar, Tom Homan, last year near the United States-Mexico border at Sunland Park, N.M.
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.
The Democratic presidential primary race appears to be wide open, while JD Vance and Marco Rubio led among Republican voters, a New York Times/Siena survey found.
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 North Korean leader, Kim Jong-un, waved as he walked along the New Yalu River Bridge, in a photograph released by North Korean state media on Saturday.
The Oct. 7 attacks marred Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s image as Mr. Security. Ahead of elections, he’s trying to sell Israelis on the new, hawkish version of himself.
No obvious legal authority supports a pre-emptive effort to block the certification of Alaska’s Senate election if the Republican incumbent narrowly loses.
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.
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.
Representative Brian Fitzpatrick, Republican of Pennsylvania and a former F.B.I. agent who worked on Russian counterintelligence in Kyiv, said he doubted the communication problems were accidental.
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.
Dinorah Figuera, left, Delcy Rodríguez and Jorge Rodríguez during a meeting at the Miraflores presidential palace in Caracas on Thursday, in a photo released by the Venezuelan presidency.
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.
Dinorah Figuera, left, Delcy Rodríguez and Jorge Rodríguez during a meeting at the Miraflores presidential palace in Caracas on Thursday, in a photo released by the Venezuelan presidency.
Democrats have campaigned on lowering living costs and holding the Trump administration accountable. This is a look at their to-do list if they win the majority.
Should they win in November, top House Democrats are planning a shock-and-awe legislative sprint to demonstrate within hours of taking power that they are passing bills to deliver on their promises.
This year’s olive harvest in the Israeli-occupied West Bank is the most violent in years, as settlers have attacked farmers and besieged homes, drawing condemnation from U.S. officials and others.
Palestinians harvesting olives last week in Khirbet Abu Falah, in the Israeli-occupied West Bank. Israeli settlers attacked a group of Palestinians there last week, injuring several people, including an American journalist.
Democrats have campaigned on lowering living costs and holding the Trump administration accountable. This is a look at their to-do list if they win the majority.
Should they win in November, top House Democrats are planning a shock-and-awe legislative sprint to demonstrate within hours of taking power that they are passing bills to deliver on their promises.
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.
“It was abundantly clear that without my intervention, the possibility to bring humanitarian aid into the city and to evacuate the elderly would be impossible,” Melania Trump, the first lady, said in a statement.
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