DNC accuses Pentagon of pushing through changes to how voters abroad request absentee ballots ahead of midterms The Trump administration broke the law when it pushed through a last-minute change to the form overseas citizens use to register and request absentee ballots, the Democratic National Commi

House Democrats say officials may have illegally misused public funds to pay for president’s ‘narcissistic ego trips’ The Trump administration is facing growing questions over whether it illegally used taxpayer money to air television ads promoting Donald Trump five weeks before the US midterm

Six lawmakers demand information on childcare center closures, cost changes, Head Start and government grants Democratic senators have accused Donald Trump’s administration of worsening the country’s childcare crisis, warning that rising costs and daycare closures are leaving families with fewer

Democrats block measure they say didn’t go far enough – and was bundled with ‘poison pill’ voter ID rules The US Senate on Wednesday blocked a Republican bill restricting stock trading by members of Congress, after Democrats refused to advance a measure they said would let lawmakers keep the

Republicans supported legislation although Democrats said it wouldn’t effectively address energy consumption Senate Democrats on Wednesday blocked legislation intended to offset the impact of datacenters on consumer electricity bills, calling it a “toothless” attempt to address a top voter con

Nine American citizens have been killed by Israeli settlers or security forces in occupied West Bank since 2022 The US Senate on Tuesday evening rejected along mostly party lines a Democratic resolution that would have forced the state department to report to Congress on violence in the occupied Wes

GOP senators lash out on Smith, who led criminal cases against Trump, with invective and inaccurate information Former special counsel Jack Smith, who led two criminal cases against Donald Trump in 2023, faced attacks from Republicans in a wide-ranging hearing on Tuesday that included a basketball m

First Native American woman to serve as US cabinet secretary candid about history with alcohol as she seeks to tackle billowing public health crisis “It clouds your mind,” recalls Deb Haaland , the trailblazing US cabinet secretary now running to be New Mexico’s next governor. “They say that

Republicans could lean on congressional procedure to defy the will of voters. But if they try that, the Senate has a clear way to fight back Having lost his mail-in ballot case , Donald Trump will probably resort to ever more extreme ways to try to hold a Republican Congress in November’s election

Social and news media commenters seize on senator’s gaffe, with some characterizing it as a Freudian slip With speculation about whether he may defect from the Democratic party swirling around him, US senator John Fetterman described himself seemingly unintentionally as a “lifelong Republican”

Grassroots organizer Yasmin Radjy on the Democratic ground game leading into the midterm elections In the run-up to the US midterm elections , Swing Left – a grassroots political group focused on electing Democrats to office – has spent time canvassing in dozens of districts across the country t

The popular Twitch streamer has been vilified by Republicans, but the socialist commentator has a large audience that some Democrats have courted It’s only 9am and the latest media shitstorm is well under way. Hasan Piker scrolls through his social media feeds as he comes down the stairs of his ho