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The battle for control of the U.S. Senate is tightening as Democrats challenge Republicans in traditionally conservative states while defending seats of their own in competitive contests across the country. Seven races in Texas, Ohio, Maine, Iowa, Alaska, Michigan and New Hampshire are drawing particular attention from political analysts, campaign …

Michigan’s closely watched U.S. Senate race turned into a personal brawl Thursday as Democrat Abdul El-Sayed and Republican Mike Rogers traded insults, challenged each other’s credibility and clashed over the war in Iran, health care, immigration and President Donald Trump’s agenda. The first televised debate of the campaign featured accusations …

President Donald Trump is taking another run at Federal Reserve Governor Lisa Cook. On Friday, a notice posted on the White House website announced a committee that will investigate the mortgage-fraud allegations against Cook and report back to the president on whether there is “cause” to remove her. The notice …

A U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent fired seven shots at a car in New York City’s Marble Hill neighborhood Thursday, striking a 28-year-old man in the neck while a 5-year-old boy sat in the backseat, according to New York City officials. The man, identified by NYPD Commissioner Jessica Tisch …

Democratic U.S. Sen. Jon Ossoff and Republican Congressman Mike Collins came out swinging on the debate stage Thursday night, discussing topics like the economy, healthcare and data centers in between brutal insults ahead of the November election. During an hour-long debate hosted by Atlanta News First and Atlanta-based Gray Media, …

Three members of Congress just introduced a bill aimed at one of the quietest bottlenecks in American health care: the cost of training nurses. The Educating Future Nurses Act, from Reps. Lauren Underwood, Jen Kiggans (VA-02) and Suzanne Bonamici (OR-01), would create permanent federal funding for hospitals to partner with …

Republicans control virtually every lever of federal power. They hold the White House, both chambers of Congress and a Supreme Court with a 6-3 conservative majority that includes three Trump appointees. Republicans also control some of the country’s most consequential battleground states. Yet when voters complain about grocery bills, a …

Goods prices were on track to fall. Then the tariffs hit, and the New York Fed just put a number on what it cost you. A new study from the Federal Reserve Bank of New York has done the math on one of the biggest questions in the economy: how …

President Donald Trump wants a second Camp David, and he wants it on his own property. The Washington Post reported Wednesday that Trump is pushing to turn part of Trump International Golf Club in West Palm Beach into a permanent, official presidential retreat — a “U.S. Presidential Golf Course” that …

President Donald Trump has approved the execution of former Army Maj. Nidal Hasan, the military psychiatrist convicted of killing 13 people and wounding more than 30 others in the 2009 Fort Hood shooting, setting the stage for the first U.S. military execution since 1961. Hasan is scheduled to be executed …

The only scheduled debate of Georgia’s governor’s race quickly became a fight over more than taxes, data centers and public safety. Democrat Keisha Lance Bottoms and Republican Rick Jackson spent much of Tuesday night’s town hall drawing competing pictures of what the state’s next governor should be — with President …

Sharing the stage for the first time Tuesday night, incumbent Republican U.S. Sen. Susan Collins and Democratic nominee Troy Jackson directly blamed each other for Mainers’ struggles and called each other corrupt.   Tuesday night’s debate, hosted by CBS News 13/ WGME, is the first of four debates over the next …

Nearly a year after a Customs and Border Protection agent shot Marimar Martinez during the Trump administration’s immigration crackdown in Chicago, the U.S. citizen is suing the federal government — alleging the agent’s account of the shooting was false and that he fired at her vehicle even after moving behind …

The Trump administration has a pronatalist streak a mile wide: baby bonuses, medals for mothers of six, and now a two-front push that would reroute child care subsidies to married stay-at-home parents and steer highway and transit money toward communities with high marriage and birth rates. Supporters call it pro-family. …

President Donald Trump spent years warning Republicans that voting by mail was vulnerable to fraud and calling the practice “inherently corrupt.” Now, with Republicans facing a difficult political environment ahead of the November midterm elections, Trump is telling his supporters to use it. In a video posted over the weekend, …