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October 16, 2018

A Trump stalwart softens her tone in pivotal US House race

First-term Republican U.S. Rep. Claudia Tenney was an early supporter of Donald Trump who has drawn comparisons to the ...

October 16, 2018

New campaign seeks support for expanded Supreme Court

A couple of liberal Harvard law professors are lending their name to a new campaign to build support for expanding the ...

October 16, 2018

Kansas governor's race is referendum on notorious tax cuts

The dead-heat Kansas governor's race has become a referendum on how a Republican experiment in slashing income taxes went ...

October 16, 2018

Cruz enters debate with polling lead; Trump rally coming

Frank Randazzo, a retiree near Houston, volunteers for his local GOP office knocking on doors of undecided voters amid the ...

October 16, 2018

Trump lashes out at Warren over DNA test, calls her 'phony!'

President Donald Trump lashed out at Sen. Elizabeth Warren on Tuesday over DNA test results she released that indicate she ...

October 16, 2018

2020 Democrats building ties to power brokers in key states

Before he cut the $100,000 checks, Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti brought the Democratic Party chairmen from Iowa, New ...

October 16, 2018

Australia considers moving embassy to Jerusalem

Australia has raised the prospect of following the United States by relocating its embassy in Israel from Tel Aviv to ...

October 16, 2018

Macron seeks to regain initiative with government reshuffle

French president Emmanuel Macron has appointed a high-profile political ally to the key post of interior minister during a ...

October 16, 2018

Democrats lead Republicans on fundraising ahead of midterms

Democrats lead Republicans in the money race in many of the key Senate and House campaigns three weeks ahead of midterm ...

October 16, 2018

McSally accuses Sinema of backing "treason" in Senate debate

Republican Rep. Martha McSally accused her Democratic opponent, Rep. Kyrsten Sinema, of supporting "treason," citing a ...

October 16, 2018

Sen. Warren: DNA test shows I have Native American heritage

Sen. Elizabeth Warren on Monday released the results of a DNA analysis that she said indicated that she has some Native ...

October 16, 2018

Voter records offered for sale month ahead of elections

Security researchers say an estimated 35 million voter records from 19 U.S. states have been offered for sale on a dark web ...

October 16, 2018

McCaskill brings in another $8.5M for Senate re-election bid

Data released Monday shows Missouri's Democratic U.S. Sen. Claire McCaskill brought in $7.8 million in roughly two months for ...

October 15, 2018

Salesforce vs. Twitter in San Francisco homeless tax fight

San Francisco has come to be known around the world as a place for aggressive panhandling, open-air drug use and sprawling ...

October 15, 2018

GOP plays blame game while fighting to save House majority

Republicans have begun to concede defeat in the evolving fight to preserve the House majority. The party's candidates may not ...

October 15, 2018

Study: Without Medicaid expansion, poor forgo medical care

Low-income people in states that haven't expanded Medicaid are much more likely to forgo needed medical care than the poor ...

October 15, 2018

Portugal's Socialists eye next election with govt reshuffle

Four new ministers have taken office in the Portuguese government as the center-left Socialists look to freshen their ...

October 15, 2018

Feeling 'vindicated,' Malaysia's Anwar takes lawmaker oath

Malaysian Prime Minister-in-waiting Anwar Ibrahim said he felt "vindicated" after taking his oath as a lawmaker Monday, ...

October 15, 2018

Democratic candidates focus on health care as midterms near

In a windowless conference room, Republican Senate candidate Martha McSally was asking executives at a small crane ...