Gina Hinojosa Believes She’s the One Who Can Finally Flip Texas
The Democratic nominee for governor on her appeal to MAGA voters and her refusal to engage in the “culture wars.
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How Vivek Ramaswamy’s Ruthless Ad in Ohio Divided Republicans
The fallout from Vivek Ramaswamy’s brutal spot targeting his Democratic rival in the Ohio governor’s race showed that even in the Trump era, a political attack can be seen as going too far.
El-Sayed Needs Black Voters in Michigan. Tensions With Arab Americans Make That Harder.
Conflict between Michigan’s Black and Arab communities could get in the way of Dr. Abdul El-Sayed’s pitch in the critical Senate race.
U.S. Pressures Mexico to Deliver a Security Win Ahead of Midterm Elections
The Trump administration wants a public victory soon, as well as a potential path to U. S. military forces in Mexico.
Trump Asked Muslim Voters to Trust Him. Now Some Feel Used.
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.
A Fact-Check on Trump’s Election Claims
The president has spread false claims about ranked-choice systems, voting machines, vote counting and past results to question the integrity of elections.
Why Democrats Could Find It Hard to Win the Senate Despite Their Strong Polls
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.
Obama Returns to the Trail, Setting Up Dueling Midterm Appearances With Trump
The 44th president will appear in Ohio and Michigan on Saturday, while President Trump will be in Georgia. The two men have presented starkly contrasting pitches in the midterms.
Beef and Barn Dances: A Farmer Tries to Turn a Red Patch of N.C. Blue
Democrats are largely used to losing in the mountains of western North Carolina. Jamie Ager is trying to change that.
They Were Accused of Illegal Fishing. They Ended Up in ICE Detention.
In states like Florida, officers who hand out fishing citations and inspect produce have been deputized by Immigration and Customs Enforcement, expanding the reach of President Trump’s deportation campaign.
Can John Healey make a dent in the cost of living crisis in his first budget?
Much of the Burnham project depends on how the budget is received, as promise of ‘breathing space’ is a two-way street You be the chancellor: play our budget game to see if you can balance the books Every Sunday night, the chancellor, John Healey, slips next door to Andy Burnham’s Downing Street ...
Vance front and center in Republican midterms push – is this a dry run for a White House bid?
Vice-president’s visibility has risen as Trump’s popularity wanes, but path to inherit Maga throne is more complicated than it may seem A day after JD Vance suggested Donald Trump would endorse him if he runs for president, the vice-president shifted awkwardly in the Oval Office as his boss was a...
The data scientist who called Trump’s 2024 win now gives Democrats a 78% shot at the Senate
Northwestern’s Thomas Miller finds Democrats leading in 18 of 35 races, and the Trump effect hurting the GOP across the board.
‘We can’t let the far right take power again’: Lula voters in final push before Brazil runoff
In bellwether Minais Gerais, with polls about even, president’s supporters are striving to win over those who abstained or voted for Flavio Bolsonaro Naiara Boroni, Nikolas Domingues and Jodersson Diego live in the same city and do not know one another, but said they had done the same thing in re...
What essentials to keep, what rubbish to get rid of? Burnham, Badenoch, Farage don’t know either | Robert Hutton
After a fractious week, they probably agree that no one at all needs Liz Truss’s new book, but then the political housekeeping decisions get much harder What are you stockpiling? Wes Streeting says we need water and food to last 72 hours in case of national emergency, as well as wind-up radios s...
Opposition deepfake video of Spanish PM’s wife sparks outrage before election
Video shows AI likenesses of people linked to Pedro Sánchez’s Socialist party appearing to admit to wrongdoing A political ad from Spain’s main opposition party that used a deepfake video of the prime minister’s wife has sparked outrage and set off a wider debate on AI, as the deeply polarised co...
“Culture is stagnant, so politics is stuck” – playwright James Graham | Radical Thinking – podcast
Are we doomscrolling our way into a democratic crisis? That’s what the playwright James Graham fears may be happening, as he suggests that our algorithms have led us into ‘a massive crisis of the new’ and are preventing us from imagining a different future Watch the full episode with James Graha...
At Aberfan, I saw fathers digging for their missing children. And the lessons society should have learned, it hasn’t | John Humphrys
Each of those 144 deaths was entirely avoidable, but nobody was held to account. We still don’t know how to get justice for ordinary people Aberfan taught us a lot. Mostly, of course, that those in power cannot be trusted.
Can a £5.8bn scheme help revive Grimsby and other town centres?
Turning boarded-up shops into community spaces is a bigger and more complex task than just adding funding Most levelling up projects still unfinished years after funding allocated “It is nice to see something happening for once,” says Jack Vincent, a Grimsby resident, as he considers a wave of ch...
How Brazil's changing working class is reshaping the presidential race
Calls for change present a challenge to President Lula in the second round of the election on Sunday.
The rise of AI election ads in US midterms campaign
BBC Verify has tracked dozens of AI ads to assess how they are being used by campaigns in the midterms.
Watch: The rise of AI election ads in US midterms campaign
BBC Verify has tracked dozens of AI ads to assess how they are being used by campaigns in the midterms.
As a divided Israel prepares to go to the polls, can Netanyahu pull off his greatest political trick yet?
The prime minister has defined and dominated his country’s politics for three decades and is putting his rivals on the defensive before Tuesday’s general election They chant his name, they cheer and clap – and yet he is not the most dominant person in the room. Looming over the crowd that has ga...
Netanyahu Has Reinvented Himself. Will Voters Think It’s Enough?
The Oct. 7 attacks marred Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s image as Mr. Security.