Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer is vowing that Democrats will not allow President Donald Trump to put “a right winger” on the Supreme Court once they take power, raising the possibility that his party could block a presidential nominee if there were a vacancy in the next two years.

Voters have dramatically shifted the political landscape by electing Democrats in traditionally Republican states.

Democrats won control of both chambers of Congress, delivering a decisive rebuke of Republican governance in Washington and ushering in a new era of congressional resistance to President Donald Trump.

Donald Trump roared back into office two years ago partly on the power of immigration.

Former President Barack Obama and President Donald Trump have both rallied for their parties ahead of the midterm elections.

President Donald Trump told Texans they’d better accept data centers in their communities and floated making Venezuela the 51st state as he stumped for Republican Ken Paxton.

Republicans have spent an estimated $183 million on television ads focused on transgender-related attacks against Democrats in the final phase of this year’s midterm elections.

Social media videos believed to be linked to Russia are misusing real people’s names and photographs to spread disinformation about two Democratic Senate candidates.

Libertarian candidates in highly competitive U.S. Senate races could play spoiler in a year the Senate majority hangs in the balance.

The stakes for Senate Majority Leader John Thune and the Republican Party are enormous in this year's midterm elections.

Former President Barack Obama has stepped into one of America's ugliest midterm fights as he works to rally Democratic voters in two Midwestern battlegrounds.

An Associated Press analysis of early voting shows that turnout is soaring in many of the states that are expected to decide control of the U.S. Senate.

House Democratic leader Hakeem Jeffries says the election climate is holding firm for Democrats as they race to retake the House.

Democrats and aligned advocacy groups are hitting the airwaves with a flood of campaign ads on the Iran war as they seek to win back in the House and Senate.

Republicans are retreating from several key U.S. House races, while Democrats are racing to raise funds for candidates who seemed unlikely to win earlier this year.

Former President Barack Obama is heading to Ohio to support Democratic candidates in the Senate and governor's races.

President Donald Trump has tried to boost Republican Sen. Jon Husted’s reelection campaign by attacking Black immigrants during a rally in Ohio.

President Donald Trump has turned emergency relief into a campaign talking point as a major hurricane approaches the U.S. Gulf Coast.

A major cryptocurrency spending group is backing 32 House candidates from both parties ahead of the November midterms.

President Donald Trump is defending data centers powering AI projects during a campaign rally in Ohio.

President Donald Trump rallied Republicans in the Dayton, Ohio, area on Saturday.

Senate Republicans are dedicating one of the final votes leading up to the midterms to a bill that attempts to address voter worries about data centers and their impact on energy bills.

Republican hopes of winning Senate races in Georgia and North Carolina have been fading, and the GOP is increasingly focused on playing defense elsewhere with five weeks until the midterm elections.

President Donald Trump plans to visit Ohio on Saturday in support of Sen. Jon Husted as the Republican tries to fend off a competitive challenge from Democratic former Sen. Sherrod Brown.

Convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein's relationship to the rich and powerful has surfaced in congressional contests across the country.

About half of rural American voters believe the economy is worse off now than when President Donald Trump returned to office.

Republicans are growing increasingly grim about their election chances in November.

Former Sen. Sherrod Brown is asking Ohio voters to send him back to Congress just two years after they rejected him.

Control of the U.S. Senate is up for grabs with less than two months until Election Day.

Candidates in several states with competitive House and Senate races are beginning the stretch run of election season with Labor Day events at festivals, union halls and parades.

The Supreme Court is clearing a legal block to cheaper TV ad time before the midterm elections, granting an emergency appeal from Republicans in a dispute over campaign ad prices.

The Iran war has reshaped the rapidly approaching midterm elections.

President Donald Trump insists he's trying to level the playing field with Canada through more tariffs.

Vice President JD Vance has returned to his hometown to campaign for Republican candidates at a steel plant where his grandfather worked.

President Donald Trump has voiced strong support for AI and data centers, emphasizing their economic benefits and importance in the global AI race.

Gina Hinojosa, the Democratic nominee for Texas governor, is focusing on data centers as a key issue in her campaign against Republican Gov. Greg Abbott.

A new accusation that Graham Platner once sexually assaulted a woman he was dating has rocked the U.S. Senate race in Maine and cast fresh doubt on Democrats’ path to a Senate majority.

Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine is using his bully pulpit to call for an end to the death penalty in his state.

The primary election in Ohio has set up what is expected to be one of the most expensive races for U.S. Senate this year as Republicans try to hold on to the chamber, while biotech billionaire Vivek Ramaswamy will face a challenge from the state’s former health director as he seeks to keep the governor’s office in GOP hands.

President Donald Trump is having some success in his latest attempt to politically punish Republicans who stand in his way.

Ohio's primary election set up two marquee matchups in November.

Candidates for Ohio’s top elected offices will stand before voters in a statewide primary on Tuesday, although many of them are already looking ahead to the November general election.

A political bribery scandal in Ohio is shadowing Jon Husted this election year.

Democrats are boasting of eye-popping fundraising hauls in some of this year's most competitive Senate contests.

Republican U.S. Sen. Jon Husted has testified remotely in Akron, Ohio, in the high-profile corruption trial of two former FirstEnergy Corp. executives.

The $4.3 million that Akron-based FirstEnergy paid veteran utility lawyer Sam Randazzo in 2019 is at the center of another criminal trial tied to Ohio's sweeping $60 million bribery scandal.

Senate Democrats are expressing optimism they'll be able to flip the chamber this year after it looked all but impossible last year.

Former Democratic U.S. Rep. Tim Ryan has decided not to run for Ohio governor next year.

The cryptocurrency industry spent millions last year to unseat a longtime critic, Democratic Sen. Sherrod Brown in Ohio, and install its allies in Washington.

Democratic leaders are lauding Ohio's Sherrod Brown now that he's launched his 2026 campaign to return to the U.S. Senate.

Former U.S. Sen. Sherrod Brown, Ohio’s best-known Democrat, is expected to make another run for the Senate next year as Democrats wage an uphill fight to win control of the chamber.

U.S. Sen. Bernie Moreno has emerged as an interlocutor for conservatives in Latin America seeking to connect with the Trump administration.

The crypto industry is seeing growing support from the Democratic Party, though it's far from unanimous.

The first television ads dropped this week in an Ohio governor’s race that’s still more than a year away.

The cryptocurrency industry is emboldened, impatient and eager to cement its influence in politics and mainstream financial systems.

President Joe Biden has signed into law a measure that boosts Social Security payments for current and former public employees.

New Senate Majority Leader John Thune is kicking off the new session with a promise to preserve the filibuster, saying in his first floor speech as leader that his priority will be to “ensure the Senate stays the Senate.”.

The Senate has passed legislation to boost Social Security payments for millions of people.

JD Vance’s election as vice president has opened up one of Ohio’s U.S. Senate seats for the third time in as many years.

Former car salesman Bernie Moreno clinched victory after securing a 4 percentage point lead in Ohio’s Senate race, ousting three-term Democrat Sherrod Brown, who was the last in his party elected statewide in what was once a premier electoral battleground.

Billions of dollars in ads are raining down on voters across the Rust Belt, Rocky Mountains and American southwest as the two major political parties struggle for control of the U.S. Senate.

A member of one of Ohio's best-known Republican families has thrown his support behind Democratic Sen. Sherrod Brown in his hotly contested reelection race against GOP nominee Bernie Moreno.

Ohio's close Senate race took a twist recently when cellphone video surfaced of Republican Bernie Moreno criticizing women whose votes are driven by the abortion issue.

Democrats are pumping $25 million into expanded voter outreach across 10 states as part of their effort to protect their narrow Senate majority.

Democrats are pumping $25 million into expanded voter outreach across 10 states as part of their effort to protect their narrow Senate majority.

Three-term U.S. Sen. Jon Tester has made reproductive freedom for women a hallmark of his campaign.

The race for control of Congress is as close as ever.

Republican Senate candidate Bernie Moreno of Ohio likes to portray himself as a political outsider in his race against Democratic Sen. Sherrod Brown.

The uproar over President Joe Biden’s reelection bid is showing no signs of abating.

Pittsburgh's most storied steel company, U.S. Steel, is on the cusp of being bought by Japanese steelmaker Nippon Steel Corp. in a deal that's kicking up an election year political maelstrom.

The Biden administration is imposing tariffs on steel and aluminum shipped from Mexico that were made elsewhere.

President Joe Biden's debate performance spurred anxiety and silence among some Democrats running in competitive races across the country.

America’s auto industry has grown concerned that Chinese carmakers may be preparing to set up shop in Mexico to exploit North American trade rules.

Donald Trump and other Republicans say President Joe Biden’s policy to promote electric vehicles is unfair for consumers and amounts to government overreach.

The chairman of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation will step down from his post once a successor is appointed.

Senate Republicans are returning to a strategy they hope could neutralize their Democratic rivals' financial edge: Find rich people to run.

The student protest movement over the war in Gaza is roiling Senate contests in an election year when control of the chamber is at stake in November.

Donald Trump got what he wanted when former car dealer Bernie Moreno won the Republican Senate primary in Ohio.

Former President Donald Trump’s picks have won two high-profile races in Ohio that could affect Republicans’ chances for potentially pivotal pickups this fall.

The most high-profile election in Ohio’s primary on Tuesday will be the Republican contest to take on the state’s Democratic U.S. senator.

Former President Donald Trump is heading to Ohio to rally support for Republican U.S. Senate candidate Bernie Moreno ahead of the March 19 primary.

Academics, politicos and Republicans caution not to read too much into 2023’s election outcomes in Ohio.

Republican Matt Dolan has landed the endorsement of former U.S. Sen. Rob Portman in the three-way primary to face Democratic U.S. Sen. Sherrod Brown this fall.

Two U.S. senators looking to crack down on the number of packages from China that enter the country duty-free are calling on President Joe Biden to take executive action.

In his bid for U_S_ Senate in Ohio, Trump-endorsed Republican Bernie Moreno casts himself as a “political outsider.”.

Republican U.S. Senate candidate Bernie Moreno has landed Donald Trump’s endorsement in the GOP race for a 2024 contender to unseat third-term Democrat Sherrod Brown, among his party’s most vulnerable incumbents.

The United States and 13 partners in the Indo-Pacific region are announcing a signed deal on supply chains and agreements in principle on climate and anti-corruption efforts.

The conviction of former cryptocurrency mogul Sam Bankman-Fried for stealing at least $10 billion from customers and investors is the latest black mark for the crypto industry.

The U.S.-Mexico border and immigration are creating political and security challenges for President Joe Biden.

The most prominent Republican in the race to unseat Ohio Sen. Sherrod Brown next year has fired a top aide after social media posts surfaced in which the staffer criticized Donald Trump.

Congress responded to the fiery train derailment in eastern Ohio earlier this year with bipartisan alarm at railroad crashes causing potential disasters.

Arizona Sen. Kyrsten Sinema is taking credit for helping broker legislation that would target executives of failed banks.

Congressional delegates from Ohio are promoting Wright-Patterson Air Force Base in Dayton as the location for the new Space Command headquarters.

Over the course of a year, the U.S. Treasury Department has used the hammer of its sanctions powers to impose wide-ranging financial restrictions on Russia in response to its invasion of Ukraine, turning Russia into the most sanctioned country in the world.

Wealthy Cleveland business owner Bernie Moreno has joined the 2024 race to unseat Democratic U.S. Sen. Sherrod Brown.

Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen worked against the clock with other regulators, lawmakers and business leaders to come up with a plan that would prevent a full blown banking crisis.

Leaders of the Senate’s banking committee are telling former chief executive officers at the failed Silicon Valley Bank and Signature Bank they “must answer” for their banks' "downfall.”.

Congress is trying to figure out how best to respond to the abrupt failure of two U.S. banks.

Republicans say the federal response to a train derailment in an eastern Ohio village shows Democrats are not focused on policy at home.

The CEO of Norfolk Southern railroad will testify in Congress next week about last month's fiery Ohio derailment and the precautions the railroad takes to prevent similar crashes.