Supporters of Senator Susan Collins and her opponent in the Maine Senate race, Troy Jackson, waited for the candidates to arrive before a debate on Thursday.
Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez of New York endorsed Dr. Abdul El-Sayed, the Democratic nominee for Senate in Michigan, ahead of the primary. She also appeared with him at a fund-raiser in New York this week.
Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Democrat of New York, left, and Dr. Abdul El-Sayed, the Democratic candidate for Senate in Michigan, campaigned together in Detroit earlier this year.
The $5 million investment from the main super PAC for Senate Democrats is a sign that party leaders see a path to winning in another red state as the political environment worsens for Republicans.
Slashing personal attacks dominated the first televised face-off between Dr. Abdul El-Sayed, the Democratic nominee for Senate, and former Representative Mike Rogers, his Republican rival.
Senator Jon Ossoff, a Democrat, called his Republican opponent, Representative Mike Collins, a bigot. Mr. Collins called the incumbent a radical “trust-fund kid.”
Thousands of protesters marched in Madrid on Thursday, a day after the death of María del Carmen Abascal, an 87-year-old whose eviction became a symbol of the country’s housing crisis.
Protesters marched in memory of Maria del Carmen Abascal, who was widely known as Maricarmen, in Madrid on Thursday. Soaring rents have far outpaced wage growth in Spain, according to an analysis by the newspaper El País.
President Trump said on social media on Thursday that he would not attack Iran before the midterm elections, and that the United States and Iran were “having productive discussions.”
Voting in Ferndale, Mich., during the state’s primary election. The candidates for Senate in Michigan, Maine and Georgia will each face off Thursday in televised debates.
Residents entering the town hall of Windham, Maine, on Wednesday. Windham is the type of politically divided town that could be critical to determining the Senate race.
In a top Senate battleground, Representative Ashley Hinson, the Republican nominee, sparred with Josh Turek, her Democratic rival, on policy issues ranging from Medicaid to term limits.
Bernadette Greene-Placentia, a Democratic candidate for Congress in Arizona, said on Wednesday that she was raped in August while repairing a damaged campaign sign.
The president offered support for the Republican Senate candidate, after earlier grumbles, but focused much of his speech on a defense of his own record.
Residents of Saudi Arabia’s capital reported hearing booms on Thursday, a day after the Saudi government said two women and a Sudanese man died in strikes on two airports.
María del Carmen Abascal, aged and ailing, became a symbol of the country’s housing crisis when she was evicted two weeks ago, prompting mass protests and triggering national elections.
As the U.S.-Israeli war with Iran continues, it’s being felt in a wider region. Eric Schmitt, a national security correspondent at The New York Times, explains how the conflict is reaching U.S. bases and why the United States is pulling back its military presence in some locations.
The R.A.F. Fairford air base, from which a dozen American B-1 bombers were withdrawn last weekend, has been a mainstay of U.S.-British military cooperation since it opened in 1944.
The Trump administration is investigating nonprofits that it says may be recruiting noncitizens for voter registration, documents show, even though noncitizen voting in the United States is rare.
With control of Congress and the future of President Trump’s agenda at stake, Democrats are concerned that false claims about rampant illegal voting could be used by Republicans to challenge the results of the midterms.
Gov. JB Pritzker of Illinois and the Democratic Governors Association are each sending $1 million to back Gina Hinojosa in a bid for Texas governor that appears increasingly competitive.
Gina Hinojosa, the Democratic nominee for governor of Texas, has been seen as a major underdog in her challenge to Gov. Greg Abbott, a Republican, but polls of the race have tightened.
Angela Paxton is urging Texas voters to support Mr. Paxton’s Senate campaign, even as she is divorcing him and accusing him of adultery. She has political aspirations of her own.
Angela Paxton, in a new campaign ad, has encouraged Republicans to vote for her husband, without actually using his name. “In a general election, it’s not as much about the individual players on the team,” she says. “It’s about getting the whole team across the finish line.”
Shahul Hamid Ahmad, the owner of Tefcas Marine, a small shipping agency that was hit with U.S. sanctions, standing in his empty office in Johor Bahru, Malaysia, in September.
The embattled congressman, accused of throwing scalding water at his ex-wife and breaking his daughter’s collarbone, rebuffed earlier Republican calls to drop out.
The U.S. police say a 30-year-old offered the killer advice and cash for supplies at least six months before the rampage in British Columbia that left eight dead.
People at a bar in La Cabrera, on the outskirts of Madrid, watching a televised speech on Monday in which Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez announced national elections.
Gov. Gavin Newsom called the president “dangerous and deranged” after his remarks at a political rally, where Mr. Trump said the Iran war was necessary to “keep the world safe.”
The Senegalese writer was lauded as one of the founding fathers of African literature who subtly captured the shock of colonization from the perspective of the continent’s people.
More than 200 U.S. intelligence and military analysts are in Saudi Arabia helping it provide assistance to its Yemeni allies, current and former U.S. officials say.
The U.S. war in Iran unleashed small-scale attacks by local criminals or disenfranchised young men hired anonymously to target Jewish and American sites in Europe and North America, experts say.
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