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WATCH: Trump says Venezuela sent him 1 million barrels of oil as a 'gift'

27 October 2026 at 21:41
President Donald Trump and Secretary of State Marco Rubio on Tuesday plan to show off a newly arrived oil tanker filled with Venezuelan crude to be processed in Texas refineries.

What our final poll before Election Day says about midterms and Trump

27 October 2026 at 12:00
Democrats hold an 8-point lead among likely voters in the fight for control of Congress with one week until Election Day, according to the latest PBS News/NPR/Marist poll.

Candidates enter final week of campaigning with control of Congress at stake

27 October 2026 at 01:55
It's crunch time for candidates across the country with Election Day just over a week away. On Monday, President Trump campaigned in ruby-red Mississippi, a state he won by almost 23 points two years ago. Over the weekend, the battleground state of Michigan saw a political heavyweight bout between Trump and former President Obama. Liz Landers reports.

Campaigns spend big to sway voters with increasingly personal attack ads

27 October 2026 at 01:30
Campaigns and their allies are making their closing arguments, and they've spent more than the annual budgets of a handful of states doing it. Much of that money is aimed at voters' wallets, but the attacks are also getting more personal and more artificial. Lisa Desjardins explains.

Massachusetts and Idaho put guns on the ballot. One to restrict them, the other to honor them

Voters in Idaho and Massachusetts face contrasting gun-related ballot questions that highlight the national tension between firearm freedoms and restrictions

Thune campaigns for Republicans in marquee Senate races in scramble to save majority

Republican candidates in marquee Senate races have welcomed Thune's help as he's traveled around the country in the weeks before the midterm elections, scrambling to save his majority.

Blanche says Trump isn't trying to meddle with Alaska election results by suing over Senate race

Blanche told CNN's "State of the Union" that President Donald Trump, who said Friday that he was "the one that said do it," is not trying to overturn state election results "in any way, shape or form" on the cusp of the Nov. 3 election.

Obama, in Midwest, assails 'cruelty' and indecency from Trump and his allies in the midterm campaign

Obama remains the Democratic Party's best motivator nearly a decade after leaving the White House. And he's taking his star power on the road in the final days of the midterm elections, which will help determine the balance of power in American politics on Nov. 3.

Trump casts his midterm ballot early in Florida

Trump has been criticized in the past for voting by mail despite his long history of railing against that method of submitting ballots.

Republican billionaire Rick Jackson is walking a Trump tightrope in his quest to lead Georgia

24 October 2026 at 22:04
Jackson's path differs from Donald Trump's, and the 72-year-old healthcare magnate and investor brings a vastly different persona to his first campaign. Unlike Trump, who was born to wealth, Jackson spent his early years bouncing through foster homes before launching his first company as a young man.

New York state woman charged with voting illegally says she recently learned she wasn't a citizen

Marva Cook was adopted as a toddler and had always assumed she was a U.S. citizen, she told Homeland Security investigators earlier this month, according to the criminal complaint.

What's going on with Dan Sullivan and Dan Sullivan? The Alaska Senate litigation, explained

One of them is a Republican senator and ally of the president. The other is a retired schoolteacher whom Republicans accuse of being a Democratic plant to siphon away votes.

DOJ orders some California counties to set aside ballots from suspected noncitizens

The letters are the latest escalation in a legal battle between California and President Donald Trump's Department of Justice, which has recently focused on the state in its efforts to root out noncitizen voting ahead of the midterm elections.

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