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Democrat Abdul El-Sayed and Republican Mike Rogers are testing two sharply different theories for winning one of the nation's premier swing states Tuesday in a white-knuckle contest that may determine control of the Senate.

Mike Rogers closed out his Senate campaign Monday night by calling on Michigan voters to reject socialism while praising Rep. Haley Stevens for putting country over party with her surprise endorsement.

The United States has conducted defensive strikes on some Iranian targets in the Strait of Hormuz, a U.S. official said Monday, on the eve of crucial midterm elections.

The Supreme Court on Monday rebuffed President Trump's last-ditch bid to block California from counting 20,000 ballots the feds say were mailed to suspected noncitizens.

A federal judge on Monday ordered Iowa state officials to allow a local Satanic Temple organization to hold a holiday event in the rotunda of the state Capitol after years of rejecting their application.

The former head of the FBI's Chicago field office says he lost his job after being wrongly blamed for prosecutions that fell apart against six people who protested the federal immigration crackdown in the city, according to a lawsuit he filed Monday.

The Trump era could effectively end Tuesday if Americans decide to hand Democrats control of Congress.

Midterms are usually a referendum on the party in power. This one is also shaping up as a stress test for some of the biggest assumptions in American politics.

D.C. voters will in all likelihood elect the first socialist mayor in the history of the nation's capital Tuesday, while Marylanders prepare to cast ballots in a congressional redistricting skirmish that has ricocheted from state to state ahead of ...

A federal court in Washington said Monday that the lists of 20,000 suspected noncitizens the Trump administration crafted from California's registration data is "flawed," and include dozens -- and perhaps thousands -- of legitimate citizen voters.