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With the midterm elections less than four weeks away, there's a bit of a 2028 shadow campaign going on that includes a prominent Democrat warning his party to back off the liberal jargon.

For Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin, the drug-related deaths of two college students in Mississippi triggered his personal memories of a relative involved with synthetic drugs.

President Trump veered far from midterm election politics during a rally in upstate New York on Friday, aiming a bitter diatribe at the Norwegian Nobel Committee for giving the Peace Prize he has long sought to South African jurist Navanethem "Navi"

President Trump blasted New York Gov. Kathy Hochul for the high cost of living in the Empire State during a rally in Syracuse, New York, to boost Bruce Blakeman, the Republican nominee for governor.

President Trump will no longer attend the Georgia-Alabama college football game on Saturday, saying first responders must focus on Hurricane Isaias as it barrels toward the Gulf Coast.

The Justice Department's campaign to get ahold of state voter registration lists, run them through federal databases to identify noncitizens, then prod the states to boot those people from their rolls is illegal, a federal judge ruled Friday.

A day after a sharp, sometimes tense debate with Democrat Abdul El-Sayed, Republican Senate candidate Mike Rogers was back on the trail Friday, this time alongside Sen. John Kennedy.

Vice President J.D. Vance said he does not plan to watch the firing-squad execution of Fort Hood shooter Nidal Hasan, which is scheduled to be livestreamed.

Katie Zacharia, a former Department of Homeland Security spokesperson, is the new White House press secretary, President Trump announced Friday.

Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth's decision to live-stream the firing squad execution of convicted Fort Hood shooter Nidal Hasan has drawn sharp criticism from international observers and lawmakers on Capitol Hill.