President Donald Trump launched his second-term assault on mail-in ballots and electronic voting machines on Aug. 18, firing off a series of unfounded claims while announcing an effort to do away with both.

Trump pledged to do away with both mail-in voting — which remains popular and is used by about one-third of all voters — and voting machines — some form of which are used in almost all of the country's thousands of election jurisdictions.

The lack of oversight raises the specter of politicized U.S. attorney’s offices doing the White House’s bidding.

While Republicans praised President Trump's diplomatic efforts with Vladimir Putin, lawmakers on both sides of the aisle signaled a desire to impose sanctions on Moscow if peace talks faltered.

Days after the president's call for a "new" census, the top official overseeing the Census Bureau told employees that Congress, not Trump, has final say over the tally, NPR has exclusively learned.

André Bauer, former lieutenant governor of South Carolina, suspended his campaign for Lindsey Graham's Senate seat in 2026, calling for more unity.

On January 3, the first meeting of the 117th Congress, the archivist of the United States will transmit the certification of election results from each state governor to both houses of Congress.

Some Republicans in Congress are taking a harder line against Russian President Vladimir Putin, even as President Donald Trump appears eager to ease tensions with the Kremlin ahead of a potential trilateral summit on negotiating an end to the war in Ukraine.