Matt Van Epps, a Republican and candidate in a special election for a House seat in Tennessee that has surfaced as the unlikely new front in the fight for control of Congress.
The former lieutenant governor is the best-known candidate in a crowded field, but some state Democrats have cooled on him since he lost a Senate bid in 2022.
Mandela Barnes, the former lieutenant governor of Wisconsin, is a progressive who has maintained a large fund-raising network since his 2022 Senate race.
Comments by President Trump, Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and some panelists suggest the committee is likely to delay hepatitis B shots and discuss revising the use of other vaccines.
A special election for a House seat in Tennessee was supposed to be an easy Republican victory. But national spending and Democratic enthusiasm have made it an unusually high-profile race.
Many Filipinos say floods are worse than ever — and now, the government has admitted that vast sums were embezzled from a program meant to fight the problem.
Wading through flooded streets on Saturday in Calumpit, a city in the northern Philippines.
Tennessee’s Seventh District was created to be safely Republican, but in recent special elections across the country Democrats have done significantly better than they did in 2024.
President Ferdinand R. Marcos Jr. is under fire for an enormous graft scandal that is unfolding under his watch. One prominent voice is his sister Senator Imee Marcos.
President Ferdinand R. Marcos Jr. and his sister Senator Imee Marcos at a rally in Laoag City, Philippines, in February. Since then, they have taken swipes at each other in public.
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A State Senate committee moved to weaken an office that investigates police misconduct and government waste. Senator Andy Kim spoke in opposition but was cut off after three minutes.
Right to left: Kevin Walsh, New Jersey’s comptroller; Matthew Platkin, the state’s attorney general; and Senator Andy Kim; waited more than four hours to testify about a bill that would weaken a watchdog agency.
Kristi Noem, the secretary of homeland security, equated immigrants to “foreign invaders” as she called for an expanded travel ban. President Trump reposted her statement.
A prayer at the site of the 2020 Beirut explosion and a waterfront Mass capped his three-day visit to the Middle Eastern nation with the highest proportion of Christians.
Taiwan’s flag being flown over Taipei, the capital, in October. Japan’s leader angered China last month by suggesting that it could come to Taiwan’s defense if China attacked it.
“On Thanksgiving? Are you confusing that with Festivus?” Jon Stewart said of President Trump’s Truth Social post insulting the Minnesota governor’s intelligence.
Honduras was on edge after tallies showed two candidates separated by about 500 votes. Then President Trump claimed that officials were rigging results.