Helped by a favorable national environment and strong candidate recruitment, Democrats are tied or ahead in four Republican-held seats, polls show.
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Prime Minister Keir Starmer will address British lawmakers on Monday after it emerged that Peter Mandelson, his onetime ambassador to the United States, was rejected for top security clearances.
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New documents reveal what professors did to help Jeffrey Epstein get inside Harvard’s gates.
A president who relishes attacking the news media is set to break his boycott of an event celebrating the news media. What could go wrong?
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Fuel station owners take some of the hit for consumers when oil prices surge. On the way down, they try to get their money back.
Ben Casselman, our chief economics correspondent, explains why wages are not keeping up with inflation and what that means for American workers and the economy.
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The government will debut a system to repay importers two months after the Supreme Court struck down tariffs at the heart of the president’s trade policy.
Plus, Lego crime.
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The vice president is again center stage, after abruptly leaving the first round of high-level Iranian peace talks without an agreement.
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