The department has asked some officials up for promotion who they voted for in the last three presidential elections. read more
Tom Skerritt, Emmy-winning actor with roles in Picket Fences,' Alien' and Top Gun,' dies at 93 read more
Americans did not give him the right to make national security policy read more
Rick Wilson: [A]nyone who spends enough years in edit bays learns that some ads come with the pin already pulled. You can feel it at the script stage. You can certainly see it in a focus group, if one uses such things to test ads now (I do not). The spot that was supposed to wound your opponent ends up telling voters something terrible about you, and once it's out there you can't call it back. Vivek Ramaswamy just made one of those. read more
The federal government sued Alaska elections officials this week as part of an attempt to preemptively line up a challenge to the results should Republican Sen. Dan Sullivan lose his race. read more
A federal judge on Thursday ordered President Donald Trump to sit for a deposition in his $10 billion defamation lawsuit against the BBC by Dec. 11. read more
It's still early. Like, really early. But based on what we've seen from early voting so far, Democrats were right to be optimistic about North Carolina this year. read more
Company ordered to stop work at two sites in country, which has found itself at forefront of tech firms' latest push. read more
"A man inside our government illegally spent nearly $22 million in taxpayer dollars on bogus campaign ads praising himself. He now resides on 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue," Sen. Bernie Sanders said. "Taxpayers want to know when they'll get their money back." read more
The state offered little explanation for its finding, and the boy's family is calling for the bodycam footage. read more
John Anderson, the country Hall of Famer behind hits like "Seminole Wind" and "Swingin'," has died. He was 71. read more
Former speaker is latest target of mailings sent to various Congress members in the lead-up to the midterm elections read more
Ukraine's capital has come under a new missile attack, hours after Russia said it was "ready in principle" to resume peace talks and the US president said the world was "the closest we've been" to ending the war. read more
A Venezuelan billionaire secured a pardon from President Donald Trump after his family gave Trump's former attorney at least $50 million, The New York Times reported on Tuesday night. read more
Thousands of North Carolina midterm ballots are set to be rejected over minor technical issues after a federal court upheld strict new Republican-backed rules for mail voters, according to data shared exclusively with Democracy Docket. Some Democratic strongholds are seeing rejection rates as high as 7-8%, the data show. read more
As Vivek Ramaswamy doubles down on his controversial ad attacking Amy Acton, backlash has grown to include Democrats, Republicans and political commentators across the country. read more
