Envelopes of suspicious white powder hit election offices in Louisiana and Oklahoma and Capitol Hill offices, with Ohio’s intercepted, three weeks before the midterms.
Maryland GOP Rep. Harris tries to eject student reporter and threatens prosecution for recording his post-forum press conference, after lecturing audience on the First Amendment.
South Carolina police arrest GOP Rep. Mace’s ex-fiancé and two men she called predators on the House floor, on 2018 sexual assault and voyeurism charges.
Probe behind search of Democratic Rep. Omar’s home targets her birth date on teenage citizenship papers, sources say, raising possibility of stripping her citizenship.
Homeland Security agents search Democratic Rep. Ilhan Omar’s home three weeks before her reelection, after DHS Secretary Mullin said last month “something’s going to happen.”
Seven senators, four of them Republicans, demand Trump reverse his Russian diesel deal, saying it defies the 2022 law banning Russian energy imports.
Iran-backed Houthis strike Riyadh’s airport again and Dammam’s a day after killing an American, as Democratic Sen. Murphy warns the war is “spiraling out of control.”
Trump urges Pennsylvania Democratic Sen. Fetterman to become a Republican weeks before midterms that could cost the GOP its Senate majority.
ProPublica finds Texas Attorney General Paxton took nearly 1,000 trips with $3.3 million in state-paid security, only one in six for documented state business.
Democratic Sen. Wyden demands the White House drug office release a withheld privacy review of its program funneling cities’ license plate data to federal databases.
Senate Democrats’ inspectors find 445 government workers and zero jailed immigrants at Guantánamo in August, after more than $100 million spent on the operation.
Justice Department presents evidence against Jan. 6 committee witness Cassidy Hutchinson to a grand jury, weighing a civil rights charge over her testimony about Trump.
ICE’s deputy director accuses Pennsylvania Democrat Janelle Stelson without evidence of hiring an immigrant arrested for indecent exposure in her House race against Rep. Perry.
Trump promises no attacks on Iran before the Nov. 3 midterms as a congressional report counts 81 US military aircraft lost or damaged in the war.
Trump urges San Antonio rally to “pretend that I’m on the ballot” as his hand-picked Senate nominee Paxton trails Democrat Talarico in Texas polls.
Supreme Court Justice Alito, 76, rules out retiring in the lame-duck Senate session, saying he’ll serve through at least next summer even if Democrats win the chamber.
Trump says he and super PAC MAGA Inc. will pay for TV ads promoting himself after bipartisan outcry over spending $20 million in diverted border funds.
988 crisis line restores its LGBTQ+ youth option with $33 million from Congress, more than a year after the Trump administration cut it.
Trump posts Arkansas Sen. Cotton’s cellphone number, telling Arkansans to call him over his opposition to permanent daylight saving time.
Tennessee Sen. Blackburn sues former special counsel Smith over her phone records his Trump election probe obtained, a day after his Senate testimony.
Senate confirms acting Labor Secretary Sonderling 47-41 along party lines, filling a Cabinet seat officially empty since his predecessor resigned in April.
Trump says AI leaders signed a voluntary “constitution” to police themselves that’s “morally” binding, a day after House Speaker Johnson called AI fears a “Chinese psyop.”
Government Accountability Office tells Congress Trump’s cancellation of $810 million lawmakers approved is unconstitutional, but the watchdog, without a confirmed head since December, hasn’t sued.
White House funds pro-Trump TV ads with Customs and Border Protection money, WSJ reports, after budget chief Vought shifted $20M to Homeland Security, Democrats say.
Former special counsel Smith tells senators he had proof beyond a reasonable doubt of Trump’s “serious crimes,” as Missouri Sen. Schmitt calls him a “dirtbag” and suggests perjury.
Senate passes college sports overhaul 77-22, reining in athlete pay and limiting transfers, before recessing until the midterms.
Trump won’t rule out more strikes on Iran before the midterms, saying “it’s possible” a day after rejecting Iran’s plan to reopen Hormuz.
Whistleblowers say Kennedy Center director halted repairs in April to the leaks Trump now cites to close it, despite $9.3 million from Congress.
US intelligence tells Congress Saudi Arabia hasn’t ruled out nuclear weapons, as Trump’s civilian nuclear deal could let it enrich uranium to 20%, officials say.
Trump moves to cancel $810 million Congress approved by running out the clock, as Republican Appropriations Chair Collins calls it a “clear violation” of law.
Kansas Republican Sens. Moran and Marshall urge DHS Secretary Mullin to coordinate with local police after unannounced ICE stops in southwest Kansas.
Sen. Tuberville, running for Alabama governor, doubles down on claim that airline pilots in a furry “club” pose a safety threat, calling it “mental illness.”
Senate rejects resolution to end the Iran war 49-50, as Republican Sen. Cassidy votes no after huddling with Majority Leader Thune.
White House calls taxpayer-funded ad on Fox News and Newsmax touting Trump’s tax cuts “educational,” as Republican Sen. Tillis likens it to Hungary’s Orban action.
Navy discloses eight suicide attempts in the USS Abraham Lincoln strike group during an extended Iran war deployment Trump called “not nearly long enough.”
Des Moines Register and pollster Ann Selzer beat Trump’s fraud suit over a 2024 poll, as an Iowa judge rules the First Amendment protects it.
Cleveland TV stations air Democratic challenger’s ad on domestic abuse allegations against Ohio Rep. Max Miller despite his lawyer’s defamation threat.
ProPublica reveals FBI agents sought a pay-to-play probe of Maine Sen. Collins’ dealings with a defense contractor donor before Trump’s purge killed it.
Federal judge temporarily blocks deportation of Austin man shot by ICE agent, his lawyer says, as Travis County’s district attorney calls him a material witness.
Republican Sen. Curtis asks Senate Judiciary Committee to investigate Trump Jr. after ProPublica reports a Putin-allied Russian oligarch bankrolled his Bahamas wedding weekend.
Federal appeals court reinstates Missouri’s Trump-backed map favoring Republicans in seven of eight House seats, delaying it a week as absentee voting begins.
Trump directs budget chief Vought to draft an order giving him a veto over health research grants after the NIH director refused to cut Harvard.
Trump signs the late Sen. Graham’s Russia sanctions bill, gaining power to put 100% tariffs on the top five buyers of Russian oil and gas.
State Department approves a potential $24 billion sale of 48 F-35s to Saudi Arabia over lawmakers’ warnings China could obtain the jet’s technology.
Six Senate Democrats demand Office of Personnel Management halt collecting claims-level health records on 8 million federal workers and families, data the agency can re-identify.
Senate Agriculture Committee advances the farm bill on party lines, McConnell’s return supplying the vote it lacked in August, as Democrats hold out over food stamp cost shifts.
Full House unanimously holds Apollo co-founder Leon Black in contempt for defying an Epstein subpoena, hours before leaving town for seven weeks.
House Republicans send lawmakers home until November 9, canceling Thursday’s forced vote on Rep. Massie’s bid to impeach Defense Secretary Hegseth over the Iran war.
Trump tells a North Carolina rally “hopefully we’re toward the end” of the Iran war, a week after saying it ends “immediately after” the midterms.
Trump calls the 2024 Butler shooting a “Democrat Plot” the same day his FBI director testifies the gunman spoke to no one but his parents.