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This week on the Hill: House aims to pass measure to avert shutdown ahead of midterms

SUDIKSHA KOCHI

The House is back in session this week after a monthlong August recess, with lawmakers aiming to avert a government shutdown before funding expires Sept. 30 amid the 2026 election season. The biggest item on the agenda will be a Senate-passed stopgap measure, also known as a continuing resolution (CR), that would keep the government...

Noncitizen voting claims animate Trump's attacks on midterms and set up potential result challenges

President Donald Trump and his allies are pressing hard about the perceived threats of voting by people who aren't U.S. citizens as the November election approach

Plan to cut number of polling sites in a major Texas county

Plans in one of Texas' largest counties to use dozens fewer polling location than previous years is drawing protests from Democrats who say the reductions could create confusion in the November midterm elections

Duffy teases 'unprecedented fraud crackdown' announcement with DHS, DOJ

Secretary of Transportation Sean Duffy teased a multi-agency fraud crackdown involving DHS, DOJ and ICE that is set to be announced on Monday.

Trump still teases a third presidential run, but he's talking more and more about life after 2028

Donald Trump frequently hints at a third presidential run, even wearing 2028 campaign hats

Dozens of illegal alien truck drivers busted with licenses from deep blue states

Arizona's Yuma Sector bust netted 95 illegal alien truck drivers with state-issued CDLs, seizing methamphetamine and marijuana in smuggling crackdown.

Abdul El-Sayed shares dozens of donors with ex-GOP candidate at center of antisemitism controversy

Michigan U.S. Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed and Dan Bilzerian share nearly two dozen donors who gave more than $61,000 combined to both campaigns.

Inside the dangerous US mission that cleared Iran’s mines from Hormuz shipping lanes

CENTCOM's Adm. Brad Cooper details how Navy divers, SEALs and air power quietly cleared Iranian sea mines from the Strait of Hormuz shipping lanes.

This tiny farming town you’ve never heard of is helping Microsoft sell America on data centers

Quincy, Washington, leveraged Microsoft data centers to fund a new high school, hospital and aquatic center, but long-term water concerns loom.

Newly unclassified Pentagon images show suspected drug boats as official issues deadly warning

Exclusive Pentagon photos show suspected drug-smuggling boats under U.S. military surveillance as Operation Southern Spear reaches 67 strikes at sea.

'Jesus was a radical': Progressives invoke Christ to sell left-wing agenda on campaign trail

Angie Nixon, Abdul El-Sayed and James Talarico are weaving faith into their Senate campaigns, drawing comparisons to Jesus and echoing the Moral Majority.

El-Sayed apologizes for comments responding to attack on Michigan synagogue

Democratic Senate nominee in Michigan apologized to Jewish Democratic Caucus.

Vulnerable Dem's own audit admits Medicaid oversight failure amid massive statewide fraud scandal

Matt Dunlap's office acknowledged a significant deficiency in tracking MaineCare payments as J.D. Vance calls Maine a fraud capital of America.

FIRST ON FOX: Texas becomes testing ground for new defense against attacks on America’s water systems

Project Watershed 250 pairs AI security tools with Texas water systems to find cyber vulnerabilities before adversaries can exploit them first.