Republican Senate nominee John E. Sununu this week released a new ad distancing himself from President Donald Trump, striking an independent tone in the New Hampshire race as polls suggest he is within striking distance of flipping the seat red.

Bloomberg, the billionaire former mayor of New York, is giving roughly $80 million to help Democrats in the midterms as the flood of spending in the sprint to Election Day begins to come into focus. The first of two campaign finance filing deadlines this week will also provide a look at the Trump political operation’s big spending to help Republicans battle significant headwinds in midterm races.

President Donald Trump has a new pitch for Republican candidates: they’re easy on the eyes. At a Saturday rally in Kentucky, he praised U.S.

Trump calls protesters disrupting his rallies “paid” as his approval rating falls and Republicans face pressure ahead of Election Day.

President Trump said that opponents of Senator Roger Marshall had unfairly cast him as “some kind of a Shylock-type guy.” Mr. Trump used the same slur last year at a rally in Iowa.

The U.S.-Ukraine alliance is careening toward a possible breaking point, with Moscow strengthened by President Donald Trump’s recent rejection of new Russia sanctions and Kyiv undermined by disruption

The president insists that his latest moves will end the war and lower prices for Americans. Experts aren’t so sure.