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Cook Political Report shifts 11 House seats away from GOP

16 October 2026 at 14:56
Cook Political Report, a nonpartisan election handicapper, shifted 11 more House seats toward Democrats this week, many in red states as the midterms inch closer. Cook has moved dozens of House seats away from Republicans in recent weeks as the political environment improves for Democrats, driven by President Trump’s unpopularity in the polls and growing…

United States vs. Ilhan Omar: How Trump is pursuing his biggest enemy in Congress

16 October 2026 at 12:16

Donald Trump is a man of loyalties and, above all, grudges. If there is one community for which the U.S. president has repeatedly shown contempt, it is the Somali community. And if there is one political rival who has borne the brunt of his hostility, it is Democratic congresswoman Ilhan Omar, who was born in Somalia 44 years ago.

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Ilhan Omar, at a press conference in Minneapolis, on January 28.

What to know about the search of Democratic Rep. Omar's home

President Donald Trump's administration has taken the unusual step of searching Democratic Rep. Ilhan Omar's home in Washington, just three weeks before the midterm election.

If you fire missiles at me, I’ll cut off your water supply: The cyberattacks attributed to Iran that showed the US is vulnerable

29 September 2026 at 10:15

Water service failed in at least 300,000 Atlanta households on July 27. Taps ran, but only a trickle came out. After receiving several consumer alerts, the water company found that a pumping station had stopped functioning, affecting that city and others in the state. The loss of pressure led authorities to advise boiling water before drinking it to reduce the risk of contamination, sparking some panic among the population. It was not a technical fault: everything points to it having been orchestrated from a computer almost 7,000 miles away, in Iran.

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Message displayed on devices attacked by CyberAv3ngers in Aliquippa (Pennsylvania) during the 2023 campaign.

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Flint in Michigan, one of the states whose water-supply infrastructures were attacked this summer.

Absentee and early voting in the US: What to know before the November 3 midterms

28 September 2026 at 15:29

The U.S. midterm elections are not limited to Tuesday, November 3. For millions of voters, Election Day will begin much earlier, either through in-person early voting or by casting a mail-in ballot, despite recent attempts by President Donald Trump to restrict and overhaul mail-in voting.

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A person casts a mail-in ballot in Portland in May 2024.
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