On a February evening in Iowa, the dining room table at the home of Spencer and Sinikka Waugh is buried under notebooks, campaign maps, yard signs — some with his name and some with hers. Married since 1998, the two are both running for office in Iowa — Spencer for the state House and Sinikka
Gov. Tim Walz speaks during a press conference at the state Capitol in St. Paul, Minn., on Feb. 3, 2026. Stephen Maturen/Getty Images Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz on Thursday proposed a $10 million one-time relief package for the state’s small businesses he said were impacted by recent federal immigration enforcement operations, pitching the plan as
The Justice Department has been requesting that several states turn over their voter rolls and suing them when they don’t comply. The voter rolls are each state’s list of registered voters, along with their names, ages, addresses, and sometimes party affiliation. We had a problem loading this article. Please enable javascript or use a different
Washington — A young Marine died after falling overboard from the USS Iwo Jima in the Caribbean Sea, the Marine Corps announced Thursday, the first known U.S. death in “Operation Southern Spear.” Marine Lance Cpl. Chukwuemeka E. Oforah was 21. Oforah, an infantry rifleman from Florida, was declared dead on Feb. 10 after a 72-hour
Long before campaign season, the images or brands of the political parties are in the public mind. We asked people to weigh in right now on various descriptions of each of them. Their answers reveal a portrait of a very divided nation. One in which one party is seen more as “weak” while the other
The top of a form 1040 individual income tax return for 2005 is seen atop a stack on the same at the Des Plaines Public Library in Des Plaines, Ill., on March 23, 2006. Tim Boyle/Getty Images The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) shared information on more than 47,000 taxpayers with the Department of Homeland Security
Analilia Mejia also owns shares of Amazon and Nvidia stock while strongly opposing AI data centers and accusing the former of ‘aggressively suppress[ing] worker organizing’ Analilia Mejia (Photo by Alex Wong/Getty Images) Analilia Mejia, who unexpectedly won the Democratic nomination for the April 16 special election in New Jersey’s 11th Congressional District this week, has