Potential Vance challengers smell blood in the water after brutal GOP losses

The vice president has not made up his mind on running for president in 2028. His potential rivals, however, are wasting little time to prepare.

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Historic voter turnout powered Democrats’ blue wave

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How a Mississippi election came down to the clerk’s office

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Why both parties may benefit from wide-open, hard-fought 2028 primaries

How the Iran war has made it harder to buy a home

How many microplastics are in your water? Soon, you could test it.

SS United States will be sunk, becoming the world’s largest artificial reef

Why the simple flu shot could be a surprise weapon against cancer

How taking a ‘widow gap year’ helped me start living again

Is settler violence Israeli policy or extremism — and will a new leader bring change?

The sister who blasted Madonna in a blue Camaro, and other lives we lost

What your smartphone steals from you

Carolyn Hax: She says no to angry in-law at holidays. Her husband is distraught.

The Republican missteps that laid the groundwork for a historic midterm rebuke

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A campaign that put a distracted President Donald Trump front and center, and a war no one asked for, led the party into a wall of voter anger.

By Liz Goodwin, Natalie Allison, Theodoric Meyer, Isaac Arnsdorf, Nancy Cook and Katherine Doyle

Inside Musk’s plan to upend the wireless phone industry

Where voters shifted toward Democrats in the 2026 midterms