Rep. Ilhan Omar has not appeared publicly since federal agents searched her Washington, D.C., home on Monday. Her absence has fueled online speculation that the Minnesota Democrat may have left the country, though no federal agency has announced that she did, and no credible evidence has publicly established that

Conservative commentator Benny Johnson is pressing a question about Minnesota Democratic Rep. Ilhan Omar’s public absence as federal investigators examine allegations involving her immigration paperwork. During an appearance on Newsmax, Johnson discussed Monday’s search of Omar’s Washington home by Homeland Security Investigations. He praised the Trump administration

Georgia voters began early voting with a record-setting surge Tuesday, casting more ballots on opening day than in any previous midterm cycle as high-stakes statewide races move toward November. Republican Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger said 188,667 people voted in person on October 13. That was 53,

Republican Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton has taken narrow leads over Democrat James Talarico in two new polls, giving Republicans a boost as early voting approaches. An InsiderAdvantage poll released Thursday showed Paxton at 49 percent and Talarico at 48 percent among likely voters. The survey included 1,200 respondents

Kristi Noem is no longer President Donald Trump’s special envoy for the Shield of the Americas, but she will continue working on the initiative as a senior adviser to Deputy Secretary of State Christopher Landau, a State Department official said Thursday. CBS News first reported the change, which NewsNation

House Democrats are preparing a first 100 days agenda in case they win the chamber on November 3. President Donald Trump is campaigning for Republicans, warning that a Democratic majority would move to reverse his policies. The Democratic outline focuses on household costs, health care, tariffs and investigations of Trump

Former President George W. Bush joined a September fundraiser for Senate Republicans, but Texas GOP nominee Ken Paxton was not among the event’s listed participants. Sen. John Cornyn hosted the event for Maintain the Majority, a political action committee, with Bush appearing as a special guest. Paxton had defeated

Vice President JD Vance sharply criticized Democratic Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed during a Thursday campaign rally for Republican nominee Mike Rogers, focusing on El-Sayed’s response to a March attack at Temple Israel in West Bloomfield Township, near Detroit. The attacker, 41-year-old Ayman Mohamed Ghazali, died

An election analyst’s latest look at Michigan’s early and absentee voting shows a close partisan split, but the figures do not reveal how voters marked their ballots or which Senate candidate they support. A graphic posted October 14 by the account E_DataGuy counted 520,541 early and