An initial group of 800 soldiers is already heading to Texas from Fort Campbell and Fort Knox to help hold off a group of Central American migrants moving north through Mexico.
In the wake of the massacre at the Tree of Life synagogue, grief has mixed with the nation’s angry politics in anticipation of President Trump’s visit Tuesday.
As a young city councilman, Mr. O’Rourke, now running for Senate in Texas, angered residents who viewed him as siding with the moneyed elite in supporting a redevelopment plan.
President Trump plans to travel Tuesday to the Pittsburgh community that was the site of a synagogue massacre over the weekend, the administration said Monday.
President Trump’s discordant approach to national crises has thrust his leadership into the center of the national debate with about a week until the midterm elections.
Democrats in battleground Senate races, including Missouri, Arizona, Florida, West Virginia and Nevada, have embraced health care as they make their final pitches to voters.
Nine days out from an already divisive midterm election, the campaign’s finale has come amid a cascade of horrors that reflected the country’s fault lines.
It’s always hard to know how major news events may affect an election. This time is no exception, with crosscurrents of grief, faith, fear and gun politics.
Mr. Steves, a travel writer and public radio and television host, is an outspoken activist for the legalization of recreational marijuana, which is on the ballot next month in North Dakota and Michigan. He says smoking pot is like a “declaration of independence.”