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The Federal Reserve Will Release Its Interest Rate Decision Today. Here’s What to Watch.

28 October 2026 at 09:05
The central bank is widely expected to hold interest rates steady on Wednesday, just days before the midterm elections.

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The Federal Reserve is expected to press pause on raising interest rates after delivering a rate increase last month for the first time since 2023.

Texas Senate Rivals Converge on Lubbock, With Trump in the Mix

It was a showdown of sorts in western Texas as James Talarico and Ken Paxton appeared at dueling rallies on either side of a prairie-dog-filled city park.

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President Trump with Ken Paxton during a campaign visit in Corpus Christi, Texas, on Tuesday.

Tennessee Race Is Rattled by a Republican’s Acknowledgment of a ‘Past Indiscretion’

28 October 2026 at 00:22
State Senator Brent Taylor, the Republican nominee for a U.S. House seat, responded to a Nashville outlet’s report that he had sent “an unsolicited nude picture.”

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State Senator Brent Taylor, Republican of Memphis, is favored to flip Tennessee’s Ninth Congressional District.

Political Satire Is an American Tradition. Deceptive A.I. Ads Are Not.

27 October 2026 at 17:30
Despite how cringeworthy they are, political campaigns have spent $137 million on A.I.-generated ads for the midterms. And the lack of regulation on these ads is warping our sense of what’s real. The Opinion writer Rotimi Adeoye argues that while this kind of political satire falls under First Amendment protection, “you should be free to fake a politician, but you shouldn’t be free to hide the fact that you did.”

Grand Jury Declines to Bring Charges Against Cassidy Hutchinson

The rejection of the indictment was the latest extraordinary setback in President Trump’s wide-ranging campaign to go after his political opponents.

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The investigation of Cassidy Hutchinson was directed to the Justice Department’s civil rights division, which normally focuses on issues like police violence and election integrity.
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