With less than 30 days before early voting begins in the Texas primaries, the race for the Republican nomination for U.S. Senate continues, with some candidates looking towards a potential May runoff.

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The Jan. 26 debate will be aired live on WBEZ and will be streamed on the YouTube pages of WBEZ, the Chicago Sun-Times and the University of Chicago Institute of Politics.

President Donald Trump’s endorsement of U.S. Rep. Barry Moore in Alabama’s U.S. Senate race made Moore the favorite in the high-stakes campaign, a political analyst said. Others said the endorsement gives Moore a boost but note that Trump’s picks have not always won in Alabama.

The State Board of Elections is investigating a complaint that one of the Republican candidates for North Carolina’s open U.S. Senate seat lives in Florida. She says it’s false.

WASHINGTON, Jan 15 (Reuters) - U.S. Senate Democratic ​Leader Chuck Schumer ‌on Thursday told President ‌Donald Trump in a meeting that Immigration and Customs Enforcement ⁠activities in ‌cities were "terrorizing communities" and that ‍ICE agents should be pulled out.

The two Republicans are competing in a heated primary. Cornyn accused Paxton of abusing his office and legal experts said the AG’s legal opinion is not binding.

When a bipartisan coalition in the U.S. House voted this month to approve a three-year, $80 billion extension of extra insurance subsidies under the Affordable Care Act — over the opposition of Republican leaders in Congress — there was a sense of accomplishment in the hallways of the Capitol.