Catie Edmondson

EAST LANSING, Mich. — When the Michigan State University College Democrats held their weekly meetings last spring at a sprawling residential hall

The Democratic senator, who is seeking a third term in a politically competitive state, rallied with the Pennsylvania governor, who has a track record of appealing to voters in rural, conservative-leaning areas.

The House speaker is trying to get a short-term spending agreement passed despite opposition from some conservative members of his own party.

Speaker Mike Johnson is once again turning to Democrats to supply the bulk of the votes to keep federal funding flowing through Dec. 20.

WASHINGTON — The House on Wednesday passed a short-term spending bill to avert a government shutdown just before the November elections, pushing a bigger funding fight to the end of the year.

WASHINGTON — Wives are hitting the airwaves across the country.

The Democratic congressman, who is running for Senate in Arizona, hiked thousands of feet down to meet the Havasupai, a Native tribe, on their land, part of an extensive outreach effort in a competitive race.

In the battleground state of Arizona and other important pockets of the country, polling suggests that voters backing the former president are eschewing Republican Senate candidates.

Public and private polling this cycle, as well as strategists in both parties, point to one of the tightest contests yet for the House majority, in races that stretch from California to Nebraska to Virginia.

WASHINGTON — Control of the House is on a knife's edge, with Democrats and Republicans from the liberal coasts to the nation's heartland running neck-and-neck in the key races that will decide which party will hold the majority in the next Congress.