Trump pledged to do away with both mail-in voting — which remains popular and is used by about one-third of all voters — and voting machines — some form of which are used in almost all of the country's thousands of election jurisdictions.

The lack of oversight raises the specter of politicized U.S. attorney’s offices doing the White House’s bidding.

In his first TV interview since announcing his 2026 U.S. Senate bid, Sherrod Brown told NBC4 he didn’t plan to run again, but “as this year wore on, this rigged system got worse.”

On January 3, the first meeting of the 117th Congress, the archivist of the United States will transmit the certification of election results from each state governor to both houses of Congress.

Major philanthropic organisations say they are committing nearly US$37 million ($62m) in emergency funding to keep public media stations afloat in the United States after Congress passed President Donald Trump’s rescissions Bill,

Some Republicans in Congress are taking a harder line against Russian President Vladimir Putin, even as President Donald Trump appears eager to ease tensions with the Kremlin ahead of a potential trilateral summit on negotiating an end to the war in Ukraine.

Many state delegations are already under single-party control. New maps could tighten the partisan grip while decreasing the importance of general elections.

Politicians and high-ranking federal officials of both parties are routinely flagged by ethics groups for buying and selling stock at opportune moments.