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In Michigan, a Bitter Final Debate Gets Personal

Less than two weeks before Election Day, Michigan's two Senate candidates met for the last time in a Southfield television studio just outside Detroit. It's a race that could decide which party controls the U.S. Senate, and the contest between Democrat Abdul El-Sayed and Republican Mike Rogers has become one of the most personal of the year.

Hard Choices Ahead as Europe's Establishment Parties Falter

From the upper floors of Millbank Tower, a skyscraper overlooking the River Thames in London, the U.K. Houses of Parliament are just a few hundred yards away. For decades, the building housed the headquarters of Britain's Conservative Party, one of the world's oldest political parties.

The Accidental Activists of Data Center Alley

These would-be rebels in Northern Virginia joined the fight against data centers mostly to stop the encroachment on their homes and exclusive private communities.

Russia Frees Captured American in Sign of Warmer Ties

Steve Witkoff hailed the Russian leader as a "humanitarian" during talks in St. Petersburg on Wednesday, while the Kremlin said it is ready to resume trilateral peace talks with the U.S. and Ukraine.

Those Prioritizing Ukraine Over U.S. Should Be Ashamed

New York Times columnist Thomas Friedman warns President Trump that if he continues with the diesel deal with Russia he "will enter the history books in the chapter on leaders who sold out their country's democratic values to appease a dictator." Friedman then compares Trump to, who else, Neville Chamberlain, who also, according to Friedman, was a "traitor to his country's core values." But, Friedman writes, Trump is worse because Chamberlain was trying to avert a world war whereas Trump is doing the diesel deal supposedly to avoid Republicans losing the midterm elections. The headline for...

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