Americans are asked to follow elections as though they are an endless competition: Who is ahead, who stumbled, whose clip went viral? The question that interests me most comes afterward: What happens when the campaigning ends,

A quixotic legal battle over whether Missouri may use a GOP-friendly congressional redistricting plan for November’s election returned to the Supreme Court for the third time late Tuesday night, forcing the justices to once again review an effort the court unanimously rejected less than two weeks ago.

But we begin by looking at the middle of the country, the country’s midsection, from the Rust Belt to the Farm Belt that stretches as far west as Nebraska, as far north as the Dakotas. Are potential Democratic successes conceivably omens of a realignment in the middle of the country? E.J., you’ve been traveling recently; why don’t you start?

A Brazil election interference claim from the governing Workers Party and the alliance behind Lula has reached the Supreme Court and the electoral court.

XI VISIT: President Donald Trump will host Xi Jinping at the White House for the third and final day of the Chinese leader's state visit. The two leaders and first ladies will meet over tea this morning before visiting the National Archives.