President Donald Trump waves the green flag to start the Freedom 250 Grand Prix in downtown Washington, D.C., on Sunday as first lady Melania Trump and Donald Trump Jr. look on. (Doug Mills/Getty Images)
Capitol Police have responded to multiple incidents involving weapons near the Capitol this year, including a guillotine spotted this week.
Texas Rep. Monica De La Cruz's reelection race is now rated Tilt Republican by Inside Elections. (Bill Clark/CQ Roll Call file photo)
CEO of Meta Platforms Mark Zuckerberg attends the Allen & Company Sun Valley Conference at the Sun Valley Lodge on July 9 in Sun Valley, Idaho.
Sen. Bill Cassidy, R-La., talks with reporters in the Capitol this month.
National Guard troops patrol outside the tarp-covered Kennedy Center on June 28.
Rep. LaMonica McIver, seen here at a news conference last year, saw a setback in her case Wednesday tied to an oversight visit to Delaney Hall.
Alaska Sen. Dan Sullivan, left, and his challenger with the same name will both be on this fall's ballot for Senate. (Bill Clark/CQ Roll Call; Daniel J. Sullivan for US Senate/Facebook)
Ground beef is seen for sale at a supermarket in Houston on Monday.
Sen. Darline Graham, R-S.C., speaks at a campaign event in Columbia, S.C., following her win on Tuesday. (Megan Varner/Getty Images)
Everton Blair has won the special election for Georgia's 13th District. (Courtesy Everton Blair for Congress)
Rollins speaks to reporters outside the West Wing of the White House on Tuesday.
There could be as many as 20 former members of Congress serving as governor early next year. Some are on the ballot this fall, and others are incumbents not up for reelection in 2026. The include, top row, from left: former North Dakota Rep. Kelly Armstrong, former New Hampshire Sen. Kelly Ayotte, former California Rep. Xavier Becerra, Arizona Rep. Andy Biggs, Tennessee Sen. Marsha Blackburn, former Indiana Sen. Mike Braun, Florida Rep. Byron Donalds; middle row, from left, former Montana Rep. Greg Gianforte, former Puerto Rico Res. Cmmsr. Jenniffer González-Colón, former New Mexico Rep. Deb Haaland, former New York Rep. Kathy Hochul, Michigan Rep. John James, former Florida Rep. Jolly, former Alabama Sen. Doug Jones, Minnesota Sen. Amy Klobuchar; bottom row, from left: former Louisiana Rep. Jeff Landry, former Colorado Rep. Greg Lopez, U.S. Virgin Islands Del. Stacey Plaskett, former New Jersey Rep. Mikie Sherrill, former Virginia Rep. Abigail Spanberger, Wisconsin Rep. Tom Tiffany, Alabama Sen. Tommy Tuberville (Courtesy Bill Clark/Tom Williams/CQ Roll Call; Government of Puerto Rico; Greg Lopez for Colorado)
President Donald Trump speaks in the Rose Garden of the White House on Monday.
Former Kansas Sen. Nancy Kassebaum Baker served three full terms before retiring in 1997. (Andrea Mohin/CQ Roll Call file photo)
President Donald Trump greets Sen. Darline Graham, R-S.C., during a campaign rally on Friday in Myrtle Beach, S.C.
The Capitol dome is seen through a window in the Cannon House Office Building rotunda in May.
Rep. Andy Harris, R-Md., has indicated that he will fight to undo the Senate bill's hemp provision.
A worker stocks Angus beef top sirloin filets in the meat section of a grocery store in Washington, D.C., on Oct. 25, 2025.
Former White House aide Dan Koh, accompanied by his daughter, talks with Lily Holzman, right, and Dorothy Lubas during an Aug. 15 meet-and-greet hosted by the Peabody Democratic City Committee in Peabody, Mass., for candidates running for Massachusetts' 6th District. (Tom Williams/CQ Roll Call)
Construction continues on a new helipad on the South Lawn of the White House and the East Wing ballroom on August 20, 2026.
A child is vaccinated during an immunization event at the L.A. Care and Blue Shield of California Promise Health Plan Community Resource Center in Los Angeles on Oct. 24, 2025.
President Donald Trump looks on before signing a piece of stone at the construction site of a helipad on the South Lawn of the White House on Wednesday. (Jim Watson/AFP via Getty Images)
California state Sen. Aisha Wahab speaks to reporters during her election night watch party in Hayward, Calif., on Tuesday. (Heather Diehl/Getty Images)
Former director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases Dr. Anthony Fauci during the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee hearing in on July 29.
Police officers secure the crime scene at E Street NW on Thursday morning. (Jason Dick/CQ Roll Call)
President Donald Trump speaks to the press on Wednesday next to ongoing construction of a helipad on the South Lawn of the White House. His top legislative affairs aide, James Braid, is leaving that post later this month.
Maine State Auditor Matt Dunlap is the Democratic nominee for the state's battleground 2nd District.
Marine Corps veteran Maura Sullivan, a Democrat running for New Hampshire's 1st District, recites the Pledge of Allegiance during a candidate “speed dating” event at City Hall in Dover on Aug. 13. Candidates spoke with different groups of voters in 15-minute rounds. (Tom Williams/CQ Roll Call)
Heidi Overton previously worked at the America First Policy Institute, a Trump-aligned think tank. (Kent Nishimura/AFP via Getty Images)