PROVIDENCE, R.I. — Rhode Island primary voting is underway Wednesday, Sept. 9, 2026, in one of the last major state nominating contests before the Nov. 3 midterms. Polls open at 7 a.m. in nearly all communities and close at 8 p.m., according to public election guides. The race drawing national attention is not a Senate … Read more
WASHINGTON — Stopgap CR funding through Dec. 11 cleared the House 370-48 on Tuesday, Sept. 1, 2026, in a bipartisan continuing resolution that keeps federal agencies open and removes the immediate threat of a partial government shutdown when current funding otherwise would have expired Sept. 30. Roll Call reported that the short-term patch — already … Read more
WASHINGTON — An air traffic controller pay raise authorized by Congress remains only partly paid on Tuesday as Sens. Tammy Duckworth and Dick Durbin of Illinois press FAA Administrator Bryan Bedford to release the unpaid share, after controllers received only the governmentwide 1% increase instead of the full 3.8% Congress funded. CBS News reported that … Read more
MONTGOMERY, Ala. — Alabama absentee ballots are scheduled to begin mailing for the Nov. 3, 2026, general election around Wednesday, Sept. 9, joining a wave of states already putting ballots into the mailstream while a federal court order blocks mandatory enforcement of a new U.S. Postal Service ballot-mail rule. North Carolina began mailing general-election absentee … Read more
RALEIGH, N.C. — Helene FEMA reform is back at the center of a bipartisan House effort on Tuesday as U.S. Reps. Don Davis, a Democrat from Greene County, and Chuck Edwards, a Republican from Henderson County, press colleagues to overhaul how FEMA delivers disaster aid to western North Carolina communities still rebuilding from Hurricane Helene. … Read more
WASHINGTON — The USPS mail ballot rule remains blocked for the Nov. 3, 2026, midterms on Tuesday, Sept. 8, after Solicitor General D. John Sauer renewed an emergency Supreme Court bid to stay a preliminary injunction from U.S. District Judge Indira Talwani of the District of Massachusetts. Talwani’s Sept. 4 order stops mandatory enforcement of … Read more
U.S. air travelers wrapping up the Labor Day weekend faced Labor Day airport delays as a surge of disruptions, with extreme weather linked to more than 4,000 airport delays nationwide (The Travel’s Labor Day FAA delay report), according to holiday travel coverage summarizing the weekend rush. The Labor Day period already ranked among the busiest … Read more
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. — The Missouri congressional map dispute means Missouri’s Supreme Court has unanimously blocked a new congressional map from being used in the November 2026 general election and ordered a statewide vote on whether to keep the districts. According to Associated Press reporting (Associated Press reporting) and the court’s own order, the 2022 … Read more
WASHINGTON — The Trump administration on Sunday again asked the Supreme Court to let a U.S. Postal Service rule take effect immediately. The renewed request puts USPS mail ballot rules at the center of a midterms fight as some states have already begun mailing ballots. According to CNN reporting on Sept. 6, 2026 (CNN’s Sept. … Read more
WASHINGTON — The White House ballroom construction dispute intensified after the U.S. Supreme Court allowed construction of a large White House ballroom project to continue while litigation proceeds, handing the Trump administration a short-term win in a fight over executive building power. In an unsigned 5-4 order reported by Reuters, AP, and NBC News around … Read more