How to read polls like an expert — or, at least, not like a newbie
With the midterm elections looming, we reached out to a number of professional pollsters to ask what advice they would give non-experts. Philip Bump Link...
Meta announces mega expansion to Facebook data center in Utah
Work is performed on servers at Meta’s Eagle Mountain Data Center in Eagle Mountain on Friday, Sept. 30, 2022. Meta is expanding the data center, increasing the total investment to over $1.5 billion. Once completed, the center will be a 4.5-million-square-foot campus. Jeffrey D. Allred, Deseret News Facebook parent...
Congress proved to be productive as Democrats navigated with slim majority
The Democratic-controlled Congress managed to pass several bipartisan bills, including a major infrastructure package, and muscled through legislation on health care and climate change. Azi Paybarah Link...
What is Electoral Count Act?
Sen. Amy Klobuchar, D-Minn., chair of the Senate Rules Committee, left, and Sen. Roy Blunt, R-Mo., the ranking member, open a meeting on the Electoral Count Reform and Presidential Transition Improvement Act at the Capitol in Washington on Tuesday, Sept. 27, 2022. The bill is a response to the...
Hurricane Ian and the new era of rapidly accelerating storms
Most of the hurricanes that have become dangerous unusually quickly are storms that have emerged this century. Philip Bump Link...
Trump’s legal team divided over how to handle Mar-a-Lago case
The former president seems inclined to stick with a more combative approach, those close to him say, potentially placing him on a collision course with the Justice Department. Rosalind S. Helderman Link...
Lawmakers split on Ukraine’s new NATO bid
When asked by POLITICO if she backed Ukraine’s NATO accession, Speaker Nancy Pelosi declined to explicitly endorse it, but said she supports a “security guarantee” for Kyiv. By Andrew Desiderio, Camille Gijs and Nancy Vu Link...
House passes government funding, averting shutdown threat
The House passed a short-term government funding patch on Friday, sending the measure to President Joe Biden hours before a shutdown would’ve kicked in at midnight. The lower chamber cleared the measure in a 230-201 vote, funding the government through the midterm elections until Dec. 16 and providing billions...
Biden administration announces ‘swift and severe’ sanctions on Russia
The administration said Treasury, Commerce and State departments would target government officials and leaders, family members and military officials. Yasmeen Abutaleb Link...
A new reminder that candidate quality matters
A raft of polls in battleground states shows potential governor-Senate splits that seem to map to perceptions of candidate quality. Philip Bump Link...