Beyond the Headline

In their final debate, Abdul El-Sayed made the Michigan Senate race about Donald Trump, Mike Rogers made it about El-Sayed, and underneath the insults they agreed on more than either would admit.

Ramaswamy's campaign weaponizes Amy Acton's estranged mother in a viral social media ad, exposing how personal attacks are reshaping Ohio's governor's race.

After another night of Russian missiles, Zelenskyy answers Trump's charge that he doesn't want peace, and the real argument turns out to be about warnings, satellites, sanctions and an empty chair at the table.

In a Michigan room a month before the midterms, JD Vance faced a Detroit barber who's done voting Republican, a soldier's widower, a Catholic sister and a man who can't open his windows, and he asked every one of them for more time.

Iran's president held up a portrait of a supreme leader killed by American bombs, offered Washington talks in the same speech, and kept offering all week, while a report says Trump is already planning past November.