How the 2022 Midterms Became a Squeaker  —  Interviews with more than 70 current and former officials show the outside forces — and miscalculations and infighting — that led to an improbable, still-undecided election.  —  Late one mid-September evening, the leaders of the House Democratic campaign arm …

Exclusive: At least $1 billion of client funds missing at FTX  —  At least $1 billion of customer funds have vanished from collapsed crypto exchange FTX, according to two people familiar with the matter.  —  The exchange's founder Sam Bankman-Fried secretly transferred $10 billion …

Mail Ballots Around Las Vegas Are Likely to Put Democrats Ahead  —  Senator Catherine Cortez Masto is within 1,000 votes of overtaking her Republican opponent, Adam Laxalt, and the ballots remaining in Clark County are expected to favor her.  —  Democrats appeared on the cusp of securing control …

Trump sues to block subpoena from House Jan. 6 committee  —  Former President Donald Trump is suing to block a subpoena the House Jan. 6 Committee issued seeking to force him to testify next week.  —  The lawsuit, filed in federal court in West Palm Beach, Fla., Friday evening …

'I'm out': Dilbert cartoonist says he's finally done with Trump  —  Dilbert cartoonist Scott Adams has stuck by Donald Trump through countless scandals throughout the years, from getting caught on camera boasting about sexually assaulting women to getting impeached for trying to shake …

Internal Documents Show How Close the F.B.I. Came to Deploying Spyware  —  Christopher Wray, the F.B.I.'s director, told Congress last December that the bureau purchased the phone hacking tool Pegasus for research purposes.  —  WASHINGTON — During a closed-door session with lawmakers last December …

How Virginia's Abigail Spanberger pulled off another thriller victory  —  Call it a nail-biter, but Rep. Abigail Spanberger (D-Va.) wasn't nervous.  —  In fact, “this was my calmest election,” Spanberger said, a bit over 36 hours removed from what, at least on the outside …

SBF's disgrace could make things awkward for Gary Gensler and the Democrats  —  TOM WILLIAMS—CQ-ROLL CALL, INC./GETTY IMAGES  —  Gary Gensler blew it again.  After his agency failed to warn investors about Terra and Celsius—whose collapses this spring sparked a trillion-dollar investor wipeout …

Walker allies believe DeSantis would be ‘better fit’ than Trump on the campaign trail  —  Supporters of Republican Georgia Senate candidate Herschel Walker are floating the idea of having popular Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis join him on the runoff race campaign trail.

CBP commissioner says he refused resignation request from homeland security secretary  —  A clash between two top Department of Homeland Security officials became public Friday when U.S. Customs and Border Protection Commissioner Chris Magnus said Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas asked …