Shanen Ebersole is smiling, keeping an eye on her cows as they graze. Calving season is soon, so election season will have to wait.

White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt came to the defense of President Donald Trump over his take on the 2026 midterm elections.

WBIR asked a political science professor what strategies might look like in a Republican primary. Plus, we're looking at key East Tennessee races.

President Donald Trump said the U.S. should not have midterm elections later this year because of his accomplishments in office, according to a report in Reuters. In a 30-minute interview with the outlet, Trump said he had accomplished so much in office that “when you think of it, we shouldn't even have an election” in 2026.

President Donald Trump has again floated the idea of cancelling the 2026 midterm elections. Laughing it off is foolish. He's crazy enough to try.

"When democracy is treated as optional, it is Black communities who pay the price first and hardest,” said Nadine Smith of Color Of Change.

A group of U.S. senators is voicing concern over U.S. Postal Service processing changes and what those could mean for voting with mail ballots.

Brazilians will go to the polls on October 4 to elect a new president, the National Congress, and state governors and legislators. The 79-year-old incumbent president, Luis Inácio Lula da Silva, is seeking an unprecedented fourth term.

Mississippi appealed to the U.S. Supreme Court. “The question presented,” the state’s petition said, is whether federal laws “preempt a state law that allows ballots that are cast by federal election day to be received by election officials after that day.”