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Republicans redrew Congressional district lines to try to tilt the midterms in their favor. But now they are facing expensive and competitive races they had hoped to outmaneuver.

Trump's most recent rendering of East Potomac Park overtakes the D.C. peninsula with a sprawling golf course, without the grassy areas and road beloved by locals. That's prompted grassroots pushback.

This week features selections from a fascinating collection of early hot dance recordings made for the Brunswick record label in the early 1920s. Listen, too, for some radio broadcast recordings from the 1940s by Judy Garland, and the compelling combination of cornet and piano-accordion by the Texas Blues Destroyers in 1924.

Nearly 21 million Americans have voted early in the midterms. MIT political scientist Charles Stewart explains what's driving the surge and why it may not mean higher overall turnout.

U.S. Senator Angela Alsobrooks on what's at stake in the upcoming midterm elections and Prince George's County Council Chair Krystal Oriadha on the widening controversy over county grant money.

If you're planning to fly this holiday season, be prepared to pay more than you did last year. The price of jet fuel — one of airlines' biggest expenses — is close to an all-time high in the U.S.

This week for Get Out There, we take you to an Alexandria bookstore that's dedicated to horror, science fiction, and stories of the strange.