Before the vote, another vote: How US primaries decide who gets to run for midterms & why the Michigan election mattered

In the US, political parties do not pick their candidates — voters do, months before the general election. What primaries are and how they work.

MARK MAKELA / REUTERS Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is rolling back regulations for Head Start, a federal program that serves some 700,000 of the country’s neediest children, in an apparent effort to curry favor ahead of the midterm elections. The health secretary, 72, said the Trump administration is cutting federal oversight