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WASHINGTON. The Supreme Court on Monday set aside appeals-court rulings and sent two cases involving Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act back to lower courts, ordering further consideration of whether private individuals …
Washington. President Donald Trump on Monday moved to withdraw his $10 billion lawsuit against the Internal Revenue Service over the leak of his tax returns, filing the notice in federal court in Florida; the filing foll…
Northern Kentucky — Voters will decide on May 19 whether Rep. Thomas Massie will retain his House seat against Trump-endorsed challenger Ed Gallrein in the Republican primary, a contest marked by unprecedented campaign s…
Atlanta. Voters cast ballots in Tuesday's Georgia primary, where record fundraising and heavy Republican spending contrasted with Democrats driving a surge in turnout that exceeded prior cycles; pre-election early voting…
COLUMBIA, S.C. State lawmakers will begin a full House airing Monday on proposed congressional map changes after a recent U.S. Supreme Court ruling that reduced certain Voting Rights Act protections; Republican leaders a…
Washington, United States – A political and legal fight over Black voting power escalated nationwide after Louisiana lawmakers approved a congressional redistricting plan that eliminates a majority-Black district, trigge…
Washington — On May 17, US President Donald Trump posted on Truth Social warning Iran that "there won't be anything left of them" if Tehran did not quickly agree to a US-negotiated peace deal, intensifying public pressur…
Austin, Texas — Early voting for the May 26 primary runoff opened Monday, May 18, and runs through Friday, May 22 across multiple counties, with Election Day voting scheduled for May 26; county offices published varying …
Montgomery, Alabama — On Saturday, several dozen activists and bus riders traveled from Aiken, South Carolina and Atlanta to Montgomery to retrace the final steps of the 1965 Selma-to-Montgomery march. Participants disem…
Washington, United States — The U.S. Department of Homeland Security and the Department of Justice have run at least 67 million state voter registration records through federal databases ahead of the November midterm ele…
Idaho Falls — Incumbent Republican representatives Stephanie Mickelsen and Erin Bingham are campaigning to retain seats in Legislative Districts 32A and 32B ahead of the May 19 primary this week; Mickelsen is challenged …
LAFAYETTE, La. Voters across Louisiana rejected all five proposed constitutional amendments in Saturday’s election, including Amendment 3, which sought to convert temporary $2,000 teacher stipends into permanent raises b…
BATON ROUGE, Louisiana — Louisiana’s 2026 Republican Senate primary produced an unusually competitive result on May 16, 2026, as incumbent Senator Bill Cassidy failed to qualify for the runoff despite significantly outsp…
In Washington on Sunday, Senate Parliamentarian Elizabeth MacDonough ruled that a Trump-backed proposal to direct federal security funding toward a planned White House ballroom cannot advance under the current spending p…
HOUSTON — Joe Panzarella won the City Council District C runoff on Saturday night, defeating Nick Hellyar and securing about 65% of the vote, according to unofficial totals posted by the Harris County Clerk's Office. The…
WASHINGTON — The Senate parliamentarian, Elizabeth MacDonough, on Saturday removed a proposed $1 billion Secret Service allocation intended to fund security tied to President Donald Trump's planned White House ballroom f…
Washington: President Donald Trump told reporters aboard Air Force One on May 16 that United States strikes achieved a 'total military victory' over Iran, asserting that Tehran's naval and air assets were destroyed and m…
Tehran has developed a new mechanism to control and manage maritime traffic through the Strait of Hormuz, according to Ebrahim Azizi, head of Iran’s parliamentary national security commission, who announced the move on s…
Nigeria — U.S. and Nigerian forces killed Abu Bakr al-Mainuki, a senior Islamic State West Africa leader, in a mission carried out Friday in the Lake Chad Basin, President Donald Trump said in a late-night social media p…
Washington — The U.S. Supreme Court on Friday denied Virginia Democrats' emergency request to reinstate a voter-approved congressional map that would have redrawn district lines to favor Democrats ahead of the November m…
Washington — Lawmakers from both parties pressed President Trump this week to proceed with a delayed $14 billion arms sale to Taiwan after Trump, departing Beijing on Friday, told reporters he had made "no commitment eit…
Washington — The U.S. Defense Department canceled this week the planned temporary deployment of the 2nd Armored Brigade Combat Team, roughly 4,000 soldiers, to Poland; officials said some unit elements and equipment were…
DENVER. Colorado Gov. Jared Polis on Friday commuted the sentence of former Mesa County Clerk Tina Peters, reducing her nearly nine-year term to about 4.5 years and making her eligible for parole effective June 1, 2026; …
In Beijing on Friday, U.S. President Donald Trump said he and Chinese President Xi Jinping agreed that Iran should not obtain nuclear weapons and that the Strait of Hormuz must remain open to shipping. The comments came …
AUSTIN, Texas — The Texas Supreme Court on Friday refused Gov. Greg Abbott’s request to remove Democratic state lawmakers who fled Texas in 2025 to block a special-session vote on new congressional maps. The court’s majo…