New Jersey Republicans are trying to ride the coattails of President Donald Trump’s 2024 electoral momentum.
More than 20 Democrat-led states are challenging a new Trump administration rule designed to block nonprofit and government workers from a student loan cancellation program if federal officials conclude their employer has a “substantial illegal purpose.”.
President Donald Trump’s administration said that it will partially fund SNAP after a pair of judges’ rulings required it to keep the food aid program running.
The head of the Food and Drug Administration’s drug center abruptly resigned Sunday amid concerns about his personal conduct.
The Trump administration is indicating in court that it will only partially fund the federal food assistance program as the government shutdown reaches into a second month.
President Donald Trump’s administration says it will partially fund the SNAP food aid program in November after two federal judges required the payments to continue.
Donald Trump features prominently in state and local elections happening Tuesday, a year after he retook the White House.
The government shutdown is triggering a wave of closures of Head Start centers, leaving many working parents scrambling for child care and shutting some of the nation’s neediest children out of preschool.
A federal judge in Oregon has once again barred President Donald Trump’s administration from deploying the National Guard to Portland, Oregon until at least Friday.
Republicans and Democrats remained at a stalemate on the government shutdown over the weekend as it headed into its sixth week, with millions of Americans starting to lose food aid benefits and President Donald Trump pushing GOP leaders to change Senate rules to end it.
President Donald Trump's razing of the White House's East Wing to build a ballroom has meant for some awkward moments for news outlets.
The Associated Press will compile votes and declare winners in elections across the U.S. on Tuesday, just as the news organization has done for nearly 180 years.
Concerns that antisemitism is on the rise among Republicans burst to the surface this weekend at a meeting in Las Vegas.
Election Day is Nov. 4, and Democrats and Republicans are making their last call to voters prior to Election Day in Virginia.
Former President Barack Obama is urging voters to use Tuesday's elections in Virginia and New Jersey to rebuke President Donald Trump and candidates loyal to him.
The final stretch of New York City's mayoral race has candidates Zohran Mamdani and Andrew Cuomo painting two very different pictures.
The federal Head Start Program could have their funding cut off due to the ongoing government shutdown. An expert from Virginia Tech says the consequences could be far-reaching.
President Donald Trump’s request to add a documentary proof of citizenship requirement to the federal voter registration form cannot be enforced.
Continued staffing shortages in air traffic control facilities are causing delays at airports as the government shutdown nears the one-month mark.
A Wisconsin judge has put on hold his order that requires elections officials to verify the citizenship of all 3.6 million registered voters in the battleground state before the next statewide election in February.
President Donald Trump wants Republicans in the Senate to kill a longstanding rule called the filibuster.
Two federal judge have ruled that the Trump administration must continue to fund the SNAP food aid program using emergency reserve funds during the government shutdown.
Federal judges have ruled that the Trump administration must continue funding SNAP during the government shutdown.
Illinois advocates have sued federal authorities over alleged inhumane conditions at a Chicago-area federal immigration facility.
Climbing monthly electricity bills, a growing stressor on U.S. families as demand surges for energy, have emerged as a significant issue in the nation’s only two elections for governor this year and as a test on the political parties’ messages for next year’s midterms.
Two decades after resigning as New Jersey’s governor in scandal and stunning the political world as he declared “I am a gay American,” Jim McGreevey is back on the campaign trail for the first time.
The president of a Republican-aligned think tank has defended Tucker Carlson after the conservative media personality offered a platform to a far-right activist known for pushing white nationalist and antisemitic views.
A Republican-led panel in Ohio has adopted new U.S. House districts, potentially boosting the GOP's chances of gaining two seats in next year's elections.
The government shutdown has been a source of anxiety for educators, wondering how long grant money will last and who can help them interpret federal laws.
Military leaders have ordered the National Guard in every state to develop a “quick reaction force” of troops trained to deal with civil disturbances and riots that can be ready to deploy with just hours’ notice.
President Donald Trump and First Lady Melania hosted a Halloween celebration at the White House.
Lawyers for former FBI Director James Comey want to review a transcript and audio recording of grand jury proceedings in his criminal case, citing what they say were “irregularities” in the process that should result in the dismissal of an indictment pushed by President Donald Trump.
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has ordered the military to provide dozens of lawyers to the Justice Department for temporary assignments in Memphis and near the U.S.-Mexico border that could run through next fall.
A federal judge in Hawaii has ruled that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration violated the law by imposing restrictions on a medication used for abortions and miscarriage management.
Ohio's Republican-led redistricting commission has unveiled a new U.S. House map that could give Republicans a chance to win two more seats in next year's elections.
A Long Island wine importer named Bill DeBlasio inadvertently grabbed international headlines this week after he responded to an email meant for another man with a similar name: former New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio.
A briefing held only for Republicans in Congress on U.S. military strikes is drawing a fierce rebuke from a key Democrat.
After months of posturing, arguing and threatening, U.S. President Donald Trump and Chinese leader Xi Jinping have essentially turned back the clock.
Democrats and their allied groups are pouring in more money and sending in the national party chairman in the final week of campaigning for a Pennsylvania Supreme Court election.
Democrat Abigail Spanberger is focusing on economic concerns rather than bold promises and anti-Donald Trump rhetoric in her race for Virginia governor.
The Justice Department has stripped references to the Jan. 6, 2021, attack from court papers and punished two federal prosecutors who filed the document seeking prison time at sentencing Thursday for a man arrested with guns and ammunition near former President Barack Obama's home.
A network of medical clinics that serves low-income residents in Maine says it will shut down its primary care operations on Friday because of Trump administration cuts to abortion providers.
Roanoke College released a poll on Oct. 30 that asked likely Virginian voters multiple questions regarding their opinions on candidates and who they would vote for.
Virginia will elect its first woman as governor as Republican Lt. Gov. Winsome Earle-Sears and Democratic U.S. Rep. Abigail Spanberger look to replace term-limited Republican Gov. Glenn Youngkin.
New Jersey voters will decide a competitive race for governor Tuesday in a contest that will be viewed through the prism of national politics regardless of who wins.
President Donald Trump's administration is restricting the number of refugees it admits into the country to 7,500 and they will mostly be white South Africans.
Vice President JD Vance called for a significant reduction in legal immigration during an appearance at a Turning Point event at the University of Mississippi.
The Trump administration has restored a memorial to Confederate General Albert Pike in Washington, D.C. Demonstrators took it down during racial justice protests in the summer of 2020.
A handful of states rolled out plans to use their own funds to provide benefits as the SNAP federal food aid program runs dry.
There may be no rank-and-file Democratic senator with more at stake from the federal government shutdown than Georgia’s Jon Ossoff.
President Donald Trump's nominee to be the U.S. ambassador to Kuwait is facing rejection by the Republican-controlled Senate.
The Trump administration has been signaling that it may have finally reached a deal with China to keep TikTok running in the U.S., with the two countries finalizing the details as soon as Thursday.
As New York City's mayor's race enters its final stretch, there are echoes and contrasts to another famously bitter city election in 1977.
The top Democrat on the House Oversight Committee has sought to rally his committee as a center of Democratic messaging and response to the Trump administration's agenda.
A new AP-NORC poll finds that in the tumultuous political climate marked by this year’s assassination of a conservative activist Charlie Kirk in Utah and Democratic legislators in Minnesota, younger adults are much less worried about political violence than older adults.
Atlanta Mayor Andre Dickens is running for reelection against three lesser-known candidates, arguing that the city has seen major improvements during his first term in office.
President Donald Trump says the United States will share closely held technology to allow South Korea to build a nuclear-powered submarine.
The Virginia Emergency Nutrition Assistance program, or VENA, would begin if the government shutdown is not resolved before Saturday, Nov. 1.
The Senate approved a resolution Tuesday evening that would nullify President Donald Trump’s tariffs on Brazil, including oil, coffee and orange juice, as Democrats test GOP senators’ support for Trump’s trade policy.
Two Florida college students and an advocacy group for retirees are asking a federal judge to let them intervene in a lawsuit to defend census methods used to protect privacy and fill in missing data.
Air traffic controllers are missing another paycheck due to the ongoing government shutdown, raising concerns about financial stress affecting their work.
President Donald Trump's lawyers want a New York state appeals court to toss out his hush money criminal conviction.
Maine and Texas are the latest states where Republicans are pushing ballot initiatives targeting noncitizen voting, which is rare.
Conservative voters in Northern California are alarmed that a ballot measure designed to diminish Republican representation could pass in November.
House Republicans have released a long-promised report on former President Joe Biden's use of the autopen and the alleged cover-up of his mental state while in office.
Vice President JD Vance says that he believes U.S. military members will be paid at the end of the week as the Trump administration reconfigures funding in the second-longest government shutdown.
The United States and China are not going to resolve all the issues that divide them before presidents Donald Trump and Xi Jinping meet Thursday in Busan, South Korea.
U.S. District Judge Sara Ellis has ordered a senior U.S. Border Patrol official to meet with her daily “to hear about how the day went” after weeks of confrontations between immigration agents and the public in the Chicago area.
Abigail Spanberger, the Democratic candidate for Virginia governor, says that she doesn't oppose a push by the state’s Democratic-controlled legislature to redraw congressional districts ahead of next year’s midterm elections.
A federal judge has ruled that the Trump administration must release millions in grants meant to address the shortage of mental health workers in schools.
Washington state voters will decide whether to amend their constitution to allow funds from a long-term care insurance program to be invested in the stock market.
State legislators are back in Richmond as Democrats seek to change Virginia’s congressional map. But Republicans promised the changes won’t happen without a fight.
The Democratic National Committee has started planning for the next presidential primary elections, potentially changing the early-voting calendar again.
Control of the Pennsylvania Supreme Court hangs in the balance in statewide elections next week, when voters will cast ballots on judges for the state’s three highest courts.
A shortage of air traffic controllers has caused more flight disruptions at airports across the country.
President Donald Trump spent his day in Japan bonding with new prime minister, Sanae Takaichi, taking her with him as he spoke to U.S. troops aboard an aircraft carrier.
A Utah judge has ruled that the 22-year-old man charged with killing Charlie Kirk can appear in court wearing street clothes but must be physically restrained due to security concerns.
A lawsuit is seeking to redraw the lines of a Republican-controlled congressional district in New York state.
