Darline Graham Nordone has been appointed to fill the Senate term of her late brother, Lindsey Graham, who died over the weekend.

The aortic tear that likely caused the sudden death of Sen. Lindsey Graham is a medical emergency that can rapidly kill.

President Donald Trump said Iranian ships will no longer be able to travel through the Strait of Hormuz and America would charge a 20% toll on other countries’ eligible cargo, escalating tensions after weekend of attacks by both nations to assert control of the critical waterway.

August primaries in Michigan, Wisconsin and Minnesota will be another gauge of Democratic voters’ frustration with the establishment.

Retiring Michigan Sen. Gary Peters is endorsing U.S. Rep. Haley Stevens to succeed him.

South Carolina Gov. Henry McMaster has named Darline Graham Nordone as her late brother Lindsey Graham’s temporary replacement in the U.S. Senate.

Senate Republicans are returning to Washington with an uncertain agenda after the sudden death of prominent Republican Lindsey Graham, a committee chairman and key player who served as a crucial ally of President Donald Trump.

Sen. Mitch McConnell has for the first time revealed what led to his hospitalization.

Lindsey Graham was the garrulous son of South Carolina pool hall owners and he rose to become a prominent senator and fixture on the global stage.

Lindsey Graham's relationship with Donald Trump was a roller coaster.

Sen. Lindsey Graham, a close ally of President Donald Trump, has died after a brief illness.

Many longtime residents of the small Alaska fishing community of Petersburg say they opposed efforts by the state to keep a local man named Dan Sullivan from running in this year's U.S. Senate race, even if they're not voting for him.

Graham Platner has submitted his paperwork to formally withdraw from Maine’s U.S. Senate race, officially ending an upstart yet troubled campaign whose dissolution threatens Democrats’ pursuit of chamber control.

Homeland Security has not fulfilled its promise to equip all officers with body cameras, despite receiving significant funding.

A completed bridge linking Detroit and Canada is expected to open by the end of the month after a dispute delayed its debut.

Crews are draining the Lincoln Memorial's Reflecting Pool again as President Donald Trump's problem-plagued effort to renovate the site pushes past his initial July 4 deadline.

A preliminary hearing in the case of the killing of conservative activist Charlie Kirk is done, for now.

Senior U.S. officials are demanding that Iran’s leadership publicly state that ship traffic in the Strait of Hormuz has been fully restored.

President Donald Trump has ousted members of a bipartisan federal election commission charged with assisting state and local elections officials.

A new AP-NORC poll finds that many Jewish Americans feel unsafe in the United States, with a majority saying they feel less safe than they did before Hamas’ Oct. 7, 2023, attack on Israel.

Lawyers for the man accused of killing conservative activist Charlie Kirk are trying to sow doubt about the case.

A group of retired federal and state judges has been barnstorming through Ohio and Pennsylvania on the nation's 250th anniversary to defend judicial independence and bolster the rule of law.

A federal appeals court has upheld an Illinois ban on semiautomatic weapons.

A South Florida airport has officially changed its name to the President Donald J.

Democrats in Maine are beginning a sprint to nominate a new candidate for a pivotal U.S. Senate seat.

President Donald Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu have spoken about Turkey as well as U.S. moves in the Persian Gulf.

Democratic socialists have recently won elections in New York City, Washington, D.C., and Denver.

A new AP-NORC poll finds that most Jewish adults in the U.S. don’t feel well represented by political leaders at a troubling moment for many in their community.

A video played in a Utah court reveals that the defendant in Charlie Kirk’s killing told his roommate “he wishes he hadn’t done it” the day after Kirk was shot in the neck while speaking to a crowd at Utah Valley University.

U.S. Rep. Haley Stevens is closing Michigan’s Democratic Senate primary by arguing she is the party’s strongest candidate to beat Republicans.

Democrat Graham Platner says he plans to withdraw from the U.S. Senate race in Maine after a woman who dated him said he drunkenly forced her to have sex despite her telling him to stop.

As Democrats scramble to contain a political disaster in Maine, the Republicans on the front lines of the GOP’s fight to hold the U.S. Senate majority are breathing a sigh of relief.

Actor Patrick Dempsey says he will not run for a Maine Senate seat, ending speculation about his potential candidacy.

NATO Secretary-General Mark Rutte says the message from a summit in Ankara, Turkey, is that “NATO delivers.”.

The Trumps administration has been ramping up pressure on state election officials to make sure noncitizens aren't registered to vote.

Kentucky's governor has written an open letter to Mitch McConnell asking the Republican senator to disclose more about his condition.

Rahm Emanuel, a potential Democratic presidential candidate, warns that Israel is becoming isolated due to its leadership.

A weeklong preliminary hearing for the man charged with killing conservative activist Charlie Kirk has paused for the day and will resume Thursday.

The U.S. has carried out another round of strikes on Iran hours after President Donald Trump said that recent Iranian attacks on ships in Strait of Hormuz signaled the end of the ceasefire.

Prosecutors in Utah played a video clip that provided a rare glimpse of Tyler Robinson after the defendant in the killing of conservative activist Charlie Kirk first turned himself in.

Graham Platner's bid for Maine Senate may be all but over, but it's likely other candidates will find themselves on a similar path in the future.

Former Wisconsin Judge Hannah Dugan has been spared from prison for ushering a Mexican defendant out of her courtroom as Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents waited in the hallway.

Maryland lawmakers will meet for a special session next month to consider a constitutional amendment dealing with future congressional redistricting.

A federal judge has ruled that the U.S. Department of Justice cannot have access to personal information for every person who worked during the 2020 election in Georgia’s Fulton County.

A new accusation that Graham Platner once sexually assaulted a woman he was dating has rocked the U.S. Senate race in Maine and cast fresh doubt on Democrats’ path to a Senate majority.

Democratic nominee Graham Platner hasn’t resigned from the Maine U.S. Senate race following an allegation of sexual assault.

The weeklong preliminary hearing for the man accused of killing conservative activist Charlie Kirk has entered its second day.

The Wisconsin Supreme Court has rejected an attempt by a conservative activist to obtain guardianship records in an effort to find ineligible voters in the presidential battleground state.

The U.S. military has launched a series of strikes against Iranian targets after three merchant ships were struck in the waters off Oman.

A new AP-NORC poll reveals a dramatic erosion of support for Israel, after decades of bipartisan backing.

An investigator says the man charged with killing Charlie Kirk strolled Utah Valley University in shorts and a T-shirt and bought a meal at Chick-fil-A on the morning of the conservative activist's assassination.

U.S. prosecutors are setting the stage for seeking leniency at next week's sentencing for a Turkish-Iranian businessman who provided key testimony at a corruption trial nearly a decade ago related to sanctions against Iran.

A federal judge has ruled that President Donald Trump’s mass pardons for supporters who stormed the U.S. Capitol don’t apply to a Virginia man charged with planting pipe bombs near the national headquarters of the Democratic and Republican parties on the eve of the Jan. 6, 2021, riot.

Politico reports that a woman has accused Maine Democratic Senate candidate Graham Platner of sexual assault.

The relationship between Donald Trump and FIFA President Gianni Infantino has been long in the making and is now at the center of one of the great World Cup controversies.

Staff for Kentucky Sen. Mitch McConnell has said that the senator is “continuing his recovery” in a hospital while the Senate is out of session.

President Donald Trump says he's building a granite helipad on the White House lawn.

President Donald Trump is taking credit for getting FIFA to review a red card issued at the World Cup against the United States’ star forward but says he did not demand an outcome.

An upstate New York resident sued U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement for sending federal officers to his house with a warning over an email he sent to the agency’s one-time head.

A five-day preliminary hearing for the man accused of killing conservative activist Charlie Kirk has begun in Utah.

President Donald Trump is responding to global outrage over his intervention with FIFA during the World Cup.

President Donald Trump has rung the opening bells for the New York Stock Exchange and the Nasdaq from the Oval Office.

U.S. Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy is doing all he can to get his 26-year-old son-in-law elected to his old congressional district in the vast north woods of Wisconsin.

A former campus police officer says he found an apparent “sniper pad” on a gravel rooftop near where Charlie Kirk was assassinated.

President Donald Trump has posted a falsified image of former President Barack Obama and former first lady Michelle Obama boarding Air Force One covered with graffiti.

Michigan Democrat Mallory McMorrow has suspended her campaign for the U.S. Senate.

Prosecutors will present their case this week against the man accused of killing conservative activist Charlie Kirk.

A group of 150 people from 50 countries has become U.S. citizens at George Washington's Mount Vernon estate.

Authorities in California say former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's husband has been involved in a hit-and-run and could face misdemeanor charges.

President Donald Trump has offered a running commentary on his predecessors, his physique, and how he’s spending his time in the White House on second lady Usha Vance's podcast where guests are supposed to read picture books to children.

Dawn and Cassius Spears would like to expand their farm’s reach beyond their farm stand, but it’s challenging.

President Donald Trump has reshaped the U.S. Senate map by sidelining some Republican incumbents and promoting loyalists.

A group of Democratic governors is asking the U.S. Postal Service to withdraw its proposed rule to comply with an executive order that seeks to create a federal list of eligible voters, including those eligible to receive a ballot by mail.

A federal judge is demanding firmer commitments from the Trump administration regarding plans to renovate a historic golf course in Washington, D.C. U.S. District Judge Ana Reyes expressed concern Thursday over President Donald Trump's recent social media statements about starting renovations on the East Potomac Golf Links.

The FBI has asked its field offices across the country to dedicate more than 200 staffers to its investigation of the 2020 election in Georgia’s Fulton County.

Immigration and Customs Enforcement has arrested 10,000 people over a five-day period at the end of June.

The head of the FBI’s Chicago field office is abruptly leaving his position.

Venezuela's acting President Delcy Rodríguez has defended her government's response to last week's devastating earthquakes.

California has enacted many changes over the years that were intended to boost voter turnout.

The Trump administration is proposing a new rule to keep hospitals from charging markups on discounted drugs for Medicare patients and says that could save consumers $1.1 billion next year, according to estimates obtained by the AP.

President Donald Trump and fellow Republicans are reviving attacks on Democrats, labeling them communists.

Jane Calvert has spent 25 years championing John Dickinson, a lesser-known Revolutionary War figure.

A federal judge in Arkansas is throwing out some state laws that put extra restrictions on efforts to gather signatures for ballot initiatives.

The latest disclosure report listing President Donald Trump's financial holdings shows he took in about $1.2 billion last year from crypto holdings, overshadowing a real estate business that first brought him fame.

On Wednesday, the U.S. Department of Justice filed a lawsuit against the Commonwealth of Virginia and the Virginia State Police over a law that would ban the future sale of certain firearms.

Mark Sherman has covered the Supreme Court for The Associated Press for 20 years during some of the most momentous decisions in history.

A Democratic member of Congress is calling for a federal investigation into the "rent now, pay later" industry.

A federal filing shows President Donald Trump took in nearly $1.2 billion from his crypto businesses last year, locking in profits while his investors were socked with losses.

President Donald Trump visited the Theodore Roosevelt Presidential Library in North Dakota on Wednesday.

For decades, disabled people have fought for their rights to go to school and live alongside peers without disabilities.

Seven more people have been sentenced to prison over a shooting during a protest outside a Texas immigration detention center that wounded a police officer.

As the nation celebrates its 250th birthday this weekend, the legislative branch has momentarily called it quits.

The North American trade pact that President Donald Trump negotiated and boasted about in his first term is up for renewal.

The North American trade pact that President Donald Trump negotiated and boasted about in his first term is up for renewal.

Photographs of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. wearing lei from Hawaii during the Selma-to-Montgomery marches are now on display in Honolulu.

The great-grandson of the Chinese American at the center of the U.S. Supreme Court case that first established the constitutional guarantee of birthright citizenship praises the latest ruling.

A federal judge has struck down a Trump administration overhaul to a public service forgiveness program for federal student loans, ruling in favor of advocates who said the program risked becoming a tool for political retribution.

A second New York resident says federal officers have served him with a warning about online activity that criticized U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement.

President Donald Trump has announced that Republicans will hold their first-ever national convention ahead of the midterm elections, an unusual event aimed at boosting turnout in races that will decide whether the party maintains control of Congress.

Vice President JD Vance and Secretary of State Marco Rubio appear to be staking out differing approaches to carrying out President Donald Trump’s national security agenda.