Johnson County, Kansas, Sheriff Calvin Hayden acknowledged on Monday that no judge signed off on seizing old ballots in his long-running elections investigation after he falsely said last month he had a “search warrant in hand.”

The admission came after Hayden, a Republican in a competitive race for reelection, in April accused Johnson ...Read more

NEW YORK — Jailing former President Donald Trump at Rikers Island is a prospect Mayor Eric Adams said Tuesday he’s begun to prepare for with the head of the city’s Correction Department if the ex-president’s gag order violations at his hush money trial land him behind bars.

Manhattan Supreme Court Judge Juan Merchan has been dangling ...Read more

NEW YORK — Stormy Daniels told a riveted jury Tuesday that sex with Donald Trump made her feel dizzy and had the room spinning as she wondered how she ended up half-naked in a Lake Tahoe hotel room with the then-reality TV star at the former president’s hush money trial.

Her testimony sparked a demand by Trump’s lawyers for a mistrial �...Read more

LAS VEGAS — Former President Donald Trump called several potential vice presidential candidates onstage with him at a Republican National Committee fundraiser Saturday at Mar-a-Lago.

The betting favorite to become Trump’s running mate in the 2024 presidential election is South Carolina Sen. Tim Scott.

According to electionbettingodds.com, ...Read more

NEW YORK — Stormy Daniels told a riveted jury Tuesday that sex with Donald Trump made her feel dizzy and had the room spinning — not in a good way — as she wondered how she ended up half-naked in a Lake Tahoe hotel room with the then-reality TV star at the former president’s hush money trial.

‘What could possibly go wrong?’

In a ...Read more

As the United Auto Workers continues its organizing drive in the South with an election next week at a Mercedes-Benz plant in Alabama, November’s presidential election looms as a potential turning point in the effort.

During their stints in the Oval Office, both Joe Biden and Donald Trump have used the National Labor Relations Board — an ...Read more

WASHINGTON — After steering clear of the divisive issue for months, the Supreme Court may be on the verge of deciding whether to jump into the national debate over medical treatment for transgender youths.

As soon as Thursday justices may vote behind closed doors on whether to grant an appeal that seeks to block a new Tennessee law ...Read more

ATLANTA — Former Lt. Gov. Geoff Duncan’s decision to endorse President Joe Biden’s reelection furthered his split with the GOP and disgusted Georgia Republicans who once saw him as a rising political star.

The one-term Republican has long been a critic of Donald Trump, but his op-ed in The Atlanta Journal-Constitution on Monday cemented a...Read more

NEW YORK — Manhattan prosecutors are expected to call porn star Stormy Daniels to the witness stand Tuesday at Donald Trump’s Manhattan hush money trial.

The former president’s legal team began the day’s proceedings asking Judge Juan Merchan to prevent her from divulging “salacious” details of their alleged tryst more than a decade ...Read more

For the 2022 midterm elections, the U.S. Supreme Court allowed Alabama to use congressional districts that violated the law and diluted the voting power of Black citizens.

A 5-4 vote by the Supreme Court in February 2022 let Alabama use these illegal districts during the election while the court heard the state’s appeal on the case ...Read more

Asked last week by the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel if he would accept the outcome of the November election, Donald Trump responded: “If everything’s honest, I’ll gladly accept the results. I don’t change on that. If it’s not, you have to fight for the right of the country. If you go back and look at all of the things that had been found...Read more

President Joe Biden’s move Thursday to expand two national monuments in California is unquestionably good news for our climate and environment.

One proclamation will increase the size of San Gabriel Mountains National Monument by nearly one third, adding more than 105,000 acres of mountains and foothills above communities from Sylmar to ...Read more

Since taking office in 2021, President Joe Biden has been spending money like he’s printing it in the basement. Now, his giddy check-writing days are coming back to bite him.

On the chopping block: funding for Biden’s “Cancer Moonshot,” his ambitious program to end cancer as we know it.

It’s a laudable ambition, one that could impact...Read more

NEW YORK — A potential smoking gun shown to jurors at Donald Trump’s Manhattan hush money trial on Monday appeared to harm his defense that money doled out to Michael Cohen from the White House was for payment for legitimate legal services — and not reimbursement for paying off a porn star.

The document displayed was a bank statement ...Read more

NEW YORK — Donald Trump was threatened with jail time by Manhattan Judge Juan Merchan on Monday after being found in criminal contempt again for the tenth violation of a gag order in his hush money case.

In his sternest warning yet, Merchan, in stunning courtroom remarks, said it appeared the $1,000 fines he has issued for Trump’s ...Read more

A political ploy designed by Venezuelan strongman Nicolás Maduro to regain international legitimacy through heavily manipulated elections appears to be spiraling out of control for the socialist leader as support for a previously unknown rival reaches apparently insurmountable levels.

A new poll over the weekend shows that opposition candidate...Read more

WASHINGTON — President Joe Biden and Donald Trump are trying to create new battleground states, a signal the general election outcome could rival Saturday’s photo finish in the Kentucky Derby. But such efforts likely will come up short, experts say.

Each of the presumptive presidential nominees is taking shots at the other’s competence ...Read more

NEW YORK — Donald Trump was threatened with jail time by Manhattan Judge Juan Merchan on Monday after being found in criminal contempt again for the tenth violation of a gag order in his hush money case.

In his sternest warning yet, Merchan, in stunning courtroom remarks, said it appeared the $1,000 fines he has issued for Trump’s ...Read more