BALTIMORE — With the 2028 presidential election on the horizon, Maryland’s elections administrator wants lawmakers to use next year’s legislative session to address prediction markets and strengthen protections for election judges, and to revisit a proposal regulating the influence of social media algorithms on elections.

Jared DeMarinis ...Read more

It’s not a stretch of the imagination to say that last week’s midterm election was one the most embarrassing moments of President Donald Trump’s political life. At the time of writing, Democrats have flipped 44 House seats and seven Senate seats, earning a commanding majority in both houses of Congress for the first time since 2020. The ...Read more

The stunning results of last week’s midterm elections hold important lessons for both parties. They should stop crowing and crying and start facing up to them.

Shortly after the Republicans suffered historic losses, Vice President JD Vance issued a postmortem blaming Iran, inflation and Israel. He neglected to mention how much his own ...Read more

Sweeping Democratic election wins could advance abortion access in states with tight restrictions, especially in Georgia, Iowa and Texas, where Democrats seized the governor’s office for the first time in decades.

All three states will have Democratic attorneys general, and in Georgia and Texas, Democrats will control the state House while ...Read more

BOISE, Idaho — In a survey last year, Boise State researchers found a “wide range” of opinions on abortion. Twenty percent of Idahoans wanted abortion completely banned, while 25% wanted no restrictions on abortion at all.

More common, researchers found, were Idahoans who wanted some abortion access — at least through the first ...Read more

WASHINGTON — House and Senate Republicans picked their new campaign chiefs Tuesday, tasking Ohio Sen. Bernie Moreno and Georgia Rep. Brian Jack with leading the GOP campaign arms for the 2028 election cycle.

In their new positions, both will spearhead Republicans’ push to win back majorities on Capitol Hill after Democrats seized control of...Read more

MIAMI — Republican U.S. Rep. Maria Elvira Salazar was declared the winner Tuesday in the tight race for Florida’s 27th Congressional District against Democrat Eliott Rodriguez following a contentious recount that lasted nearly two days and took a brief detour through federal court.

The Miami-Dade Canvassing Board, after recounting 247,952 ...Read more

A federal judge ruled that President Donald Trump can proceed with his $10 billion lawsuit against the British Broadcasting Corp. over a misleading edit of a speech he gave to supporters before they attacked the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021.

U.S. District Judge Jeffrey Kuntz in Miami on Tuesday denied the BBC’s request to dismiss Trump’s ...Read more

MIAMI — Republican U.S. Rep. Maria Elvira Salazar was declared the winner Tuesday in the tight race for Florida’s 27th Congressional District against Democrat Eliott Rodriguez following a contentious recount that lasted nearly two days and took a brief detour through federal court.

The Miami-Dade Canvassing Board, after recounting 247,952 ...Read more

House Republicans on Tuesday successfully blocked an effort to impeach Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth over his handling of the Iran war and other alleged “high crimes” against the nation, handing President Donald Trump and his embattled defense secretary a win.

“The Democrats’ attempt to impeach Secretary of War Pete Hegseth has ...Read more

WASHINGTON — House Republicans blocked the impeachment of Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth for U.S. military actions in the Middle East and Latin America, effectively killing the effort until Democrats take over Congress in January.

GOP leaders forced a procedural vote to block quick consideration of the impeachment measure introduced on Monday...Read more

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Rep. Doris Matsui, a Sacramento Democrat, has defeated challenger Mai Vang and is headed back to Congress for another term.

The Associated Press called the race for Matsui on Tuesday afternoon with her leading Vang about 53.3% to 46.7%. About 88% of the estimated vote has been counted in California’s 7th Congressional ...Read more

RALEIGH, N.C. — Republican U.S. Rep. Virginia Foxx narrowly trails her Democratic challenger as county election boards review and count more ballots.

The lead flipped back and forth Tuesday, but as more results came in, Chuck Hubbard’s lead stretched to 196 votes as of 5:45 p.m., extending his 99-vote lead from election night.

The results ...Read more

RALEIGH, N.C. — Republican U.S. Rep. Greg Murphy, who clung to a razor-thin lead on election night, is trailing after provisional ballots tipped the race in favor of Democrat Raymond Smith Jr.

But the results are not final, with more votes to be counted.

Murphy, a physician, has represented the 3rd District in Eastern North Carolina since ...Read more

WASHINGTON — House Republicans blocked the impeachment of Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth for U.S. military actions in the Middle East and Latin America, effectively killing the effort until Democrats take over Congress in January.

GOP leaders forced a procedural vote to block quick consideration of the impeachment measure introduced on Monday...Read more

WASHINGTON — Members of the Kennedy family are seeking to intervene in the legal fight to block construction of a triumphal arch in Washington championed by President Donald Trump, saying it would interfere with memorial gravesites of family members — including JFK’s eternal flame.

In a motion filed Tuesday, attorneys representing the ...Read more

MIAMI — Republican U.S. Rep. Maria Elvira Salazar was declared the winner Tuesday in the tight race for Florida’s 27th Congressional District against Democrat Eliott Rodriguez following a contentious recount that lasted nearly two days and took a brief detour through federal court.

The Miami-Dade Canvassing Board, after recounting 247,952 ...Read more

Every level of government failed to prevent Jeffrey Epstein from sex trafficking minors for over a decade, according to a report released Tuesday by the House Oversight Committee, the most recent effort by elected officials to further an investigation into his sex crimes.

Those failures began in South Florida with the Miami U.S. Attorney’s ...Read more

WASHINGTON — Florida Rep. Darren Soto, the most vulnerable House Democrat running for reelection, narrowly won a sixth term Tuesday in a district that state Republicans redrew in their favor.

Soto was leading Republican Navy veteran Dan Green by less than a point when The Associated Press called the race for Central Florida’s 9th District a...Read more

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump wanted to know how Jensen Huang was holding up after admitting to an affair with a woman who may have been a Chinese spy. So on Monday, he spoke with the Nvidia Corp. chief executive officer — and came away satisfied with what he heard.

Recounting the conversation to reporters, the president said that ...Read more