The migrant detention center known as Alligator Alcatraz is closed, but much about it remains unresolved. There are lawsuits over detainees’ treatment, environmental claims over damage to protected wetlands and uncertainty about the future of the airstrip it was built on.

One aspect of the South Florida facility has drawn far less ...Read more

Beyond picking governors, state legislators, local officials and representatives to serve in Congress, voters in almost every state this year will have the opportunity to amend the language of their state constitution. In one state, they could potentially rewrite the constitution altogether.

Though the U.S. Constitution is rarely ...Read more

WASHINGTON — With embattled Republican Rep. Max Miller sticking with his reelection bid in the face of domestic abuse allegations, Democrats are increasingly optimistic of flipping his Ohio seat.

The House Democratic campaign arm on Tuesday added ironworker Brian Poindexter to its “Red to Blue” program, which offers additional resources ...Read more

President Donald Trump’s weird hatred of offshore wind energy is costing a lot as Uncle Sam has to pay off the companies which had invested in the canceled projects.

For the fifth time now, the Trump administration has agreed to pay an energy firm a huge sum of money, not for building something, but in fact for not building it. The German ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — A parody AI chatbot designed by California congressional candidate Scott Wiener's campaign to mock the record of his opponent attracted the attention politicians crave and criticism most loathe.

The short-lived experiment stirred controversy over the use of artificial intelligence in campaigns ads and drew sharp criticism from ...Read more

NEW YORK — Donald Trump’s social media company posted steeper losses as it careened from a big cryptocurrency bet into a controversial new line of business selling faster access to market-moving posts from the U.S. president.

Trump Media & Technology Group Corp. reported a second-quarter loss of $238 million, driven by plummeting prices of...Read more

Local law enforcement leaders are providing guidance to Minnesota voters as the Trump administration sends seven teams from the Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division to monitor polling locations during Tuesday’s primary.

Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison said in a statement that “out of an abundance of caution” his office ...Read more

President Donald Trump signed an executive order on Monday to drastically change the childhood vaccine schedule by recommending shots be administered in separate visits to the doctor’s office.

The executive order acts on Trump’s long-held belief that splitting up routine childhood vaccinations across multiple visits lessens the risk of ...Read more

DENVER — U.S. Rep. Lauren Boebert’s son was arrested last week on three felony charges related to sexual exploitation of a child in connection with a 43-second video he created in which he had sex with a 17-year-old girl when he was 18, court records show.

Tyler Boebert, 21, was arrested in Garfield County and was released from the county�...Read more

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump renewed his administration’s efforts to dismantle the childhood vaccination schedule with a direct attack on the measles shot, returning to a politically unpopular issue and making unproven scientific claims just months ahead of the midterm elections.

Trump issued an executive order that recommends ...Read more

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. — The overwhelming defeat of two major Republican initiatives on the primary election ballot last week is giving abortion rights supporters hope that similarly energized voters will head to the polls in November.

A day after Missourians rejected plans to phase out the state income tax and make it harder to amend the ...Read more

DENVER — U.S. Rep. Lauren Boebert’s son was arrested last week on three felony charges related to sexual exploitation of a child, court records show.

Tyler Boebert, 21, was arrested in Garfield County and was released from the county’s jail on Sunday, jail records show. Court records indicate he was arrested on suspicion of five felonies,...Read more

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump signed an executive order that would recommend breaking up the combined measles, mumps and rubella vaccine into three separate shots and unilaterally overhauling the national childhood vaccination recommendations.

The order signed Monday also calls for childhood immunizations to be given at separate ...Read more

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump and his closest allies on Capitol Hill said they’re willing to do whatever it takes to pass the so-called SAVE America Act before the midterms — except follow through on threats to cancel August recess.

A group of ultraconservative House Republicans and even a few GOP senators lobbied for the chamber to...Read more

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump won court permission to revise his $10 billion defamation lawsuit against the British Broadcasting Corp. by excluding his earlier claim that a 12-second clip in a documentary caused massive financial damage to his business.

The ruling by U.S. District Judge Roy K. Altman in Miami could spare Trump’s ...Read more

In June 2014, it seemed the entire city was upset when a certain New York real estate developer added five 20-foot-tall serifed letters spelling his name to the 16th floor of his eponymous tower facing the Chicago River.

That moment and the ensuing kerfuffle seem quite quaint now.

That unexpected design move — which defaced what is arguably ...Read more

U.S. Rep. Lauren Boebert’s son was arrested last week on three felony charges related to sexual exploitation of a child, court records show.

Tyler Boebert, 21, was arrested in Garfield County, Colorado, and was released from the county’s jail on Sunday, jail records show. Court records indicate he was arrested on suspicion of five felonies,...Read more

The mud was thick, the dogs were everywhere and duck calls blared almost constantly across the Game Fair grounds in Ramsey on Sunday, occasionally interrupted by the crack of a shotgun somewhere in the distance.

Through it all, Minnesota’s political campaigns were making their final pitches.

Two men in square-toed cowboy boots walked past a ...Read more