HARTFORD, Conn. — In a stunning upset, former Hartford Mayor Luke Bronin defeated 14-term U.S. Rep. John B. Larson on Tuesday night in a victory that few had predicted one year ago.

Before Bronin launched his campaign last July, he had been warned by party insiders that he should avoid challenging a popular, longtime incumbent who had won ...Read more

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump deflected criticisms about a decision to secretly fly him out of Turkey on a different aircraft while the White House indicated he was aboard Air Force One, saying the Secret Service and military demanded it in response to unspecified safety threats.

“They wanted me to go on a different flight, a ...Read more

COLUMBIA, S.C. — U.S. Sen. Darline Graham and U.S. Rep. Ralph Norman are heading to the runoff for the Republican nominee for the U.S. Senate with 32% and 24% of the special primary vote, according to The Associated Press’ projections.

With 1,683 of the state’s 2,312 precincts fully reporting, U.S. Sen. Darline Graham holds an early lead ...Read more

COLUMBIA, S.C. — Darline Graham is heading to the runoff to replace her brother’s Senate Republican nomination with 32% of the vote, according to The Associated Press’ projections.

With 578 of the state’s 2,312 precincts fully reporting, U.S. Sen. Darline Graham holds an early lead with about 32% of the first 120,000 votes reported, ...Read more

COLUMBIA, S.C. — The polls are closed and the South Carolina politicians and voters will be watching the results Tuesday night to see who will replace the late U.S. Sen. Lindsey Graham as the Republican nominee in November.

The sudden death of Graham triggered a speedy special primary election.

Eligible Republican voters had 10 candidates to...Read more

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump is looking for new policy pledges he can present to voters ahead of the midterm election, according to a top economic aide and a former administration official, including potentially calling on Congress to cut capital gains taxes and create an exemption for certain home sales.

National Economic Council ...Read more

MIAMI — The LGBTQ advocacy group Equality Florida is condemning a false and illegal text campaign unleashed Tuesday by hidden actors intent on smearing a South Florida congressional candidate over his sexuality.

The texts, which target state Sen. Shevrin Jones in the Democratic primary for Florida’s 24th congressional district, claim to ...Read more

NEW YORK — President Donald Trump on Tuesday vowed to seek a way to block Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s planned pied-à-terre tax, calling it a “dangerous political experiment” that would backfire by spurring wealthy property owners to abandon NYC.

“I am looking to see if the Federal Government has any legal right to avert this disaster, ...Read more

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