SOUTHFIELD, Mich. — Accusations of outsourcing, lying, losing, desperation and what one candidate described as "magic numbers" flew Wednesday night at a debate featuring the three men who hope to be the Republican nominee for governor this fall.

Twenty-seven days before the Aug. 4 primary election, former Attorney General Mike Cox, U.S. Rep. ...Read more

BOSTON — The Department of Justice is sending election monitors to two Massachusetts cities this year for the September primary, with the Bay State among five other states where federal monitors will be observing voter activity.

The directive was announced this week by Assistant Attorney General for the DOJ’s Civil Rights Division Harmeet ...Read more

MIAMI — The Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee is adding Florida’s newly drawn 22nd District to its list of target seats in its effort to win back control of the U.S. House in November.

The DCCC is directing extra resources into roughly 50 open or Republican-held districts nationwide that the party sees as flippable in their favor ...Read more

In the annals of Supreme Court decisions, the public likely remembers what justices wrote for the court in famous cases, such as the Brown v. Board of Education ruling that outlawed racial segregation in public schools.

Or perhaps the public remembers great dissenting opinions that display foresight and speak across the ages. Justice ...Read more

The murder rate in 2025 was the lowest in modern American history.

Preliminary data shows the murder rate fell nearly 20% from 2024, likely making it the lowest rate since reliable national data began to be collected in 1960.

Why was the murder rate so low?

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By this point in a typical election year, federal intelligence officials would have briefed Minnesota Secretary of State Steve Simon and other election officials on emerging threats to the November election.

Simon would have joined federal agencies in rehearsing responses to worst-case scenarios, from foreign cyberattacks and bomb threats to ...Read more

It wasn’t a surprise, but it was a bombshell.

On July 6, 2026, Politico published the detailed account of a Maine woman who said she had been sexually assaulted by Maine Democratic Senate nominee Graham Platner almost five years ago. Platner called the allegation “categorically untrue,” then said he was “taking the time to ...Read more

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump said he would ask the Supreme Court to rehear a case over birthright citizenship, a long-shot bid to undo a ruling that went against his administration.

Trump has assailed the court over last month’s 6-3 ruling, which invalidated an executive order the president issued last year that sought to restrict ...Read more

Sen. Ed Markey and Congressman Seth Moulton faced off Wednesday in a western Massachusetts primary debate, hitting on everything from Markey’s age to Moulton’s stance on trans athletes to President Trump and issues focused on the region.

The debate aired on WWLP-TV, featuring five local journalists who alternated in asking the two ...Read more

WASHINGTON — Lawmakers and European officials hoping to get clarity on the U.S.-Iran conflict from President Donald Trump at a NATO summit likely left disappointed.

During a Wednesday evening news conference in Ankara, Turkey, the first reporter to question him characterized the Iran standoff as a “strategic dead end for you” and asked ...Read more

NEW YORK — A federal judge in Manhattan on Wednesday ordered the immediate release of more than $5 million owed to E. Jean Carroll by Donald Trump despite the president’s eleventh-hour bid to the U.S. Supreme Court to try to delay the payout once again.

Judge Lewis Kaplan’s order directing that the money be disbursed from a court-...Read more

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — Rod Joseph, a Republican congressional candidate in a Broward district that’s home to communities with large numbers of LGBTQ residents, believes that everyone is “born straight” and some people become LGBTQ by choice.

“You cannot be born gay. That’s impossible biologically,” he said.

Joseph said sexuality...Read more

NEW YORK — Donald Trump is trying to fight a demand for the release of more than $5 million he owes E. Jean Carroll, the woman he was found liable for sexually assaulting, claiming he still has a Hail Mary move in his pocket even though the nation’s highest court unanimously rejected his appeal.

In papers filed in Manhattan Federal Court ...Read more

Florida Sen. Shevrin Jones received endorsements from at least a dozen Black clergymen Monday for his bid for Congress — a key approval ahead of a contentious race to replace outgoing Congresswoman Frederica Wilson.

The support comes after Jones lost out on the coveted endorsement from Wilson, which went to former Miami-Dade County ...Read more

WASHINGTON — Supreme Court justices are scheduled to appear before both Senate and House appropriators next week, marking the first time since 2019 that justices will face lawmakers.

Justices Amy Coney Barrett and Elena Kagan are slated to testify before the Senate and House Financial Services Appropriations subcommittees on July 14 to ...Read more

WASHINGTON — Three Democratic senators are investigating a U.S. government agreement barring past tax probes of President Donald Trump and his businesses, saying they want to determine whether the deal also protects companies affiliated with his family.

“Under the guise of a so-called legal settlement, the Trump administration has ...Read more

MINNEAPOLIS — Somali and Muslim communities in Minnesota are once again condemning a social media post by President Donald Trump, alleging it communicates “anti-Muslim bigotry” toward children.

On Monday, Trump posted a 14-second video clip showing children singing in graduation outfits, with girls also wearing hijabs. The children had ...Read more

Cuba succeeded Tuesday in a push to debate U.S. sanctions at the United Nations at a time of unprecedented pressure from the Trump administration on the communist regime in Havana.

But the high-stakes maneuver also revealed how the Trump administration has succeeded in eroding the diplomatic support Cuba once had on this issue from its ...Read more

WASHINGTON — A federal judge rejected an effort by the U.S. Justice Department to obtain information on election workers in Fulton County, Georgia, related to the 2020 vote.

U.S. District Judge William Ray II quashed a grand jury subpoena for the names, addresses and phone numbers of people who were involved in administering the 2020 election...Read more

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump on Friday pardoned a series of western Michigan businesses and individuals for violations of the Clean Air Act in connection with an emissions manipulation scheme.

"It is my Great Honor to have just signed Pardons for six people who were persecuted by the Biden Administration, and were in, or being sent to,...Read more