Federal prosecutors have warned Elon Musk that his $1 million-a-day voter petition sweepstakes may be illegal.

The pro-Trump Tesla billionaire may have violated vote-buying laws by writing a seven-figure check every day to a randomly selected voter who agrees to sign a petition created by his political action committee, the Department of ...Read more

WASHINGTON — Lobbyists this year have stressed the need for companies to engage early on next year’s expiring tax provisions, warning of the compressed timeline and the possibility that any issue could land on the chopping block amid long wish lists and pressure to curtail deficits.

It seems the private sector got the message, if quarterly ...Read more

LAS VEGAS — First lady Jill Biden stumped for Vice President Kamala Harris in Las Vegas on Wednesday, headlining a pair of events to encourage voters to cast a ballot early and highlight women’s “reproductive freedom.”

Jill Biden’s visit to the Xiao Long Dumplings restaurant in Chinatown and a local Harris campaign office came just ...Read more

Most Cuban Americans in Miami-Dade County support former president Donald Trump, according to a poll from Florida International University released only days ahead of the U.S. presidential election.

The poll found that Trump is on track to capture 68% of Cuban Americans voters, underscoring the wide support the presidential candidate has ...Read more

CONGERS, N.Y. — New York Rep. Mike Lawler will often tout in interviews that he was ranked the fourth-most bipartisan member of the House.

“Folks who voted for Joe Biden in 2020, folks who may vote for Kamala Harris now, as well as folks who are voting for Trump, because I think they recognize me as somebody who has been rated the fourth-...Read more

WASHINGTON — Unless the upcoming lame-duck session is remarkably productive, the current Congress may be a relative bust. It’s on track to produce fewer laws than the previous Congress, a Roll Call analysis shows.

So far in the 118th Congress, 106 public laws totaling 2,705 legislative pages have been enacted, according to the Office of the...Read more

WASHINGTON — Kamala Harris is hoping to seize on a fresh warning from Donald Trump’s former chief of staff to help regain momentum during the campaign’s final stretch as she embarks on a series of high-profile events.

Harris lambasted the former president after his longest-tenured White House chief of staff, John Kelly, said in an ...Read more

ATLANTA — With less than two weeks until Election Day, the spending margin on future bookings for political advertisements by the presidential candidates is narrowing in Georgia.

Vice President Kamala Harris’ campaign and supporting political action committees booked more than $25 million in political advertisements to run over the next two...Read more

As the election nears, voters are considering the two leading presidential candidates’ records on a wide range of issues, including civil liberties – a broad term used to describe the constitutionally protected freedoms that protect citizens from excessive government power. These key freedoms are contained in the Bill of Rights, the first...Read more

PHILADELPHIA — A Republican elections official in Philadelphia called out Elon Musk on Wednesday for spreading “disinformation” by retweeting a false claim that a Center City social services organization was involved in widespread ballot harvesting.

Late Tuesday evening, Musk — the SpaceX founder who has been using his wealth and ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — A not-so-subtle theme has emerged in recent Republican attack ads in battleground California congressional races: linking Democrats to pedophiles.

Take, for instance, the 30-second spot from the National Republican Congressional Committee attacking Democrat George Whitesides, the former NASA chief of staff who is challenging GOP...Read more

ATLANTA — When a group of Black men met recently in Atlanta to talk about the 2024 election, Larry Williams sat silently as the discussion turned to a list of Donald Trump’s alleged racial transgressions.

“He falsely accused Haitians of eating pets.”

“He was sued for housing discrimination in the 1970s when he refused to rent to ...Read more

Former Marine Gen. John Kelly, who was Donald Trump’s longest-serving White House chief of staff, has warned that his former boss, if elected again, would govern like a dictator, that he lacks empathy, and that he has no understanding of the U.S. Constitution.

While other Trump administration officials have criticized the former president, ...Read more

U.S. Rep. Jamie Raskin said Wednesday that Republican former President Donald Trump hasn’t signed key documents that other presidential nominees have adhered to in the past to assure an “orderly transition of power” if they are elected.

Raskin, a Maryland Democrat and his party’s ranking member on the House Committee on Oversight and ...Read more

BOSTON — A Hanson resident has not projected a ‘Trump 2024’ logo on a water tower in nearly two weeks, but town officials are continuing to shine spotlights, finding themselves in a “stalemate.”

The resident received a cease-and-desist letter from the town’s zoning enforcement officer on Oct. 12 and has not displayed the image since...Read more

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. — The legal effort to force Florida’s abortion amendment off the ballot is being bankrolled by an unnamed donor.

The lawsuits, filed last week by a group of anti-abortion advocates, argue that a report from Gov. Ron DeSantis’ administration alleging “widespread” fraud in the petition gathering process for Amendment 4...Read more

Vice President Kamala Harris' Pennsylvania campaign is negotiating with the Philadelphia Democratic City Committee over funding for the local party's campaign expenses, including sample-ballot printing, get-out-the-vote-events, and Election Day "street money" to pay thousands of committee members, according to Bob Brady, the longtime chair of ...Read more

In just about any discussion of a poll about the very close presidential race between Vice President Kamala Harris and former President Donald Trump, you’ll hear the phrase “within the poll’s margin of error.” Those words signal that it is a tight race with no clear leader, even if one of them has a slightly larger percentage of ...Read more

For all its prominence as a key battleground state, North Carolina hasn’t done much swinging in U.S. presidential elections.

The last time a majority of North Carolinians voted for a Democratic candidate was 2008 for Barack Obama. The time before that was 1976 for Jimmy Carter. In the past 12 presidential elections, Republicans have...Read more