Live national and state-by-state early voting statistics for the 2026 general election.

James Uthmeier, Florida’s attorney general, wants to be known as a politician who is all fight, all the time. The ambitious 38-year-old Georgetown law graduate considers himself the standard-bearer fo...

If AI hasn’t finished off your local newspaper yet, just wait. It will. OpenAI, the company that built ChatGPT, has called itself an “existential threat” to news publishers.

When Miami Representative Maria Elvira Salazar stood in front of the White House and recorded her first campaign ad, she told President Donald Trump he had gone “too far on immigration enforcement” an...

In his first major interview about his tell-all memoir, Tyler Hassen describes the culture clash surrounding DOGE’s mission and the backlash that followed.

If AI hasn’t finished off your local newspaper yet, just wait. It will. OpenAI, the company that built ChatGPT, has called itself an “existential threat” to news publishers.

Georgia Senator Jon Ossoff’s viral videos have so mastered the attention economy that the East Coast media is swooning with speculation that he could be a presidential contender in 2028. He has vigoro...

Should the federal government give subsidies to parents who stay home to care for their young kids? Absolutely. Should it also subsidize childcare for working parents? For sure. This shouldn’t be an e...

Over the holiday weekend, the Trump administration appealed a Friday ruling on mail-in ballots, asking the US Supreme Court to allow it to use the US Postal Service to choke off access to the voting m...

Food prices play an outsized role in how Americans view affordability. When you’re bombarded with bigger price tags and shrinking product sizes on every trip to the grocery store, it’s an in-your-face...

AI slop is taking over political communication. What could go wrong?

Republicans have painted themselves into a corner by undermining vaccines. Nowhere is this clearer than Florida, where the outgoing Republican governor and his potential successor have tried to use va...

Darline Graham, sister to former South Carolina Senator Lindsey Graham, romped to victory Tuesday over Republican Congressman Ralph Norman, a MAGA conservative, on the strength of her family name and ...

President Donald Trump has always liked to boast about the loyalty of his voters. But in South Texas, where the construction industry is being battered by immigration raids, industry leaders are start...

We’re near the end of the 2026 primary election season and the state of American democracy is looking — sigh of relief — better than expected.

Florida demonstrated on Tuesday that the Democratic Party’s identity crisis is alive and well. It’s the latest signal that while the midterm election will be a referendum on the president’s performanc...

Imagine a federally subsidized preschool program for the neediest families that not only allowed parents to work full-time but also set children up to become better students, earn higher wages, use fe...

President Donald Trump has always liked to boast about the loyalty of his voters. But in South Texas, where the construction industry is being battered by immigration raids, industry leaders are start...

The Trump administration has jettisoned the way thousands of immigrant children receive legal help. On Friday, the Department of Health and Human Services ended the contract with the Acacia Center for...

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu arrived in Washington this week as the American public is undergoing a generational shift in how it views his country — especially among Democrats.

Supreme Court decisions and unrestrained partisan gerrymandering are focusing attention on a fundamental election reform. But one version is more feasible than the others.

Iran launched a wave of attacks on U.S. allies Jordan, Kuwait and Bahrain as the U.S. military hit Iran, in the seventh consecutive day of clashes.

Who should have more power — the people of the states or the corporations that are authorized by them? For legislators in Hawaii and Montana, the answer is most definitely the former, not the latter. ...

The 250th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence is a good time to remember that the American Revolution wasn’t inevitable. It took a series of tremendous acts of courage.

President Donald Trump’s assault on elections took another hit Monday when the US Supreme Court rejected a Republican bid to restrict mail voting. In a 5-4 decision, the justices upheld Mississippi’s ...

A tiny town in rural Georgia, which four months ago was destined to become the home of a massive Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention center, has fought the White House and won.

Florida legislators have approved an amendment for the November ballot that gives new meaning to the phrase “the red state of Florida.” Think Soviet, not Republican.

Florida legislators have approved an amendment for the November ballot that gives new meaning to the phrase “the red state of Florida.” Think Soviet, not Republican.

“Today, change was on the ballot, and change won,” Ken Paxton, the Texas attorney general, declared in his victory speech an hour after polls closed in Tuesday’s runoff election. Paxton, buoyed by a l...

The first lady has gone beyond the role of protector-in-chief. She’d better be prepared for the scrutiny and questions.

“Today, change was on the ballot, and change won,” Ken Paxton, the Texas attorney general, declared in his victory speech an hour after polls closed in Tuesday’s runoff election. Paxton, buoyed by a l...

President Donald Trump’s GOP revenge tour reached a new level on Tuesday with the expensive defeat of Congressman Thomas Massie, the Kentucky Republican who dared to challenge the president over his a...

It’s primary day in Georgia. The results, perhaps more than in any other state, will give us a glimpse of what’s likely to come in November. With an open race for governor, a high-profile US Senate co...

America’s political landscape has become a stinking mess. More and more states are joining the race to the bottom to gerrymander away the power of their voters. But we don’t have to hold our noses any...

Qatar, Saudi Arabia and the UAE backed Affinity Partners in hopes of gaining White House influence and investment returns. The US war with Iran that they opposed has shown the constraints of that appr...

Until South Carolina tapped the brakes on the redistricting rush on Tuesday, it seemed that throughout much of the old Confederacy, the Republican Party had decided it was finished with representative...

More Democrats should sound like Georgia Senator Jon Ossoff. Considered one of the most vulnerable Democrats in Congress, he’s cast aside caution and is delivering a message that cuts to the core of A...

A suspected outbreak of hantavirus on a cruise ship sailing the Atlantic Ocean has all the hallmarks of a nightmare scenario: A handful of people have fallen gravely ill, three have died, and nearly 1...