KANSAS CITY, Mo. — A Missouri judge on Thursday cleared a path for residents to access medication abortion, a key decision more than 18 months after voters legalized abortion access.

The 20-page ruling from Jackson County Circuit Court Judge Jerri Zhang marks a major win for abortion rights supporters. But the order comes as voters are ...Read more

U.S. Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz defended her decision to run in a district drawn for decades to ensure Black voters’ representation in Congress during a debate at the Urban League of Broward County Wednesday — to a room of mostly Black voters and Black candidates who have spent weeks publicly condemning her run.

“This is a Black-access...Read more

BALTIMORE — As voters cast ballots in Maryland’s 6th Congressional District primary, U.S. Rep. April McClain Delaney and former Rep. David Trone are spending heavily on digital advertising that attacks each other’s records on abortion, immigration and ties to Republicans, particularly President Donald Trump.

A Baltimore Sun review of ads ...Read more

WASHINGTON — Unauthorized deepfake images generated by artificial intelligence would need to be removed from online platforms if they weren’t licensed by the person portrayed, under a bill the Senate Judiciary Committee advanced on Thursday.

The bill, which was approved by voice vote, would give individuals an intellectual property right to...Read more

WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court ruled for gun rights and against drug laws on Thursday, striking down part of a federal law that made it crime for an “unlawful user” of an illegal drug like marijuana to own firearms.

All nine justices agreed the law was too broad and overly harsh.

They left open the possibly that “addicts” and “...Read more

TAMPA, Fla. — Tampa Bay Republicans with ambitions for Congress have a new chance after redistricting.

Eight Republicans are seeking the right to challenge Democratic Rep. Kathy Castor, whose seat flipped from blue to red under the state’s new congressional map.

Before they can focus on the November general election, they’ll have to ...Read more

WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court on Thursday limited a federal law that prohibits illegal drug users from possessing firearms, in a case involving a man who was charged after investigators found a gun in his home and he admitted using marijuana about every other day.

In a unanimous decision, the justices found that the prosecution of Ali Danial...Read more

NEW YORK — Congressional candidate Jack Schlossberg said his estranged cousin, MAGA surrogate Robert F. Kennedy Jr., came to him in a dream with words of encouragement.

“He was saying ‘good job, you’re going to win,'” Schlossberg claimed in a new Politico interview.

Schlossberg, 33, was pointedly critical of his first cousin once ...Read more

WASHINGTON — A unanimous Supreme Court ruled Thursday for gun rights and against drug laws.

In a 9-0 ruling, the justices struck down part of the longstanding federal gun control law that makes it a crime for an "unlawful user" of illegal drugs to possess a gun.

The Trump administration had urged the court to uphold the conviction of a Texas...Read more

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — Brushing aside criticism that she shouldn’t even be running for reelection in a new Broward County district, U.S. Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz sought to portray herself Wednesday night as the best choice for voters wanting experience and clout to deliver — and the guts to stand up to President Donald Trump and MAGA...Read more

WASHINGTON — Secretary of State Marco Rubio stood silent and stone-faced behind Donald Trump on Wednesday as the president joked of passing the buck if his deal with Iran, under increasingly withering criticism and scrutiny, ultimately falls apart.

The blame, Trump said, would likely fall on his vice president, JD Vance, who led the ...Read more

Every election cycle sees its share of controversial, scandal-plagued candidates running for office. But the 2026 midterm elections will feature two such candidates – one from each party – in two of the highest-profile U.S. Senate races.

In Texas, the state’s attorney general, Ken Paxton, recently secured the Republican Party’...Read more

WASHINGTON — Next week’s primaries in New York will test Zohran Mamdani’s political power six months into his mayoral term and set up what’s likely to be one of the fall’s most competitive House races in the Hudson Valley.

Mamdani has endorsed a trio of Democratic candidates running for House seats across New York City, including two ...Read more

WASHINGTON —With control of the House on the line, a redrawn district in Utah has presented Democrats with a rare opportunity to pick up a seat.

Next week’s Democratic primary in the blue-leaning 1st District has become a proving ground for the party’s progressive wing, represented by state Sen. Nate Blouin, tax attorney Michael Farrell ...Read more

There is a powerful force that affects politics as much as it affects individual lives. It is fatigue.

We just get darn tired of something, be it a job, a relationship, a hobby or a routine. We have been devoted to it for years, and suddenly we want out; we want to do something else. What we loved doing has become boring and tedious. More work ...Read more

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump and his team had several red lines that they used to justify the U.S. war against Iran. At a news conference Wednesday, Trump largely brushed them aside.

Explaining his decision to agree to an interim peace deal, Trump repeated his insistence that the country would never get a nuclear weapon. Yet he went on...Read more

A Raleigh man who allegedly posted Facebook videos threatening to kill President Donald Trump was arrested and charged by federal officials Tuesday, the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of North Carolina announced Wednesday.

Christopher Key-Torrion Carnes, 33, was charged with communicating threats against the president of the ...Read more

Rep. Kevin Kiley now says former President Joe Biden legitimately won the 2020 election — a position he had repeatedly refused to state publicly in years past.

Kiley, who left the Republican Party to become an independent in March, provided the statement earlier this month while on a NewsNation segment about California’s slow primary vote ...Read more

PHILADELPHIA — Three weeks after members of Congress listened to and then publicly shared concerns from inside of Pennsylvania’s largest immigrant detention center for the first time, U.S. Rep. Madeleine Dean said she was blocked from speaking with detainees while visiting the same facility on Wednesday.

Dean, D-Pa., said she was given “a...Read more

COLUMBIA, S.C. — During Tuesday’s GOP debate Lt. Gov. Pamela Evette and Attorney General Alan Wilson didn’t hold back any animus that built up over the last week since they advanced to a runoff election for the Republican nomination of governor.

Evette and Wilson sparred in their final televised debate appearance before two days of early ...Read more