The Iowa Tribe of Oklahoma opened its new Harrah’s-branded casino in April.

Darline Graham, the sister of the late Senator Lindsey Graham, is running in a crowded Republican Senate primary on Tuesday.

The Protect College Sports Act failed to reach a vote during an all-night, pre-recess session in the Senate, though the bill did gain a spot on next month’s calendar after the chamber comes back from its summer break.

Troy Jackson's path to politics started during his time as a logger in Maine's north woods.

Senators have headed for the exits in the predawn hours without having met President Donald Trump’s push to pass a strict proof-of-citizenship voting bill.

The Senate has passed a short-term measure to keep federal agencies funded into early December and avoid a government shutdown during campaign season.

States are debating whether to crack down on social media influencers making political advertisements without disclosing that they were paid.

Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito is confirming that he’s staying on the nation’s highest court for another term.

A $48 million incentive package for Gateway Jax’s Publix-anchored Block N7 project is headed back to the drawing board, according to a report from News4JAX news partner the Jacksonville Daily Record.

Mississippi does not top the list of hotly contested U.S. Senate races this fall.

A federal prosecutor fired last year over critical comments he had written as a private citizen about President Donald Trump has sued the Justice Department, saying his termination violated his First Amendment rights.

A U.S. Senate resolution has added Missouri to the list of teams with a claim to the 1960 national championship in college football.

President Donald Trump has gotten a reprieve in his $10 billion lawsuit against the BBC.

Peter Trumbore, chair of the Department of Political Science at Oakland University, joined News4JAX anchor Bruce Hamilton on The Morning Show to sort out the answers to some big questions about control of the Senate after the Michigan primary.

Michigan Democrats are showing unity behind their statewide candidates.

An ongoing corruption scandal involving Hawaii’s lieutenant governor looms over Saturday’s state primary as nine candidates jockey to replace her.

Republican Sen. Bill Cassidy says he’ll back Todd Blanche’s nomination as attorney general, likely paving the way for Blanche to be confirmed to lead President Donald Trump’s Justice Department.

Scott Colom is a Black man and a Democrat running for the U.S. Senate in Mississippi, a state traditionally led by white conservatives.

President Donald Trump loves talking about grass, even in settings where such a topic might seem out of place.

President Donald Trump has hosted the U.S. Winter Olympians and Paralympians at the White House, honoring their accomplishments in the 2026 Milano Cortina Olympic Games.

President Donald Trump says he is once again trying to limit birthright citizenship in the U.S. He signed two executive actions on immigration.

Republican Sen. Mitch McConnell of Kentucky says he’s been discharged from a rehabilitation center and will continue his recovery from home.

Republican Sen. Jon Husted of Ohio is calling on Rep. Max Miller to resign his House seat and abandon his fall reelection bid.

Six years after the world was thrust into a global pandemic, Republicans in power aren’t leaving it in the past.

With over 60 rest areas across Florida, it might be tempting to catch a few winks on longer drives, but are you legally allowed to do that?

President Donald Trump’s administration plans to overhaul Head Start, a key early education program for the nation's neediest children.

A Senate committee has voted to hold Dr. Anthony Fauci in contempt of Congress and refer him to the Justice Department for potential prosecution over his refusal to answer questions at a hearing last week on his handling of the COVID-19 pandemic.

Jeffrey Brandes, founder of the Florida Policy Project, joined us on The Morning Show to talk about ways Amendment 3 needs to be reworded so people know exactly what they are voting for.

A new AP-NORC poll finds that Americans are increasingly noticing the impact of extreme heat on their lives, and they say much of that shift is happening in the West and Midwest.

Wisconsin is the latest state where the battle over the direction of the Democratic Party will play out.

Former Tennessee Agriculture Commissioner Charlie Hatcher has defeated Congressman Andy Ogles in a Republican primary.

Republican Rep. Max Miller of Ohio is resisting pressure to exit his reelection campaign for Congress, even as anxiety over his electability is growing within his own party.

Michael Fuqua couldn't immediately recall the name of the candidate he voted for in Michigan's 13th Congressional District primary.

Jeanine Pirro this week found out there’s a trade-off between loyalty to President Donald Trump and being loyal to reality.

A California man who was arrested at President Donald Trump’s Los Angeles-area golf course was pretending to be part of the security detail preparing for Trump’s visit and had a stash of illegal weapons in his car and home.

Abdul El-Sayed has won Michigan’s Democratic nomination for U.S. Senate in a victory for the party’s progressive wing in a battleground state.

President Donald Trump is making a rare appearance in Nevada to sell voters on his handling of the economy against a backdrop of high interest rates, a national housing shortage and gasoline made more expensive by the Iran war.

North Carolina Republican congressman Chuck Edwards has withdrawn from his reelection campaign days after the House Ethics Committee recommended he be censured for unprofessional and inappropriate conduct toward two young female aides.

A $48 million incentive package for Gateway Jax’s Publix-anchored Block N7 project is headed back to the drawing board, according to a report from News4JAX news partner the Jacksonville Daily Record.

The Word of Life Center, a church in Salisbury, Maryland, is facing difficult times.

Tennessee’s senior U.S. senator eyes a job change in a state primary on Thursday.

House Democrats are adding a dozen Republican-held seats to their list of targets for the November midterms.

Missouri’s top election official has rejected a petition for a statewide referendum on new congressional districts backed by President Donald Trump.

A judge has ruled that absentee voting in Wisconsin discriminates against disabled voters, siding with groups that are seeking to force elections officials to allow for electronic ballots.

Maryland voters will decide in November whether to clear the way for a new congressional map that would favor Democrats in all eight of the state’s U.S. House districts.

The House Ethics Committee says it has opened an investigation into domestic abuse allegations made against Republican Rep. Max Miller.

The proposed property tax amendment that is supposed to go before voters in November is misleading, a Florida judge ruled Tuesday.

The Democratic Senate race between Rep. Haley Stevens and former public health official Abdul El-Sayed is one of the clearest tests yet of the party’s future.

Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche has cleared a critical hurdle in his bid to be confirmed to the post after swaying Republican holdouts on a Senate committee to advance his nomination for a floor vote.

Scandals, ideological schisms, and foreign‑policy crises have blurred the midterm map. Candidate quality, outside spending, and voter perceptions of the economy — plus President Donald Trump’s outsized role — will determine control of Congress.

U.S. Rep. Haley Stevens and progressive Abdul El-Sayed are in a close race for the Democratic Senate nomination in Michigan.

U.S. Rep. Wesley Bell has won a rematch in a Missouri Democratic primary against former Rep. Cori Bush, an outspoken activist who had been part of a progressive group of House members known as the Squad.

Virginia Democrats picked establishment candidates to take on Republican incumbents in two congressional districts the party hopes to flip in November.

Abdul El-Sayed’s victory in Michigan’s Democratic Senate primary is the latest and perhaps biggest example yet that the party’s voters are looking to turn the page on establishment-backed candidates in must-win battlegrounds.

The House Ethics Committee has recommended that Republican Rep. Chuck Edwards of North Carolina be censured after finding that he engaged in persistent unprofessional and inappropriate conduct toward two young female aides.

More than 20 states and the District of Columbia have sued the Trump administration to block it from getting wide access to the personal information of millions of recipients of a benefits program for low-income families.

A left-leaning group is spending $6 million to organize Latino voters in Texas.

Capital One closed President Donald Trump’s accounts in mid-2021 after flagging financial activity that resembled money laundering.

An ECG test revealed that a local 14-year-old had an undiagnosed heart condition known as Wolff-Parkinson-White Syndrome, which can cause the heart to beat out of rhythm and trigger sudden cardiac arrest.

Jaser AbuMoussa, senior fellow with the Middle East Institute, joined us on The Morning Show to discuss whether a deal made to disarm Hamas in Gaza is realistic.

Virginia residents will vote in a statewide primary on Tuesday to choose nominees for U.S. Senate and U.S. House.

Kansas Republicans will narrow down a crowded field for governor in a state primary Tuesday as they look to retake the state’s top office after eight years of Democratic rule.

Michigan voters will decide a competitive Democratic U.S. Senate primary Tuesday in a contest that will have major implications for control of the chamber next year.

St. Louis-area congressman Wesley Bell faces a Democratic primary rematch Tuesday with former congresswoman Cori Bush, who lost the seat to Bell in 2024.

President Donald Trump says newly planned talks between the U.S. and Tehran are the “last chance” for Iran to forge a deal and avoid an escalation of U.S. strikes.

Nine contenders for one of the nation’s most hotly contested congressional seats will compete in the Washington state primary on Tuesday.

Maryland lawmakers have opened a special session to consider a first step in a partisan redistricting initiative that could help Democrats pick up an additional U.S. House seat by 2028.

U.S. Rep. Haley Stevens and Abdul El-Sayed are spending the final hours of Michigan’s Democratic Senate primary in settings that reflect their starkly different campaigns.

U.S. Sen. Bernie Moreno says his former son-in-law, U.

A new AP-NORC poll finds that immigration remains a relative strength for President Donald Trump, even after three people were killed in encounters with Immigration and Customs Enforcement in the span of under a week in July.

Israel has shared serious security concerns with the White House about a proposed disarmament deal with Hamas.

National Democratic Party Chair Ken Martin is said to be in survival mode.

Kansas voters will decide Tuesday whether to elect state Supreme Court justices rather than have the governor appoint them.

Sen. Darline Graham has made her political debut in South Carolina, stepping into the spotlight after her brother Lindsey Graham's death to advocate for President Donald Trump's policy priorities.

The two-month tenure of Bill Pulte as acting director of national intelligence will officially come to an end on Monday.

President Donald Trump is sharply criticizing U.S. Attorney Jeanine Pirro after her assessment that damage to the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool following a recent renovation was caused by shoddy construction rather than vandals.

Democrats are seeing a fresh opportunity for an upset in a northeast Ohio congressional seat.

Gov. Wes Moore of Maryland says he's concerned that President Trump might use federal power to influence the fall elections.

Investors looking to get a jump on White House announcements will be able to buy sneak peeks starting Saturday as a Trump family company starts selling special, fast access to the president's posts on social media.

President Donald Trump has for months pressured the Federal Reserve to slash interest rates, claiming it would be “Rocket Fuel!”.

The Big Ten and Southeastern Conferences have agreed to support a Senate bill that seeks to regulate college sports, ending a breakneck week of negotiations and pulling the bipartisan measure out of what looked like a certain death spiral.

Disgraced former Congressman George Santos has agreed to pay $35,000 to settle a federal investigation into his suspicious trades on the prediction marketplace Kalshi.

The Justice Department has moved to dismiss a criminal case charging a former Olympian with deliberately damaging the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool.

President Donald Trump says his $1.8 billion anti-weaponization fund is “dead” while also continuing to defend it.

Migrant children who came to the U.S. alone could soon face immigration court without legal representation.

California Gov. Gavin Newsom's office has released tax returns showing he and his wife made between $1.7 million and $2 million annually from 2022 through 2024.

The Republican leader of the Indiana Senate is giving up his position after six GOP incumbents who opposed President Donald Trump on his congressional redistricting push in the state lost their primaries.

Hamas says it has reached an agreement to disarm.

Michigan Democratic U.S. Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed says his Muslim faith shapes his progressive views.

Missouri voters are deciding on a measure that could make it much harder to amend the state constitution.

Israelis across political and religious lines are worried about the weakening connection with younger Jewish Americans.

Democrats are trying to convince voters that lawlessness under President Donald Trump is a major threat.

Mandela Barnes has dropped out of Democratic primary for Wisconsin governor.

A federal appeals court says the Trump administration cannot deny immigrants detained inside the United States a chance for release on bond.

Millions of older adults on Medicare prescription drug coverage could face higher monthly costs in 2027.

Leslie Dach, Executive Chair of Protect Our Care, a leading health care policy and advocacy organization, joined us on The Morning Show to discuss the Trump administration's decision to end Medicare prescription drug subsidies and the potential impact on millions of older Americans.

President Donald Trump says he may pull Todd Blanche’s nomination for attorney general until Sens. John Cornyn and Thom Tillis leave office.

A Leon Circuit Court judge heard arguments Wednesday over whether the property tax cut proposal to be placed on the November ballot is misleading to voters.

Most Americans say the war in Iran has not been worth fighting, according to a new AP-NORC poll.

President Donald Trump says car companies are thriving due to tariffs and other key policies he's instituted as president.