Conservative Supreme Court justices appeared to back a Republican-led drive, supported by President Donald Trump’s administration, to overturn a quarter-century-old decision and erase limits on how much political parties can spend in coordination with candidates for Congress and president.

The Republican who leads the Senate Intelligence Committee says a video of a U_S_ military strike on an alleged drug boat in the Caribbean that killed two survivors of the initial attack shows “nothing remarkable."

A prosecutor says the man accused of planting pipe bombs outside the headquarters of the Republican and Democratic national parties in Washington on the eve of the U.S. Capitol attack told investigators he was “disappointed” in the outcome of the 2020 presidential election.

The FBI has arrested a man accused of placing two pipe bombs outside the headquarters of the Republican and Democratic national parties in Washington on the eve of the U.S. Capitol attack.

Four Republican-led states have settled lawsuits with the federal government over access to voter citizenship data.

U.S. Rep. Troy Nehls says he will retire from Congress after his term ends in 2026 to focus on family.

It’s Jacksonville vs. Tallahassee, and it all plays out when the Florida Legislature convenes in January. Jacksonville’s central 2026 challenge is defending fiscal autonomy and local governance against a state administration pushing top-down fiscal reforms and broader preemption.

Former Democratic U.S. Rep. Tim Ryan has decided not to run for Ohio governor next year.

The House Ethics Committee has announced that a panel will conduct a wide-ranging investigation into Rep. Cory Mills, R-Fla.

A man convicted of fatally shooting a man and woman during home invasion robbery and later confessing to three other killings is scheduled to be put to death in December.

President Donald Trump on Monday pushed back on criticism from Georgia Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene that he is spending too much time on foreign affairs and not enough on inflation.

The Trump administration has decided not to offer the IRS' electronic tax filing system for free next year, and its future is unclear.

Dick Cheney leaves behind a mixed legacy in his home state of Wyoming.

Orange County Mayor Jerry Demings has filed papers to run for Florida governor.

Climbing monthly electricity bills, a growing stressor on U.S. families as demand surges for energy, have emerged as a significant issue in the nation’s only two elections for governor this year and as a test on the political parties’ messages for next year’s midterms.

A Senate Republican on Thursday filed a proposal that would move forward with creating a Florida Museum of Black History in St. Johns County.

Virginia will elect its first woman as governor as Republican Lt. Gov. Winsome Earle-Sears and Democratic U.S. Rep. Abigail Spanberger look to replace term-limited Republican Gov. Glenn Youngkin.

Two Florida college students and an advocacy group for retirees are asking a federal judge to let them intervene in a lawsuit to defend census methods used to protect privacy and fill in missing data.

President Donald Trump is urging his supporters in New Jersey to vote for Republican gubernatorial candidate Jack Ciattarelli.

House Republicans are preparing to release a report about President Joe Biden's mental state and the alleged misuse of the presidential autopen during his term.

Republican Attorney General Jason Miyares and former Democratic Del.

Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act is the primary way plaintiffs can challenge racially discriminatory election practices.

The Supreme Court appears ready to gut a key tool of the Voting Rights Act that's helped root out racial discrimination in voting for more than a half century.

Should people as young as 18 years old in Florida be legally allowed to own or purchase firearms? Lawmakers in the Florida House seem to think so.

JPMorgan Chase will directly invest up to $10 billion in U.S. companies with crucial ties to national security.

The former Republican congressman, now running as a Democrat, emphasized his core values and vision for the state. “The economy should work for everybody,” Jolly said. He explained that this means the economy must support the lowest wage earners, retirees, and families trying to put food on the table.

One of the U.S.’s longest standing pieces of environmental legislation, credited with helping save rare whales from extinction, is the subject of an effort for cutbacks from Republican lawmakers who now feel they have the political will to do so.

Republican Winsome Earle-Sears and Democrat Abigail Spanberger have faced off on the debate stage in Virginia’s high-stakes governor's race.

The Supreme Court seemed ready to revive a Republican challenge to an Illinois law that allows the counting of late-arriving mail ballots, which have been a target of President Donald Trump.

New Mexico Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham has signed a package of bills aimed at shoring up food assistance, rural health care and public broadcasting in response to recently enacted federal cuts.

Republican leaders have presented a united stance as they try to keep the government open and berate Democrats for demanding health care policy changes in exchange for their votes.

U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, Attorney General Pam Bondi and White House Deputy Chief of Staff Stephen Miller have converged on Memphis, Tennessee, to meet with federal agents forming a crime fighting task force there.

Just back from a congressional delegation trip to Ukraine, a senior Republican says he’s more optimistic that the country can succeed in the war with Russia.

President Donald Trump has created a task force to fight crime in Memphis.

Florida’s board of education has signed off on a major expansion of charter schools in the state.

A new report finds the Department of Government Efficiency’s remaking of the federal workforce has battered the Washington job market and put more households in the metropolitan area in financial distress.

The United States wants to improve military ties with China, according to a U.S. lawmaker leading a bipartisan delegation.

President Trump has announced the deployment of the National Guard to Memphis to combat crime, testing the limits of presidential power by using military force in cities.

Charlie Kirk, a conservative activist and close ally of President Donald Trump, has been shot and killed at a Utah college event in an act that the state’s governor called a “political assassination.”.

Gabriel Sterling, known for defending Georgia's 2020 election results, is running for the state's secretary of state.

Health experts say the desire to please a political base may compromise public health and safety.

It's an issue uniting the left and the right.

A Florida man who fatally stabbed a married couple during a robbery is scheduled for execution in Florida under a death warrant signed by Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis.

A federal judge has thrown out Georgia Attorney General Chris Carr's campaign finance lawsuit against Lt. Gov. Burt Jones.

Oklahoma will require applicants for teaching jobs from California and New York to pass an exam that the state’s top education official says is designed to safeguard against “radical leftist ideology.”.

The Justice Department has agreed to provide to Congress documents from the Jeffrey Epstein sex trafficking investigation.

A Florida man who fatally stabbed his estranged wife’s sister and parents and then set fire to their house is scheduled for execution in Florida under a death warrant signed by Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis.

A West Virginia judge has allowed children from three families to attend school without required vaccinations.

The U.S. is developing new safeguards for the organ transplant system after a government investigation found a Kentucky group continued preparations for donation by some patients who showed signs of life.

Georgia's State Ethics Commission is declining to investigate Lt. Gov. Burt Jones over a $10 million loan to a campaign committee.

A court filing shows Republican U.S. Rep. Jim Jordan was questioned under oath after the release of a new documentary about the sexual abuse of Ohio State University athletes decades ago by a team doctor.

The Education Department plans to release previously withheld grant money for after-school programs.

A Maryland man has been arrested on charges that he made threatening calls to the Georgia offices of Republican Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene.

Louisiana is officially canceling a $3 billion coastal restoration project funded by the Deepwater Horizon oil spill settlement.

Republican Gov. Glenn Youngkin announced on Tuesday that Google will partner with his administration to provide free and low-cost artificial intelligence certification courses to Virginians as part of his office’s ongoing effort to connect citizens to new jobs amid changes to the state’s economy.

More than 20 states have sued President Donald Trump’s administration over billions of dollars in frozen funding for after-school care, summer programs and more.

Doctors groups and public health organizations are suing the U.S. government over the decision to stop recommending COVID-19 vaccinations for most children and pregnant women.

House Republicans lifted President Donald Trump’s $4.5 trillion tax breaks and spending cuts bill to final passage Thursday, overcoming multiple setbacks to approve his signature second-term policy package before a self-imposed Fourth of July deadline.

A newly released report from the CIA challenges the work intelligence agencies did to investigate Russia's support for Donald Trump ahead of the 2016 election.

Gov. Ron DeSantis on Monday signed what he said was a $117.4 billion budget for the fiscal year that will start Tuesday and issued $567 million in line-item vetoes.

The bill that bans cell phone use for Florida elementary and middle school students during the school day went into effect on Tuesday.

U.S. Rep. Don Bacon, a centrist Republican who represents Nebraska’s second district, will not seek reelection to a fifth term.

Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell said Wednesday that President Donald Trump’s sweeping tariffs will likely push up inflation in the coming months, even as some Republican senators suggested the chair was biased against the duties.

A northeast Ohio man was arrested and charged with threatening Republican U.S. Rep. Max Miller while the two were traveling along Interstate 90 near Cleveland on Thursday.

Lawmakers finished the annual session at 11:19 p.m. — more than six weeks after the scheduled May 2 end of the session.

Iowa Republican Gov. Kim Reynolds has rejected a bill that could have introduced more complications for a massive carbon-capture pipeline project routed across several Midwestern states.

Arizona Gov. Katie Hobbs has vetoed a proposal that would have banned teaching antisemitism at the state’s public schools.

State legislatures are passing bills to ban weather modification and geoengineering based on decades-old “chemtrails” conspiracy theories, moving the fringe theory from online into actual public policy.

Needing to finish a budget for the July 1 start of the 2025-2026 fiscal year, the House and Senate on Tuesday began slowly rolling out proposals to resolve spending and policy differences.

The Supreme Court has agreed to consider reviving a Republican challenge to an Illinois law that allows mail ballots to be counted if they are received up to two weeks after Election Day.

Republican Sen. Joni Ernst is facing backlash after saying “we all are going to die” while talking about potential changes to Medicaid eligibility at a town hall in north-central Iowa.

The latest pardons by President Donald Trump are another example of him flexing his power to bestow clemency on political allies and prominent public officials, including those convicted of defrauding the public.

Former Connecticut Gov. John Rowland, whose promising political career was upended by a corruption scandal, has been pardoned by President Donald Trump.

President Donald Trump has pardoned former U.S. Rep. Michael Grimm, a New York Republican who resigned from Congress after a tax fraud conviction.

House Republicans are jubilant about muscling through President Donald Trump’s “big, beautiful” tax and immigration package by a single vote.

A woman accused of spitting on the top federal prosecutor for the nation’s capital has been arrested on a federal assault charge.

A former Florida Republican congressional candidate accused of stalking and plotting to have his primary opponent murdered by a purported foreign hit squad has been sentenced to three years in federal prison.

Christopher “Kit” Bond, a Republican who was Missouri’s youngest governor before serving four terms in the U.S. Senate, was remembered as a beloved statesman who helped train a generation of leaders.

Missouri’s governor says he will call the Legislature into a special session to consider incentives aimed at keeping the Kansas City Chiefs and Royals from moving to Kansas.

House Republicans have proposed cutting billions of dollars in funding for Biden-era climate and environmental programs, including clean energy tax credits.

House Republicans appear to be backing off some, but not all, of the steep reductions to the Medicaid program as part of their big tax breaks bill.

Congress is drafting President Donald Trump’s big bill of tax breaks, spending cuts and beefed-up border security and deportation funds.

President Donald Trump's administration has asked a judge to toss out a lawsuit from three Republican-led states seeking to cut off telehealth access to the abortion medication mifepristone.

Florida lawmakers late Friday approved barring students in elementary and middle schools from using cell phones during the school day — and testing the idea in high schools.

Republicans in Congress are working to pump billions of dollars into President Donald Trump’s mass deportation and border security program.

Three House Republicans from Florida with Cuban roots are carefully navigating President Donald Trump’s immigration policies.

Homeowners in Florida would be allowed to ward off surveillance drones under a new bill pushed by lawmakers.

Removing lanes to slow down speeding drivers is a long-embraced strategy for improving safety on city streets.

Amid fierce opposition from Gov. Ron DeSantis, the Florida House on Wednesday approved revamping laws about leadership of the higher-education system, including opening information about applicants to become college and university presidents.

A growing number of conservative leaders are pushing states to upend the long-standing U.S. constitutional right to free public education for children, regardless of immigration status.

House Republicans have narrowly approved their budget framework.

Erasing the Gulf of Mexico from state laws and educational materials won Florida House approval Thursday. The Republican-controlled House passed two bills along party lines to carry out President Donald Trump’s directive to rename the gulf as the Gulf of America.

Maryland lawmakers have passed a measure to try to limit future liabilities from claims of sexual abuse at state and private institutions.

A Manhattan federal judge says Columbia University must give detained activist Mahmoud Khalil and other students 30 days' notice before handing over any more documents to Congress as it investigates antisemitism on college campuses.

Elon Musk and his political operatives have tried to shape the closely watched Wisconsin Supreme Court race in ways that are not immediately obvious but could be critical to Tuesday’s outcome.

A New York City rapper who joined President Donald Trump during a campaign rally last year has pleaded guilty to attempted murder and conspiracy charges.

The second part of Georgia Republican Gov. Brian Kemp’s top priority to limit lawsuits and large verdicts won final approval from the House on Thursday.

Florida lawmakers in 2023 passed a law aimed at starting high-school classes later in the morning, but two years later, the Florida Senate on Thursday unanimously passed a bill that would undo the law and leave it up to local officials to decide when schools start.

Lawmakers in Tallahassee are working to roll back major aspects of Florida’s child labor laws.

State officials say a portrait of President Donald Trump hanging at the Colorado state Capitol will be taken down after Trump claimed it was “purposefully distorted.”.